Mojang Live Steam MCPE 0.7 - Sorry No Skins, No Texture Packs and No Chat

The long awaited live stream for MCPE 0.7 is now over and we've got a pretty good idea what to expect in the next version. The bad news is we're not getting that much, apart from a limited Beta multiplayer. You're not going to get chat, skins nor texture packs I'm afraid.

Update: MCPE 0.7.0 has been submitted for cert testing. Release expected before June.

MCPE 0.7.0 - Submitted for Testing

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During the live steam, Johan confirmed that MCPE 0.7 will be released in the first week of May 2013. However, the multiplayer Beta is only going to be available to a limited number of players - around 1000 will be invited to join initially. If things go well, then the number of Beta invites will be increased to 100,000 within a week. Mojang will invite MCPE players based on their activity - whoever plays MCPE the most.

MCPE 0.7

New features confirmed

Smooth lighting
Limited Beta multiplayer
Options can be changed in-game

As you can see there weren't many features to get excited about. Thankfully, Johan did answer some of your pressing questions about future features. Here are the interesting topics..

Buckets may be included in 0.7
No drag and drop crafting feature
In game music should be included within the next 4 updates - before 1.0
Controller limitations make sneaking hard to implement - possibly in future version
Multiplayer is free to play but creating a server costs money - so basically 'Realms' are a monthly fee
No weather yet
Breeding - probably included this year
Redstone included in future updates - not top of the list
Maps as big as Xbox coming this year
No Bluetooth multiplayer - not supported
No support for texture packs yet
Enchanting, way in the future
No skins yet - possibly skin packs sooner
No chat yet
Redstone later this year - after all PC Redstone bugs fixed
No snapshots for MCPE - C++ version is too volatile
Camera feature coming this year
Villages not coming yet - maps are too small at the moment