Well, bad news folks, as Jens reveals that generating caves causes too much of a performance drop so they aren’t planned for the immediate future. While the new update stuff certainly sounds cool, what everyone has been asking about since the beginning is when proper caves will come to Pocket Edition. Finally, Jens says that armor will “ probably' be a part of the version 0.5.1 update too. Below that are a couple of screens showcasing some new block-placing behaviors which the team is testing out, but will depend on how well they work with the whole touch interface of the game. If you are a big player of Minecraft on desktop or console then chances are those blocks will look pretty familiar. Hopping back over to Bergensten’s feed, earlier today the developer tweeted a picture of some new blocks that are coming to the mobile Minecraft, which you can see below. You can see a screen of those clouds below, but Johan goes on to mention that only newer devices will support the clouds while slower, older devices will remain with a pure blue sky. He also tweeted a picture of clouds which fellow Mojang’er Johan Bernhardsson has added to Minecraft – PE. Jens Bergensten, who was a lead designer for Minecraft on desktop and recently jumped over to work more heavily on the Pocket Edition, tweeted yesterday that the sand and gravel blocks in Pocket Edition will soon succumb to the effects of gravity, just like in the desktop version.

A couple of the Mojang team members responsible for the Pocket Edition have taken to Twitter to dish some details about what we might be seeing in this upcoming version 0.5.1 update. As we mentioned back in December, Minecraft Pocket Edition ($6.99) passed the 5 million units sold mark (and that’s before including the crazy download numbers from Christmas) and developer Mojang was busy working on an update for release later this month or in early February.

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