If you (like me) bought the Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android or iOS – only to discover it didn’t actually feature the actual game bit of the game – then you (like me) will doubtless be positively thrilled to find out that it’s being added in an update.

“A lot of people have been asking what we were doing after the first initial Android release and why they haven’t gotten more updates,” writes Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan over on the official site.

“Well, after the first initial launch of the Android version Aron started to port the game to iOS. We just wanted to make sure that the iOS version was on par with the Android version before continuing the, work since it is quite complicated to deal with different versions with different features.

“The plan now is to start digging into making Minecraft – Pocket Edition with Survival features!!”

And that’s pretty much all he has to say about that, although he also adds a list of planned features, including:

• A new file system – to make sure we can support items and mobs in the world
• Item system – to be able to pick up items
• Crafting – we know you want this. This will probably need some iterations since the interface will be customized for the touch devices
• Inventory system
• Mobs – animals and enemies!
• Optimizing rendering code – we are experimenting with caves but need to make it work better before we are able to release it
• Clean up of code and overall optimisation

No dates are given, so try not to get all worked up about it just yet.

Rats, I’m already all worked up about it.

Source: Mojang