It looks like a good Minecraft news week all around. First, we got the tweet below from Minecraft: Pocket Edition [$6.99] developer Tommaso Checchi, who pretty much called the Beta season for update 0.12 over. If you haven’t been following MCPE‘s development, every new update usually goes through weeks-long beta testing on the Android side of things before popping up on the App Store once finished. Once the beta testing is over, it usually takes very little time for the update to appear on the App Store, so hopefully we should be getting the 0.12 update on iOS soon. If you don’t know anything about the 0.12 update, MCPE is about to get a huge overhaul as it’s gradually brought to parity with the PC version.

We’ll get the Nether, Nether portals, Nether fortresses, Sprinting, Sneaking, Hunger, revamped touch controls, potions and brewing stands, enchanting, rain and snow, controller support, cross-play with the Windows 10 edition of the game, and much, much more. If you want to see the changelogs from the beta testing, go here.

The other interesting Minecraft news is that Minecraft: Story Mode, Telltale’s take on the Minecraft franchise, will be playable for the first time at this year’s PAX Prime. This will be the first time that Telltale trusts its new baby to public hands, and my hope is that it means the game is coming along nicely and should hit our devices relatively soon. Telltale is known for not spending too much time between announcement and delivery (although they’ve been slipping when it comes to delivering later episodes of their games on time). While many are reserved when it comes to Minecraft: Story Mode, I’m very excited to get my hands on it, and hopefully that won’t be too far into the future.

Both ‘Minecraft: Story Mode’ and 0.12 Update For ‘Minecraft: Pocket Edition’ Drawing Closer To Release

It’s almost official, Minecraft: Pocket Edition‘s [$6.99] 0.12 update should hit our iPhones and iPads next week, and I’m very excited about it. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve played countless hours of Minecraft on PC, and although I’ve played MCPE quite a bit too, it never clicked in the same way because of a few important features missing from the mobile version, the sneak button being one of them. Finally, we are a few days away from MCPE quickening its pace towards parity with the PC version, and I can’t wait. According to MCPE developer Tommaso Checchi, the 0.12 update, which will add rain and snow, Hunger, Sneaking, Sprinting, the Nether, controller support, and more, should drop around September the 8th.

This hopefully means that MCPE will come out for iOS around the 8th of September along with all other versions!

— Tommaso Checchi (@_tomcc) September 3, 2015

While this update is a big step towards making MCPE even more fun to play, it’s only the first step since according to the developers, many more features should be hitting MCPE soon. One of the main features that should be coming shortly after 0.12 is the much-requested redstone circuits, a feature that really expands building possibilities. By the way, if you are on Android, you’ll be able to continue testing new features as early as next week. I hope all goes as planned and the update comes out next week so I can start building my little home in survival mode on our Mobcrush channel.