Mojang has released update 0.3.3 for the Pocket Edition of Minecraft, which adds bows, skeletons, spiders, and a number of other things to the game.

Along with these new additions the update also fixes several bugs that have been plaguing the game. The full patch notes are below:

New features

• Added skeletons and spiders.
• Added bow and arrow.
• Added bone meal and flint.
• Mobs can drop items.
• Torches can now be placed on fences.

Tweaks

• Item decay time extended to 5 minutes.
• Boosted brightness slightly.
• Item slots has been expanded to a minimum of 6 slots (minus one for inventory).

Bug fixes

• Crash bug with furnace
• Removed fire (except on mobs in sunlight), only tested for newly started maps.
• A bug where cactus and door placed next to each other would remove the bottom door block (and top one if a 2 level cactus).
• Removed particles from spawning when you hit the edges of the world.
• Stairs now block light.
• A bug where fence gate would not appear in the user’s hand but in the world.
• When a user sood on a slab and created another one, the user simply fell through.
• You can no longer get unlimited diamonds, gold and iron by breaking apart blocks of them and building together as a new block.
• Swords now take damage from hitting mobs.
• Golden tools are no longer tougher than wooden tools.
• The rear end texture where upside down on some animals.
• The D-pad on ipad no longer intersects with the item slots.
• Users can no longer place sugar cane in water.
• Dark green leaves have correct textures when cut by shear.
• Dandelion “egg” fixed.
• Blocks placed on snow aren’t duplicated in multiplayer.