Barozi, creepers spawn regardless of day or night. They can spawn during daytime and ambush you, the whole point of peeps hating on those fuckers. Spiders also stick around during daytime but are passive, they won't attack you unless you go out of your way to hit them.
A few weeks back on PC a creeper spawned in a 2x2 room in my house, went down the stairs and blew up in my face, it's not a bug, just an unfortunate game mechanic.
Agreed the crafting is limited, but it's more or less exactly what you could do on the PC version, there is practically no variation between the games, except of course the new additions of an ending, endermen, and hunger system. It's a 1.6.6 of PC version, I haven't played PC in a while, but I don't think any new materials etc have been added that increase the crafting options.
Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.
