Minecraft Beta - 1.17.0.56 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)

Posted: May 13, 2021

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta:

Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft

You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta

Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them

Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality

The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

It's time for another Caves & Cliffs beta update! Please continue to leave us your feedback in the threads at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and search and reports any new bugs you may encounter at bugs.mojang.com.

Caves & Cliffs Experimental

User Interface

Added a warning for loading an old world with Experimental features in a new version of the game

Added a label that indicates that a world is Experimental

Added a description for Experimental features in the world creation screen

Aquifers

Aquifers filled with lava are now placed underground during world generation

Non-Experimental Features and Fixes

Axolotl

Axolotl no longer attacks invisible mobs

Axolotl textures have been updated

Bred Axolotl maintain their color after being placed from a Bucket (MCPE-123328)

Spyglass

There is now a tooltip on controller for holding a Spyglass

Amethyst

Amethyst Buds and cluster breaking animation no longer float in the air

Aligned in-hand rendering of Amethyst Bud items with Java Edition (MCPE-126726)

Amethyst Geodes were made slightly rarer

Azalea

Bonemealing Azalea/Flowering Azalea now correctly turns into a tree if placed on Moss Block (MCPE-125767)

Deepslate

Deepslate top and bottom textures are now applied in isotropic manner. Due to tessellation limitations, we are limiting the isotropicness of Deepslate to when these textures are up and down (as this is a rotatable block) for now

Small Dripleaf

Players are now able to use Pick Block Small Dripleaf (MCPE-123571)

When bonemealing Small Dripleaf, the resulting Big Dripleaf is at least 2 blocks tall (MC-214159)

Dripstone

Mobs can once again pathfind around Pointed Dripstone

Glow Squid

Naturally spawned Glow Squid now despawn (MCPE-126701)

Using Pick Block on a Glow Squid in Creative now gives the Glow Squid Egg (MCPE-126946)

Lightning Rod

Lightning that strikes Lightning Rod no longer has the chance to trigger Skeleton traps

Powder Snow

Textures are now applied in isotropic manner

Multiple blocks can no longer be placed on Powder Snow (MCPE-116205)

Fences and Walls no longer connect to Powder Snow in Bedrock (MCPE-113504)

Fog effect is no longer applied to the third-person camera when the camera isn't inside Powder Snow (MCPE-126028)

Powder Snow Block no longer becomes invisible if the Player is extinguished by both the Powder Snow Block and any other method at the same time (MCPE-124414)

Powder Snow no longer has one corner that collides with mobs

Features and Bug Fixes

Mobs

Skeletons transforming in to Strays now play appropriate transformation sounds

Withers no longer take freeze damage from Powder Snow (MCPE-126788)

Bees no longer gather nectar from Sweet Berry Bushes

Bees can once again enter Beehives and Bee Nests (MCPE-122705)

Controller tooltips

Added tooltips for:

Collect Lava from Cauldron using Bucket

Collect Powder Snow from Powder Snow Block using Bucket

Empty Lava into Cauldron from Bucket

Empty Powder Snow into Cauldron from Bucket

Gameplay

Player who receives negative damage will not generate absorption heart (MCPE-94178)

When a Player using the touch interface presses and holds the crafting output window, they can rapidly craft items up to one stack (MCPE-28689)

Iron and Gold ore

Iron and Gold Ore now drops the correct block item instead of nothing when mined on worlds that have a Base Game Version locked to a value lower than 1.17

Items

Picking up part of a stack no longer picks up the entire stack and drops the excess (MCPE-105330)

Player Animations

Fixed Players showing the Bow holding animation after respawning when killed by another Player (MCPE-58861)

Fixed issue where certain items (Bow, Cossbow, Trident, shield in main hand) wouldn't bob with View Bobbing turned on (MCPE-125853)

Translation

Removed Lit Deepslate Redstone translation (MCPE-123605)

Technical Updates

Fixed issue with Simburbia world where standing next to a windows shutter block would obscure the view with the "update" texture

Fixed a crash that occurred when using the '/stopsound' command to stop the elytra.loop sound (MCPE-120336)

Graphical

Fixed a crash on Windows 10 that can occur in ray tracing mode due to a stale pointer reference

Fixed various cases when ray tracing textures would not be reloaded (resolution switching, upscaling mode switching, ray tracing on/off toggling)

Fixed Enchanted Bow's textures being too dark (MCPE-119701)

Summon Prefix Fixes

Fixed a merge bug when loading json definitions for Vanilla mobs

Fixed a bug with the summonable property of overridden vanilla mobs pre JSON version 1.8.0, which caused Bees to not be summonable (MCPE-58557)

Items

The "has_equipment" filter will now properly evaluate custom entity spawn eggs

Projectiles

The "ImpactDamageSubcomponent" will again only prevent damage from being dealt to fire immune mobs if the 'catchFire' field is true and the projectile is on fire

Dedicated Server

The dedicated server log will now list all Experiments enabled in a world when loading it

Minecraft Beta - 1.17.0.54 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)

Posted: May 06, 2021

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta:

• Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft

• You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta

• Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them

• Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality

• The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

It's time for another Caves & Cliffs beta update! Please continue to leave us your feedback in the threads at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and search and reports any new bugs you may encounter at bugs.mojang.com.

Caves & Cliffs - Experimental Features

• Minecarts with Chests can also appear in Mineshafts at -y

• Strongholds will be more hidden in larger caves

• Fixed a bug where Shulkers would not teleport below y=0 (MCPE-121810)

Caves & Cliffs - Non-Experimental

Axolotl

• Axolotl can no longer move on its own while playing dead (MCPE-124128)

• Axolotls no longer play dead on land

Powder Snow

• Dispensers can now dispense a Powder Snow Block using a Powder Snow Bucket

• Skeletons no longer freeze when standing inside of Powder Snow, and will transform into strays after 45 seconds (MCPE-116781)

• Mobs can now pathfind properly on top of Powder Snow (MCPE-118214)

• Vanilla Parity: Powder Snow can no longer support Scaffolding (MCPE-120947)

• Vanilla Parity: Mining time of Powder Snow Block now matches mining time in Java Edition

• Players can no longer Jump on top of Powder Snow to avoid sinking (MCPE-112023)

Azalea Leaf

• Azalea and Flowering Azalea leaves now drop themself when mined with Silk Touch tools

Caves and Cliffs

• Infested variants of Deepslate can be found in Extreme Hills biome

• Block of Copper is now crafted with 9 Copper Ingots

• Block of Copper can be crafted down into 9 Copper Ingots

• Copper Ore and Deepslate Copper now drop 2-3 Raw Copper

• Raw Iron, Copper, and Gold item textures have been updated

• Block of Raw Iron, Copper, and Gold textures have been updated

• Compass and Clock textures have been updated

Spore Blossom

• Spore Blossom no longer survives in water

Copper

• Copper now has correct graphical and sound effects when waxing/dewaxing (MCPE-121827)

• Underside of leaves now render correctly when placed on top of Copper Slabs

Glow Squid

• Squid and Glow Squid now make a specific sound when they let ink out

• Old signs no longer glow when being dyed (MCPE-117835)

Goat

• Increased chances of getting screamer goat by breeding screamer goat with non-screamer goat

Items

• Fixed an issue where first person offhand items were rendered when zooming in with the Spyglass (MCPE-125825)

Pointed Dripstone

• Stalactites now drip water a bit more often when filling Cauldrons

Raw Gold

• Piglins now admire Block of Raw Gold

• Piglins now admire Raw Gold

Rooted Dirt

• Tiling Rooted Dirt turns does no longer instantly turn it into Farmland block

Spyglass

• Spyglass is now part of the "Equipment" category in the Creative inventory (MCPE-126079)

Vanilla Parity

• Falling blocks now break when landing on Shulkers

User Interface

• Fixed controller cursor sensitivity scaling (MCPE-33868)

• Fixed a bug preventing users from reassigning key 'E' in "Keyboard & Mouse" settings (MCPE-124224)

Commands

• Fixed issue where Minecart with Command Block was not affected by the 'CommandBlocksEnabled' gamerule (MCPE-93666)

Multiplayer

• The '/kick' command works properly if cheats and command blocks are disabled, and it no longer uses target selectors

Technical Updates

New Experimental Feature: Volumes!

• Create volumes in your world: simply create a "volumes" folder in a saved world, and put json files in there - 1 json file per volume. More information can be found on the beta behaviour pack documentation

• Currently, you can attach a fog - minecraft or your own custom fog - to a volume. When the player enters the volume, the fog will take effect

General

• Added AddVolumeEntityPacket that contains information of a volume entity including its net ID and NBT containing information about the volume's definition and components, which will be added to the client's registry

• Added RemoveVolumeEntityPacket that contains a volume entity's net ID to remove it from the client's registry

Mobs

• Added a new optional flag "use_simplified_breeding" to "minecraft:genetics" component. When this flag is set to true, the offspring never inherits hidden alleles of parents as main alleles and main as hidden. This allows to implement simple breeding logic easier

GameTest Framework

• Components

  • [Removed] function setColor(color : Number)

  • property value : Number - Gets or sets the color of the entity

  • Added additional component interfaces. movement, navigation, healable, breathable, ageable, and tameable components can be referenced via entity.getComponent(componentName : string).

  • minecraft:color

• Container - New interface for interacting with entity containers. Can be referenced via entity.getComponent("inventory").container

  • function setItem(slot : Number, itemStack : ItemStack) - Adds itemStack to the container at the given slot

  • function getItem(slot : Number) : ItemStack - Gets the itemStack at the given slot

  • function addItem(itemStack : ItemStack) - Adds the given itemStack to the first available slot of the container

  • function transferItem(fromSlot : Number, toSlot : Number, toContainer : Container) - Transfers an ItemStack from fromSlot of the container to toSlot of toContainer

  • function swapItems(slot : Number, otherSlot : Number, otherContainer : Container) - Swaps ItemStacks between slot of the container and otherSlot of otherContainer

  • function worldLocation(relativeLocation : BlockLocation) - Transforms the coordinates of given GameTest location to its corresponding world location

  • function relativeLocation(worldLocation : BlockLocation) - Transforms the coordinates of given world location to its corresponding GameTest location

Minecraft Beta - 1.17.0.52 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)

Posted: April 28, 2021

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta:

Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft

You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta

Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them

Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality

The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

It's time for another Caves & Cliffs beta update, and we're pleased to let you know that we've moved even more features out from behind the experimental toggle, and fixed a significant number of bugs!

Please continue to leave us your feedback for these features in the threads at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and search and reports any new bugs you may encounter at bugs.mojang.com.

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Features No Longer Behind the Experimental Toggle

Axolotl & Glow Squid

Axolotls are now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experiment

Axolotls can be rehydrated with Splash Water Bottle and Lingering Water Bottle

Axolotls now have their missing sounds (MCPE-123304)

Axolotls now swim way more often (MCPE-123263)

Updated the axolotl and glow squid spawn rules. They can now spawn in any biome and up to y=63 instead of y=30

Deepslate

Cobblestone and Cobbled Deepslate are now used to repair stone items on an Anvil (MCPE-123670)

Powder Snow

Powder Snow is now available in the Creative inventory

Using a Bucket of Powder Snow on a Cauldron filled with Powder Snow results in a Powder Snow block being placed above the Cauldron

Cauldrons fill up in snowy weather, creating a renewable source of Powder Snow (MCPE-105412)

Most mobs cannot walk on Powder Snow, but fall into the block instead

Mobs inside a block of Powder Snow start to freeze and eventually take damage

Players can protect themselves from Powder Snow by equipping leather armor

Buckets can be used to scoop up and place Powder Snow

Fall damage is now correctly prevented when a player or mob falls on a single powder snow block

Glow Lichen

Glow Lichen is now visibly as close to the surface it is placed on as Java Edition (MCPE-122665)

Glow Lichen now has a map color that more closely resembles the color of the block (MCPE-126316)

Blocks

Colors applied to text on signs are no longer barely visible (MCPE-117516)

Crystals

Amethysts, Amethyst Shards, Amethyst Cluster Variants, Amethyst Buds, Budding Amethysts, Tuff Blocks, Calcite, and Smooth Basalt are now available in the Creative inventory

Spyglass is now available in the Creative inventory

Deepslate is now available in the Creative inventory

Lush Caves

Azalea Leaves and Flowered Azalea Leaves have correct color on maps

Small dripleaf can now be placed on moss

Lush Cave blocks are now available in the Creative inventory

Dripstone

Dripstone is now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle

Pointed dripstone is now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle

Water drips from stalactites

Glow Squid

Glow Squid are now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle

Glow Item Frames are now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle

Glow Ink is now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle

Maps now glow in Glow Item Frames (MCPE-117503)

Goat

Goats no longer drop Mutton when killed

Goats are now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle

Copper

Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper Slabs can now be merged into full Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper blocks

Copper is now available in the Creative inventory

Lightning Rod is now available in the Creative inventory

Moss block

Using Bone Meal on a sapling planted on a Moss block now correctly grows a tree (MCPE-125689)

Pointed Dripstone

Pointed Dripstone now correctly gets destroyed after the block it was placed on are broken by block updates

Raw Ore

Fortune enchantment now cause more raw iron/gold/copper ore to be dropped

Raw copper, iron and gold ore are now available outside the experimental toggle

Localization

The "Caves and Cliffs" toggle is now correctly localized

General Tweaks and Bug Fixes

Players can once again host multiplayer games and send invites over mobile/cellular data (MCPE-55405)

Graphical

Chemistry items icons no longer disappear after suspend/resume in Education Edition worlds

Fixed issue with underwater fog being the same for all Biomes and view distance not increasing over time (MCPE-124282, MCPE-124266)

Underwater view distance is increased in Rivers and land biomes to be more like Minecraft Java when “Caves and Cliffs” experiment toggle is enabled.

Items

Boats now break when they collide with a Cactus from the side (MCPE-106044)

Changed the position of bow to match previous versions (MCPE-116741)

Crossbows in players' and mobs' hands are now rendered correctly in all perspective modes (MCPE-116737)

Fixed animation issue causing an off-hand held shield to appear to re-equip whenever the player changes their main-hand item (MCPE-116773)

Cauldrons that have been emptied after containing potion are now correctly filled with water when it rains

Fixed issue where Fireworks of all colors could be crafted from any other color of Firework Charges (MCPE-90715)

Mobs

Blazes and Enderman once again receive damage from splash water bottles (MCPE-97483)

Fixed a bug where mobs would not spawn below y=0 when the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle is enabled (MCPE-122056)

User Interface

Updated the appearance of the loading screen

Android

Android should once again see invite notifications and achievement toasts! (MCPE-54902)

Gameplay

Fixed an issue with certain blocks which could cause them to grow too quickly when ticked

Mobs

Mobs and entities once again make a sound when entering water

Commands

The '/setworldspawn' command is now prohibited in legacy worlds and affected worlds will reset their altered spawn positions to the original position (MCPE-27797)

Technical Updates

Add-Ons and Script Engine

Added a MoLang query to get default bone pivots (MCPE-116741)

Updated MoLang query to return normalized item use time remaining based off given parameters (MCPE-116737)

MINECRAFT CHANGELOG 1.17.0.50

A Bedrock Beta Changelog

It’s Wednesday, and we all know what that means – it’s time for another Bedrock beta update, of quartz! Get ready to discover new features and tweaks, and involuntarily exclaim “oooh, shiny!” several times per game session. Maybe more. You will need to enable the Caves & Cliffs Experimental Features Toggle to check out some of these features in your beta worlds. Find out more about using the toggles at aka.ms/MCExperimentalToggle.

You can leave us your feedback for these features in the threads at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and look up and report any new bugs you may encounter at bugs.mojang.com.

EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES

AMETHYSTS AND GEODES

• Amethyst Geodes have been added to the game!

  • These huge geodes can be found anywhere underground in the Overworld

  • Amethyst geodes have an outer layer of a new block called Smooth Basalt

  • Amethyst geodes have a second layer of another new block called Calcite

  • Amethyst geodes have an inner layer of various Amethyst blocks

• Calcite, Tuff, and Smooth Basalt have been added to the game!

  • Just smelt Basalt to obtain Smooth Basalt!

• Amethyst Clusters have been added to the game!

  • Amethyst Clusters grow from Budding Amethyst, which can be found inside geodes

  • Clusters have four growth stages: Small Amethyst Bud, Medium Amethyst Bud, Large Amethyst Bud, and Amethyst Cluster

  • Clusters can only grow when they are placed on Budding Amethyst blocks

  • Fully-grown Amethyst Clusters drop four Amethyst Shards (or more with Fortune) when an Iron Pickaxe or higher is used, and otherwise drop nothing when broken

  • Clusters can be Silk Touched at any stage

• Budding Amethyst has been added to the game!

  • On any side of a Budding Amethyst block where there is air or a water source block, a Small Amethyst Bud will eventually grow

  • Amethyst Buds can only grow when attached to Budding Amethyst, and will grow until they become Amethyst

• Cluster Amethyst Blocks have been added to the game!

  • Amethyst comes in block form inside the geodes in two ways: Block of Amethyst and Budding Amethyst

  • All types of Amethyst blocks (clusters included) create beautiful sounds when you walk on them, break them, place them, or hit them with a projectile – go make some music!

• Tinted Glass has been added to the game!

  • Tinted Glass is a type of glass that does not allow light to pass through

  • Tinted Glass is crafted by putting a Glass block in the middle of four Amethyst Shards

  • Tinted Glass can be obtained without Silk Touch; it does not shatter like normal Glass

• Amethyst Shards have been added to the game!

  • Amethyst Clusters drop four Amethyst Shards (or more with Fortune)

SPYGLASS

• The Spyglass item has been added to game, and can be crafted with Copper Ingots and an Amethyst Shard

• Camera movement when looking through a Spyglass is slowed to make it more comfortable to use. This is adjustable using the Spyglass Damping slider in Settings

SMELTABLE ORE DROPS

• Added Raw Copper, Raw Iron and Raw Gold items

• Ores that are smeltable now drop raw item forms of the ore instead of the ore block, and these can be smelted just like before

• This is to open up the design space for more base stones with ores without cluttering the inventory, and have consistency with Fortune on all ores

• Ore blocks will continue to be smeltable, meaning you can smelt ore blocks from inventories on old worlds

RAW ORE BLOCKS

• Added Block of Raw Iron, Copper, and Gold

• Just like other ore materials, you can craft a compact version with raw ore items in order to save inventory space

TUFF

• Blobs of Tuff now generate in the world at y-levels below 16

TWEAKS AND FIXES

AXOLOTL

• Bucketing an Axolotl no longer unlocks the "I am a Marine Biologist" achievement

• Axolotls are now much more likely to spawn

• Axolotls no longer grant themselves regeneration when killing their target

• Player now receives experience points after breeding Axolotls (MCPE-123708)

CAVES

• Cobwebs no longer generate suspended in the air in mineshafts

COPPER

• Copper surfaces now deoxidize in a more random pattern when struck by lightning

COPPER BLOCK

• Horizontally placed Lightning Rods now interact properly with respect to de-oxidizing Copper Blocks (MCPE-121671)

• Copper Blocks struck by lightning now deoxidize even if there's no Lightning Rod present (MCPE-121546)

• Copper Stairs now produce their unique footstep sounds at positions below y=0 (MCPE-121955)

DEEPSLATE

• Cobbled Deepslate, Deepslate Bricks, and Deepslate Tiles now give experience from smelting in a Furnace (MCPE-123671)

• Cobbled Deepslate can now be used as crafting material for tools, furnaces, and brewing stands (MCPE-123669)

DRIPSTONE

• Landing on Dripstone no longer deals fall damage when gamerule falldamage is set to false

• Dripstone Block is now correctly named (MCPE-119573)

• Only the tips of stalagmites deal increased fall damage (MCPE-119917)

• Cauldrons fill slightly faster with water from dripping stalactites

GLOW ITEM FRAME

• Glow Item Frame textures are no longer inconsistent between Bedrock and Java

• Glow Item Frame now produces Redstone signal (MCPE-119726)

LIGHTNING ROD

• Lightning Rod is now rendered correctly when held in hand

• Throwing a Channeling trident at a rod during a thunderstorm now correctly converts nearby mobs (MCPE-116137)

• Blocks connected to a Lightning Rod now correctly conduct redstone signal when the rod is hit by lightning

• Throwing a Channeling trident at a rod during a thunderstorm now correctly affects villagers

LUSH CAVES

• Lush Cave biomes now randomly generate underground

• Azalea and Flowering Azalea leaves now have a chance to drop Azalea or Flowering Azalea when broken (MCPE-122165)

• Moss Carpet now has Block Placing sound (MCPE-121663)

• Azalea and Flowering Azalea now have ambient occlusion (MCPE-121660)

• Bonemealing Small Dripleaves now creates Big Dripleaves of a random height between 1-5

• Changed which blocks some world generation features can replace with Moss blocks and Lush Ground:

  • Moss blocks can replace: Dirt, Podzol, Rooted Dirt, Stone, Cave Vines

  • Lush Ground can replace: Dirt, Podzol, Rooted Dirt, Stone, Cave Vines, Clay, Moss Block, Sand, Gravel

• Moss block bonemealing behavior tweaks:

  • Bonemealing a Moss block can now also replace Grass and Mycelium

  • The maximum radius covered by Moss bonemealing has been reduced by 1

  • The chance of growing vegetation when bonemealing a Moss block has been decreased

POINTED DRIPSTONE

• If a stalactite is hanging from a Dripstone block with a water source above, it will slowly grow both the stalactite from above and a stalagmite from below

• Growth speed is random but very slow, a single growth step can take several Minecraft days

• A stalactite will only trigger growth if it is max 7 in length, and if the stalagmite or floor is max 10 blocks below

• If the stalactite tip is inside water it won't drip, and therefore won't trigger any growth

• If the stalagmite tip is underwater it won't receive drops, and therefore won't be grown by a dripping stalactite. Same thing if there is any fluid between the two tips

• A stalagmite or stalactite will never grow when submerged in fluid

BONE MEAL

• Bone Meal now makes a sound when used

PLAYER

• Added distinct damage sounds for burning, freezing and drowning (MCPE-111645)

• Walking sound will now play at positions below y=0 (MCPE-121807)

FEATURES NO LONGER BEHIND THE EXPERIMENTAL TOGGLE

POWDER SNOW

• Powder Snow is now available in the Creative inventory in the game, outside of the Experimental Features

• Most mobs cannot walk on Powder Snow, but fall into the block instead

• Mobs inside a block of Powder Snow start to freeze and eventually take damage

• Players can protect themselves from Powder Snow by equipping leather armor

• Buckets can be used to scoop up and place Powder Snow

• Powder Snow blocks are now removed by flowing water and lava (MCPE-111729)

• Foxes can now walk on Powder Snow (MCPE-116836)

• Exiting a world while being slowed down from freezing will no longer keep the Character slowed after rejoining (MCPE-117814)

• Powder Snow now only applies the freeze component to entities server-side

GLOW LICHEN

• Glow Lichen is now available outside the Caves & Cliffs experiment

• Glow Lichen can now be placed with all six faces set

• Glow Lichen no longer generates floating in air

• Glow Lichen can no longer exist with no faces present

FEATURES AND BUG FIXES

• Fixed invite icon remaining on start screen after signing out of Microsoft account

ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES

• Fixed a bug where Text-to-speech read the wrong text when displaying toasts

COMMANDS

• Fixed issue where /structure delete command is listed in the middle of both /structure load commands (MCPE-114022)

• Fixed issue where the /stopsound command crashes/freezes the game completely (MCPE-120336)

GAMEPLAY

• Renamed Structure Blocks will no longer have the incorrect data mode on creation (MCPE-41625)

GRAPHICAL

• Cubemap no longer blinks when loading the game, loading into a world or leaving a world (MCPE-103842)

• Fixed Strider, Hoglin, Zoglin, Piglin, Piglin Brute Spawn Eggs turning red when quick-moved inside any Inventory in RenderDragon builds

• Fixed enchantment glint shape of Charged Bow and Crossbow icons in RenderDragon builds

ITEMS

• Using an axe on Wood blocks turns them into Stripped Wood blocks (MCPE-105998)

• Fixed items playing “attack” and “using” animations at the same time on touch input (MCPE-117133)

VANILLA PARITY

• Critical hit particles now generate around a mob instead of under it (MCPE-39599)

TECHNICAL UPDATES

ACTORS

• Internal state flag CAN_RIDE_TARGET that was stopping interactions with items will be properly set/cleared when looking at a mob that cannot be ridden

GENERAL

• Added two new variables to the biomes_client.json file: "remove_all_prior_fog" and "inherit_from_prior_fog", which control fog merging and/or inheritance

• "remove_all_prior_fog", when true, will clear all previous fog definitions stored on the stack, making the current pack the new "starting point" for fogs

• "inherit_from_prior_fog", when true, will merge a biome's fog definition with matching biomes on the stack then create a new merged definition for it

• transparentattachable tag should only affect rendering in first person camera perspective

SCOREBOARDS

• Fixed a crash that sometimes happened when an entity with a scoreboard value was removed from the level

STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE

• Added content warnings for invalid map item parent id caused by the outdated Marketplace world templates

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta:

• Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft

• You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta

• Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them

• Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality

• The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

As always, you can check out the latest full changelog at aka.ms/MinecraftBeta. Good luck and enjoy the beta update!

Minecraft Beta - 1.16.230.56 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)

Posted: April 15, 2021

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta:

• Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft

• You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta

• Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them

• Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality

• The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

In this week's beta, we are introducing new cave generation along with improved ore generation and mineshafts for the Caves and Cliffs update. We have also fixed some important stability bugs! You can still test out the exciting new Caves and Cliffs features by enabling the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle on your worlds (You can find out more about using the toggles at aka.ms/MCExperimentalToggle). You can leave us your feedback for these features in the threads at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and search and reports any new bugs you may encounter at bugs.mojang.com.

Caves & Cliffs

• Improved visibility when swimming in underwater caves

• Changed ore generation to match the new world height, and to add more strategy to mining

• Introducing noise based caved generation that enables caves of more varied sizes and shapes

• Bringing local water levels to caves, allowing each cave to have its own water level

• Adapting mineshafts to fit into large caves. Mineshaft corridor is now attached to the ceiling via chains or to the floor via wood columns when missing support platform

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay

• Fixed a crash that occurred when curing a Zombie Villager in another dimension if the player had not travelled back to the Overworld since entering the World (MCPE-121559)

• Fixed a crash that occurred when generating jungle biomes when the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle was enabled

• Fixed a crash that could occur when switching between owned and non-owned Character Creator items

• Fixed an issue with Character Creator items not applying properly to characters (MCPE-122726)

Minecraft Beta - 1.16.230.54 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)

Posted: 8th April 2021

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta:

• Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft

• You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta

• Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them

• Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality

• The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

It's time for another Bedrock beta update, with several tweaks and fixes! As always, you will need to enable the Caves and Cliffs Experimental Features Toggle to check out these features in your beta worlds (You can find out more about using the toggles at aka.ms/MCExperimentalToggle.)

You can leave us your feedback for these features in the threads at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and search and reports any new bugs you may encounter at bugs.mojang.com.

Caves & Cliffs Experimental Features

Axolotl

• Leads now correctly attach to Axolotl

Creative Inventory

• There are no longer any unknown items in the creative inventory (MCPE-119503)

• Cobbled Deepslate is now next to cobblestone in the Creative inventory. Polished Deepslate is next to Deepslate

Deepslate

• Deepslate Bricks now have correct breaktime

Dripstone

• Water and lava now drip more often from pointed dripstone

• Fixed pointed dripstone texture mapping

Glow Lichen

• Glow lichen can now appear on the walls of underground water lakes

• The game no longer crashes when placing glow lichen on all sides of a single block

Glow Squid

• Leads now attach correctly to glow squid (and squid)

Lush Caves

• Hanging roots now drop correctly when mined by silk touch enchanted tool

• Moss can now also spread vertically when fertilized (MCPE-121672)

• Dripleaves now break completely when the leaf part is broken (MCPE-121804)

• Breaking a dripleaf stem now drops a dripleaf item, matching the Java Edition (MCPE-122447)

• Fertilizing a moss block can now also grow vegetation on existing moss blocks

• Small Dripleaves can now be composted just like Big Dripleaves (MCPE-122610)

• Bonemealing moss blocks no longer generates ferns (MCPE-122800)

• Azalea and Flowering Azalea can now be grown into an Azalea Tree when fertilized (No ID)

Powder Snow

• Leather horse armor prevents horses from freezing in powder snow

• Mobs that enjoy the heat (Blazes, Magma Cubes, and Striders) take increased freeze damage

• Polar bears, strays, and snow golems no longer take freeze damage

• The time taken to fully freeze is now 7 seconds instead of 15

• Frozen entities now take damage every 2 seconds instead of every 3 seconds

• The speed at which entities can move vertically when inside powder snow has increased

• Powder snow takes slightly longer to mine

• Entities wearing leather boots falling from a height of > 2.5 blocks sink into powder snow instead of landing on top of it

• Entities that are on fire that walk into powder snow now melt the powder snow block in addition to extinguishing the fire

• Entities that are fully frozen now shake

• Applied fog effect while standing very close outside a Powder Snow block

Striders

• Striders shake properly when out of lava again (MCPE-69511)

Other Experimental Tweaks and Changes

• Dripstone feature and dripstone cluster feature now rarely generate in caves below y59

• Rooted dirt, Small dripleaf, Moss Block and Pointed dripstone can now be obtained from the Wandering Trader

• Glow berries can be found in abandoned mineshaft minecart chests

• Moss block can be found in shipwreck chests

• Masons now trade Dripstone blocks

• Dripstone block can be crafted from pointed dripstone

• Axolotl and Glow Squid now spawn in water in non-ocean biomes under y = 30

General Bug Fixes and Tweaks

• Fixed a bug where if the view bobbing setting was disabled, the player's hand would still bob (MCPE-79380)

• Zombie Villagers properly shake while being cured

• Fixed player spawning in unsafe locations when entering a random world for the first time (MCPE-42310)

Structure Blocks

• The structure placement block now has placement animation options similar to '/structure' command

Commands

• Fix output message for '/stopsound' being incorrect (MCPE-116772)

Graphical

• Charged creeper aura is rendered correctly in most cases now (MCPE-65798)

• Fixed Paintings no longer rendering

• Ray tracing specific textures will be allocated/deallocated when toggling ray tracing on/off

Items

• Switching between some items (bow, trident, crossbow, shield) in your main hand will no longer skip animation (MCPE-116680)

Underwater Gameplay Experience

• Underwater visibility has been improved

• Underwater color has been tuned to better match Java Edition with a richer blue tint

User Interface

• A message will now display when trying to place blocks below the minimum build height

Technical Updates

GameTest Framework

Updated Interfaces:

• assertContainerContains - ItemIdentifier parameter changed to ItemStack

• assertItemEntityNotPresent and assertItemEntityPresent APIs - ItemStack parameter changed to ItemType

Added New Interfaces:

• assertEntityNotTouching(entityIdentifier: string, position : Location) - Asserts that there is no entity of the given type at the given position

• assertEntityTouching(entityIdentifier: string, position : Location) - Asserts that there is an entity of the given type at the given position

• assertItemEntityCountIs(itemType : ItemType, position : BlockLocation, searchDistance : number, count : number) - Asserts that the entity item count in the given search area matches the expected count

• pulseRedstone(position : BlockLocation, duration : number) - Creates a Redstone block at the given position and destroys it after "duration" ticks

Known Issues in this Beta

• Parts of Villages' generate underground

• Axolotl doesn't spawn naturally

• Glow Squid does not spawn naturally