Minecraft (Nintendo Switch): all the updates (latest update: Ver. 1.21.22)

28 August 2024 Lite_Agent 4J Studios, Microsoft, Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition, Mojang Studios

In this post, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Minecraft on Nintendo Switch (originally released on June 21st 2018 worldwide).

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Archives: launch to February 2019 / February 2019 – December 2022 / 2023

Minecraft – Ver. 1.21.22

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Improved loading of add-ons from Marketplace

Fixed a bug where all custom blocks were rotated 180 degrees in the UI

The default for the “gui” “item_display_transforms” “rotation” field is `[30, 45, 0]` instead of `[30, 225, 0]`
“item_display_transforms”: {
“gui” : {
“translation”: [0, 0, 0],
“rotation”: [30, 45, 0],
“scale”: [0.625, 0.625, 0.625],
“rotation_pivot”: [0, 0, 0],
“scale_pivot”: [0, 0, 0],
“fit_to_frame”: true
}
}

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.21.21

Release date: August 14th 2024 (North America, Europe) / August 15th 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Improved reliability of connecting to Realms

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.21.20

Release date: August 13th 2024 (North America, Europe) / August 14th 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes and Changes:

Performance / Stability:

Fixed a number of bugs related to downloading content getting stuck, including errors related to: “Downloads all stuck at 0%” and broken content updates (MCPE-177684)

Fixed item and block corruption when converting worlds from legacy Console Edition

Fixed an issue on Amazon devices where game would occasionally crash when joining a world

General

Fixed an issue so that Marketplace content is properly imported before creating or starting a world

Legacy worlds no longer have chunks at the edge of the world that don’t render

Gameplay

Fixed a bug that caused the environment within a chunk to noticeably change when thousands of blocks away from spawn (REALMS-11625)

The sound emitted when a player walks on a Heavy Core Block is now controlled by the appropriate slider in the audio preferences

Trial Chambers now generate far less frequently in the Deep Dark biome

Jumping no longer overrides any previous greater upward velocity, and therefore doesn’t cancel momentum from a Wind Burst explosion when both happen at the same time

Loot ejected from Vaults in Trial Chambers are now dependent on level, position and player seed

Players will no longer receive damage when in the world load or dimension transfer loading screen (MCPE-42310)

Players no longer momentarily go into a crawl for a single tick when moving towards a Bed with a 1.5 unit gap above it (MCPE-178370, MCPE-180810)

Area Effect Clouds no longer shrink when entered by entities immune to the effect

Mobs

The Bogged’s underwater melee attack no longer applies a Slowness effect to the victim (MCPE-178884)

Bogged no longer levitates when riding a Boat, Raft, or Minecart (MCPE-178876)

Parrots now correctly imitate the Bogged when nearby

Witches now always drop 4-8 Redstone Dust on death

This is to improve the viability of farms that utilize Witch Huts to obtain Redstone Dust

Fixed mob animations not playing when mobs were unloaded in split screen

Fixed a bug where the Breeze could get stuck in one place when beneath a roof of blocks while attacking

Entities that fail to load due to missing content will now be preserved inside the level. These entities will re-appear when the missing content becomes available (i.e. Removing and re-applying an Add-On)

Drowned now spawn individually in rivers instead of in groups of two

Drowned now spawn in aquifers in dripstone caves (MCPE-144066)

Wolves, Bears, and Pandas will panic and try to avoid danger when damaged by environmental sources, eg: fire, lava, freezing

Pufferfish now gives Nausea I effect instead of Nausea II when consumed (MCPE-98458)

Zoglins now play angry sounds when chasing the player or mobs (MCPE-95523)

Bees now start taking drowning damage after one second when underwater (MCPE-114688)

Mounts and vehicles are no longer given a slight velocity during a dismount

Blocks

Fixed a bug that caused Crafter to be audible from more than five blocks distance

Fixed some Trial Spawner texture inconsistencies (MCPE-181455)

Slabs and Stairs should no longer randomly start placing on the bottom when continuously building (MCPE-54855)

Particles generated when breaking Leaves will now match the color of the destroyed leaves (MCPE-179726)

Mirrored the back side of Skull, Guster, and Flow Banner textures (MCPE-179894)

Fixed an issue with the Quartz Slab’s texture (MCPE-182604)

Restored the back-side texture of the Sunflower to be leafy green (MCPE-181275)

Doors of different materials will now be able to form a double door

The Heavy Core Block is now properly scaled in the inventory (MCPE-179656)

The Heavy Core Block is now positioned correctly in Item Frames (MCPE-181155)

The Bell Block no longer rings twice when hit with a Wind Charge Projectile

The Scaffolding block no longer flickers when moving at far distances (MCPE-120910)

Copper Doors now follow the intended design of only dropping when mined with a Stone Pickaxe or better

Doors no longer drop when top block is mined in Creative mode

Smooth Quartz Slab’s texture is back to normal (MCPE-182104)

Crafting with Oxidized Cut Copper in Stonecutter now yields two slabs instead of one (MCPE-136077)

Crafting Quartz Bricks from Blocks of Quartz now yield 4 Quartz Bricks instead of 1 (MCPE-69281)

Naturally spawned Mushroom stems no longer drop Mushrooms when mined (MCPE-71123)

The chance of dropping Mushrooms (max of 2) from Brown and Red Mushroom Block was increased to match Java Edition, from 10% per Mushroom to 11.11%

A damaged Anvil block may now spawn in Trail Ruins, as it would in Java Edition

Trapdoors and Fence Gates no longer push players or mobs when activated by Redstone

Fixed double-plant blocks breaking in worlds of older versions (MCPE-183072)

Wind Charge

The Wind Charge Projectile can now be summoned via the /summon command (MCPE-178937)

Using Trident with Riptide enchantment now correctly cancels fall damage reduction from Wind Charge

Fixed a bug where the fall damage protection from a Wind Charge incorrectly prevented fall damage when landing a second time

Wind Charges thrown by players no longer have a chance of dealing more than 1 damage per hit

The Wind Charge model now correctly renders within its bounding box

Increased player-fired wind charge speed by 50%, bringing it into parity with Java Edition

The Wind Charge Projectile shot by the Breeze no longer toggles blocks when Mob Griefing is disabled in Settings (MCPE-181211)

Mounted entities are no longer immune to Wind Charge projectile damage

Wind charges now work the same on all terrain

Crouching no longer affects wind charge knockback / jump amount

Wind charges used by the player aimed straight down now knock the player upward ~6 blocks instead of ~2.5

Latency related fall damage when using a Wind Charge will occur less often

The launch position of the Wind Charge has been adjusted so it no longer fires too far from the player

Items

Using Trident with Riptide enchantment now correctly cancels fall damage reduction from Wind Charge

Breeze Rods now render correctly in third-person view (MCPE-179661)

The Mace no longer breaks Cobwebs and Bamboo as fast as Swords and other sharp items (MCPE-179754)

The Fishing Rod hook no longer sticks to actors that have the Projectile Reflection component (MCPE-180337)

The Mace’s Smash Attack no longer knocks back Mobs that have been tamed by the Player wielding the Mace (MCPE-180962)

Attacking an entity with a Mace enchanted with the Wind Burst enchantment no longer negates fall damage (MCPE-181496)

Locator Maps will now only render head and head attachments (MCPE-61891)

Leads now attach to the front of Boats, instead of to their center (MCPE-182145)

Fixed flickering item icon when quick moving a stack to non-empty stacks

Added rarity coloring in the tooltips of Creeper Charge, Skull Charge, Thing, Snout, Flow, and Guster Banner Patterns

The rarity color of Trident, Mace, and Heavy Core have been changed to the Epic color (magenta)

Banners are once again obtainable via the recipe book (MCPE-179650)

Fixed Wolf Armor breaking not emitting enough Scute particles (MCPE-179664)

Fixed Torch item icon being temporarily misplaced when transferring it between the inventory and the hotbar when quick-moved (MCPE-180913)

Fixed an issue where structure icons or other Map decorations were not visible at Map edges on Maps with unlimited tracking, such as Trial Explorer Maps (MCPE-182681)

Music / Sound

“Echo in the Wind” now plays in Lush Caves biome (MCPE-182278)

“5”, “Otherside”, “Relic”, “Creator”, “Creator (Music Box)” & “Precipice” are now assigned to the Jukebox / Noteblock slider (MCPE-169933)

The Rooted Dirt block now has unique sounds, to better match the Java Edition (MCPE-121664)

Copper Door’s “open” sound is now pitched differently

Copper Grate step sounds play at a lower volume

Trial Spawner break and place sounds are now pitched differently

Vault break and place sounds are now pitched differently

Break, place and hit sounds now pitch differently for Tuff, Tuff Bricks, and Polished Tuff Blocks

Crafter craft and fail sounds now have a random pitch offset

Crafter fail sound now has a max distance of 3 blocks instead of 5

Copper Bulb break, place and hit sounds are now pitched differently

Copper Grate break, place and hit sounds are now pitched differently

“light_block_0” and its derivatives now have their block sound defined (MCPE-183449)

Added a sound effect to help players understand that they have already looted a Vault

Added break, fall, hit, jump, land, place, and step sounds for the Mob Spawner block

Realms Invite Links

We are making some changes to how Realms invite links work to make it easier than ever to invite your friends and to keep your Realm safe from unwanted joiners:

You can now create up to 5 invite links per Realm

Invite links can be enabled or disabled at will, or set to have an expiration date in the future

Invite links can be deleted entirely

Newly created invite links codes will be 15 characters long (increased from 11)

All new Realms will not have an invite link created for them by default. Realm owners will need to manually create an invite link for their Realm

Existing links that have not been used will be deleted, while previously used links will not be deleted

Realms

Fixed an issue that was preventing RealismCraft and some other packs from working on Realms. This was a service-side fix that went live prior to this release (REALMS-11940, REALMS-11913, REALMS-11916)

Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing Realms Stories on a busy Realm

All items on the Realms purchase screens are now focusable and can be navigated through using a gamepad input

Removed an extra “the” in Realms section of Minecraft Encyclopedia

Typing into the search box on the Realms Stories Members tab no longer overrides the filter options

Added a new reporting flow that lets players add more context and information about why the report is being made

New lines are no longer removed from Realms Stories posts that are displayed in the story feed

Removed an unnecessary warning from 2 Player Realms subscription

Cleaned up the disabled Realms Stories button interface on the pause screen when playing as a second user in split screen

Fixed issues with the Realms button sticking around when it shouldn’t or not showing up when it should

Fixed a bug that locked players on an infinite loop after cancelling the process of joining a recently claimed preview Realm

Fixed a bug where players with a freshly installed Minecraft needed to restart before being able to see Realms Stories

Fix so that pressing “Join Realm” on the new Play screen does not lead into an empty void (MCPE-183428)

Players are no longer kicked from the Realm if the owner enters and exits the Realms Settings screen without modifying packs while multiple Add-Ons are applied

Navigating away from the Realms Stories Story Feed tab upon reading the first page of stories will remove the unread stories badge as the user has seen the most recent posts

Fixed a bug where brand new Realm Events wouldn’t display properly the first time the Story Feed is opened

Fixed a bug where items from certain Add-ons could appear without textures or names when joining Realms

Fixed a bug that prevented two back-to-back error screens when the client was out of date and a Realm had a pending update

Fixed a bug where the unread badge for the Realms Stories button on the Pause Screen did not update

Accessibility

Fixed an issue where Apple Pencil was not recognized as a valid input method (MCPE-158895)

Fixed an issue where Screen Narration would not describe how to accept a game invitation on Android and iOS

Text to speech now reads the how to play screens by hovering over, tapping on or navigating to the respective headers and paragraphs

Customizable Controls

Customized controls no longer revert after player stops flight (MCPE-180234)

The control customization screen is now automatically exited when input mode is switched to something other than touch controls

The paper doll can now be shown in the HUD when customizable controls is enabled (MCPE-176334)

Customized control button sizes remain stable when going up or down Scaffolding or Ladders (MCPE-178820)

Buttons can now slide completely to the right when customizing controls on iOS

When customizing touch controls, the safe zones on the left and right side are now ignored

User Interface

Added animated title to the loading tips dialog

Refreshed assets for Achievements screen: all achievements unlocked illustration, no achievement unlocked illustration, and the GamerScore icon

Fixed a bug that caused half-absorption hearts not be rendered (MCPE-181245)

The Water Breathing effect icon and timer no longer flicker while wearing the Turtle Helmet (MCPE-142173)

Updated the Hide Paperdoll toggle to default to false on Chromebooks

When Regeneration effect is active, hearts on the HUD no longer move too fast (MCPE-180864)

Shift-clicking inventory items no longer causes the item stack count to briefly appear above the stack

Interacting with a block outside of a players reach no longer causes the block interface to briefly appear

Items no longer render in front of stack size number when being quick moved (MCPE-180712)

Number on a stack of items no longer overlaps with item hover text in Villager’s trade menu (MCPE-181338)

Item no longer moves slightly in slot after being quick moved to Anvil (MCPE-180275)

Items no longer stay selected on touch devices when switching between Creative inventory tabs (MCPE-173506)

Items can now be removed from the off-hand slot and crafting grids by tapping on other items in Creative inventory on mobile devices (MCPE-168757)

Fixed the Help button link in the Structure Block’s menu (MCPE-179672)

The chat quick access history no longer stores duplicate chat entries

Fixed an issue where content of the previously used text field was carried over to Signs on Xbox (MCPE-182645)

Updated the Dressing Room category names for “Headwear”, “Outerwear”, and “Footwear”

Safe Zone Screen position now saves properly on closing the menu

Safe Zone Screen text no longer is obscured when you hover over it

Safe Zone Screen sliders now properly save even when the value is changed by just 0.1

Safe Zone Screen Position sliders now properly reset and rescale based on the Scale sliders

Safe Zone Screen no longer errors on iOS when set to minimum values

Fixed tags showing up vertically in Marketplace item descriptions

Fixed missing texture in My Content section of Marketplace (MCPE-181964)

Replaced Marketplace Pass gradient with solid gray to improve readability

Fixed the message that appears when using the ‘Copy Coordinates’ feature to copy player coordinates to the clipboard (MCPE-182146)

Game Tips

Game tips now appear and disappear from the screen with “fade-in” and “fade-out” animations

Added a swim tip for touch devices

How to move is now taught to players on touch devices with the D-pad control scheme

Sometimes it’s not a good time to learn new game play skills. For example, opening your inventory is not a relevant skill when you just discovered that the floor is lava. So here are some additional constraints for when game tips don’t show up:

Only the swim game tip shows up when you are in water

The break block tip is the most relevant tip when you’re freezing in powder snow. Other tips won’t show up

When there are hostile mobs nearby you can still learn skills that will help you run away (movement, jumping and camera movement). But other tips won’t bother you

Added emote game tip. The tip appears when there are remote players close to the player and the player has spent at least 30 seconds with other players in the world

Added chat game tip. The tip appears when there are remote players in a world or if cheats are enabled

If the chat game tip can be shown for a player, the open chat instructions posted in the chat are removed

Added a game tip that informs players on touch devices that they are sneaking in order to avoid having new players stuck in crouch

Added some minor tip interruption improvements for existing game tips

Technical Updates

General

Removed the “Holiday Creator Features” experiment

Content that uses the experimental features may no longer function correctly

Please check out Custom Components which replicates most of the functionality: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/documents/customcomponents

Fixed an instance where input could stop working as expected when using Touch Controls and Custom Cameras

Updated documentation for Feature Rules’ schema

Biome components “minecraft:forced_features” and “minecraft:ignore_automatic_features” are now deprecated

“minecraft:scatter_feature” now has a “distribution” field like “minecraft:feature_rules” to define the scattering settings. Features now use schema version “1.21.10”

Updated schema documentation for Filter Groups

Modified ItemUseInventoryTransactionpacket by adding Trigger Type. This new value tells us if the packet is sent from a direct player input or the simulation tick from the button being held down

Using ‘minecraft:wearable’ with slot set to ‘slot.weapon.offhand’ in combination with ‘minecraft:allow_off_hand’ set to false will now cause a content error

Add-Ons and Script Engine

Added a content error when ‘snow_accumulation’ array in a biome JSON has the minimum value set higher than the maximum value

Fixed Camera sometimes having a visible easing motion after a non-eased camera set command (MCPE-181364)

Fixed an issue that caused sideloaded .mcpack files to fail to apply when uploading to Realms

Deprecated Entity Permutations

Permutations can no longer be parsed and applied to entities via their JSON file under the flag permutations

Deprecated Volume and /volumearea command

Entity Aliases is deprecated when a format_version of 1.21.10 or higher is specified

Fixed an issue where particle effect lifetime event timeline did not trigger events as expected

Fixed a bug where having an Add-On applied to a dedicated server would force players to download all resource packs applied to that server in order to join. Note: If you downloaded unwanted packs as a result of this issue, you may have to delete them locally from your device to avoid having them apply when joining a world (MCPE-180344)

Updated the “minecraft:geometry” block component to validate whether geometries fit within the 30/16 unit bounds and have at least 1/16 of their length within the unit cube on each axis. This validation occurs for all geometry components on all blocks using json version 1.21.0 or later (MCPE-178607)

API

Fixed a crash with getTagsmethod on Item Stack when called on the Air Block Item

Dimension

Released method getTopmostBlock from beta to 1.13.0

Released interface VectorXZ from beta to 1.13.0

Fixed a bug that prevented get and StructureManager.place from loading structures stored in the root of the structures directory

MinecraftItemTypes no longer contains old item names

Fixed bug that caused the game to crash when executing a run command from the runCommand() and Dimension.runCommandAsync() scripting APIs

Potions

Added class Potions which contains helpers for retrieving handles to potion associated types

Added class PotionEffectType which is a potion effect type handle associated with MinecraftPotionEffectTypes

Added class PotionModifierType which is a potion modifier type handle associated with MinecraftPotionModifierTypes

Added class PotionLiquidType which is a potion type handle associated with MinecraftPotionLiquidTypes

Added class ItemPotionComponent which can be obtained from a valid potion ItemStack

Added interface PotionOptions for use in createPotion

Added function createPotion for creating valid potion items

Vanilla-Data

Added enum MinecraftPotionLiquidTypes containing potion liquid IDs

Added enum MinecraftPotionEffectTypes containing potion effect IDs

Added enum MinecraftPotionModifierTypes containing potion modifier IDs

BlockExplodeAfterEvent

Released BlockExplodeAfterEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Released BlockExplodeAfterEventSignal from beta to 1.12.0

Released blockExplode from beta to 1.12.0

Released ItemTypes from beta to 1.12.0

Released InputPermissionCategory from beta to 1.12.0

Released PlayerInputPermissions and inputPermissions from beta to 1.12.0

Released PlayerInputPermissionCategoryChangeAfterEvent and afterEvents.playerInputPermissionCategoryChanged from beta to 1.12.0

Added bound check for setCurrentValue. The provided value will be clamped to the range of this attribute

GameRules

Released ShowDaysPlayed from beta to 1.12.0

Released showDaysPlayed from beta to 1.12.0

EnchantmentTypes

Released getAll(): EnchantmentType[] from beta to 1.12.0

EntityRaycastOptions

Released ignoreBlockCollision from beta to 1.12.0

Released includeLiquidBlocks from beta to 1.12.0

Released includePassableBlocks from beta to 1.12.0

Released hitBlockPermutation member of EntityHitBlockAfterEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Released beta version of addEffect method on Entity to 1.3.0, which adds a return type for the newly created effect (or undefined if no effect was added)

BlockRecordPlayerComponent

Added UIManager class and uiManager object to @minecraft/server-ui beta

Renamed the componentId to minecraft:record_player for consistency

Added methods getRecord, ejectRecord, pauseRecord and playRecord

Removed method clearRecord, instead you should now pass undefined to setRecord to reset it

Removed property readonly getLifetimeState: EntityLifetimeState from beta

Removed enum EntityLifetimeState from beta

Move setBlockPermutation(location: Vector3, permutation: BlockPermutation): void from beta to 1.12.0

Move setBlockType(location: Vector3, blockType: BlockType | string): void from beta to 1.12.0

Moved getTags(): string[] from beta to 1.12.0

Moved hasTag(tag: string): boolean from beta to 1.12.0

Removed property readonly fallDistance: number from beta

Released WorldInitializeBeforeEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Released WorldInitializeBeforeEventSignal from beta to 1.12.0

Custom Components

Released ItemComponentRegistry from beta to 1.12.0

Released ItemCustomComponent from beta to 1.12.0

Released ItemComponentBeforeDurabilityDamageEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Released ItemComponentCompleteUseEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Released ItemComponentConsumeEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Released ItemComponentHitEntityEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Released ItemComponentMineBlockEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Released ItemComponentUseEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Released ItemComponentUseOnEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved EntityTameableComponent from beta to 1.12.0 with properties getTameItems, isTamed, probability, tamedToPlayer, tamedToPlayerId and function tame

Moved EntityAgeableComponent from beta to 1.12.0 with properties duration, growUp, transformToItem and function getDropItems, getFeedItems, EntityDefinitionFeedItem, Trigger

Fixed an issue where a warning would incorrectly appear when reloading item custom components

EntityTameMountComponent

Moved method tameToPlayer and readonly properties tamedToPlayerId, tamedToPlayer, isTamed, isTamedToPlayer from beta to 1.12.0

Released runJob method on System from beta to 1.12.0

Released clearJob method on System from beta to 1.12.0

Released waitTicks method on System from beta to 1.12.0

@minecraft/server-ui

Released version 1.2.0

Added new beta version 1.3.0

Released submitButton method on ModalFormData from beta to 1.2.0

EntityLeashableComponent

Moved class EntityLeashableComponent from beta to 1.13.0

Blocks

Fixed a bug where interacting, while sneaking, with Command, Jigsaw, and Structure blocks could cause the UI to open/close multiple times

Top Snow/snow_layer block now falls when placed using the /setblock command

“double_stone_block_slab” block is now split into unique instances “smooth_stone_double_slab”, “sandstone_double_slab”, “oak_double_slab”, “cobblestone_double_slab”, “brick_double_slab”, “stone_brick_double_slab”, “quartz_double_slab”, and “nether_brick_double_slab”

The id “oak_double_slab” had already been split from “double_wooden_slab”, as a result, any “double_stone_block_slab:2” will be turned into the already existing “oak_double_slab” id

“monster_egg” block is now split into unique instances: “infested_stone”, “infested_cobblestone”, “infested_stone_bricks”, “infested_mossy_stone_bricks”, “infested_cracked_stone_bricks”, and “infested_chiseled_stone_bricks”

“infested_cobblestone” block destroy time has been changed to match Java Edition

“stonebrick” block is now split into unique instances: “stone_bricks”, “mossy_stone_bricks”, “cracked_stone_bricks”, and “chiseled_stone_bricks”

“Smooth Stone Bricks” block can no longer be obtained through commands and existing “Smooth Stone Bricks” will be converted to “Stone Bricks”

“stone_block_slab3” block is now split into unique instances “end_stone_brick_slab”, “smooth_red_sandstone_slab”, “polished_andesite_slab”, “andesite_slab”, “diorite_slab”, “polished_diorite_slab”, “granite_slab” and “polished_granite_slab”

“prismarine_slab”, “dark_prismarine_slab”, “prismarine_brick_slab”, “andesite_slab”, “polished_andesite_slab”, “diorite_slab”, “polished_diorite_slab”, “granite_slab” and “polished_granite_slab” now have a destruction time of 1.5

“end_stone_brick_slab” now has a destruction time of 3.0

“stone_block_slab2” block is now split into unique instances “red_sandstone_slab”, “purpur_slab”, “prismarine_slab”, “dark_prismarine_slab”, “prismarine_brick_slab”, “mossy_cobblestone_slab”, “smooth_sandstone_slab”, and “red_nether_brick_slab”

The “blocks.json” files found in resource packs are now versioned

Overriding the block “stone” with a format_version of 1.20.50 or higher will assume the texture data in terrain_texture.json is flattened and not using an array

Overriding the block “prismarine” with a format_version of 1.21.10 or higher will assume the texture data in terrain_texture.json is flattened and not using an array

Overriding the block “anvil”, “quartz_block”, “red_sandstone”, “sand” and “sandstone” with a format_version of 1.21.20 or higher will assume the texture data in terrain_texture.json is flattened and not using an array

“infested_stone” and its derivatives now have their block sound defined (MCPE-182290)

Texture overrides that intended to target all block variants no longer only override the default variant

“light_block” block is now split into unique instances: “light_block_0”, “light_block_1”, “light_block_2”, “light_block_3”, “light_block_4”, “light_block_5”, “light_block_6”, “light_block_7”, “light_block_8”, “light_block_9”, “light_block_10”, “light_block_11”, “light_block_12”, “light_block_13”, “light_block_14”, and “light_block_15”

“coral_fan_hang” block is now split into unique instances “tube_coral_wall_fan”, “brain_coral_wall_fan”, “dead_tube_coral_wall_fan”, and “dead_brain_coral_wall_fan”

“coral_fan_hang2” block is now split into unique instances “bubble_coral_wall_fan”, “fire_coral_wall_fan”, “dead_bubble_coral_wall_fan”, and “dead_fire_coral_wall_fan”

“coral_fan_hang3” block is now split into unique instances “horn_coral_wall_fan” and “dead_horn_coral_wall_fan”

“stone_block_slab4” block is now split into unique instances “mossy_stone_brick_slab”, “smooth_quartz_slab”, “normal_stone_slab”, “cut_sandstone_slab” and “cut_red_sandstone_slab”

“mossy_stone_brick_slab” now has a destruction time of 1.5

The “minecraft:yellow_flower” block has been renamed to “minecraft:dandelion”

The old name is still understood from commands and data

“sandstone” block is now split into unique instances “sandstone”, “chiseled_sandstone”, “cut_sandstone”, and “smooth_sandstone”

“smooth_sandstone” destroy time changed from 0.8 to 2.0, and explosion resistance from 0.8 to 6.0

“double_stone_block_slab2” block is now split into unique instances “red_sandstone_double_slab”, “purpur_double_slab”, “prismarine_double_slab”, “dark_prismarine_double_slab”, “prismarine_brick_double_slab”, “mossy_cobblestone_double_slab”, “smooth_sandstone_double_slab” and “red_nether_brick_double_slab”

“prismarine_double_slab”, “dark_prismarine_double_slab” and “prismarine_brick_double_slab” now have a destruction time of 1.5

Fixed Ancient City entrance using a single Deepslate tile slab instead of a double slab

“double_stone_block_slab3” block is now split into unique instances “end_stone_brick_double_slab”, “smooth_red_sandstone_double_slab”, “polished_andesite_double_slab”, “andesite_double_slab”, “diorite_double_slab”, “polished_diorite_double_slab”, “granite_double_slab”, and “polished_granite_double_slab”

“end_stone_brick_double_slab” now has a destruction time of 3.0

“andesite_double_slab”, “polished_andesite_double_slab”, “diorite_double_slab”, “polished_diorite_double_slab”, “granite_double_slab”, and “polished_granite_double_slab” now have a destruction time of 1.5

“double_stone_block_slab4” block is now split into unique instances “mossy_stone_brick_double_slab”, “smooth_quartz_double_slab”, “normal_stone_double_slab”, “cut_sandstone_double_slab”, and “cut_red_sandstone_double_slab”

“mossy_stone_brick_double_slab” now has a destruction time of 1.5

“prismarine” block is now split into unique instances “prismarine”, “dark_prismarine”, and “prismarine_bricks”

Added VanillaBlockTag “one_way_collidable” that can be used to emulate the one way collision of Doors, Trapdoors, and Fence Gates that don’t push out a mob when inside their collision box

“anvil” block is now split into unique instances: “anvil”, “chipped_anvil”, “damaged_anvil”, and “deprecated_anvil”

“quartz_block” is now split into unique instances “quartz_block”, “chiseled_quartz_block”, “quartz_pillar”, and “smooth_quartz”

Smooth Quartz has had its destroy-time adjusted to match Java Edition (MCPE-101893)

Pillar Quartz Block has been renamed to Quartz Pillar

“red_sandstone” block is now split into unique instances “red_sandstone”, “chiseled_red_sandstone”, “cut_red_sandstone”, and “smooth_red_sandstone”

“smooth_red_sandstone” destroy time changed from 0.8 to 2.0

“dirt” block is now split into unique instances: “dirt” and “coarse_dirt”

“sand” block is now split into unique instances “sand” and “red_sand”

minecraft:custom_components no longer requires the Beta APIs experiment

minecraft:entity_fall_on no longer requires the Beta APIs experiment

minecraft:tick no longer requires the Beta APIs experiment

Fixed a recipe bug where “chiseled_sandstone” and “cut_sandstone” sandstone variants could be used in a furnace to craft “smooth_sandstone”. It can now only accept normal “sandstone” and no other types of sandstone

Fixed Vanilla recipes involving “red_sandstone_slab” as an ingredient or result item, they would incorrectly use “red_sandstone” instead

“red_sandstone_slab” can now be crafted again with 3 horizontal “red_sandstone:0”

“red_sandstone_slab” can now be crafted again with 3 horizontal “red_sandstone:1”

“red_sandstone:1” can now be crafted again with 2 vertical “red_sandstone_slab”

Camera

Two new 3rd person camera experiments are now available!

Added the ‘Creator Cameras: New Third Person Presets’ experimental toggle which contains:

New ‘minecraft:follow_orbit’ preset that is accessible by the /camera command and can have a view offset

Added the Creator Cameras: Focus Target Camera experiment. This functionality can be applied to the free camera preset

A new free camera command that pivots the camera to track a target entity

Includes option to add an offset from the center of the entity

Includes option to remove the target

Added the view offset to the 3^rd person camera for the experimental follow_orbit preset

The view offset is anchored to a pivot point at the center of the screen. When applied to the follow_orbit preset, the player is shifted to be at a distance from center specified by the the offset

The range for this offset is -100 to 100

This can be set by both commands and JSON

/camera @s set minecraft:follow_orbit view_offset viewX viewY

A new learning portal article detailing the 3^rd person camera, including JSON syntax, will be published soon

Added starting radius and rotation to the follow_orbit and 3^rd person boom camera presets

The starting radius (distance from player) is fixed right now at 10 blocks from the player position

The starting rotation (pitch and yaw) are fixed right now at 45X and 45Y

The follow orbit camera is the only preset available, the 3^rd person boom preset will be coming in a future release

Exposed radius component to behavior packs to be overwritten by creator cameras. Also added ‘minecraft:third_person’ and ‘minecraft:third_person_front’ to the allow list of presets that can be inherited from

This allows you to make a 3^rd person camera based on the vanilla 3^rd person cameras but with a variable radius.
The radius (distance from player) is not limited but render distance and other constraints still exist.

This does not allow modifications to the vanilla cameras

Commands

Music will no longer be stopped by the ‘/stopsound’ command

Fixed a bug where the /spreadplayers command could result in the target being teleported one block below the intended location

Added a Max Height parameter to the /spreadplayers command, which allows you to specify a maximum height that the spreading is done underneath

The /locate structure command now uses namespaced structure names. Structure names provided without a namespace will assume the “minecraft” namespace (MCPE-151807)

Entities

Improved “behavior.follow_owner” teleportation logic:

Entities now seamlessly resume navigation after teleporting to their owner

Added the “post_teleport_distance” field, allowing to specify how far from its owner an entity will be placed after teleporting

If no value is specified, “stop_distance” increased by one will be used

These changes only affect entities with format version of 1.21.20 or above

Armor equipped to the second slot of “minecraft:equippable” is now applied to “slot.armor.body” instead of “slot.armor.torso”

To retrieve information about it, “query.armor_texture_slot”, “query.armor_color_slot” and “query.armor_damage_slot” should now be used with a value of 4

This change only affects entities with a format version equal to or greater than 1.21.10

Added a wind_burst_on_hit subcomponent for Projectiles which creates a wind burst upon collision with an entity or block before being removed from the world

Wind Charges no longer burst when removed by command

Exposed “minecraft:behavior.swim_up_for_breath” AI goal component, which allows a mob to try to move to a location where it can breathe air once it is close to running out of its breathable supply

In Vanilla, this is used by the Dolphin

Any custom content built off of the Vanilla dolphin at or above version 1.21.20 will need to manually add this component to enable this AI behavior

Added the “behavior.teleport_to_owner” goal, which allows an entity to teleport to its owner

This goal is designed for emergency situations where “behavior.follow_owner” could be too slow or too low priority

The “filters” field allows defining the conditions for teleportation using entity filters

The “cooldown” field allows defining how often the entity should attempt to teleport

minecraft:behavior.move_away_from_target has been renamed to minecraft:behavior.move_around_target to better describe what the goal does, since it can be used both for moving away from the target, but also to move towards a random position around the target

Added new entity filter “owner_distance”, which checks the distance of an entity from its owner

Graphical

Particle Emitters that use the “minecraft:particle_appearance_lighting” component now use the correct light level instead of the world’s origin light level

2 Channel textures in resource packs are now properly supported. When loaded they will always use the first channel to represent all three color channels and the second channel for alpha (I.E A normal texture would be (R, G, B, A)where a 2 channel texture will always be treated as (R, R, R, A))

Fixed fog JSON validation to allow for max_density_height and zero_density_height values to range from (-64,320)

Items

Trimmed custom armor item icons now appear correctly when their icon texture name includes a namespace or does not match the item name

[BETA] Introduced “slot.armor.body” as an extra armor slot for entities like Horses, limited to a single armor item but needing the effects of a full armor set

“slot.armor.body” is supported by:

Commands (even if no suitable item is currently available for manipulation)

“minecraft:attachable”

“minecraft:interact”

“query.armor_texture_slot” (with value 4)

“query.armor_color_slot” (with value 4)

“query.armor_damage_slot” (with value 4)

“query.equipment_count”

“has_equipment” entity filter (with domain “body”)

“all_slots_empty” entity filter (with domain “body”)

“any_slot_empty” entity filter (with domain “body”)

“slot.armor.body” is not supported by:

“minecraft:wearable”

Future adjustments may alter how items equipped to “slot.armor.body” affect entity visibility (intended as how easy an entity is detected by other entities), enchantments, and armor protection

Released minecraft:custom_components item component out of experimental in json formats 1.21.10 and higher

Introduced “slot.armor.body” as an extra armor slot for entities, like horses, limited to a single armor item but needing the effects of a full armor set

Introduced the “minecraft:damage_absorption” item component, enabling items to absorb damage intended for their wearer

The “absorbable_causes” field allows to specify which damage causes to absorb

Absorbed damage depletes the item’s durability, and surplus damage is ignored

Requires equipping the item in an armor slot for damage to be absorbed

When multiple damage absorbing items are equipped, a suitable one is selected at random to absorb incoming damage

Introduced the “minecraft:durability_sensor” item component, enabling items to emit sounds and particles when damage causes them to lose durability

The “durability_thresholds” field allows to define a list of both durability thresholds and the effects to emit when they are met

When the item receives enough damage to meet multiple thresholds at the same time, only the one corresponding to the lowest durability is considered

Learning portal documents on these features and how to use them are being written and will be available soon

Molang

Released state_time which no longer requires the ‘Upcoming Creator Features’ toggle

Fixed Molang content errors to include the expression in the logged message

Petrified Oak Slab

The Oak-Slab-looking variation of “stone_block_slab” (aux value 2) is now flattened into its own new block “minecraft:petrified_oak_slab” (MCPE-180964)

Will behave like other Stone Slabs, eg. cannot be destroyed by fire, but will look like an ordinary oak slab

“minecraft:petrified_oak_slab” can only be obtained and placed through commands

The Oak-Slab-looking variation of “double_stone_block_slab” (aux value 2) is now flattened into its own new block “minecraft:petrified_oak_double_slab” (MCPE-180964)

Will behave like other stone double slabs, eg. cannot be destroyed by fire, but will look like an ordinary oak double slab

“minecraft:petrified_oak_double_slab” can only be placed through commands

Structure Block

Fixed issue where player ID was not being saved on structure blocks when saving and exiting the level (MCPE-149183)

From versions 1.21.20, the player ID given to tamed mobs loaded from a Structure Block will always be the original owner’s ID

Experimental Technical Updates

API

Camera

Added `CameraFixedBoomOptions` to the options for the `setCamera` function in beta

CameraFixedBoomOptions

New interface added to beta

Allows you to customize `minecraft:follow_orbit` cameras only when the third person camera presets toggle is enabled

Introduced `viewOffset?: Vector2`. This property allows you to change the offset of the camera relative to the player to create an over the shoulder effect

WorldInitializeBeforeEvent

Renamed property blockTypeRegistry to blockComponentRegistry

Moved BlockComponentRegistry from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockCustomComponentAlreadyRegisteredError from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockCustomComponentReloadVersionError from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockCustomComponentReloadNewEventError from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockCustomComponentReloadNewComponentError from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockCustomComponent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockComponentStepOnEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockComponentTickEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockComponentRandomTickEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockComponentEntityFallOnEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockComponentStepOffEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockComponentPlayerInteractEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockComponentPlayerPlaceBeforeEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockComponentPlayerDestroyEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved BlockComponentOnPlaceEvent from beta to 1.12.0

Added four new error class types used for custom block component registration

ScriptBlockCustomComponentAlreadyRegisteredError – When registering a custom block component and it has already been registered

ScriptBlockCustomComponentReloadVersionError – When registering a custom block component with a different script version between reloading

ScriptBlockCustomComponentReloadNewEventError – When registering a custom block component and it implements a new event between reloading

ScriptBlockCustomComponentReloadNewComponentError – When registering a custom block component between reloading

Added Block::getMapColor binding to Script Block API (Beta)

EntityBreathableComponent

Changed function setAirSupply(value: number): void to property airSupply: number in beta

Added property readonly canBreathe: boolean to beta

EntityComponent

Moved class EntityMovementComponent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved class EntityLavaMovementComponent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved class EntityMovementGlideComponent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved class EntityMovementSwayComponent from beta to 1.12.0

Moved class EntityUnderwaterMovementComponent from beta to 1.12.0

Added class PlayerCursorInventoryComponent which adds read-only access to the players cursor inventory and the ability to clear it

Added playerEmote which fires after a player uses an emote

Block Custom Components

Use of the ‘onTick’ event requires the block has the ‘minecraft:tick’ component to configure how the block ticks

Blocks that are world generated, and have the ‘minecraft:tick’ component, will now tick

EntityBreathableComponent

Changed function setAirSupply(value: number): void to property airSupply: number in beta

Added property readonly canBreathe: boolean to beta

Added isHardcore to 1.14.0 beta

Blocks

Added “item_display_transforms” control to the block geometry file. This controls the way a block is visually represented in the UI, on the player, and floating on the ground. It exists inside minecraft:geometry, and requires format_version 1.21.20

Default values example:

“item_display_transforms”: {
“gui” : {
                “translation”: [0, 0, 0],
                “rotation”: [30, 225, 0],
                “scale”: [0.625, 0.625, 0.625]
},
“firstperson_righthand”: {
                “translation”: [0, 0, 0],
                “rotation”: [0, 45, 0],
                “scale”: [0.4, 0.4, 0.4]
},
“firstperson_lefthand”: {
    “translation”: [0, 0, 0],
    “rotation”: [0, -135, 0],
    “scale”: [0.4, 0.4, 0.4]
},
“thirdperson_righthand”: {
    “translation”: [0, 2.5, 0],
    “rotation”: [75, 45, 0],
    “scale”: [0.375, 0.375, 0.375]
},
“thirdperson_lefthand”: {
    “translation”: [0, 2.5, 0],
    “rotation”: [75, 45, 0],
    “scale”: [0.375, 0.375, 0.375]
},
“ground”: {
    “translation”: [0, 3.0, 0],
    “rotation”: [0, 0, 0],
    “scale”: [0.25, 0.25, 0.25]
},
“fixed”: {
    “translation”: [0, 0, 0],
    “rotation”: [0, 0, 0],
    “scale”: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
},
“head”: {
    “translation”: [0, 0, 0],
    “rotation”: [0, 0, 0],
    “scale”: [1, 1, 1]
}
}

Entity Components

EntityLeashableComponent

Added property canBeStolen: boolean

Added property hardDistance: number

Added property leashHolder: Entity

Added property leashHolderEntityId: string

Added property maxDistance: number

Added property isLeashed: boolean

Renamed function leash(leashHolder: Entity): void to leashTo(leashHolder: Entity): void

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.21.2

Release date: July 9th 2024 (North America, Europe) / July 10th 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Features and Bug Fixes

Ominous Trial Spawner

Mobs spawned by Ominous Trial Spawners now drop items they picked up (MCPE-182630)

Ominous Vault

Rare loot now has 80% chance of dropping, instead of 20% (MCPE-180654)

Trial Spawner

Fixed issue with Trial Spawners not ejecting loot in older worlds (MCPE-182758)

Experimental Features

API

Added UIManager class and uiManager object to @minecraft/server-ui beta

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.21.1

Release date: June 20th 2024 (North America, Europe) / June 21st 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed a bug where players with a freshly installed Minecraft needed to restart before being able to see Realms Stories

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.21 (Tricky Trials Update)

Release date: June 13th 2024 (North America, Europe) / June 14th 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Added a new underground structure called the Trial Chambers

Added 2 new mobs

Breeze

Bogged

Added a new weapon, the Mace

Added 3 new enchantments exclusive to the Mace

Density

Breach

Wind Burst

Added the following blocks:

Crafter

Trial Spawner

Ominous Trial Spawner

Vault

Ominous Vault

New variants in the Copper Family

New variants in the Tuff Family

Heavy Core

Added the following items:

Trial Explorer Map

Ominous Bottle

Wind Charge

Trial Key

Ominous Trial Key

Breeze Rod

3 new Pottery Sherds

2 new Banner Patterns

2 new Armor Trims

4 new Potions

Potion of Infestation

Potion of Oozing

Potion of Weaving

Potion of Wind Charging

4 new Tipped Arrows

Arrow of Infestation

Arrow of Oozing

Arrow of Weaving

Arrow of Wind Charging

Added 3 new Music Discs by Aaron Cherof and Lena Raine

Added 20 new Paintings

5 by artist Sarah Boeving

15 by artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand

Redesigned Bad Omen to give access to Ominous Events

Added 6 new Status Effects

Infested

Oozing

Weaving

Wind Charged

Raid Omen

Trial Omen

Added 9 new music tracks by Aaron Cherof, Kumi Tanioka, and Lena Raine

Added 4 new achievements

Structures

Trial Chambers

Trial Chambers are a new structure in the Overworld where players can explore and take on combat challenges

Made out of a variety of Copper and Tuff blocks, and can be found in different sizes

A relatively common find throughout the Deepslate layer of the underground

Natural mob spawning does not occur inside, similar to Ancient Cities

Never starts inside a Deep Dark biome, but can sometimes overlap it

The layout of each Trial Chamber is procedurally generated, and can include traps, rewards and a variety of combat areas

Decorated Pots line the corridors and hold hidden treasures

Supply Barrels can be found between different rooms, and give you blocks and items which help you navigate your trials

Vaults are guarded by challenges in each room, and can be a source of many high level Enchanted Books and equipment including a very rare chance to receive a Trident

Ominous Vaults can be found in harder to reach places and give even better loot than standard Vaults, including some items which are exclusive to Ominous Vaults

Each Trial Chamber will include Trial Spawners with a melee, small melee, or ranged category:

Melee

Zombie

Husk

Spider

Small Melee

Slime

Cave Spider

Baby Zombie

Silverfish

Ranged

Skeleton

Stray

Bogged

Each Trial Spawner category will only use one mob for the entire structure when generated, and these mobs are randomized for each Trial Chamber

For example, one Trial Chamber might only spawn Zombies, Cave Spiders and Strays, while another might only spawn Spiders, Silverfish and Skeletons

The exceptions to this are some Trial Spawners in unique rooms which always spawn Breezes

Mobs

Breeze

A cunning hostile mob spawned by some Trial Spawners in Trial Chamber rooms

Drops 1-2 Breeze Rods when killed by a player

The number of Breeze Rods dropped is affected by looting enchantments

Moves primarily by leaping around its target

Deflects almost all projectiles, making it immune to ranged combat

With one notable exception: it cannot deflect Wind Charges

An aggressive adversary, it shoots volatile wind energy in the form of Wind Charge projectiles at its target

After colliding with an entity or a block, Wind Charge projectiles produce a Wind Burst, which knocks back entities in the area

Wind Charges deal a small amount of damage when colliding directly with an entity

Wind Charges break decorated pots and chorus flower blocks upon collision

Wind Bursts have the effect of ‘activating’ certain blocks:

Non-Iron Doors and Trapdoors are flipped

Fence Gates are flipped

Buttons are pressed

Levers are flipped

Bells are rung and swung

Lit Candles are extinguished

Wind Bursts do not have any effect on Iron Doors, Iron Trapdoors, or any block being held in its position by a Redstone signal

Will not retaliate against attacks from the following mobs: Skeletons, Strays, Bogged, Zombies, Husks, Spiders, Cave Spiders and Slimes

The same mobs will not retaliate against a Breeze when hurt by its Wind Charge projectile

Bogged

A new variant of Skeletons that shoots poisonous arrows

They’re easier to take down with 16 health instead of 20 health

They attack at a slower interval of 3.5 seconds instead of 2 seconds

Has a chance to drop Arrows of Poison when killed by players

These mossy and mushroom covered Skeletons spawn naturally in Swamps and Mangrove Swamps

Can also be found spawning from Trial Spawners in some Trial Chambers

Drops 2 mushrooms when sheared (either both red, both brown, or one of each)

Weapons

Mace

A new heavy weapon to smash your enemies!

Has a base damage of 5

Can be crafted with a Breeze Rod and a Heavy Core

Using it will decrease its durability like any other weapon; can be repaired with Breeze Rods at an Anvil

Has a unique attack called the smash attack. When the player falls more than 1.5 blocks before hitting, a smash attack is triggered which has multiple effects:

Safe Fall: Resets all vertical momentum and negates any fall-damage accumulated from the fall

Extra Damage: Does more damage the further the player fell before hitting the target with it:

For the first 3 blocks fallen: Add 4 damage per block

For the next 5 blocks fallen: Add 2 damage per block

For any blocks fallen after: Add 1 damage per block

Great Knockback: Other entities near the struck enemy will be knocked back by the immense force of the Mace

Can be used in combination with Wind Charges to launch up and deliver devastating smash attacks to enemies

These existing enchantments can be applied to the Mace:

Mending

Unbreaking

Smite

Bane of Arthropods

Fire Aspect

Curse of Vanishing

The Mace also has 3 exclusive enchantments: Density, Breach and Wind Burst

Enchantments

Three new enchantments have been added which are exclusive to the Mace:

Density

Common Enchantment, accessible in the Enchanting Table and on Enchanted Books in random loot chests

Has 5 levels

Maces enchanted with Density do more damage per fallen block per Density level

Damage dealt per fallen block is increased by 0.5 per level of Density

Mutually exclusive with Breach, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods

Breach

Rare Enchantment, accessible in the Enchanting Table and on Enchanted Books in random loot chests

Has 4 levels

Maces enchanted with Breach reduce the effectiveness of armor on the target

The effectiveness of the armor is reduced by 15% per Breach level

Mutually exclusive with Density, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods

Wind Burst

Unique enchantment which can only be found in Ominous Vaults

Only Wind Burst I can be found, higher levels must be obtained by combining them in an Anvil

Has 3 levels

Maces enchanted with Wind Burst will emit a Wind Burst upon hitting an enemy, launching the attacker upward and enabling the linking of smash attacks one after the other

Successfully landing a Wind Burst attack causes the player to lose the fall damage protection they would otherwise have from landing a successful smash attack

Each level will bounce the attacker an additional 7 blocks into the air

Blocks

Crafter

A new block that enables the crafting of items and blocks via Redstone

Can be crafted with 5 Iron Ingots, 2 Redstone Dust, 1 Crafting Table and 1 Dropper

Will eject one crafting result at a time when powered by a Redstone pulse

Its current powered state is indicated by Redstone crystals on its back face, which will light up

The crafting grid on its top face will light up red when it successfully crafts a recipe

Upon receiving a signal, it will eject the recipe result from the front face

If the recipe output has any remainder items (such as a Bucket), the result and remainder items will be ejected together

When placed, the front face of the Crafter will face towards the player

Crafter User Interface

Has a 3×3 interactable crafting grid

The crafting grid slots are toggleable, meaning that the player can change the behavior of a slot by interacting with it while not holding an item

A slot that is ‘toggled’ cannot hold any items

Other blocks such as Hoppers and Droppers also cannot place items into them

Unlike the Crafting Table, the Crafter displays a preview of the crafted item which will be crafted and ejected on the next Redstone pulse, but cannot be manually taken out by the player

The arrow pointing out from the recipe grid will light up red when the Crafter is currently powered

The Crafter User Interface is shared between all players interacting with it, meaning that multiple players can interact with the Crafter at the same time, similar to Chests and Hoppers

Crafter Interaction with Other Blocks

The signal strength of a Comparator reading a Crafter is 0-9, where each non-empty or toggled slot adds 1 strength

Hoppers and Minecarts with Hoppers can be used to both insert and extract items from the Crafter

Droppers can be used to insert items into the Crafter

Items inserted from another block (ex: Hopper, Dropper) will fill the Crafter’s slots based on these rules:

Prioritize the first empty slot (from left-to-right, top-to-bottom)

If there are no empty slots, then prioritize the smallest stack of the same item (pick the first if there are multiple)

If there is a toggled slot it will be skipped. The item will then be moved into the container

If the item cannot be moved, it will be ejected into the world

Items are removed from Crafters by Hoppers and Minecarts with Hoppers in the same order as from other containers like Chests

Trial Spawner

A new variant of Monster Spawners that ejects rewards upon defeat

Cannot be crafted nor obtained by players in Survival – instead, they can be found naturally throughout Trial Chambers

Very slow to mine and resistant to explosions, and will not drop even with Silk Touch

Cannot be moved by Pistons

The challenge level will increase for each new player a Trial Spawner notices nearby

The challenge level will not decrease until it is reset during a Trial Spawner’s cooldown

Trial Spawners can only notice players which are in line of sight, and will ignore Creative and Spectator players

Unlike normal Spawners, a Trial Spawner will spawn a limited number of mobs proportional to its current challenge level

It can only spawn a mob at positions that are within line of sight

It can spawn a mob regardless of any light level requirement the mob has

Spawned mobs are persistent

Once all mobs are defeated, the Trial Spawner will eject a number of rewards which is proportional to the current challenge level

After the rewards have been ejected, the Trial Spawner goes into cooldown for 30 minutes, during which it will no longer spawn mobs

When placed in Creative, Trial Spawners have no mob type set by default

The mob type can be set by interacting with it while holding a Spawn Egg

Has an Ominous Trial Spawner variant, accessible through an Ominous Trial

Vault

A block that holds locked treasure and loot – players must find the right key to eject its rewards

Can be found throughout Trial Chambers, containing the structures’ most valuable loot

Vaults in Trial Chambers require a Trial Key to be unlocked

Cannot be crafted nor obtained in Survival, and does not drop anything when mined

Explosion resistant and cannot be moved by Pistons

Can be unlocked by an unlimited number of players

After a player has unlocked a Vault, they cannot personally unlock that Vault again

If a player has not unlocked a particular Vault before, this can be seen by an orange stream of particles that flow from the player to that Vault when nearby

Has a keyhole that will be open or closed depending on the players nearby

If any nearby player has not unlocked that Vault, the keyhole will be open

If all nearby players have unlocked that Vault, the keyhole will be closed

Within its cage, it will cycle through and display items which are possible to eject from its loot table

Players cannot time their unlocks to eject the item that is currently displayed in the cage

The loot it ejects is randomized each time it is unlocked

Has an Ominous Vault variant, unlockable through an Ominous Trial

Copper Family

The Copper family of blocks has been expanded to add:

Chiseled Copper

Copper Grate

Copper Bulb

Copper Door

Copper Trapdoor

Oxidized and waxed variants of all of the above

Chiseled Copper

Crafted with 2 Cut Copper Slabs of a shared oxidation level

Can be crafted in the Stonecutter

Copper Grate

A new type of decorative block unique to the Copper family

Crafted with 4 Copper Blocks of a shared oxidation level

Stonecutting a Copper Block into Copper Grates outputs 4 Copper Grates

Properties:

Transparent and allows light to pass through

Mobs cannot suffocate inside them

Cannot conduct Redstone

Hostile mobs cannot naturally spawn on them

Can hold water

Copper Bulb

A light-emitting block that can toggle its light emission through Redstone pulses

Oxidizes like other Copper blocks, and emits light based on oxidation level

Copper Bulb: Light level 15

Exposed Copper Bulb: Light level 12

Weathered Copper Bulb: Light level 8

Oxidized Copper Bulb: Light level 4

When placed, its light is off by default

While it is unpowered, it will toggle its light on or off when it receives a Redstone pulse

Its light will stay on even when the Redstone source is removed, and will only toggle off when it receives another Redstone pulse

A Redstone crystal can be seen in its center while it is powered by a Redstone signal

Similar to Glass Blocks, it does not conduct Redstone power

Comparators reading a Copper Bulb will output a signal strength of 15 if the Copper Bulb’s light is on

The crafting recipe for 4 Copper Bulbs is:

3 Copper Blocks of a shared oxidation level

1 Blaze Rod

1 Redstone Dust

Copper Doors and Trapdoors

Copper variants of Doors and Trapdoors that can oxidize over time and be waxed

Behaves like wooden doors, meaning they can be opened and closed with interaction as well as Redstone

Can be opened by mobs that have the ability to open doors

Crafted with Copper Ingots

Tuff Family

Tuff has been expanded to have its own family of blocks:

Stair, Slab, Wall, and Chiseled variants

Tuff Bricks with Stair, Slab, Wall, and Chiseled variants

Polished Tuff with Stair, Slab, and Wall variants

All Tuff variants can be crafted in the Stonecutter

Heavy Core

A mysterious, dense block which can be combined with a Breeze Rod to craft the Mace

Can only be obtained from Ominous Vaults

Items

Trial Explorer Map

Used to locate a nearby Trial Chamber

Level up a Cartographer Villager to Journeyman for the opportunity to trade for this map

Ominous Bottle

An item which can be consumed by players to receive the Bad Omen effect for 1 hour and 40 minutes

Comes in 5 variations, one for each Bad Omen level

The bottle breaks when consumed

Can be stacked to 64

Ominous Bottles can be found uncommonly in any Vaults, and are dropped by Raid Captains which are defeated outside a Raid

Wind Charge

Become the Breeze! Using this item will fire off a Wind Charge projectile similar to the Breeze’s

Can be used to launch entities away from the impact of the Wind Burst

Grants 10% more knockback than a Breeze’s, but has a much smaller area of impact

Deals damage if it hits an entity directly

Has a half-second cooldown after each use

Can be fired from a Dispenser

Players can use Wind Charges to propel themselves high into the air

Players that launch themselves with a Wind Charge only accumulate fall damage below the height of where they collided with the Wind Burst

As an example, if a player uses a Wind Charge to launch themselves 9 blocks into the air, and they do not land lower than where they initially launched, they will take 0 damage

Trial Key

An item that can only be obtained from Trial Spawners

Can be used to unlock Vaults

Breeze Rod

An item dropped by a Breeze that can be crafted into 4 Wind Charges, or used with the Heavy Core to craft a Mace

Pottery Sherds

Added Flow, Guster, and Scrape Pottery Sherds

These can be obtained by breaking Decorated Pots that display them in Trial Chambers

Banner Patterns

Added Flow Banner Pattern, found in Vaults

Added Guster Banner Pattern, found in Ominous Vaults

Armor Trims

Added Bolt Armor Trim and Smithing Template, found in Vaults

Can be duplicated using a Copper Block or Waxed Copper

Added Flow Armor Trim and Smithing Template, found in Ominous Vaults

Can be duplicated using a Breeze Rod

Music Discs

Added 3 new music discs:

“Precipice” by Aaron Cherof. Can be found rarely in standard Vaults, and has a comparator output of 13 when played in a Jukebox

“Creator” by Lena Raine. Can be found rarely in Ominous Vaults, and has a comparator output of 12 when played in a Jukebox

“Creator (Music Box)” by Lena Raine. Can be found rarely in Decorated Pots broken in Trial Chambers, and has a comparator output of 11 when played in a Jukebox

Paintings

Added five new paintings by artist Sarah Boeving:

Baroque

Humble

Meditative

Prairie Ride

Unpacked

Added fifteen new paintings by artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand:

Backyard

Bouquet

Cavebird

Changing

Cotan

Fern

Endboss

Finding

Lowmist

Orb

Owlemons

Passage

Pond

Sunflowers

Tides

Ominous Events

Bad Omen has been expanded to give access to an optional experience in Trial Chambers

These optional experiences can be accessed through Bad Omen, and are now known as Ominous Events

They are more challenging than usual, and are designed to shake up the experience in unique ways

Raids are an example of an existing Ominous Event

As a result, Bad Omen has a new, shadowy icon and a sound for being applied to the player

It is no longer given to players that defeat a Raid Captain outside a Raid

Instead, players can gain access to Bad Omen by consuming the new Ominous Bottle item

Raids

Bad Omen no longer triggers a Raid directly when entering a Village

Instead, it will transform into a Raid Omen variant with a duration of 30 seconds

Once the Raid Omen expires, a Raid will start at the location the player gained the Raid Omen

Like any other effect, players can drink a Bucket of Milk to clear the Raid Omen, preventing the Raid from starting

Ominous Trials

A new Ominous Event that can be accessed by exploring a Trial Chamber while Bad Omen is active

This event will have players facing more powerful Ominous Trial Spawners, if they dare

Trial Omen

A variant that Bad Omen can transform into

This occurs when the player is within detection range of a Trial Spawner that is not Ominous

The Trial Omen will have a duration of 15 minutes multiplied by the transformed Bad Omen’s level

Players that have Trial Omen are surrounded by ominous particles

Ominous Trial Spawner

A more powerful active phase of the Trial Spawner with unique challenges and rewards

Provides a more challenging experience that combat-loving players can opt into for better rewards

If a Trial Spawner detects a player that has the Trial Omen effect, the spawner will become Ominous if:

It is not in cooldown

Or, it is in cooldown but was not Ominous during its last activation

Making it Ominous this way will bypass the cooldown

While active, it will:

Glow blue instead of orange

Emit soul flames instead of normal flames

Periodically spawn potions and projectiles on top of unsuspecting players and mobs

Based on their location, spawners in an area will select a random set of projectiles to spawn

These projectiles will always include a single type of Lingering Potion from a set of possible effects

The mobs it spawns are more powerful than usual:

Mobs that can wear equipment will often spawn with enchanted weapons and armor

The armor these mobs wear have Armor Trims applied from the Trial Chambers

All 3 of the following armor enchantments are applied to each piece:

Protection IV

Projectile Protection IV

Fire Protection IV

Sword enchantments can be either of the two:

Sharpness I

Knockback I

Bow enchantments can be either of the two:

Power I

Punch I

Mobs that cannot wear equipment will instead be spawned at double the total mob count over the course of the challenge

The spawners for these mobs will also have an additional mob out at once during its challenge

Becoming Ominous will despawn any existing mobs it spawned and reset its challenge

If those mobs picked up or equipped any items on the floor, those items will be dropped when they despawn

It will stay Ominous until it has been defeated and its cooldown has finished

When defeated, it will eject a different set of loot to normal Trial Spawners

Ominous Vault

A variant of Vaults that have a more menacing looking and emit soul flames instead of normal flames

These hold a more valuable set of rewards than the standard Vaults that are unlocked by Trial Keys

Can be found throughout Trial Chambers in harder to reach places, and require an Ominous Trial Key to unlock

Ominous Trial Key

A variant of the Trial Key which has a 30% chance to eject when defeating an Ominous Trial Spawner

Can be used to unlock Ominous Vaults

Status Effects

The following status effects have been added:

Wind Charged

Affected entities will emit a wind burst upon death

Can be brewed as a Potion with an Awkward Potion and a Breeze Rod

Weaving

Affected entities will spread Cobweb blocks upon death

Affected entities can move through Cobweb with 50% of their normal speed instead of 25%

Can be brewed as a Potion with an Awkward Potion and a Cobweb block

Oozing

Affected entities will spawn two Slimes upon death

Can be brewed as a Potion with an Awkward Potion and a Slime Block

Infested

Affected entities have a 10% chance to spawn 1-2 Silverfish when hurt

Can be brewed as a Potion with an Awkward Potion and a Stone block

Splash Potions, Lingering Potions and Tipped Arrows can be made with these effects

These effects can be encountered while taking on an Ominous Trial Spawner

Some mobs are immune to these effects

Slimes are immune to Oozing

Silverfish are immune to Infested

Whenever a mob with Oozing dies, it will check within a 5x5x5 area how many Slimes there are

If the amount exceeds the max entity cramming cap (24 by default), it will not spawn any Slimes

If it does not exceed it, it will attempt to spawn 2 Slimes up until the max entity cramming cap

Music

Added 9 new background music tracks which will all play in the main menu:

“Featherfall” by Aaron Cherof

Plays in Badlands, Cherry Grove, Flower Forest, and Lush Caves Biomes

“Deeper” by Lena Raine

Plays in Deep Dark and Dripstone Caves Biomes

“Eld Unknown” by Lena Raine

Plays in Dripstone Caves, Grove, Jagged Peaks, and Stony Peaks Biomes

“Endless” by Lena Raine

Plays in Dripstone Caves, Grove, Jagged Peaks, and Stony Peaks Biomes

“pokopoko” by Kumi Tanioka

Plays in Dripstone Caves, Grove, Jagged Peaks, and Snow Slopes Biomes

The following have been added to the pool of songs which play in Overworld Biomes that do not have biome-specific music:

“Featherfall” by Aaron Cherof

“komorebi” by Kumi Tanioka

“Puzzlebox” by Aaron Cherof

“Watcher” by Aaron Cherof

“yakusoku” by Kumi Tanioka

Achievements

Added 4 new achievements:

ReVaulting – Unlock a Vault using an Ominous Trial Key

Who Needs Rockets? – Use a wind charge to launch yourself upward at least 8 blocks

Crafters Crafting Crafters – Be near a Crafter when it crafts a Crafter

Over-Overkill – Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace

Updated Player Profile

Introducing the improved player Profile page, where you can see your own profile or the profiles of other players! In the new Profile screen, you can view achievement progress, compare stats, and access the dressing room, with more features coming later this year. This new screen will roll out slowly and become available in the coming weeks. Please try it out and let us know what you think at aka.ms/MCPreviewProfileFeedback!

Achievements View:

See your friend’s achievement progress and some suggested next achievements you can work on together!

Wondering what to do next? Check out your own suggested achievements.

Stats View:

Check out your Minecraft stats, including blocks broken, distance travelled, time played, and mobs defeated. The stats view combines play across all platforms.

Press the “Compare stats” button and select a friend to engage in a little friendly competition.

Compare Stats View:

Compare stats with others to see who’s broken more blocks, travelled more distance, defeated more mobs, and played longer.

Getting to the new Profile Screen:

In the new Play Screen UI, you can access Profile from the Play menu.

Open the Friends Drawer and click on your friends to see their profiles, or click “Search for Players” from the Friends Drawer to find new profiles.

In the old UI, click “Add Friends” from the Friends tab and search for friends. Click on them to view their profiles.

Known Issues:

Using Trident with Riptide Enchantment during Wind Charge jump does not negate Wind Charge fall damage protection

Fixes and Changes:

Performance / Stability:

Fixed a crash that could occur when teleporting to a region where a Piston was pushing a Chest (MCPE-179440)

Fixed a crash that could occur when the player began losing air

Containers being cloned over no longer keep their container screens open and cause crashes

Fixed an issue that could cause the loading screen to get stuck for some time around 41% (MCPE-175550)

Fixed not being able to load into worlds with some texture packs (MCPE-180918)

Fixed crashes that could occur when creating worlds on new Realms and backing out at the Online Safety dialog box

Support prevention of app/flow restart when dark mode toggled on or off on across Android devices

General

Fixed an issue where the ‘Let It Go’ trophy did not unlock on PlayStation®4

The ‘Castaway’ achievement can now be reliably unlocked (MCPE-118433)

The game no ensures the proper controller gets assigned to player 1 when playing on Xbox (MCPE-163023)

Fixed a bug causing Character Creator skins with removed eyes to break skin texture loading (MCPE-181228)

Gameplay

Added 4 new ambient cave sounds

Players can now stand on Boats that float on water (MCPE-105535, MCPE-120687)

Sprinting speed is no longer activated with a delay (MCPE-178858)

Flower forests now generate all expected flower types (MCPE-180417)

Mobs

Armadillos no longer repeatedly roll and unroll when receiving damage from blocks (MCPE-180142)

Naturally spawning mobs now spawn at the center of a block (MCPE-99315)

This fixes many issues where mobs could not spawn on slopes, in narrow passageways, and in other situations where they were expected to

For technical players, this bug fix will mean that some player-made mob farms no longer fully work. We appreciate the time the community puts into building clever farms and we try to avoid breaking farms when we can. In this case, we felt that this change was necessary because it improves the way spawning works in many biomes

The types of damage that can cause a mob to panic have been restricted (MCPE-167513)

Only the following damage causes now induce panic:

“campfire”

“entity_attack”

“entity_explosion”

“fire”

“fire_tick”

“fireworks”

“freezing”

“lava”

“lightning”

“magic”

“magma”

“projectile”

“ram_attack”

“sonic_boom”

“soul_campfire”

“temperature”

“wither”

Blocks

Fixed a recipe bug where any type of Stone Slab could be used to craft a Grindstone with Crimson, Mangrove, or Warped Planks. It can now only accept the actual normal Stone Slab, no other type of stones

Cauldrons filled with potions now keep the color of the potion when pushed by a Piston

Added unique sounds for breaking and placing Cobwebs (MCPE-180109)

Items drops from blocks destroyed in an explosion now get merged into bigger item stacks before spawning in the world

All blocks now drop items by default when exploded with TNT (MCPE-56036)

Added a new game rule to control decay of drops from TNT explosions, named “tntExplosionDropDecay”

The rule can be set to “true” to re-enable the previous behavior where not all blocks would drop when exploded by TNT

Items

When using an item on an entity, it is now necessary to release the use button before being able to use it again, which prevents players from inadvertently consuming items themselves when interacting with entities

Chemistry items now appear in the Creative mode inventory when the Education Edition toggle is enabled

Tridents no longer damage the Ender Dragon when it is perching (MCPE-37112)

Fixed a bug that loaded held player item incorrectly, causing possible item duplication

Banners are once again obtainable via the recipe book (MCPE-179650)

Air Bubbles

The oxygen bar now disappears immediately when switching to Creative mode underwater (MCPE-139168)

Added an empty state for air bubbles on the oxygen bar, along with a wobble when the player is drowning

Added a popping sound when bubbles pop on the oxygen bar

Graphical

Changed the default Anti-Aliasing setting from 4 to 2 for better performance with minimal visual degradation

Fixed Character Creator hair and headwear clipping through worn Pumpkins and Mob Heads (MCPE-128908)

Status effect particle colors are no longer blended into one particle color

Up to 8 active visible status effect particles are now rendered separately

Realms

In Realms, blocks no longer reappear after breaking them in Creative Mode with Delayed Block Breaking toggle turned off (REALMS-11707)

Fixed a crash when opening Realms Stories (MCPE-178759)

Fixed Realms Stories availability for Xbox players

Combined Realm Events of the same type that happen on the same day

Fixed Realms Stories posts on Xbox devices with more than one user signed in

Fixed Realm Events on Xbox devices with more than one user signed in

Accessibility

Fixed an issue where pressing Enter on a keyboard, keypad, or controller (menu button) did not send messages on the Chat screen (MCPE-170890)

Fixed various keys not being bindable when using external keyboards on mobile devices (MCPE-176505, MCPE-176878)

Touch Controls

Fixed a bug where players could not navigate through the inventory using keyboard on touch devices

On touch devices, when moving items between different slots, the icon no longer appears as duplicated between the moving item and the destination slot

On touch devices, when moving enchanted items between different slots, the moving icon is now rendered correctly

On touch devices, stack-splitting UI no longer appears for unstackable items

On touch devices, items from Creative Inventory are now unselectable

On touch devices, it is now possible to swap two identical items

Added slide-off persistence to new d-pad touch control scheme

Changed positioning and scale of default new touch d-pad control scheme. Also allows for moving the d-pad closer to the hotbar when customizing touch controls

Made the jump and ascend in water button overlap so now the player can stay above water more easily (MCPE-179689)

User Interface

Added a new HUD overlay that displays the number of days played in a world. The overlay is enabled with the “Show days played” world setting

Fixed a bug where GUI scale was not modifiable after changing between handheld and docked mode on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-159959)

Added missing indentation to list items in some modals, which should make those lists easier to read

Removed faulty hotbar scale setting for Pocket UI

“Draw” and “Release” tooltips now appear for Crossbows (MCPE-44845)

“Read Book” tooltip now appears when it’s possible to read a Book from a Lectern even when you are not holding an item (MCPE-44848)

“Place” tooltip now appears for doors (MCPE-157688)

Fixed a bug that prevented navigating to previously sent messages with a keyboard on Xbox (MCPE-174648)

Recipes that are always unlocked will be available when the game rule “dolimitedcrafting” is enabled (MCPE-175449)

Stack splitting window is now aligned with the inventory slots (MCPE-173632)

The text on the Realms buttons in Create New World and Edit World have been made consistent with each other (MCPE-179777)

The respawn radius field now resets to the correct default value if given invalid input (MCPE-179686)

The chat caret now is placed at the end of the text when navigating to previously sent messages/commands with an external keyboard on mobile devices (MCPE-178574)

Technical Updates

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.21.0 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

General

Fixed a crash when an entity identifier was too complex

Removed ‘server-authoritative-block-breaking’ from the default server.properties

Removed ‘server-authoritative-sound’ from server.properties

Fixed a problem where teleporting while using an item with a long use duration could leave it in an unresponsive state until the use duration elapsed

Documentation for version 1.13.0 of “Decoration Features” is now up to date

Changed Biome documentation to generate with a different system, which will cause the layout and order of those documentation elements to change

Fixed a bug where, if a block and item are registered with the same identifier, the block returns a null item when ‘picked’

Fixed an issue where particle effect lifetime event timeline did not trigger events as expected

Removed Free camera preset experiment as the Free camera preset is available in retail

API

ScreenDisplay

Moved getHiddenHudElements(): HudElements[] from beta to 1.11.0

Moved isForcedHidden(hudElement: HudElements): boolean from beta to 1.11.0

Moved resetHudElements(): void from beta to 1.11.0

Moved setHudVisibility(visible: HudVisibility, hudElements?: HudElements[]): void from beta to 1.11.0

Moved hideAllExcept(hudElements?: HudElements[]): void from beta to 1.11.0

HudElement

Moved HudElementenum from beta to 1.11.0

Moved HudElementsCount from beta to 1.11.0

HudVisibility

Moved HudVisibility enum from beta to 1.11.0

Moved HudVisibilityCount from beta to 1.11.0

Moved WeatherChangeBeforeEvent from beta to 1.11.0

BlockPermutation

Removed function clone

Creator Settings UI

Watchdog settings

Increase script hang threshold

Disable/Enable slow script warnings and adjust threshold

Disable/Enable script spike warnings and adjust threshold

Removed disableWatchdog method

Added disableWatchdogTimingWarnings to disable spike and slow warnings per behavior pack

Released ItemEnchantableComponent from beta to 1.11.0

Released Enchantment APIs from beta to 1.11.0

interface Enchantment

enum EnchantmentSlot

class EnchantmentType

class EnchantmentTypes

Added new interface EntityFilter with many of the existing options from EntityRaycastOptions

EntityRaycastOptions now inherits from EntityFilter

EntityQueryOptions now inherits from EntityFilter

Removed property blockFilter (and several others, now moved to EntityFilter) from BlockRaycastOptions

BlockRaycastOptions now inherits from BlockFilter

Released BlockFilter to 1.4.0

Released volume from beta to 1.11.0

GameRules

Released GameRules from beta to 1.11.0

Released GameRuleChangeAfterEvent from beta to 1.11.0

Released GameRuleChangeAfterEventSignal from beta to 1.11.0

Released gameRules from beta to 1.11.0

Released gameRuleChange from beta to 1.11.0

EntityTameableComponent

Changed return type of getTameItems to ItemStack[]

Changed tame to take a player

Added method tamedToPlayer, tamedToPlayerId, isTamed

Released EntityColor2Component from beta to 1.11.0

Released PaletteColor from beta to 1.11.0

Released matches from beta to 1.11.0

Released EntityNavigationComponent from beta to 1.11.0

Released EntityNavigationClimbComponent from beta to 1.11.0

Released EntityNavigationFloatComponentf rom beta to 1.11.0

Released EntityNavigationFlyComponent from beta to 1.11.0

Released EntityNavigationGenericComponent from beta to 1.11.0

Released EntityNavigationHoverComponent from beta to 1.11.0

Released EntityNavigationWalkComponent from beta to 1.11.0

Moved entity from beta to 1.11.0

Moved EntityTameMountComponentand method tame from beta to 1.11.0

Moved EntityRideableComponent from beta to 1.11.0

Moved Seat from beta to 1.11.0

Moved EntityRidingComponent from beta to 1.11.0

Fixed GameRulesrule property-setters so that changes are propagated to clients

Moved startItemCooldownand player.getItemCooldown from beta to 1.11.0

Released playSound from beta to 1.11.0

playSound is now deprecated and will be removed in a future major version

Use Dimension.playSound as the alternative

Released ListBlockVolume from beta to 1.11.0

Released BlockVolumeBase from beta to 1.11.0

Released BlockLocationIterator from beta to 1.11.0

Moved method getGameMode(): GameMode from beta to 1.11.0

Moved method setGameMode(gameMode?: GameMode): void from beta to 1.11.0

Moved member playerGameModeChange: PlayerGameModeChangeAfterEventSignal from beta to 1.11.0

Moved member playerGameModeChange: PlayerGameModeChangeBeforeEventSignal from beta to 1.11.0

Moved class PlayerGameModeChangeAfterEvent from beta to 1.11.0

Moved class PlayerGameModeChangeAfterEventSignal from beta to 1.11.0

Moved class PlayerGameModeChangeBeforeEvent from beta to 1.11.0

Moved class PlayerGameModeChangeBeforeEventSignal from beta to 1.11.0

Added ItemComponentConsumeEvent for beta

Changed waitTick(ticks?: number)to system.waitTicks(ticks: number);

Renamed property selectedSlotto selectedSlotIndex and moved it from beta to 1.11.0

Blocks

The “tallgrass” block is now split into unique instances “short_grass” and “fern”

“double_plant” block is now split into unique instances “sunflower”, “lilac”, “tall_grass”, “large_fern”, “rose_bush” and “peony”

“coral_block” block is now split into unique instances: “tube_coral_block”, “brain_coral_block”, “bubble_coral_block”, “fire_coral_block”, “horn_coral_block”, “dead_tube_coral_block”, “dead_brain_coral_block”, “dead_bubble_coral_block”, “dead_fire_coral_block” and “dead_horn_coral_block”

“stone_block_slab” block is now split into unique instances “smooth_stone_slab”, “sandstone_slab”, “petrified_oak_slab”, “cobblestone_slab”, “brick_slab”, “stone_brick_slab”, “quartz_slab”, and “nether_brick_slab”

Updated block geometry to allow uv rotations

This allows you to rotate the specified uv rect in 90 degree increments before applying it to a block face

Supported from minecraft:geometry format version 1.21.0 and up

Added pivot for scale in the Block Transformation Component

Added pivot for rotation in the Block Transformation Component

Commands

Fixed hunger element so that its visibility can be changed with the /hud command

Components

The default values for the “damage_sources” field of “behavior.panic” have been updated

For the complete list of the new default values, refer to the “Vanilla Parity” section of the changelog

This change only affects entities with a format version of 1.21.0 or higher

Multiple items with the same custom component will now correctly trigger custom component logic

Entities

Updated entity geometry to allow UV rotations. This allows you to rotate the specified UV rect in 90 degree increments before applying it to a cube face of an entity model. Supported from minecraft:geometryformat version 1.21.0 and up

Items

Unlocking requirements are now sent to clients for “minecraft:recipe_shapeless” and “minecraft:recipe_shaped”

It allows the UI to suggest recipes that are always unlocked when the game rule “dolimitedcrafting” is enabled

Experimental Technical Updates

API

Changed function from fillBlocks(begin: Vector3, end: Vector3, block: BlockPermutation | BlockType | string, options?: BlockFillOptions): number to fillBlocks(volume: BlockVolumeBase | CompoundBlockVolume, block: BlockPermutation | BlockType | string, options?: BlockFillOptions): ListBlockVolume

BlockFillOptions

Removed member matchingBlock?: BlockPermutation

Added member blockFilter?: BlockFilter

Added member ignoreChunkBoundErrors?: boolean

Added ItemComponentUseCompleteEvent for beta

Moved setTypeAPI from beta to stable 1.11.0

Added function waitTick(ticks?: number): Promise where the returned promise is resolved after “ticks” number of ticks or 1 tick if no ticks parameter is supplied

Removed argument waterlogged from function setBlockPermutation and moved it from beta to 1.11.0

Moved function saveToWorld from beta to 1.11.0

Moved function saveAs from beta to 1.11.0

Updated signature of createFromWorld and moved it from beta to 1.11.0

Renamed function getIds to getWorldStructureIds and moved it from beta to 1.11.0

Added ItemComponentMineBlockEvent for beta

Event Signals

Unsubscribe is no longer marked as “@throws”. It does not throw exceptions and never has

Added getAll to beta

Added PlayerInputPermissions and inputPermissions for enabling & disabling categories of player input permissions

Added InputPermissionCategory

Added afterEvents.playerInputPermissionCategoryChange for listening to changes to a players input permissions

Added ignoreBlockCollision to EntityRaycastOptions which when true, will make the raycast not stop on block collision

Added includePassableBlocks to EntityRaycastOptions which when true, passable blocks like vines and flowers will be considered as blocks that ‘stop’ the raycast

Added includeLiquidBlocks to EntityRaycastOptions which when true, liquid blocks will be considered as blocks that stop the raycast

Added ItemComponentHitEntityEvent and ItemComponentBeforeDurabilityDamageEvent for beta

get will now handle items whose names have changed so that scripts referencing old names will still work as intended

Added ItemComponentUseOnEvent for beta

Moved typeIdand Block.matches from beta to stable

Update JavaScript engine

BigInt support

hasOwn

Array findLast and at

Miscellaneous bug fixes

@minecraft/server.BlockType

Moved idAPI from beta to stable 1.11.0

@minecraft/server.BlockTypes

Moved BlockTypes API from beta to stable 1.11.0

Moved typeAPI from beta to stable 1.11.0

@minecraft/server.Block

Moved typeAPI from beta to stable 1.11.0

EntityTameMountComponent

Added method tameToPlayer

Added properties isTamed, isTamedToPlayer, tamedToPlayer, and tamedToPlayerId

GameRules

Added property showDaysPlayed to beta

Fixed PlayerInputPermissions input-lock category property-setters so that changes are propagated to clients

Fixed issue where blocks with custom components could not have a block placed onto them without crouching

Added new interface VectorXZ

Added method getTopmostBlock which will perform a raycast from the top of the world downwards, trying to find the first solid block

Added method getBlockAbove which will perform a raycast from a given position, trying to find the first solid block above

Added method getBlockBelow which will perform a raycast from a given position, trying to find the first solid block below

Molang

Added Molang state_time -> numberfor animation controllers, which returns the time in seconds spent in the current controller state (inclusive of blend time)

Requires the ‘Upcoming Creator Features’ experimental toggle

Additional details:

This update brings the following to the game:

Trial chambers are a new structure releasing as part of the update that are filled with traps, tricks, and treasures! No-one knows who built these sprawling copper structures (or if they do, they didn’t tell me!), but we do know what you’ll find inside them: a slew of new challenges, mobs to do battle with, rewards to claim, and blocks to build with.

New mobs: the Breeze and the Bogged

The breeze is a mob that not only boasts envious eyebrows, but also a powerful projectile attack that can send its foes flying. This mischievous mob loves to leap dizzying circles around players and is hard to pin down with arrows. If you want to best a breeze, you’ll have to be quick on your feet, and even quicker with your sword-slashing!

Keep your eyes peeled for the bogged too, a poisonous skeleton that’s as happy in the trial chambers as it is in muddy Overworld swamps. Clad in rags and covered in moss and mushrooms (cute!), this fearsome foe will do everything in its poisonous power to make your trial as challenging as possible. Can someone please remind me to add milk to my trial chamber preparation list?

New block: the Vault.

The vault is a special new block added as part of the Tricky Trials Update that rewards every player with precious, precious loot in exchange for a trial key! Unlike chests, which can be emptied by one player in a Realm (usually one of my brothers…), the vault rewards every player in your adventuring party that unlocks it with a trial key once! But what do you need to do to clasp your blocky hands around that key? It’s quite straightforward: defeat all the mobs from the spawner.

New trials: Ominous Trials

The new ominous trial feature is part of a larger system of opt-in challenges that also include village raids – perfect for players that like to sprinkle their Overworld adventures with a healthy dose of extra peril.

To trigger an ominous trial or a village raid, you need to find an ominous bottle and drink from it to gain the optimistically titled Bad Omen effect. Ominous bottles can be dropped by raid captains or looted from vaults. Then it’s up to you which ominous path you wish to take next: run into a village to trigger an illager raid (sorry!) or venture into the trial chambers to transform your Bad Omen effect into a Trial Omen effect and trigger an ominous trial.

Ominous trials are like regular trials, only harder. With the Trial Omen in effect, you’ll find that the trial spawners around you will start spewing out tougher mobs (with even tougher armor!) as well as potions and projectiles. Battle on until the spawner resets and you might be rewarded for your bravery with an ominous trial key! These unlock ominous vaults (there’s a theme in the naming here), which reward you with rarer loot – like the heavy core, a component used to craft the new mace!

New weapon: the Mace

The mace is a new weapon coming as part of the Tricky Trials Update, and it’s smashing. Crafted using a breeze rod (dropped by breezes) and a heavy core (a new item only found in ominous vaults), you’ll feel more powerful than a charged creeper with this new weapon in your hand. Use its smash attack while falling and knock back your enemies. The best part is you’ll feel like a blocky superhero while doing it – because the longer you fall, the stronger the mace’s smash.

The mace also has three unique enchantments to make it even more powerful.

The Density enchantment lets you deal even more damage when dropping down and smashing your foes, while the Breach enchantment lets your mace penetrate the armor of even the strongest hostile mobs (gold-clad zombies, I’m coming for you!).

You can even evoke the breeze’s leaping abilities with the Wind Charge enchantment, which launches you high in the air after landing a successful smash attack (making it easier for you to chain your attacks!).

If you prefer flying to fighting, then you’ll want to defeat a breeze, and get your hands on the wind charge! The wind charge launches a powerful gust of air that’ll not only deal damage on contact, but also send nearby foes flying. If that wasn’t enough reason to battle a breeze, did you know you can even use the knockback from the wind charge to boost your jumping ability? Wheeee!

New decorations

Decorate your base (or your armor) with a memory of your trickiest trial chamber experience with the new armor trims, pottery sherds, or banners coming as part of the update.

Whether you want to show everyone you meet that you’ve bested the breeze by sporting the flow or bolt amor trims (found as rewards in the vault!), or you want to declare yourself as being firmly on #TeamBreeze by covering your base in the guster banner, there are more ways than ever to bring a piece of your adventure home with you. Personally I’m excited to update my decorated pot collection with not one, not two, but three new pottery sherds!

New feature: Auto-crafting

After all that excitement you’ll likely have an inventory full of new items and more than a few maces to craft. That’s where the crafter comes in, because this powerful new block uses redstone for automated crafting. Pick a recipe, add stacks of ingredients, supply a redstone pulse, and tada! In just a few ticks, your auto-crafted item will pop out into the Minecraft world.

New decoration blocks

Alongside the copper bulb, a redstone-toggled light source that dims and brightens depending on its oxidization levels, there are also a host of new tuff and copper blocks to use for building that long-overdue base extension.

Wax lyrical about copper thanks to the copper trapdoor, copper door, copper grate, and chiseled copper block, which can all oxidize, plus be waxed and scraped. Tuff blocks now also have a family of craftable blocks, so you can chisel them, polish them, and turn them into stairs, slabs, bricks, or walls! Bring a bit of the trial chambers home with you – or better yet, relocate your base into the trial chambers themselves!

Adds 20 paintings

There are also twenty new paintings coming to Minecraft as part of the Tricky Trials update. These include five by Mojang Studios’ very own Game Artist Sarah Boeving, and 15 by Kristoffer Zetterstand, the artist behind such Minecraft classics as “Skull on Fire” and “Pigscene”!

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang / Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.20.81

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Camera no longer lags one frame behind after teleporting

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.20.80

Release date: April 23rd 2024 (North America, Europe) / April 24th 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Armadillo

The Armadillo is a new passive mob that:

spawns in Savannas and Badlands biomes

drops Armadillo Scutes periodically

drops Armadillo Scutes when brushed

its favorite food is Spider Eyes

Armadillo Rolling Up Behavior

Armadillo rolls up when it detects a threat such as:

a sprinting player

a player in a vehicle or mounted

undead mobs

a mob, or a player that has attacked it recently

It does not roll up when:

it is fleeing

in water

in the air or

on a leash

When an Armadillo is rolled up it does not walk, cannot eat, and will not be tempted by food

It will continue to scan for threats, occasionally peeking to check the surroundings: if none are detected for 4 seconds, it will unroll

In a rolled up state, its shell will protect it, and reduce the damage dealt to it, even allowing it to fully resist weak attacks

Spiders and Cave Spiders will run away from Armadillos, and only if they are not in a rolled up state

Armadillo Scutes

Armadillo Scutes can be used to craft Wolf Armor

They are dropped by Armadillos

Dispensers can be used to brush Armadillo Scutes off Armadillos

Wolf Armor

The Wolf Armor will protect the wolf from most damage sources until the armor loses all durability and breaks

Wolf Armor shows signs of increased breakage as durability goes down

Players can repair the Wolf Armor with Armadillo Scutes while it is equipped on the Wolf, or on an Anvil using Armadillo Scutes

Wolf armor can be dyed in similar fashion to Leather Armor

Using Wolf Armor on an adult tamed Wolf will equip the armor on the Wolf

Only a Wolf’s owner can put a Wolf Armor on their tamed Wolf, and with this in mind; Dispensers cannot put Wolf Armor on wolves

Using Shears on a Wolf that is wearing armor will make it drop the armor

Only a Wolf’s owner can repair a Wolf Armor on a Wolf or shear a Wolf Armor from it, and with this in mind; Dispensers cannot remove Wolf Armor from wolves

If a Wolf dies while wearing armor, it will drop the armor

Tamed Wolves health and damage

Tamed Wolves now have 40 health points (20 hearts) instead of 20 health points (10 hearts)

They no longer take half of the damage from most environmental sources like they used to do

In most cases this change will make no difference given the health boost, but now they can withstand more damage from players and arrows

Feeding a Wolf now heals twice as many health points

Adjusted spawning conditions for Wolves, allowing them to spawn on Coarse Dirt and Podzol blocks

Wolf variants

New Wolf variants have been added. The variant is determined by the biome they spawn in. Read about each one in this paw-some article!

Pale Wolf – The familiar Wolf variant that now spawns in the Taiga biome, with a default pack size of 4

Woods Wolf – A variant that spawns in the Forest biome. This will be the dominant Wolf variant that you will be able to find in the Overworld, since the Forest biome is very common

Ashen Wolf – A variant that spawns in the Snowy Taiga biome

Black Wolf – A variant that spawns in the Old Growth Pine Taiga biome, in smaller packs of 2 to 4

Chestnut Wolf – A variant that spawns in the Old Growth Spruce Taiga biome, in smaller packs of 2 to 4

Rusty Wolf – A variant that spawns in a new location for wolves – the Sparse Jungle biome, in smaller packs of 2 to 4

Spotted Wolf – A variant that spawns in a new location for wolves – the Savanna Plateau biome, in larger packs of 4 to 8

Striped Wolf – A variant that spawns in a new location for wolves, the Wooded Badlands biome, in larger packs of 4 to 8

Snowy Wolf – A variant that spawns in the Grove biome. A rare type, that always walks alone

When summoned in other ways (e.g. using the Spawn Egg or using the summon command), the variant selection follows the natural spawning biome rules with the following extensions:

Rusty Wolf: will be selected in all Jungle biomes, including Jungle and Bamboo Jungle Biomes

Spotted Wolf: will be selected in all Savanna biomes, including Savanna and Windswept Savanna Biomes

Striped Wolf: will be selected in all Badlands biomes, including Badlands and Eroded Badlands Biomes

Realms Stories

Introducing Realms Stories, a new social hub for your Realm

Realms Stories features include:

The Story Feed – lets you share your greatest gameplay moments with your fellow Realm members

The Timeline – lets you see when other members are playing on the Realm

The Members tab – shows a list of all Realm members and their permission levels

Realm Events – Stories that get posted automatically when certain player actions are taken in the Realm. There are 19 unique Realm Events so far – can you discover all of them?

Known issues:

We need a little more time to deliver the best possible experience for iOS, and will be rolling out Realms Stories on that platform in the near future.

Xbox-only: If multiple users are signed into an Xbox, then the users might not be able to post to Realms Stories from that Xbox (unless all users besides the primary user log out).

Xbox-only: If multiple users are signed into an Xbox, Realm Events will not be posted, but they will be recorded. If all users but the primary user sign out of Xbox, and the primary user returns to the Minecraft play screen, the Realm Events that were recorded before should get posted. However, the Realm Events may be credited to the wrong user.

If users are in split-screen mode, only the primary user will be able to open Realms Stories.

If users are in with a guest (user who is not signed into their Microsoft account), and the primary user attempts to make a post, the post may fail, or be credited to the wrong user.

Enhancements to Finding Friends

We’ve improved the way you connect with players in Minecraft! To help you follow & friend players we added multiple features including:

Lists of recommended and suggested friends

Improved search to give partial results while you are typing

Ability to share your profile information through a QR code or a share link

A handy button that copies your Gamertag to the clipboard

Experimental Features:

Mace

A new heavy weapon to smash your enemies!

Leverage the weight of this new weapon to deal additional damage the farther you fall before hitting your target

Try it out by jumping down toward your target, and hit them before you hit the ground

Successfully striking a target in this way will negate any damage accumulated from the fall, similar to how a Wind Charge works

Other entities near the struck enemy will be knocked back by the immense force of the Mace

Using a Mace will decrease its durability like any other weapon; repair it with Breeze Rods at an Anvil

Players can use a Mace in combination with Wind Charges to launch up and deliver devastating smash attacks on their enemies

Breeze Rod

A new item dropped by the Breeze that can be crafted into 4 Wind Charges, or used with the Heavy Core to craft the Mace

Heavy Core

A mysterious, dense block which can be combined with a Breeze Rod to craft the Mace

Heavy Cores can be obtained from Vaults

New Armor Trims

Added Bolt and Flow Armor Trims and Smithing Templates

These new Armor Trims can be obtained from Vaults

Bolt can be duplicated using a Copper Block or Waxed Copper

Flow can be duplicated using a Breeze Rod

New Banner Patterns

Added Flow and Guster Banner Patterns

These new Banner Patterns can be obtained from Vaults

New Pottery Sherds

Added Flow, Guster, and Scrape Pottery Sherds

These new Pottery Sherds appear on Decorated Pots throughout Trial Chambers

Trial Chambers

Struggle no more to locate a Trial Chamber – level up your nearest Cartographer to Journeyman for the opportunity to trade for a Locator Map pointing to a nearby Trial Chamber

Added new chambers and variations, with new challenges!

Remade chamber_9, and renamed it to “slanted”

Remade chamber_3, and renamed it to “pedestal”

Added Flow, Guster, and Scrape Pottery Sherds to the Decorated Pots in the decor structure pool

Trial Spawners will now appear more frequently in the corridors

Changed the layout of blocks around the Vaults

The loot tables of Vaults in Trial Chambers have been updated to address some inventory management issues

You will now get no more than 1 unstackable item per Vault

You will more often get rewards which can stack together

Horse Armor and Saddles have been removed from the loot table

Vaults in Trial Chambers can now eject:

Wind Charges

Bolt Armor Trim Smithing Template

Flow Armor Trim Smithing Template

Flow Banner Pattern

Guster Banner Pattern

Heavy Core

Fixes and Changes:

General

Fixed an issue preventing iOS devices from auto-locking and going to sleep when idle after the player left any world (MCPE-179214)

Gameplay

Holding the jump button while swimming underwater no longer results in a player drowning while appearing to be swimming at water’s surface (MCPE-170969)

Holding the jump button while swimming horizontally (not upwards) at or near water’s surface will keep the player swimming at the surface at a height where breathing is possible (MCPE-170969)

Players no longer crawl after sneaking onto a Bed with a 1.5 block gap above it (MCPE-178370)

Trail Ruins now generate correctly on 32 bit-devices (MCPE-178549)

Fixed a bug where guest players could not add trims to custom armor (MCPE-170317)

Buckets can once again pick up liquids immediately after being placed (MCPE-176634)

Mobs

Wolves’ tails are now correctly positioned when sitting (MCPE-31121)

Wolves now correctly leap at their targets (MCPE-19740)

Fixed vertical position of tamed mobs from the clients/guests perspective after they teleport to their owner (MCPE-139168)

Horses and Boats no longer slide to unexpected previous locations upon mounting or dismounting

Rabbits are now more likely to spawn in Groves than before

Foxes are now less likely to spawn in Groves than before

Blocks

Fixed occasional double placement of blocks when bridging (MCPE-123455)

Sweet Berry Bush now drops up to 6 Sweet Berries when mined using a Fortune enchanted tool (MCPE-172622)

Fully grown Cocoa Pods now consistently drop 3 Cocoa Beans

Fixed an issue causing Beds placed across chunk borders to sometimes break or turn invisible (MCPE-31389)

Items

Shields can now partially block damage dealt by Guardians and Elder Guardians’ laser attack

Graphical

Increased maximum render distance to 36 for Xbox Series consoles

Updated the missing tile texture to a dirt block with brown question mark

The Lead item now renders correctly when the “Hide Hand” option is selected

User Interface

The updated “You Died!” screen is no longer experimental. Thank you for all of the feedback you have sent in about this updated feature!

The feedback button has been moved from Main Menu to the Settings screen under the General tab with label “Help Center”

Increased the time interval for showing a standard loading tip

Increased range for the “move up” button, such that you can now slide off slowly to the near buttons without stopping the movement (MCPE-178399)

On touch devices, when items are swapped, the icons now move in the correct direction

On touch devices, the selected item now has a blue background on all screens

Flying item animation is no longer missing on touch-screen versions of Beacon, Cartography, and Smithing Table screens

Reduced frame stutter when encountering a Character Creator skin in-game

Fixed a bug that prevented recipes without unlock criteria from showing up in the recipe book

On touch devices, item transfer animation is now rendered above static items

Resolved an issue where “Signing in…” text might not have appeared on the main menu while sign in was actually in progress

Technical Updates

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.20.80 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

General

Fixed an issue where should_update_bones_and_effects_offscreen and should_update_effects_offscreen were being ignored

Fixed an issue where the primary user login was not resolved before launching the world when performing a protocol launch using connect?localLevelId= or connect?localWorld= (MCL-24096)

Fixed a bug that prevented custom features in behavior packs from loading

Fixed a crash during the load process of localization strings

Removed FilterTextPacket

API

Dynamic imports (e.g., import(“/my-module.js”)) should be functional again

BlockTypes will now return valid types for flattened or refactored block names

EntityMountTamingComponent

Renamed EntityMountTamingComponent to EntityTameMountComponent

Renamed setTamed to tame

Released BlockComponentTypes from beta to 1.10.0

Released EntityComponentTypes from beta to 1.10.0

Released ItemComponentTypes from beta to 1.10.0

Removed filters as they currently have no backing implementation

Fixing some component isValid methods where they didn’t properly return false in cases where the component had been removed from the Entity

Added PaletteColor enum to beta for use with ItemColorComponent/ItemColor2Component

Added ItemColor2Component to beta for reading minecraft:color2

Setting a dynamic property with a key larger than 32kb now will result in an exception

Moved EntityType and EntityTypes from beta to 1.11.0

Released playMusic,Player.queueMusic, Player.stopMusic from beta to 1.11.0

Removed BlockAreaSize from beta and replaced usages with Vector3

Renamed parameter itemCategory in getItemCooldown and player.startItemCooldown to cooldownCategory

Changed type to only EnchantmentType to follow API guidelines

Added EnchantmentSlot and slots to beta for determining the enchantable slots of an item

Added ‘minecraft:custom_components’ block component under the Beta APIs feature flag

Mobs

Added spawn categories to Bedrock. They will be used in the future for mob spawning. Spawn categories have been enabled in entity behavior pack files, but are not yet functional

Blocks

Blocks using custom tags in the “crafting_tags” field of their custom blocks with a “minecraft:crafting_table” component now support custom unlockable recipes (MCPE-175555)

This fixed a bug where some recipes did not show up when recipe unlocking was on

“sapling” block is now split into unique instances: “oak_sapling”, “spruce_sapling”, “birch_sapling”, “jungle_sapling”, “acacia_sapling” and “dark_oak_sapling”

“coral_fan” block is now split into unique instances: “tube_coral_fan”, “brain_coral_fan”, “bubble_coral_fan”, “fire_coral_fan” and “horn_coral_fan”

“coral_fan_dead” block is now split into unique instances: “dead_tube_coral_fan”, “dead_brain_coral_fan”, “dead_bubble_coral_fan”, “dead_fire_coral_fan” and “dead_horn_coral_fan”

“red_flower” block is now split into unique instances: “poppy”, “blue_orchid”, “allium”, “azure_bluet”, “red_tulip”, “orange_tulip”, “white_tulip”, “pink_tulip”, “oxeye_daisy”, “cornflower”, and “lily_of_the_valley”

Cameras

Added the “extend_player_rendering” camera component which allows for players (and any entities they are connected to through riding and leashes) to be rendered even if they are beyond the max entity render distance

Added “extend_player_rendering” component to the “minecraft:free” camera

This component is intended to be an enhancement and improvement to current functionality and as such will be “set to true” by default.

Setting this component to false will remove the added rendering capability.

More information on this and other camera capabilities can be found at Camera Command Introduction | Microsoft Learn

The server now sends chunks and actors around the camera to the client if that information already exists on the server even when the camera is placed far away from the player

Commands

Moved the /hud command out of Upcoming Creator Features experimental toggle.

More on the HUD elements included can be found at hud Command | Microsoft Learn

Updated /titleraw and /tellraw to include support for rendering input key glyphs.

Components

The “interact” component’s fields “equip_item_slot” and “drop_item_slot” now support both armor and inventory slots:

Armor slots are specified as ‘slot.armor.head’, ‘slot.armor.chest’, ‘slot.armor.legs’, and ‘slot.armor.feet’

Inventory slots are specified as positive numbers, now expressed as strings

This change requires a world version of 1.20.80 or higher

Added “repair_entity_item” field to the “interact” component, which allows to repair an item in one of the entity’s inventory or armor slots

Entities running “behavior.follow_owner” no longer risk getting stuck into each other when teleporting to their owner

Added the “minecraft:body_rotation_blocked” component, which prevents an entity from visually rotating their body to match their own facing direction

The durations and cooldowns of “behavior.timer_flag_1,” “behavior.timer_flag_2,” and “behavior.timer_flag_3” are now correctly randomized on both start and stop, rather than only on spawn

Entity Filters

Added new entity filter “is_sitting”, which checks if the entity is sitting

Added new entity filter “has_damaged_equipment”, which checks if the entity has a certain damaged piece of equipment in the specified slot

Molang

Added new query “query.armor_slot_damage”, which returns the damage value of the armor item in the specified slot

Recipes

Added assume_symmetry boolean property for Shaped Recipes to allow for symmetrical shaped recipes with different outputs.

More on this feature and samples can be found at Recipe Documentation -Shaped Recipe | Microsoft Learn

Experimental Technical Updates

API

Added BlockComponentStepOnEvent for beta

Added BlockRegistry for beta

Added WorldInitializeBeforeEvent

Added BlockCustomComponent

Dimension:

Added function getBlocks(volume: BlockVolumeBase, filter: BlockFilter, allowUnloadedChunks?: boolean): ListBlockVolume – Gets the blocks in a volume if it matches the filter

Added function containsBlock(volume: BlockVolumeBase, filter: BlockFilter, allowUnloadedChunks?: boolean): boolean – Returns true if the block in volume matches the filter, false otherwise

Moved ItemCooldownComponent from beta to 1.10.0

Added BlockComponentStepOffEvent for beta

Added onStepOff to BlockCustomComponent

Added BlockComponentRandomTickEvent for beta

Added onRandomTick to BlockCustomComponent

StructureManager:

Added getIds(): string – Returns a list of identifiers including all structures saved to memory and the world

Fixed a bug where the delete function would not remove structures that were previously saved to the world but not loaded

Changed the default save mode of createEmpty to Memory

EntityQueryOptions

Added field propertyOptions?: EntityQueryPropertyOptions[];

EntityQueryPropertyOptions

Added field exclude – If exclude propertyId

Added field propertyId – Property ID

Added field value – Target value or comparison

EqualsComparison

Added equals

GreaterThanComparison

Added greaterThan

GreaterThanOrEqualsComparison

Added greaterThanOrEquals

LessThanComparison

Added lessThan

LessThanOrEqualsComparison

Added lessThanOrEquals

NotEqualsComparison

Added notEquals

RangeComparison

Added lowerBound and upperBound

Moved worldInitialize from beta to 1.10.0

Moved EntityProjectileComponent from beta to 1.10.0

Removed old Vector Please use Vector3Utils from @minecraft/math as a replacement

ModalFormData

Added submitButton method for setting the text of the form’s submit button

Structure APIs

Added function setBlockPermutation(location: Vector3, blockPermutation?: BlockPermutation, waterlogged?: boolean): void – Sets the block permutation at a given location within the structure

StructureManager

Added function saveToWorld(): void – Persists the structure as part of the broader world storage

Added function saveAs(identifier: string, saveMode?: StructureSaveMode): Structure – Saves a copy of the structure with a new identifier

EntityHitBlockAfterEvent

Added property hitBlockPermutation to beta

Creator Settings menu has a new option to automatically connect the debugger on world load (or /reload). This will make it easier to set (and catch) breakpoints at load and avoids the hassle of typing out the debugger slash command

Added class ListBlockVolume which extends BaseBlockVolume – A volume that stores multiple block locations

Structure

Renamed class StructureTemplate to Structure

Added read-only property size: Vector3 – Returns the size of the structure in blocks

Added function getBlockPermutation(location: Vector3): BlockPermutation | undefined; – Returns the block permutation at the given location within the structure

Added function isValid(): boolean – Returns false if the structure has been deleted

Added function getIsWaterlogged(location: Vector3): boolean; – Returns whether the block at the given location is waterlogged

Added an optional SpawnEntityOptions with a boolean initialPersistence field to the spawnEntity(…) function to support persistent entities in Editor tooling

place now places rotated structures the same way as the /structure command (MCPE-179447)

Moved getItemStack(amount?: number, withData?: boolean): ItemStack | undefined from beta to 1.10.0

Moved getItemStack(amount?: number): ItemStack | undefined from beta to 1.10.0

EntityAgeableComponent

Added property transformToItem to beta

EntityDefinitionFeedItem

Updated property item to return name with namespace in beta

Moved EntityTypeFamilyComponent from beta to 1.10.0

Added BlockComponentTickEvent for beta

Added ‘onTick’

Added BlockComponentEntityFallOnEvent for beta

Added ‘onEntityFallOn’

Added BlockComponentPlayerPlaceBeforeEvent for beta

Added ‘beforeOnPlayerPlace’

Added BlockComponentPlayerInteractEvent for beta

Added ‘onPlayerInteract’

Added BlockComponentPlayerDestroyEvent for beta

Added ‘onPlayerDestroy’

Added BlockComponentOnPlaceEvent for beta

Added ‘onPlace’

Added ItemComponentRegistry for beta

Added ItemCustomComponent for beta

Added ItemComponentUseEvent for beta

Moved structureManager from beta to 1.10.0

Structure Manager

Moved createEmpty from beta to 1.10.0

Moved delete from beta to 1.10.0

Moved get from beta to 1.10.0

Moved place from beta to 1.10.0

Moved id from beta to 1.1.0

Moved getBlockPermutation from beta to 1.10.0

Moved getIsWaterlogged from beta to 1.10.0

Moved isValid from beta to 1.10.0

Moved StructureSaveMode from beta to 1.10.0

Moved StructureRotation from beta to 1.10.0

Moved StructureAnimationMode from beta to 1.10.0

Moved StructureMirrorAxis from beta to 1.10.0

Removed StructureReadOptions

Moved StructureCreateOptions from beta to 1.10.0

Moved StructurePlaceOptions from beta to 1.10.0

Moved InvalidStructureError from beta to 1.10.0

Blocks

Added ‘minecraft:entity_fall_on’ block component behind the Beta API experiment

Added ‘minecraft:tick’ block component behind the Beta API experiment

Commands

Improved performance for the /give and /replaceitem No server lag if there is no target (MCPE-162190)

Entity Components

Added property passengerMaxWidth to EntityRideableComponent

Added property seatRotation to Seat

Items

Added ‘minecraft:custom_components’ item component under the Beta APIs feature flag

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.20.72

Release date: ???
Patch notes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.20.70/71

Release date: March 12th 2024 (North America, Europe) / March 13th 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Vanilla Parity:

Mobs

Wolves can now withstand the same amount of damage as in Java Edition (MCPE-177613)

Rather than halving all damage dealt to tamed Wolves by entities other than Players or Arrows, as currently done in Java Edition, the maximum health of tamed Wolves has been increased from 20 to 40

Pre-existing tamed Wolves will need to be fed to reach the new maximum health

To ensure the healing rate remains consistent, the health restored by feeding Wolves has been doubled

Java Edition will be adjusted to match the new Bedrock Edition implementation

Experimental Features:

Wind Charge

Become the Breeze! Using a Wind Charge will fire off a Wind Charge projectile similar to the Breeze’s

A Wind Charge fired by a player will grant 10% more knockback than a Breeze’s

Just like the projectile fired by the Breeze, Wind Charges fired by the player also deal damage if they hit an entity directly

The Breeze drops between 4-6 Wind Charges when killed

Wind Charges have a max stack size of 64

There is half a second cooldown after each use

Wind Charges can be fired from a dispenser

Players that launch themselves with a Wind Charge only accumulate fall damage below the y-level of where they collided with the wind burst

Bogged

A new variant of Skeletons that shoot poisonous arrows

They’re faster to take down with 16 health instead of 20 health

They attack at a slower interval of 3.5 seconds instead of 2 seconds

Has a chance to drop Arrows of Poison when killed by players

These mossy and mushroom covered Skeletons spawn naturally in Swamps and Mangrove Swamps

Can also be found spawning from Trial Spawners in some Trial Chambers

Vault

A block that holds locked treasure and loot – find the right key to eject its rewards

Found throughout Trial Chambers, containing the structures’ most valuable loot

Vaults in Trial Chambers require a Trial Key to be unlocked

Can be unlocked by an unlimited amount of players

After a player has unlocked a Vault, they cannot unlock that Vault again

If a player has not unlocked that Vault before, an orange stream of particles will flow from the player to the Vault when nearby

Has a keyhole that will be open or closed depending on the players nearby

If any nearby player has not unlocked that Vault, the keyhole will be open

If all nearby players have unlocked that Vault, the keyhole will be closed

Within its cage, it will cycle through and display items which are possible to eject from its loot table

The rewards it ejects are randomized from its loot table each time it is unlocked

Vaults currently reuse the same loot table that reward chests previously used in the Trial Chambers

This loot table is temporary and will be completely revised as development continues

Cannot be crafted or obtained in Survival mode, and does not drop anything when mined

Explosion-resistant and cannot be moved

Wolf

The collars of tamed Wolves have been increased in size, making them visible not only from the front but also from other angles

Fixes and Changes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed a bug that could cause the loading screen to get stuck for some time around 40% (MCPE-175550)

Fixed an issue where the game could softlock while displaying the “Loading resource packs” modal

Fixed an issue that could cause the game to freeze when changing languages on some platforms

Gameplay

Upward player motion will now reset fall distance, allowing Riptide Tridents to break a fall (MCPE-126454)

Players can now bridge blocks over water (MCPE-163165)

Fixed sky light not being updated properly when big gaps of air were present between the ceiling and the floor

Fixed a bug that could sometimes prevent the Stronghold portal room from being generated (MCPE-19426)

Fixed players not unlocking “The Beginning” trophy on PlayStation for defeating a Wither, even if they were close enough to the Wither

Mobs

When fed, baby mobs now emit both sound and particles

All sounds emitted by Phantoms are now audible even when the player is facing away (MCPE-133125)

All sounds emitted by Wardens are now audible even when the player is facing away (MCPE-159481)

Blocks

Double Slabs can once again be created when stacking two of the same Slabs together (MCPE-179187)

Sweet Berry Bush Sapling now slows down players when walked through (MCPE-46152)

Cave Vines without Glow Berries no longer drop a Glow Berry when Silk Touched (MCPE-151348)

Blue and Black Candle Cakes now display and drop the correct type of Candle (MCPE-162868)

Patternless Banners taken from the Creative mode inventory will no longer reset when first placed (MCPE-178327)

Tall Flowers are no longer affected by Fortune enchantment (MCPE-18880)

Large Ferns now have a chance of dropping Wheat Seeds (MCPE-126947)

Tweaked the loot drop distributions for Fortune enchantment of Melon, Redstone Ore, Glowstone, and Nether Wart to better match Java Edition

Fixed a bug that made it so players could not place multiple items while moving, such as Boats or Fireworks (MCPE-178063, MCPE-178077)

As a result of this fix, we’ve had to revert the fix for Slabs and Stairs being placed inconsistently while continuously building (MCPE-54855). We’ll work to reintroduce a fix for this in an upcoming update

In Realms, removing an item from an Item Frame while in Creative mode no longer destroys the Item Frame (REALMS-10464)

In Realms, removing a book from a Lectern while in Creative mode no longer destroys the Lectern (REALMS-10536)

Lots of blocks now play appropriate sounds when entities fall onto them. The blocks are as follows: (MCPE-176939)

Amethyst Block

Amethyst Cluster variants

Ancient Debris Block

Anvil Block

Azalea Block

Azalea Leaves

Bamboo Block

Bamboo Wood

Basalt Block

Big Dripleaf

Bone Block

Calcite Block

Candle

Cave Vines

Chain Block

Cherry Leaves

Cherry Wood

Chiseled Bookshelf

Copper Block variants

Coral Block

Crimson Nylium Block

Deepslate Block

Deepslate Bricks

Dripstone Block

Frog Spawn

Froglight

Glass Block

Grass Block

Gravel Block

Hanging Roots

Hanging Sign

Honey Block

Ladder Block

Lantern Block

Lodestone Block

Mangrove Roots

Moss Block

Moss Carpet

Mud Block

Mud Bricks

Muddy Mangrove Roots

Nether Brick Block

Nether Gold Ore Block

Nether Sprouts

Nether Wart

Nether Wart

Netherite Block

Netherrack Block

Packed Mud

Pink Petals

Pointed Dripstone

Powder Snow

Rooted Dirt

Sand Block

Scaffolding Block

Sculk Catalyst

Sculk Sensor

Sculk Shrieker

Sculk Vein

Shroomlight Block

Slime Block

Snow Block

Soul Sand Block

Soul Soil Block

Spore Blossom

Stone Block

Suspicious Gravel

Suspicious Sand

Tuff Block

Turtle Egg Block

Vine Block

Warped Nylium Block

Warped Wart

Wood Blocks

Wool Block

Items

Updated the Globe pattern on Shields to match Java Edition (MCPE-169595)

In Realms, attempting destruction of one Sea Turtle Egg on a stack of more than one in Creative mode no longer destroys two at once (REALMS-10477)

Spawn Eggs are now called “[Mob] Spawn Egg” instead of “Spawns [Mob]” so that players can more easily search for them in the Creative mode inventory

End Portal Frame has been moved to Nature category in the Creative mode inventory

Touch Controls

Players can no longer customize touch controls while on the death screen (MCPE-178037)

Graphical

Added 4K resolution support for Xbox Series consoles

Realms

Updated the Realms Plus landing page to make it more clear how Realms subscriptions work

On Realms, chunks will no longer stay loaded in The End unless a player is in the area (REALMS-11358, REALMS-11290)

Fixed a bug where text in the Realms Subscription landing page was slightly truncated

Android

Storage location will switch to External automatically on fresh installs if storage permission is granted via app settings prior to launching the game on devices running Android 12 or older (MCPE-177269)

Certain files and directories will be generated in external storage on next launch when setting storage location to External via in-game settings on devices running Android 12 or older (MCPE-176675)

User Interface

Fixed chat messages initially rendering below the screen after sending them (MCPE-178905)

The updated Death Screen is now enabled by default, even when resource packs are applied to a world

Updated the design of the report a friend warning modal and the report limit warning modal

Fixed a bug that caused cleared text to reappear in the inventory search bar (MCPE-174590)

Fixed text-to-speech narration for main panel text and Realm Feed button on Realm Slots Screen

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.20.70 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

General

Implemented a fix for the “One Block Skyblock” Marketplace map generating flat world in the distance on the client if the map was uploaded on Realms

Clients connected to a dedicated server or Realms will no longer improperly generate LevelChunks on the client if one of the following is true:

The map is a flat world

It’s a Marketplace map

This overrides server.properties setting client-side-chunk-generation-enabled for dedicated servers

Removed ItemFrameDropItemPacket

Commands

Added “has_property” filter for entity target selector that allows for targeting based on the type and value of properties

The /damage command no longer contains the damage type ‘suicide’. It is replaced with ‘self_destruct’ (MCPE-174865)

The Command Block’s interface will now remove the last error message after successfully compiling a command (MCPE-114029)

Add-Ons and Script Engine

Blocks using the “minecraft:material_instances” component with “render_method” = “alpha_test_single_sided” display properly when in the player’s hand

Blocks

Fixed ‘minecraft:geometry.full_block’ faces not rotating to match transform component

Fixed ‘minecraft:geometry.full_block’ blocks not culling faces against some vanilla blocks

“leaves” block is now split into unique names, “oak_leaves”, “spruce_leaves”, “birch_leaves, and ”jungle_leaves”

“leaves2” block is now split into “acacia_leaves” and “dark_oak_leaves”

Commands will still work with “leaves” and “leaves2”, but only new leaves names will be suggested in the command prompt

The “minecraft:grass” block has been renamed to “minecraft:grass_block”, the old name is still understood from commands and data

“double_wooden_slab” block is now split into unique instances “acacia_double_slab”, “birch_double_slab”, “dark_oak_double_slab”, “jungle_double_slab”, “oak_double_slab”, “spruce_double_slab”

Commands will still work with “double_wooden_slab”, however, “double_wooden_slab” block will not be suggested

“wooden_slab” block is now split into unique instances “oak_slab”, “spruce_slab”, “birch_slab”, “jungle_slab”, “acacia_slab”, “dark_oak_slab”

Commands will still work with “wooden_slab”, however, “wooden_slab” block will not be suggested

“wood” block is now split into unique instances: “oak_wood”, “spruce_wood”, “birch_wood”, “jungle_wood”, “acacia_wood”, “dark_oak_wood”, “stripped_oak_wood”, “stripped_spruce_wood”, “stripped_birch_wood”, “stripped_jungle_wood”, “stripped_acacia_wood”, and “stripped_dark_oak_wood”

Components

The “entity_sensor” component’s “range” field now supports two values, the first one for horizontal range and the second one for vertical range

This requires a “format_version” of 1.20.70 or higher

The “damage_sensor” component’s “damage_modifier” and “damage_multiplier” fields are now properly considered during damage immunity calculations, so that damage adjusted to be lesser or equal to the highest damage received during an entity’s immunity period will be accurately ignored

This requires a world version of 1.20.70 or higher

Entity Filters

Added new entity filter “was_last_hurt_by”, which checks if the subject is the last player or mob to have recently attack the entity

Items

Custom armor attachables can now be trimmed with vanilla trims, and modified vanilla patterns can be applied to custom armor attachables and items

Vanilla trim textures can be overridden via the attachable component

Vanilla trims can be applied to custom geo armor via the attachable component

Modified vanilla trim patterns (to fit the new geo armor) can be applied via the attachable component

Armor trim patterns on custom armor requires the 1.20.60+ format version for the attachable and item

Molang

Released is_attached and query.has_player_rider from experimental

Removed experimental Molang queries get_ride and query.get_riders

Deprecated the Molang Features experimental toggle

Released Molang scoreboard for use with behavior packs from experimental (resource packs will return 0)

Removed experimental Molang queries

biome_has_any_tag

biome_has_all_tags

self

target

client_input_type

get_nearby_entities

get_nearby_entities_except_self

Added new Molang APIs that give read access to rider body and head rotations

rider_body_x_rotation(riderIndex) => float

rider_body_y_rotation(riderIndex) => float

rider_head_x_rotation(riderIndex) => float

rider_head_y_rotation(riderIndex,clampRotation?) => float

ride_body_x_rotation => float

ride_body_y_rotation => float

ride_head_x_rotation => float

ride_head_y_rotation(clampRotation?) => float

surface_particle_color, query.surface_particle_texture_coordinate, and query.surface_particle_texture_size are now versioned with 1.20.70 to allow the three queries to see Leaf blocks as the surface texture below the block. Molang versions lower than 1.20.70 will continue to not see the Leaf block below them

This change takes effect for Molang queries in packs that have a manifest.json min_engine_version of 1.20.70 or higher.

NBT Parsing

Loading of NBT data is now more restrictive. Negative-length arrays, invalid tag ids, and not enough bytes in a payload are now all treated as errors which will prevent a tag loading where before those conditions were sometimes ignored

Spawn Rules

“minecraft:spawns_on_block_filter” now supports block descriptors

“minecraft:spawns_on_block_prevented_filter” now supports block descriptors

“minecraft:spawns_above_block_filter” now supports block descriptors

API

Added ScriptGameRules and gameRules for accessing and modifying game rules

Fixed the timing of PlayerInteractWithEntityAfterEvent and PlayerInteractWithBlockAfterEvent

Added setGameMode and Player.getGameMode to beta for changing the player’s GameMode

Added events PlayerGameModeChangeAfterEvent, PlayerGameModeChangeBeforeEvent with signals afterEvents.playerGameModeChange and world.beforeEvents.playerGameModeChange to beta

Added GameRuleChangeAfterEvent, GameRule and afterEvents.gameRuleChange for responding to GameRules changes

Fixed getBlockFromRay returning false positive collisions with water when already submerged

Character Creator

Added a new model to contain the character creator animation logic

Updated the logic that was done to trigger updating the binds when the animation states have been updated, so we do not run into issues with the binds updating every frame causing a major framerate hit

Experimental Technical Updates:

API

Entity Components

Added EntityTypeFamilyComponent with functions getTypeFamilies(): string[] and hasTypeFamily(typeFamily: string): boolean

Item

Moved ItemFoodComponent from beta to 1.9.0

Added function matches(itemName: string, states?: Record<string, boolean | number | string>): boolean

Removed class BlockVolumeUtils. Moving utility functions onto BlockVolumeBaseand BlockVolume

Added class BlockVolumeBase. Is the base class from which block volumes will extend

BlockVolume

Breaking Change:Converted BlockVolume from an interface to a class, which extends BlockVolumeBase

@minecraft/server.Entity.playAnimation

Moved Entity.playAnimation from beta to stable

Moved enum BlockPistonState from beta to 1.9.0

Moved class BlockPistonComponent from beta to 1.9.0

Moved class PistonActivateAfterEvent from beta to 1.9.0

Moved class PistonActivateAfterEventSignal from beta to 1.9.0

ItemComponents

Added isCooldownCategory(cooldownCategory: string) : boolean to ItemCooldownComponent

Added getCooldownTimeRemaining(player: Player) : number to ItemCooldownComponent

Added MinecraftCooldownCategoryTypes to @minecraft/vanilla-data

Added getHiddenHudElements(): HudElements[]

Added isForcedHidden(hudElement: HudElements): Boolean

Added resetHudElements(): void

Added setHudVisibility(visible: HudVisibility, hudElements?: HudElements[]): void

Added hideAllExcept(hudElements?: HudElements[])

Added interface BlockFilter. Used to include / exclude blocks by tag, type and permutation

BlockRaycastOptions

Added optional member BlockFilter

Updated getBlockFromRay(location: Vector3, direction: Vector3, options?: BlockRaycastOptions): BlockRaycastHit | undefined to throw if the BlockFilter include / exclude types cannot be resolved inside BlockRaycastOptions

Moved ItemDurabilityComponent from beta to 1.9.0

Debug Utilities

Started publishing the debug utilities type information

Added a disableWatchdog method that lets you disable and enable the scripting watchdog in your scripts

Added function playSound(soundId: string, location: Vector3, soundOptions?: WorldSoundOptions): void – Plays a sound at a specified location for all players in the dimension

Moved getAllStates API from beta to stable

clearJob(jobId: number) – Will now clear iterations in the current tick as well as any scheduled for future ticks. Previously would only clear iterations in future ticks

@minecraft/server.WeatherChangeAfterEvent

Moved WeatherChangeAfterEvent from beta to stable

Moved setOnFire from beta to 1.9.0

Moved extinguishFire from beta to 1.9.0

Moved EntityOnFireComponent from beta to 1.9.0

Moved getEquipmentSlot from beta to 1.9.0

Moved BlockStateType from beta to 1.9.0

Moved BlockStates from beta to 1.9.0

Moved BlockSignComponent from beta to 1.9.0

Moved DyeColor from beta to 1.9.0

Moved SignSide from beta to 1.9.0

Moved ContainerSlot from beta to 1.9.0

Moved InvalidContainerSlotError from beta to 1.9.0

Moved getSlot from beta to 1.9.0

Moved EffectTypes from beta to 1.9.0

Moved RawText from beta to 1.9.0

Moved createExplosion from beta to 1.9.0

Moved ExplosionOptions from beta to 1.9.0

Moved DimensionType from beta to 1.9.0

Moved DimensionTypes from beta to 1.9.0

Moved setDynamicProperty from beta to 1.9.0

Moved getDynamicProperty from beta to 1.9.0

Moved getDynamicPropertyIds from beta to 1.9.0

Moved getDynamicPropertyTotalByteCount from beta to 1.9.0

Moved clearDynamicProperties from beta to 1.9.0

Added structureManager – A StructureManager instance that allows you to create, load and place structures in the world

StructureManager

Added function createEmpty(identifier: string, size: Vector3, saveMode?: StructureSaveMode): StructureTemplate – Creates a new empty structure

Added function createFromWorld(identifier: string, dimension: Dimension, blockVolume: BlockVolume, options?: StructureCreateOptions): StructureTemplate – Creates a new structure from blocks in the world

Added function delete(structure: string | StructureTemplate): boolean – Deletes the structure

Added function get(identifier: string): StructureTemplate | undefined – Gets the structure with the specified identifier

Added function place(structure: string | StructureTemplate, dimension: Dimension, location: Vector3, options?: StructurePlaceOptions) – Places a structure in the world

StructureTemplate

Added read-only property id: string– Returns the name of the structure

Moved effectAdd from beta to 1.9.0

Fixed a bug where item dynamic properties could sometimes be applied to items with a stack size greater than 1

Removing function triggerEvent()

WorldBeforeEvents

Removing property itemDefinitionEvent

WorldAfterEvents

Removing property itemDefinitionEvent

Moved explosion from beta to 1.9.0

WorldBeforeEvents

Moved explosion from beta to 1.9.0

Dimension

getEntities now only returns the entities within the dimension that’s being queried

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.20.62

Release date: February 15th 2024 (North America, Europe) / February 16th 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.20.61

Release date: February 6th 2024 (North America, Europe) / February 7th 2024 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Vanilla Parity

Nether Gold Ore can now drop up to 6 Gold Nuggets (previously 5) when mined with an unenchanted tool, or up to 24 with Fortune Level 3 (previously 20)

Lapis Lazuli Ore can now drop up to 9 Lapis Lazuli (previously 8) when mined with an unenchanted tool, or up to 36 with Fortune Level 3 (previously 32)

Campfire now correctly drops 2 Charcoal instead of 4 when destroyed by the player (MCPE-159894)

Music Disc name text now has the same color as enchanted items (MCPE-109471)

Trail Ruins will now be placed in the same location and configuration as Java Edition (MCPE-169988)

Experimental Features

Breeze

The Breeze is a cunning, hostile mob that can spawn via Trial Spawner in some rooms within Trial Chambers

The Breeze moves primarily by leaping around a target, sometimes jumping quite long distances

An aggressive adversary, the Breeze shoots volatile wind energy in the form of wind charge projectiles at its target

Wind charges deal a small amount of damage when colliding directly with an entity

After colliding with an entity or a block, wind charge projectiles produce a wind burst, which knocks back entities in the area by several blocks

Wind bursts also have the effect of ‘activating’ certain blocks:

Non-Iron Doors and Trapdoors are flipped

Fence Gates are flipped

Buttons are pressed

Levers are flipped

Bells are rung and swung

Lit Candles (both standalone and on cake) are extinguished

Wind bursts do not have any effect on Iron Doors, Iron Trapdoors, or any block being held in its position by a Redstone signal

Trial Spawner

Trial Spawner is a new variant of Monster Spawners that ejects rewards upon completion and can have variable levels of challenge in multiplayer

The challenge level will increase for each new player a Trial Spawner notices nearby

Challenge level will not decrease until it is reset during a Trial Spawner’s cooldown

Unlike normal spawners, a Trial Spawner will spawn a limited number of mobs proportional to its current challenge level

It can only spawn a mob at positions that are within line of sight

It can spawn a mob regardless of any light level requirement the mob has

Spawned mobs are persistent

Once all mobs are defeated, the Trial Spawner will eject a set of rewards proportional to the current challenge level

After the rewards have been ejected, the Trial Spawner goes into cooldown for 30 minutes during which it will no longer spawn mobs

Trial Spawners cannot be crafted nor obtained by players in Survival – instead, they can be found naturally placed throughout Trial Chambers

Trial Spawners are extremely slow to mine and resistant to explosions, and will not drop even with Silk Touch

When placed in Creative, Trial Spawners have no mob type set by default

The mob type can be set by interacting with it while holding a Spawn Egg

Creative and Spectator players cannot be detected or noticed by Trial Spawners

Trial Chambers

Trial Chambers are a new structure in the Overworld where players can explore and take on combat challenges during the mid-game

Trial Chambers are made out of a variety of Copper and Tuff blocks and can be found in different sizes from large to small

Trial Chambers are a relatively common find throughout the Deepslate layer of the underground

The layout of each Trial Chamber is procedurally generated, and can include traps, reward chests and a variety of combat spaces

Supply chests can be found between different rooms, and give you blocks and items which help you navigate your trials

Reward chests are guarded by challenges in each room, and can be a source of enchanted books and equipment

The loot found in reward chests are still being iterated, and are absolutely not final

Each Trial Chamber will include Trial Spawners with a melee, small melee, or ranged category:

Melee

Zombie

Husk

Slime

Small Melee

Spider

Cave Spider

Baby Zombie

Silverfish

Ranged

Skeleton

Stray

Each Trial Spawner category will only use one mob for the entire structure when generated, and these mobs are randomized for each Trial Chamber

For example, one Trial Chamber might only spawn Zombies, Cave Spiders and Strays, while another might only spawn Slimes, Silverfish and Skeletons

The exceptions to this are some Trial Spawners in unique rooms which always spawn Breezes

Trial Key

An item that can only be obtained from Trial Spawners

Trial Keys do not currently have any functionality

Armadillo

Added the Armadillo

The Armadillo is a neutral mob

Drops Armadillo Scutes periodically

Drops Armadillo Scutes when brushed

Spawns in Savannas

Favorite food is Spider Eyes

When an Armadillo detects a threat, it rolls up

Threats are:

Players who are sprinting

Players on a mount or in a vehicle

Undead mobs

It does not roll up if it is fleeing, in water, in the air, or if being led

When an Armadillo is rolled up it does not walk, cannot eat, and will not be tempted by food

It continues to scan for threats, and if there are no threats detected for 3 seconds, it will unroll

Armadillo Scutes

Can be used to craft Wolf Armor

Dropped by Armadillos

Dispensers can be used to brush Armadillo Scutes off Armadillos

Wolf Armor

Using Wolf Armor on an adult tamed Wolf will equip the armor on the Wolf

Only a Wolf’s owner can put Wolf Armor on their tamed Wolf, and with this in mind, Dispensers cannot put Wolf Armor on Wolves

Using Shears on a Wolf that is wearing armor will make it drop the armor

Only a Wolf’s owner can shear a Wolf Armor from it, and with this in mind, Dispensers cannot remove Wolf Armor from Wolves

Wolf Armor gives the same protection as Diamond Horse Armor

If a Wolf dies while wearing armor, it will drop the armor

Fixes and Changes

Performance / Stability

Fixed a variety of crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a rare crash that could occur with the “Seven Seas” achievement

Fixed a crash that could occur when players placed or destroyed any block and then selected Save & Quit with Ray Tracing enabled

Fixed a crash that could occur in the Play menu whilst looking at Realms

Fixed a bug that could cause infinite loading while joining a Realm

General

Added more informative error messaging in case world exports fail due to external OS issues (MCPE-41898)

Improved delay between 100% loaded and when the main menu appears on console platforms

The “You Need A Mint” achievement can now only be unlocked by collecting Dragon’s Breath (MCPE-177409)

Gameplay

Fixed certain cases that caused players to take unexpected fall damage when performing interactions at specific heights like 62 (MCPE-168518)

Reintroduced a fix for players sometimes taking unexpected fall damage while building blocks while standing on them (MCPE-120140)

Fixed some cases where players could take unexpected fall damage near ledges that they were visibly not falling off of (MCPE-120140)

Fixed the issue that prevented the inventory from being navigated when using only a keyboard on mobile

Fixed the issue prevented stack splitting from being used when using a keyboard in touch mode

Fixed an issue that could inflict unexpected fall damage in certain cases when building blocks while moving (MCPE-120140, MCPE-175791)

Players no longer fall through the block they stand on when switching to Spectator Mode and back (MCPE-170522)

Players are no longer slowed down if they touch the ground while flying in Creative mode (MCPE-176365)

If the game is closed while changing dimensions, players will no longer be placed in unexpected positions when re-entering the world (MCPE-173386)

Mobs

Horses, Donkeys, and Mules now take fall damage when controlled by a player, except for worlds targeting base game versions before 1.20.60 (MCPE-107031)

Fixed an issue that made Boats clip through blocks when placed

Fixed some Villagers not having their skins match their professions (MCPE-105457)

The scattering of Experience Orbs released while fishing has been reduced (MCPE-170540)

Experience Orbs no longer collide with mobs (MCPE-87711)

Zoglins can no longer spawn in Peaceful difficulty and will despawn if the difficulty is switched to Peaceful (MCPE-79480)

Bees no longer take damage when moving through Sweet Berry Bushes (MCPE-114689)

Wolves can now spawn on both Snow and Top Snow within Grove biomes (MCPE-147656)

Blocks

Container blocks triggered with Redstone (e.g. Hopper, Dispenser) can now be interacted with consistently when powered by a fast Redstone clock

Frosted Ice blocks no longer leave water in the world when mined with a Silk Touch tool

Turtle Egg, Frogspawn, Coral, and Coral Fan no longer spawn double the particles when mined

Beehive and Bee Nest can no longer be Silk Touched by an Enchanted Book with Silk Touch

Destroying a Bed through the bottom block now properly clears the spawn point

Ice, Packed Ice, Frosted Ice and Top Snow now send vibrations when mined

Pistons pushing, pulling, or destroying blocks no longer risk teleporting surrounding players towards the world’s origin (MCPE-175206)

Villagers who were mistakenly assigned to the same Bed or workstation as others will now actively seek out a new Bed or workstation (MCPE-176528)

Pufferfish no longer inflate and deflate repeatedly when a player is at a specific distance from them

Mobs that have partial blocks (e.g. Trapdoors, Slabs, etc.) specified as part of their list of blocks to avoid in their Navigation Component should now avoid them properly

The limitations on which blocks can be replaced by Dark Oak and Acacia trees now also apply to their branches, not just their trunks (MCPE-177484)

Top Snow placed at generation time now also covers Tall Grass and flowers (MCPE-142321)

Wither Roses now damage mobs every 0.5 seconds, instead of every 2 seconds (MCPE-55878)

Containers being cloned no longer keep their container screens open or cause crashes

Fixed pixel shading on the Double Chest and Double Trapped Chest lids (MCPE-169495)

Items

Fixed issue where eating an Apple would not slow down player movement (MCPE-176556)

Renamed “Scute” to “Turtle Scute”

Players can now consume Suspicious Stew even when their hunger bar is full (MCPE-122491)

Banner items of identical colors now consistently stack together, whether or not they have previously been placed in the world as blocks (MCPE-43391)

Touch Controls

Fixed a bug where the hotbar disappeared when exiting out of the customize touch controls screen with a non-touch controller input

Graphical

Fixed incorrect block lighting after exiting water with the “Improved Input Response” option enabled (MCPE-175727)

User Interface

The loading screen now displays three categories of tips based on player progression

Added an unread post count indicator to the Realms Feed button on the Play screen and slots screen

A bug making the “technical details” button on resource packs not leading to the technical details screen has been fixed

Fixed a bug where certain chat messages would briefly be incorrectly shown on the new death screen

In horizontal split screen, the second player can now navigate to the profile screen and both players can now see each others’ character changes

Fixed a bug that kept the previewed item on the paper doll even after navigating back using the sidebar in Character Creator

Fixed Beacon UI buttons going outside the window on smaller resolutions (MCPE-173649)

Items from the inventory have the durability bar adjusted so it matches the one from the hotbar (MCPE-128532)

Adjusted cost text in the Pocket Anvil UI to match the classic version (MCPE-101740)

Updated the information about Conduits in the Encyclopedia (MCPE-65038)

Added Netherite as a block type in the Encyclopedia’s Beacon tab (MCPE-175929)

Last highlighted button will not get pressed when the window regains focus anymore (MCPE-170377)

Not enough storage space on Nintendo Switch now has a clearer message about the platform only allowing for 2GB of storage per user account (MCPE-36670)

Technical Updates

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.20.60 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

General

Decorated Pots now support the use of loot tables

Renamed jsonto water_splash_manual.json in resource_packs\vanilla\particles (MCPE-176784)

Require block_id for each block in the StartGamePacket blockProperties

Send “material” for vanilla data-driven blocks in the StartGamePacket blockProperties. “block_id” is also moved to the “vanilla_block_data” object

Containers being cloned over no longer keep their container screens open and no longer cause crashes

Changing the brightness_gamma value for blocks now darkens the block correctly (MCPE-167836)

Added a “drop_item_slot” field to the “interact” component, which allows to specify an inventory slot to remove and drop items from

“behavior.breed” now interrupts navigation on stop for content using engine version 1.20.60 or higher

Updated listed values for the Vanilla “orientation” block state in documentation to no longer be boolean values

Commands

/me /say /title /tell

Reduced max length for output message to 512 characters

/kill

Reduced max length for reason message to 512 characters

Add-Ons and Script Engine

Added a Project Through Liquidproperty to the 3D Block Cursor

Added a CursorPropertiesChangeAfterEvent to notify Editor script when the cursor properties are changed

Wandering Traders can now correctly display custom entity spawn eggs in their trade menus (MCPE-170184)

The “minecraft:geometry.full_block” identifier for the “minecraft:geometry” block component has been added

The “minecraft:geometry.full_block” identifier provides a centered 1x1x1 cube geometry

When combined with a material_instances component with “render_layer”: “opaque”, it enables rendering-only capabilities previously included in the “minecraft:unit_cube” component including:

Occludes both vanilla and custom neighboring full blocks

Culls faces that neighbor vanilla and custom neighboring full blocks to improve rendering performance

Added content error logging to help creators identify content that hits or exceeds the state bit/permutation count per block (MCPE-177045)

Biomes

Biome JSON files no longer support inheriting fields from other Biome JSON files. If this affects any content those files should be updated by manually copying the desired JSON text

Biome tags in JSON files are now specified under a “minecraft:tags” component, in a “tags” array, rather than as loose JSON objects, for files with a format_version of 1.20.60 or higher

Blocks

Added the ability for data-driven blocks to remove faces in the geometry when abutting a full and opaque block. A new field has been added to the Block Geometry Component, which references a new Culling .json file (found in the resource pack block_culling directory) that sets up culling rules for the tessellated geometry

Items

Unrecognized fields in component item JSON will now give a warning to the content log in format versions 1.20.60 and higher

Components

The “entity_sensor” component now supports multiple “subsensors”:

“event”, “require_all”, “minimum_count”, “maximum_count”, “range” and “event_filter” are now individually configurable fields of each subsensor

Subsensors also have a new “cooldown” field, which defines how often each subsensor should sense for entities

All these changes require a “format_version” of 1.20.60 or higher

The “interact” component now supports the additional “entity_act” value for the “vibration” field

Entity Components

Entity event response run_command has been renamed to queue_command and has been released out of experimental. Commands run via queue_command may be deferred until the next tick. If the entity is removed before the command is run, the command will not execute. Content using run_command under experimental will still work for now but the experimental feature is now considered deprecated

Added an “interact_filters” field to the “ageable” component, which allows to specify conditions on when the actor can be fed

“behavior.follow_parent” now interrupts navigation on stop for content using engine version 1.20.60 or higher

Entity Filters

Added new entity filter “is_panicking”, which checks if the entity is executing “behavior.panic”

Added new entity filter “is_sprinting”, which checks if the entity is sprinting

Entity Event Responses

Added the “emit_vibration” entity event response, which allows the entity to emit a vibration having the entity itself as its source

The “vibration” field allows to specify the vibration to be emitted

The allowed values are “shear”, “entity_act”, and “entity_interact”

Molang

Improved the context of content logs when an evaluated Molang expressions results in an error

Released Molang queries from experimental

is_cooldown_type

cooldown_time

cooldown_time_remaining

relative_block_has_any_tag

relative_block_has_all_tags

block_neighbor_has_any_tag

block_neighbor_has_all_tags

block_has_any_tag

block_has_all_tags

bone_orientation_trs

bone_orientation_matrix

Added content errors that state remaining_durabilityand query.max_durability are only to be used with Item contexts

API

Added Biome Registry biome names and StructureFeatureType enum to vanilla metadata generation

Made the display name parameter optional in Scoreboard addObjective

Released DataDrivenEntityTriggerAfterEvent from beta to 1.8.0

Released DataDrivenEntityTriggerAfterEventSignal from beta to 1.8.0

Released DataDrivenEntityTriggerAfterEventSignalOptions from beta to 1.8.0

Released DefinitionModifier from beta to 1.8.0

Released dataDrivenEntityTrigger from beta to 1.8.0

Moved EffectAddBeforeEventfrom beta to 1.8.0

Moved EffectAddAfterEventfrom beta to 1.8.0

Moved EffectAddAfterEventfrom beta to 1.8.0

Moved getTagsfrom beta to 1.8.0

Moved hasTagfrom beta to 1.8.0

RGBA interface now inherits from RGB

Changed itemStackin ItemReleaseUseAfterEvent to be optional

Released DataDrivenEntityTriggerAfterEvent from beta to 1.8.0

Released DataDrivenEntityTriggerAfterEventSignal from beta to 1.8.0

Released DataDrivenEntityTriggerAfterEventSignalOptions from beta to 1.8.0

Released DefinitionModifier from beta to 1.8.0

Released dataDrivenEntityTriggerEvent from beta to 1.8.0

Improved error messages for “Unsupported or out of bounds value.” errors to include the bounds

Types

Moved BlockTypefrom beta to 1.8.0

Moved FluidTypefrom beta to 1.8.0

Changed “Unsupported or out of bounds value..” errors to use ArgumentOutOfBoundsError Error type

setWeather method argument duration now uses ArgumentOutOfBoundsError Error type

Experimental Technical Updates

Commands

The health bar of mounted rideable mobs is now properly displayed (MCPE-177696)

Execute command now fails when comparing unloaded blocks (MCPE-177195)

Added a new command that will hide and reset HUD elements visibility

/hud hide <hud element>

/hud reset <hud element>

The HUD elements available are:

paperdoll

armor

tooltips

touch_controls

crosshair

hotbar

health

progress_bar

hunger

air_bubbles

horse_health

all

To use the command, turn on the Upcoming Creator Features toggle

API

PlayerPlaceBlockBeforeEvent

Removed itemStack: ItemStackfrom event

Added readonly permutationBeingPlaced: BlockPermutationto event

Updating createExplosion(location: Vector3, radius: number, explosionOptions?: ExplosionOptions)to return a boolean. True if the explosion is successful and false if the explosion is unsuccessful or is cancelled

Class Player

Added method spawnParticle(effectName: string, location: Vector3, molangVariables?: MolangVariableMap): void;

Fixed a bug where the world would sometimes fail to properly shut down and disconnect clients during an unrecoverable script watchdog error

Updated SimulatedPlayer so it can continuously build

Updated SimulatedPlayer so it can Move and look in different directions

ChatSendAfter & ChatSendBeforeEvent

Changed message and sender to read-only properties

Removed setTargets, getTargets, sendToTargetsand replaced with an optional player list property targets

Class ItemDurabilityComponent

Renamed unbreaking to unbreakingEnchantmentLevel

Renamed getDamageRange to getDamageChanceRange

EntityTypes

Changed getAllreturn type from EntityTypeIterator to EntityType[]

EntityEquippableComponent

Fixed an issue where functions getEquipment and getEquipmentSlot could not be called within “before” event handlers

Fixed a bug where an ItemStack could not be stacked after clearing its lore

Added method eatItem(itemStack: ItemStack): void;

BlockSignComponent

Changed signature of function setWaxedto setWaxed(waxed: boolean)

Removed event/property pistonActivate

Added enum BlockPistonState export enum BlockPistonState { Expanded = “Expanded”, Expanding = “Expanding”, Retracted = “Retracted”, Retracting = “Retracting” }

Class BlockPistonComponent

Removed property isExpanded

Removed property isExpanding

Removed property isRetracted

Removed property isRetracting

Added property readonly state: BlockPistonState

Changed function getAttachedBlocksto return type Block[]

Added function getAttachedBlocksLocations(): Vector3[]

Removed class PistonActivateBeforeEvent

Removed class PistonActivateBeforeEventSignal

Moved NavigationResultfrom @minecraft/server to @minecraft/server-gametest

Updated function addEffect to return the added effect (or undefined if it failed)

This change is in beta and does not affect the currently released versions of this function

Added item dynamic properties

Added function clearDynamicProperties(): void – Removes all dynamic properties from the item stack

Added function getDynamicProperty(identifier: string): boolean | number | string | Vector3 | undefined – Returns the value of the dynamic property with the given identifier if it exists, otherwise returns undefined

Added function getDynamicPropertyIds(): string[] – Returns an array of all dynamic property identifiers on the item stack

Added function getDynamicPropertyTotalByteCount(): number – Returns the total byte count of all dynamic properties on the item stack

Added function setDynamicProperty(identifier: string, value?: boolean | number | string | Vector3): void – Sets the value of the dynamic property with the given identifier. If the value is undefined, the dynamic property will be removed

Added function clearDynamicProperties(): void – Removes all dynamic properties from the item stack

Added function getDynamicProperty(identifier: string): boolean | number | string | Vector3 | undefined – Returns the value of the dynamic property with the given identifier if it exists, otherwise returns undefined

Added function getDynamicPropertyIds(): string[] – Returns an array of all dynamic property identifiers on the item stack

Added function getDynamicPropertyTotalByteCount(): number – Returns the total byte count of all dynamic properties on the item stack

Added function setDynamicProperty(identifier: string, value?: boolean | number | string | Vector3): void – Sets the value of the dynamic property with the given identifier. If the value is undefined, the dynamic property will be removed

Added class EntityProjectileComponent. This component is used to shoot a projectile entity and modify its properties

Added interface ProjectileShootOptions. This interface is used with function shootto optionally modify the accuracy of the projectile when shot

PropertyOutOfBoundsError

Added a new PropertyOutOfBoundsError that throws when a property that is bounded is set out of bounds

ContainerSlot APIs now throw an InvalidContainerSlotError if the container slot is invalid, or if a property is set on an empty slot

Property typeId no longer returns undefined for empty slots, but instead throws an InvalidContainerSlotError

Added function hasItem – Returns whether the slot contains an item

Added function getCanPlaceOn – Returns an array of block identifiers that the item can be placed on

Added function getCanDestroy – Returns an array of block identifiers that the item can destroy when used

runJob() and system.clearJob()

Added runJob and clearJob for optimizing long running tasks using JavaScript generators. runJob takes a generator function and returns a jobId. See documentation for usage examples

@minecraft/server.BlockPermutation

Moved getState and withStates APIs from beta to stable

Scripting

Fixed issue where ActionFormData buttons could not be clicked if there were more than 255 buttons in the form

The “minecraft:unit_cube” block component has been deprecated. Using it in content marked 1.20.60 and beyond will provide a content error

Using content marked prior to 1.20.60 will have their “minecraft:unit_cube” block component upgraded to a “minecraft:geometry” block component with a “minecraft:geometry.full_block” identifier, but will maintain backwards compatibility with all behaviors

Added ScriptBiomeTypesand ScriptBiomeType to allow Scripting API to enumerate the BiomeRegistry

Added a findClosestBiomefunction to Dimension to find the closest biome of a specified type, to a given position in the world

The block component “minecraft:random_ticking” is now functional again

Molang

Changed cooldown query slot IDs to be required for container slots with more than one index, logging content errors if not provided

cooldown_time(slotName,slotId)

cooldown_time_remaining(slotName,slotId)

is_cooldown_type(cooldownName,slotName,slotId)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

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let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

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