Minecraft (Nintendo Switch): all the updates (latest update: Ver. 1.20.80 – Armored Paws)

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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. 1.20.80

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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