Minecraft (Switch): all the updates (February 2019 – December 2022)

13 December 20227 February 2023 Lite_Agent Microsoft, Minecraft, Mojang Studios

In this post, you will find patch notes for all the updates released for Minecraft on Nintendo Switch between February 2019 and December 2022. For the most recent updates, makes sure to check out this page instead!

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.51

Release date: December 13th 2022 (North America, Europe) / December 14th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay

Pistons can no longer recreate moving blocks that were destroyed mid-move

Horses can no longer be pushed over Fences with Carpets on top (MCPE-164717)

Touch control selection screen will no longer appear on Nintendo Switch

Fixed the Structure Block screen so the Y value field can properly be accessed with just the keyboard (MCPE-164148)

Technical Updates:

The “minecraft:variable_max_auto_step” component has a new property “controlled_value”

This property will override “base_value” when a mob with “minecraft:input_ground_controlled” is being controlled by the player

“jump_prevented_value” will have precedence over both other values

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.50

Release date: November 29th 2022 (North America, Europe) / November 30th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Spectator Mode

Spectator Mode has made its way into Minecraft: Bedrock Edition! This feature has been experimental for a little while but has now made its way into the game with no experimental toggle required. Here’s a quick write up of this new game mode and how it can be used:

When cheats are enabled, players can go in and out of Spectator Mode using the Personal Game Mode option in World Settings or the ‘/gamemode spectator’ command

Spectators have a reduced HUD that does not show the crosshair, hotbar, XP, health, hunger, or armor

Players’ inventory, health, held items, etc, are unchanged when switching in and out of Spectator Mode

Spectators are always flying and cannot be grounded

Spectators pass through solid blocks and entities without collision

Spectators can see out of solid objects when inside blocks

Spectators cannot take damage and are not affected by any blocks, mobs, items, portals, or effects

Spectators cannot use items or interact with blocks or mobs

Spectators cannot open their inventory or interact with block screens, like Chests or Furnaces

Spectators cannot be seen by mobs or other players, except other players in Spectator Mode

Spectators appear as a transparent floating head to other players in Spectator Mode

Spectators are not needed to sleep to pass the night

When playing in first person perspective, spectators do not see their arm or held item

Spectators generate chunks, if they fly to new chunks

Spectators do not spawn any mobs

Non-persistent mobs around spectators will check for distance to any non-spectators when deciding if they should despawn

Commands can select and act on spectators

A list of fixes since the last release can be found below in the Vanilla Parity section below.

New Touch Controls

New touch controls are now enabled on touch devices by default

Players can choose between “Joystick & tap to interact”, “Joystick & aim crosshair”, or “D-Pad & tap to interact”

A list of fixes since the last release can be found in the Fixes section below.

New Default Skins

New characters have joined Steve and Alex! These character skins can be selected in the Dressing Room

Vex

Updated the model and texture of the Vex

The Vex retains a slightly larger hitbox to make it easier to fight

Vanilla Parity:

Mobs

While playing tag, baby Villagers will now run at a quicker speed that matches Java Edition

Blocks

Wooden Doors, Iron Doors, Wooden Trapdoors, Iron Trapdoors, and Fence Gates now use the same opening and closing sound effects as Java Edition

Updated Pressure Plates to have different pitches based on their behaviour to match Java Edition

Added unique button click sound for Wooden Buttons to match Java Edition

Crimson and Warped block sets now have a unique set of sounds

Chiseled and Cut Red Sandstone now have smooth undersides (MCPE-20006)

Projectiles landing on Mud will no longer shake repeatedly (MCPE-153744)

Amphibious mobs no longer have trouble pathfinding around Mud Blocks (MCPE-153961)

Mud and Soul Sand Block bounding boxes now matches their visual bounding boxes for when a player places the blocks (MCPE-162252)

Lily Pads now pop with sound and particles when run into by a Boat (MCPE-65138)

Most blocks destroyed from lack of support now have visual particles, audio effects, and cause vibration events

Coral Fans can no longer be placed on the side of Slab blocks (MCPE-116986)

Coral Fans can now survive on top of solid transparent blocks like Glass (MCPE-112407)

Fixed a bug where placed Light Blocks were invisible even while selecting a Light Block

Spectator Mode

Open container, Command Block, or Structure Block screens now close when players enter Spectator Mode

Spectator Mode now appears on the list of Personal Game Modes in Settings (MCPE-156688)

Allays no longer throw items to spectators (MCPE-162873)

Experimental Features:

Introducing the next major update experimental toggle! Enable the “Next Major Update” toggle in world settings to enable this content

These features are a work in progress and are still in active development. The design and functionality of these features will likely change before they’re released

Please remember: Worlds that have used experimental toggles will always be flagged as “Experimental”. We recommend keeping these experimental worlds as separate copies from your main saves. More information can be found in this article

Bamboo Wood Blocks

Added the Bamboo family of blocks as a wood type and use for Bamboo

Added Bamboo Raft

Camel

Added Camels, which can spawn in desert villages

Two players can ride Camels together

Camels are tall animals and riders are high enough off the ground, out of range from mob melee attacks

Camels can walk and sprint, or dash with a short burst of speed

Camels randomly sit down for short periods of time and flick their ears about

Chiseled Bookshelf

A new, chiseled variation of the Bookshelf

Can store Books, Book and Quills, and Enchanted Books

Holds up to 6 Books. Keeps the stories and lore of your world safe

Comparators can detect the last book placed/removed. Perfect for hiding secrets in your spooky library

Hanging Sign

A new type of Sign that can be placed beneath and on the side of blocks

Hanging Signs are available for all wood types

Hanging Signs can also be placed under narrow blocks with center support, like Fences

Fixes:

Stability / Performance

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating down in the Villager screen with the keyboard

Fixed an issue where game would crash when Ender Dragon breath attack hadn’t hit blocks or fell into the void (MCPE-161204)

Navigating through the Recipe Book when the player had items that contain mobs in their inventory (like Bees in Beehives) no longer causes significant drops in performance (MCPE-146462)

Reduced server lag with items going in and out of Hoppers (MCPE-68796)

Fixed frame rate dropping when hovering over item slots on the Creative inventory screen (MCPE-162277)

Fixed a crash that would occur if Education Edition items were rendered without the Education Edition toggle turned on (MCPE-161587)

Fixed a crash that could occur when actors with a non-player owner went through End Portals

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading into some Marketplace worlds on low memory devices (MCPE-161866)

Gameplay

When stuck inside a block, players will now be pushed towards the nearest open area

Maps corrupted by black pixels can now be repaired by revisiting corrupted areas. Previously affected maps can now be repaired by holding in main or off hand (MCPE-162421)

Fixed a bug that could cause the player to teleport back to a portal after exiting it (MCPE-157494)

Fixed a bug that could cause players to get stuck on the “Building Terrain” screen when changing dimensions (MCPE-158215)

Fixed improper LevelChunk blending when upgrading pre-1.18 worlds (MCPE-162480)

Fixed Xbox controller thumbstick deadzone and sensitivity (MCPE-162847)

Mobs

Increased Enderman follow range from 32 to 64 (MCPE-35306)

Jump Boost now consistently affects mobs ridden by players (MCPE-45823)

Slow Falling now consistently affects mobs ridden by players (MCPE-126604)

Fixed an issue where breeding mobs with applied effects would result in the offspring having the effect bonuses permanently applied (MCPE-81890)

Fixed Bat resting location being offset when at negative world height

Armor Stands now drop their offhand item upon destruction (MCPE-158228)

Fixed a bug that caused the Ender Dragon to not load if the world was saved and loaded while it was alive (MCPE-156528)

Blocks

Dirt Path and Farmland collision are now one pixel lower (MCPE-12109)

Players now sink in Soul Sand and Mud blocks (MCPE-154973)

Sugar Cane will now break on next random tick when its water source is removed (MCPE-162351)

Piston arms now extend more smoothly (MCPE-155987)

Blocks attached to Pistons now move more smoothly (MCPE-146597)

Huge Fungus blocks will no longer replace partial blocks when growing from Nylium (MCPE-65661)

Fixed an issue where an entity at coordinate 0,0,0 prevented Pressure Plates from being placed (MCPE-161377)

Fixed blocks flickering when moved by Pistons (MCPE-15268)

Fixed an issue where signs would not play a placement sound when placed (MCPE-65423)

Bubble columns are now properly generated above underwater Magma Blocks

Swimming above Mud blocks no longer causes the screen to get blocked (MCPE-153737)

Items

Freshly crafted tools and armor now work the first time they are used (MCPE-161151)

Weapons, tools, and armor can now be dropped from the players inventory the first time after being renamed (MCPE-162132)

Fixed issues with Book & Quill not able to be signed and closed (MCPE-163325)

Fixed a bug where fully charged items were lost when going through a portal (MCPE-55279)

Using the Anvil to enchant or fix items will no longer rename items unintentionally (MCPE-154453)

Fixed a bug where Slimes and Magma Cubes could break Shield durability every tick (MCPE-119451)

Fixed a bug where Pufferfish could break Shield durability every tick (MCPE-143689)

Touch Controls

Re-enabled the new stack splitting functionality for touch devices

“Split Control” option will only appear in Classic control mode and only affect the Classic control scheme

Fixed an issue where hotbar slots could not be touched in Crosshair and Touch control schemes in certain situations

Scrolling the inventory screen is easier as the dwell time has been increased to 180 milliseconds (was 120 previously). The dwell time is the length of time an item must be held before a drag action begins

Untangled the connections between “Lock Joystick”, “Joystick Always Visible”, and “Joystick Visible When Unused”

Added toggle “Delayed Block Breaking (Creative Only)” in Touch Settings to control this functionality

Fixed an issue where double tapping touch control buttons can be difficult on high refresh rate screens (MCPE-156351)

Improved the way that button presses and camera movements work in tandem in the new Touch Controls

Action buttons now show up when in a Boat while using Crosshair mode (MCPE-159376)

Fixed the Dismount button in the new touch control schemes appearing blurry (MCPE-156722)

Fixed an issue which prevented items from being discarded in the extended Creative Mode inventory by dropping them on another item (MCPE-162124)

Fixed an issue with touch controls when swimming and charging a Bow, Crossbow, or Trident no longer launch the weapon immediately (MCPE-136625)

Fixed an issue where joystick gestures were stopped if your finger overlapped with the hotbar (MCPE-159870)

Resolved an issue where players couldn’t interact with the hotbar in some resource packs with the new touch controls (MCPE-157748)

The sprint and descend buttons in Crosshair Mode now have the same colour as other buttons (MCPE-156740)

Resolved an issue where quickly tapping “Ascend” and “Descend” would cancel flying in the new touch controls. Going forward, double tapping “Descend” is how flying is cancelled (MCPE-162240)

Status icons now follow the screen safe zone when in touch mode

Adjusted status icons to form in one row across width of screen when in touch to account for new touch controls

Removed the action delay from Attack and Interact buttons (MCPE-158143)

When the joystick is unlocked, the draggable range has been changed to be the same as the when the joystick is locked. In both modes, if auto-sprinting is enabled, it will start when the joystick is dragged slightly above the background. The auto-sprint will disengage if the joystick control is subsequently moved back into the joystick background area

A tap gesture will now fire a charged Crossbow. Previously, it was necessary to hold the gesture for 400ms before the bolt would fire

Fixed an issue where players couldn’t drag/drop on the Anvil screen

Graphical

Applied ambient light to blocks moved by Pistons (MCPE-136928)

Mob shadows now render properly on Android devices using certain GPUs (MCPE-155354)

Added D3D12 support for Intel Integrated/Dedicated Graphics for compatible drivers

Realms

Shortened text when uploading worlds and add-ons so it fits in the dialog prompt

You will no longer get an error message when joining a Realm that has been empty for several minutes

User Interface

Added a new Mobile Data Blocked screen on Android/iOS when mobile data is available but disabled in-game and Wi-Fi is not connected

Players can now rebind the copy coordinate keys with Full Keyboard Gameplay and the Enable Copy Coordinate UI settings enabled (MCPE-163082)

Fixed a bug where the boss bar name would not update when the boss name changed until the bar was reloaded by the player (MCM-1100)

Fixed a bug on the Pocket UI Inventory screen where items could not be dropped back into the inventory in Creative Mode

Fixed a bug on the Pocket UI Inventory screen where the ‘Craftable/All’ toggle could only be changed in the Search tab but not in any other tab

On Xbox, camera movement with mouse no longer changes mouse position when the inventory screen is reopened (MCPE-162890)

Text color for a selected item stack count is now white instead of yellow

A warning now appears when the player is about to lose changes when moving away from the Create New World screen

Changed the error handling of copying worlds to display a modal pop-up instead of a toast notification

Fixed a bug causing the HUD to not rotate with the player’s direction while riding in a Boat in VR

Changed the color of the description text for the “Allow mobile data for online play” option to be more readable (MCPE-162459)

Fixed a contrast issue of the little arrow in dropdown components on hover, the unselected toggle components and the toggle/sliders in chat settings

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for19.50 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

Structure Block Import

Structure Blocks can now import structures from ‘.mcstructure’ files on Windows

General

Actor (Entity) Properties are no longer experimental (This includes Molang queries and property filters, but not Permutations)

Fixed a crash that would occur if the texture_index of a spawn egg was out of bounds. Now a content log error will be presented instead

Min/Max distance values in sound events now only affect the sound event and not all events using the same sound (MCPE-154376)

Added client-side-chunk-generation-enabled toggle to server.properties

Fixed an issue where changing the subpack of Resource Packs that have subpacks would not apply changes until the game was restarted (MCPE-162002)

Recipes that have the same inputs but have different outputs will now display content errors (excludes Crafting Table and Stonecutter recipes)

New ‘/execute’ Command Syntax

Removed the Upcoming Creator Features requirement for the new execute command syntax

Version 1.19.50 is now required to run the new command syntax

Creators currently using the new execute command syntax in command blocks will have to go modify those command blocks in order to update those commands

Creators currently using the new execute command in behavior packs will need to change the min engine version to 1.19.50

The previous execute command syntax can still be used by using version 1.19.40 or less

Commands

Using the ‘/enchant’ command to apply the same level of enchantment no longer results in a higher level being applied (MCPE-153204)

Fixed an issue where hasItem wouldn’t correctly detect an item with a data value if hasItem wasn’t provided a data value (MCPE-162460)

Running ‘/execute as’ from Command Blocks no longer inherits rotation from entity (MCPE-162680)

Fixed a bug where Chain Command Blocks would not activate when Delay in Ticks was greater than 0

Running ‘/execute align xyz entity’ now produces a command error instead of crashing (MCPE-162733)

Data-Driven Blocks

Released BlockCollisionBoxComponent outside of experimental toggle in JSON formats 1.19.50 and higher

Released BlockCraftingTableComponent outside of experimental toggle in JSON formats 1.19.50 and higher

The Crafting Table UI now updates when a block changes to a permutation with a different “minecraft:crafting_table” block component

Removed the functionality of the “minecraft:breathability” block component. Component will have no effect on the custom defined block

Data-Driven Items

Blocks using the “minecraft:placement_filter” component now produce particles, sounds and vibrations events when they are removed due to their placement condition failing

Mobs

“input_ground_controlled” no longer implies increased auto step when controlled by player. The “variable_max_auto_step” component can be used instead. To have consistency with previous versions, use “base_value”: 1.0625 and “jump_prevented_value”: 0.5625

Networking

Added server property ‘enable-lan-visibility’ to disable the explicit LAN discovery by clients. This will prevent unexpected port conflicts when running multiple dedicated servers on a single host. Clarified port use in server logs and made error messaging more clear (BDS-1094)

AI Goals

Exposed new data parameters for the “minecraft:offer_flower” AI behaviour to specify such things as the time that the mob offers the flower for, the chance that the goal will start, and the dimensions of the AABB used to search for a mob to offer a flower to

The “minecraft:offer_flower” AI behavior can now be used by any mob, not just the Iron Golem

The “minecraft:offer_flower” AI behavior will now search through all mobs in the specified range rather than just the closest one, meaning that this goal has the potential to be used more consistently than before

Exposed new data parameters for the “minecraft:take_flower” AI behavior to specify such things as the conditions to be met to start the goal, the min and max wait times before taking the flower, and the dimensions of the AABB used to search for a mob to take a flower from

The “minecraft:take_flower” AI behavior can now be used by any mob, not just baby Villagers

Molang

Fixed has_property to return 1 when a property exists and 0 when not, rather than the opposite of that

Scripting, APIs, and GameTest Framework (Experimental)

Fixed velocity property not returning correct values in certain situations (MCPE-152715)

Added function canPlace – Returns if it is valid to place the desired block type or block permutation at a specified location (and optional face of the block)

Added function trySetPermutation – Attempts to place the desired block permutation at a location by first checking canPlace

Entity

Removed function runCommand. Consider runCommandAsync as an alternative

Dimension

Removed function runCommand. Consider runCommandAsync as an alternative

Converted BlockRaycastOptions to an interface

Converted EntityEventOptions to an interface

Converted ScoreboardObjectiveDisplayOptions to an interface

Location type updated to IVec3

Vector

add – updated aand b arguments to accept an IVec3 interface type

cross – updated aand b arguments to accept an IVec3 interface type

distance – updated aand b arguments to accept an IVec3 interface type

divide – updated aargument to accept an IVec3 interface type

lerp – updated aand b arguments to accept an IVec3 interface type

max – updated aand b arguments to accept an IVec3 interface type

min – updated aand b arguments to accept an IVec3 interface type

multiply – updated aargument to accept an IVec3 interface type

slerp – updated aand b arguments to accept an IVec3 interface type

subtract – updated aand b arguments to accept an IVec3 interface type

API

Initial APIs are releasing out of beta and will be usable without an experimental flag

The first module to release is @minecraft/server as version 1.0.0. The APIs included with this are listed below:

Non-beta APIs like those included in the @minecraft/server0.0 module do not require the Beta APIs experiment to be turned on, and will be more stable over time

This initial API set is narrow, but we intend to add more APIs into non-beta modules over the coming months

@minecraft/server will continue to develop in Beta and those Beta APIs have been incremented in version to 1.1.0-beta; if you wish to continue to use Beta @minecraft/server APIs, manifest.json references will need to be updated to 1.1.0-beta

APIs included in the @minecraft/server version 1.0.0 release:

System type (Exposed via systemglobal instance)

run() – runs a function on the next tick (can be used to maintain a game loop tick over tick)

World type (exposed via worldglobal instance)

getDimension()

getAllPlayers()

MinecraftDimensionTypes type

nether

overworld

theEnd

Dimension type

id

runCommandAsync()

CommandResult type

commandResult

Entity type

id

typeId

dimension

runCommandAsync()

Player type

name

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.41

Release date: November 8th 2022 (North America, Europe) / November 9th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Players can once again spread items across an inventory grid when holding the “Place One” button with a controller (MCPE-163625)

Fixed multiple issues related to joining Realms

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.40

Release date: October 25th 2022 (North America, Europe) / October 26th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Vanilla Parity:

General

Getting killed by a renamed weapon now produces a death message with the item name

Getting killed by a mob with a renamed weapon now produces a death message with the item name (MCPE-162055)

The Roofed Forest, Savanna Mutated, and Birch Forest biomes use the correct grass colors (MCPE-34936)

Mobs no longer spawn within the bounds of an Ancient City (MCPE-153524)

Sweet Berries can now be planted on Farmland (MCPE-99632)

Changed bubble column strength to match Java Edition (MCPE-158858)

Scaffolds now burn at a more correct rate, 1/4 of an item (MCPE-42949)

Wither Skeletons can now spawn inside of Wither Roses (MCPE-110127)

Decreased the amount of hunger used while swimming to match Java Edition (MCPE-154452)

Mobs

Ravagers can now be hurt by Evoker Fangs

Increased Ravager collision box size to match Java Edition (MCPE-142171, MCPE-45531)

Increased Ravager speed to match Java Edition (MCPE-48145)

Librarian Villagers can now offer Enchanted Books with Curse of Vanishing and Curse of Binding (MCPE-84906)

Blocks

Players swimming above Mud will not have their screen covered (MCPE-153737)

Projectiles landing on Mud will not repeatedly shake (MCPE-153744)

Amphibious mobs no longer have trouble pathfinding around Mud Blocks (MCPE-153961)

Spectator Mode (Experimental)

Spectators no longer drop XP orbs when killed (MCPE-160245)

Spectators no longer reset their player level when killed

Water fog is no longer removed for players in Spectator Mode (MCPE-161105)

Spectator players no longer play sounds when entering/exiting bubble columns (MCPE-161536)

Shulker bullets no longer follow Spectators (MCPE-162069)

Spectators are now invisible to normal players

If a player is in Spectator Mode and other non-spectating players are present on the server, the spectating player won’t affect mob despawning anymore

If there are only spectating players on the server, mob despawning is now put on hold

Fixes:

Performance/Stability

Fixed a crash when using spawn eggs in peaceful worlds on PlayStation 4 Edition

Fixed a crash that could occur when an animated structure was loading from a Structure Block and the player left a dimension via portal (MCPE-132561)

Fixed a bug which caused the game to crash when loading an Arrow with an unrecognized data value (MCPE-157983)

Fixed a potential crash source in explosions

Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving a split screen session

Fixed an issue with Marketplace bundle prices not showing as free after purchasing

Added a Clear Cache button in Storage Settings for all platforms. This button clears contents of Marketplace folders (but not worlds) and might help alleviate issues downloading content (MCPE-54531)

Fixed an issue where Wither effect damage would be reduced by armor (MCPE-159407)

Gameplay

Keyboard players can now sprint when moving diagonally (MCPE-144702)

Grove biome is now classified as “cold” and Villagers spawned there will be the snow variant (MCPE-147834)

Fixed fall damage accumulating while the player is in a Trapdoor block at the top of a bubble column (MCPE-158858)

Fixed an issue causing player to move in the wrong direction after turning using VR snap camera movement (MCPE-152443)

Mobs

Baby Villagers will again accept flowers from Iron Golems

Guardians are no longer able to float in the air (MCPE-33641)

Enabled tamed mobs that follow the player to follow the player through End Portals

Fixed an issue where Drowned could change held items when attacking (MCPE-40288)

Fixed a bug where mobs with a long hit range could hit players through walls (MCPE-55790)

Fixed a bug which caused Boats to disappear when pushed through a portal (MCPE-161563)

When a mob is a passenger in a Boat, neither the Boat nor the mob are allowed to change dimension (MCPE-154919)

NPCs can now have no name, hiding the nametag above their head

Blocks

Falling blocks no longer break when landing on double Slabs (MCPE-159921)

Huge Fungus stems no longer replace partial blocks when growing from Nylium (MCPE-65661)

Water texture on some waterlogged blocks no longer renders too bright when placed under other blocks (MCPE-76949)

Fixed an issue which caused Redstone to output the wrong signal strength in certain configurations (MCPE-81981)

Fixed several issues related to Sticky Pistons being used near world build limits (MCPE-96088)

Breaking the block below a Snow-covered Flower now makes the Flower drop instead of the Snow Layer (MCPE-61609)

Fixed Beacon block suddenly disappearing when seen from a distance

The book of an Enchanting Table now properly faces a nearby player (MCPE-29924)

Temporarily reverted the changes to Dirt Path and Farmland collision changes, as well as Soul Sand and Mud blocks sinking while we iron out some bugs

Items

Reverted the change that caused Arrows and Tridents to stop moving (MCPE-162085)

Graphical

Fixed an issue with screen position on Android devices (MCPE-159703)

User Interface

Removed the “Clear Account Sign in Data” button from the Settings menu from non-Switch platforms, as it is only intended to function on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-129704)

Fixed a bug where usernames could be above max size (MCPE-152884)

To make finding the right thing in Settings easier, the Profile screen has been split into two new sections: General and Account

Ensured proper text-to-speech support for the revamped death screen

Fixed a bug where achievements would be disabled for some world templates

Fixed a bug in Pocket UI where items could be dropped in the dark-grey areas around the item grid in the Crafting Table screen

Fixed a bug in Pocket UI where items could be dropped in the dark-grey areas around the item grid in the inventories for the Horse, Mule, Donkey, and Llama

Fixed a bug where the death screen message was visible when the Show Death Message game rule was set to false

Fixed an issue where players couldn’t drag/drop or select items from the equipment page

Changed the color of the text descriptions for the ‘Darkness Effect Strength’ and ‘Notification Duration’ accessibility options to a lighter shade to make them more readable (MCPE-162047)

Fixed a bug where death messages were sometimes too long to fit on screen (MCPE-156550)

Fixed the crafting screen search string not saving correctly

Fixed an issue with the durability bar missing on inventory screens on Xbox (MCPE-162063)

Fixed a bug where the sign in button on Create New World didn’t work on some platforms

The copy coordinates gamepad tooltip now uses the correct icon depending on the platform (MCPE-162654)

Realms

Shortened text when uploading worlds and add-ons so it fits in the dialog

Fixed a problem where custom add-on packs could not be applied properly in Realms settings, as well as fixed a crash during pack uploading (REALMS-10655)

Unlocalized text no longer appears when connecting to a Realm with an outdated client

Mobile Touch Controls

Fixed a bug where items could not be removed from the hotbar by moving them onto other items in Creative Inventory on mobile devices

Fixed an issue where the stack splitting progress bar was not aligned on touch mode

Adjusted layout of the touch toolbar and status effect icons based on user feedback

Fixed a bug that prevented scrolling through the Village trade list on mobile devices

When the auto-jumping feature is enabled, the player will now automatically jump out of water when moving toward a block on land

In Creative Mode while using touch input with Action Buttons off, the delay for breaking the first block has been increased to 800 milliseconds. This reduces the chance of breaking a block by accident

Added support for dragging and dropping with touch gestures in the inventory

Double tapping ‘descend’ now toggles off flight in Joystick touch control modes

Updated the positioning of status effects for Pocket UI

The inventory button for touch devices is now reset to its default appearance after closing the inventory

Fixed an issue where players couldn’t swap unstackable items with touch controls

Improved the images for the three control schemes in the touch settings menu

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.19.40 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation, are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

Custom Block Geometry

We have released custom block geometry in this version of Minecraft. This means that anyone can make a custom block with their own custom geometry and textures WITHOUT turning on the Holiday Creator Features experimental toggle in settings

For more information and a list of documentation and tutorials, visit the Custom Block Geometry article on minecraft.net

General

Fixed a crash that could occur when using the hasItem selector and specifying a negative value for the item’s data (MCPE-152314)

Implemented the has_property, int_property, bool_property, float_property, and enum_property actor behavior filters

Added flag is_hidden_in_commandsin menu_category to control whether or not a block can be used in commands

Release BlockGeometryComponent out of experimental in JSON formats 1.19.40 and higher

Release BlockMaterialInstancesComponent out of experimental in JSON formats 1.19.40 and higher

Renamed minecraft:block_light_filtercomponent to minecraft:light_dampening

Renamed experiment GameTest Frameworkto Beta APIs

The now-renamed Beta APIsexperiment is still needed to access all beta APIs, including core Minecraft APIs and GameTest APIs

Fixed a bug where EntityHurtEventwould not fire on player death

Entity

Updated targetproperty to be read-only

Fixed an issue where UI forms would not mark their cancelled field correctly

Converted EntityQueryScoreOptions to an interface

Converted EntityRaycastOptions to an interface

Converted ExplosionOptions to an interface

Converted MusicOptions to an interface

Converted SoundOptions to an interface

Removed built-in GameTest Behavior Packs

Commands

Implemented the “/execute facing” and “/execute facing entity” commands

Implemented the “/execute align” command

Fixed a problem with teleports appearing to fly the target to the new location instead of being instant

Added the ‘replace block’ overload to the /loot command

Implemented the “/execute rotated ” and “/execute rotated as” commands

Added the ability to set a custom block with a specific custom block property using the /setblockcommand

Copying a bubble column with the /clone command no longer results in invisible water (MCPE-153903)

Added new overload to the /summon command that adds rotation arguments

New overload is /summon [ spawnPos : x y z] [yRot: float] [xRot: float] [spawnEvent: string] [nametag: string]

Previous overload ‘/summon [ spawnPos : x y z] [spawnEvent: string] [nametag: string]’

Temporarily disabled the rotation for the /summon command while a bug is worked on

Fixed a rotation issue when a Command Block executes ‘execute facing’ and ‘execute rotated’ (MCPE-162256)

Implemented the ‘/execute in’ command

Implemented the ‘/execute anchored <eyes|feet>’ command

Data-Driven Blocks

minecraft:direction is no longer exposed as a data-driven blockProperty. Blocks throw a content error when the “minecraft” namespace is used

Data-Driven Items

Added support for recipes to use item tags directly instead of item names

Added new item tags

Converted several recipes from code into their own recipe files

Added several recipes using the new tags to override many old, item specific recipes (these still exist for backwards compatibility):

barrel, beehive, bookshelf, bowl, brewing_stand, campfire, cartography_table, chest, composter, crafting_table, daylight_detector, fire_charge, fletching_table, furnace, grindstone, jukebox, lectern, loom, noteblock, painting, piston, shield, smithing_table, smoker, soul_campfire, soul_torch, stick, stone_axe, stone_hoe, stone_pickaxe, stone_shovel, stone_sword, torch, tripwire_hook, wooden_axe, wooden_hoe, wooden_pickaxe, wooden_shovel, wooden_sword

Custom Items, tags, and block tags now work correctly with the minecraft:digger component (MCPE-155786)

Actors

Implemented new is_baby actor filter that returns true when the subject entity is a baby

Fixed “bool_property” filters that didn’t specify a “value”

AI Goals

Fixed an issue with Iron Golems that prevented mobs with the minecraft:take_flower AI behavior to use the goal

Exposed new data parameters for the minecraft:play AI behavior to specify such things as the duration the goal stays active, the chance to start the goal, the range to search for a friend, and the follow distance to stay within when playing with a friend

Entity Documentation

Removed experimental markers for The Wild Update entity behaviors and components

Added documentation for minecraft:heartbeat

Fixed and updated documentation for entity events

API

Events

Removed event tick- called each tick

System

Added system.run() – to queue a callback to run next tick, re-queue each tick to get behavior similar to tick event

Block

Renamed property idto typeId

BlockComponent

Renamed property idto typeId

Entity

Renamed property idto typeId

Added read-only property id: string- Returns a unique identifier for the entity. This identifier remains consistent across world loads

EntityComponent

Renamed property idto typeId

ItemComponent

Renamed property idto typeId

ItemStack

Renamed property idto typeId

GameTest Framework (Experimental)

There has been a major breaking change to experimental JavaScript APIs:

All script modules have been renamed to follow a new convention.

mojang-gametest-> @minecraft/server-gametest

mojang-minecraft-> @minecraft/server

mojang-minecraft-ui-> @minecraft/server-ui

mojang-minecraft-server-admin-> @minecraft/server-admin

mojang-net-> @minecraft/server-net

For example, rather than using:

import * as mc from “mojang-minecraft”;

Use:

import * as mc from “@minecraft/server”;

Use of script eval() and Function() must be explicitly enabled in manifest.json

To do this, set script_eval in capabilities array.

“capabilities”: [ “script_eval”]

Root path for imports has changed; scripts/ prefix are no longer allowed.

For imports, use import “./source.js” or import “source.js”

Deprecated use of import “scripts/source.js”

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.31

Release date: October 4th 2022 (North America, Europe) / October 5th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed terrain on Maps getting replaced with black pixels (MCPE-162421)

Fixed a bug that unbound the Inventory key when using the Full Keyboard Gameplay toggle

Fixed players sometimes spawning under the obsidian platform and falling into the void after entering an End Portal for the first time after the 1.19.30 update on Realms (MCPE-162482)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.30

Release date: September 20th 2022 (North America, Europe) / September 21st 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Vanilla Parity:

Gameplay

Modified the Fireball entity’s collision box to match Java Edition

The Enchanting Table now produces a sound when enchanting an item

Amethyst blocks no longer produce sound when jumping off them

Fixed the bottom texture of the Melon block to match the top texture (MCPE-31035)

The item stack popup animation will now only play when a new item is added to the stack (MCPE-23995)

Fixed an issue where Light Blocks would be removed when placing an Armor stand over them (MCPE-151856)

Changed some structures names in the /locate command to have underscores, like in Java Edition (e.g. ancientcity -> ancient_city); the old names will still work but will not show up in the autocomplete

Fixed an issue where Boats with Chests would not drop the Chest’s contents when destroyed by the /kill command (MCPE-160186)

Eating a Stew will now leave the empty Bowl in the slot it was eaten from (MCPE-56367)

Drinking a Potion will now leave the empty Glass Bottle in the slot you drank it from rather than the first empty inventory slot (MCPE-26436)

Oak and Mangrove Fence Gates are now flammable (MCPE-160098)

Mobs

Fixed Hoglin and Zoglin hitbox size and hit range to match Java Edition (MCPE-65424)

Increased Sculk Shrieker and Sculk Sensor generation rates in Deep Dark and Ancient Cities to better match Java Edition (MCPE-153525)

Modified the Cat’s head position while sitting to match Java Edition (MCPE-46668)

If a Villager has a Nametag, it is now displayed along with their trade tier (MCPE-152644)

Spectator Mode (Experimental)

Capes are no longer rendered while in Spectator Mode (MCPE-156929)

Spectator players in Lava Cauldrons no longer display the burning animation (MCPE-160331)

Players in Spectator Mode are no longer affected by the Powder Snow fog effect (MCPE-156683)

Sadly, any leashed animals will not follow spectators anymore (MCPE-157065)

Players in Spectator Mode no longer emit particles while sprinting (MCPE-160397)

Spectator players with status effects applied no longer emit particles (MCPE-160398)

Endermen no longer become angry at players in Spectator Mode (MCPE-156742)

Players in Spectator Mode can no longer interact with Sculk Sensors by swimming in water or lava (MCPE-153879)

Players switching into Spectator Mode will unhook any fishhooks attached to them

Players in Spectator mode can no longer be pushed by explosions (MCPE-156687)

Powder Snow no longer emits particles when spectators move through it (MCPE-153876)

Big Dripleaf no longer tilts when touched by players in Spectator Mode (MCPE-156686)

Players in Spectator Mode now keep their inventories and equipped items on death (MCPE-156681)

Spectators can no longer attract mob’s attention when holding their favorite food (MCPE-153882)

The /testfor command can now target spectators (MCPE-158042)

The Spectator game mode can no longer be entered via the /gamemode 6 command, only via /gamemode spectator

Spectators using touch controls can no longer break Boats and Minecarts (MCPE-158307)

Parrots sitting on a player’s shoulder now hop off when entering Spectator Mode

Animals and mobs with follow_owner behaviour no longer follow Spectators

Animals and mobs with find_mount behaviour no longer try to mount Spectators

Spectator Mode players won’t have cold feet and now the Frost Walker enchant does not affect water

Pufferfish no longer react to nearby spectators

Fixes:

Performance/Stability

Fixed a bug that rarely caused the Villager’s bounding box to become desynced with the server when sleeping

Fixed a bug causing an occasional crash when loading players in beds

The game no longer crashes when browsing Marketplace

Fixed a crash that could occur when resuming the game on Xbox

Fixed a bug where deleting cloud synced worlds would not delete the cloud version of the world when the player deletes the world locally

Fixed PlayStation 4 audio stuttering issues while framerate is low (MCPE-158902)

Fixed a crashing issue related to undyed Shulkers

Most common Marketplace connection issues will now automatically resolve themselves when conditions improve without needing to restart Minecraft (MCPE-155025)

Fixed performance issues when Striders are being ridden by baby Striders (MCPE-146478)

Fixed a crash that would occur on some devices when loading in worlds with texture packs applied (MCPE-160800)

Fixed a crash when uploading a world with no name using “Play on Realm” button

Gameplay

Music is now included in the mobile app and no longer has to be downloaded from Marketplace

Fixed issue where player would see inside of Top Snow when diving into it while wearing Elytra

Fireballs can no longer travel through portals to prevent an issue where they could become permanently stuck (MCPE-160938)

Pressing the Ctrl and Alt keys together will no longer make the Alt key get stuck down

Mobs

Endermen no longer get angry at Creative players (MCPE-42977)

Fixed a bug causing Leads to break with Allays after the owner player changes dimensions (MCPE-158955)

The Goat’s ram animation was modified to slowly lower their head when preparing to ram (MCPE-129477)

Reduced the Enderman’s teleport range to 32x32x32 to ensure that it cannot despawn itself by teleporting (MCPE-152268)

Allays and Bees should no longer get stuck on Lanterns or other low hanging objects (MCPE-155777)

EDU Toggle: NPC names default to only being displayed while looking at them

Blocks

Mud Brick Slab can now be placed as a top slab via commands (MCPE-157852)

Banners now spawn correctly in newly generated structures (MCPE-160696)

Coral Fans now look identical when placed facing North, West, East, and South (MCPE-125311)

White Glazed Terracotta is no longer missing from the Creative Mode inventory and is once again accessible through commands

Seagrass and Kelp are no longer classified as Coral Decorations in the Creative Mode inventory (MCPE-44034)

Fixed a bug where some blocks that require a supporting block (for example Carpet or crops) did not appear on Maps when placed on a non-full block or above an air block (MCPE-159713)

Iron Bars are no longer missing from the Creative Mode inventory and are once again accessible through commands (MCPE-160253)

Piston’s animation when extending and retracting is now smooth (MCPE-155987)

It is no longer possible to get an aged Sapling in the inventory by block-picking

Items

Fixed dropped items getting stuck at the edge of flowing water (MCPE-157167)

When on fire, the fire overlay no longer clips through held items (MCPE-147776)

Mangrove, Crimson, and Warped Planks can now be used to repair Shields (MCPE-158940)

Fixed a regression where an undamaged tool, such as Pickaxe, when name changed on an Anvil, would fail to work correctly when used for the first time (MCPE-152637)

User Interface

Fixed a bug where the name tag background was slightly offset (MCPE-160254)

Fixed a UI bug where enchanted leather items would have parts of the texture not displaying the glint animation (MCPE-98929)

Added new disconnection error messages to better highlight the area in which the disconnection occurred

Character Creator offers in Marketplace will no longer lose their thumbnail images upon exiting the Dressing Room

Added a Retry button to the Xbox cloud sync prompt

Item stacks now are merged together after assigned tick threshold

Added a missing settings button on packs in the updated Create New World screen

Added a new disconnection error message – “Unable to connect, please restart your client”

Fixed an issue causing messages with non-unicode characters to have incorrect spacing

NPC names now default to only being displayed while looking at them

The arrow within the crafting Pocket UI now fits appropriately without any clipping issues

The “Cannot connect to Marketplace” error will no longer be erroneously read by the Text-To-Speech reader

Raid bar no longer becomes stuck after breaking Beds to cancel a raid (MCPE-152851)

Graphical

Player textures and UI elements should no longer turn pink after playing for an extended period time on highly populated servers (MCPE-105487)

Fixed an issue where certain water textures with waterlogged blocks displayed the wrong texture (MCPE-156281)

Fixed an issue with flowing Lava and Water textures not animating on some iOS devices

Sky in The End dimension will no longer look like static upon entry while it is raining in the Overworld (MCPE-148843)

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.19.30 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation, are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

Copy Coordinates

Added keyboard shortcuts that allow players to copy either their current coordinates or the coordinates of a block

Control + Alt + C is the default for copying current coordinates

Control + Alt + X is the default for copying coordinates of selected block

Needs the “Enable Copy Coordinate UI” enabled in Creator settings

General

Numerical actor properties (float and integer) will now always clamp their values into the range of values specified

minecraft:instant_despawn no longer affects players

Command selector now gets the same position for the player that the command origin player position gets

Fixed a bug where the text-to-speech feature would read the entire “My Content” page, both highlighted and non-highlighted items

Non-Parrot mobs on a player’s shoulder will now adjust their position when the player crouches (MCPE-153996)

Enables creators to add geometry up to 0.875 units outside of the regular block unit cube on any one side

Fixed a bug where some custom items (from Creator Features packs), after being used, were duplicated upon player’s death (MCPE-128897)

Added server property ‘disable-custom-skins’ to block untrusted skins on a server wide level

Text to Speech no longer ignores the volume setting on startup

Clarified the documentation for equipment_count to indicate it only counts equipped armor, and how to query for held items (MCPE-136134)

Limit which queries can be used in Actor Property-related Molang expressions. Property defaults can only use query.had_component_group and set_property can only use property and query.has_property

BlockDisplayNameComponent will no longer append ’tile.’ and ‘.name’ to given display names and in turn, will display their given raw strings if no appropriate localization can be found

Commands

Added a paste button to the Command Block screen

Added a waterlog field to the /structure command and the load tab of Structure Blocks to allow players to properly waterlog a structure when it’s being placed under water

The “/execute at” command now properly executes filters from the specified ‘at’ position (MCPE-156283)

The “/execute if block” command now displays integer values for block positions (MCPE-156285)

Fixed a bug where a “%” was prepended to player names in the chat output of “/scoreboard players reset” (MCPE-151389)

Attempting to kill a player in Creative Mode using the “/kill” command now displays a message informing the player that it cannot be done (MCPE-16732)

GameTest Framework

Fixed a bug where function length would return undefined

Added function lengthSquared – Returns the squared length of the vector

Added stackOverflow as a possible WatchdogTerminateReason for the beforeWatchdogTerminate event

IRawMessage – Interface object representing a message

rawtext : (string | IRawMessage)[] – (optional) A list of text objects used to build a message

text : string – (optional) A string containing plain text to display directly. Only valid when used as a sub member in a parent rawtext or with member

translate : string – (optional) String representing a translation identifier to translate text in the player’s selected language

with : (string | IRawMessage)[] – (optional) A list of text object arguments used to fill values in the translate text. Ignored when translate is not present

say(string | IRawMessage) – Used to broadcast a message to all players

tell(string | IRawMessage) – Send a message to a player

Fixed a bug where Dynamic Properties would not persist when using worlds hosted on Bedrock Dedicated Server or Realms

Pack dependencies on native modules can be declared using the module name without the need to specify a UUID, using the “module_name” attribute. The module name matches the import statement (e.g., “mojang-minecraft”)

Removed mojang-gametest module version 0.1.0; packs using “mojang-gametest” specific APIs must be updated to use GameTest version 1.0.0-beta

The “mojang-gametest” module 1.0.0-beta requires “mojang-minecraft” module 1.0.0-beta

Removed usage of minecraft:unwalkable block component and added block creative group and category to the block description

setVelocity will now throw an exception when called on player types

Renamed class Items to ItemTypes

Add a content error when default or set_property expressions include side-effects, such as Molang variable assignment

Commands

Added new sub-command /script watchdog exportstats – Exports a file containing memory usage and object handle statistics

Can now switch hotbar slots while targeting a block while in a Boat (MCPE-156814)

The ‘/execute at’ and ‘/execute as’ commands will now execute at the correct relative rotation (MCPE-156277)

‘/execute at @e run kill @e’ no longer crashes the game when there are items on the ground

Added chat output when entities are skipped by “/ride summon_ride no_ride_change” (MCPE-129486)

Added function getAll(): ItemTypeIterator – Returns an iterator of all available item types

Memory Watchdog

script-watchdog-memory-warning – Produces a content log warning when the combined memory usage exceeds the given threshold (in megabytes). Setting this value to 0 disables the warning. (default = 100)

script-watchdog-memory-limit – Saves and shuts down the world when the combined memory usage exceeds the given threshold (in megabytes). Setting this value to 0 disables the limit. (default = 250)

Increased slow code warning threshold from 2 ms to 6 ms

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.22

Release date: September 1st 2022 (North America, Europe) / September 2nd 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed a crash that could occur on some devices when loading in worlds with texture packs applied (MCPE-160800

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.21

Release date: August 23rd 2022 (North America, Europe) / August 24th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed an issue that caused Villagers’ professions to not reflect in their clothing (MCPE-160475)

Fixed a bug where graphical artifacts appear while playing on some devices

Fixed a bug where the names hovering above mobs were slightly offset (MCPE-160254)

Fixed an issue that caused some blocks on Marketplace worlds to appear as “update blocks” on Realms

Paid emotes can no longer be equipped for free

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.20

Release date: August 9th 2022 (North America, Europe) / August 10th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Added the updated Create New World screen on Nintendo Switch

Changes:

Zombies now have a 10% chance to be able to break doors on hard difficulty (MCPE-79636)

Implemented new Marketplace error screen art and messaging

Timeout when connecting to a multiplayer game has been reduced from 180 to 90 seconds

D-Pad Left can now be held down again to move the cursor left in menus (MCPE-155976)

Instantaneous effects (Potions, Tipped Arrows) can no longer be applied to dead mobs and players

‘So Below’ music track now plays in Basalt Deltas (MCPE-70890)

Redesigned the menu toggle switches to make it easier to distinguish between the on and off states

Known Issues:

Due to an unexpected crashing issue, we have had to temporarily revert the fix for MCPE-105487, which can cause textures to turn pink after playing for long periods of time on a server

This means that this bug may continue to occur until we have a solution. Thank you for your patience while we continue to work on this important issue – we hope to have it finally fixed as soon as possible!

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

The game no longer crashes when browsing the Marketplace

Fixed a crash related to Spawn Eggs (MCPE-159302)

Prevent client/server portal travel desync on low render distance settings (MCPE-158167)

Fix potential crash when returning to the Overworld from the Nether or The End

The game no longer crashes when entering Coin Starter Bundle Screen

Fixed bugs where client state can get out of sync with server if using an item is cancelled or failed

Improved the performance of the locate biome command to mitigate stalls on the server while searching for a biome that is far away (MCPE-157609)

Fixed a crash that could occur when connected devices, like gamepads, were missing

Fixed a crash that was caused by a Villager changing its profession while trading. The Trade screen will now close if the Villager changes professions mid trade

Fixed a crash that could occur when Pistons were extending or retracting near moveable blocks and Arrows

Fixed a crash that could occur when teleporting and killing an entity in the same tick

Gameplay

The Wandering Trader’s spawning now matches Java Edition and it will no longer spawn in water, lava, or underground (MCPE-46911)

Fixed a bug where Bows could fail to shoot an Arrow the first time they were used, this also affected Crossbows and with throwing Tridents (MCPE-159467)

Fixed a bug that caused the new Wild Update music to not play in the Wild Update biomes when in Creative mode

Fixed an issue that prevented fisherman Villagers from offering to buy Boats at max level

The secret door that leads to the Redstone room in the center of an Ancient City now opens/closes properly (MCPE-156718)

Lava in Buckets will no longer disappear when failing to be placed or dispensed into partial blocks (MCPE-50664)

Fixed an issue where enchantments on ranged weapons on mobs were not being applied (MCPE-113623)

Fixed volume level of Amethyst step chime sound when walked on by a mob

Fixed an issue where some items with durability would fail to be created from the Creative inventory

Ancient Cities have more frequent Sculk Patch generation (MCPE-154229)

Player no longer takes damage from entering a Nether portal if it is placed at Y=-21 or below (MCPE-154888)

Fixed an issue where scores on scoreboards were not being ordered properly (MCPE-141427)

Fixed a bug where fishing hooks would drop loot when killed with the /kill command (MCPE-142329)

Player’s Soul Speed is now properly activated and de-activated on Soul Sand (MCPE-157152)

Fixed a bug causing health_boost to display incorrect health values, causing the player to turn invisible and unable to interact with the world on dying

When trading, the Villager plays the correct sound based on the item in the input slot (MCPE-152555)

Skulls in Ancient Cities now better match the orientation they have in Java Edition (MCPE-153547)

Enable event filters in the root definition to be evaluated independent of sequence or randomize when a format_version of 1.19.20 or higher is specified

Fixed issue with health boost extra life not staying (MCPE-153504)

Mobs

Polar Bears no longer panic when attacked

Tadpoles flopping while on land now more closely match Java Edition and fishes in speed (MCPE-154316)

Piglins will now stop attacking if the player puts on Gold Armor (MCPE-65516)

Jobless Zombie Villagers are no longer unable to ride Minecarts or Boats (MCPE-76831)

Ravager is now able to destroy Mangrove Leaves, Azalea, Azalea Leaves, Cave Vines, Dripleaves, Spore Blossoms, and Hanging Roots (MCPE-156551, MCPE-125322)

Releasing a bucketed custom mob now spawns the correct type of mob

Fixed the order in which a bucketed mob is created when released, which means any Actor Properties on it will load correctly

Allays can now pick up and drop items at their owner when in a Boat (MCPE-156377)

Allay can now always pick up dropped Scaffolding blocks (MCPE-157512)

Allay now correctly stops dancing when music from Jukebox ends

Allays now look at targets such as players (MCPE-158222)

Fish do not shake anymore when placed in an isolated water block

Fixed a bug that caused Wolves to spawn red when summoned with entity_born or on_tame events

Fixed a bug that could cause Witches to stop spawning. The Witch Hut structure is now set as a surface spawner for Witches (MCPE-60552)

The Ender Dragon can no longer destroy Crying Obsidian, Respawn Anchor, Light, Deny, Allow, Border, and Jigsaw blocks (MCPE-158343)

Fixed a bug causing baby mobs with the minecraft:behavior.sleep goal to have a shrunken hitbox (MCPE-46040)

Allays and Bees are now less likely to get stuck in non-full blocks (MCPE-155777)

Wardens can now detect a player sneaking on top of a Sculk Sensor (MCPE-155804)

Warden can now let itself fall up to 20 blocks down, instead of just 3 (MCPE-158304)

Allays can now pick up armor pieces with a different durability than the one they are holding (MCPE-158339)

Entities that die completely now have their data removed from world file (MCPE-155283)

Fixed a bug which could cause mobs to not load into the world if their saved y-position was greater than or equal to 25

Blocks

Removed “Wood” from the names of Mangrove Wood Planks, Stairs, and Slabs (MCPE-156791)

Twisting Vines and Weeping Vines with no support now pop even when the random ticking speed is set to 0 (MCPE-69305)

Hanging Mangrove Propagules no longer drop a Propagule item when silk touched if not at max growth (MCPE-156821)

Muddy Mangrove Roots can now be placed sideways (MCPE-153721)

Hanging Mangrove Propagule no longer changes color when certain blocks are placed nearby (MCPE-156570)

End Portal Frame Block is now named “End Portal Frame” instead of “End Portal” (MCPE-76821)

Amethyst Block has been renamed to “Block of Amethyst” (MCPE-125821)

Mangrove Log, Mangrove Wood, and Stripped Mangrove Wood can now be used to craft a Campfire with Charcoal (MCPE-157271)

Campfires can once again be stacked correctly (MCPE-159398)

Fixed a bug where Pistons sometimes did not drop the Piston item when broken by the arm (MCPE-158314)

Sounds of the Smithing Table when a Villager is working are now the same as sounds when the player uses the table (MCPE-79716)

Bells can no longer catch on fire or be destroyed by fire

Mangrove and Azalea Leaves no longer prevent tree growth (MCPE-154980)

Sculk Blocks

If two vibrations are emitted at the same time, Sculk Sensors will now react to the closest one (MCPE-155793)

If two vibrations are emitted at the same time and at the same distance, Sculk Sensors will now react to the one with the highest frequency

Sculk Sensors now detect a Creeper exploding with a frequency of 15

Sculk Sensors now detect an End Crystal exploding with a frequency of 15 (MCPE-153733)

Sculk Sensors now detect a Fish being let out of a Bucket with a frequency of 12

Sculk Sensors now detect a TNT being fired out of a Dispenser with a frequency of 12

Vibration particles are now always oriented towards the target Sculk Sensor (MCPE-156648)

Sculk Catalysts now play the blooming sound effect when blooming (MCPE-153562)

Sculk Catalysts do not spread Sculk anymore on players’ death if the Keep Inventory gamerule is set to True (MCPE-157884)

Sculk Catalysts do not get covered in Sculk Veins anymore if a mob dies on top of them

Sculk Catalyst now blooms when a mob with no experience dies next to it

Sculk Sensors can now also detect Bees, Chickens, Allays, Phantoms, and Ender Dragons flying (MCPE-153725, MCPE-154055)

Sculk Sensors can now emit the whole range of Redstone signal strengths, based on the distance a vibration has been emitted at. Previously, the output was either 1, 15 or even

Sculk Sensors no longer detect Boats staying still in water (MCPE-155368)

Reduced Sculk Catalyst experience drop from 20 to 5

Sculk Patch Features can now be placed on additional block types (MCPE-156669)

Graphical

Fixed bug causing FOV to stutter when sprinting while the player has a speed effect applied

With data-driven block tessellation, geometry box pivot-base rotation now rotates around the correct pivot point

Fixed x-ray vision when Top Snow falls on top of player so it now behaves as a solid block when Top Snow covers player’s vision (MCPE-150709)

Fixed an issue with RTX on Windows where point lights were unintentionally accumulated for emissive blocks (MCPE-159485, MCPE-159488)

User Interface

The Toggle Perspective hint now shows the player’s assignment instead of the default assignment

Saddled Pig’s tooltip changed to “Ride” instead of “Mount”

Added content warnings for large icons for texture tessellation (e.g. objects in hand)

Hover text for can_place_on blocks for items in inventory is now in a consistent order between game saves (MCPE-153516)

Goat Horn sound is now placed in the Jukebox/Note Blocks sound category in Settings (MCPE-154885)

Fixed the Add Server feature not saving IPV6 addresses (MCPE-66233)

Realms

Updated the Realms Plus FAQ to clarify that all Bedrock platforms can purchase Realms Plus (MCPE-157869)

Fixed an error where creating a new Realm would navigate out to the Play screen instead of returning to the Create New World screen

Spectator Mode (Experimental)

Removed emotes functionality while in Spectator Mode

Player can now place blocks where spectator is hovering

Players now have their hands back when they are holding a map when they have one item in offhand and one in main hand, curious how they held it without hands…

Spectators’ heads are now properly rendered as semi-transparent

Character Creator head items (hats, hoods, helmets, etc.) are now properly rendered semi-transparent while in Spectator mode

Capes and animated back items are no longer rendered while in Spectator mode (MCPE-156929)

Spectators can no longer use or get affected by portals (MCPE-156684)

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for19.20 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation, are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

General

Fixed a Disconnect Packet vulnerability used to crash Bedrock Server

Blocks with their render_methodcomponent set to double_sided now have their back faces properly rendered

Limit the number of elements in the conditionsfield of the minecraft:part_visibility to 64

Renamed minecraft:aim_collisionblock component to minecraft:selection_box

renamed the ‘minecraft:block_light_emission’ component to ‘minecraft:light_emission’ and changed its accepted value type from float to int

Renamed ‘minecraft:destroy_time’ to ‘minecraft:destructible_by_mining’ and restructured the component to be either defined as a boolean or as an object

Setting the component to true will give the block the default destroy time and setting it to false will make the block indestructible by mining

Setting the component as an object will let users define the number of seconds needed to destroy the block with base equipment

Changed the minecraft:frictioncomponent to represent friction of block instead of movement

Removed the component minecraft:unwalkable

Renamed ‘minecraft:explosion_resistance’ to ‘minecraft:destructible_by_explosion’ and restructured the component to be either defined as a boolean or as an object

Setting the component to true will give the block the default explosion_resistance and setting it to false will make the block indestructible by explosion

Setting the component as an object will let users define the resistance of the block to a base explosion

Added /tagsfromitem and /itemswithtag commands which output the tags associated with an item and vice versa

Added a new dedicated server property, “chat-restriction”, that can be modified in the “server.properties” file to restrict the chat for all players connecting to the server. The property’s possible values are “None”, “Dropped”, and “Disabled”. See the default file for more information

Server developers can now see checksums of the block registry from the server and client to check for mismatch (search “Block Registry Checksum” in the output logs and compare)

Added a server property disable-player-interaction which informs clients that they should ignore other players when interacting with the world

Modified the json entity file so that it also contains projectile damage in addition to the explosion and fire damage (MCPE-153740)

Items with the item_lockcomponent can no longer be placed in Item Frames or Armor Stands (MCPE-138479)

Actor Properties

Added Content Errors for when there are too many properties on the actor (more than 32) or when a string enum name is too long (more than 32 characters)

Added new Molang had_component_group to allow calculating appropriate default values from previously saved entity data

Renamed ‘actor_property’ and ‘has_actor_property’ Molang queries to ‘property’ and ‘has_property’. Also renamed ‘set_actor_property’ to ‘set_property’

Update ‘set_property’ to only allow changing properties on the local actor rather than some other target

Restored ability to use a Molang expression string for default values of Actor Properties (These are primarily useful for random starting values)

GameTest Framework

Performance Watchdog

Added a performance watchdog that monitors GameTests for slow-running scripts

Executing a slow-running script will result in content log warnings

Additionally, long script hangs (more than 3 seconds in a single tick) will result in an exception

Added new properties to propertiesfor watchdog configuration on Dedicated Server

script-watchdog-enable- Enables the watchdog (default = true)

script-watchdog-hang-threshold- Sets the watchdog threshold for single tick hangs (default = 3000 ms)

script-watchdog-spike-threshold- Sets the watchdog threshold for single tick spikes (default = 100 ms)

script-watchdog-slow-threshold- Sets the watchdog threshold for slow scripts over multiple ticks (default = 2ms)

Updated mojang-minecraft-uiforms to respond when the client was unable to show a modal form

Renamed isCanceledfield to canceled

Added cancelationReasonfield

Added FormCancelationReasonenum

ScoreboardObjectiveDisplayOptions

Added ‘ScoreboardObjectiveDisplayOptions’ class

Added read-only property ‘Objective: objective’

Added read-only property ‘ObjectiveSortOrder: sortOrder’

Scoreboard

Added function ‘removeObjective(objectiveId: string | Objective): void’ – Untracks an objective

Added function ‘addObjective(objectiveId: string, displayName: string): Objective’ – Creates and objective to be tracked, identified with objectiveId and displayed on the screen with displayName

Added function ‘getObjectiveAtDisplaySlot(displaySlotId: string): ScoreboardObjectiveDisplayOptions’ – Gets objective and sort order contained in the DisplayObjective slot specified by displaySlotId

Added function ‘setObjectiveAtDisplaySlot(displaySlotId: string, ScoreboardObjectiveDisplayOptions: scoreboardObjectiveDisplayOptions): Objective’ – Sets the objective and sort order of the display slot, as specified by displaySlotId

Added function ‘clearObjectiveAtDisplaySlot(displaySlotId: string): Objective’ – Clear’s the DisplayObjective of the objective it is currently displaying

Block

Added Block SignComponent that allows for retrieving of the value of sign text – Accessible from getComponent(“sign”)on sign blocks

BlockSignComponent

Added read-only property text: string- Gets the sign text

System Events

Added event beforeWatchdogTerminate– Shuts down the server when a critical scripting exception occurs (e.g. script hang). Can be canceled to prevent shutdown

Added enum WatchdogTerminateReason– Specifies the reason for watchdog termination

Added new properties to propertiesfor watchdog configuration on Bedrock Dedicated Server

script-watchdog-enable-exception-handling– Enables watchdog exception handling via the events.beforeWatchdogTerminate event (default = true)

script-watchdog-enable-shutdown– Enables server shutdown in the case of an unhandled watchdog exception (default = true)

script-watchdog-hang-exception– Throws a critical exception when a hang occurs (default = true)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.11

Release date: July 26th 2022 (North America, Europe) / July 27th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed a bug that could cause mobs to not load into the world if their saved y-position was greater than or equal to 25

Fixed incorrect texture rending of players when using RTX on Windows (MCPE-156577)

Fixed incorrect texture rendering of some mobs, like Horses, when using RTX on Windows (MCPE-132747)

Fixed an issue that prevented Command Blocks from saving if a Command Block Alias wasn’t provided while playing on Realms

Fixed a bug where suspended accounts could not play local worlds or navigate the menus on Xbox platforms

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.10

Release date: July 10th 2022 (North America, Europe) / July 13th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Allay Duplication

When an Allay hears a Jukebox playing, it will do a dance animation

If the Jukebox stops playing, or if the Allay gets too far away from the Jukebox, it will stop dancing

If the Allay is given an Amethyst Shard while dancing, it will play a small amethyst sound, make a heart, and duplicate into another Allay

After duplication, both Allays will have a 5-minute cooldown before being able to duplicate again

Changes:

Expanded the ‘/locate’ command into locate structure and locate biome

The Trader Llama now has its own spawn egg

Added the player’s cause of death to the death screen

Music is now included in the game files on iOS, so players no longer need to be download the music pack from the Marketplace

Added Bluetooth mouse and keyboard support on iOS

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed a crash that could occur when Boats are unloaded from the world

Fixed a crash that could occur when a Wither is loaded into the world

Fixed a crash that could occur in multiplayer when a player left the game while changing dimension

Fixed a crash that could occur when a Fishing Rod was cast through dimension-changing portals (MCPE-154161)

Fixed a crash that could occur when players died while affected with Withering

The game no longer crashes when entering the Coin Starter Bundle screen

Loading a world no longer takes a very long time when having the Holiday Creator Features experimental toggle enabled

Gameplay

Players are no longer pushed by Doors as they close (MCPE-154734)

Items now stack properly in the offhand when inventory is full (MCPE-34959)

Equipping items in armor slots through inventory screen now produces sounds (MCPE-46939)

Players can now hear each other equipping items in armor slots

Fixed a bug where players could take fall damage when walking around on Scaffolding at certain heights (even when not actually falling) (MCPE-154779)

Fixed a bug that reset the player’s vertical camera angle upon entering a Boat (MCPE-152762)

Advanced Pick Block now copies the items inside when used on a Boat with Chest (MCPE-153410)

Resistance effect is no longer one level weaker than it should be (MCPE-156012)

Haste I will now properly increase the player’s mining speed (MCPE-102237)

Conduit Power I now grants the effect of Haste I instead of Haste II

Fixed an issue with extra health from Health Boost not persisting after exiting the world (MCPE-153504)

Container entities like Boat with Chest can now be opened on mobile devices without crouching if all the seats are occupied

The player no longer endlessly jumps after entering a Boat while holding down the jump button (MCPE-155774)

Fixed a bug causing player hitboxes to not reset if they die while swimming (MCPE-155232)

Fixed an issue where new users given Operator permissions by default were not able to use operator commands

Fixed an issue where worlds that gave Operator permissions to new players only gave Member permissions

Removed the Vanilla Experiment and Wild Experiment toggles, since they no longer have any active experimental content

World Generation

Fixed a bug where upgrading old worlds could result in water columns below y=0

Mangrove Swamps are now denser to more closely match Java Edition (MCPE-153748)

There is still work to be done to increase the density of Mangrove trees in water

Grass blocks in Mangrove Swamps now have Dirt blocks underneath them (MCPE-155414)

Clay patches now correctly generate in Mangrove Swamps

Campground structures now generate correctly in Ancient Cities (MCPE-156084)

Updated Ancient City structures to match Java Edition

Sculk Vein feature can now generate within the same height-span as the Sculk Patch feature (MCPE-156074)

Mobs

Fixed issues with mobs disappearing after going through Nether portals (MCPE-155678)

Fixed a bug causing tamed mobs to disappear when they go through a Nether portal in a multiplayer world (MCPE-88322)

Villagers now spawn as Swamp Villagers in Mangrove Swamp (MCPE-153731)

Villagers will now flee from Zoglins (MCPE-74974)

Parrots are once again poisoned by Cookies (MCPE-151671)

The Trader Llama now has the correct name displayed when opening its inventory (MCPE-47165)

Fixed a bug that prevented Trader Llamas from becoming aggressive towards entities that attack the Wandering Trader (MCPE-94996)

The Wandering Trader will now flee from Zoglins

The Wandering Trader will now drink Milk to clear its Invisibility effect (MCPE-44605)

Fixed a bug causing riding passengers to stop riding when reloaded if they were across chunk borders

Breaking a Boat with Chest or Minecart with Chest will now anger nearby Piglins (MCPE-153393)

Fixed entities disappearing when importing worlds converted from legacy console editions of Minecraft

Fixed a bug where Slimes would no longer spawn in flat worlds made before 1.18 (MCPE-119396)

Fixed a bug where failed Slime spawn attempts would reduce the spawning rates of other mobs (MCPE-153502)

Wither now breaks Obsidian when attacked by players (MCPE-64630)

Wither no longer breaks surrounding blocks after a shorter delay than intended after being attacked

Entities entering Nether portals exit in same relative position and rotation to the portal (MCPE-139835)

Edited health points of Cod, Pufferfish, Salmon, and Tropical fish to be 3, matching Java Edition

Shulker projectile now adds effect “Levitation” instead of “Levitation II” on hit

Frog

Tadpoles now grow up into Temperate Frog in Meadow, and into Cold Frog in Deep Dark

Frogs no longer lay Frogspawn on shallow, flowing water (MCPE-152559)

Allay

Allays can now follow players through Nether portals (MCPE-155678)

Taking a stackable item from an Allay now correctly adds this item to existing stacks (MCPE-153540)

Taking a stackable item from an Allay no longer cause item duplication

Allay pickup range is changed from 64 to 32 blocks to match Java Edition (MCPE-251766)

Allay now retains information about the vibration it is reacting to through save and load

Items held by Allays now glow in darkness (MCPE-153533)

Warden

Warden can now path through lava (MCPE-153582)

Warden can now pass through water (MCPE-153602)

Warden is no longer pushable while emerging or digging

If the Warden is in liquid when attempting to despawn, it will not do the digging animation, instead it will just despawn without any animation/sound (MCPE-155706)

Warden now always chases a nuisance after it roars at it

Warden now increases its anger towards an attacking nuisance by 100 anger for each attack

There are no longer graphical artifacts from the Warden’s emerge or dig particle effects (MCPE-153580)

Warden’s hurt animation no longer differs between Bedrock Edition and Java Edition (MCPE-153967)

Wardens can now spawn on more types of non-full blocks, such as upper Slabs, Redstone Dust, Snow layers, Buttons, and Tripwires (MCPE-155821)

Known limitations: The current solution doesn’t allow spawning on some types of blocks such as Leaves and lower Slabs

Warden now retains information about the vibration it is reacting to through save and load

Warden’s Sonic Boom attack now bypasses enchantment damage reduction such as Protection (MCPE-156282)

Blocks

Nether Sprouts and Fungi can now be placed on Mud and Muddy Mangrove Roots

Froglight walk sound volume is now more similar as other blocks walk sound volume (MCPE-154879)

Mob Spawners now drop XP only when destroyed by a Pickaxe

Fixed a visual issue where Barrier Blocks would show a red texture/overlay when being viewed from the inside (MCPE-98938)

Renamed “Flowered Azalea Leaves” to “Flowering Azalea Leaves”

Lapis Lazuli Block is now named Block of Lapis Lazuli (MCPE-105452)

Cut Copper Slab and its variants can now be placed on the top half of a block on the first attempt (MCPE-154302)

Campfires can now provide full-faced bottom support to other blocks

Lecterns can now provide full-faced bottom support to other blocks

Weeping Vines can now be placed underneath all blocks which can provide full-faced bottom support (MCPE-153083, MCPE-104717)

Fixed an issue where Carved Pumpkins launched from Dispensers weren’t equipping to nearby mobs

Bell now rings when hit by any type of projectile

Hit sound is now played when Amethyst block is hit by projectiles (MCPE-137090)

Amethyst Clusters are no longer destroyed if attached to a Sculk Sensor

Structure Blocks can no longer be waterlogged (MCPE-59566)

Mangrove and Mud Blocks

Muddy Mangrove Roots are now broken fastest with a Shovel (MCPE-153710)

Mangrove Roots are now broken fastest with an Axe (MCPE-155606)

Mangrove Leaf blocks are no longer collected into different stacks when using Silk Touch (MCPE-153786)

Mangrove Leaves are no longer collected into separate stacks when using Shears

Stripped Mangrove Logs now craft into Stripped Mangrove Wood instead of Mangrove Wood (MCPE-155365)

Mangrove Log is now included in Bonus Chest loot tables (MCPE-153924)

Mangrove Propagules are no longer blocked to grow by Leaves (MCPE-154928)

Mangrove Propagules now render correctly when placed in Flower Pots (MCPE-155528)

Mangrove Propagule now uses grass sounds

Mangrove Propagule is no longer destroyed by flowing water (MCPE-154011)

Mangrove Signs now use Mangrove Plank textures for breaking particles (MCPE-156568)

Mangrove Propagule is now placed at a random offset (MCPE-153735)

Iron Bars and Glass Panes now connect to Mangrove Roots (MCPE-153871)

Sweet Berry Bush can now be planted on Mud, Muddy Mangrove Roots, and Rooted Dirt (MCPE-153916)

Sculk Blocks

A Sculk Vein block now drops as many items as its number of faces when mined with Silk Touch

Sculk Catalyst can now spread Sculk through Mud and Muddy Mangrove Roots (MCPE-153924)

When a mob dies in proximity of multiple Sculk Catalysts, only the closest one will bloom

The “It Spreads” achievement is no longer unlocked when a Sculk Catalysts blooms after the death of a mob which carries no XP

Sculk Shriekers now scan for Wardens in a box with side 48 blocks, not 96 blocks

Sculk Shriekers now apply Darkness effect to players with threat level 3 or 4

Sculk Shriekers now detect players when riding any type of entity (MCPE-153814)

Sculk Shriekers now activate repeatedly while players are standing on them (50%) (MCPE-153818)

Sculk Shriekers now implicate the player that provokes it from afar

Sculk Shrieker now retains information about the vibration it is reacting to through save and load

A Sculk Shrieker can no longer summon a Warden underwater (MCPE-153791)

Sculk Shrieker particles are now correctly rendered from behind (MCPE-153591)

Sculk Shrieker now detects players when riding all types of entities, including Striders, Skeleton Horses, Pigs, and Llamas (MCPE-153814)

The Sculk Sensor now correctly detects when a Big Dripleaf block changes its tilting state (MCPE-153115)

The Sculk Sensor now correctly detects when a Grass, Grass Path, Dirt, Coarse Dirt, or Rooted Dirt Block is tilled with a Hoe (MCPE-153734)

Sculk Sensors cannot detect a player equipping a handheld item anymore (MCPE-153971)

Sculk Sensors are now occluded by Wool in a consistent manner, no matter which direction vibrations come from (MCPE-153815)

Sculk Sensors cannot detect a Player placing, destroying, walking and falling on Carpets anymore (MCPE-153956)

Sculk Sensors cannot detect Wool and Carpets hitting ground in item form anymore (MCPE-152998)

Sculk Sensor now retains information about the vibration it is reacting to through save and load

Sculk Sensors can now detect a Boat with Chest having its Chest opened and closed (MCPE-156199)

Sculk Sensors give out a Redstone Signal of 12 and 13 when detecting fluids being placed and picked up, respectively

Sculk Sensors can now detect a player drinking Milk

Sculk Sensors can now detect a player picking up Powder Snow via Bucket (MCPE-153817)

Sculk Sensors cannot detect an entity jumping on Wool covered by Sculk Veins anymore

Sculk Sensors cannot detect an entity standing still in Scaffolding anymore (MCPE-118454)

Sculk Sensors can now detect an entity moving in Powder Snow and cobwebs (MCPE-153105)

Sculk Sensors can now detect items being placed in the hand of an Armor Stand

Sculk Sensors cannot detect any more items being equipped on mobs at spawn time

Items

Goat Horn now correctly drops when Goats ram Mangrove Logs (MCPE-154912)

Goat Horn now has the same sound for the “Call” variant as Java Edition (MCPE-154886)

The last sound for Goat Horn was renamed from “Resist” to “Dream” to match Java Edition (MCPE-155059)

Fixed Bottles not usable on water and Boats not placeable on water (MCPE-156451)

Wooden tools can now be repaired using Mangrove Planks, Crimson Planks, and Warped Planks (MCPE-153808)

Smelting Gold and Iron tools and weapons into Nuggets now rewards XP (MCPE-136467)

Shields that are disabled when struck by an Axe or by Warden now plays broken item sound (MCPE-153315)

Items in off-hand are once again rendered properly

Pufferfish now gives Poison II effect instead of Poison IV when consumed (MCPE-105392)

Graphical

Players now have their hands back when they are holding a Map when they have one item in offhand and one in main hand. Curious how they held it without hands… (MCPE-100259)

Darkness effect now works in the Nether and the End dimensions

Lava and Powder Snow fogs now take priority over Darkness and Blindness fogs (MCPE-154928)

Fixed animation system issues for players in split-screen situations

Fixed Crossbow, Trident, and Shield rendering for other players (MCPE-118528)

Fixed split-screen render position when sleeping in a Bed (MCPE-65705)

Fixed Elytra’s animation during split-screen

Fix attached Lead position when second player is using first person perspective

Fixed an issue with reloading RTX worlds that caused DX11 to be used, resulting in a black screen (MCPE-152645)

Fog settings with negative fog start will no longer cause UI elements get tinted by fog color

Fixed a visual bug where liquids could have unexpected heights in the corners depending on diagonally-adjacent blocks (MCPE-152995)

Fixed terrain flickering in and out of the fog when playing on Nintendo Switch

Fixed an issue with underground light sources being generated when breaking or placing a block (MCPE-155808)

User Interface

Fixed touch control’s right d-pad button not working when the d-pad area overlapped with the hotbar area (MCPE-156103)

Infinite loading should no longer occur when entering the Dressing Room (MCPE-156209)

Fixed up some of the text for the emote wheel so it would fit inside the box

Added settings to change duration of notifications

Friendly Fire game rule toggle has been moved to the Multiplayer tab on the Create New World screen

On mobile devices, the experience bar is now centered over the entire length of the hotbar, including the ellipsis at the end

Fixed issue where info and buttons did not appear for downloaded skin packs (MCPE-152216)

On the death screen in Pocket UI, moved the Main Menu button to the top navigation to avoid accidental button presses when dying mid-fight

Fixed incorrect positioning of “Select (A)” tip on the death screen when using a gamepad controller

Added correct death message when dying from Sweet Berry Bush (MCPE-103583)

Added a minimum size to yellow splash screen text

Fixed a typo in notification duration label for Accessibility Settings (MCPE-156901)

Fixed “Crafting” word above the crafting slots in the inventory on Classic UI (MCPE-152697)

Worlds created with a template will now always disable achievements

Fixed an issue where items could be dropped by clicking in the dark gray area of the player inventory when using Furnace, Blast Furnace, Smoker, Enchanting Table, Grindstone, Brewing Stand, Anvil, Beacon, Smithing Table, Loom, Cartography Table, and Stone Cutter

Fixed an issue where some paragraphs of text in modals were misaligned (MCPE-153789)

Container screen cursor can now be controlled by the wireless controller touch pad on PlayStation 4 (MCPE-106320)

Fixed a typo in notification duration label for Accessibility Settings (MCPE-156901)

Player can now continuously jump while holding down the jump button (MCPE-117045)

Player can now descend from the top of scaffolding with the new touch controls (MCPE-154309)

Realms

Realms players can once again post screenshots to their Realms Feeds and comment on Realms Feed posts

Fixed a bug wherein failure to join a Realm gave misleading or incorrect error messages (REALMS-7242)

Different types of Realms subscriptions will always show the “Manage” button on the Settings > Subscriptions page if they are manageable on the current platform

Added a popup to notify players on Google Play about holds on Realms subscriptions

Clicking “Play on Realm” from World Settings now copies the world’s game rules to the Realm

Due to recent changes, packs and worlds with version 1.19-level custom, experimental GameTest Framework JavaScript are rejected at the time of upload within Realms

We’re working on more infrastructure to fully support worlds and packs with script in Realms, but in the meanwhile, packs with experimental script are not supported in Realms

Note that the recently released Spellcraft Marketplace map, which uses script, is also not supported within Realms

Spectator Mode (Experimental)

Players in Spectator mode no longer get effects from gameplay

Players in Spectator mode no longer trigger raids while in Village with Bad Omen effect

While in Spectator Mode, actors in other chunks are no longer culled away

Players in Spectator mode can now breathe anywhere

Players in Spectator mode can no longer be pushed by Pistons

Spectators will be ignored for sleeping rules to skip the night

Moving around as a Spectator will no longer affect player’s hunger level

Spectators no longer broadcast self-made sounds; such as footsteps, climbing, watersplash, etc.

Player’s insomnia timer stops ticking once the player switches to Spectator mode

Render only head for players in Spectator mode

Render players in Spectator semi-transparently

Projectiles such as Arrows, Tridents, Fireballs will now shoot through Spectators

Spectators playing with gamepad no longer are shown unusable tooltips

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.19.10 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation, are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

General

Fixed a crash that could occur if a mob had the flocking component

Fixed a bug where Soul Campfire was using the wrong tag, resulting in cases where some custom recipes for Campfires were not working correctly (MCPE-98305)

Fixed interaction priority when using a Bucket on a waterlogged and interactable block, eg. Lever (MCPE-154221)

The Trader Llama is now its own dedicated mob instead of being a normal Llama with specific component groups

Ensured content errors are not ignored when loading entity JSON schemas with invalid value types for following fields: The “Runtime_Identifier”, “Is_Spawnable” and “Is_Summonable” fields for “description”, the “component_groups” field and the “event” field for “events” (MCPE-151381)

Commands

Fixed an issue where, after 1.18.30, teleporting an entity to a chunk that has not been loaded since before 1.18.30 would result in the loss of that entity

Fixed an issue in the teleport command where a “facing” argument would calculate an incorrect vertical orientation (MCPE-144870)

Teleporting entities into unloaded chunks no longer deletes them

Autocomplete suggestions now show only valid parameters

New execute command functionality is now available via the “Upcoming Creator Features” experimental toggle

Chests with loot tables no longer drop items when removed with ‘/clone’, ‘/fill’ or ‘/setblock’ (MCPE-151876)

Fixed an issue where entities loaded by Structure Blocks and commands would cause the despawn of the original mob used to save the structure and any mobs from previous loads of the structure (MCPE-155036)

Pillagers and Vindicator Captains spawned with commands are once again hostile by default (MCPE-116971)

Blocks

Renamed minecraft:block_collision block component to minecraft:collision_box

Renamed the minecraft:block_light_filter component to minecraft:light_dampening and added appropriate versioning

Renamed the ‘part visibility’ component’s field ‘rules’ to ‘conditions’ and added appropriate versioning

Renamed the ‘crafting_table’ component’s field ‘custom_description’ to ‘table_name’ and added appropriate versioning

Renamed the ‘minecraft:block_light_filter’ component to ‘minecraft:light_dampening’

Renamed the ‘part visibility’ component’s field ‘rules’ to ‘conditions’

Renamed the ‘crafting_table’ component’s field ‘custom_description’ to ‘table_name’

Blocks with ‘block_light_absorption’ component of value 16 no longer fail to load

Renamed the component ‘minecraft:ticking’ to ‘minecraft:queued_ticking’

Renamed the ‘minecraft:ticking’ component’s field ‘range’ to ‘interval_range’, which is now described in ticks rather than seconds

Renamed the ‘minecraft:flammable’ block component fields ‘flame_odds’ and ‘burn_odds’ to ‘catch_chance_modifier’ and ‘destroy_chance_modifier’

Added ability to set ‘minecraft:flammable’ block component using booleans for default flammable or nonflammable values

Updated documentation for minecraft:map_color and minecraft:material_instances

Cake blocks now emit Block_Change game events when slices are eaten

Items

Fixed ‘minecraft:block_placer’ item component to correctly trigger block component ‘minecraft:on_player_placing’

Hunger Exhaustion component now uses new correct default values (MCPE-154238)

Please note, add-on packs that alter ‘player.json’ may need to ensure that the player saturation rate is set correctly to match the default values, if required

Actors

Added ‘minecraft:drink_milk’ behavior, which allows a mob to drink Milk based on specified environment conditions

Actor properties will now save and load correctly across multiple clients and entities

Direction facing will now be preserved through a transformation from one actor type to another

Fixed an issue where projectiles with an offset weren’t spawned based on the player’s rotation (MCPE-153880)

Fixed a bug that prevented the owner of the ‘minecraft:angry’ component from broadcasting anger to its friends if it has no target. A mob with this component will now be able to get angry if it both does not have a target and the component’s ‘filters’ list is empty (MCPE-94996)

Mobs can now be hit by projectile when their hitboxes are outside the mob’s bounds

Replaced ‘values’ field with ‘range’ field, which only supports array JSON types. Added required ‘type’ JSON field for actor properties with supported values ‘int’, ‘float’, ‘bool’, and ‘enum’. The ‘default’ and ‘range’ fields on the property must match the type specified in the new ‘type’ field

Graphical

Fog setting with negative fog start will no longer cause flames on player model in UI to get tainted by fog color

“particles_blend” material is no longer culled

Fixed the issue where water fog expanding speed did not match value specified in ‘midPercentage’ field (MCPE-153864)

Fixed issue where under water fog transition between biomes is not smooth while affected by eye adapting effect

GameTest Framework (Experimental)

Added argument keepVelocity: bool to functions teleport and teleportFacing – If true, preserves velocity when teleporting the Entity

The /script profiler command now includes native API calls its trace call stacks

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.2

Release date: June 22nd 2022 (North America, Europe) / June 23rd 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a bug on certain flat worlds where below-0 terrain was accidentally being removed on level load, if there was bedrock at y=0 (MCPE-156679, MCPE-156698)

Mobs that teleport through a Nether portal with a destination above y=128 will no longer have their position adjusted to 128 (MCPE-155465)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.19.1 (The Wild Update)

Release date: June 7th 2022 (North America, Europe) / June 8th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Deep Dark

In the depths of the Overworld, you will find one of the scariest biomes in all of Minecraft. Buried undergound, especially at the bottom of mountainous regions, this area is filled with sculk blocks, ancient structures, loot chests, and one, single, solitary mob. To navigate the deep dark, you need to sneak, use Silk Touch, and above all else – don’t wake the warden!

Warden

The only mob that spawns in the deep dark is none other than the warden. The warden will only make an appearance if its slumber is disturbed, which means that brave explorers must sneak around very quietly. Quick movements risk setting off a sculk sensor that trigger a sculk shrieker. If you have the misfortune of hearing it pierce through the silent shroud of the deep dark, it’s time to get out. Even though the warden can’t see, this doesn’t slow it down but works to its advantage. The warden can sniff out any intruders and uses vibrations to detect their exact location.

Sculk Blocks

There are five different types of sculk blocks to be found in the deep dark. If you want to mine them, you will need to stay stealthy and use Silk Touch. The sculk block is a great decorative block thanks to its atmospheric glow. The sculk sensor is a redstone block that detects vibrations, so walk carefully or use a wool block to muffle your steps. The sculk catalyst spreads sculk around it and sculk veins generate around patches of sculk that spawn from the sculk catalyst. Finally, the sculk shrieker is possibly the most dangerous block of all since it will summon the warden if you’re not careful!

Recovery Compass and Echo Shards

The recovery compass is the solution for finding the way back to the last location you died. Loot chests in ancient cities to discover echo shards and craft one for yourself!

Mangrove Swamp Biome

Towering trees, wide roots, small saplings, and muddy terrain make up the new mangrove swamps. Found in areas with high temperatures and high humidity, this new swamp also introduces mangrove trees and mud blocks, bringing a wide range of new materials to craft builds inspired by the beauty of the Overworld!

Mangrove Trees/Wood

Mangrove trees introduce a brand-new type of wood block to build with, the logs can be crafted into planks, stairs, buttons, slabs, fences, doors, signs, and pressure plates. You can also craft with the mangrove tree’s leaves, roots, and small saplings called propagules!

Mud Blocks

Mud can be found all over mangrove swamps and crafted with wheat into packed mud! Use it to craft a variety of mud brick blocks including stairs, slabs, and walls. This block is also renewable by using a water bottle on dirt, so there is no risk of running out of mud. Placing Mud above a block that has pointed dripstone underneath will eventually turn the mud block into clay!

Frogs and Tadpoles

Frogs feed on small slimes, breathe on land and in water, and lay eggs called frogspawn. The eggs will hatch and turn into tadpoles, making this the first mob that isn’t bred from a smaller version of itself! There are three different types to discover – temperate frogs, warm frogs, and cold frogs – so getting your hands on all three means that you will need to travel through the Overworld!

Froglight Blocks

These luminous blocks come in three different variants depending on which frog type produces it. If you want to light up your base with ochre, verdant, or pearlescent froglights, you will need to figure out a way to feed a frog a very small magma cube!

Allay

The winner of the Minecraft Live 2021 Mob Vote is flying into Minecraft! Instantly recognizable by its luminous blue sheen, you won’t lose this mob once you find it. Hand it an item and it will pick up matching items it finds in the world. It loves music and will drop items if it hears a note block playing nearby. The allay spawns in pillager outposts and woodland mansions and is waiting for you to set it free!

Boat in Chest

The Wild Update makes it possible for you to craft a boat with a chest on it, which is convenient since there are plenty of new blocks to bring back from your new adventures!

Goat Horn

Dropped by goats that ram into hard blocks and can be used to make a variety of sounds! Can you find all eight variants?

New Music

Added new music by Lena Raine and Samuel Åberg

Music Disc 5

Unlike other discs, it can only be obtained by finding and crafting nine disc fragments together

These disc fragments can be found rarely in ancient city chests

Mobile players: To hear the new music, you will need to download the updated Minecraft Original Music Pack, available FREE from Marketplace

Updated Mobile Touch Controls

Updated the visual style of the touch control joystick

Players can now continuously jump while holding down the jump button (MCPE-117045)

New Achievements

It Spreads – Kill a mob next to a catalyst

Birthday Song – Have an Allay drop a cake at a note block

With Our Powers Combined! – Have all 3 froglights in your inventory

Sneak 100 – Sneaking next to a Sculk Sensor without triggering it

Vanilla Parity:

Mobs

Fixed an issue causing baby Llamas to fire llama spit from above their head (MCPE-144948)

Mirrored the Spider’s left legs (MCPE-152927)

Items

Updated Boat item icon textures to make them consistent with Java Edition (MCPE-153353)

Blocks

Fences and Walls no longer connect to Bells and Brewing Stands (MCPE-152757)

Fixed a bug where the Brewing Stand’s arms textures did not touch the base (MCPE-152932)

Moved the Brewing Stand’s base UVs and updated the base texture

Fixed the Brewing Stand’s arms rotation

Created a better transition between the End Portal Frame side texture and the End Stone (MCPE-152930)

Removed unused pixels in the End Rod texture (MCPE-152929)

Updated the Mycelium’s side texture to match other dirt-based textures (MCPE-152928)

Fixed Light Blocks being destroyable from within while underwater (MCPE-148393)

Wandering Trader

The Wandering Trader no longer opens or closes doors (MCPE-113452)

The Wandering Trader now randomly moves around (MCPE-45756)

The Wandering Trader now matches Java Edition’s drinking sounds (MCPE-47057)

The Wandering Trader now has disappear/reappear sound effects when gaining/losing Invisibility

The Wandering Trader can now be named with a Name Tag (this will not prevent it from despawning)

Shulkers

Shulkers are now fire immune (MCPE-33236)

Shulkers now remain in upright position in vehicles (MCPE-115269)

Shulkers no longer fail to spawn when there’s another Shulker at relative negative y and x axis

Spectator Mode (Experimental):

Our initial implementation of Spectator Mode will not include every feature available in the Java Edition (such as “mob view”, speed control, etc.), we have chosen to focus on the parts of spectator mode that we hope will be most useful. We would like to hear about bugs you have found with the features that are included currently, and you may now report these at bugs.mojang.com if they have not been reported already. Any additional parity breaks, feature requests, or suggestions for what to add next should be made through feedback.minecraft.net.

What’s Currently in Scope

Enabling and Disabling

Players can switch to and from Spectator using the Settings Menu and the ‘/gamemode spectator’ command, if cheats are enabled. Player inventory, health, held items etc are unchanged when switching into spectator mode and then out again

Movement

Spectators are always flying and cannot become grounded

(For this version we will not attempt movement parity with Java edition, but may do more in this area later)

World Interactions

Spectators pass through solid blocks and entities without any collisions

Spectators can see out of solid objects

Spectators are not affected by any in-game blocks, mobs, items, portals, or effects and cannot take damage

Portals currently affect spectators, but this is a bug we intend to fix in the future

Spectators cannot use items or interact with blocks or mobs (for example, they cannot attack, feed, mount, or trade with mobs)

Spectators cannot open their inventory or interact with block UIs like chests (This is not in parity with Java yet)

Currently spectators that die drop their inventory, this is a known issue that we want to address

User Interface

Spectators have a reduced HUD that does not show the crosshair, hotbar, XP, health, hunger or armor

Visibility and Rendering

Spectators cannot be seen by mobs or other players except other spectators

Spectators appear as a transparent floating head (to those who can see them). The body, arms, legs, armor and held items are not rendered.

Currently the transparency does not work correctly for all skin selection types, this is a known issue

When playing in first person, spectators do not see their arm or held item

Technical

Spectators generate chunks as normal (This is not in parity with Java yet)

Spectators don’t cause mobs to spawn

Spectator Bug Fixes:

Custom input mapping for Spectator Mode added

Spectators are now unable to attack

Spectators are now unable to build

Spectators are now unable to drop items

Spectators are now unable to use items

Spectators are now unable to open inventory

Spectators are now unable to interact with the world through input

Spectators are now unable to interact with chests or other container UI

Spectators no longer fly slowly when entering Spectator Mode from ground

Players enter noclip and flying when enabling Spectator Mode

Players stop riding, using items, sleeping, and gliding when entering Spectator Mode

Double-jump no longer breaks Spectator Mode

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur during splitscreen play

Fixed a crash that could occur when lightning hits a Lightning Rod in certain scenarios

Fixed several crashes that could occur on some Marketplace worlds

Fixed a crash that could occur when players are battling each other and both players are wearing Thorns enchanted Armor (MCPE-153593)

Fixed a crash that could occur when players died while affected by Wither

Fixed a crash which could occur when trading with a Villager that last traded with a disconnected player

Fixed a crash that would occasionally occur in Villages on iOS

Cleaned up leftover biome/block/light memory when leaving a world

Fixed an issue that caused Marketplace downloads to get stuck in queue (MCPE-54531)

Fixed being unable to edit characters in the Dressing Room on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-156209)

Gameplay

Fixed an issue that caused the player to take fall damage after getting into a Bed while falling (MCPE-153122)

Fixed issue where the Invert Y Axis setting was not working correctly with touch controls

The player can now slide from movement directions to jump and not get interrupted when jump and sneak are swapped on ‘Classic’ touch controls (MCPE-151149)

World Generation

Several improvements to level chunk blending

Mobs

Mobs do not get stuck into open Trapdoors anymore (MCPE-154106)

Fixed an issue causing the Parrot’s head to always face the player while riding the player. We couldn’t handle the constant staring (MCPE-152510)

Villagers will no longer begin sleeping while riding something near a Bed

Illagers are now allowed to migrate to other villages and progress raids (MCPE-151310)

Trader Llamas can now breed after being fed Hay Bales

Trader Llamas will no longer be persistent after being unleashed from the Wandering Trader (MCPE-102302)

Blocks

Fixed a bug where End Crystal beams would point far above their target blocks

Blocks affected by gravity now fall correctly on replaceable blocks (MCPE-152937)

Slabs can once again be placed continuously (MCPE-151887)

Torches can no longer be placed on Bells

Items

Fixed incorrect names for White Dye, Black Dye, Brown Dye, and Blue Dye (MCPE-153522)

Fixed a bug where an undamaged tool, such as Pickaxe, when name-changed on an Anvil, would fail to work correctly when used for the first time (MCPE-152637)

The recipes for Minecart with Chest/Hopper/TNT are now shapeless

Fixed a bug where the Trident, Bow, Spyglass and Crossbow would not render when picked up by a Fox (MCPE-135346)

Fixed a bug causing z-fighting to occur on bottom of player’s head while wearing a Skull (MCPE-149125)

Each Minecart variant (Chest/Hopper/TNT) drops itself as a single item when broken, instead of splitting into two items (such as Chest and Minecart)

Graphical

Fixed an issue that caused Leads to render on top of Glass (MCPE-145764)

Fixed a bug causing the fire animation to flicker when the player is standing in a Lava Cauldron while in Creative mode (MCPE-148999)

Fixed an issue that could cause severe visual glitches when using emotes more than once (MCPE-155049)

Fixed graphical corruption issues on Android devices (MCPE-155509)

User Interface

Minor changes have been made for Xbox players when switching accounts while the game is open. See this article for details

Shift-clicking items will once again combine items of same type into a stack (MCPE-153992)

Added settings to change duration of notifications

The “Submit Feedback” button is now described as a link by Text-To-Speech

Added appropriate messaging when there is no internet connection on Xbox devices

Fixed enchantment option on Pocket UI Profile not being displayed

Fixed a bug where items could be dropped by clicking in the dark gray area of the left side of player inventory when using Furnace, Blast Furnace, Smoker, Enchant Table, Grindstone, Brewing Stand, Anvil, Beacon, and Smithing Table

Players can now sign in with a QR code on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation consoles

Featured Servers message text is no longer centered

“Controller lost connection” prompt will now be shown after the world generation screen if a controller was disconnected while on that screen

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.19.0 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation, are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

Performance / Stability

Fixed a crash when loading a Behavior Pack with non-JSON object in entity components, component_groups, and “add”/”remove” events (MCPE-151377, MCPE-151380)

Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to render blocks that rely on biome data

Fixed a crash when attempting to access a null entity

Fixed a crash in variant related to thrown potions and invalid potion IDs

Avoid crashes on certain devices when parsing Molang expressions with many OR or AND operators

General

Volume instances are now stored in the world, persisting between play sessions

Limit path strings and localized ID strings in data-driven blocks to 256 characters

Limit the length of crafting tag strings in CraftingTableComponent to 64 characters

Limit the number of elements in the material_instancesfield of the BlockMaterialInstancesComponent to 64

Limit the number of elements in the conditionsand block_filter fields of the BlockPlacementFieldComponent to 64

Updated documentation for originand size fields of the minecraft:block_collision and minecraft:aim_collision components

Set stack limit for brewing station result slot to 1, as to avoid getting input stacks being overwritten when the brew is complete

Tied consume animation to consume duration

Content errors for data-driven blocks improved to log resource pack, file, and block identifier

Limit length of the minecraft:geometryfield of BlockGeometryComponent to 256 characters

Updated documentation for specific string types “Localization String”, “Path String”, and “Identifier String”

Commands

The ‘/spreadplayers’ command will now avoid more hazardous locations

Reload command will now discover new function and script files

When a Command Block clones itself twice with the ‘/clone’ command, the cloned Command Block will now activate on the first try (MCPE-122188)

Command selectors now correctly identify players by name instead of their name tag

Title commands fired before a client was done joining will now show instead of being ignored

Added the ‘replace entity’ overload to the ‘/loot’ command

Fixed an issue with teleporting an entity to a chunk that has not been loaded since before 1.18.30 would result in the loss of that entity

Dedicated Server

Enabled the Windows Dedicated Server console to read UTF-16 encoded Unicode input (BDS-3791)

Mobs

Entities that use KnockbackRoarGoal can once again properly use entity filters to determine damage

Actor properties can now be applied to player entities. Updated network protocol version to support this (MCPE-129628)

Actors using movement prediction will once again teleport smoothly

Added in a check to prevent an actor that is a passenger from being ridden by the vehicle it is on, preventing an infinite loop looking for the root vehicle (MCPE-133774)

Exposed new data parameter “can_sleep_while_riding” for “minecraft.behavior.sleep”. If set to false, the goal will not start if the mob is riding

The is_moving filter now returns the correct value when an actor is moving

Added a target_block_filters to “behavior.move_to_block” and “is_waterlogged” filter test to prevent mobs from moving to blocks underwater (MCPE-153783)

Fog

Updated fog JSON schema to allow distance fog settings to use negative value as ‘fog_start’. Allowing nearby blocks to also be tinted with fog color

Added adjustable fog effect that can expand or shrink over time. Users will get the sense of eyes adjusting when going into water

Item Components

Added new data-driven Item component minecraft:chargeable– Allows the item to be charged (like Apples or Bows) when the use action button is held on_complete – Trigger executed when the items use duration has been completed

Molang

Avoid clearing temp Molang variables during hand rendering

GameTest Framework

IMPORTANT BREAKING CHANGE

GameTest module type changed from “javascript” to “script” in manifest.json. Added an optional attribute “language” which has only one supported value – javascript.

New JavaScript modules in manifest.json should look as follows:

“modules”: [
    {
      “description”: “JavaScript module code”,
      “language”: “javascript”,
      “type”: “script”,
      “uuid”: “<your UUID>”,
      “version”: [0, 0, 1],
      “entry”: “scripts/main.js”
    }
],

mojang-gametest module: Test

Added function rotateVector– Rotates a vector relative to the GameTest structure rotation

Removed constraint on maximum travel distance from GameTest structure for SimulatedPlayer.

mojang-minecraft module

Entity

Added function setRotation(degreesX: number, degreesY: number)– Sets the rotation of the Entity

Added read-only property rotation: XYRotation– Gets the rotation of the Entity

Removed property bodyRotation– Note: Use rotation.y instead

XYRotation

Renamed class PitchYawRotationto XYRotation

Renamed property pitchto x

Renamed property yawto y

New events:

Added event buttonPushEvent – fires when a button is pushed

Added event events.projectileHit– Fires when a projectile hits a Block or Entity

Added event events.itemStartUseOn– Sent when the player first interacts with a block

Added event events.itemStopUseOn– Sent when fire if the block is successfully interacted with and the block has changed – such as when grass is turned to a path with a Shovel

Added event events.itemStartCharge– Sent when the player first starts using a charging/animated item

Added event events.itemCompleteCharge– Sent when the item has completed its charge action

Added event events.itemReleaseCharge– Sent when the user has finished using the item and released the build action

Added event events.itemStopCharge– Sent either when the player has finished an items use cycle or when the player has released the use action with the item

ItemStartUseOnEvent Added read only property buildBlockLocation– The result build block position. Useful for determining where a block was placed

Added member player?: Playerto the LeverActivate event – The player that activated the lever

New property on Player: onScreenDisplay : ScreenDisplay – exposes a new interface to trigger on screen content.

ScreenDisplay Type

setTitle(title : String, options? : TitleDisplayOptions) – cause a title to show up on the player’s HUD, optionally specifying the subtitle and fade in, stay and fade out times

clearTitle() – clear title and subtitle

updateSubtitle(subtitle : String) – update the subtitle (but not the title)

setActionBar(text : String) – set the action bar text

TitleDisplayOptions object

subtitle? : String – optional subtitle

fadeInSeconds : Int – number of seconds to fade in new title and subtitle

staySeconds : Int – number of seconds to have the title and subtitle stay on screen

fadeOutSeconds : Int – number of seconds to fade out title and subtitle

Support of dynamic properties that script can use to persist data per-World or per-Entity. Note that properties must be registered using the propertyRegistry in the new WorldInitialize event.

DynamicPropertiesDefinition

Added function defineNumber(identifier: string): void– Defines a dynamic number property

Added function defineString(identifier: string, maxLength: number): void– Defines a dynamic string property

Added function defineBoolean(identifier: string): void– Defines a dynamic boolean property

Added event worldInitialize(worldInitializeEvent: WorldInitializeEvent)– Fires during world load and contains the property registry used for declaring dynamic properties

PropertyRegistry

Added function registerEntityTypeDynamicProperties(propertiesDefinition: DynamicPropertiesDefinition, entityType: EntityType)– Registers dynamic property definitions for the given EntityType

Added function registerWorldDynamicProperties(propertiesDefinition: DynamicPropertiesDefinition)– Registers property definitions for the world

World object/Entity object additions:

Added function setDynamicProperty(identifier: string, value: boolean | string | number)– Adds a dynamic property to the world/entity

Added function getDynamicProperty(identifier: string): boolean | string | number– Gets a dynamic property from the world/entity if it exists, otherwise returns undefined

Added function removeDynamicProperty(identifier: string): boolean– Removes a dynamic property value from the world/entity

Updated the GameTest Framework interface to add read-only scoreboard support.

World

scoreboard : Scoreboard – Access world’s scoreboard

Entity

scoreboard : ScoreboardIdentity – Access the entities scoreboard identity

Scoreboard – Object representing the scoreboard data

getObjective(objectiveId : String) : ScoreboardObjective – Method to get a specific objective (by id)

getObjectives : ScoreboardObjective[] – Method to get all objectives

getParticipants : ScoreboardIdentity[] – Method to get all scoreboard identities

ScoreboardObjective – Object representing a scoreboard objective

id : String – (read-only) scoreboard identifier

displayName : String – (read-only) scoreboard display name

getParticipants : ScoreboardIdentity[] – Method to get all objective participant identities

getScores : ScoreboardScoreInfo[] – Method to get the score info for all participants

getScore(participant : ScoreboardIdentity) : Int – Method to get the score value of a participant

ScoreboardIdentity – Object representing a scoreboard participant

type : ScoreboardIdentityType – (read-only) enum representing the type of identity

id : Int – (read-only) Unique identifier for the identity

displayName : String – (read-only) display name for the identity

getEntity : Entity – get the Entity handle associated with the identity

ScoreboardIdentityType – Enum representing identity types : .Entity – An entity .FakePlayer – A fake identity .Player – A player

ScoreboardScoreInfo – Score-Identity pair for an objective

participant : ScoreboardIdentity – (read-only) The participant

score : Int – (read-only) The score

Commands

Added /script profilercommand to create GameTest script performance traces. Script profiles should be written to the Minecraft logging folder. See this article for more information on the Script Profiler.

Dedicated Server has been updated to allow servers to explicitly list which script modules they want loaded when running scripts. A default configuration file is located at /config/default/permissions.json. Without this new file, all script modules are disabled by default. See this article for more information on usage of scripts plus servers.

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.33

Release date: May 13th 2022 (North America, Europe) / May 14th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Enabled configuration changes of some back-end services

Added a new button in Settings to clear local cache data

This will not delete save game data

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.32

Release date: May 9th 2022 (North America, Europe) / May 10th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Addressed chunk loading and freezing issues on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-154110)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.31

Release date: TBA
Patch notes:

Changes:

Introducing Spectator Mode experimental toggle. Players can now try out an early development version of Spectator Mode

For now, we will not be accepting bug reports related to Spectator Mode since its current implementation is very early in development and subject to change

Fixes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed an exploit with improperly gaining XP through Furnaces (MCPE-152227)

Teleporting entities into unloaded chunks no longer deletes them

Fixed the screen turning black when reloading RTX worlds (MCPE-152645)

Fixed textures of distant blocks appearing grainy, warped, and distorted when playing on Android devices (MCPE-141316)

Fixed flowing water and lava textures not appearing correctly on iOS devices

Fixed various framerate hitches, particularly impacting less powerful mobile devices (MCPE-142934)

Mobs can no longer spawn on Buttons (MCPE-153897)

Fixed an issue where repeatedly saving and reloading specific chunks would result in delayed chunk loading, performance issues, and game instability (MCPE-154110, MCPE-154278)

Fixed an issue that prevented worlds from being opened after updating to version 1.18.30

The “Sound of Music” achievement now unlocks when requirements are met

Fixed issues with Marketplace not opening on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-154120)

Fixed an infinite loading screen that could occur when making purchases in Marketplace

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.30

Release date: April 19th 2022 (North America, Europe) / April 20th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

A new update is now available for Minecraft, featuring a swath of new improvements:

Worlds can now be created with 64-bit seeds

Many changes to improve damage and hunger calculations

New Experimental Features to try like the Deep Dark and Warden

Too many bug fixes and quality of life improvements to list!

Changes:

Realms World Storage

We are cleaning up expired Realms that have been collecting dust. Realms that have been canceled for more than 18 months will be deleted. Find out more at aka.ms/expired-realms-update

RenderDragon

The new Minecraft Bedrock rendering engine, RenderDragon, is now live on Android, iOS, Switch, and Windows 10 UWP x86 builds! Consolidating onto our new graphics engine will allow us to continue investing in future performance and stability improvements, as well as exciting new features for Minecraft!

This technical update shouldn’t impact gameplay or experience, but if you run into any new issues, please file feedback so the team can investigate

Vanilla Parity:

World Generation

Worlds can now be created with 64-bit seeds (-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807). These seeds can be used between Bedrock Edition and Java Edition to produce the same world (MCPE-144994, MCPE-148168)

Non-numeric seed UI inputs now produce the same seeds as Java Edition

Acacia Trees now grow Leaves on every branch below Y = 0 (MCPE-151386)

Gameplay

Tweaked hunger depletion rate to better match Java Edition (MCPE-56031)

Players can now properly lose hunger when sprinting or swimming

Players lose significantly less hunger when jumping

Exhaustion rates can now be tweaked in Behavior Packs

Players flying in Creative mode are no longer pushed by liquid current (MCPE-84592)

Mobs

Shulkers now have a chance to spawn another Shulker when hit by a Shulker projectile (MCPE-104826)

When a mob picks up an item, the item can now be seen slightly “pulled” towards the mob right as it picks it up. This matches the behavior of Java Edition

Drowned can no longer spawn where the block light level is above 0 (MCPE-150148)

Bees no longer become angry when Beehives are destroyed by Silk Touch (MCPE-83550)

Untamed Wolves can now be leashed (MCPE-82050)

Mobs can no longer spawn on Campfires (MCPE-152770)

The Ravager now targets and attacks the Wandering Trader (MCPE-44606)

Mobs spawned from a Dispenser are now persistent (MCPE-110521)

Blocks

Falling blocks once again have full-block hitbox

Changed block tick rates for Cactus, Chorus Flower, Crops, Grass, Pointed Dripstone, and Saplings to match Java Edition (MCPE-145612)

Cauldrons now only fill with water and lava by Dripstones that are below water and lava source blocks

TNT blocks now correctly move in a random X/Z direction once lit

Glow Lichen no longer generates hanging in the air inside Strongholds (MCPE-123448)

Glow Lichen now correctly checks for the face of the block they are attached to be a full block

Glow Lichen can now be attached to Leaves

Blocks such as Glow Lichen, Torches, and Redstone can no longer be placed on or attached to Brewing Stands

Blocks such as Glow Lichen, Torches, and Redstone can now be placed on or attached to Trapdoors, depending on their state

Azaleas and Lily Pads are now broken by flowing water (MCPE-152040)

Items

The player’s arm no longer twitches while charging a bow (MCPE-148486)

Nether Brick, Iron/Gold Nuggets, Red/Brown Mushroom Blocks, and Chorus Plant/Flower Blocks can no longer be used as fuel in Furnaces (MCPE-114216)

Water and Lava Buckets can now be used on waterlogged blocks, such as Light Blocks or Big Dripleaves (MCPE-148392)

Combat and Damage

Improved accuracy of damage calculations

Fixed some issues where damage invulnerability wasn’t being applied properly

The camera now shakes the same way it does in Java Edition when the player receives damage (MCPE-118510)

Fixed an issue where the Protection enchantments mitigated too much damage. This has been changed to match Java Edition (MCPE-113191)

Absorption Hearts no longer stay yellow while under the Wither effect (MCPE-131852)

Added armor toughness

Diamond Armor and Netherite Armor now have a toughness value of 2 and 3 respectively

Tweaked armor reduction calculation to account for toughness

Netherite Armor will now reduce more damage than Diamond Armor

Lowered the amount of knockback resistance granted by Netherite Armor (MCPE-109408)

Punching deals less damage now, to better match the Java Edition (MCPE-152713)

Damage is now calculated more accurately by properly calculating and storing partial damage for larger damage

Mobs across higher and lower difficulties had their damage adjusted slightly accordingly

Mobs with knockback resistance (e.g. Ravager or Zoglin) now receive less knockback when hit by an Iron Golem

Armor and protection reduction calculations have been made more accurate

Dragon’s Breath attack now properly deals damage (MCPE-94317)

Protection Enchantment now properly works on most damage types (MCPE-40651)

Landing on a Stalagmite is now properly considered fall damage (MCPE-151192)

Blaze Fireball will deal knockback on impact (MCPE-82421)

Blaze fireballs, Fang attack damage, and Shulker bullets now deal consistent damage across all difficulties

Small Magma Cubes do slightly more damage, from 2 to 3 on normal

Spiders deal slightly less damage, from 3 to 2 on normal (MCPE-94878)

Baby Zoglins deal slightly less damage, from 1 to 0.5 on normal

Baby Hoglins now attack players for 0.5 damage on normal (MCPE-152577)

Skeleton melee attack does slightly less damage, from 3 to 2 on normal

Wolves deal slightly more damage, from 3 to 4 on normal

Fixed an issue that was causing entities to not be protected from fire damage by the Fire Resistance effect

Fixed a desync issue that could sometimes cause health to regenerate only visually

Villagers

Updated Villager trade tables for Armorer, Cleric, Fisherman, Shepherd, Toolsmith, and Weaponsmith to match Java Edition

Fishermen Boat trades now change wood type based on Villager biome type

Clerics now offer Glowstone instead of Glowstone Dust

Weaponsmith enchanted Iron Sword trade moved to Novice

Armorer Diamond trade moved to Journeyman

Villagers no longer share Seeds and Beetroot Seeds

Cartographers now always unlock Woodland Explorer Map trade (MCPE-152725)

Fixed an error where Journeymen Clerics would offer Glowstone Dust instead of Glowstone Blocks (MCPE-57524)

Farmer Villagers can now use Bone Meal on crops and can turn excess Seeds into Bone Meal at their Composter (MCPE-74079)

Experimental Features:

Reminder: Remember to make regular backup copies of your favorite worlds before enabling experimental features!

Please keep in mind that these features are work in progress, still under in development, and subject to change. If you activate them, your world might crash, break, or not work with future updates. Experimental features cannot be turned off after world creation.

For more information, please see the article about enabling experimental features at aka.ms/MCExperimentalFeatures.

Deep Dark Biome

Dimly lit and eerie, the Deep Dark is sure to strike fear into the hearts of even the bravest players

Ancient Cities

Wander the halls of these long-abandoned structures in the Deep Dark depths to uncover relics long forgotten

Warden

The horror of the Deep Dark! A creature with no eyes, roughly resembling the Sculk that can be found throughout the Deep Dark, the Warden is an unstoppable force of nature that inhabits this biome

Sculk Blocks

A new variety of blocks that can be found in the Deep Dark

Darkness Effect

A new mob effect unique to the Warden and Sculk Shrieker, which will afflict players with the effect when nearby

Lowers the gamma down at an equivalent of “Moody” while having this effect

Allay

Allays will collect all the surrounding items that match the item they are holding

Allays will like a player who hands them an item and will bring the items they collect to their liked player

Boat with Chest

Function similarly to Minecart Chests, but in Boats instead, so you can take a journey on the water and carry your things with you

Goat Horn

Dropped when a Goat with at least one horn rams these blocks: Stone, Packed ice, Iron Ore, Copper Ore, Emerald Ore, or any kind of wood log from the Overworld

Axe Changes

Attacks with Axes towards a raised Shield will disable the Shield for 5 seconds

Spectator Mode

This update contains early functionality for Spectator Mode – a much-wanted feature we’re adding to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. This will launch after the upcoming 1.19 update has shipped, but we’ll be testing it further in upcoming Betas and Previews. We recommend not relying on this in-development feature, which was not meant to be included in the release. We won’t be accepting bug reports related to Spectator Mode until our first iteration is released, as the feature is likely to change during development.

Known Issues:

Teleporting entities into unloaded chunks removes them from the world. This will be fixed in an upcoming update

Players are unable to invert the camera Y-axis when playing with touch controls. This will be fixed in an upcoming update

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when uploading corrupted worlds to Realms

Fixed a crash that could occur upon leaving the Zooming menu in the Dressing Room

Fixed a crash that could occur when hovering over the search bar in the crafting menu when playing with a controller

Fixed a crash that could occur on Android devices when suspending or resuming the app

Fixed a crash that could occur when stopping a Bedrock Dedicated Server (BDS-16742)

Gameplay

Fixed an issue where the Mending enchantment would not always correctly consume XP Orbs to repair (MCPE-120119)

Players in Visitor Mode can no longer break Paintings and Minecarts (MCPE-132869)

Teleporting vertically beyond the visibility distance now loads terrain correctly (MCPE-150021)

Fixed a bug where the player could switch to gliding when riding in certain scenarios (MCPE-147904)

Crouch (sneak) state is now reset when player dies to avoid getting stuck in crouch state after respawning

The player’s position when rejoining a world will remain the same if they quit while in lava (MCPE-124219)

Players can now fly down through Ladders and other climbable blocks such as Vines in Creative mode without stopping (MCPE-82480)

Fixed a Furnace exploit where items could be duplicated if the output slot was selected (MCPE-152411)

Fire that existed before the Fire Tick game rule is enabled will continue to spread again (MCPE-140396)

Vertical field of view is no longer halved in horizontal split screen, making items such as Book & Quill easier to view when playing in split screen

Fixed tick range check excluding chunks that were actually in range

World Generation

Fixed duplicate End Crystals spawning on top of End Spikes (MCPE-147817)

Improved surrounding terrain for structures such as Villages during world generation (MCPE-145659)

Fixed underwater lava lakes not turned into Obsidian during world generation (MCPE-128022)

Mobs

Villagers no longer avoid Zombified Piglins (MCPE-94102)

Fixed an issue where Villagers did not hold the item they would trade when presented with Emeralds by the player (MCPE-150303)

Mobs are now able to path over Azalea blocks (MCPE-129373)

Mobs are now able to path over Dripleaf blocks and properly pathfind on top of them, when not fully tilted

Mobs are now able to path over Pointed Dripstone blocks and properly pathfind on top of them (MCPE-133270)

Mobs can now move properly on top of solid partial blocks, like Bells, Brewing Stands, and Enchanting Tables

Mobs can now jump from high enough solid partial blocks to full ones at a higher position

Mobs can now jump over fences if they are standing on an adjacent slab or on another block high enough

Mobs can now move through less than half-block tall Top Snow even when the ceiling, if any, is as tall as the mobs themselves (MCPE-148355)

Fixed a bug in the Glow Squid’s texture where the glow map in the alpha channel was incorrect, causing patches of non-glowing texture to be seen (MCPE-117507)

Fixed an issue where players could not access a Villager’s trades while holding a spawn egg (MCPE-76153)

Fixed an issue where Witches spawned during Village raids could despawn during the raid (MCPE-149883)

Cod, Salmon, Pufferfish, Tropical Fish, and Dolphins once again spawn in deep variants of ocean biomes (MCPE-150191)

Fixed Fangs from Evoker spells not being spawnable in blocks with no bounding boxes

Changed the spawning logic for Iron Golems and Cats to make it easier for them to spawn in roofed areas, like underground villages (MCPE-142292)

Fixed an issue where some large mobs in Marketplace maps could get stuck

Shulkers no longer like to occupy the same block as another Shulker (MCPE-43972)

Shulkers now prioritize attaching to neighboring block faces before trying to teleport away

Shulkers now stay attached to the current attached blockface if it is valid, instead of switching to upright position

Blocks

Fixed a lighting bug where light level 1 incorrectly dropped to 0 when placing blocks in light level 1 with multiple light sources (MCPE-151266)

TNT no longer disappears when ignited with the ‘TNT Explodes’ game rule disabled and the ‘Fire Spreads’ game rule enabled (MCPE-82485)

Gravity affected blocks now fall on Top Snow when placed above it instead of hovering over it (MCPE-151407)

Fixed an issue with resource drops occasionally remaining black after breaking and placing a block quickly in its place

Top Snow no longer clips with the block beneath when falling

Fixed an issue where interacting with the Bell while holding a chargeable item would not continuously ring it (MCPE-56968)

Fixed an issue where projectiles would ‘bounce’ off of Bells in strange ways (MCPE-47847)

Removed water from the extra-block when placing an Amethyst cluster (MCPE-148394)

Scaffolding can no longer be placed without support on y=0 (MCPE-150765)

Observers placed facing Double Chests no longer send out a Redstone pulse when reloading/re-entering a chunk

Save Structure Blocks now correctly detect Corner Structure Blocks at negative Y levels (MCPE-151511)

Breaking a layer of snow placed in the same block as a flower no longer destroys the flower (MCPE-151512)

Items

Custom armor can now be equipped with the “Use” button when different armor is already equipped (MCPE-125323)

Graphical

Fixed an issue that caused some emotes to have unintended rotations when near the end of their animation (MCPE-134328)

Fixed a case where ray tracing resources would be destroyed prematurely on level exit from an RTX-enabled world

Fixed the stage 3 carrot texture not showing up in-game, due to an incorrect filename (MCPE-152175)

Fixed a bug where the Shield blocking animation stopped playing smoothly after blocking once (MCPE-149838)

Fixed the crosshair disappearing when Outline Selection for blocks is disabled

Players that are on fire now render fire in front of the player on the inventory screen regardless of in-game camera perspective (MCPE-147777)

Fixed a highlight effect on Leather Armor appearing on paper dolls when using higher anti-aliasing (MCPE-75321)

User Interface

Added an option in Video Settings to toggle anti-aliasing on the Nintendo Switch (MCPE-123352)

Fixed the loading screen when suspending and resuming the game while playing split-screen on Nintendo Switch

Increased line spacing on the “Realms Plus subscription has expired” screen

Chat changes:

Control + Backspace will now erase the whole word before the caret

Control + Delete will now erase the whole word after the caret

Control + Left Arrow will now move the caret to the beginning of the word before the caret

Control + Right Arrow will now move the caret to the beginning of the next word after the caret

When first opening the inventory screen in Pocket UI, we now default to the “Craftable” tab on the left-hand side, and the crafting grid on the right-hand side

Removed the question mark button on the Pocket UI inventory screen

Accessing the recipe book from the Inventory screen now only shows items that can be crafted from that screen’s 2×2 crafting grid

Players can now use auto-move to equip or unequip armor in Crafting Table’s menu while in Pocket UI (MCPE-148970)

Updated generic controller face button icons on mobile devices

Fixed a bug where the label above the inventory screen crafting grid in Pocket UI would get truncated in some languages

Fixed an issue in Pocket UI where items could be dropped unintentionally in blocks with custom UIs, and resized those screens to allow for dropping items on the sides instead

Improved contrast on multiple UI elements

Fixed an issue with the screen reader looping on the Play screen when you had a Realms invite

Download popup no longer flickers when closed

Added warning popup on Marketplace pages when attempting to equip skin pack skin while character creator item is equipped

Fixed issue where info and buttons did not appear for downloaded skin packs (MCPE-152216)

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.18.30 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation, are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

RenderDragon

With the release of RenderDragon for Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, and Win10 UWP x86, HAL will no longer be available on these platforms. We know the community has found ways to build shaders on top of HAL and with this change, these shaders will no longer function. We understand that this is a valuable feature for players and the creator community, and we are working on how we may be able to deliver this sort of creative capability to players and creators in an officially supported way. While we have nothing to share right now, look out for more details in the future.

Additional Modding Capabilities Experiment/JavaScript APIs

Important! In this release, we are removing the Additional Modding Capabilities experiment. This experiment contained experimental JavaScript APIs launched in 2018 – and with this removal, JavaScript within worlds associated with this API will no longer function. GameTest Framework – a separate JavaScript API – should not be impacted, nor should behavior pack/resource pack type add-ons more broadly.

You can read more about this via this article.

Changes

A world with “StorageVersion” 8 or lower will be increased to 9 and have its “RandomSeed” upgraded from using only the lower 32 bits of a 64-bit number to using the full 64-bit range while still representing the same number. This is only relevant for negative 32-bit seeds, which need a sign bit extension

The world loading screen now shows progress when loading ticking areas marked for preload

Experimental: Volume definitions are now stored and read from Behavior Packs instead of being part of the level directory

Experimental: Added an optional “mob_amount” parameter to the Damage Event Response that specifies a unique damage amount when used by mobs

Due to engine limitations, “minecraft:geometry” data used for blocks with the Holiday Creator Features experimental toggle are now restricted to only allow geometry in the [0,0,0] to [15,15,15] space. Any blocks loaded from Behavior Packs that exceed this limit will render as the info_update block and show a content error in the log

The Interact component now has two new fields, GiveItem and TakeItem, specifying if it is possible to give/take items from an entities main hand slot. Taking the item also drops the inventory of the mob

Removed preventsjumpingcomponent from data-driven blocks

Removed BlockImmovable, BlockBreakOnPush, and BlockOnlyPistonPush components from data-driven blocks

Limited the number of elements in the crafting_tagsfield of CraftingTableComponent to 64

Fixes

Biome-specific fog settings can once again be defined

Fixed actor definition identifiers not being recognized if the item or block name contains “.”

Mobs that are riding a boat, for example, can no longer use JumpToBlockGoal (MCPE-150750)

Custom mobs with a format version lower than 1.18.20 and using the minecraft:behavior.knockback_roarcomponent will parse like before if it contains an extra field that the engine didn’t expect

Fixed an issue in the Knockback goal where the incorrect owner was being passed into the filter evaluate function

Weapon events are now correctly applied when the weapons are used by mobs (MCPE-118692)

JumpToBlock behavior is now correctly affected by JumpBoost mob effect (MCPE-137432)

Fixed a case where experimental BlockCollisionComponents did not allow partial specification

Rotation when riding a mob that has a locked rotation will no longer unexpectedly snap to one side when that mob is rotating

Commands

Fixed an issue that would cause commands to affect players in all dimensions (MCPE-152218)

Added the “hasitem” filter for target selector of entities. This allows the player to target entities based on the items that have in their inventory or are wearing

Added ‘/tickingarea’ command preload overload

The ‘/tickingarea’ command no longer modifies areas from entities with the tick_world component

Entities must now be loaded for an area to be considered fully loaded and ticking

Added a new ‘/volumearea ‘ command to create, remove, and list volumes in the world

Using ‘/playanimation’ command now properly plays animations on the paper doll and inventory character (MCPE-137353)

Correct error output is now displayed when attempting to use the ‘/loot’ spawn command when passing in the position of an unloaded area and there is 0 loot to drop

Added ‘/loot ‘ command insert loot and insert kill overload

AI Goals

Exposed new data parameter “calculate_new_path_radius” for GoHomeGoal. This is for specifying a distance in blocks that the mob is considered close enough to the end of the current path. A new path will then be calculated to continue toward home

Added Knockback Height Cap value to KnockbackRoarGoal

WebSocket

JSON format for events sent from websocket server and Code Builder APIs updated to hierarchical JSON format instead of flat format

Less useful properties removed with block and item IDs moved to newer name-based format instead of numerical format

Agent-based commands in websockets moved to new “action:agent” format, and all commands are now queued and include unique ids to correlate responses

Any future breaking changes to websocket and Code Builder APIs will now result in the “protocolVersion” being incremented

Molang

Molang expressions inside animation scripts for actor resource definition (pre_animation and initialize) that contain capital letters are properly evaluated now with format_version 1.18.20 or higher

Clarified documentation for query.is_item_name_any that the slot index is required when there is more than one slot, i.e. the hotbar

Fixed Logical AND to evaluate before Logical OR, and for comparison operators to evaluate before equality operators

This is a Molang Versioned Change that only takes effect for Molang expressions in packs that use a min_engine_version of 1.18.20 or higher

For example, A && B || Cnow evaluates as (A && B) || C and A < B == C > D now evaluates as (A < B) == (C > D)

GameTest Framework (Experimental)

New Module! We added a mojang-minecraft-ui module with API structures for creating simple dialog boxes:

Added ActionFormData/ModalFormData/MessageFormData types in the mojang-minecraft-ui namespace. Documentation is available on the Minecraft Creator documentation site.

Removed ‘Minecraft’ and ‘GameTest’ imports; please use ‘mojang-minecraft’ and ‘mojang-gametest’

mojang-minecraft module updates:

World

Changed return type of function getPlayersto PlayerIterator

Added function playSound(soundName: String, soundOptions: SoundOptions): void– plays a sound specified by the sound name, at a location, pitch, or volume as optionally specified in the SoundOptions argument

Added queueMusic(trackName : string, musicOptions : MusicOptions)

Added playMusic(trackName : string, musicOptions : MusicOptions)

Added stopMusic()

Added MusicOptions JS class with volume, fadeSeconds and loop properties

Dimension

Added idproperty

Added MinecraftDimensionTypeswith constants for built-in dimension IDs

Added spawnItemto spawn an ItemStack in the dimension

Player

Added function playSound(soundID : String, soundOptions : SoundOptions) – Plays a sound for a player, cannot be heard by entities other than that specific player

Events

Updated property directionto blockFace in world.events.beforeItemUseOn and world.events.itemUseOn

Added event beforeDataDrivenEntityTriggerEvent – Fires before the data driven trigger is applied

Added event dataDrivenEntityTriggerEvent – Fires after the data driven trigger is applied

Added event entityHit(entityHitEvent: EntityHitEvent, options?: EntityEventOptions) – Fires when an entity or block is hit by another entity

Added event entityHurt(entityHurtEvent: EntityHurtEvent, options?: EntityEventOptions)– Fires when an entity takes damage

Added event leverActivate – fires when a lever is toggled

BlockExplodeEvent – Removed property destroyedBlockPermutation

DefinitionModifier – Added

read only property componentGroupsToAdd: string[] – List of component groups that will be added as part of this modifier

read only property componentGroupsToRemove: string[] – List of component groups that will be removed as part of this modifier

property triggers: Trigger[] – List of triggers that will fire as part of this modifier

Trigger – Added

property eventName: string – Event name of the trigger

DataDrivenEntityTriggerEvent – Added

read only property entity: Entity – Entity that the event triggered on

read only property id: string – name of the event

BeforeDataDrivenEntityTriggerEvent – Added

read only property entity: Entity – Entity that the event triggered on

read only property id: string – name of the event

property modifiers: DefinitionModifier[] – List of modifiers that will be applied when the event triggers

property cancel: bool – If true, the event will not be triggered

EntityDataDrivenTriggerEventOptions – Added and inherited from EntityEventOptions

property eventTypes: string[] – If specified, will restrict to events with the specified name (i.e., minecraft:ageable_grow_up)

EntityType

Added read-only property id: string– The identifier for the entity type

EntityTypes

Added function get(identifier: string): EntityType– Returns the corresponding EntityType for the given identifier

Added function getAll(): EntityTypeIterator– Returns an iterator containing all registered entity types

MinecraftEntityTypes

Provides EntityType constants for each standard Minecraft entity type

EnchantmentType – Added

Read-only property id: string – The name of the enchantment type

Read-only property maxLevel: int – The maximum level this type of enchantment can have

EnchantentInstance – Added

Constructor EnchantmentInstance(type: EnchantmentType, level : int)

Read-only property type: EnchantmentType – The enchantment type of this instance

Property level: int – The level of this enchantment instance

EnchantmentSlot – Added

Represents the item slot or type that an enchantment can be applied to

EnchantmentList – Added

Represents a collection of enchantments that can be applied to an item

Constructor EnchantmentList(slot : EnchantSlot)

Read-only property slot: EnchantSlot – The item slot/type that this collection is applied to

Read-only property allEnchantments: EnchantmentInstance[] – All enchantments as part of this enchantment collection

Method canAddEnchantment(instance : EnchantmentInstance): bool – Returns whether or not the provided EnchantmentInstance can be added to this collection

Method addEnchantment(instance : EnchantmentInstance): bool – Attempts to add the enchantment to this collection. Returns true if successful

Method removeEnchantment(type : EnchantmentType)– Removes an EnchantmentInstance with type type from this collection if present

Method hasEnchantment(type : EnchantmentType): int – If this collection has an EnchantmentInstance with type type, returns the level of the enchantment. Returns 0 if not present

ItemStack

Added function setLore(loreList: string[]): void– Sets the lore text for the item

Added function getLore(): string[]– Gets the lore text for the item

Added nameTagproperty

ItemEnchantmentComponent – Added

Property enchantments: EnchantmentList – Gets a copy of the current set of enchantments on this ItemStack. Or allows the user to set the EnchantmentList for the ItemStack

Method removeAllEnchantments– Removes any enchantments that might be present on this ItemStack

Vector – Added numerous new helper functions

Added function length(): number– Returns the length of this vector

Added function normalized(): Vector– Returns this as a normalized vector

Added static function distance(a:Vector, b:Vector): number– Returns distance between two vectors

Added static function lerp(a:Vector, b:Vector, t: number): Vector– Returns the linear interpolation between a and b using t as the control

Added static function slerp(a:Vector, b:Vector, s: number): Vector– Returns the spherical linear interpolation between a and b using s as the control

Added static function cross(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector– Returns the cross product of these two vectors

Added static function add(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector– Returns the addition of these vectors

Added static function subtract(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector– Returns the subtraction of these vectors

Added static function multiply(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector– Returns the component-wise product of these vectors

Added static function divide(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector– Returns the component-wise division of these vectors

Added static function multiply(a:Vector, b:number): Vector– Returns the product of this vector and a scalar

Added static function divide(a:Vector, b:number): Vector– Returns the division of this vector and a scalar

Added static function min(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector– Returns a vector that is made from the smallest components of two vectors.

Added static function max(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector– Returns a vector that is made from the largest components of two vectors

EntityItemComponent

Added component EntityItemComponentthat can be used to obtain an ItemStack from an item entity – e.g., getComponent(“item”).itemStack

BlockInventoryComponent

Fixed accessing items in a double chest crashing/being inconsistent

Exposed the following components for Entities:

minecraft:can_climb

minecraft:can_fly

minecraft:can_power_jump

minecraft:fire_immune

minecraft:floats_in_liquid

minecraft:is_dyable

minecraft:is_baby

minecraft:is_charged

minecraft:is_chested

minecraft:is_hidden_when_invisible

minecraft:is_ignited

minecraft:is_illager_captain

minecraft:is_saddled

minecraft:is_shaking

minecraft:is_sheared

minecraft:is_stackable

minecraft:is_stunned

minecraft:is_tamed

minecraft:wants_jockey

minecraft:variant

minecraft:skin_id

minecraft:mark_variant

minecraft:friction_modifier

minecraft:ground_offset

minecraft:scale

minecraft:push_through

mojang-gametest module:

Removed radiusargument from command /gametest clearall

Modified the behavior of function attack()to make the simulated player swing even when no target is found

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.12

Release date: February 16th 2022 (North America, Europe) / February 17th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Improved the smoothness of player movement (MCPE-152176)

The pause menu’s “Invite to Game” button is now always enabled on Realms

Fixed issue where ratings count and offer tiles were not visible in the Marketplace

Fixed an issue with experience being granted when moving items from the hotbar in the furnace UI screens (MCPE-152227)

Fixed a bug where animation timeline events at 0.0 would sometimes not run in looping animations

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.11

Release date: February 11th 2022 (North America, Europe) / February 12th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay

Fixed players not being directed to minigames on some Featured Servers

Fixed NPC dialogue prompts closing if there was a dialogue open command on a button

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.10

Release date: February 8th 2022 (North America, Europe) / February 9th 2022 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Highlights

Added Globe Banner Pattern

Iron Golems now show different degrees of cracking depending on their health

Updated several more textures to match Java Edition

New experimental features with Frogs and Tadpoles

A huge amount of bug fixes and parity changes

Changes:

World settings can now be changed directly on Realms, just like local worlds

If you’re playing in South Korea, we added gameplay timers and notices in compliance with gaming laws to help remind players to take occasional breaks from gameplay

Vanilla Parity:

Added the Globe Banner Pattern on Bedrock

Raid boss bar says now displays “Raid – Victory” and Fireworks are launched from the ground after a raid is defeated (MCPE-51267)

Villagers now make a “No” sound when attempting to make a trade that they are out of stock

Players no longer gain a particle effect when obtaining Bad Omen from Pillager Captains

Iron Golems now show different degrees of cracking depending on their health. Iron Ingots can be used on damaged Iron Golems to repair them (MCPE-74081)

Removed the emerald icon above a Villager’s head when trading

Iron Golems now only attack players that have very bad standing in a village after attacking a Villager

Glow Lichen now has similar brightness as Java Edition

Foxes now aim downwards when they pounce (MCPE-143664)

Updated trade tables for Butchers, Cartographers, Librarians, and Wandering Traders

Biome decoration features in cave biomes now have similar frequency as Java Edition

Adjusted the “otherside” music disc to give off a redstone signal of 14 to match Java Edition (MCPE-145751)

Adjusted the “Pigstep” music disc to give off a redstone signal of 13 to match Java Edition (MCPE-74030)

Updated textures for multiple blocks and items to remove bugs and achieve parity between Bedrock and Java Edition (MCPE-127539)

Lodestone Compass

Oak Door, Dark Oak Door, Birch Door, Spruce Door, Acacia Door, and Jungle Door

Oak Sign, Dark Oak Sign, Birch Sign, Spruce Sign, Acacia Sign, Jungle Sign, Warped Sign, and Crimson Sign

Campfire and Soul Campfire

Item Frame and Glow Item Frame

Glow Berry Vines

Comparator (On)

Wither

Additional texture updates

Updated Glass Pane top to match the new texture on Java Edition (MCPE-148572)

Fixed the top texture of Dark Oak Logs (MCPE-148577)

Updated Stripped Dark Oak side texture to match the new texture on Java Edition (MCPE-148576)

Updated Dirt Path side texture (MCPE-148568)

Changed ‘door_oak’ texture filename back to ‘door_wood’ (MCPE-148502)

Reversed Parrot head and wing bottom textures (MCPE-148573)

Moved Beetroot and Melon Seed textures 1 pixel row down to match Java Edition (MCPE-148561)

Removed unused pixels in Cocoa Beans stage 0 and stage 1 textures to match Java Edition

Updated Smooth Stone texture in Armor Stand base (MCPE-148565)

Removed horizontal lines in Oak and Iron upper Door textures (MCPE-148566)

Removed hood in Witch, Evoker, and Vindicator textures to match Java Edition

Changed alpha values of Red and Blue Stained Glass textures to match Java Edition (Vanilla Parity)

Fixed the hammer icon’s color palette on the Anvil screen (MCPE-148575)

Updated Dark Oak Planks on the Cartography table textures (MCPE-148562)

Updated Spruce Planks on the Barrel bottom texture

Updated Planks on the Lectern base texture (MCPE-148567)

Fixed highlight inconsistencies in Gold and Diamond Armor textures (MCPE-148591)

Removed wandering pixel in the Carrot stage 3 texture (MCPE-148563)

Centered the back texture of Axolotls (MCPE-148571)

Boat oars now have the same color as the Boat (MCPE-150492)

Experimental Features:

Reminder: Remember to make regular backup copies of your favorite worlds before enabling experimental features!

Please keep in mind that these features are work in progress, still under in development, and subject to change. If you activate them, your world might crash, break, or not work with future updates. Experimental features cannot be turned off after world creation.

For more information, please see the article about enabling experimental features at aka.ms/MCExperimentalFeatures.

More experimental features will become available in future releases. This is only the beginning of new content for The Wild Update!

Frogs and Tadpoles

Frogs will spawn in Swamp biomes

Frogs can croak, jump, swim, and walk on land

Frogs can eat small Slimes, causing a Slime Ball to drop

Frogs can be tempted and bred using Seagrass, but this is just a placeholder food for now

Frogs lay eggs after mating

Frog eggs that hatch spawn Tadpoles

Tadpoles that grow up will turn into a Frog

Tadpoles can swim in water

Tadpoles “jump around” like fishes when on land, and eventually die

Tadpoles grow into a different type of Frog based on the biome they are born in

Tadpoles can be caught in a Bucket

Froglight

Three new Froglight blocks have been added (Pearlescent, Verdant, and Ochre)

The Froglight blocks emit light

The blocks are obtained by luring a Frog close to a small Magma Cube. The Frog will eat the Magma Cube and a Froglight block will drop. Each Frog variant will cause a different Froglight block to drop

Sculk

Sculk block features are now accessible by enabling this toggle

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed an issue that could cause entities in a chunk to not save when exiting a world (MCPE-144208)

The game now loads certain seeds and worlds around Mesa biomes without crashing (MCPE-149659)

Fixed a crash that could occur when trading Maps with Cartographer Villagers (MCPE-142388)

Fixed a crash that could occur when shift-clicking Armor in the Crafting Table while using Pocket UI (MCPE-144863)

Fixed issue where breaking blocks, opening chests, and entering portals would be delayed/not work when there are lots of mobs nearby (MCPE-149214)

Optimized the placement of geode features in the world

Reduced the amount of network packets sent with the subchunk request system and packet optimizations

Gameplay

Boats no longer disappear when getting out of them after a long ride (MCPE-108568)

Players can now use emotes while standing on Scaffolding (MCPE-147624)

Capped the freezing range of the Frost Walker enchantment to 8 blocks to avoid server unresponsiveness

The ‘Iron Belly’ achievement can once again be unlocked (MCPE-146036)

Players can no longer be hurt by their own armor enchantments such as Thorns

Fixed a camera issue when entering a Bed while still in glide mode (MCPE-117339)

Pillager Outposts now spawn the correct number of Pillagers and Iron Golems (MCPE-141499)

World Generation

Large Dripstone feature does not generate floating on top of lava anymore (MCPE-141131)

Pointed Dripstone clusters no longer have a chance of spawning only stalagmites of height one (MCPE-148588)

Pointed Dripstone now sometimes generate on large stalactites and stalagmites (MCPE-128128)

Lava pools now only generate in positive Y coordinates (MCPE-146459)

Lava pools that generate close to Y=0 will have Deepslate and Stone blocks casing

Coral now generates in the deeper depths of Warm Oceans (MCPE-147399)

The Grove biome now has more variety of Spruce Trees (MCPE-148361)

Fixed Mesa and Frozen Ocean biomes having inconsistent generation on Realms

The Bedrock layer in old world chunks is now replaced with Deepslate between y=0 and y=8 (MCPE-147373)

Copper Ore can now generate in Deepslate variant in Dripstone Caves (MCPE-144800)

Ruined Portals under Ocean and Swamp biomes are no longer waterlogged and will spawn dry

Chests and Monster Spawners once again generate correctly in structures (MCPE-23416, MCPE-48622, MCPE-97295)

The bottoms of hoodoos in Eroded Badlands biomes no longer make flat ceilings in caves underneath (MCPE-146984)

Lily Pads no longer generate in aquifers under Swamp biomes (MCPE-125913)

Fossils can now be generate below Y=0, with Deepslate Diamond Ore Blocks instead of Coal Ore Blocks (MCPE-144065)

Fossils will no longer generate floating in caves or water

Mineshafts now always generate above the Bedrock layer (MCPE-147575)

Iceberg features no longer replace Snow Blocks of Igloo structures (MCPE-147690)

Water in open air mountain caves no longer generates unevenly (MCPE-149417)

Aquifers no longer generate with missing water blocks (MCPE-146452)

Mobs

Villagers, Rabbits, and Foxes spawned in the Frozen and Jagged Peaks biomes now spawn as their respective snowy variants (MCPE-119561)

Goats now spawn in the Jagged Peaks and Frozen Peaks biomes (MCPE-146886)

Axolotl walk animations are now affected by speed (MCPE-131322)

Slimes are once again aggressive towards Snow Golems (MCPE-146651)

Fixed a bug where the Ender Dragon would become invisible when flying towards the portal fountain after dying (MCPE-149119)

When using the Education Edition toggle, Axolotls, Bees, Boats, Cats, Dolphins, Glow Squids, Goats, Hoglins, Iron Golems, Ocelots, Pandas, Parrots, Pigs, Polar Bears, Squids, Striders, Wolves, and Zoglins can now have Balloons attached to them. Wow, that’s a lot of mobs!

Skeleton Horsemen now pathfind correctly (MCPE-147521)

Farmer Villagers no longer pick up more than 8 stacks of items (MCPE-123412)

Untamed Cats can now be leashed

Guardians and Elder Guardians no longer sink while targeting an enemy or the player

Blocks

Fire can no longer be placed on top of Lightning Rods

The width of Walls connecting to Candles is now correct (MCPE-141156)

Improved the animation of falling block entities (e.g. Sand and Gravel) (MCPE-142010)

Amethyst Clusters are now properly destroyed when the supporting block is destroyed (MCPE-126076)

Copper Blocks and variants now oxidize in the Nether (MCPE-134954)

Big Dripleaf placement has been restricted to Clay, Grass, Dirt, Farmland, Moss, Rooted Dirt, Podzol, and Mycelium (MCPE-123392)

Water blocks near edges should now flow properly

Fixed Monster Spawners that sometimes stopped spawning mobs when the chunks they were placed in were reloaded (MCPE-142285)

Fixed End Crystal beams not rendering when an End Crystal was out of the players sight (MCPE-149159)

Fixed Structure Blocks infinitely spawning the same entities when loading a structure (MCPE-137617)

Structure Block structures now correctly transform (rotate and/or mirror) multiface blocks, like Glow Lichen

Big Dripleaf, Amethyst Buds, and Amethyst Clusters no longer break in Structure Blocks

Pointed Dripstone can now only be placed on full faces of blocks

Glow Lichen is now oriented the correct way when placed

Magma Blocks no longer deal damage when the Fire Damage game rule is disabled (MCPE-99718)

Flower blocks are now properly destroyed by explosions when inside snow layers (MCPE-146492)

Portal blocks are no longer obtainable in Survival mode (MCPE-138819)

Primed TNT will no longer explode when spawned using ‘/summon’ and the TNT Explodes game rule is disabled (MCPE-49044)

Cocoa Pods placed on chunk borders no longer break upon reloading a world (MCPE-67479)

Fixed Observer Block retaining its lit state while in the inventory if destroyed while blinking (MCPE-114173)

Fixed an issue where Paintings could overlap with Glow Item Frames, Signs, Banners, and Torches

Light Block light intensity can now be incremented periodically while holding right-click/interact (MCPE-137647)

Light Block light intensity can now be changed on touch-input devices

Light Blocks can now be placed on other Light Blocks while sneaking (MCPE-137744)

Fixed Light Block’s brightness not being adjustable when playing in VR

Fixed Light Block not being continuously placed while holding the ‘Place’ button (MCPE-135669)

Light Blocks can now be waterlogged (MCPE-148391)

Items

Furnaces now consistently output the expected number of items after completing a smelt (MCPE-126004)

Stored experience in a Furnace can no longer be duplicated (MCPE-71777)

The Bow’s shaking animation now only appears when the Bow is fully drawn

Food once again applies status effects when eaten

Offset the position of Maps held in hand relative to the screen’s aspect ratio so they always stay close to the screen’s edge and remain fully visible

Item data no longer gets corrupted when items are placed in mobs’ hands (MCPE-145034)

Fixed first person off-hand Shield blocking animation (MCPE-125340)

Accessibility

Fixed an issue with Screen Reader on the “Save purchase to a Microsoft Account” screen

Screen Reader now correctly reads the names of experimental toggles

User Interface

Added appropriate padding to the “Item Text Name” box on the user interface for when players have Armor equipped in Survival mode and select items via the hotbar (MCPE-143928)

Fixed an issue where text shadows had a reduced offset when text message contains button glyph

Fixed an issue with getting a faulty purchase page for Realms when the maximum number of Realms are already owned on the current platform

Fixed the Achievements button not being accessible when scrolling up on the Pause Screen

Fixed the food cooldown visual not being semi-transparent on the HUD (MCPE-55206)

The “Invite to game” and player role buttons on the Pause Screen now have a white border when focused with custom resolution

The “Invite to Game” button on the pause screen now disables correctly when a server is full

Fixed tab order on the Settings menu when navigating with gamepad bumpers

Fixed the height of the scrolling content panel on the Marketplace sidebar navigation to display the scrolling bar for varying device resolutions

Fixed a redundant ” – ” beside player usernames after adding them to the friends list (MCPE-105464)

Fixed item tooltip freezing in place on the Creative menu when switching between gaze selection and controller selection on PS VR

Fixed player camera perspective not being respected when changing from Immersive Mode to Living Room Mode in PS VR

Boss bar info no longer disappears after changing VR display mode on PS VR

Fixed coin purchases not updating displayed coin amount until after relaunching the game

Removed double space spelling issues on several screens, including the Feedback prompt (MCPE-104037)

Fixed the player visual on the inventory screen while gliding. It was previously off-center and could hide elements of the interface

Fixed issue where up and down arrow buttons in the Resource Pack Settings screen became bigger when highlighted (MCPE-147708)

Fixed Realms buttons disappearing after the Minecraft window lost and regained focus on the Create World on Realm screen

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.18.10 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation, are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddonPacks

Performance / Stability Fixes

Fixed a crash that could occur when setting the width or height of a mob’s hitbox to a negative value

Fixed an issue where ticking areas would occasionally skip a tick

Fixed a bug that caused performance drops when using the ‘/tag’ command (MCPE-139609)

The Content Log History panel is now accessible from the second player in split-screen without crashing the game

Fixed a crash that could occur when an animation controller referenced itself as one of its “animations”

The game no longer crashes when nesting schedule commands in functions (MCPE-144730)

Added log messages to help identify the cause of the BDS crash (BDS-12751)

Improved performance of RandomStrollGoal

Reduced memory and load times for ticking areas

General

Android’s target API has been updated to API 30 for Google Play Store

Reapplied changes to use “allowlist” instead of “whitelist” (BDS-14119)

Commands

Added ‘/loot’ command – Drops the given loot table into the world

Added a new ‘/damage’ command to allow players to deal damage to entities

Placing Cocoa Beans with ‘/setblock’ or ‘/fill’ commands no longer results in an error

The ‘/spreadplayers’ command no longer hangs when given a high spread range (MCPE-137793)

Order of function calls triggered by ‘/execute’ inside a function are now consistent (MCPE-111849)

The ‘/effect’ command no longer has the redundant argument ’empty’ (MCPE-62903)

Fixed a bug that caused the ‘/kill’ command to not kill entities with the Absorption effect (MCPE-142763)

Data-Driven Blocks

Added support for blocks having the same name, as long as they belong to different namespaces

Updated documentation for several components:

BlockExplosionResistance

BlockFrictionComponent

BlockMaterialInstances

BlockBreathabilityComponent

CraftingTableComponent

BlockLightFilterComponent

Changed BlockLightDescription JSON name from “minecraft:block_light_absorption” to “Minecraft:block_light_filter” and field name from “block_light_absorption” to “block_light_filter”

Data-Driven Entities

The random chance for a wild adult Ocelot to spawn with two children is now handled by components added in the entity JSON definition

Fixed many missing “Description” entries in the documentation

Added AI Goals documentation for “behavior.move_to_liquid” and “behavior.move_to_block”

Added AI Goals documentation for missing parameters of “behavior.tempt”, “behavior.rise_to_liquid_level”, and “behavior.random_fly”

Added Components documentation for missing parameters of “movement.sway”

Fixed some typos and inconsistencies in the Entities documentation

Data-Driven Items

Added nine new shapeless recipe JSON files, replacing hard-coded Smithing Table crafting recipes

Updated documentation for BlockCollisionComponentDescription

Changed BlockCollisionComponentDescription JSON name from “entity_collision” to “block_collision”

Updated documentation for FuelItemComponent

Renamed DamageableItemComponent to DurabilityItemComponent

Updated documentation for BlockRaycastComponent

Updated documentation for FoodItemComponent

Changed SaturationModifier in FoodItemComponent to take a float instead of a string

Fixed custom food behaviours not being replicated to guest clients

Mobs

The “controlling_seat” field on “minecraft:rideable” now works as intended for both Boats and Horses

Mobs riding other mobs and pathing towards a target will no longer wiggle back and forth along their path

Match tool conditions now work on mobs (Experimental)

JumpToBlockGoal can no longer be used when the mob is in water

JumpToBlockGoal now correctly searches the same distance upwards and downwards when looking for jumpblockcandidates, allowing a mobs that use the goal to jump equally high as low

Fixed an issue where animation controller events defined in the default state would get skipped if the controller immediately transitioned to another state (This is a versioned change that will only be applied for animation controllers starting at format_version 1.18.10)

Animation

Fixed an issue where animation events, sound effect events, and particle events would not trigger if the event time specified was equal to the total “animation_length”

Fixed an issue where event times were not considered within the animation length calculation that happens when “animation_length” is not explicitly specified

Molang

Fixed arrow operator to return 0 if the left side is not a valid entity or item, rather than causing the entire expression to return 0

For example, if bis not valid variable.a = variable.b->variable.c will now assign 0 to variable.a

This is not a Molang Versioned Changebecause no known content is currently using the arrow operator

Add non-experimental is_name_any, is_item_name_any, and is_owner_identifier_any queries

Fixed relative_block_has_all_tags block_neighbor_has_all_tags and biome_has_all_tags queries to require all tags rather than just any tags

Fixed nested conditional (ternary) operator parsing to go right-to-left instead of left-to-right

This is a Molang Versioned Change that only takes effect for Molang expressions in packs that use a min_engine_version of 1.18.10 or higher

Previously nested conditional expressions like ‘A?B:C?D:E’would evaluate as ‘ (A?B:C)?D:E’, now they evaluate as ‘A?B:(C?D:E’

Access of missing public variables on other entities will return 0.0 and not cause an error

Fix loading of public variables containing capital letters to not cause an error

Added “slot.equippable” added as a slot option for WearableItemComponent and Molang

Added alland query.any to check if a value matches all or any of the following values

Added in_rangeto check if a value is in the (inclusive) range between a min and max value

Block Components (Experimental)

Fixed BlockPartVisibilityComponent for multiplayer by adding network save/load tags (MCPE-141908)

GameTest Framework (Experimental)

There are some important breaking changes in APIs creators should be aware of:

Renamed mojang-minecraft:Worldobject to mojang-minecraft:world

In practice, this means “World.getDimension” code should now read “world.getDimension”

Removed mojang-minecraft:Commands- Instead, we are adding runCommand methods on dimension, entity, and player

In practice, this means that “Commands.run(“say Hello World”, dimension)” should now read “dimension.runCommand(“say Hello World”)”

Other major API adds and updates:

mojang-minecraft module

World

Replaced function getPlayers() : Player[] with function getPlayers(options: EntityQueryOptions = undefined) : EntityIterator- Returns an iterator to a collection containing all players in the dimension. Optionally, options can be used to filter the result

World.events

Added blockBreak and blockPlace events, which are called when a player breaks or places a block in the world

Added optional argument to events.addEffect. This argument will limit the callback to only fire for specific entities (see EntityEventOptions)

Item use events:

Added event events.beforeItemUse – Fires before an item is used. Can be canceled

Added event events.itemUse – Fires when an item is used and the before event is not cancelled

Added event events.beforeItemUseOn – Fires before an item is used on a block. Can be cancelled

Added event events.itemUseOn – Fires when an item is used on a block and the before event is not cancelled

Note that the following definition events only function with data driven items created as part of the Holiday Creator Features experiment:

Added event events.beforeItemDefinitionEvent – Fires before an Item definition event is processed. Can be canceled

Added event events.itemDefinitionEvent – Fires when the Item definition event is processed and the before event is not canceled

Added method triggerEvent(eventName : String) – Triggers an event on the ItemStack if an event with the given eventName, as defined in the Items JSON file

BlockBreakEvent

Added property brokenBlockPermutationto indicate which kind of block was broken

Entity (note that derived types Player and mojang-gametest:SimulatedPlayer also added these APIs as well)

Added runCommandmethod to run a command as an entity

Added dimensionproperty to get the dimension the entity is in

Added function addTag(tag: string): bool- Adds a tag to this entity. Returns true if the tag does not already exist

Added function hasTag(tag: string): bool- Returns true if the tag exists on this entity

Added function removeTag(tag: string): bool- Removes a tag from this entity. Returns true if the tag was removed

Added function getTags(): string[] – Returns all tags on this entity

Added target property to Entity. targetrepresents the Entity that this Entity is currently targeting, for purposes such as AI targeting

Added function getEntitiesFromViewVector(options: EntityRaycastOptions): Entity[] – Gets all entities that intersects the ray from the entities view vector

Added function getBlockFromViewVector(options: BlockRaycastOptions): Block – Gets the first block that intersects the ray from the entities view vector

Added function setVelocity(velocity: Vector): bool- Sets the velocity of this entity

Added property viewVector: Vector- Represents the direction that the entity is looking, as a vector

Added property headLocation: Location- Represents the location of the head of the entity

Added property bodyRotation: number- Represents the body rotation of the entity as a float (in degrees)

Added function teleport(location: Location, dimension: Dimension, xRotation (optional): float, yRotation (optional): float)

Added function teleportFacing(location: Location, dimension: Dimension, facingLocation: Location)

Player

Added method startItemCooldown(itemCategory : string, durationTicks : int) – Starts or resets a cooldown on an item category (e.g., ender_pearl) for the given duration in ticks

Added method getItemCooldown(itemCategory : string) – Returns the remaining duration in ticks that this player has of the given item category. If no cooldown is present, returns 0

ItemCooldownComponent

Added ItemCooldownComponent (item.getComponent(“minecraft:cooldown”))

Read-only property cooldownCategory : string – Represents the cooldown category of this item.

Read-only property cooldownTicks : int – Represents the cooldown time in ticks for this item if cooldown is enabled

method startCooldown(player : Player) – Starts or resets a cooldown for this item on the given player if cooldown is enabled for this item

ItemType

Removed getName method and added read-only property .id

Dimension

Added runCommandmethod to run a command in a dimension

Added function getEntitiesFromRay(pos: Location, direction: Location, options: EntityRaycastOptions): Entity[]- Gets all entities that intersects the ray starting at a location which extends in direction

Added function getBlockFromRay(pos: Location, direction: Location, options: BlockRaycastOptions) : Block – Gets the first block that intersects the ray starting at a location which extends in direction

Added function getPlayers(options: EntityQueryOptions = undefined) : EntityIterator- Returns an iterator to a collection containing all players. Optionally, options can be used to filter the result

Added function getEntities(options: EntityQueryOptions = undefined) : EntityIterator- Returns an iterator to a collection containing all entities in the dimension. Optionally, options can be used to filter the result

Updated spawnEntityto take a Location or a BlockLocation

EntityQueryOptions

Added class EntityQueryOptions- Provides additional filtering options when calling getEntities and getPlayers

EntityQueryScoreOptions

Added class EntityQueryScoreOptions- Used with EntityQueryOptions to provide scoreboard filtering

EntityEventOptions

Used to filter events that fire on entities to restrict the callback to only certain ones.

Property entity: Entity[] – If specified, will restrict to just this entity

Property entityTypes: string[] – If specified, will restrict to entities with the specified type (e.g., minecraft:creeper)

BlockExplodeEvent

Renamed destroyedBlock to block

mojang-gametest module

Added registerAsync method to register and properly track the state of GameTests using async functions

Test

Added getDimensionto get the dimension in which the test is being ran

Added gameMode: GameModeparameter to spawnSimulatedPlayer method

ScriptSimulatedPlayer

Added function giveItem(itemStack: ItemStack, selectSlot: boolean)

Added function setItem(itemStack:ItemStack, slot: number, selectSlot: boolean)

Renamed destroyBlockto breakBlock

Renamed stopDestroyingBlockto stopBreakingBlock

Removed selectSlot method

Added property selectedSlot: int – Gets or sets the currently selected hotbar slot for the player

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.2

Release date: December 9th 2021 (North America, Europe) / December 10th 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Interacting with certain containers will once again properly open the inventory screen (MCPE-148531)

Fixed issue where breaking blocks, opening chests, and entering portals would be delayed/not work when there are lots of mobs nearby (MCPE-149214)

Fixed some worlds not correctly replacing Bedrock blocks with Deepstone blocks after upgrading to 1.18 (MCPE-149251

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.1

Release date: December 2nd 2021 (North America, Europe) / December 3rd 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed a crash that could occur when chatting and playing on Realms

Decreased the amount of Diamond Ore that generates to match Java Edition

Fixed lighting bugs when removing light sources after returning to the Overworld from other dimensions (MCPE-145828)

Players no longer have problems moving after respawning or getting out of a Bed

Added a warning prompt explaining potential loss of data when setting File Storage Location to External on Android devices

Fixed simulation stopping in multiplayer sessions when other players move away from one player’s render distance (MCPE-147391)

The teleport command will no longer succeed when ‘checkForBlocks’ is true and the destination is obstructed

Fixed an issue that could cause a faulty purchase page for Realms when the maximum number of Realms are already owned

Optimized the Marketplace Inventory screen and improved loading of content images

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.18.0 (Caves & Cliffs Part II)

Release date: November 30th 2021 (North America, Europe) / December 1st 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Increased World Height and Depth

Overworld height and depth for new and existing worlds has been extended to y320 and y-64, opening up more space to explore and build in

World Blending

Players can now update existing worlds to include the new overworld height dimensions and world generation features. See our World Upgrading FAQ for more details

The bedrock layer at y0 below saved chunks will be replaced with Deepslate and feature new cave generation underneath

Biomes and terrain generating across new and existing chunk borders will blend seamlessly, creating natural-looking environmental transitions

New Terrain and Mountain Generation

Terrain shape and elevation is no longer always determined by biome, resulting in new biome placements such as deserts on top of hills

Mountains are taller than ever and can now generate up to a maximum height of 256 blocks

New Biomes, 3D Biome Generation, and Biome Distribution

Added 3D biomes – cave biomes can now generate directly below surface biomes

New cave and mountain biomes added, including Jagged Peaks, Meadows, Lush Caves and Dripstone Caves

New Cave Generation

Added noise caves – the three primary types of noise caves are large, open Cheese Caves, wide, tunnelling Spaghetti Caves and the narrow, winding Noodle Caves

Added aquifers – these create local level bodies of water such as flooded caves or underground lakes

Ore Distribution and Large Ore Veins

Added large ore veins – these long formations stretch through cave systems and contain larger deposits of ore than the clusters usually found underground

Ore distribution has been adjusted to compensate for the new world height

Mob Spawning

Monsters will now only spawn in complete darkness. Players can spawn-proof dark areas such as caves using light sources

New Music

Added new music by Lena Raine and Kumi Tanioka

Added a new music disc from Lena Raine titled “otherside”. This can be found rarely in Stronghold corridor chests or much more rarely in Dungeon chests

Mobile players: To hear the new music, you will need to download the updated Minecraft Original Music Pack, available FREE from Marketplace

New Achievements/Trophies

Caves & Cliffs – Free fall from the top of the world (build limit) to the bottom of the world and survive

Feels Like Home – Take a Strider for a loooong ride on a lava lake in the Overworld

Sound of Music – Make the Meadows come alive with the sound of music from a jukebox

Star trader – Trade with a villager at the build height limit

Check out the FAQ article for a deep dive on the new features in Caves & Cliffs: Part II!

Changes:

Vanilla Experiments

Added new “Vanilla Experiments” experimental toggle containing some blocks and items from The Wild Update, coming in 2022

Goat Horn

Sculk

Sculk Vein

Sculk Catalyst

Sculk Shrieker

Sculk Sensor

Be sure to backup your worlds before enabling experimental toggles and see our updated FAQ on how to enable Experiments

“Old” World Type

Removed “Old” world type from the world creation screen

Locked Old worlds to BaseGameVersion 1.17.40

Existing Old worlds are still playable but will not be updated with 1.18 features

For more information on Old world changes, please see the FAQ article

Menu Panorama

Added a new main menu panorama showing the beautiful cliffs of the Overworld

Android External Storage

Players with external storage will be migrated to new location at start up, due to storage changes required by Google. You can still play if migration fails by closing the results window

With external storage being migrated to its new location in preparation for Google’s new API requirements, you will now lose your data if you uninstall Minecraft, unless you check the box indicating you want to keep your data. We recommend checking this box if you wish to keep your worlds in the event you choose to reinstall Minecraft

For more information on storage changes, please see the FAQ article

Known Issues:

New world generation in this release is currently incompatible with the ‘Creation of Custom Biomes’ experimental toggle. Expect worlds with custom biome generation to be potentially unstable and for custom biomes to only exist in currently saved out areas of the world.

World generation for the Minecraft Overworld has changed entirely with this release. This means old seeds will no longer spawn players in the same positions when playing 1.18. If creators are version locked to an old version of the game, their seeds will generate worlds as they were prior to 1.18.

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading certain world chunks (MCPE-138139)

Fixed a crash that could occur when going through portals with tamed pets (MCPE-129738)

Optimized the time it takes to place Vines in the Overworld during world generation

General

Replaced the missing “Always Day” option in world settings (MCPE-137790)

Players with higher than recommended render distance settings are now prompted to change it to the recommended value

Render distance default and max settings have been updated for better performance, including improvements to the slider in video settings

A prompt now warns players that they will be taken back to the main menu if they sign-in while in-game

Increased Realm upload and download timeouts to 15 minutes

Gameplay

Corrected Portal locations when the Portal was moved but the location was not updated (MCPE-28765)

Hero of the Village effect now applies to all players who helped kill a raider once a raid is defeated, and the effect remains on the players, even if they travel outside the village (MCPE-53384)

Fixed an issue where terrain could be seen through

Fixed player hitbox not resetting after gliding with Elytra (MCPE-109925)

Fixed player flight with Elytra being cancelled when hitting a wall and taking damage (MCPE-54031)

Mobs

Mobs can now path over Trapdoors

Fixed issues with mobs and entities disappearing from chunks (MCPE-144208)

Mobs no longer walk through Campfires (MCPE-142054)

Axolotls now animate correctly when airborne (MCPE-131322)

Sweet Berry Bushes now damage mobs, with the exception of Foxes (MCPE-56142, MCPE-140012)

Mobs no longer try to path through Sweet Berry Bushes

The riding position of Llamas no longer shifts after being tamed (MCPE-143006)

Raid mobs now despawn after a raid ends, if the player moves too far away

Vindicators no longer naturally spawn in Illager Patrols

Lightning bolts no longer have shadows (MCPE-140689)

Fish now attempt to avoid Axolotls

Magma Cubes are now correctly aggressive towards Iron Golems and Slimes are no longer aggressive towards Snow Golems (MCPE-51162)

Phantoms should now be able to free themselves after getting stuck when trying to pathfind into mountains (MCPE-119773)

Villagers will keep following their schedules in worlds that have been ticking for a very long time, and when game time is negative (MCPE-98361)

Education Edition: NPCs no longer have idle sounds (MCPE-141856)

Blocks

Breaking a block below fire no longer creates an invisible fire block when the ‘doFireTick’ gamerule is disabled (MCPE-101371)

Players can once again continuously place water, lava, and Powder Snow by holding down the ‘Place’ button (MCPE-139671)

Light blocks no longer support blocks that need support, e.g. Beds and Paintings (MCPE-144311)

Light blocks will now survive a TNT or Creeper explosion (MCM-1417)

All ground vegetation can now be placed on Mycelium (MCPE-125928)

Fixed shallow water turning brighter when aimed at while holding a Small Drip Leaf (MCPE-123373)

Tall flowers will now drop only one item when broken by water placed in the upper half of the flower (MCPE-142799)

Campfires no longer drop only one Charcoal when broken by a Piston or an explosion, instead dropping two units as expected (MCPE-139467)

In the Stonecutter, a Block of Copper can now be crafted into four Cut Copper (MCPE-144067)

Copper Ore now drops 2-5 (from 2-3) Raw Copper items (MCPE-144071)

Nether Sprouts can once again generate when using Bone Meal on Warped Nylium (MCPE-139672)

Snow Grass Block and all types of Snow blocks now use similar colors (MCPE-57022)

Fixed Leaf Blocks not remaining transparent when surrounded by partial blocks such as Buttons or Slabs (MCPE-139213, MCPE-53731)

Fixed face culling of blocks placed below Leaf blocks, fixing an x-ray effect

Items

Adjusted the smoothness of movement for Primed TNT, Lingering Potions, Splash Potions, and Bottle o’ Enchanting when far from players (MCPE-101102)

Fire Charges are no longer consumed when used on lit Candles, Candle Cakes, Campfires, activated Nether Portals, or on other blocks that are already on fire

Multiple Education Edition items no longer show the “craftingScreen.tab.none” tooltip (MCPE-102444)

Ender Pearls can no longer generate as Glow Sticks in Woodland Mansion chests (MCPE-137440)

Accessibility

Added missing screen reader on the “Controller lost connection” prompt

Graphical

The Carved Pumpkin enchantment glint now only covers the item instead of the entire slot

Fixed a bug that could occur on older worlds where looking up in a Minecart would display the inside of the Minecart, blocking the player’s view

Updated item rendering so enchanted are no longer be invisible in the Nether (MCPE-116880)

Fixed a visual glitch where taking a plant from a Flower Pot would result in the plant still being rendered (MCPE-143661)

Water drips now trigger splash effects

Shield blocking animation now plays smoothly (MCPE-125951)

User Interface

Fixed Java Edition parity while lying in bed in multiplayer game. A message will now show how many players are lying in bed while waiting for all players to fall asleep

Updated the “out of storage” message with additional clarity when a device is out of storage for saving new worlds

The raid boss bar color has changed from purple to red, matching Java Edition (MCPE-46047)

Raid boss bars now decrease whenever a raider takes damage

Structure Blocks can now be saved and loaded properly within current dimension height limits (MCPE-122643)

All setting changes made to a new world are carried over when creating it on a new Realm

Renamed some occurrences of “level” in the user interface to the more accurate “world”

The store update prompt no longer appears for no internet connection or session start failure

Improved the error messaging in the Play screen when Microsoft Account permissions are set to block multiplayer

Fixed an issue where searching for non-existent content brought up the incorrect “1 result” message

Fixed overlapping text on Marketplace offerings occurring on 4:3 resolution screens

Fixed the rendering of the icons in text, making the colors not appear distorted

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.18.0 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation, are available to download at aka.ms/MCAddOnPacks

Fixes

Players are disconnected if server and client have different Runtime Block IDs

Fixed a rendering error that could occur when attempting to render a Vanilla mob in a base game version prior to the version that mob was introduced through JSON files

Most content errors and warnings will now only display once per world (MCPE-135153)

Improved performance in ‘RangedAttackGoal’ for mobs that do not move

Fixed mobs’ default summonability when not specified in JSON (MCM-1390)

Fixed a versioning error with animation controllers that was causing the wrong schema to be utilized on Marketplace worlds with an animation controller version 1.8.0

Order of function calls triggered by ‘/execute’ inside a function are now consistent (MCPE-111849)

Commands

The ‘/clone’ command has been updated to properly check for overlapping source and destinations areas no longer allowing for a 1 block depth overlap on each axis. This can continue to be overridden via the force clone option

Added the ‘/loot’ command with spawn loot overload

GameTest Framework

New Item API updates: ItemStack

Exposed interfaces for accessing script-enabled ItemComponents on ItemStack. Note that these item components only work in conjunction with custom items defined via the Holiday Creator Features experiment

hasComponent(componentId: string) – returns true if the ItemStack has the component [componentId] attached to it

getComponent(componentId: string) – returns a handle to the component attached to this ItemStack. Returns an undefined handle if the component does not exist or if the component is yet to be exposed to script

getComponents() – returns an array of all attached script-enabled components on this ItemStack

Script Enabled Item Components

minecraft:food

Read-only property nutrition – number that describes how much nutrition this food item gives the player when eaten

Read-only property saturationModifier – number that is the saturation modifier used to apply the saturation buff when eaten

Read-only property canAlwaysEat – if true the player can always eat this item (even when not hungry)

Read-only property usingConvertsTo – string name of the Item this will be converted to when eaten. If empty, the item will not convert to anything else

minecraft:durability

Read-only property maxDurability – the number amount of damage this item can take before breaking

Read-only property damageRange – a NumberRange describing the chance of the item losing durability

Property damage – gets or sets the current damage on the ItemStack

getDamageChance(unbreaking: number = 0) – gets the maximum chance that this item would be damaged using the damageRange property if given an unbreaking level. Incoming unbreaking parameter must be greater than 0

Added deltaTime read only property to TickEvent which represents the time between the last Level tick in seconds

Molang

Fixed content error when Molang expression has no tokens to only fire when ‘min_engine_version’ is 1.17.40 or higher

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.41

Release date: October 27th 2021 (North America) / October 28th 2021 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Fixed a problem that caused certain worlds to drastically increase in size, causing high memory usage (MCPE-143156)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.40

Release date: October 19th 2021 (North America) / October 20th 2021 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Experimental Features:

Reminder: We are still tweaking world generation and features may change. Please remember to make regular backup copies of your favourite worlds!

Please keep in mind that these features are work in progress, still under in development, and subject to change. If you activate them, your world might crash, break, or not work with future updates. Experimental features cannot be turned off after world creation.

For more information, please see the article about enabling experimental features at aka.ms/MCExperimentalFeatures.

Added new world/cave generation when upgrading saved chunks below “Y=0” using the Caves & Cliffs experimental toggle

Chunks previously upgraded with Bedrock underneath will not see this change

For more information, please see our FAQ! We’d love to hear your feedback about it at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback

Added a new mountain biome: Stony Peaks!

This is a variant of lofty/snow-capped peaks that uses stone and gravel instead of snow and ice, and is used to avoid temperature clashes such as a snow-capped peak sticking up from a jungle

Corrected vegetation in Mountain Meadows

Dripstone Clusters can now only be found in the Dripstone biome

Dripstone features now only generate in Dripstone biome

Mountain biomes now have correct feature places to match the Java Edition side-snapshot

Infested Stone can be found under new mountains

Tweaked ore distribution to match the Java Edition side-snapshot

Clouds are now at Y level 192

Tweaked biome placement, river size, and terrain shapes for a better overworld experience

Tweaked mob spawning in mountain and cave biomes to match the Java Edition side-snapshot

Trees in swamps can now generate slightly deeper when in water

Deepslate now generates at lower depths (MCPE-125117)

Dripstone features now generate at Deepslate depths

The placement logic of Small Dripstone feature has been refactored so frequency is similar but exact positions will differ

Copper Ore now generates up to y=96 instead of y=64 (MCPE-125233)

Flat worlds with the Caves & Cliffs experimental toggle enabled will properly upgrade to use the new dimension heights

Upgrades older flat worlds to the new extended heights available with the Caves & Cliffs experimental toggle

New flat worlds using the Caves & Cliffs experimental toggle will generate starting at “y=-64”

Maps now correctly show the colors of blocks below a Y level of zero (MCPE-136638)

Vines now generate in Lush Caves instead of generating above the surface (MCPE-125800)

Vines can now grow down below zero height

Villages now generate in the style of the biome they are located in (MCPE-136939)

Changes:

New achievements screens are now available on Windows 10 ARM-based PCs

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed a crash that could occur when using Character Creator

Fixed a softlock that could occur when on the Realms world slots screen and the internet connection was lost

General

Fixed an issue causing Marketplace downloads on Nintendo Switch to fail after entering and leaving a world

World settings are now carried over on to Realms when replacing worlds

Gameplay

Fixed a most unfortunate issue that caused players to be set on fire upon changing dimensions if there was Lava underneath the Nether Portal (MCPE-28765)

Improved world visibility culling for underground situations to eliminate seeing sky at the end of tunnels/stairs (MCPE-128372)

Players can no longer eat food at full hunger in Survival mode (MCPE-60807)

Amethyst geodes are now much less likely to generate in Strongholds, and if they do they will not destroy End Portals (MCPE-129861, MCPE-128799)

Dungeons are no longer misplaced or missing outside of the Caves & Cliffs experimental toggle (MCPE-121708)

Vanilla Parity: Players are now able to activate Elytra gliding while moving upward (MCPE-59580)

Mobs

Tropical Fish no longer lose their colors upon grabbing them with a Water Bucket and then releasing them (MCPE-137158)

Bees now spawn properly in the world (MCPE-132195)

Mobs no longer casually stroll into open flames (MCPE-23835)

Villagers can no longer spam doors open and closed (MCPE-28055)

Cartographers now more consistently give new maps on all platforms

Improved mob pathing around partial blocks (MCPE-127381)

Armor no longer renders on Pillagers and Vindicators, but the mobs are still granted armor effects (MCPE-74242)

Fixed an issue with mob rendering that caused Vindicator Axes to be visible even when they’re not attacking on older Resource Packs (MCPE-123229)

More mobs will now spawn underground in the Overworld

Fixed failure to render Leads when attached to mobs out of view (MCPE-63931)

Iron Golems now spawn only on solid blocks (MCPE-140145)

Blocks

Falling Stalactites are now offset properly to avoid interacting with entities outside their intended hitbox (MCPE-132772)

Beehives now generate in the world facing South

Trapdoors now rotate correctly when loaded from a Structure Block(MCPE-66933)

Powder Snow no longer disappears when looking at it from a distance (MCPE-127565)

Sea Grass no longer spawns under Lily Pads during world generation to avoid breaking them

Holding Top Snow in hand while hovering over Grass Blocks no longer causes incorrect behavior (MCPE-140659, MCPE-140660)

User Interface

Riding an animal now displays the correct button prompt when playing with non-touch controls

Using Dye on Signs that contain formatted color text will now overwrite the formatted color text

Fixed text on Signs losing their formatting when new lines or word-wrapping are encountered. Formatting will now persist until the reset code or an overriding code is found. This is not retroactive and previously created Signs will not be changed

Altered the message that is displayed when players change skins in-game (MCPE-92772)

Fixed an issue where the D-pad and directional keys could not be used to navigate in certain parts of the user interface (MCPE-132826)

Fixed an issue where an error message could be shown after suspending the game on the Achievements screens with Screen Animations disabled (MCPE-132269)

Fixed an issue where an obscure game rule was added to Settings (MCPE-139025)

The sign in text on the main menu no longer overlaps the Marketplace button

Added space between tab title and the word ‘Tab’ for text-to-speech on Settings screen

Added a “More Info” button to the sign in error screen

Realms

All changes to settings made on new worlds before creation are now transferred to the world after creation

Character Creator

In Character Creator, tweaked color tint for the default Steve skin to match default Steve (MCPE-120818)

Back appearance pieces will no longer cover the left and right arrows in the profile screen

Sidebar no longer opens upon expanding any of the classic skin packs in the Dressing Room

Improved the navigation flow for Character Creator so that it always switches to the selected Character Creator profile (MCPE-139022)

Skins that are equipped from Marketplace while in-game now apply to the player’s character

Commands

Education Edition items are no longer shown as an option when using @e[type=] (MCPE-78363)

Command Blocks with ‘Needs Redstone’ and a non-zero ‘Delay in Ticks’ will now execute only if they remain powered for the delay duration (MCPE-74281)

Fixed alignment of the sidebar display from the ‘/scoreboard’ command when text length changes

Fixed the ability to summon experience orbs via the ‘/summon’ command (MCPE-130835)

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.17.40 are available for download with new resources, behaviors, and documentation

Resource Pack Template: aka.ms/ResourcePackTemplate

Behavior Pack Template (Includes documentation): aka.ms/BehaviorPackTemplate

Fixes

Fixed display only entity destruction in chunk discard scenarios

Fixed a bug that caused animations to be restarted when changing render controllers

Data-Driven Blocks

Updated documentation for the Block Rotation component

Updated documentation for ‘BlockExplosionResistance’

Added required toggles to documentation and to content error for block components

Graphical

Added a content error for using a material but not providing the required number of textures to the render controller

Molang

Fixed ‘item_remaining_use_duration’having improperly scaled or inverted results (This fix is a Versioned Change as of engine version 1.17.30)

Add new compile errors for expressions like ’text’ + 3, which were previously ignored (This is a Versioned Change as of engine version 1.17.40)

Molang expressions that contain capital letters are properly evaluated now

‘query.get_equipped_item_name’ will now recognize Sea Lanterns (MCPE-67893)

Added new compile errors for expressions like 1 + (9 10), which were previously ignored (This is a Versioned Change as of engine version 1.17.40)

GameTest Framework (Experimental)

Renamed method ‘succeedWhenBlockTypePresent’ to ‘succeedWhenBlockPresent’

Fixed a bug where property id would return “Unknown” for custom entities (MCPE-137786)

Identifier strings returned from property id now include the item’s namespace

Updated the GameTest Framework interface and added a new SimulatedPlayer capability:

Added ‘SimulatedPlayer’class to GameTest. This class enables GameTest to simulate a variety of player behaviors such as movement, using items, and interacting with blocks and entities. See the GameTest API reference documentation for more details

Added function spawnSimulatedPlayer(blockLocation: BlockLocation, name: string): SimulatedPlayer

Added function
removeSimulatedPlayer(simulatedPlayer: SimulatedPlayer): void

mojang-gametest.Test type

Changed signature of function assertEntityInstancePresent(entity: Entity, blockLocation: BlockLocation, isPresent: boolean = true)

mojang-minecraft components

Component ‘inventory’now works with Player inventories

GameTestSequence

Removed method ‘thenWaitWithDelay’

Added method ‘thenWaitAfter(delayTicks: number, callback: () => undefined)’- After a delay, executes the given callback every tick until it succeeds. Exceptions thrown within the callback will end sequence execution

Player

Fixed a bug where the location property would return an incorrect height for players

Added property ’id’

Block

Replaced method ’getLocation’ with property ’location’

Replaced method getPermutation with property ’permutation’

Replaced method ’getType’ with property ’type’

Replaced methods ’isWaterlogged’ and ’setWaterlogged’ with property ‘isWaterlogged’

Replaced method ’getBlockData’ with property ’permutation’

Replaced method ’isEmpty’ with property ’isEmpty’

Removed property ’canBeWaterlogged’

BlockType

Replaced method ’getName’ with property ’id’

Replaced method ’canBeWaterlogged’ with property ’canBeWaterlogged’

BlockPermutation

Replaced method ’getType’ with property ’type’

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.34

Release date: October 7th 2021 (North America) / October 8th 2021 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed an issue with owned content not appearing in the inventory after redeeming a retail code

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.32

Release date: September 30 2021 (North America, Europe) / September 31st 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating the Marketplace sidebar

Fixed issues with content not loading, even when connected to the internet (MCPE-102994)

Fixed an issue where light blocks would force players to spawn at the surface of the Overworld

Fixed the Looting enchantment not being applied when a mob was killed with a projectile (MCPE-141935)

Fixed issue causing “Couldn’t pack your world file for upload” error when uploading a world to Realms on Nintendo Switch

Fixed some chunks being deleted when reentering a flat world and old world with the Caves & Cliffs experimental toggle enabled, as well as other world generation issues (MCPE-140428)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.30

Release date: September 21st 2021 (North America, Europe) / September 22nd 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Respawn Blocks Explode Game Rule

Added the “Respawn Blocks Explode” game rule, which can be used to prevent Respawn Anchors and Beds from exploding (MCPE-76687)

Structure Block: Corner Mode

Corner Mode is used with the Detect button in Save Mode to define the area to save. It will only detect Corner Blocks with the same name as the structure being saved

Experimental Features:

More experimental features from Caves & Cliffs: Part II are available in this update and can be enabled on the world creation screen!

Please keep in mind that these features are work in progress, still under in development, and subject to change. If you activate them, your world might crash, break, or not work with future updates. Experimental features cannot be turned off after world creation.

For more information, please see the article about enabling experimental features at aka.ms/MCExperimentalFeatures.

Monster Spawning

Monsters now only spawn in complete darkness

This change is being made to balance the player’s ability to light up the new larger caves and make them safe from monster spawning

Note that this change only affects block-light and not sky light

Please send us your feedback on this change at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback!

Multi Noise World Generation

New and improved terrain and biome generation algorithm that creates more natural terrain and biome transitions

Improved surface decoration that detects the difference between when blocks are generated underwater and underground

Introduces large ore veins to world generation adding more strategy to mining

Introduces noodle caves to world generation, creating small pathways between bigger caves

Introduces the possibility of dry cave entrances that make it easier to access the new noise caves

Introduces a new algorithm that finds suitable spawn positions closer to origin

Added logic to save and load SubChunks by absolute Y index to support data-driven dimension height ranges

Changes:

Updated the Achievements button and moved from the Profile screen to the Main Menu and Pause screens

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Optimised pasting Unicode text into Book & Quill (MCPE-119651)

Fixed a crash that could occur when crafting a Crafting Table with Gameplay Tips enabled

Fixed a crash that could occur after disconnecting from the internet while playing in an online session as the client on iOS

Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when downloading large Marketplace worlds

Gameplay

Worlds with the Caves & Cliffs experimental toggle enabled are now more likely to have the same default world spawn position as worlds without the experiment using the same seed (MCPE-127708)

Matched respawn from Bed behavior with Java Edition by attempting to avoid placing players on damage dealing blocks when waking up and attempting to place players on the side of the bed they entered from (MCPE-118654)

Nether Portals placed between chunks no longer break when leaving the Nether (MCPE-74333)

Damaging buff effects no longer bypass absorption hearts (MCPE-62360)

Enchanting Table’s enchantment probability is now weighted (MCPE-101588)

Fixed incorrect position when dismounting at a negative world height (MCPE-136622)

Abandoned villages are now far rarer, more closely matching the Java Edition (MCPE-71769)

Fixed emissive light propagation in ray tracing mode by increasing irradiance cache sample size (MCPE-135157)

Fall damage is no longer applied when falling into Scaffolding (MCPE-108459)

Mobs

Cartographers will now only give maps to undiscovered monuments (MCPE-29375)

Tweaked Iron Golem spawning logic to better match Java Edition

Axolotls now spawn only when there is stone up to 10 blocks under them, and not inside bubble columns

Collecting Fish or Axolotl with a Bucket no longer immediately releases them (MCPE-44320)

Armor Stands now drop equipped items when destroyed by fire or lava (MCPE-94603)

Limited the maximum number of Phantom mobs that can spawn (MCPE-106557)

Goats now play their “impact 3” sound (MCPE-127757)

Grown up Goats no longer lose their Horns when reloading a world

Baby Goats no longer have horns (MCPE-123253)

Fixed an animation parity issue with Skeletons not using both arms to hold their Bows (MCPE-670)

Undead mobs standing near Powder Snow now burn normally (MCPE-131005)

Powder Snow above undead mobs now prevents burning effect

Multiple Shulkers are no longer able to spawn in the same position from spawn eggs or End City generation (MCPE-43972)

Mobs can now pathfind correctly when standing on Amethyst Buds (MCPE-130010)

Lightning no longer randomly strikes mobs that are under blocks (MCPE-121688)

Fixed mobs sometimes rendering with incorrect geometry when viewed from the Structure Block preview window (MCPE-95183)

Experimental Features: Wither can now be spawned at negative heights (MCPE-125270)

Ghasts no longer spawn in less than 5x4x5 areas (MCPE-133687)

Magma Cubes no longer spawn in less than 3x3x2 areas (MCPE-46540)

Medium Magma Cubes now have a larger hitbox (MCPE-132159)

The Thorns enchantment now does Knockback to mobs (MCPE-56212)

Blocks

Cave Vines can now be pollinated by Bees (MCPE-127821)

Enchantment Tables now emit light level 7 (MCPE-130868)

The falling position of Pointed Dripstone is no longer slightly offset (MCPE-119548)

Disabled biome tinting for Spruce and Birch Leaves (MCPE-128996)

Bubble Columns are now placed properly when loaded with a Structure Block (MCPE-97027)

Vanilla Parity: Using Bone Meal on Moss Blocks now also replaces Tuff blocks (MCPE-125922)

Grass and water block tint colors are no longer slightly randomized with noise

Fixed Light Block not being displayed correctly when being held (MCPE-123249)

Weeping and Twisting Vines now grow correctly after the player breaks them (MCPE-90932)

Minecart with Chest will now copy over its chest contents when advanced pick blocked

Crimson Roots now have a small chance of growing on Warped Nylium blocks when using Bone Meal (MCPE-83616)

Candle now drops when Candle Cake is pushed by a Piston (MCPE-130594)

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

Unicode font now correctly highlights on Signs with glowing text (MCPE-130072)

Pumpkins placed facing South, East, or West now can now be used to trade with Villagers if they were mined with Silk Touch tools (MCPE-105540)

More Candles can no longer be added to Candles placed without any support block (MCPE-130810)

Shulker Boxes now remain in Dispensers when dispensed at world height limit (MCPE-130085)

Monster Spawners no longer emit light

Powder Snow can now be collected with a Dispenser (MCPE-127564)

Target Blocks now conduct Redstone signals (MCPE-75034)

Fixed text from signs drawing on maps on ray tracing enabled hardware

Amethyst Cluster and Amethyst Bud can no longer be placed on Grass Path blocks

Corrected “Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore” name from “Deepslate Lapis Ore” (MCPE-123605)

Fixed Bed display if the foot of the Bed is in a brighter area than the head (MCPE-123592)

Fixed Large Chest display so the brightest end of the Chest is chosen to light the whole Chest

Dispensers now remove bubble columns when removing water (MCPE-56462)

Sea Pickles now change light depending on being in underwater or not (MCPE-131642)

Snow layers are now melted by light from torches, etc. (MCPE-131272)

Vanilla Parity: Falling gravity blocks will no longer break when landing on certain blocks (MCPE-20109)

Half of the Enchantment Table book doesn’t render dark anymore (MCPE-106627)

Blocks moved by a Piston no longer appear white while moving (MCPE-66250)

Spore Blossoms no longer have a randomly offset hitbox (MCPE-121658)

Measurements of hitbox of Spore Blossoms now match Java Edition

Moss Block and Moss Carpet now break when moved by Pistons and Sticky Pistons can no longer pull them (MCPE-121751, MCPE-122004)

Water dripping from Pointed Dripstone can no longer fill Cauldrons with Potions. Sorry, we knew it was fun but too overpowered! (MCPE-131180)

Fixed an issue causing Slime and Honey Block movement slowdown to not be fully applied to players

Light Blocks are once again visible while holding one and properly show their brightness value (MCPE-123249)

Fixed Light Blocks not being removed when destroying them while holding a Light Block (MCPE-123258)

Fixed Light Block brightness not being adjustable when interacting with it (MCPE-123387)

Fixed Barrier Blocks being destructible while not holding a Barrier Block

Items

Shulker Boxes now drop their contents when destroyed as an item (MCPE-129470, MCPE-87877)

Bows and Tridents are now held more similarly to Java Edition (MCPE-126717, MCPE-44418)

Eating Chorus Fruit while gliding no longer deals fall damage to the player (MCPE-112621)

Swords now break Bamboo in a single swing (MCPE-64013)

Fixed a bug that could cause the Trident, Shield, and Crossbow to render incorrectly when an additional player is connected over the internet using a Marketplace skin (MCPE-118358)

Fixed a bug which could cause the Spyglass to appear as if it’s being thrown when using a custom skin (MCPE-127498)

Using a Powder Snow Bucket on a Cauldron filled with Powder Snow no longer creates a new Powder Snow block (MCPE-131177)

Clock and Compass items no longer function in the Recipe Book (MCPE-36354)

Lava Buckets can now be emptied into a Cauldron filled with Lava

Fixed offhand Shields clipping into players’ arms while in third-person perspective (MCPE-122672)

Holding a Shield in Marketplace maps no longer shows a content error

Made projectile items move more smoothly when far from players (MCPE-101102)

Strong/Long/Splash/Lingering Potions can now be placed in the Brewing Stand manually (MCPE-86636)

Soul Speed Boots can now be unequipped properly after losing durability (MCPE-106367)

Diamond Pickaxes found in Hoglin Stable chests are now enchanted (MCPE-129750)

Fixed held items not disappearing visually to other players after a player dies when the Keep Inventory game rule is enabled (MCPE-64235)

Shears now correctly cut Vines and Glow Lichen faster (MCPE-123139)

Campfires and Soul Campfires now stack in the inventory (MCPE-67890)

Audio

Amethyst walking sounds are now affected by the “Player” volume slider

Deepslate walking sounds are now affected by the “Player” volume slider

Moss Block walking sounds are now affected by the “Player” volume slider

Sounds of moving in/on Powder Snow are now affected by the “Player” volume slider

Jumping and landing on blocks have now their sounds affected by the “Player” volume slider (MCPE-116135)

Dripstone drip sounds are now affected by the “Block” volume slider

Block interaction “click” sounds are now affected by the “Blocks” volume slider (MCPE-104983)

Turtle Eggs no longer produce the Bone Meal sound when placed on Sand (MCPE-127189)

Swapped the toggle sounds for Levers so they are now parity with Java Edition (MCPE-30379)

Using a Water Bucket on a fully filled Cauldron now produces the correct sound (MCPE-131177)

Accessibility

Text to Speech chat setting once again correctly narrates chat messages (MCPE-129901)

Text to Speech now correctly reads item names in the inventory

Inventory grid slots are no longer double counted for Text to Speech focus controls

User Interface

Fixed the hotbar being misaligned with XP bar by 1 pixel (MCPE-46975)

The hotbar is no longer too dark when anti-aliasing is increased (MCPE-54213)

The crosshair no longer flickers during multiplayer sessions (MCPE-123918)

Using the touch interface, holding the output slot on the Stonecutter or Loom will now rapidly craft items (MCPE-128423)

Fixed an incorrect popup when attempting to activate a pack with a missing dependency (MCPE-130978)

Fixed translation issues for some keys containing upper case letters

Replaced loading bars with new loading spinner in the Marketplace

Recipe Book crafting estimates no longer differ from the actual results

Cursor items no longer count towards recipe ingredient in Recipe Book

The selected recipe in the Recipe Book is now deselected when the player runs out of ingredients

Non-craftable recipes no longer displayed in Recipe Book when search mechanism is used

Nether blocks now appear in the crafting grid if any other ingredient is unavailable

Fixed a wireless network connection error message that appeared when players were connected via a wired network

Fixed various spelling errors in Character Creator

Hover of widget buttons were showing corrupted appearance before full load was complete

Fixed a legibility issue with some Japanese font characters

Riding an animal now displays the correct tooltip term when played on a non-touch screen

Experimental warning message is no longer displayed inconsistently when loading beta worlds

A debug string is no longer shown for how to open chat (MCPE-128955)

Fixed an issue where the item category text color did not match the item text color if it was changed in Resource Packs

Fixed an issue where patterns in the Loom would not display correctly with some texture packs

The emote wheel no longer appears when pressing Ctrl+B in-game (MCPE-125246)

Fixed Input Method Editor (IME) not working after suspending the game on Windows 10 (MCPE-59722)

Added a new sidebar to some Marketplace and Dressing Room related screens to help better improve the experience of navigating these areas

There is now an item transferring animation when deselecting a recipe

Sidebar text is now localized properly when a new language is loaded or the current language changes

Fixed a bug that could cause the Sign In button to appear behind the Marketplace button

Fixed the Noto Sans Smooth font on Windows and Xbox platforms with the Japanese locale to address legibility and usage of correct characters

Fixed “CR” characters incorrectly appearing at the end of lines for some display languages

Enabled new achievements screens for VR (not including PS VR)

Placing a Sign on Rooted Dirt now correctly opens the text editor (MCPE-129280)

The Sign In dialog is no longer shown on a split-screen game to anyone other than the primary player on PlayStation 4

Fixed tamed Wolves being transparent on the Structure Block screen

Realms

Improved responsiveness of Realms menus, particularly on Nintendo Switch

The “Download World” button is now visible for worlds on expired Realms

2 player Realms no longer count against the 10 player realm limit

Realms reset button will now navigate to the loading screen while reset is happening

The Realms Slots screen will now open faster and have a loading dialog if it takes a long time

The Realms Backup page now only shows the most recent 1100 Realms backups to prevent text overlap issues (REALMS-8425)

Switching the active world slot in Realms no longer spams the “Fetching World Info” prompt

Renaming a Realm now takes effect immediately while playing

Fixed some issues with being unable to kick players via the user interface or the ‘/kick’ command

The text on the Realms Plus trial button on the play screen no longer changes when hovered

Pressing the View Privacy Policy button now opens properly on Nintendo Switch

Commands

Fixed a crash that could occur if a structure was placed with a command in an unloaded area, and that structure was deleted

Teleporting a mob between dimensions no longer causes the mob to despawn (MCPE-127414)

Loading a structure with the ‘/structure’ command now displays the correct output messages (MCPE-132813)

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.17.30 are available for download with new resources, behaviors, and documentation

Resource Pack Template: aka.ms/ResourcePackTemplate

Behavior Pack Template (Includes documentation): aka.ms/BehaviorPackTemplate

Gameplay

Data-driven blocks can now be added to the Creative menu

New chemistry material reductions for Education Edition can now be defined in the JSON files

“potion.prefix” and “potion..postfix” potion string resources have been renamed to “potion..name”

Potion name string resources have been changed so there are separate “Splash” and “Lingering” string resources

The old style of using “potion.prefix” and “potion.*.postfix” is still supported

UI bind objects can now utilize the ‘ignore’ field

Attachables that are visible in first person view will no longer render backwards

Fixes

Fixed a bug where an entity might fail to initialize its tag component

Sky no longer renders through walls of a large enclosed area when using fog

Updated documentation formatting for item components and how they work within Resource Packs and Behavior Packs

Using Water Buckets to collect fish has been version locked to prevent breaking old world templates

Fixed controller support when editing NPC dialog (MCPE-135175)

‘behavior.knockback_roar’ now has a vertical and horizontal strength value

Adjusted padding for HD Textures in mipmaps level 1 in texture atlas to fix texture bleeding

Killing a custom mob with an unknown loot table entry type will no longer cause a crash, and will now throw a content error (MCPE-129006)

Rabbit with initialEvent specified now scales properly to adult rabbit size (MCPE-76643)

Similar to the spawns_on_block_filter, the spawns_above_block_filter specifies a list of blocks and a distance. The mob can then spawn only if the nearest block within the specified distance below the desired spawnpoint is in that list (water and air not included). “minecraft:spawns_above_block_filter”: { “blocks”: “minecraft:stone”, “distance”: 10 }

Improved documentation for ‘DamageableItemComponent’

Fixed the ability to add launch point positional offset for projectiles spawned with the ‘spawn_entity’ component

Fixed the ability to add angular offset to launch vector for projectiles spawned with the ‘spawn_entity’ component

Fixed offset not working for projectiles summoned through an interaction

Fixed projectile ‘angleoffset’ value only reflected if shooter is riding another entity

Fixed rotation of projectile launch point around a mob when projectile offset specified

Parsing of UI json field “ignored” now throws a content error if it is invalid

Fixed movement prediction interpolating with invalid data in even more scenarios (MCPE-108568)

Removed the “replace” element from ‘sound_definitions.json’ for being ambiguous in its usage (and was never used) (MCPE-99304)

Commands

Commands ran through animations now will run in the order defined in animation files on all platforms, including Realms

Animations and events defined in Behavior Packs can now run commands that require cheats without the player enabling cheats (such as setting certain rules with the ‘/gamerule’ command)

Target selectors ry and rym now support wrapping around north

The ‘/particle’ command position argument is now optional (MCPE-128379)

The ‘/particle’ command will now output on success (MCPE-80348)

The ‘/particle’ command no longer shows an error when run successfully through ‘/execute’ (MCPE-129001)

The ‘/clone’ command now copies signal strength for Levers and Redstone Dust

The ‘/structure’ command can now specify a <to: x y z> position argument with y below 0 as long as it is equal or above the minimum height for that dimension

Added functionality for Intellisense options: “d” and “default” in the gamemode command selector (MCPE-92198)

Minecart with Command Block can now use the self selector (@s) in its commands to target itself (MCPE-60126)

The “/time set” command now sets the correct time and day when specifying a time above 24000 or below the current time (e.g. “/time set 0” sets the day to 0, “/time set 28000” sets the day to 1), and “/time” can now set or add to a negative world time (MCPE-43394)

The ‘/spawnpoint’ command can now be used while the player is sleeping and outputs success when setting to the player’s existing spawnpoint (MCPE-106720)

The camera shake command no longer shakes every player’s screen when “@s” is used as the selector (MCPE-120383)

GameTest Framework (Experimental)

Renamed module “Minecraft” to “mojang-minecraft”

Renamed module “GameTest” to “mojang-gametest”

GameTest (now mojang-gametest)

Added helper method spawnAtLocation(location : Location) : Entity – Spawns an entity at the given Location

Added helper method walkToLocation(mob : Entity, location : Location, speedModifier : number) – Commands an entity to move to the given Location

Added method assertCanReachLocation(mob : Entity, location : BlockLocation, bool canReach) – Asserts that the given mob can reach the target block location

Renamed helper method worldLocation(location : BlockLocation) to worldBlockLocation(location : BlockLocation)

Renamed helper method relativeLocation(location : BlockLocation) to relativeBlockLocation(location : BlockLocation)

Added helper method worldLocation(relativeLocation : Location) : Location – From a Location with coordinates relative to the GameTest structure block, returns a new Location with coordinates relative to the world

Added helper method relativeLocation(worldLocation : Location) : Location – From a Location, returns a new Location with coordinates relative to the current GameTest structure block

Added helper method spawnWithoutBehaviorsAtLocation(entityIdentifier : string, location : Location) : Entity – Spawns an entity at a location without any AI behaviors

Added helper method rotateDirection(direction : Direction) : Direction – Rotates the given direction relative to the GameTest structure rotation

Added helper method getTestDirection() : Direction – Returns the direction the GameTest is facing based on its structure rotation

Renamed function assertBlockTypePresent to assertBlockPresent

Renamed function assertEntityData to assertEntityState

Removed function assertBlockTypeNotPresent (added boolean isPresent to assertBlockPresent instead)

Removed function assertEntityNotPresent (added boolean to assertEntityPresent instead)

Removed function assertEntityNotPresentInArea (added boolean to assertEntityPresentInArea instead)

Removed function assertEntityNotTouching (added boolean to assertEntityTouching)

Removed function succeedWhenEntityNotPresent (added boolean to succeedWhenEntityPresent)

Modified signature of function assertBlockState(blockLocation: BlockLocation, callback: (Block) => boolean)

Modified signature of function assertBlockPresent(blockType: BlockType, blockLocation: BlockLocation, isPresent: boolean)

Modified signature of function assertEntityPresent(entityTypeIdentifier: string, blockLocation: BlockLocation, isPresent: boolean)

Modified signature of function assertEntityPresentInArea(entityTypeIdentifier: string, isPresent: boolean)

Modified signature of function assertEntityTouching(entityTypeIdentifier: string, location: Location, isTouching: boolean)

Modified signature of function succeedWhenEntityPresent(entityTypeIdentifier: string, location: Location, isPresent: boolean)

Minecraft (now mojang-minecraft)

Renamed BlockTypes class to MinecraftBlockTypes

Renamed Effects class to MinecraftEffectTypes

Renamed Items class to MinecraftItemTypes

Events

Added event World.events.beforeExplosion – Fires before an explosion occurs

Added event World.events.explosion – Fires when an explosion occurs

Added event World.events.explodeBlock – Fires when a block breaks due to an explosion

Added event World.event.beforeActivatePiston – Fires before a piston is activated

Added event World.event.activatePiston – Fires when a piston is activated

Added read-only property currentTick to tick event – Returns the current server tick

Renamed event createEntity to entityCreate

Renamed event addEffect to effectAdd

Renamed event activatePiston to pistonActivate

Renamed event beforeActivatePiston to beforePistonActivate

Renamed event explodeBlock to blockExplode

Renamed event changeWeather to weatherChange

Block

Added method getDimension() : Dimension

Added BlockPistonComponent

Molang

Added experimental queries for item cooldowns: ‘query.is_cooldown_type’, ‘query.cooldown_time’, and ‘query.cooldown_time_remaining’

Updated many Molang content errors to specify which operator or query was involved

‘min_engine_version’ from Resource Pack and Behavior Pack manifests is now passed into Molang expression parsing. This allows for future breaking changes tied to a specific engine version

Added ‘BlockPartVisibilityComponent’

Allows creators to specify Molang conditions for each “bone” listed in the geometry JSON that turn on/off bones based on the block state

Must have the Experimental toggle enabled to use

Fixed experimental ‘query.bone_orientation_trs’ to have correct translation Y and scale results

Added experimental ‘block_neighbor_has_any_tags’ and ‘block_neighbor_has_all_tags’ Molang queries

Takes a block relative position and a set of tags

Returns 0/1

Must have the Experimental toggle enabled to use

Fixed a crash that could occur when entering a world with a custom Resource Pack that contained ‘query.armor_color_slot’ (MCPE-106437)

Fixed ‘query.item_remaining_use_duration’ having improperly scaled or inverted results (This is to fix a Versioned Change as of engine version 1.17.30)

Added ‘query.facing_target_to_range_attack’, which returns whether or not the queried actor’s ‘minecraft:behavior.ranged_attack’ goal is currently running

Moved experimental Molang queries (other than those related to Actor Properties) to a new ‘Experimental Molang Features’ toggle

Improved Molang documentation related to experiments

Experimental queries and language expressions now list which experiment(s) they require to be available

Versioned Changes are now detailed in the documentation, starting with the ‘query.item_remaining_use_duration’ fix

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.11

Release date: TBA 2021 (North America, Europe) / TBA 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Players no longer die and instantly respawn after traveling back to Overworld from the End in certain circumstances (MCPE-135226)

Players no longer die and get stuck on the respawn screen when entering an End Portal after dying in the End in certain seeds (MCPE-132484)

Fixed a crash that could occur on Xbox when suspending and resuming the title for the second time

Horses no longer become invisible after being dismounted (MCPE-108568)

On Realms, the ‘/msg’ command once again works when the world is in Survival mode and cheats are disabled (REALMS-7760)

After renewing an expired Realm, the Realm is now properly renewed instead of a new Realm being created (REALMS-7263)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.10

Release date: July 13th 2021 (North America, Europe) / July 14th 2021 (Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Candles

Candles are now available in the game!

Can be placed in clusters up to four and lit using Flint & Steel

Put a Candle on a Cake and make a wish!

Candles can be crafted using a Honeycomb and String

Combine with dye on a crafting grid to craft different colored Candles

Potted Azaleas

Added potted Azalea and Flowering Azalea variants

Just place an Azalea in a Flower Pot!

Experimental Gameplay:

Experimental features from Caves & Cliffs: Part II are available in this update and can be enabled on the world creation screen!

Please keep in mind that these features are work in progress, still under in development, and subject to change. If you activate them, your world might crash, break, or not work with future updates. Experimental features cannot be turned off after world creation.

For more information, please see the article about enabling experimental features at aka.ms/MCExperimentalFeatures.

World height now goes up to 320 blocks and down to -64 blocks

New surface biomes including Lofty Peaks, Snow Capped Peaks, Snowy Slopes, Mountain Grove, and Mountain Meadow

New cave biomes including Lush Caves and Dripstone Caves

Revamped cave generation adds cheese caves, spaghetti caves, lava aquifers, and flooded aquifer caves

New ore distribution

Skulk Sensor

Goat Horn

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed a crash that could occur if a structure was placed with a command in an unloaded area and that structure was deleted

Gameplay

Underwater fog is once again dependent on biome and appears as it should (MCPE-124266)

Fixed a bug that could cause Nether Portals to sometimes take players to wrong coordinates (MCPE-115933)

Fixed split-screen players not able to rename items on Anvils (MCPE-108405)

Thunderstorms now happen as often as Java Edition (MCPE-72798)

Bastion loot now closely matches Java Edition (MCPE-104330)

Players can no longer swim through the air under a platform, though it looked pretty cool (MCPE-48958)

Fixed players going through Cobwebs taking fall damage before hitting the ground (MCPE-121550)

Descending through Powder Snow with touch controls now uses the same button as descending through Scaffolding

Fixed an issue that was causing the player’s head to not animate properly with emotes (MCPE-126902)

Mobs

Empty Buckets can no longer be used to collect Fish

Axolotls no longer move their tails while playing dead (MCPE-123309)

Feeding Axolotls with Bucket of Tropical Fish now returns a Water Bucket instead of an empty Bucket (MCPE-127382)

Axolotls now only spawn in complete darkness to prevent spawning in unwanted places

The hitbox on Axolotls is now smaller to match the size of the mob

Drowned, Guardians, and Elder Guardians now attacks Axolotls on sight

Skeletons now turn into Strays after 20 seconds in Powder Snow, reduced from 45 seconds

Strays no longer drop Wither Skeleton Skulls when killed by Charged Creepers (MCPE-35876)

Burning mobs can no longer destroy Powder Snow when the Mob Griefing world option is disabled (MCPE-221842)

Tempted Goats now move at the same speed as goats in Java Edition, and other similar mobs that are being tempted (MCPE-123261)

When Goats are performing a ram attack, mobs no longer retaliate against the Goats (MCPE-129619)

Goat fall damage reduction is now in parity with Java Edition (-10 reduced fall damage)

Goats can now continue ramming when on Slime Blocks and Honey Blocks

Baby Sea Turtles no longer despawn after being hatched (MCPE-70664)

Baby Horses, including their variants, are now taller and no longer exhibit Z-fighting from their legs (MCPE-92462)

Iron Golems and Evokers are no longer sometimes aggressive on Peaceful difficulty (MCPE-47012)

Amphibious mobs no longer get stuck when pathing over slabs and Daylight Sensors

Attacked Glow Squids no longer go dark only for the aggressor in multiplayer sessions

Glow Squid now darkens to match the surrounding light level when hurt (MCPE-121754)

Villagers spawned from Villager spawners on Marketplace worlds that were created after version 1.11 now correctly spawn as V2 villagers

Fixed a warning that could appear in split-screen when encountering Guardians

Blocks

Falling Anvils and Stalactites now deal damage to mobs when landing in liquid

Azaleas can now be Bone Mealed when placed on Clay

Using Pick Block on Azalea Leaves and Flowering Azalea Leaves now results in the correct blocks being picked (MCPE-128092)

Hanging Roots are now destroyed by water (MCPE-121676) (MCPE-127677)

Lightning Rods no longer break falling blocks that land on them (MCPE-116545)

Rooted Dirt texture is now randomly rotated, matching the behavior of regular Dirt blocks (MCPE-123197)

Small Dripleaf now only drops itself when broken with Shears

Glow Lichen now only drops itself when broken with Shears

Jukeboxes now only ejects Music Disks into non-solid blocks (MCPE-85635)

Items

Projectiles, such as Snowballs and Eggs, no longer cast shadows

All dropped items now have a similar floating height

Disenchanting an item using the Grindstone once again resets the enchantment cost penalty correctly (MCPE-107211)

Data-driven items now swing faster when not targeting blocks (MCPE-119702)

Firework Rockets obtained from ‘/replaceitem’ command now have a flight duration (MCPE-109037)

Firework Stars obtained from ‘/replaceitem’ command now have proper color values (MCPE-109037)

Glowing text on Signs now has an outline (MCPE-129123)

Black text on Signs can now be lit by using a Glow Ink Sac (MCPE-128079)

Tooltips are now present when holding Ink Sac and Glow Ink Sac when using a controller

Ink Sac and Glow Ink Sac can no longer be used indefinitely on signs in Adventure mode

Players can no longer dye text on Signs in Adventure mode (MCPE-126489)

Pumpkins are once again accepted by Farmer Villagers regardless of their rotation when mined (MCPE-105540)

User Interface

Glow Item Frame is now placed after regular Item Frame in the Creative inventory (MCPE-117532)

Copper Ore is now placed after other Overworld ores in the Creative inventory (MCPE-119724)

Deepslate is now placed after other stones in the Creative inventory (MCPE-127592)

Hotbar item tooltip duration now scales with the length of the tooltip’s text

Added a new Accessibility icon in the Settings menu

Items can now be previewed in the Character Creator and equipped using the Equip button

Added Equip button to Classic Skins and Capes tabs

The profile screen reload button is now properly localized to all supported languages

The “Reset to Default” button in the Accessibility settings now resets the Text Background Opacity slider

Fixed a typo in the “Loom” section of “How to Play” (MCPE-128735)

The counters on empty tabs of the Play screen now display zero instead of an empty, grey box (MCPE-110535)

Featured Item thumbnails now fit within the Featured Items window in Character Creator

When not signed into a Microsoft Account, players are now presented with a button prompting them to sign in on the Play screen so that they can view Realms

Realms Plus content expiration timers now appear properly

Realms Plus timers now only appear within 30 days of expiring

Commands

‘/title clear’ now correctly clears the title and subtitle from the HUD (MCPE-97636)

Frosted Ice can now be used in any command that accepts a block, such as ‘/setblock’ and ‘/testforblock’ (MCPE-126741)

Technical Updates:

Updated Add-On Template Packs

Updated Add-On templates for 1.17.10 are available for download with new resources, behaviors, and documentation

Resource Pack Template: aka.ms/resourcepacktemplate

Behavior Pack Template (Includes documentation): aka.ms/behaviorpacktemplate

Stability and Performance

Added better error handling for JSON parsing. Also added several new content errors for item parsing as well as for loot tables

General

Players are given a content error when custom recipes are invalid

Renamed “minecraft:scaffolding_climber” to “minecraft:block_climber”. It now processes climbing both Scaffolding and Powder Snow

Gameplay

Loot chests with Seed=0 now correctly randomize if placed on the same coordinates. Note that Pick Blocking a Vanilla loot chest before opening it will now result in identical loot in each copy unless the seed is set to 0 in the NBT

Dedicated Server

Added back missing symbols for Bedrock Dedicated Server on Linux (BDS-13482)

NPC Dialogue

Content creators can now create multi-page dialogues with branching narrative for NPCs using the ‘/dialogue’ command and dialogue JSON files

Data-Driven Mobs

The Ender Dragon rendering and animations are now fully data-driven

The Ender Crystal rendering and animations are now fully data-driven

The Horse rendering and animations are now fully data-driven

This work supports all Horse variants (Horse, Mule, Donkey, Zombie Horse, Skeleton Horse) and all Horse versions including:

v1 (engine version 1.2.5 and earlier)

v2 (engine version 1.2.6 to 1.17.0)

v3 (engine version 1.17.10 and onward). This will be a cleaner version of the v2 model, with less confusing bone naming

Data-Driven Items

Updated documentation for ‘DisplayNameItemComponent’

Data-Driven Blocks

Updated documentation for ‘BlockUnwalkableComponent’

Actors

Incoming client-sync properties for newly seen types will properly register with client-side Actor Property Manager groups

MoLang

“query.wing_flap_position” now works with the Ender Dragon

Added “query.show_bottom” – a query for determining whether or not the entity’s bottom is rendered

Added “query.death_time” – a query for determining the elapsed ticks since a mob started dying

Added “math.min_angle” – a math expression for minimizing the angle magnitude (in degrees) into the range [-180, 180]

Fixed experimental ‘query.target’ to work on client-side queries

Chunk Loading

Limits writing of chunks unless necessary. Chunks upgraded from older formats will not automatically save when loaded, but when modified (Through blocks or actors, for example) they will be marked for saving

GameTest Framework (Experimental)

Updated the ‘/clearall’ command to also clear tests outside of loaded areas

Dimension

getEntitiesAtBlockLocation(location : BlockLocation) : Entity[] – Returns an array of all entities at the given block location

spawnEntity(identifier : String, location : BlockLocation) : Entity – Spawns an entity with the given identifier at the given block location

[Removed] function getName()

property id : String – Gets the entity’s identifier

property nameTag : String – Gets or sets the entity’s name tag

Player

property name : String – Gets the player’s name

method getPlayers() : Player[] – Returns all players in the server

Updates to how blocks are handled in APIs:

BlockType, BlockPermutation, and Block instances replace BlockState-based updating

Exposed chest block component and Container

Added location and velocity read-only properties to Entity

function createExplosion(location : Location, radius : number, explosionOptions : ExplosionOptions) – Creates an explosion

ExplosionOptions : class – Provides additional configuration parameters for createExplosion

method triggerEvent(eventName : string) – Triggers an event on an entity

Added ‘thenExecuteFor’ to ‘GameTestSequence’, which repeatedly calls the callback for the specified number of ticks

Events

Renamed ‘World.event.weatherChanged’ to ‘World.event.changeWeather’

Added event ‘World.event.addEffect’ – Fires when an effect is applied to an entity.

Added event ‘World.event.createEntity’ – Fires when an entity is added to the world.

Removed function ‘World.addEventListener’

Changed function ‘getDuration()’ to property ‘duration’

Changed function ‘getAmplifier()’ to property ‘amplifier’

Added property ‘displayName’ – Gets the display name of the effect

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.2

Release date: June 22nd 2021 (North America) / June 23rd 2021 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Andesite, Diorite, and Diamond Ore now generate in expected amounts, as they did prior to version 1.17.0 (MCPE-127555, MCPE-130185)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.1

Release date: June 15th (North America) / June 16th 2021 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Fixed errors that occurred when logging into Featured Servers on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-130282)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.17.0 (Caves & Cliffs: Part 1)

Release date: June 8th (North America) / June 9th 2021 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Axolotl

Axolotls are amphibious creatures that spawn in underground water

Holding a Bucket of Tropical Fish will cause nearby Axolotls to follow the player on both land and in water. Axolotls cannot be tamed but can be bred by feeding them Buckets of Tropical Fish

Axolotl will attack Fish, Squid, Drowned, and Guardians!

Axolotls come in a variety of colors, all with an equal chance of spawning except for blue. Blue Axolotls have a small chance of spawning as a mutation when breeding two Axolotls

Axolotls can survive on dry land for a few minutes. After that they will start to dry out and take continuous damage until rehydrated

When taking damage, there is a chance that the Axolotl will play dead. While playing dead, the Axolotl will regenerate health and mobs will be unable to target the Axolotl

When a player kills a mob that the Axolotl was attacking, they are rewarded with the regeneration effect and their mining fatigue is removed, if they had it

Axolotls can be picked up with buckets, just like fish!

Goat

The winning mob of the MINECON Live 2019 mob vote!

For now, Goats spawn in Extreme Hills. This will change with Caves & Cliffs: Part II

Goats will occasionally ram into players and other mobs

Goats can jump high and take less fall damage than other mobs

Goats will avoid walking onto Powder Snow

Goats can be bred and tempted using Wheat

Use an empty Bucket to get Milk

Keep an ear out for the elusive Screamer Goat!

Glow Squid

The winning mob of the Minecraft Live 2020 mob vote!

Glow squids are aquatic creatures that spawn in underground water

When killed, glow squid drop Glow Ink Sacs

Glow Ink Sac and Glow Item Frame

Craft a Glow Item Frame by combining a glow ink sac with an item frame in a crafting table

Any item in a Glow Item Frame is perfectly illuminated, even at night!

Glow Ink Sac and Glowing Sign Text

If a Sign is interacted with a Glow Ink Sac, the text will then get a glowing effect

Powder Snow

Mobs inside a block of powder snow start to freeze and eventually take damage

Players can protect themselves from powder snow by equipping leather armor

Cauldrons fill up in snowy weather, creating a renewable source of powder snow. It will also generate naturally in certain snowy biomes when Caves & Cliffs: Part II releases

Buckets can be used to scoop up and place powder snow

Most mobs cannot walk on powder snow and fall into the block instead

Skeletons transform into strays after standing in powder snow for awhile

Wearing Leather Boots allows a player or mob to walk on Powder Snow without falling in

Glow Lichen

A dim light source that appears on cave walls and in underground lakes

Use bone meal to spread it along block surfaces and harvest it using shears

Amethyst Geodes

These huge Geodes can be found anywhere underground of newly generated chunks in the Overworld

Amethyst Geodes have an outer layer of Smooth Basalt Blocks and a second layer of Calcite Blocks

Inside Geodes, there is an inner layer of various Amethyst Blocks

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

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

Amethyst Clusters

Amethyst Clusters grow from budding Amethyst, which can be found inside Geodes

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

Fully-grown Amethyst clusters drop four Amethyst Shards (or more with the Fortune enchantment) when a Pickaxe is used, and drop two Amethyst Shards when broken by hand, Piston, or other means

Clusters can be mined with the Silk Touch enchantment at any stage of growth

Budding Amethyst

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

Amethyst Buds can only grow when attached to Budding Amethyst, and will grow until they become a full Amethyst Cluster

Cluster Amethyst Blocks

Clusters can only grow when they are placed on budding Amethyst Blocks

Amethyst Shards

Amethyst Shards are items used in a variety of crafting recipes

Tinted Glass

Though visually transparent, light does not pass through Tinted Glass

Can be crafted by putting a Glass Block in the middle of four Amethyst Shards on a Crafting Table

Tinted Glass can be obtained without the Silk Touch enchantment and does not shatter when broken, like normal Glass

Copper

Copper Ore can now be found underground in newly generated chunks and can be smelted into Copper Ingots

Block of Copper and Cut Copper can be crafted, as well as stairs and slabs

After being placed in the world, Copper Blocks will oxidize slowly over time, turning to exposed Copper, Weathered Copper, and Oxidized Copper

Copper Blocks that are not fully oxidized can be waxed to prevent further oxidation, either by using a Honeycomb item on them, by using the crafting grid, or by using a Dispenser loaded with Honeycombs

Axes can scrape off wax and oxidation from Copper Blocks

Lightning Rod

All lightning strikes that happen within a radius of 64 blocks from a Lightning Rod will strike the Lightning Rod

Lightning rods can be crafted using Copper ingots in a Crafting Table

A Lightning Rod struck by lightning will emit a full Redstone signal for 8 game ticks

Spyglass

The Spyglass is used to see far away places and can be crafted with Copper Ingots and an Amethyst Shard

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

Raw Ore Items

Added Raw Copper, Raw Iron, and Raw Gold items

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

This is to prevent cluttering the inventory and have consistency with Fortune on all ores

Ore blocks are still smeltable, meaning you can still smelt ore blocks you’ve obtained previously or with the Silk Touch enchantment

Raw Ore Blocks

Added block of Raw Copper, Raw Iron, and Raw Gold

Just like other ore materials, you can craft a compact block with raw ore items to save inventory space or use as decoration

Raw ore blocks can be placed on a crafting grid to break down into the original raw ore items

Deepslate

Deepslate is generated in blobs below y = 16

Mining it with a Pickaxe will drop Cobbled Deepslate, which can be smelted back into Deepslate

When ore is generated in the same place as Deepslate, Deepslate variants of that ore are now generated instead

Deepslate Blocks can be crafted into Polished Deepslate, Deepslate Tile, and Deepslate Brick Blocks, including slabs, stairs, and walls

Deepslate Blocks also come in Cracked Tile, Cracked Brick, Chiseled, and Infested variants

Stone tools can be crafted using Cobbled Deepslate

Tuff

A new decorative block

Blobs of Tuff Blocks generate in the world below y = 16

Smooth Basalt

Basalt blocks can now be smelted into smooth basalt blocks as a new decorative block

New Cave Blocks

While Lush Caves and other new cave biomes won’t generate until the Caves & Cliffs: Part II update, many new blocks are now available through the Creative mode inventory or certain aspects of Survival mode

Trade & Loot Table Additions

Added the following trades to the Mason:

Will sell 4 Dripstone Blocks for 1 Emerald

Added the following trades to the Wandering Trader:

Will sell 2 Pointed Dripstones for 1 Emerald

Will sell 2 Rooted Dirt for 1 Emerald

Will sell 2 Moss Blocks for 1 Emerald

Moss Blocks can be found in Shipwreck Chests

Glow Berries can be found in Mineshaft Chest Minecarts

Dripstone Block and Pointed Dripstone

Pointed Dripstone can be placed on the ceiling (stalactites) or ground (stalagmites)

Watch out! If a stalactite is broken, it will fall and cause damage to players and mobs

Players and mobs will take damage if landing on a stalagmite

If a stalactite is under a water source or lava source, it will slowly fill Cauldrons

If a stalactite and stalagmite touch, they will connect into a full column

A Dripstone Block can be crafted with four Pointed Dripstone

Dripleaf

Small Dripleaf will grow into Big Dripleaf when fertilized with Bone Meal

Big Dripleaf is a platforming block. Players and mobs on top of the block will cause the block to tilt and drop

Moss Block and Moss Carpet

When Moss Blocks are fertilized with Bone Meal, Moss has a chance of spreading to other blocks. Moss Carpet, Azaleas, and Flowering Azaleas also have a chance of growing

The Hoe is the most efficient tool to harvest Moss Blocks and Moss Carpet

Azalea

Azalea and Flowering Azaleas are new decorative plants

Azaleas have a chance of growing after using Bone Meal on Moss Blocks

Fertilizing an Azalea with Bone Meal will transform it into a tree with Azalea Leaves and Flowered Azalea Leaves, which can be harvested using Shears

Azalea and Flowering Azalea can also be used as Furnace fuel

Rooted Dirt and Hanging Roots

Tilling Rooted Dirt with a Hoe turns the block to normal Dirt and drops Hanging Roots

Fertilizing Rooted Dirt with Bone Meal causes Hanging Roots to grow below

Glow Berries

Glow Berries can be planted on the bottom of most solid blocks to grow cave vines

They can be eaten and are as nutritious as Sweet Berries

Use them to lure and breed Foxes

Cave Vines

When Cave Vines grow or are fertilized with Bone Meal, they have a chance of growing Glow Berries

A Cave Vine that has Glow Berries emits light. So pretty!

Cave Vines are climbable

Spore Blossom

Currently, Spore Blossoms are only available in the Creative mode inventory

Spore Blossoms are a new decorative block that can be placed underneath any block

New Achievements and Trophies

Wax On Wax Off – Apply and remove Wax from all the Copper blocks

Float Your Goat – Get in a boat and float with a Goat

The Healing Power of Friendship – Team up with an Axolotl and win a fight

Changes:

Improved visibility when swimming in underwater caves

A new, beautiful main menu panorama for Caves & Cliffs: Part I

Updated the appearance of the initial loading screen

Compass and Clock item textures have been updated

Ore textures have been updated to better differentiate in more ways than just color

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

Bone Meal now makes a sound when used

Drowned now drop Copper ingots instead of Gold ingots

Known Issues:

The update size on iOS is over 200MB, which exceeds the limit of downloads over cellular data. The update can be downloaded over a Wi-Fi connection

Players sometimes do not receive game invitations on Android devices (MCPE-58759)

Featured Servers cannot be joined by players on Nintendo Switch – we hope to have this resolved soon

Players on Windows 10 updating to 1.17.0 with certain graphics hardware may experience a black screen on launch – this only affects players who had changed the anti-aliasing setting from default and can be rectified by resetting that setting. Please see MCPE-129319 for more information

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

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

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

Fixed a crash on Windows 10 that can occur in ray tracing mode

General

Fixed an issue where taking dyed wool from a chest would not trigger the Rainbow Collection Trophy, presuming all wool colors were collected

Android players should once again see achievement notifications (MCPE-54902)

Gameplay

Players who receive negative damage no longer generate absorption hearts (MCPE-94178)

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

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

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

Fixed the player’s hand still bobbing even when the View Bobbing setting was disabled (MCPE-79380)

First person eating animation is now centered in the frame (MCPE-116678)

First person main hand blocking animation now plays properly (MCPE-115536)

First person main hand and off-hand Shields are now symmetrical (MCPE-116736)

Tridents in players’ and mobs’ hands are now correctly positioned in all perspective modes (MCPE-116681)

Trident raising animation modified for first person to match the previous version more closely

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

Mobs

Rabbits can once again raid Carrot crops (MCPE-113321)

Animals can no longer be fed infinitely until they are bred (MCPE-19309)

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

Zombie Villagers now properly shake while being cured

Bees no longer gather nectar from Sweet Berry Bushes

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

Blazes and Endermen once again receive damage from Splash Water Bottles (MCPE-97483)

Strays no longer drop Wither Heads when killed by Charged Creepers (MCPE-35876)

Blocks

Using an Axe on Wood Blocks once again turns them into Stripped Wood Blocks (MCPE-105998)

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

Fixed an issue that could cause certain blocks to grow too quickly when ticked

Items

Water Buckets can once again be used to pick up Fish (MCPE-94520)

Switching between some items (Bow, Trident, Crossbow, Shield) in your main hand will no longer skip animations (MCPE-116680)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Accessibility

Fixed a bug where the screen reader did not read the focused button on some screens

Fixed a bug where English screen reader pronounced “A button” as “a button”, now saying “Button A” instead

Graphical

Fixed water flickering on PS VR

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

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

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

Fixed Strider, Hoglin, Zoglin, Piglin, and Piglin Brute spawn eggs turning red when quick-moved inside any inventory in RenderDragon builds (MCPE-110463)

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

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

Fixed an issue that could occur on older worlds where looking up in a Minecart would display the inside of the Minecart, blocking the player’s view

Fixed an issue that minimizing the title would disable anti-aliasing in RenderDragon builds (MCPE-120532)

Realms

Kick Player button now works again

Fixed a softlock when trying to set friend permissions on a Realm on initial invite

Updated Realms membership invite icon to be more obvious

Further improved Realms permission error messaging

Added a button to access the Realms membership invitation management screen in Profile Settings

Automatically close Realms invite screen if all invites are handled

Fixed PlayStation 4 players with Parental Control Communication and User-Generated Content restriction settings being able to join Realms through invites

User Interface

Fixed controller cursor sensitivity scaling (MCPE-33868)

Fixed an issue where patterns in the loom with high resolution assets would not display correctly

Fixed an issue where cancelling joining a world while generating it caused players to get stuck on the loading screen (MCPE-114776)

PS VR players can activate the start screen VR mode toggle using a keyboard

PS VR players can now proceed past the VR Align screen with a keyboard

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

On PlayStation 4, fixed keyboard bindings when using an external keyboard configured to a non-US layout

Clicking “Get Help Fixing This” when unable to access multiplayer features now redirects to the proper help page on the Nintendo Switch

Adjusted the background color of Settings screens for increased readability

Added controller tooltips for “Collect” and “Empty” Lava from Cauldron using Bucket

The panoramic main menu background no longer blinks when loading the game, loading into a world, or leaving a world (MCPE-103842)

Fixed text overlap issue on some resolutions in the Realms Plus product description page

Commands

The ‘/kick’ command once again works properly if Cheats and Command Blocks are disabled, and it no longer uses target selectors

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

Fixed output message for ’/stopsound’ being incorrect (MCPE-116772)

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

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

Fixed an issue where the clone command was changed and not versioned

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

Function’s positional offset is no longer re-evaluated for every command inside the function when run with the ‘/execute’ command. It is now only evaluated once for the whole function (MCPE-124890)

Fixed an issue where the Agent till command would not till blocks in Minecraft: Education Edition

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.221

Release date: April 22nd 2021 (North America) / April 23rd 2021 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Paintings are once again visible when placed (MCPE-121718)

Fixed some instances of the game not launching past the loading screen after updating on PS4 (MCPE-58897, MCPE-84790)

Fixed a soft lock that occurred when trying to set friend permissions on a Realm on initial invite

Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading Behavior Packs containing GameTests

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.220

Release date: April 6th 2021 (North America) / April 7th 2021 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Changes:

Dye can now be used to change the color of sign text

Known Issues:

Paintings appear invisible when placed (MCPE-121718)

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to rename a map on an anvil while its second slot was occupied (MCPE-112905)

Fixed a crash when entering a Nether Portal and throwing a Bottle o’ Enchanting at the same time (MCPE-114793)

Gameplay

Fixed fog in Nether biomes not rendering properly in some Resource Packs (MCPE-111680)

Players with Visitor permissions now drop inventory on death (MCPE-47563)

Mobs

Fixed Drowned holding tridents backwards during attack (MCPE-118213)

Drowned will now swing their arms when throwing tridents

Zombie, Zombie Villager, Husk, Pillager, and Vindicator now use correct bone to attach shields (MCPE-98606)

Mobs that pick up shields now place it in their off-hand

Non-persistent mobs no longer despawn immediately after loading into the Nether

Blocks

Projectiles now pass through Structure Void blocks (MCPE-103579)

Improved placement rules for placing blocks on sides of stairs, slabs, and Top Snow blocks

Pistons and Sticky Pistons no longer appear black when Outline Selection is disabled (MCPE-53858)

Accessibility

Enabled screen narration with touch input on the new achievements screen

Fixed a bug where the screen reader didn’t read out default controller focus and checkbox state on the ‘Online Play is not Rated’ prompt

Fixed a bug where the screen reader would read the wrong text while using VR

User Interface

Controllers are now able to select the “Button Mode” toggle in the Advanced Settings NPC screen in the Jurassic World pack (MCPE-66446)

The “Results” field for search within the marketplace inventory now updates properly between different sections within the screen

Selecting the featured offer on the profile screen now properly redirects to the complete list of featured offers

Made the Sign In button text fit the button in Portuguese-BR

The Storage menu on now uses lighter text color

Fixed an issue where button textures weren’t scaled properly when applying Resource Packs

Enabled navigating to the Back button using only keyboard in some screens where it was not possible

Commands

Entity selectors no longer allow self-selection with cheats disabled (MCPE-92635)

The ‘/clear’ command will now apply the correct “data” argument for the sapling item (MCPE-117889)

Command blocks in a command block chain will now list the correct amount of ticking areas when a new ticking area is added before listing

Title command no longer duplicates % symbols in message (MCPE-51033)

Using teleport with the execute command now uses the dimension of the origin for its operations (MCPE-44104)

Character Creator

Steve’s Pants no longer change the color of the bottom of feet when no footwear is equipped

Fixed other players appearing as Steve in multiplayer

Changing skins while in split-screen now properly saves for all local players and update properly for remote players

Alex’s shirt no longer looks corrupted when equipped with different pants

“Hooray!” emote will now display in the emotes section if already owned (MCPE-111165)

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

Updated Template Packs

Updated templates for 1.16.220 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available for download

Resource Pack Template: aka.ms/resourcepacktemplate

Behavior Pack Template (Includes documentation): aka.ms/behaviorpacktemplate

Technical Changes and Fixes

Renamed all references of Actor to Entity

Renamed ‘BlockPos’ to ‘BlockLocation’

Added ‘startSequence’ to GameTest, which allows finer control over advanced test sequences

GameTest sequence callbacks no longer take test as a parameter as the initial test object now lives as long as the whole test

Updated Behavior Packs to require explicit module dependencies when using other native modules

Identifiers within “render_controllers” will now be considered content errors if there is no render controller matching that name

Entity json before version 1.16.100 will no longer give a content error for the deprecated field “minecraft:foot_size”

modified condition in ‘trident.animation_controllers.json’ to allow mobs to enter  ‘wield_third_person_raise’ (MCPE-118213)

Fixed an issue where loading into a world would cause continuous MoLang errors around “unhandled request for unknown variable”

A black screen no longer covers the player icon in the pause menu in some worlds. Content creators no longer need to override both focus_border_frame.png and pause_screen_border.png for correct behavior

Items can now have the “transparentattachable” tag applied to make attachable items not render for the player wearing them in the first person perspective

Fixed an issue where V2 Villagers were not properly updating their MoLang variables on initialization

Updates to GameTest Framework

Updated Blocks shorthand helpers to be camelCase

Updated Blocks shorthand to only include vanilla blocks

Added Blocks.get to fetch a block and return null if it doesn’t exist

Added BlockStates to enumerate all block states

Added setState to Block to update its block state

Added BlockPos class

Added ItemStack class GameTest Module

Added Tags to enumerate all built-in tags

Updated all methods that took x, y, z position to take a BlockPos

Exposed padding when registering game test

Fixed issue where previous failed GameTest markers still show up in new worlds

Movement Prediction

Fixed projectiles on third-party servers ignoring server movement packets

The server will adjust the player’s fall distance to take into account the client player’s position when a player movement correction or anomaly is detected

Network Packets

Changed cipher algorithm to AESGCM256 for UDP stream

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.210

Release date: March 9th 2021 (North America) / March 10th 2021 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Vanilla Parity Changes and Fixes:

Players now experience ambient sounds in the Nether (MCPE-74756)

Mobile players need to update the Minecraft Original Music Pack via the Marketplace to hear these new sounds

Using bone meal in warm ocean biomes now only generates sea grass, coral, and coral fans (MCPE-100085)

Changes:

Added F11 as a keyboard shortcut for Full Screen mode

Added text-to-speech volume slider in Audio Settings

Android Devices

Our ability to support Android devices on KitKat OS or below is coming to an end. For more information, please see our help article

Players running this KitKat OS or below are not able to purchase a Realm from that device

Known Issues:

Please be assured that we are still working on the issue that is causing some players to get stuck on the red loading screen on PS4 – to help us investigate this further, the game will now detect if it has failed to load correctly after 30 minutes, which will help us to diagnose and rectify the problem (MCPE-84790)

Player may be unable to change back from Local Network to Online Network on Nintendo Switch due to infinite loading

Players are unable to see and join LAN sessions on Xbox without on Xbox Live Gold subscription

The chest inventory menu is not visible when a chest is placed close to wall on PS VR (MCPE-109860)

There are are no animations when using items and punching at the air when playing on mobile devices

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed a number of crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when opening the achievements screen when the Anti-Aliasing setting was set to 1 (MCPE-110164)

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading ‘.mcstructure’ files into the world that include entities (MCPE-63387)

Teleporting away from a structure animation no longer causes the game to crash

Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving a world

Fixed a crashing issue related to corrupted biomes during world load for various Marketplace worlds

Fixed a crash that could occur when using Code Connection (MCPE-113355)

General

Players are once again able to join servers when the server has view-distance set to 4 or less (BDS-8855)

Split-screen characters are now stored in memory and re-joining the game will keep the character that the player had (MCPE-58640)

Brought back capability to rejoin a server after it has been suspended and resumed

Sign in failures now have a more helpful error message and provide error codes

Clicking “Download Template” when missing required templates of an existing world now correctly downloads the required templates

Resolved an issue where, in certain cases, a world could not be properly synced to the cloud (Xbox only). If you are having trouble syncing worlds, please try opening the world on the original Xbox, save/quit, then wait a few moments while the world is re-synced into the cloud

Fixed an issue where crafting a bed with the recipe book unlocked the “Change of Sheets” trophy

Gameplay

Fixed players taking fall damage when opening Shulker Boxes (MCPE-105490)

Players will no longer dismount into liquids (lava or water) from rideables such as boats

In all worlds created with the same seed, the same chest will now always generate the same content in the same order (MCPE-72432)

Mobs

All mobs that use a melee attack have had their ability to hit targets above and below them restored

The target still must be within melee attack distance to be hit

This only affects world versions greater than or equal to 1.16.210

Fixed a bug where parrots could fly upwards indefinitely

Fixed an issue that was causing the Ender Dragon animation to appear jittery (MCPE-105892)

Added new logic for mobs dismounting rideables

This also introduces a more fine-grained entity height check allowing different dismount places for entities of different heights

Fixed a bug where foxes wouldn’t knock off and eat sweet berries (MCPE-70790)

Fixed a bug that allowed players to place custom spawn eggs by default in Adventure mode

Minecarts now properly update their effects (looping sound, player coordinates) when the minecart is not being rendered for the rider (MCPE-104044)

Blocks

Mining crimson hyphae with Silk Touch now returns a placeable block

Fix for certain Marketplace worlds having incorrect block data when played on Realms and multiplayer between mobile and PC

Fixed dried kelp block bottom and carried textures so the rope pixels are aligned (MCPE-35476)

Fixed an issue where snow accumulated in lines with certain simulation distances (MCPE-73468)

TNT submerged in water will once again launch players in Survival mode (MCPE-47047)

Items

Ink Sacs obtained from the Wandering Trader can now be used for crafting and can be stacked (MCPE-101087)

Redstone Dust is now displayed as “Redstone Dust” instead of “Redstone”

Nether Brick now gives XP from being smelted (MCPE-100030)

Graphical

Fixed an issue with screen resolution which could flicker when resizing a window (MCPE-69721)

Fixed an issue with maps rendering over transparent objects when attached to item frames when using ray tracing

Reduced ghosting of fish when viewed through the water with DLSS enabled

Accessibility

Fixed the screen reader not reading the title on the Permissions screen

Emote wheel now supports the screen reader on Android and iOS devices

Keyboard inputs can now adjust slider settings when the cursor is outside the UI frame

Fixed a bug where the screen reader did not read the permission toggles’ titles on the Permissions Screen

The screen reader now reads Whisper and Announcement messages

The screen reader now informs the player when the “Chat Settings” menu has been opened

The screen reader now properly reads Edit/Create character button text for each character on the profile screen

The screen reader now announces the names of the A/B Button Swap and X/Y Button Swap options correctly

Fixed an issue where the screen reader would intermittently fail to announce some button names

User Interface

Command blocks no longer censor numbers (MCPE-106296)

Improved the smoothness of menu transition animations (MCPE-41772)

A warning now appears when attempting to move a locked item in and from containers

Updated outdated loading screen tips (MCPE-98977, MCPE-102293)

Added more helpful Video Settings messages for ray tracing on supported and non-supported platforms

Golden Apple and Enchanted Apple now have colored hotbar text when selecting them (MCPE-64427)

Tool and armor recipes now display the selected item background when selected in the recipe list

Wireframe of a structure block in the Overworld will no longer render in Nether and The End (MCPE-75231)

Audio sliders now always highlight when hovered over with a mouse

The durability bar is now visible when holding items with decreased durability in a window (MCPE-105893)

Fixed an issue where achievement names and descriptions would not be translated, independent of language selection (MCPE-85813)

The online status of cross-platform friends’ shown on the invite screen will now update when a change has been detected (MCPE-70004)

Fixed an issue that prevented achievement rewards from showing correctly after changing the language setting

Owned and purchasable skins no longer get mixed into different categories while offline

Emote title no longer shows previously previewed emote upon re-entering the emotes tab. Emotes!

Updated the in-game links to the proper support pages

Fixed Skin Preview navigation when using a controller

Fixed missing Incompatible button on the Marketplace Inventory screen

Fixed some interface issues with scrolling and clearing store filters

Raised the time limit for selecting whether to download a resource pack on connect from 5 seconds to 5 minutes

The in-game invite screen will now refresh when you return to it from the add members screen

Achievement Screen

The new Achievement screens are now enabled by default (Except in VR, on PS4, or on touch devices with narration enabled)

Removed the input legend of the Achievement page Summary panel when narration is enabled

Fixed an issue where the scrollbar could be hidden behind the input legend

Fixed achievement details page getting its content hidden behind the Input legend

Updated size of achievement reward frame

Updated frame art for locked achievements

Commands

Teleport command now correctly aligns your rotation with the destination entity (MCPE-35979)

Selector argument options can again be seen and auto-completed correctly after specifying one (MCPE-59794)

Spawn events now show as suggestions for the ‘/summon’ command (MCPE-101112)

‘SendCommandFeedback’ no longer prevents display of outgoing messages (MCPE-95217)

Multiple ’/tickingarea add’ or ’/tickingarea remove’ commands performed during the same tick will no longer result in inaccurate messages about the number of ticking areas in use

Players can no longer overrun the maximum number of standalone ticking areas in use by adding them all in the same tick

Added stop action to the ‘/screenshake’ command

Score values on the scoreboard now align to the right of the table (MCPE-64973)

The ‘/setblock’ command now supports setting the connected state for Soul Lanterns (MCPE-89609)

The ‘/setblock’ command now supports setting the rotation state for the chain block (MCPE-105912)

Fixed an issue that preventing player interaction after using the ‘/clone’ command on a double chest block (MCPE-109119)

Using the ‘/clone’ command to clone a block of the same type is no longer treated as a failed operation (MCPE-83352)

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

Updated Template Packs

Updated templates for 1.16.210 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available for download

Resource Pack Template: aka.ms/resourcepacktemplate

Behavior Pack Template (Includes documentation): aka.ms/behaviorpacktemplate

Added the “fogs” folder to the Resource Pack template

Added Fog documentation

Fixes

Horses, Donkeys, Mules, Skeleton Horses, and Zombie Horses can now properly be given custom names, and identified using their respective “runtime_identifier”

Improved performance for actors using ‘TemptGoal’

Zombie villagers spawned from zombie spawners on Marketplace worlds that were created after version 1.11 now correctly spawn as V2 zombie villagers. When cured, they will now correctly turn into V2 villagers

Fixed upgrade path for ’format_version’ 1.13.0 boats to be properly upgraded to 1.16.100, which resolves a bug where boats templated worlds with a version lower than 1.16.100 had no gravity

Documentation for Bedrock Server Commands has been updated to show the correct commands for permission reloading and listing (BDS-2341)

Structure blocks no longer auto-save data when structure name text box is deselected (MCPE-101055)

Entities that use material state “Blending” now render correctly behind transparent parts

The scoreboard data of an entity is no longer removed if the entity is being teleported to an unloaded area of the world

Custom blocks now can only drop default state when broken, even with Silk Touch

Technical

Structures can now be deleted from the saved structure list using the new ’/structure delete <name>’ command

Added new slash command options for ‘/setblock’, ‘/fill’, and ‘/clone’ commands for passing in a list of block states to set on the block being spawned

A boolean parameter called “ignore_game_mode” has been added for the block event response “decrement_stack”, set to false by default. Thus “decrement_stack” no longer decreases the item stack when playing in Creative by default

Changing ‘RideableComponent’ property “rotate_rider_by” to function for custom mobs

‘SetBlock’ and ‘SetBlockAtPos’ events now support custom block states (MCPE-104747)

Attachable items created in 1.16.2 and before will not render for their player in first person. Attachable items created after 1.16.2 will render for their player in first person unless they are armor

GameTest Framework

GameTest is server-side test automation tool that is based on pairing test code with test structures. You can trigger the tests via the ’/gametest’ command once you have enabled the “Enable GameTest Framework” experimental toggle for a world

NOTE: GameTest is not functional on console platforms

Custom Biomes and Blocks

Disabled loading of entities in custom biome features

Fixed UVs of data-driven blocks to not be slightly shrunk, which caused texel warping

Fixed data-driven blocks being pushed by pistons not working correctly

Render Offsets Component

Simple items, like swords or pickaxes, can have an optional offset applied to them to modify the way they are rendered. Note this component should not be added to an attachable item

Component Variables:

main_hand – An optional object storing optional transform data for ‘first_person’ and ‘third_person’ for the player’s right hand

off_hand – An optional object storing optional transform data for ‘first_person’ and ‘third_person’ for the player’s left hand

first_person – An optional object storing 3 vectors ‘position’, ‘rotation’, ‘scale’ used to build the first person matrix

third_person – An optional object storing 3 vectors ‘position’, ‘rotation’, ‘scale’ used to build the third person matrix

Bedrock Dedicated Server

On server side, added protection from semicolon usage in server-name parameter in ‘server.properties’ config file. If semicolon symbol(s) are used by the user in server-name parameter then any semicolon(s) will be removed to provide correct client-server interactions. Additional comments are added to ‘server.properties’, which are not allow to use semicolon symbol(s) in server-name parameter

On server side, added protection from semicolon and symbols illegal for file name usage in level-name parameter in ‘server.properties’ config file. If semicolon or symbols illegal for file name are used by user in level-name parameter then those symbols will be removed to provide correct client-server interactions and correct level-name parameter usage on server side. Additional comments are added to ‘server.properties’, which are not allow semicolon or symbols illegal for file name usage in level-name parameter

On client side, added additional verification and correction for Unconnected Pong packet data to prevent incorrect server parameters parsing and inability of the client to connect to the server as result of that. Unit-tests are added for parsing, additional verification and correction of Unconnected Pong packet data (BDS-6825)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.201

Release date: December 15th 2020 (North America) / December 16th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed the game failing to launch on multiple Windows 10 devices (MCPE-102530)

Double Chests placed at chunk borders no longer become partially invisible and don’t crash the game when they are opened (MCPE-106030)

Shulker boxes no longer lose everything inside their inventory when undyed using a cauldron (MCPE-108196)

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.200

Release date: December 8th 2020 (North America) / December 9th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

New Volume Settings

Added a variety of volume sliders for sound categories (eg. hostile, blocks, weather etc.)

These play a preview of the relevant sounds in the main settings menu, and play the default click sound when in-game

Vanilla Parity Changes and Fixes:

Basalt can no longer be destroyed by Ghast fireballs (MCPE-75252)

Basalt blocks now take slightly more time to destroy

Dragon Egg now always drops as an item when it’s destroyed by an explosion (MCPE-52632)

Right-clicking a snow block with a shovel no longer breaks the snow block

Dirt Paths (formerly Grass Path) can now be made by using a shovel on Dirt, Podzol, Mycelium, Coarse Dirt, and grass

Updated the Netherite leggings texture (MCPE-103016)

Twisting Vines can no longer be placed on Composter blocks while sneaking (MCPE-78973)

Netherite Armor now gives a ninety percent reduction in Knockback (MCPE-77430)

Bees will no longer stray more than 22 blocks from their home Beehive (MCPE-60252)

Known Issues:

Players running Minecraft on Windows 10 N 32-bit systems may encounter a crash when loading the game if the Media Foundation Pack is not installed. This can be resolved by downloading and installing the Media Foundation Pack

Players are unable to rejoin a world after being disconnected from a suspended session

In VR, Living room hint text doesn’t change correspondingly when input method changes from gamepad to motion controller

Fixes:

Performance and Stability

Improved chunk loading speed when flying with Elytra (MCPE-85614)

Large numbers of scheduled instant updates no longer crash the game (MCPE-94942)

Fixed a crash that could occasionally occur when going through a portal or flying around in Creative mode

Fixed a crash that could occasionally occur while flying or moving around the game world

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a local world

Fixed an issue where some mobile devices would lose audio after suspend and resume (MCPE-101027)

Fixed an issue that caused a crash on Nintendo Switch when trying to load a 256x resolution resource pack

The system now blocks that selection and notifies the player they cannot select it

General

Players that own The Founder’s Cape will once again see it within the Capes tab of the Dressing Room

Gameplay

Only preview items will be shown in crafting screen when auto crafting an item on controller. This prevents rapid updates of the Recipe Book

Fixed the player’s hand still bobbing if View Bobbing was disabled (MCPE-79380)

Mobs

Fixed mobs and other entities freezing and becoming desynced with their bodies o_O (MCPE-71243)

Villagers will no longer steal workstations from each other (MCPE-43071)

Mobs no longer randomly stop attacking and following their targets (MCPE-48144)

Piglins that are close together can no longer pick up the same item if it’s dropped between them (MCPE-95644)

Update Zombified Piglin texture to remove flickering of loincloth (MCPE-96793)

Mobs no longer spawn in Wither Roses (MCPE-97331)

Bees now only exit at the front of Beehives and Bee Nests

Mobs are no longer teleported back and forth outside solid objects if there is not enough space for multiple entities (MCPE-101202)

Items

Compass is no longer consumed when used on a Lodestone in Creative mode (MCPE-96258)

Glowsticks no longer use placeholder textures (Education Feature) (MCPE-45686, MCPE-68417)

Blocks

Cocoa Pods generated in Jungles now generate in the proper direction (MCPE-102399)

Signs no longer replace decorations when attempting to place in the same space as the decoration

Fixed a bug where End Portal blocks were not removed after an End Portal Frame block was destroyed. Filled blocks other than End Portal blocks will remain in place

Graphical

Owned packs are now refreshed correctly after restarting the game when playing in VR

Accessibility

Fixed the screen reader not reading the screen title in-game

Fixed the screen reader not reading the shortcut button on the Pause Screen

Fixed the screen reader not reading the screen title and shortcut buttons on the Invite to Game Screen

Fixed the screen reader not reading the title on the Profile and Edit Character screens

Fixed the numbering of buttons on the Pause Screen being wrong when using text-to-speech

The Emote Wheel now supports the screen reader

Fixed an issue where the screen reader was not reading updates often enough on some devices

Fixed the screen reader so messages with controller icons in the Chat Screen are read correctly

The screen reader now reads the Open Chat Message while Text To Speech For Chat is turned off

Fixed several issues regarding text contrast in the user interface

Fixed an issue where the Servers tab would not correctly read text-to-speech prompts when not signed into a Microsoft account

Fixed various issues where text-to-speech indices on the start screen were not correct

Fixed issues where user interface controls would be improperly indexed in text-to-speech for popup modals

Reduced transparency on top row of buttons in Touch UI to improve readability

User Interface

Added UI start up screen to inform players if they are running on outdated graphics drivers

Fixed several death messages (MCPE-30360)

“slain by Llama spit” –> “spitballed by Llama”

“slain by shulkerBullet” –> “sniped by shulker”

“slain by Blaze” –> “fireballed by Blaze”

“slain by Ghast” –> “fireballed by Ghast”

“shot by arrow” –> “shot by skeleton”

“slain by Trident” –> “was impaled to death by Trident”

Fixed paperdoll such that it can now always be rotated with the mouse when in the Dressing Room (MCPE-101210)

“Classic Controls – Intense” font color now matches the surrounding text in VR Controls menu

Preview items in the crafting grid now have a different colored background depending on item availability in the inventory

The Player Permissions menu can once again be navigated using a controller regardless of the player’s permission level

[X] button in Chat Settings is no longer present when using a controller

Profile screen has been improved, now characters are visible and can be selected or modified as soon as they load

Avoid purchasing a Realm if the player cancels out of “Purchase History Needed” dialog screen

‘Strawberry Blonde’ color now has correct name in the Character Creator (MCPE-102674)

Loading screen tips no longer display the “tips.game.62” (No ID)

Fixed the visual focus indicator disappearing in VR when hovering on tabs in VR with screen reader enabled

Scoreboard now displays properly on the pause screen when displaying in list mode (MCPE-106012)

Commands

‘/playsound’commands now play the sound correctly for all players in range

‘/effect’ command duration is now capped at 1,000,000 seconds (MCPE-92916)

Add ticking area commands performed in the same tick now disallow adding areas with the same name twice

Placeholder text message for the ‘/titleraw’ command success no longer returns to player (MCPE-63618)

FadeOut argument is no longer ignored in the ‘/title’ times command

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators: Updated Template Packs

Updated templates for 1.16.200 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available for download

Resource Pack Template: aka.ms/resourcepacktemplate

Behavior Pack Template (Includes documentation): aka.ms/behaviorpacktemplate

Fixes

Turning bandwidth optimizations off to see if it fixes stationary mob problem and entity “lag” issues (MCPE-105892)

Custom projectiles once again animate properly

Fixed an issue where loot tables with a ‘set_data’ function produced incorrect loot items

Fixed face occlusion with data-driven blocks to properly account for unit cube transparent vs unit cube opaque

Data-driven blocks no longer have their top faces rotated 180 degrees when carried or in inventory (MCPE-63134)

Fixed an issue with a runaway block ticking queue that occurred on a looping data-driven block that changed itself to a different permutation. The bug could cause memory issues, increased load and save times, as well as stalling the game periodically (No ID)

Fixed data-driven blocks to shrink UVs the same way as actors to prevent UV bleeding (No ID)

Fixed some culling issues with data-driven blocks larger than 1x1x1 when placed on a chunk boundary. Also added content warnings for larger blocks

Changed ‘set_block’ and ‘set_block_at_pos’ to use ‘BlockDescriptor’ when specifying ‘block_type’

Old command versions now use the previous position instead of current one

Fixed issue where ‘query.cardinal_block_face_placed_on’ no longer worked with ‘on_player_placing’

Changed texture atlas padding size from 0 to 1 when disabling mipmap

Fixed issue of blocks listed in the “minecraft:block_placer” component not working correctly

Fixed player smaller hitbox while swimming and gliding from being reset after an event is sent on the player

Fixed custom spawn egg generation in template worlds

MoLang geometry, material, and texture variable names can once again contain dots

Items with the item lock component no longer cause the recipe book to show invalid recipe results

Blocks

Added ‘query.cardinal_facing_2d’ to get a ground plane direction that doesn’t return up or down

Added the ability to put block models into the models/blocks folder

Added the ability for item triggers to send events to the block they are interacting with (when there is one such as ‘on_use_on’)

Added the ability to query the interacted face for both interactions with blocks and using ‘minecraft:on_use_on’ in an item. Face can be queried with ‘query.block_face’

Components

Fixed using ‘query.get_equipped_item_name’ with an item that was renamed not returning the right result. We now tie this to vanilla versioning so that the old name is returned if the world is tied to a specific vanilla version

“add_mob_effect” and “remove_mob_effect” no longer throw content errors when valid effect names are passed in

Added documentation for “remove_mob_effect” to make creators aware they can use the value “all” in effect to remove all mob effects from a target

Fixed items not being placeable in additional horse equipment slots. Does not fix all equippable behaviors

Inventory size on the minecraft:inventory component has to be increased to match the equippable slots in order for the server to accept the item placement

The tooltip for item with item lock component will no longer show when game rule ‘showtags’ is disabled

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.101

Release date: November 23rd 2020 (North America) / November 24th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Fixed players unable to connect to Realms when playing on cellular data on mobile devices (MCPE-55405)

Fixed Minecoins not appearing after purchase until after restarting the game

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.100

Release date: November 16th 2020 (North America) / November 17th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Added a new Achievements screen design and brand new achievement artwork

Over a dozen new Character Creator items have been added and can be unlocked with achievements

Vanilla Parity Changes and Fixes:

Sea Turtles now play a sound when they lay eggs

Dolphins will now dry out at the same rate as they do in Java Edition; 120 seconds

Undamaged Mending items will no longer prevent damaged Mending items from being repaired (MCPE-80156)

Basalt can no longer be destroyed by Ghast fireballs (MCPE-75252)

Basalt blocks now take slightly more time to destroy

TNT no longer activates when a Redstone Torch is placed directly on it (MCPE-81258)

Experience Orbs now float in water (MCPE-64039)

Adjusted Netherite movement in lava (MCPE-65372)

Netherite armor no longer take durability loss when standing on magma blocks (MCPE-76532)

Trade discounts from Hero of the Village and Curing Zombie Villagers now match the Java Edition (MCPE-70782)

Phantom wings now make flapping sounds

Pistons can no longer be extended above the build height limit or into the void (MCPE-37825, MCPE-51067)

Brewing Stands can now be crafted with Blackstone (MCPE-90465)

Players can now spawn farmland with the /give command and pick it with Pick Block (MCPE-25691)

Cod and Salmon killed by fire damage now drop cooked fish (MCPE-30693)

It’s now possible to place chains so that they are aligned horizontally (MCPE-93995)

Floor and ceiling surface generation now correctly match Java Edition

Soul Sand Valleys now have ceilings covered with Soul Soil and Soul Sand (MCPE-69159)

Basalt Deltas now have Basalt ceilings (MCPE-79608)

Striders with passengers can now be tempted

Piglins now drop their inventory when zombified (MCPE-81503)

Allow Piglins and Piglin Brutes to preserve equipment when zombified (MCPE-83683)

Piglin Brutes now give 20xp instead of 10 when killed by player (MCPE-94089)

Lanterns can now be placed underwater and do not pop when a water source block is placed on them

Piglins now offer similar bartering items as they do in Java Edition (MCPE-92662)

Soul Fire no longer melts snow or ice blocks (MCPE-74901)

Zombified Piglins no longer float above Striders while riding (MCPE-80188)

Warped Fungus can now grow in Crimson Forests (MCPE-83616)

Piglins now offer Nether Bricks instead of Nether Brick blocks when bartering (MCPE-74395)

Baby Zoglin and Baby Hoglin now have drops after being killed by the player

Baby Zoglins now have cute, oversized heads (MCPE-65454)

Wither Skeletons now automatically attack Piglins and Piglin Brutes (MCPE-65456)

Hoglins will now flee from Respawn Anchors (MCPE-71534)

Iron Golems now attack Hoglins (MCPE-73838)

Zoglins now take damage from Healing effect and heal from Harming effect (MCPE-79314)

If Ruined Portal chests contain Glistering Melon, they no longer contain only a single melon slice (MCPE-92675)

Zombified Piglins that are jockeys on Striders now hold a Warped Fungus on a Stick (MCPE-94002)

Piglin Brutes no longer have enchanted Golden Axes

All expected Nether plants can now be composted (MCPE-78026) (MCPE-82999) (MCPE-94671)

Crimson and Warped Fungus can now be placed on Mycelium (MCPE-88588)

Soul Speed enchantment found in chests is now limited to Bastion Remnant chests (MCPE-75468)

Soul Campfires now drop Soul Soil instead of Charcoal when mined (MCPE-74709) (MCPE-74709)

Increased Strider health from 15 to 20 (MCPE-76425)

Piglins can now equip Shields, Elytra, Turtle Shells, and various Mob Heads (MCPE-75863)

Piglin Brutes no longer become angry from specific blocks being broken, they still always attack a player on sight though (MCPE-94106)

Baby Zombified Piglins now correctly display items held in their hands

Quick crafting a Piston will now work with Warped Planks and Crimson Planks (MCPE-87659)

Baby Hoglins now deal appropriate damage

Piglins now spawn naturally in Nether Wastes on Peaceful difficulty (MCPE-95718)

Changes:

Added several new experimental toggles to enable previews of upcoming engine technology and support Add-Ons and Marketplace content

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when the player opened a Shulker Box they’re standing on after rejoining a multiplayer session (MCPE-51711)

Fixed a crash that could occur if a player joined a game in a sleeping state (MCPE-79465)

Improved reliability of Nintendo Switch players joining other Nintendo Switch games

Adding tags to the Ender Dragon will no longer crash the game when reloading the world (MCPE-89076)

Fixed a crash that could occur when a stunned entity loaded into the world

Fixed a crash that could occur when Player 1 in a split-screen session disconnected their controller (MCPE-99565)

Optimized chunk loading performance (MCPE-85614)

Various bandwidth optimizations

General

Fixed worlds disappearing from the worlds list during crash at world start on Xbox One (MCPE-84649)

“The Beaconator” achievement can now be reliably unlocked

The “Archer” can now be reliably unlocked (MCPE-86371)

Fixed the ‘Super Fuel’ achievement not being awarded when using lava bucket in a furnace (MCPE-64453)

24-bit PNGs without an alpha channel are no longer accepted as valid custom skins (MCPE-50094)

Gameplay

Fishing Rod will now correctly cast when close to a mob (MCPE-65249)

Custom named boats and minecarts will now save their name after placing and breaking. Their names will also be shown in the world (MCPE-25845)

Fixed empty worlds getting generated after closing a PS4 world import midway through the process

End City loot chests once again generate correctly (MCPE-72920)

Fixed players and mobs not taking damage when walking through berry bushes

Killing mobs that have armor equipped with ranged weapons now results in armor loot (MCPE-44408)

Mobs

Villagers no longer get locked into the wrong profession (MCPE-62080)

Bees now leave their hive/nest after an allotted time in the End and Nether dimensions (MCPE-58322)

Hostile mobs can now spawn in thunderstorms during the day (MCPE-34409)

Foxes no longer take damage when falling on berry bushes (MCPE-82273)

Fixed Vex movement along the x and z directions (MCPE-41879)

Blaze now switch between melee attack and ranged attack based on the distance from the player (MCPE-45469)

Mob’s inactivity timer is now reset when closer than 32 blocks from the nearest player

Shearing a Snow Golem now drops a carved pumpkin (MCPE-66967)

Turtles and Dolphins on land will now successfully move towards water (MCPE-44918)

Ghasts once again spawn in all light levels (MCPE-85747)

Mobs in lava were not able to find a path out. This fix makes it so they can enter a lava block if they are already in lava

Mobs can no longer move Minecarts they stand in (MCPE-46804)

Mob spawn range now scales with simulation distance (MCPE-95568)

Villagers from older versions now level up correctly when trading (MCPE-85013)

Improved performance of farmer villagers when harvesting or sowing crops

Fixed a bug which could prevent farmer villagers from harvesting crops

Player-ridden Striders now jump onto magma blocks as well as non-full blocks in front of them when guided by Fungus on a Stick (MCPE-77096)

Baby animals can once again be tamed, before growing up (MCPE-96973)

Bees can now only exit Beehives and Bee Nests through air blocks (MCPE-97185)

Slimes can now spawn in slime chunks inside frozen biomes (MCPE-49303)

Blocks

Fixed issue where some walls were not correctly connected on world load

Walls converted from Console Edition saves are now joined properly

Water from bubble columns now flows as it should (MCPE-36463)

Hoppers with containers above them can no longer collect dropped items (MCPE-80555)

Fence gates now align with Blackstone Walls (MCPE-78002)

Placing blocks on Crimson Roots and Warped Roots will now properly remove the roots (MCPE-81521)

Target blocks no longer power additional blocks above them (MCPE-85455)

Beehives and Bee Nests now show the correct front-facing texture (MCPE-92468)

Lava and water textures are now visible after placing Slime block or Honey block next to or above them (MCPE-62255)

End gateways will now correctly calculate distance to the center block when searching for an exit position (MCPE-48922)

Plants and crops now grow more consistently when near chunk borders

Brown and Red Mushrooms can now be grown into huge mushrooms on Nylium

Cocoa Beans can now be placed on and survive on all jungle wood variants (MCPE-46638)

Gravity affected blocks no longer break when their supporting block is moved by a piston (MCPE-81106)

Falling blocks now break after falling for extended periods of time (MCPE-73124)

Podzol no longer generates below the top layer when spawning large spruce trees (MCPE-71995)

Observer block textures no longer get stuck in an active state after being moved by a piston (MCPE-61175)

Fixed a bug that could cause falling blocks to duplicate near a portal (MCPE-68229)

Fixed an issue that caused rails to not be powered correctly along the x-axis (MCPE-81987)

Saplings no longer incorrectly transform into a bee nest when next to a tree and flowers (MCPE-80543)

Dragon Egg no longer disappears if placed on pedestal and Ender Dragon is respawned (MCPE-78400)

Signs can no longer be placed on End Rods

Items

Compass items will now point the correct direction when the player is in a boat (MCPE-56876)

Compasses with custom names now retain their names when linked to a Lodestone

Compasses with Curse of Vanishing now retain their enchantment when linked to a Lodestone

Lodestone Compasses can now be enchanted with the Curse of Vanishing using an Anvil (MCPE-74016)

Boots enchanted with Soul Speed no longer become stuck on mobs or the player after breaking (MCPE-75375)

Smelted items (prior to 1.13) no longer contain incorrect damage values and can be stacked (MCPE-54617)

Dropped items no longer float too low to the ground

Dragon Egg now always drops when it is destroyed by an explosion (MCPE-52632)

Totem of Undying now applies the correct effects upon dying (MCPE-52364)

Armor no longer gets stuck in the hot bar after interacting with an armor stand (MCPE-84368)

Corrected map color representation for multiple blocks (MCPE-19228) (MCPE-83797)

XP orbs once again ignore world lighting, allowing it to always be at max brightness (MCPE-67448)

Banner patterns can now be crafted in the 2×2 crafting grid (MCPE-91247)

The “Thing” banner can now be crafted at the Loom (MCPE-70449)

Fixed an issue that caused item durability to not be assigned until a world was reloaded (MCPE-62324)

Spawn Eggs can now be used on an underwater Monster Spawner

Fixed dropped item stacks becoming invisible after merging with another item stack (MCPE-71139)

Iron pickaxes can now be dropped by mobs during raids (MCPE-44417)

Realms

Added more detailed error messages with possible solutions when a world fails to upload to a Realm (REALMS-474)

Fixed a crash that occurred when downloading large worlds from Realms (MCPE-69269)

Selecting the “Manage” button for Realms subscriptions now opens the appropriate Microsoft account page

Content that is owned through a Realms Plus subscription now roams across all platforms (REALMS-5171)

Graphical

Fixed an issue with the skybox background graphics not rendering correctly on some devices

Fixed an issue with missing animation when damaging bamboo

Fixed a graphical issue with glass blocks on the City Living world that affected some devices on Windows 10

Touchscreen input “Chat and Commands” UI element now has a darker border

Audio

Music is no longer interrupted when entering water in ocean biomes (MCPE-76213)

Reduced raid horn sound (MCPE-85593)

Crafting Screen

Various improvements to the Crafting Screen experience when using a controller

Cobblestone is now shown as the default ingredient for stone tools (MCPE-71843)

Items in the inventory will no longer move into the crafting grid when hovering over recipes

The selected recipe will no longer be cleared when changing tabs, even if you don’t have all the necessary ingredients for that recipe

Picking up items while the cursor is hovering over a recipe now updates to the recipe’s new index

Crimson and Warped Stems/Hyphae are now in their correct Creative inventory groups (MCPE-74611)

Nether and Warped Wart blocks are no longer in an unfolding section in the creative menu

Structure Blocks

Removed the name field from the structure block 3D Export screen

Fixed incorrect chunk position calculation for block changes that occur during the Structure Block preview window

Structure loading/saving no longer affects ticking blocks in nearby chunks

Fixed the Reset button not re-rendering the wireframe bounding box

User Interface

Added Noto Sans font license button and pop-up dialog to Profile section of the Settings screen

Updated splash texts and loading screen tips (MCPE-85381)

Fixed system language settings for Simplified and Traditional Chinese not honored by the game

Fixed an issue that meant the block highlight/selection box was extending above blocks

Time played now displays correctly on the Achievements screen (MCPE-66331)

The Beacon container interface no longer shuffles items around the inventory slots when trying to quick-move items from the inventory while the hotbar is full

Pressing the ‘Leave Boat’ button on touch devices will no longer make the player hit a passenger or destroy the Boat (MCPE-78113)

A button icon has been added to the NPC dialog screen to show which gamepad button to press to close the window (Education Feature)

The hovered slot data is now cleared properly whenever the cursor is moved off an item slot. This way the gamepad helpers are correct when not hovering over an item slot

The item name text that appears when the player changes the hotbar selection now anchors from the bottom. This way when it grows, it will not overlap with the hotbar (MCPE-79566)

Fixed the ‘Profile’ button in the Pause Menu not being sized correctly

“Ride Exit” hint now clears action bar messages (MCPE-75097)

The Smithing Table screen now contains the hammer icon and user interface elements appear correctly when using the “Pocket” UI profile setting (MCPE-79541)

Custom names now modify boss bars (MCPE-43473)

Grindstone no longer shows a result unless it changes the item (MCPE-54256)

Fixed navigation problems between Featured Items, Achievement Rewards, Emotes, and the Dressing Room (MCPE-89179)

Change Gamertag and Manage Account buttons on the Settings screen now open xbox.com URLs on iOS and Android

The Dressing Room now shows cached items when not connected to the internet

Commands

Fixed a crash could occur when using the ‘/fill ‘ command to fill huge amounts of blocks with Portal blocks

Text and background for the title command (Title, Subtitle, and Actionbar) have been adjusted and spaced out

Fixed a bug where a request queued with ‘/schedule’ would not clear out when executed and would execute when re-entering a level

Added to the ‘/schedule on_area_loaded’ command with an overload that allows you to track a circular area, by specifying a center and a radius. Also added serialization for the queue of requests

Fixed issues with the ‘/schedule’ command that would consider an area loaded before it was actually loaded, and the command now respects which dimension it is queued in

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

Updated Template Packs

Updated templates for 1.16.100 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available for download

Resource Pack Template: aka.ms/resourcepacktemplate

Behavior Pack Template (Includes documentation): aka.ms/behaviorpacktemplate

Fixes

Fixed particles when using animation controllers to play particles and switching to a different state that also plays particles

Striders now have a separate texture mapping for each leg, and their leg textures are properly mirrored

Pitch written in ‘sound_definitions.json’ is now correctly played (MCPE-49430)

FMOD music channel now sets its priority to 0 when music is played to prevent FMOD virtual channel from stealing it when a regular sound is played in game (default priority is 128)

Villagers/Zombie Villagers once again correctly spawn as a baby when using the summon command to summon them with the event “minecraft:entity_born”

Attempting to load a custom material that is not defined no longer causes a crash. A proper content error is now thrown

Commands

Added ‘/structure’ command that allows saving and loading of structures without having to use Structure Blocks

Added the ability to animate the placement of a structure with the ‘/structure’ command

Added the ‘/music’ command, allowing creators to play and control custom music

Added ‘/playanimation’ command that allows you to run a one-off animation. It assumes all variables have been setup correctly for the animation to run

Added ‘/camerashake’ command to enable a camera shaking effect

Added ‘/ride’ command that allows you to make entities ride other entities, stop entities from riding, make rides evict their riders, or summon rides and riders

Added ‘/clearspawnpoint’ command that allows you to clear a player’s spawn point

Added ‘/event’ command that can be used to trigger an event on an entity

Using the ‘/spawnpoint’ command will no longer affect Players that are sleeping (MCPE-91565)

Older command versions using ‘/execute’ now use the proper position for command selectors when calculating the radius

Data-Driven Blocks

Added documentation for block event responses and re-organized block documentation

Blocks that have ticking components will now clear their pending ticks from the ticking queue upon removal

Added the ‘on_player_destroyed’ trigger component

Made data-driven blocks pathable with disabled collisions

Added the BlockDisplayNameComponent to allow display names to be configured in the localization table

Added support for parsing and performing the following event responses:

Added the ‘set_block_at_pos’ event response

Spawn Loot

Set Block

Added support for the ‘on_interact’ trigger component

Added support for the ‘on_player_placing’ trigger component

Also added MoLang queries for ‘cardinal_block_face_placed_on’ and ‘cardinal_player_facing’ for getting placement context

Data-Driven Block Models

Added the first pass of the new data-driven block tessellation pipeline

Added the “minecraft:geometry” component to allow using a block model for rendering

Added the “minecraft:unit_cube” component to allow using a default unit cube for rendering. Unit cubes get some extra effects like ambient occlusion and face removal

Added the “minecraft:material_instances” component to allow mapping faces and material_instances in a geometry file to an actual material

Fixed smooth lighting and ambient occlusion with new data-driven blocks

Placement Filter

Added “minecraft:placement_filter” component which allows you to set conditions for where this block can be placed. This component will also kick in whenever neighboring blocks change and pop its loot if it is no longer in a valid location

Added serialization to Block Descriptor

Added static anyMatch functions to BlockDescriptor to compare a list of BlockDescriptors against: Block*, BlockLegacy, or BlockDescriptor

Added a function to compare two BlockDescriptors. This covers: matching blocks, any tag of either descriptor match, block states with matching permutations

Changed the BlockDescriptor BlockLegacy member variable to a Block* so we can set the block states during deferred block resolution and get the block with the states set

Removed all the existing Block* json parsing

Schema

Split ‘allowed_blocks’ into ‘use_on’ and ‘dispense_on’

‘use_on’ specifies what blocks an entity placer item is allowed to be used on, omit to allow all blocks

‘dispense_on’ specifies what blocks an entity placer item is allowed to be dispensed on, omit to allow all blocks

Execute Command

Added support to item json events for the ‘execute_command’ keyword. It supports both a string and string array format, where the string is the command intended to run. Commands are compiled at load time and executed after add/remove_mob_effect and teleport actions, but before other triggers for events. Commands will be segmented in sequence and randomize nodes as expected

Run Command

Added support to entity json events for the ‘run_command’ keyword alongside the current add and remove keywords. It supports both a string and string array format, where the string is the command intended to run. Commands will be run after component groups have been added and removed, and will be segmented in sequence and randomize nodes as expected

Updated the following components to parse and use BlockDescriptor instead of Block*

BlockBreakSensorComponent

BlockListEventMap

BreathableComponent

BreedableComponent

BuoyancyComponent

EntityPlacerItemComponent

PreferredPathComponent

SeedItemComponentLegacy

Updated the following features to parse and use BlockDescriptor instead of Block*

NoSurfaceOreFeature

OreFeature

SingleBlockFeature

Updated the following goal definitions to parse and use BlockDescriptor instead of Block*

GoalDefinition

RaidGardenGoal

VanillaGoalDefinition

Updated the following surfaces code to parse and use BlockDescriptor instead of Block*

MesaSurfaceAttributes

SurfaceMaterialAdjustmentAttributes

SurfaceMaterialAttributes

Updated the following tests to reflect the changes from updating code to use BlockDescriptors

BuoyancyComponentServerTests

FeatureHelperTests

NoSurfaceOreFeatureTests

OreFeatureTests

SingleBlockFeatureTests

Updated the following trees to parse and use BlockDescriptor instead of Block*

AcaciaTreeCanopy

AcaciaTreeTrunk

FallenTreeTrunk

FancyTreeCanopy

FancyTreeTrunk

MegaPineTreeCanopy

MegaTreeCanopy

MegaTreeTrunk

PineTreeCanopy

RoofedTreeCanopy

SimpleTreeCanopy

SimpleTreeTrunk

SpruceTreeCanopy

TreeHelper

Actors

Squid rendering is now data-driven

All types of minecarts are now data-driven

The ‘minecraft:behavior.controlled_by_player’ goal is now data-driven

Physics component’s ‘has_gravity’ field is now used to decide whether a mob should apply water gravity, if the mob does not have a navigation component

Spatial Bandwidth Optimizations are now exposed through a component, “minecraft:conditional_bandwidth_optimization”

Spatial Bandwidth Optimizations are now utilized by every actor using “minecraft:conditional_bandwidth_optimization”

Added the selector component to raw text, which can be used to print entity names in commands such as ‘tellraw’ and ‘titleraw’

Pathfinding will now account for the “minecraft:scale'” component

Updated BrewingStand, ButtonBlock, ChestBlock, EnderChestBlock, SlabBlock, and SoulSandBlockblock types to allow path-finding and navigation (MCPE-47075)

Updated Actor Properties. Two fields that were invalid and appeared in some vanilla content will now give a content error. The field “value” on “minecraft:can_fly” and the property “minecraft:foot_size” should simply be removed from any entity files

The ‘MoveToLiquidGoal‘ has been changed to use data for its target block

Strider now correctly executes the ‘move_to_liquid’ goal

Made boats use the Buoyancy component. Added two new components, the “inside_block_notifier” component, which fires specified events when the actor enters or exits specified blocks, and the “out_of_control” component, which sets a corresponding actor flag, in order to make this possible

Exposed new data parameters to control the behavior of Drop Item For Goal. This includes: “seconds_before_pickup”, “cooldown”, “minimum_teleport_distance”, “max_head_look_at_height”, “teleport_offset”, and “entity_types”. Check out the new Actor component documentation!

Exposed new data parameters to control the behavior of Harvest Farm Block Goal, including “max_seconds_before_search”, “search_cooldown_max_seconds”, and “seconds_until_new_task”. Check out the new Actor component documentation!

Added error checks to parsing of Minecraft shareables items. Displays content log if item name is invalid or the array is empty

Fog

Created ‘/fog’ command for managing active fog settings for players; these fog settings override fog driven from the client such as biome location of player camera

Updated “biomes_client.json” to link each biome to a fog definition identifier

Added child object “volumetric” which contains “density” and “media_coefficients” objects. These hold the data values used for the volumetric fog

Record Item Component

Items can now be made records to play music in Jukeboxes

Component Variables

sound_event – A string value correseponding to a sound event in the game code. This string must be one these for music to play: “13”, “cat”, “blocks”, “chirp”, “far”, “mall”, “mellohi”, “stal”, “strad”, “ward”, “11”, “wait”, “pigstep”

duration – A float value that determines how long particles are spawned from the JukeBox Block, should approximately match length of sound event

comparator_signal – An integer value that represents the strenght of the analog signal, used by the Comparator Block

Examples

When added to JukeBox Block this will play the sound clip of “record.chirp”

Example 1: “minecraft:record”: { “sound_event”: “chirp”, “duration”: 185.0, “comparator_signal”: 4 }

Items

Renamed items to be consistent with the list of Java Edition items

Created RepairableItemComponent that data-drives how an item is repaired in game

Items can now override their display name with a localized ‘value’. If a value is not supplied, the component will stay with its default name. If the value supplied is not in the localization file, the display name will be the value string

Added a Lock in Inventory component that can be applied to an item via the ‘/give’ and ‘/replaceitem’ commands. This prevents the item from being removed from the player’s inventory, dropped, or crafted with

Example of use: `/give @s apple 1 0 {“item_lock”: {“mode”: “lock_in_inventory”}}`

Added a Lock in Slot component that can be applied to an item via the ‘/give’ and ‘/replaceitem’ commands. This prevents the item from being moved or removed from its slot in the player’s inventory, dropped, or crafted with

Example of use: ‘/give @s apple 1 0 {“item_lock”: {“mode”: “lock_in_slot”}}’

Added a Keep on Death component which can be applied to an item via the ‘/give’ and ‘/replaceitem’ commands. This component prevents the item from being dropped when the player dies

Example of use: ‘/give @s apple 1 0 {“keep_on_death”: {}}’

Item Icon Component

Items now have an easy way to set the icon for an item for displaying in the user interface

Component Variables

“texture”: Full path to icon image to use as item’s icon. No default

“frame”: Molang script to be executed at runtime to determine the icon’s current frame. Can be a constant, defaults to: 0

“legacy_texture_id”: The name of the texture used on legacy items. No default

“legacy_frame”: Molang script to be executed at runtime to determine the icon’s current frame. Can be a constant, defaults to: 0

Item Parsing

‘any_tag’ functionality added to several actor components. In addition to representing items as item names in json they can now be represented as a set of tags

Examples:

“item”: {“any_tag”: “food”}

“item”: {“any_tag”: [“food”, “wood”]}

“bribe_items”: [“emerald”, {“any_tag”: “stone”}]

Components and fields that can now use ‘any_tag’ functionality:

‘minecraft:ageable’

‘minecraft:breedable’ breed_items

‘minecraft:bribeable’ bribe_items

‘minecraft:giveable’ items

‘minecraft:healable’ items

‘minecraft:tamemount’ feed_items and auto_reject_items

‘minecraft:equippable’ accepted_items

Technical Changes

Item names of the format “minecraft:item.someitem” no longer need the “item.” portion and it will be ignored

Added Entity Movement Prediction

Changed LegacyCubemap from opaque to transparent (MCPE-94275)

Added ‘decrement_count’ event response for items

‘minecraft:behavior.send_event’ Changes

‘minecraft:behavior.send_event’ no longer uses -1 in ‘max_activation_range’ as a value to indicate unlimited range, the default has been changed to 32

Added content log warnings for when ‘min_activation_range’ and ‘max_activation_range’ is less than 0

Added content log warnings for when ‘min_activation_range’ is greater than ‘max_activation_range’

‘minecraft:behavior.summon_entity’ Changes

‘minecraft:behavior.summon_entity’ no longer uses -1 in max_activation_range as a value to indicate unlimited range, the default has been changed to 32

Added content log warnings for when ‘min_activation_range’ and ‘max_activation_range’ is less than 0

Added content log warnings for when ‘min_activation_range’ is greater than ‘max_activation_range’

Fixed a difference with the default return type of the script function, which differed from the usual return type (No ID)

Added new BlockRaycastComponent that can override the AABB used for outlines and raycasting

Added new BlockCollisionComponent that can override the AABB used for entity collision

Added new BlockPropertyComponent that can replace the blockProperties : Unwalkable, Infiniburn, PreventsJumping, Immovable, BreakOnPush, OnlyPistonPush and BreaksWhenHitByArrow

Added new BlockQueuedTickingComponent that triggers events for a block on a range of time set by the creator

Added new BlockRandomTickingComponent that triggers events for a block randomly

Added a Rotation Component that allows a block to rotate. The component only allows axis-aligned rotations

Adds the base implementation of the CraftingTableComponent

Allows the creation of custom crafting tables

Currently only supports 3×3 grids

Animations

Added a new ‘loop_delay’field to skeletal animation files that controls how to wait between each iteration of a looping animation

Fixed a bug where ‘start_delay’fields in skeletal animations were being used for both the initial delay before playing an animation and for inter-loop delays

MoveTowardsRestrictionGoal

This goal has been removed in favor of the two new child goals that make the behavior clearer. The behavior works the same, but is now separated out properly into the two goals

MoveTowardsDwellingRestrictionGoal

This goal is for Actors that are part of the Village construct

The “DwellerComponent” is necessary for this goal

MoveTowardsHomeRestrictionGoal

The “HomeComponent” is necessary for this goal

Exposed a new data parameter for the range at which the Actor will stay within in relation to their home: “restriction_radius”

Send Event Goal

“minecraft:behavior.send_event” no longer uses -1 in ‘max_activation_range’ as a value to indicate unlimited range, the default has been changed to 32

Added content log warnings for when ‘min_activation_range’ and ‘max_activation_range’ is less than 0

Added content log warnings for when ‘min_activation_range’ is greater than ‘max_activation_range’

Added a new json field ‘look_at_target’ which allows and disallows entities to turn and face their target

SetBannerDetailsFunction

Now supports customizing non-Illager banners

Up to 6 patterns and colors can be specified

Accepted Banner Types

“default” “illager_captain”

Accepted Color Values

“black” “red” “green” “brown” “blue” “purple” “cyan” “silver” “gray” “pink” “lime” “yellow” “light_blue” “magenta” “orange” “white”

Accepted Pattern Values

“base” “border” “bricks” “circle” “creeper” “cross” “curly_border” “diagonal_left” “diagonal_right” “diagonal_up_left” “diagonal_up_right” “flower” “gradient” “gradient_up” “half_horizontal” “half_horizontal_bottom” “half_vertical” “half_vertical_right” “mojang” “piglin” “rhombus” “skull” “small_stripes” “square_bottom_left” “square_bottom_right” “square_top_left” “square_top_right” “straight_cross” “stripe_bottom” “stripe_center” “stripe_downleft” “stripe_downright” “stripe_left” “stripe_middle” “stripe_right” “stripe_top” “triangle_bottom” “triangle_top” “triangles_bottom” “triangles_top”

Possible Input
"function": "set_banner_details",
 "type": "default",
 "base_color": "blue",
 "patterns": [
   {
     "pattern": "flower",
     "color": "white"
   },
   {
     "pattern": "triangle_bottom",
     "color": "brown"
   }
 ]
Format Version Checks

Updated the ‘format_version’field in geometry, particles, and animation files to behave as entity behavior files do. That is, you no longer need to specify a specific version for it to be accepted, instead you can just specify the version of the release you are targeting

Additional notes: update went out early on Nintendo Switch, causing multiplayer compatibility issues. It will be available on other platforms later today.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.40

Release date: September 8th 2020 (North America) / September 9th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed the Microsoft account sign-in screen repeatedly appearing after losing internet connection on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-95651)

Fixed an issue with the account sign-in button becoming unresponsive after backing out of the sign-in prompt screen

Additional notes: release date TBC
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.21

Release date: August 11th 2020 (North America) / August 12th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed stability issues discovered when interacting with Minecraft and the home screen while signed in to Microsoft Accounts (MCPE-95621)

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.20

Release date: August 11th 2020 (North America) / August 12th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Piglin Brute

Piglin Brutes are stronger versions of Piglins that live in bastion remnants and protect the treasures there

Unlike their cowardly and greedy counterparts, the Piglin Brutes cannot be distracted by gold and aren’t afraid of anything

Piglin Brutes attack players on sight, no matter how the player is dressed

Piglin Brutes wield axes and don’t need any armor because they’re just that tough!

Crafting Interface Changes:

Recipe Select button prompt shows when hovering over a non-craftable recipe book item using controller (MCPE-79725)

Recipe selected items put in crafting input grid can now be hovered over with controller to see their tooltip names

On controller, hovering over recipes will show them in the crafting grid when no recipe is selected

On controller, you can deselect a selected recipe when hovering above that selection in the recipe book. You can also clear the crafting grid by clicking the right thumbstick

Fixes:

Performance / Stability

Fixed a crash that occurred on PlayStation 4 due to other players using custom skins

Fixed a crash that could occur when pressing the Manage Account button in Profile settings

Loom blocks no longer cause an out of memory crash when using high resolution resource packs (MCPE-69848)

General

Worlds can once again be uploaded to Realms on Nintendo Switch (REALMS-474)

Players can once again host 8 max player worlds on PlayStation 4 (MCPE-85009)

Fixed an issue where the Hot Tourist Destination trophy would not unlock after visiting the last required Nether biome on PlayStation 4 (MCPE-85496)

Meeting requirements for some achievements offline will now unlock it after reconnecting

Custom skins once again work properly in multiplayer (MCPE-48207)

Emotes can no longer be equipped before unlocking them (MCPE-84810)

Fixed notifications not appearing on iOS

Gameplay

Breaking a Furnace will now drop the stored experience from smelting (MCPE-71651)

Boats are no longer slowed down by objects with no collision (MCPE-81316)

Legacy chunk upgrades will no longer cause chunks to become 100% air (MCPE-58514)

New Nether biomes, blocks, and structures no longer generates into worlds with a fixed version (MCPE-66357)

Parity: Fixed chests with loot tables not generating loot until opened or destroyed

Local split-screen players can once again see the Ender Dragon and Ender Crystal (MCPE-67596)

The bounding box of the player used for spawning is now the correct size, so we don’t think a player is in a dangerous spot when they are actually safe

Mobs

Mobs max spawn radius is now 44 blocks at sim distance 4 (MCPE-79359)

Zombies can spawn underground again (MCPE-52743)

Dolphins, fish, and squid now spawn in bubble columns again (MCPE-73967)

Baby pigs now despawn properly (MCPE-76373)

Hoglins no longer attack on Peaceful mode when too close (MCPE-71939)

Piglins and Brutes can now spawn with enchanted weapons (MCPE-83536)

Piglins now spawn on Peaceful difficulty

Piglins no longer naturally spawn on Shroomlights

Piglin arms are now behaving more like the players arms and less like zombie arms (MCPE-74089)

Piglins killed with a single blow while admiring Gold Ingots now drop the admired the Gold Ingot :(

Gold Ingots given to baby Piglins are no longer consumed

Piglins no longer drop up to a full stack of Gold Ingots upon giving them one by right-clicking and reloading a world while they are admiring it, instead it drops something from its loot table

Piglins no longer pick up entire stacks of Gold (MCPE-76080)

Piglins no longer spawn with enchanted gear

Tweaked arm animation for mobs that have their weapons removed (MCPE-83581)

Tamed wolves no longer disappear when returning to overworld through a Nether portal

Husks now prefer iron armor over chain armor

Blocks

Walls now connect to open trapdoors (MCPE-79490)

Walls now connect to glass blocks (MCPE-79483)

Pressure plates have been fixed to have no collision again (MCPE-80276)

Melon and pumpkin stems now break again when the block below them is destroyed (MCPE-79577)

Slime blocks pushed by pistons launch players correctly again (MCPE-62419)

Fixed an issue that prevented players from being able to place beehives or bee nests from their inventory after an update (MCPE-62067)

Soul Campfires now emit the correct light level (MCPE-73890)

Hyphae blocks now take as long as stem blocks to destroy (MCPE-72045)

Quartz Block can no longer be created from Chiseled Quartz Block and Pillar Quartz Block in a Furnace

Fixed recipes when crafting a Barrel from Warped or Crimson Slabs

Quartz Bricks can no longer be crafted from anything but Quartz Blocks on the Stonecutter

Target Block’s zones for particular redstone signal strength are no longer misplaced because of old Arrow geometry

Setting Soul Sand on fire no longer produces a placeholder Soul Fire block on pre-Nether version locked content

Items

Netherite items no longer bounce on lava (MCPE-65372)

Using Bone Meal on flowers or grass blocks no longer consumes the item if nothing can grow (MCPE-73889)

Fixed issues around duplicating items when reloading a world while Piglin is admiring an item

Audio

Zoglins now have sounds distinct from pigs (MCPE-73220)

Netherite armor now has a unique sound when equipped MCPE-69047)

Climbing vines now plays sound (MCPE-69741)

Corrected sound for placing Nether Wart

Placing or stepping on Warped or Crimson processed materials or planks now make wood sounds (MCPE-69029)

Ambient cave sounds are no longer played in Marketplace content prior to 1.16

User Interface

Wither health bar no longer depletes to zero after half of the health is gone (MCPE-79661)

Wither health bar now reappears when returning from another dimension

The ‘Open’ tooltip is no longer displayed when looking at Piglins (MCPE-79376)

Speed of credits roll is no longer dependent on framerate

Commands

Fixed an issue with several commands being used while cheats were disabled (MCPE-92557)

Made using the ‘/fill’ command more efficient, improving performance

Using the ‘/locate’ command to find a Ruined Portal will no longer return placeholder text (MCPE-79323)

The ‘/clear’ command now correctly removes all blocks with the same block name when no data argument is passed in

Making command selectors use the current position of an actor rather than the previous position of an actor

Fixed an issue that could cause Command Blocks to stop working unexpectedly

Add-Ons

Updated Piglin geometry and entity files: Fixed issue with scaling carried item for baby humanoid mobs

Accessing a Beacon no longer spams the content log with warnings (MCPE-66357)

The ‘rider_can_interact’ field on ‘minecraft:rideable’ is now used again

Behavior animation components will no longer try to reload after a suspend resume and a mob/player rides something

Drowned geometry is no longer broken in content packs

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.1

Release date: TBA (North America) / TBA (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed several issues with Netherite items being lost in fire or lava (MCPE-70774, MCPE-79753, MCPE-84796)

Recipe Select button prompt shows when hovering over a non-craftable recipe book item using controller (MCPE-79725)

Recipe selected items put in the crafting input grid can now be hovered over with the controller to see their tooltip names

Fixed a crash that could occur when playing an emote and suspending the game (MCPE-73325)

Emotes can no longer be equipped before unlocking them (MCPE-84810)

Custom skins once again work properly on multiplayer (MCPE-48207)

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.16.0 – Nether Update

Release date: June 23rd 2020 (North America) / June 24th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Overview

Four new Nether biomes including Crimson Forest, Warped Forest, Soulsand Valley, and Basalt Deltas

Watch out for a collection of new dangers like Piglins and Hoglins, and keep your eyes open for the ridable, lava walking Strider

Get building with new bricks and wood galore and get growing with eerie new vegetation

New music and ambient sounds fill the air, including fresh tunes from Lena Raine and includes a snappy tune called “Pigstep”

Keep yourself safe and take your diamond gear to the next level with Netherite

Over 300 bug fixes since the Buzzy Bees update, with fixes to over 180 community reported bugs

Be sure to check out the list of parity updates, as we address some issues regarding mob spawning, curses, villages, aquatic music, and sounds

New Biomes:

Warped Forest

Warped Forests can now be found in the Nether!

Warped Nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation

Huge Warped Fungi make up the “trees” of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor

Warped Wart blocks can be cleared quickly using a hoe

A dark blue fog covers the forest!

Warped spores swirl through the air

Twisting Vines grow from the cave floor and fungi

The Warped Forests are strange, but also the least hostile place of Nether

Crimson Forest

Crimson Forests can now be found in the Nether!

Crimson Nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation

Huge Crimson Fungi make up the “trees” of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor

Nether Wart blocks can be cleared quickly using a hoe

Weeping Vines grow from the cave ceilings and fungi

Hoglins wander these forests

Crimson spores swirl through the air

Soulsand Valley

Soulsand Valleys can now be found in the Nether!

An open space made mostly of Soul Sand and Soul Soil

Basalt pillars span from floor to ceiling

Fossile remains of unknown creatures from the past litter the valley

Ash falls through the air

A light blue glow envelopes the valley

Beware of Skeletons here

Basalt Deltas

Basalt Deltas can now be found in the Nether!

Remnants of volcanic eruptions, this biome sports a high concentration of Basalt columns and lava deltas

Walking through, you will be surrounded by flakes of flowing white ash

Magma Cubes finally have a place to call home, spawning very frequently

A new block, Blackstone, can be found in large patches here

Nether Wastes

The original Nether biome is now called Nether Wastes

Nether Biome Fog

Biome fog color smoothly blends between biomes. Smooth.

New Mobs:

Piglins

Piglins are an aggressive civilization that live in the Nether

They mostly hang around in the Crimson Forest, but you might find some in the Nether Wastes, too

They think of players as target practice and will attack on sight

However, if you dress appropriately, they will see you as a respectable figure, or tolerable at least

Piglins are suspicious of strangers and if they see you opening a chest or mining a block of gold, they will assume that you’re stealing and will treat you accordingly

Piglins LOVE gold and get very distracted by gold items

Gold ingots are currency to piglins, and you can throw ingots at them or interact with them while holding an ingot to barter for various goods

Piglins sometimes get hungry and hunt hoglins for food. Or they try at least. The results… vary

Piglins prefer to hunt and fight in groups and when a fight is happening, everyone wants in

Piglins that somehow end up in the overworld become zombified fairly quickly

Piglins are creeped out by soul fire and zombified piglins, and will stay clear whenever possible

Wither skeletons are a historic enemy and piglins will attack on sight

Baby piglins are not as dangerous but they can be mischievous, so watch your back

… and they like to play with baby hoglins

Hoglins

Hoglins are big aggressive beasts that live in Crimson Forests

They attack players on sight so be careful, they can easily knock you off a ledge!

Hoglins drop pork and sometimes leather, but not willingly

You can breed hoglins by feeding them crimson fungi, but do so at your own risk

Hoglins get hunted by piglins sometimes, but they don’t go down without a fight!

Despite this, hoglins and piglins aren’t enemies – they are more like an ecosystem

Baby hoglins like to pretend they are tough – but don’t worry, they are more like angry puppies with no teeth

Want to keep hoglins off your back? Pro tip: Hoglins hate the smell of warped fungi!

Strider

Striders are neutral mobs that stride the Nether, preferably through lava

Striders can be mounted if they first get a saddle placed on them

Similar to pigs, they can be controlled by the player, using mushroom-on-a-stick!

They are not hostile

They spawn in lava, and are fire immune

When they are not in lava, they freeze, shiver, and move slower

You can breed striders by feeding them warped fungus

Baby striders follow their parents

Zombified Piglins

Zombie pigmen are now known as zombified piglins, and they now have ears… well, at least one ear

Zoglins

Zoglins are zombified hoglins – the result of bringing a hoglin into the overworld

Unlike hoglins, they can’t be bred or fed, and they don’t care about warped fungus

Beware – these beasts are raving mad and attack just about everything they see!

New Gameplay Features:

Ruined Portals

Remains of ancient Nether portals can now be found in the Nether and Overworld!

Bastion Remnants

What’s made of Blackstone and full of Piglins and Hoglins? Bastion Remnants!

Added 4 separate Bastion Remnant types: Bridge, Hoglin Stable, Housing Units, and Treasure Room

You can find these sizable structures in all biomes in the Nether, except for the ashy cliffs of Basalt Deltas

Explore, loot, and conquer a Bastion Remnant to call it your home…but beware, Piglins don’t take kindly to intruders stealing their things

Added a new music disc from Lena Raine titled ‘Pigstep’, which can only be found in Bastion chests

Blackstone

The only stone whose color is almost as dark as the humor of Mojang’s former writer and friend, Tom Stone!

Added a new set of stone blocks with regular, polished, and polished brick variants!

Added Gilded Blackstone – Blackstone which has been imbued with gold and has a chance of dropping gold nuggets when broken

You can find these new blocks in Bastion Remnants

Blackstone can be used to craft a Furnace

Blackstone can be used to craft stone tools

Respawn Anchor

Added the respawn anchor that can set your respawn point in the Nether

Use while holding Glowstone to charge to a maximum of four charges – each respawn depletes one charge

You can charge the Respawn Anchor using a Dispenser

Netherite

Netherite items float in lava so you don’t lose all your gear after that unplanned lava bath

Netherite tools work faster and last longer than diamond

Netherite weapons do more damage than diamond

Netherite armor have higher toughness and durability than diamond

Netherite items have higher enchantment value than diamond (but not as high as gold)

Netherite armor gives you knockback resistance, so you barely get knocked back at all when hit by arrows and such- Netherite blocks can be used as the base of a beacon and netherite ingots can be used as the fuel for a beacon. Weird flex but ok

And it looks cool!

Crafting Netherite

Mine ancient debris in the lower depths of the Nether. At own risk. No insurance coverage for that

Refine it into netherite scrap in a furnace or blast furnace

Combine 4 netherite scrap with 4 gold ingots in a crafting table to make a netherite ingot

Crating Netherite Tools and Armor

Add one of your diamond tools or armor pieces into a Smithing Table with a netherite ingot

The Smithing Table will preview your new netherite item in the right slot. Take it out to craft!

Target Block

Because let’s face it, your aim could use some practice

The closer you hit to the center, the larger the redstone signal!

You will need one hay block and four redstone for this recipe

Soul Speed

Never suffer again drudging through Soul Sand Valleys – Soul Speed has you covered!

Shine your boots of choice with this soul-sucking enchantment to speed around on Soul Sand and Soul Soil!

There’s a downside: Enchantments will slowly degrade your boots each Soul block you walk on

Can only be obtained by bartering with those pesky Piglins

Lodestone

A new block that can help you get your bearings!

Crafted from a netherite ingot and chiseled stone bricks

Use a compass on a lodestone to point the compass to that lodestone

New Blocks:

Two new non-flammable wood-like materials – Crimson Stems and Warped Stems

Hyphae of Crimson and Warped Stems, including their stripped versions, can be crafted. Similar to wood from the Overworld

Basalt blocks – you can find them as pillars, but they can be placed in any direction

New ground surface blocks: Crimson Nylium and Warped Nylium

Using bone meal on Netherrack can spread Nylium

New vegetation: Nether Sprouts, Crimson Roots, and Warped Roots

Warped and Crimson roots and fungi can be placed into pots

Two types of Fungi: Crimson and Warped – try using bone meal to grow them!

Warped Wart blocks

Weeping Vines that grow from the bottom of a block downwards!

Weeping vines are climbable!

A new natural light source: Shroomlights

Added Soul Soil! Whenever fire burns on Soul Soil, it burns with a blue flame!

Soul Soil can be used to craft Soul Torches – and those can be crafted into Soul Lanterns!

Soul Campfire – A campfire with blue flames craftable with Soul Soil or Soul Sand

Added patches of Blackstone and Gravel to all Nether biomes at and below lava level

Nether gold ore can now spawn in the nether!

Nether gold ore can be mined with any pickaxe and will drop gold nuggets

Added Chiseled Nether Bricks, Cracked Nether Bricks, and Quartz Bricks blocks

Music and Sounds:

We’ve added three new tracks, all composed by the very talented Lena Raine

Rubedo is played in the Nether Wastes

Chrysopoeia is played in Crimson Forests

So Below is played in Soulsand Valleys

Added moody sounds to the Nether

Added underwater music

Added ambient cave sounds

A large amount of sounds have had their volume and pitch slightly changed in order to get close to Java Edition parity

Emotes:

Players can now use Emote animations in game as a fun way to express themselves! Emotes are assigned to an Emote wheel within the Dressing Room. There are Emotes available for free, purchase, and as achievement rewards

Achievement Rewards:

This feature rewards players with Dressing Room items when completing achievements. If an achievement is already unlocked, the reward can be redeemed immediately. Rewards are the full gambit of Dressing Room items, including Emotes

New Achievements:

Bullseye – Hit the bullseye of a Target block (15G)

Cover me in debris – Wear a full set of Netherite armor (50G)

Oooh, shiny! – Distract a Piglin using gold (30G)

Hot tourist destination – Visit all Nether biomes (30G)

Parity:

Mob Despawning

Bedrock mob despawn rules have been changed to now work similarly to Java Edition’s mob despawn rules. This allows mobs to more consistently despawn around the player

Any mobs that have been set to persist (tempted, name-tagged, tamed, bred, etc.) will never naturally despawn

Almost all naturally spawning mobs will automatically despawn when they’re 44 blocks or further away from the nearest players in a world with simulation distance 4. On higher simulation distances, mobs are despawned when they’re in a chunk at the edge of the simulation distance up to a distance or 128 blocks from the nearest player

Fish automatically despawn at a max range of 40 blocks or further on all simulation distances

If mobs are between 32 and 44 blocks from the nearest player, they must not take damage for 30 seconds as well as succeeding a 1 in 800 chance

The following mobs do not follow these despawn rules:

Wither Boss

Ender Dragon

Evocation Illager

Vindicator

Bee

Iron Golem

Snow Golem

Elder Guardian

Villagers

Wandering Trader

Curses

Curse of Binding

Curse of Vanishing

Sounds

Updated block sounds for Bone block, Netherrack, Soul Sand, Nether Wart, Nether Brick, Quartz Ore, Honey block, and Honeycomb block

Tools now make noise when they break (MCPE-32355)

Villages

Villager trade values have been changed to closely match Java Edition (MCPE-47141)

Players more reliably raise their popularity within a village

Trading with villagers now correctly increases popularity

Curing a Zombie Villager now grants additional popularity

Popularity will become more neutral over time

Increased golem spawn rate and modified spawn rules (MCPE-47157)

At least 75% of the villagers must have worked in the past day

Minimum 20 beds and every villager has a bed

Only 1 golem will spawn for every 10 villagers

Villagers no longer close powered iron doors (MCPE-44621)

Villagers no longer run around their houses during raids

The raid boss bar now reappears when returning to a raid from another dimension

More Parity Changes

Dropped items are now three-dimensional objects and spin

Passive mobs now spawn on blocks they are supposed to (MCPE-47596)

Pufferfish now have a middle inflation state when approached

We will update the missing sounds in a future update

Planting an oak or birch sapling next to a flower now has a chance of spawning a bee nest, once the sapling has grown

Water now freezes from the edges, matching the Java Edition

Players now receive Conduit Power effect when in the rain (MCPE-35941)

Podzol is now generated under large Spruce trees when grown by the player

The Wither no longer breaks obsidian during its spawning animation (MCPE-59502)

Fence Gates can now be placed without supporting blocks underneath (MCPE-31026)

Oak and Birch saplings grown within 2 block radius of a flower now have a 5% chance to grow a tree with a Beehive

Updated the texture of Nether Brick blocks

Damaged Bows can again be used to craft Dispensers (MCPE-55861)

Flowers can now be removed from flower pots using interact/right-click

Changed Eye of Ender explode particles to match Java Edition

Tweaked the texture of the Iron Bars item so they match Java Edition (MCPE-25802)

Pumpkins can be placed without a support block underneath (MCPE-35761)

Boats placed on top of Cactus blocks will now take damage and break

Observer blocks no longer immediately detect a state change when placed

All mobs (including the player) will no longer drown in lava. This means that a potion of water breathing is no longer required for swimming in lava! (MCPE-17073)

Blocks moving underneath top snow now correctly cause top snow to be destroyed

Top snow can now be placed on composters and cauldrons

Corrected book render location on lecterns to match Java Edition (MCPE-43109)

Grindstone now removes repair penalty when removing enchantments (MCPE-45130)

Particle color for Bad Omen is now dark green

Woodland Mansion ‘arena’ room had incorrect slab type floor (MCPE-41335)

Cocoa Pods now break when in water (MCPE-36335)

The Ender Dragon fireball no longer causes excessive damage (MCPE-40344)

Carrot on a stick, shield, and shovel now lose durability consistently in Bedrock

Changes:

Gameplay Changes

Knockback resistance is now a scale instead of a probability

Entities now get pushed by flowing lava

The Wither can now be summoned using Soul Soil as a base

Creepers now deal damage when in a boat on the water

Mobs that panic now do so for all damage types

Hoe is now a digger-item and can dig Nether Wart Block, Warped Wart Block, Hay Block, Dried Kelp Block, Target Block and Shroomlight. Hoes can be enchanted like other diggable items

New Server Window

Created a new server tab play screen layout to provide more information about third-party servers: Description, screenshots, available games, and news/updates

Removed colors from third-party server messages for accessibility purposes

Fixed ping latency clarity for players, now provides latency value separate from player count

Added messaging to explain what adding a server does

Kicking and Banning Changes

Kicking

Problem players can be now be removed from your world by pausing and going to the Player Permissions screen

Anyone with Operator permissions will be able to kick players. Trusted players can help moderate your world

Kicked players will not be able to rejoin LAN games while the world is open

Kick Command

Problem players can also be kicked with the new /kick command, optionally including a reason for kicking

The kick command can use target selectors, such as /kick @a [c=-2]

Banning and Realms Permissions

Realm owners can also ban problem players by pausing and going to the Player Permissions screen

Realm owners can now change permissions of players in their Realm from the Player Permissions screen

The name of the Realm is now shown on the pause screen

Spawnpoint Command

The ‘/spawnpoint’ command can now be used in the Nether

Mojang Studios

The splash screen has been updated with the shiny, new Mojang Studios logo!

Fixes:

Crashes

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when clicking ‘Read More’ on Resource Pack screens

Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur in split-screen when the host saves and quits the game

Fixed an issue with invisible Shulker Boxes which could cause a crash when trying to open or break them (MCPE-55894)

Fixed a crash that could occur in The End

Fixed a crash that could occur when dispensing Bone Meal into a Grass block (MCPE-53033)

Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting a world with particles present

Fixed a crash caused by fire spreading to Beehives

Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur after resuming the game on Xbox One

Fixed a crash that could occur when adjusting certain JSON strings in Behavior Packs

Fixed a crash that could occur with the use of custom blocks in Add-Ons

Fixed a crash that could occur when using a custom recipe Add-On that returns items to the player

Fixed a crash that occurred when the ‘/kill’ command was used while the Ender Dragon was respawning

Performance

Improved performance when breaking lots of Kelp plants

Improved performance related to maps in item frames (REALMS-1532)

Improved reliability of loading characters (MCPE-55968)

Optimized key frame animation playback

General

Fixed an issue that could cause chunks to be overwritten when converting worlds from Console Edition to Bedrock (MCPE-58480)

Fixed an issue that prevented achievements from being unlocked offline

Fixed the main menu getting stuck after cancelling the sync prompt on Xbox One (MCPE-53266)

Fixed Experimental Gameplay not being enabled for clients when the server level has it enabled

Fixed a world conversion issue that was causing some items in chunks to convert incorrectly

Fixed an issue with the Marketplace not always loading in correctly

Fixed an issue with invite notifications not appearing on iOS

Fixed an issue where imported world templates (.mctemplate) were not visible on Gear VR devices

Gameplay

Fixed an issue that would cause blocks to reappear after they have been broken (MCPE-48914)

Changed mob population cap to only count mobs with spawn rules (MCPE-54378)

Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Villagers to not link up to job sites correctly in multiplayer worlds (MCPE-49580)

Flying too fast with elytra into an unloaded chunk will no longer cause death by kinetic energy (MCPE-55671)

Fixed players being able to duplicate items by closing the title while on the respawn menu (MCM-66573)

Players can transition from swimming to running on land more smoothly now

Controls on the inventory screen are now more user friendly and closer resemble the controls when using mouse and keyboard (MCPE-34912)

XP orbs once again shoot in random directions (MCPE-58715)

It is now impossible to use beds if there is no room for the player to stand next to or on top of the bed when they wake up (MCPE-42881)

Fixed an issue related to chunks not loading correctly in Realms (REALMS-2037)

Movement will now properly switch to water controls when getting out of a bed underwater (MCPE-49632)

Casting a fishing rod whilst running no longer slows the player down (MCPE-56199)

The ‘Sound the Alarm’ achievement is now only triggered by hostile mobs and not players

The player’s hitbox is now correctly reset when unequipping Elytra mid-flight

Sneak will now allow the player to move downwards correctly when swimming

Fixed the respawn location so that players no longer wake up with their head in a block after sleeping

Fixed an issue that prevented inventories from being opened after riding a mount (MCPE-63196)

The Raid bar will now appear correctly when returning to an active Raid from another dimension

Prevented Elytra gliding rotations on player when in first person view (MCPE-53092)

Explosions can now deal damage in water

Player is no longer displaced into solid blocks on respawn by non-solid blocks, resulting in x-ray vision (MCPE-53460)

The state of flying in Creative mode now remains after accessing world settings

Flying players are able to return to the overworld if an End Portal is on their spawn point

Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed Villagers and players to respawn inside blocks when getting out of bed (MCPE-46064)

Players no longer teleport through partial blocks when reloading into a world (MCPE-46858)

Players no longer swim through the air after swimming in a bubble column (MCPE-48958)

Players can no longer breathe underwater when swimming under blocks with a Turtle Shell equipped (MCPE-35769)

Flying with Elytra at high speeds no longer causes sound to become jittery (MCPE-19945, MCPE-52931)

Stacked minecarts that occupy the same space will now load and unload as expected (MCPE-54244)

Fixed an issue that was preventing chunks from loading in correctly when travelling between dimensions (MCPE-63268)

Casting a fishing rod will no longer attach itself to a Parrot mounted on the player’s shoulder (MCPE-60361)

Boats can now move and don’t get stuck when on top of partial blocks (MCPE-34580)

Boats no longer continue sliding on bottom half slabs

The smooth camera option (from full keyboard gameplay) is no longer jittery and is smooth again (MCPE-54969)

The screen no longer twitches when the player dies in the Nether or End

Light propagation now works correctly, fixing hostile mob spawning (MCPE-49616)

Chunks should no longer fail to load properly in worlds over 250MB (MCPE-58514)

Fixed an issue with light persisting after a block change

Lighting now propagates correctly through chunk borders (MCPE-58182)

Mobs

Tweaked the strolling animation of Iron Golems (MCPE-63151)

Mobs are now damaged and items are destroyed when on top of Cactus blocks (MCPE-14303)

Fixed the jumping animation of tamed horses

Spawned cave mobs aren’t counted as surface mobs anymore (MCPE-41273)

Mobs now pick up items and equip armor (MCPE-14211)

Fixed Blaze pathfinding and navigation (MCPE-45469)

Fixed a bug that allowed Ghasts to spawn when the difficulty was set to Peaceful (MCPE-53383)

Fixed an issue that was preventing Pillager Captains from being hostile (MCPE-44987)

Fixed an issue that was allowing fish to spawn in flowing water above Ice blocks

Creepers in boats now deal damage to nearby players

Fixed an issue that prevented Polar Bears, Parrots, Ocelots, and Dolphins from being leashed (MCPE-63095)

Fixed mobs in monster spawners not being visible (MCPE-56879)

Hostile mobs now correctly seek out and jump on turtle eggs (MCPE-36244)

Wolves now spawn in more biomes (MCPE-49792)

Small mobs will no longer get trapped in gaps created by stair blocks

Villagers no longer run around inside their houses when being raided

Villagers now have a chance to offer Trident enchantment books as trades (MCPE-35406)

Villagers will no longer become preoccupied with sharing carrots (MCPE-32627)

Cured Zombie Villagers can now offer discounted trades (MCPE-47040)

Cured Zombie Villagers no longer inherit XP unexpectedly, which would prevent them from acquiring a new profession (MCPE-48712)

Cured zombie villagers can once again breed (MCPE-48533)

Mobs can now pathfind on Soul Sand blocks

Angry Bees now move slower (MCPE-53689)

Mobs no longer start shaking when entering minecarts

Mobs killed by lingering potions now drop XP and uncommon loot when the potion comes from a player

Polar Bears no longer chase players on two back legs

Sheep no longer eat grass through partial blocks

Creepers no longer lose aggro immediately after losing sight of their targets (MCPE-32815)

Ghast hitbox now matches its rendering (MCPE-44326)

Fixed an issue where Enderman would not attack players when looked at

Endermen no longer pick up Netherrack

Minecarts no longer collide with other minecarts on parallel tracks (MCPE-59302)

Tamed horses can no longer be tempted by food that cannot be used to breed them

Fixed some mobs having a large delay for finding their nearest attackable target (Wolves attacking sheep)

Iron golems will now ensure they can reach a target before choosing to attack it (MCPE-42402)

Reduced the melee attack range of mounted mobs (MCPE-48539)

Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented mobs from burning on bottom slabs (MCPE-32822)

Sea turtles once again lay eggs correctly (MCPE-59043)

Guardians can now spawn in bubble columns (MCPE-37671)

Fixed a bug that caused Vex mobs to move too slowly when moving on X and Z axes (MCPE-41879)

Fixed a bug where a mob could catch on fire if it was standing on an entity that was in lava

The Wither’s spawning explosion no longer breaks obsidian (MCPE-59502)

Bees no longer get stuck under stairs (MCPE-61625)

Fixed an issue that would cause the Ender Dragon to reset after the player left and returned to the fighting area (MCPE-51501)

Fixed an issue with too many cats spawning in Villages (MCPE-60331)

Guardians and Elder Guardians will no longer float in the air as they try and reach water (MCPE-33641)

Fixed Pillager Patrols spawning in unexpected places (MCPE-58285)

Vindicators that spawn in Woodland Mansions are now aggressive before being attacked (MCPE-43208)

Squid will now spawn more frequently. Ocean cap is now 4 and river cap is now 2 (MCPE-39758)

Drowned can no longer drop tridents without having them equipped (MCPE-32731)

Fixed a bug that prevented cats from sleeping on a bed with the player

The Snow Golem can now try and shoot snowballs at mobs when it is behind a fence block (MCPE-24840)

Fixed a bug that allowed Zombie Villagers to break iron doors (MCPE-43725)

Sitting mobs will no longer slide around and breed (MCPE-62160)

Mobs now consistently take damage when spawning on magma blocks (MCPE-47518)

Ghast sounds are now heard at a shorter range

Blocks

Fixed a bug that would prevent Redstone power from passing through barrels after reloading a world (MCPE-46742)

Signs attached to doors are no longer left floating after the bottom half of the door is broken (MCPE-43748)

Smooth Quartz now uses the correct texture (MCPE-42276)

Using Silk Touch on Giant Mushrooms now drops the correct blocks (MCPE-34114)

Blocks will now lose their waterlogged state when pushed by a piston (MCPE-43166)

Kelp will now keep growing after being partially broken by a piston, and the piece below will have a maximum random age of 24 (MCPE-57330)

Falling top snow can no longer break solid blocks (MCPE-63214)

Paintings can no longer be placed on top of item frames

Cactus blocks now break when next to lava

Flowers in snow now break properly and drop the correct item (MCPE-30147)

Coral and coral fans now drop when mined with axes or shovels enchanted with Silk Touch

Fixed an issue that could cause Kelp to stop growing too soon – Kelp now checks the block in the ticking queue when attempting to add itself (MCPE-57330)

Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Redstone torches to get stuck on or off when reloading a world (MCPE-48054)

Magma blocks now melt top snow sitting on it

Falling blocks no longer break when falling on ice blocks and glass

Mycelium no longer wrongly turns to dirt due to not having enough light

TNT no longer drops as an item when detonated by a nearby explosion

Fixed trapdoor collision shape (MCPE-13451)

Falling blocks (such as sand) will no longer break when falling onto retracted pistons (MCPE-20109)

Bamboo has been changed to be unpathable by mobs to prevent them getting stuck (MCPE-46805)

Bamboo can now be placed on top of bamboo saplings without Experimental Gameplay being enabled (MCPE-50088)

Using a Quartz Block in a Stonecutter now produces Quartz Slabs instead of Smooth Quartz slabs (MCPE-57925)

Iron Bars and Glass Panes now connect to Walls (MCPE-73989)

Moving blocks now have the correct collision box (MCPE-62419)

Activator Rails now dismount players and other mobs at the correct position (MCPE-30744)

Cakes now have the correct texture states when partially eaten (MCPE-14757)

Crafting multiple Honey Blocks now returns the correct amount of items to the player (MCPE-63461, MCPE-58579)

Attempting to craft multiple Honey Blocks no longer breaks anvil and grindstone use (MCPE-63030)

Adjusted Hopper hitbox shape (MCPE-47541)

Armor stands no longer shift and fall through blocks when a world is reloaded (MCPE-29170)

Fixed Armor Stand and its contents dropping as items when broken when the ‘Tile Drops’ rule is disabled

The hay blocks in the town center in the Abandoned Village seed are now generated correctly

Pumpkins and Melons can now grow underneath observers (MCPE-48717)

Fixed an issue that would cause a ‘phantom’ water block to appear when placing water on a fire near a sponge block (MCPE-57063)

Walking on scaffolding now plays the correct sounds (MCPE-53279)

Items

The correct amount of berries can now consistently be collected from Sweet Berry Bushes (MCPE-47160)

Fully grown Sweet Berry bushes can now be harvested when holding bone meal (MCPE-54206)

Maps will now convert from Editions to Bedrock at the correct scale (MCPE-58796)

Newly-created maps now start with the correct zoom level (MCPE-63416)

Minecart with Hopper now drops a Hopper and a Minecart when broken with ranged weapons (MCPE-55859)

Enchanted bows are no longer consumed when auto-crafting dispensers

TNT no longer drops as an item when it explodes (MCPE-38101)

Fire Charges are now consumed after igniting a TNT block (MCPE-42938)

Unloaded crossbows no longer display incorrect icon in inventory (MCPE-53545)

Shulker Boxes can now be undyed in a cauldron

Fire charges are now consumed when used to light campfires (MCPE-46217)

Corrected Fishing Rod’s bobber movement

Fixed an issue where water in bubble columns could not be collected with a bucket (MCPE-37571)

Potions can now be fully removed from Witch Hut cauldrons

Graphical

Stopped the offhand shield animation and bow animation from playing at the same time (MCPE-41262)

Fixed incorrect player hand animations when using a fishing rod with third-person camera (MCPE-63088)

Fixed low light emitting block items not matching the placed block’s brightness

Maps in item frames no longer have lines through them (MCPE-46154)

Fixed the excessive hand bob motion caused by playing an animation on the hand and camera together (MCPE-54072)

Items no longer flash green when being removed from a furnace

Fixed a bug where glass and water could be drawn incorrectly when close to each other

Items held by Baby Foxes now render correctly (MCPE-52885)

Stained glass now has the correct colors on maps (MCPE-25702)

Enchanted Elytra will now show the enchanted glow when equipped (MCPE-23020)

Fire on half-slabs is now visible (MCPE-44395)

Secondary players in a split-screen game will now animate properly when you look at them

Enchanted skulls and blocks now have the enchanted glow effect in the inventory

The second player’s hands in a split-screen game will no longer disappear when the first players looks at them (MCPE-58806)

Suspending and resuming the game will no longer make a player’s model disappear on Android devices (MCPE-63119)

Player icons no longer appear as white squares on locator maps

Fixed skin texturing issue on the left leg of “Alex” model

Changed Eye of Ender exploding particles to match Java Edition

Fixed an issue that would cause armor to unexpectedly render on a mob when being held in its hand

Lingering and Splash Potion particles now stay within their boundaries when in a confined space

Fixed rendering issues for sign text through transparent blocks such as glass (MCPE-55327)

Fixed maps in item frames flashing purple and black image before the map loads

Animation scale now uses linear interpolation between keyframes

Accessibility

Fixed an issue that could cause the narrator to read text twice on Xbox One

Text-to-Speech now reads URLs properly

The screen reader now only reads the generating world message once when converting worlds to Bedrock for the first time

User Interface

The “Require players to accept Resource Packs to join” option is once again visible on the Create World screen

Set the default chat font back to Mojangles (MCPE-45857)

Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause fonts to disappear after quitting to the main menu

Fixed an issue with flickering usernames above players’ heads

Interacting with a Minecart with Hopper now opens the hopper screen and no longer blocks other screens from opening

Fixed a bug that could sometimes prevent loading screen tips from appearing

Added the missing text for locked maps in the Cartography Table (MCPE-58527)

Fixed a bug that was preventing the main menu background from rendering correctly on Xbox One

Entities and blocks are now shown consistently in the Structure Block’s preview

The Command Block’s screen now fits correctly inside screens with 4:3 aspect ratio (MCPE-41730)

Placing a block against an interactive block while crouched no longer opens the block’s menu

“Your home bed was missing or obstructed” message once again appears correctly

The XP cost is once again readable on the Anvil screen (MCPE-51908)

Obfuscated text color code works on signs placed in the world (MCPE-33780)

Fixed an unhelpful error message that appeared when trying to play online without proper account permissions

Fixed getting stuck loading resources after pressing ‘Back’ while on the ‘Your Realm will soon be updated screen

Fixed an issue that prevented native text/character input when using Korean or Chinese virtual keyboards (MCPE-62596)

Fixed account “error number -9” being displayed when launching the game while signed into an account, but no network connection

Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented inventory items being selected when using touch controls with Classic UI

Fixed an issue with music disc names not appearing in the correct language

The tooltip for leaving a boat is now consistent across platforms

The “Grow” controller tooltip will now show when pointing Bone Meal at Grass Block or blocks underwater

The “Carve” tooltip is now displayed when pointing shears at pumpkins

Fixed the iOS keyboard covering the text input box when typing (MCPE-53030)

Adjusted the hover text position in inventory to respect input mode (Controller mode should show hover text at the edge of the currently selected element)

The player can no longer type beyond what can be seen in the Book & Quill

The keyboard can no longer be accidentally opened when using Book & Quill with touch controls

Fixed issue where the download bar in the Marketplace was not always functioning correctly

Fixed the “Take a Tour” navigation arrows in the Marketplace

Marketplace ratings now appear correctly when scrolling (MCPE-60287)

Character Creator

Fixed an issue that caused some selections to not be saved between sessions (MCPE-32089)

Fixed an issue that could cause Wings items to disappear with certain hairstyles

Fixed the default player model to overcome some texture issues that could be seen when choosing different heights and sizes

Various fixes to the user interface

Commands

Updated the grammar in the ‘/scoreboard’ command description to make it consistent with other commands

The ‘/locate’ command now correctly displays the nearest structure (MCPE-45526)

Instant effects now use ticks instead of seconds when used with the ‘/effect’ command (MCPE-43393)

Ticking areas can no longer be removed on the same tick they are created (MCPE-36769)

Now when teleporting an Armor Stand to a player, it rotates the Armor Stand to the player’s orientation (MCPE-35979)

Added new overload for ‘/replaceitem’with an option for destroy (the old behavior) or keep (the command will return an error if an item occupies that slot)

Fixed an issue that prevented players from being teleported to a nearby chunk that the game thought was too far away

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

Updated Template Packs

Updated templates for 1.16.0 with new resources, behaviors, and documentation are available for download

Resource Pack Template: aka.ms/resourcepacktemplate

Behavior Pack Template (Includes documentation): aka.ms/behaviorpacktemplate

Data-Driven Features

Most attack goals are now data-driven

Most Slime and swim goals are now data-driven

Experience Orbs have been data-driven

Fireballs have been data-driven

Elytra have been data-driven

NPC geometry and animations have been data-driven

Tree generation is now data-driven

Drowned are now data-driven

Wither skull attacks are now data-driven

Item sprites are now data-driven

Updated documentation for new data-driven features

Admire Item Component

Mobs can now admire items they pick up or receive during an interaction. For a mob to admire an item they need to have both the admire_item goal and the admire_item component, and the relevant configuration need to be done in the interact component and/or the shareables component

Angry Component

Several new variables have been introduced to the angry component

Goal Variables

broadcast_anger_on_attack – If true the mob will send a pulse of brodcast anger whenever it attacks, broadcast_anger must also be true for this to work

broadcast_anger_on_being_attacked – If true the mob will send a pulse of brodcast anger whenever it is attacked, broadcast_anger must also be true for this to work

angry_sound – The sound event to play when the mob is angrysound_interval – The range of time in seconds to randomly wait before playing the sound again

Avoid Mob Type Goal

Several new variables have been introduced to the avoid_mob_type goal

Goal Variables

avoid_mob_sound – The sound event to play when the mob is angry

sound_interval – The range of time in seconds to randomly wait before playing the sound again

Barter Component

Mobs can now barter when they pick up items, or when they receive an item during an interaction. For a mob to barter they need to have both the barter goal and the barter component, and the relevant configuration need to be done in the interact component and/or the shareables component

Component Variables

barter_table – A path to a loot table, which is used to determine what items the mob gives out during barter

cooldown_after_being_attacked – Specifies for how long the goal will be unavailable after the mob is attacked, the default value is 0

Barter Goal

Mobs can now barter when they pick up items, or when they receive an item during an interaction. For a mob to barter they need to have both the barter goal and the barter component, and the relevant configuration need to be done in the interact component and/or the shareables component

Goal Variables

priority – Specifies how the mob should prioritize this goal

Celebrate Hunt Component

Specifies that the mob should have the hunt celebration behavior

Component Variables

broadcast – If true, celebration will be broadcasted to other entities in the radius. Default value is true

radius – If broadcast is enabled, specifies the radius in which it will notify other entities for celebration. Default value is 16

duration – Duration, in seconds, of celebration. Default value is 4

celeberation_targets – The list of conditions that target of hunt must satisfy to initiate celebration

celebrate_sound – The sound event to play when the mob is celebrating

sound_interval – The range of time in seconds to randomly wait before playing the sound again

Equip Item Component

Mobs can now equip armor and weapons that they pick up

Equip Item Goal

Mobs can now equip armor and weapons that they pick up

Interact Component

Component Variables

barter – If true the mob will try to activate the barter goal after the interaction, default value is false

admire – If true the mob will try to activate the admire goal after the interaction, default value is false

MoveToLavaGoal

Added the MoveToLava goal, similar to MoveToWater goal. Mob tries to find and move to lava

Navigation Component

Navigation component now has can_path_over_lava and can_walk_in_lava parameters, allowing mobs (like the strider) to traverse lava

Panic Goal

Changed the priority from the damage type to the “ignore_mob_damage” flag (if that flag is set and a mob attacks the mob with the Panic Goal, they will not panic even if the damage type matches one in their “damage_sources” list)

Changed damage types from being hard-coded to being data-driven using the existing “Entity Damage Sources”

Changed the default from “fire, fire_tick, magma” (old, hardcoded behavior) to “all”

Pre-1.16 mobs will default to “fire, fire_tick, magma”

Pickup Items Goal

The PickupItemsGoal only considers items that the mob can reach

When determining whether the goal can be used, we now check whether the mob can reach an item it’s interested in, before committing to it as the target of the goal. This is to avoid mobs getting stuck in this goal after deciding to pick up an item they cannot reach

PickupBasedOnChance variable

This new variable was added to be used for monsters that can pick up items sometimes but also preserve mobs that used this goal in the past like Villagers. If this variable is true, the mob will have a calculation done (based on things like time played by the player, game difficulty, and moon brightness) to determine if this is a mob that is allowed to pick up items. That value is only calculated on the mob’s first spawn, which means it is forever saved on that mob and doesn’t change. If the variable is false (which it is by default), the mob will always be able to pick up items using the goal

CanPickupAnyItem variable

The PickupItemsGoal is dependent on the ShareableComponent and the items that are added to its items list. This new variable overrides that list and tells the component that this mob can pick up any item even if it isn’t in the list. Items picked up because of this variable still honor the priority set to items in the list of items, however. This means that any items with a set priority in the list will still be picked up over any item that may be picked up because of this variable. By default, it is set to false

CooldownAfterBeingAttacked variable

The variable cooldown_after_being_attacked has been added to the goal, specifying for how many seconds after being attacked the goal should be unavailable. The default value is 0

CanPickupToHandOrEquipment variable

Specifying if the mob can equip items that it picks up or put items in its hand, or if it belongs in the inventory

Shareable Component

Component Variables

item/barter – If true the mob will try to activate the barter goal after picking up the item, default value is false

item/admire – If true the mob will try to activate the admire goal after picking up the item, default value is false

item/consume_item – Specifies if an item should be consumed, for instance Piglins consume (eat) porkchop. Default value is false

item/stored_in_inventory – Specifies if the item is desired to be picked up and stored in the mob’s inventory. Default value is false

Splash Text

The Splash Text loading code has been augmented to allow splash text JSON files to be additive, rather than replacing them completely, and to allow some conditional statements to disable splash text entries. Use a field called “canMerge” that sits next to the “splashes” field, it is a bool that defaults to ‘false’. Also, another sibling of “splashes” is “conditional”, which is an array of objects. Those objects contain a “requires” field and a “splashes” field. The “splashes” field is an array of strings like the original “splashes” field, and the “requires” field contains three fields – “platforms”, “treatments”, and “stores”, each of which is an array of strings that is compared with the relevant data

Fixes and Changes

Made several Bedrock Dedicated Server documentation updates and fixes (BDS-1084, BDS-1085, BDS-2341, BDS-3051, BDS-3141)

The “minecraft:density_limit” component is now documented in the Spawn Rules documentation section (MCPE-61126)

Item tags can now be toggled in the UI using ‘/gamerule’ showtags

Added a new loop mode to animations – Now instead of omitting “loop” to have it stop playing when finished, or setting “loop”: true to have it loop when finished, you can now say “loop”: “hold_on_last_frame” to keep applying the last frame of animation (MCM-675)

Optimized sound loading – “load_on_low_memory” is now deprecated in sound_definitions.json, as all audio can now play on low memory devices

Removed type property from “minecraft:shooter” as it was never used

Updated “minecraft:spawn_entity” to have an internal entities object or array

Added “attack_chance” to the “minecraft:behavior.defend_village_target” goal

Fixed removed or destroyed entities querying as valid in script

Invalid items in the “spawn_item” field of a “minecraft:spawn_entity” now display an error

“StompEggGoal” no longer uses “search_count” as it now searches all blocks in the specified area

Implemented ‘AvoidMobTypeDefinition’ and converted hardcoded properties to be data-driven

A content error will now appear if you provide an invalid item name to ‘minecraft:interact’ in the ‘transform_to_item’ field

Added documentation for ‘minecraft:density_limit’ (MCPE-61126)

Adding a new subject to filters so damage sensors can filter on projectiles

Custom brewing recipes can now output non-potion items

Implemented a fix to the player’s mount that ensures consistent, smooth rotation for all riders

Custom bones in geometry now respect their custom parent bones’ transformations

The ‘delayed_attack’ behavior no longer causes mobs to freeze when they lose their target

Fixed the “MeleeAttackGoal” to allow entities to hit target entities beneath them

A content error will now show up if you provide an invalid item name to “minecraft:interact” in the “transform_to_item” field

The ‘on_unleash’ event is now triggered correctly when unleashing from a fence

The ‘Create New World’ button text is now using the global color component

Custom entities that use the runtime identifier field now use the custom entity’s name rather than the vanilla entity’s name (MCPE-56229)

Fixed collision boxes not updating from the ‘collision_box’ scripting component

Functions with any invalid commands (E.g. incorrect selector syntax) will no longer register and cannot be called (MCPE-64770)

Fixed an issue where sounds would sometimes have incorrect settings applied to them, causing 2D sounds to play as 3D and vice versa

Comments in JSON arrays no longer cause an error (MCPE-40873)

Entities no longer freeze when a component group containing a navigation component is removed

The ‘damage_sensor’ component will now work on non-mob actors (Such as Ender Crystals)

Dispensed splash and lingering potions now have potion effects in their projectile component

‘pre_effect_script’ no longer runs when an entity is despawning with ‘minecraft:despawn’

Fixed a bug where custom mobs with the ‘runtime_identifier’ field set would not return a custom mob spawn egg, if one was available

A mob spawned in the air will no longer think it’s on the ground once its movement is ticked and the ‘on_ground’ filter no longer always returns true

Bee spawn eggs can now be edited

Fixed an issue that could cause the ‘minecraft:timer’ component to fire prematurely in some conditions

Fixed an issue that was causing particle animations to become inverted

Using the ‘minecraft:pushable’ component will no longer break older content

Fixed an issue that was preventing animation controllers in Behavior Packs from running on dedicated servers and Realms (MCPE-59881)

Fixed “navigation.walk” to handle the case where it is used on a flying entity, so that the flying entity will not cause lag while it is touching the ground

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.14.60

Release date: April 15th 2020 (North America) / April 16th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Crashes / Performance

Fixed an issue that could cause Minecraft not to launch past the loading screen after updating (MCPE-58897)

Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting a world

Fixed a crash that could occur when a split-screen player left the game

Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay on Nintendo Switch

General

Fixed an issue that showed a false prompt that a device was out of storage space (MCPE-32501)

Fixed an issue with the Marketplace not loading when not signed into a Microsoft account

Fixed issues with content not transferring to a Microsoft account if the content was purchased without being signed in

Gameplay

Fixed some special characters not appearing on Signs or Book & Quill

Add-Ons

Animation Controllers in Behavior Packs can now run commands on Realms (MCPE-59881)

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.14.30

Release date: February 18th 2020 (North America) / February 19th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Crashes / Performance

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur in certain worlds (MCPE-59756)

General

Split-screen will now display a message to join when the main controller is disconnected

Realms can no longer be purchased if not logged into Xbox Live

Players that are not linked to a Nintendo account on Switch are once again able to edit characters

Fixed an issue where joinable friends on Nintendo Switch were still visible after the world has been closed

Gameplay

Auto-jump will no longer trigger unexpectedly when trying to walk through open doors (MCPE-52213)

Further fixes will be made in the future to allow auto-jump to work more consistently, for example, when trying to jump up one block through an open door

Blocks

Restored kelp growth to its proper, faster rate (MCPE-57330)

Bamboo in Flower Pots are no longer empty after converting a world from Editions

Items

Crafting multiple Honey Blocks now returns the correct amount of empty glass bottles on a 2×2 grid (MCPE-58579)

User Interface

The ‘Sign In’ button is now scaled properly on all platforms

Fixed placeholder text appearing on the pause menu when hosting a game without an internet connection

Add-Ons

Entities no longer stop moving when the ‘circle_around_anchor’ behavior is added via a component group added by an event and/or there was a block close to their hitbox

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.14.20

Release date: February 4th 2020 (North America) / February 5th 2020 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Crashes / Performance

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed several crashes that could occur when loading into world on Nintendo Switch

Placing a compass and locator map in the crafting grid no longer causes the game to crash (MCPE-57882)

Fixed a crash that could occur when travelling through a Nether Portal with another entity (MCPE-58568)

Fixed a crash that could occur when converting a world with fireworks equipped in a crossbow

Fixed a crash that could occur with raids on converted worlds

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading the ‘Extreme Speed Runner’ Marketplace world on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

General

Classic skin choices no longer revert after reloading the game (MCPE-55278)

Fixed .mcworld and .mctemplate files not importing on devices running iOS 13

Fixed the LittleBigPlanet world and textures not being usable if the game was installed from disc

Fixed issues with the ‘Chroma Hills’ texture pack not loading on Nintendo Switch

Split-screen players can no longer be left in a limbo state when joining the game while the primary player quits at the same time

Gameplay

Projectiles can now be shot through the gap between two honey blocks

Players no longer bounce when being pushed and pulled by honey blocks and pistons (MCPE-53815)

Mobs

Fixed an issue that prevented mobs from spawning under transparent blocks (MCPE-59682)

Bees no longer fly in and out of a beehive or nest that is on fire (MCPE-53872)

Fixed tamed wolves not breeding by increasing their breeding priority (MCPE-59570)

Tamed parrots sitting on the player’s shoulder are now transitioned after world conversion

Fixed Pillagers not attacking players after world conversion

Fixed players not obtaining Bad Omen when killing a Pillager Captain after world conversion

Items

Tridents no longer bounce continuously on the sides of honey blocks (MCPE-53626)

Honey Bottles now show the proper item tooltip (MCPE-61195)

Undyed Shulker Boxes now retain their color after world conversion (MCPE-36744)

User Interface

A confirmation prompt now appears if purchasing Realms on Nintendo Switch

Fixed an issue that could cause text to overlap when using different window resolutions in the Marketplace

Commands

Beehives and bee nests now have proper textures when placed with the ‘/setblock’ command

Defining an execute location no longer breaks the “detect” argument

Add-Ons

Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent Behavior Pack animations from working on Android (MCPE-56117)

The sensing component (used for ranged attacks) now calculates the view direction like it used to, making it so mobs can see their target on the y-axis

Fixed an issue that was preventing players from being teleported and rotated smoothly

Fixed the order of ‘on_exit’ and ‘on_entry’ events being reversed in animation controller state transitions

Local space for particles attached to entities will once again inherit the locator’s bone rotation

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.14.1

Release date: December 18th 2019 (North America) / December 19th 2019 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes

Crashes / Performance

Fixed several of the top crashes that occurred during gameplay, across all platforms

Fixed a crash that occurred when signing into Xbox Live on some Android devices

Added a potential fix for a crash and user interface corruption that occurred after updating the game on Xbox One

Improved performance in areas with high numbers of players

Increased performance when loading skins on Featured Servers

Made several improvements to improve the stability of online features like Marketplace and access to purchased content

General

Fixed errors with logging into a Microsoft account on PlayStation®4 (MCPE-58464)

Fixed some achievements and trophies unlocking for all players during a multiplayer session

Gameplay

View bobbing once again behaves correctly when facing North and South (MCPE-56214)

Mobs

Bees now become angry when baby bees are attacked

Bees will now die after attacking (MCPE-53860)

Monsters no longer spawn on glass and leaves

Items

Fixed items disappearing when crafting several items (MCPE-56118)

Fixed some instances of milk randomly disappearing from buckets (MCPE-57194)

Character Creator

Fixed some Character Creator items appearing incorrectly

Fixes to Character Creator screens when scrolling with the right thumbstick

Graphical

Fixed broken textures appearing after Resource Packs are deactivated

User Interface

Fixed the prompt that appears when split-screen guests attempt to join a multiplayer world without a Nintendo Switch Online subscription

Fixed the Sign In button on the main menu having the wrong position and touching the edge of the screen with some languages

Fixed an issue that caused some players not to be able to leave the Inventory screen on the Marketplace

Fixed placeholder text appearing on the Resource Packs and Behavior Packs screens

Various fixes to the user interface when using Japanese language

Fixed the Mario Skin Pack’s description never loading on Nintendo Switch

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.14.0

Release date: December 10th 2019 (North America) / December 11th 2019 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Bees!

Bees are cute, fuzzy, neutral mobs

Don’t hurt them, they don’t want to hurt you

Bees love pretty flowers and spend their lives gathering pollen from them

After gathering pollen, bees fly back to their nest

If a bee can’t find pollen, it will return home

If a bee doesn’t have a home nest, it will wander around until it finds one it can use

Bees don’t like the rain and they sleep at night. They will return to their nest in these cases

Bee Nests and Beehives

Bee Nests generate in Flower Forests, Plains, and Sunflower Plains biomes

When a bee visits a nest and completes its journey undisturbed, the level of honey increases

Using shears on a full hive or nest will harvest Honeycomb and using a glass bottle will give a Honey Bottle

Campfire smoke calms bees – Place one underneath the nest or hive to keep them in chill mode

Redstone friendly! Dispensers can shear honeycombs from hives and nests

Honey Block

Greatly reduces movement speed and jump height, but also reduces fall damage

You can “slide” down a wall of honey blocks to slow your fall (Parkour FTW!)

When a honey block is piston-moved, adjacent blocks also move

When a honey block is piston-moved, entities on top are moved along with it

Honeycomb Block

A decorative block that can be crafted with Honeycomb

Changes:

Updated to a fresh menu background full of bees

Leads can now be used on Polar Bears, Parrots, Ocelots, and Dolphins (MCPE-46866)

Dispensers can now fill bottles with water and honey

Tweaked the amount of XP dropped by animals to match Java Edition

Most animals will now drop 1-3 XP when killed, but Dolphins now drop 0 XP

Item tags can now be hidden in the inventory using the ‘/gamerule showtags’ command

Fixes:

Crashes / Performance

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when signing into Xbox Live on Android

Fixed an issue with kelp growth causing lag in specific chunks (MCPE-50175)

General

Fixed a render distance issue that could cause an old style (limited) world to not load correctly if a player logged out in a specific corner of that world

Fixed an issue that was causing scripting error messages to show on the Alien Worlds Marketplace world

Gameplay

Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing chests to become invisible (MCPE-52790)

Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause touch screen controls to become inverted (MCPE-50256)

Players once again experience kinetic energy and get dead upon gliding into walls at high speed with Elytra (MCPE-21141)

Players can no longer initiate swimming in shallow water

Mobs

Improved the accuracy of pathfinding for flying mobs

Pillager Patrols can no longer spawn in the End or Nether dimensions (MCPE-51481)

Baby Pigmen now hold their swords in their hands, rather than around their necks (MCPE-53454)

Blocks

Updated the Slime Block texture to match Java Edition

Fixed an issue that was causing sugar cane to break when a nearby water source became waterlogged (MCPE-52314)

Items

Arrows and tridents no longer fall through the ground after being deflected by a shield (MCPE-44721)

Dragon Heads now appear at the correct height (MCPE-53129)

Buckets can once again be used to milk cows (MCPE-54623)

Milk buckets can again be used to craft cakes (MCPE-52774)

Fixed acacia leaves sometimes becoming stuck in the inventory hotbar

Placing Armor on an Armor Stand in Creative mode no longer equips it on the player as well

Character Creator

Various fixes to the Character Creator

Fixed an issue that was causing worn items to transfer between Character Creator models unexpectedly

Adding or removing the Founder’s Cape now updates the skin in-game without needing to restart

Platform restricted skins can now be previewed in the Character Creator

Fixed capes not rendering in some skin packs (MCPE-54181)

Fixed another issue that was causing player skins to revert to a default Alex or Steve after relaunching the game

Skins that don’t roam to Minecraft Earth no longer display ‘Usable Everywhere’ in the Character Creator

Equipping a new custom skin will now update the player model without needing to restart the game

Optimized the size of Character Creator skins to improve performance when playing in multiplayer

Graphical

Fixed the held item bobbing animation when moving in first person view (MCPE-51212)

The block breaking animation will again show if a block is below water when the player is above

The player’s hand no longer disappears when gliding with Elytra (MCPE-53092)

Water now renders correctly when Kelp is placed next to a Glass block

User Interface

Fixed a navigation issue that could cause an incorrect focus change when choosing an option from the pause menu

Fixed an issue that could cause menu flickering when navigating through the Character Creator

The ‘See Pack in Store’ button in the Character Creator can now be highlighted and selected when using a controller

Fixed some misspelled splash text

Add-Ons and Script Engine

Custom entities once again show their health bar correctly while being ridden

Fixed an issue with particle billboarding that was causing them to appear flipped in the wrong direction

Fixed an issue with pivot points for custom geometry cube models

Fixed a bug that was causing tamed entity damage to be counted as coming from mounted players

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

Updated templates for 1.14.0 with new resources, BEEhaviors, documentation, and example packs can be downloaded from minecraft.net/addons

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.13.1

Release date: November 12th 2019 (North America) / November 13th 2019 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Crashes

Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay

Fixed several crashes that could occur when joining Realms

Fixed a crash that could occur when joining Featured Servers

Fixed a crash that could occur when throwing lingering potions

General

Error message ‘Failed’ displays when attempting to ‘Create on Realms’ while there are expired Realms for the account

Character Creator

Elytra will no longer be invisible or blocky when using a custom imported skin (MCPE-54439)

Players can now apply the Founder’s Cape to custom (imported) skins (MCPE-53513)

Waiting for a skin to load will no longer block players from getting into a game (MCPE-45038)

Players no longer share the same custom skin during multiplayer sessions (MCPE-48207)

Gameplay

Fixed chests sometimes being invisible (MCPE-52790)

Going through portals will now take you to the correct place in the corresponding dimension (MCPE-54519)

Tweaked view bobbing movement (MCPE-54645)

We intend to tweak this further in a future update!

User Interface

Closed Realms are no longer displayed on the ‘Create on Realms’ screen

Fixed incorrect Japanese and Korean characters appearing in Language settings

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.13.0

Release date: October 29th 2019 (North America) / October 30th 2019 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

New Features:

Foxes!

Keep your chickens safe and your belongings close, otherwise you’ll find them dead or gone – especially come nightfall. Foxes are more active at night and seek shade to sleep during the day. However, if you’re patient enough to feed two of them Sweet Berries, you can end up with a trusty one!

Brown Mooshroom

Transforms whenever a red Mooshroom is struck by lightning

Feed them flowers and use a bowl to harvest Suspicious Stew!

Suspicious Stew

Craft stew with different flowers to grant different potion effects for a short period of time

Share the suspiciousness with your friends and see how they like Suspicious Stew!

Wither Rose

A new, scary looking flower that is planted wherever a living entity dies to the Wither

Might be useful when crafting Suspicious Stew?

Item Frames can now be placed on the floor and ceiling!

Added abandoned villages

Added a celebration event that occurs if Pillagers successfully raid a village

New Note Block instruments

Make some sweet new jams by placing certain blocks under Note Blocks!

Discover the new instruments with Glowstone, Haybale, Block of Emerald, Pumpkin, Soul Sand, Block of Iron, Bone Block, Wool, Packed Ice, Clay, and Block of Gold

Added five dead coral types

Added the Light Block for mapmakers

Supports auxiliary data from 0 to 15 for light level

Light blocks are supported via /give, /fill, and /setblock

The invisible End Rod (variant 6) is now automatically updated to the new Light Block

Added new in-game chat settings to improve accessibility

Added game credits

A way to see all the lovely people that work on the game!

The credits can be viewed after defeating the Ender Dragon, and also through a new button found in the Settings menu

Character Creator:

Personalize your character in a number of ways, including body size and shape, limb replacement and tweaking of eyes, mouth, hairstyles and colors, facial hair, and skin tones

More than 100 items will be available for free. There will also be a range of custom accessories, created by the Minecraft team, available for purchase

Traditional custom skins can still be imported as before, on Windows 10 and mobile, using the following steps: Profile > Edit Character > Classic Skins tab > Owned > Import > Choose New Skin

For even more details, check out the Character Creator FAQ

Experimental Gameplay:

(Work in progress features that are only available when Experimental Gameplay is enabled in world settings)

New and improved Structure Blocks

Structure Blocks give creators the ability to copy and save out sections of their world into structures. Saved structures can then be pasted back into the world

To get a Structure Block, you must use the ‘/give’ command

When a structure is being loaded in, it can also be mirrored or rotated

Structure Void blocks can be placed in an area to not copy air into the target area

See How to Play in the game for more details and tips!

Fixes:

Crashes

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur while navigating menus

Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to create new world or when joining a multiplayer game

Fixed a crash that could occur when a player left a multiplayer game

Fixed a crash that could occur when signing into a Microsoft account

Fixed a crash that could occur when switching profiles on Xbox One

Fixed a crash that could occur when launching the game on Xbox One

Fixed a crash that could occur when typing certain characters onto a sign

Fixed a crash that could occur when exploring world templates

Fixed a crash that could occur when choosing certain skins

Fixed a crash that could occur when breaking a block underneath a Detector Rail

Fixed a crash that could occur when creating a new world using some Marketplace packs

Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting the game on Windows 10

Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when approaching world spawn (MCPE-46686)

Fixed a crashing issue on iOS when relaunching the game with a global resource pack applied

Fixed a crash that occurred when accepting the storage permission on Android

Fixed a crash that could occur when resuming the game on Oculus Rift

Fixed a crash that could occur when launching the game on Oculus Rift

Fixed a crash that occurred when typing certain characters into chat (MCPE-44419)

Fixed a crash that could occur if a split-screen player left the game while an execute command targeted them in a function

Fixed a crash that could occur after a player left the game on 3 or 4 player split-screen on the “Wildlife: Jungle” map

Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving and rejoining a world whilst an adult panda is eating bamboo

Fixed a freezing issue that could occur when resuming the game on Windows 10 Mobile

Fixed a crashing issue that affected certain worlds when approaching spawn (MCPE-46686)

Fixed a crash that could occur after changing the File Storage location on Android devices

Fixed a crash that could occur on low and mid-end Android devices

Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to double-tap on an item on the Beacon screen

Fixed a crash that could occur while downloading multiple Marketplace items at the same time on some iOS devices

Fixed a crash related to cached resources

Performance

Improved world launch time by optimizing network and resource tasks

Improved performance when opening the inventory

Several performance improvements regarding block rendering

Fixed a drop in performance when flying with Elytra in The End

Optimized terrain light calculation

Optimized grass growth block ticking

General

The “We are being attacked!” and “I’ve got a bad feeling about this” achievements can once again be unlocked (MCPE-45060)

The “Renewable Energy” achievement is once again unlockable (MCPE-39661)

The “Where have you been?” achievement now unlocks correctly on Android

Maps are now drawn more quickly when exploring, meaning the “Map Room” achievement now unlocks more consistently (MCPE-27720)

Fixed some instances of skin selections not saving and reverting to Alex or Steve (MCPE-32089)

Fixed the “Multiplayer Restricted Skin!” error message that would pop up when trying to join a world before the skin had loaded in (MCPE-48494)

The world loading screen now closes once an acceptable amount of chunks have loaded (MCPE-44815)

Fixed issues related to unloaded chunks that could appear in Realms and local worlds (REALMS-1553)

Partially fixed an issue that caused global resources not to be applied after relaunching the game

Minecraft on iOS will no longer show the “Do you want to Close Minecraft” pop-up since iOS doesn’t support that app behavior

Added a new option in Accessibility settings that to auto-enable Text to Speech when the platform has it enabled. This prevents the screen reader from unexpectedly being enabled each time game is restarted (MCPE-43306)

Fixed various Text to Speech issues

Players can now switch between user accounts on Xbox One without restarting the game

Fixed the messaging when trying to import a world template created in a newer version

Fixed a controller issue when docking the Nintendo Switch

Gameplay

Players in water are now knocked back by TNT explosions

Split-screen players that join a world will now spawn in the correct safe place and no longer spawn in the void

Fixed an issue that could cause some worlds to become corrupted during gameplay (MCPE-50496)

Players now properly receive stored XP from Furnaces (MCPE-47324)

Eating when using a Nether Portal no longer causes players to teleport to random locations. Weird interdimensional eating problems! (MCPE-39147)

The player can once again open the inventory correctly while sitting in a Boat

Using Bone Meal on a flower now generates more flowers of that type around it, rather than just Dandelions and Poppies (MCPE-7979)

The player now correctly receives the Bad Omen effect whenever the Illager Captain dies in combat with the player

Fixed an issue with block updates on a waterlogged block triggering a Redstone update in the same chunk

Fire Charges launched from Dispensers will now ignite Minecarts with TNT

The damage sound is no longer heard when a player falls or lands in Creative mode (MCPE-515)

Corrected player sprint/swim state when exiting water

Fixed pitch issue with camera that caused player to walk backwards when looking straight up

Players can now teleport on top of non-full or transparent blocks when eating a Chorus Fruit

The camera will now rotate correctly when in third-person view

The player no longer keeps on rowing when opening the inventory during boat rides (MCPE-36522)

Arrows hitting players underwater no longer play multiple hit sounds

Lightning from Channelling Tridents now affect more than a single mob in a small area (MCPE-44393)

Lightning now strikes less frequently (MCPE-38768)

Arrows now destroy Armor Stands properly (MCPE-47785)

Fixed an issue that prevented players from moving while sneaking on top of Shulkers and Boats (MCPE-44644)

Area of effect clouds such as Lingering Potions now work correctly if world is set to ‘Always Day’ (MCPE-39595)

World Generation

Chests that generate in Desert Temples now face the correct direction (MCPE-37393)

Mobs

Tweaked Drowned despawning rules to help prevent too many being present in the world (MCPE-34032)

Drowned will now despawn if the following conditions are met: The player is at least 54 blocks away, the Drowned has not performed any actions in at least 30 seconds, and it is daytime

Iron Golems are no longer knocked back by explosions (MCPE-43662)

Fixed the sitting position for baby zombie jockeys

Fixed the death animation of spiders (MCPE-41417)

The Wither once again has its blue shield!

Lazy pandas no longer float above the ground when lying on their backs (MCPE-43164)

Baby pigs now turn into baby Zombie Pigmen when struck by lightning (MCPE-38134)

Pillagers now spawn around Pillager Outposts more frequently (MCPE-43396)

Fixed player alignment to beds when sleeping

Zombies can no longer break Iron Doors (MCPE-43725)

Zombies once again spawn in caves (MCPE-52743)

Village mobs (Such as Iron Golems and cats) can no longer spawn inside of blocks (MCPE-44442, MCPE-41886)

Ravagers can now pathfind through water

Cured Zombie Villagers now keep their trade level

Jockeys no longer get stuck trying to move to unreachable mounts

Cod, salmon, tropical fish, and pufferfish now drop XP when killed

Mobs will no longer break Turtle Eggs when mob griefing is disabled (MCPE-36245)

Mobs can now pathfind correctly through waterlogged blocks (MCPE-37005)

Mobs can now pathfind correctly on unlit campfires

Mobs once again drop armor and equipment as loot (MCPE-48891)

Mobs no longer drop fully repaired weapons as loot (MCPE-45953)

Leads now connect to mobs at the correct position

Mobs no longer attempt to path find over 1.5 block high obstacles (MCPE-45256)

Villagers will now all go to sleep correctly at night

Creepers no longer lose aggro when line of sight is broken briefly

Zombies no longer get stuck on doors

Mobs standing on slabs are no longer immune to sunlight damage after reloading the world (MCPE-32822)

Witches can no longer spawn in 1.8 high gaps (MCPE-45935)

Animal breeding cooldowns no longer reset after reloading the world

Endermen holding Red Sand no longer drop regular Sand when killed (MCPE-25926)

Endermen are correctly affected by the Invisibility effect, when applied (MCPE-44492)

Fixed the held sword position for Vex mobs

Entity hit and collision boxes no longer exist during mob death animations (MCPE-9999)

Wither Skeletons are no longer affected by the Wither effect (MCPE-46317)

Mobs and entities are no longer slowed when walking one block above ice (MCPE-13852)

Baby zombies are now able to ride Zombie Pigmen (MCPE-20163)

Increased the speed that Phantoms’ wings flap (MCPE-42935)

Drowned on land now attack based on brightness levels rather than time of day

Dolphins once again follow players in boats

Nether Portals now spawn Zombie Pigmen on Easy difficulty (MCPE-45934)

Fixed Creeper farms by adjusting mob height spawning logic (MCPE-45935)

Strays and skeletons now show enchanted bows when held

Villagers now show angry particles when hit by a player, even if they haven’t been traded with yet (MCPE-29700)

Parrots can now be picked in Creative mode using pick block

Mobs now attack the player correctly while standing on Soul Sand

Villagers now close doors that have been opened by a player or Redstone (MCPE-21946)

Villager trade levels now match Java Edition with 5 profession level badges (MCPE-43206)

Farmers now correctly harvest crops when their inventory is not full (MCPE-47166)

Villagers now hide more consistently during a Raid

Fixed the “Toast” rabbit easter egg (MCPE-44510)

Updated Mason trades

Fixed a Cartographer trade so it now requires 11 glass panes instead of 10

Blocks

Beacons now play the correct ambient sound (MCPE-34413)

TNT no longer falls through blocks when lit (MCPE-41313)

Lava now correctly affects mobs that come into contact with it. Usually this means death (MCPE-45531)

Standing in a cauldron of lava now deals the correct amount of damage to players. It usually means death, as well (MCPE-39356)

Falling snow can no longer replace other blocks (MCPE-44613)

Using pick block on lit Redstone now gives the player the correct block (MCPE-43450)

Frosted Ice no longer causes performance issues when it is waiting to melt underground (MCPE-39698)

Leaves collected with Silk Touch now stack correctly with other leaves of the same type (MCPE-32347)

Shulker Boxes can no longer be placed in the same space as the player (MCPE-39674)

Wood blocks now have proper directional placement (MCPE-43367)

Jukeboxes now stop playing music after being broken (MCPE-47587)

Furnaces now play all applicable sounds at the correct pitch (MCPE-43915)

The Beacon block can now suffocate players and mobs like other opaque blocks (For example, when being clipped into when using a minecart)

Hoppers now pick up items from above correctly (MCPE-31393)

Pistons now have the correct textures when placed in any direction (MCPE-38053)

Granite, diorite, and andesite can no longer be smelted into smooth stone (MCPE-45914)

Explosions no longer destroy and drop End Gateway blocks (MCPE-47174)

Sneaking on Redstone ore no longer triggers glow

Anvils now take damage correctly after use

Water being dispensed from a dispenser no longer breaks End Portals and Gateways

Dispensers now place Boats correctly

Falling snow layers no longer breaks blocks in Redstone contraptions (MCPE-49773)

Barrier Blocks no longer stop grass growth (MCPE-41262)

Farmland blocks once again prevent grass growing underneath

Breaking an extended piston in Creative mode no longer drops an item (MCPE-10853)

TNT can now be crafted from red sand, in addition to plain old regular sand

Campfires can be doused with splash water potions only, to match Java Edition

Coarse Dirt is no longer replaced with dirt when a tree is grown on top (MCPE-26215)

Invisible bedrock no longer emits stone particles when fallen on

Items

Turtle Egg items now have the same 2D texture as Java Edition

Buttons no longer appear rotated in the hotbar (MCPE-11365, MCPE-42584)

The durability bar for shields now updates correctly when sustaining damage (MCPE-44788)

Locked maps now have a unique inventory icon

Enchanted books with three or more enchantments no longer always have Feather Falling IV and/or Blast Protection IV (MCPE-41944)

Items that have been smelted can now be crafted and stacked correctly for use in furnaces, stone cutters, etc. (MCPE-47907, MCPE-48421, MCPE-47684)

Arrows will cause sand and gravel to fall again (MCPE-18257)

Splash water bottles once again deal damage to Blazes and Endermen (MCPE-42589)

Fixed Trident position issues when being held and thrown

Fixed Riptide Tridents not propelling players forward correctly

Loyalty Tridents now return to the correct player after bouncing off a Shield (MCPE-44225)

Equipment on Armor Stands now renders correctly if the armor stand is affected by the Invisibility effect (MCPE-39779)

The LT controller button can once again be used to quickly equip or replace armor (MCPE-35579)

Players are now able to use items like fishing rods while aiming at nearby mobs

Nether Wart now has a chance to drop more items when broken with Fortune tools (MCPE-31107)

Fire Aspect swords no longer set Creative players on fire (MCPE-14036)

Drinking sound for milk and potions now plays correctly (MCPE-38340)

Trapdoor items now have the correct inventory textures (MCPE-44214)

Six-sided wood block variants can now be smelted or used as furnace fuel (MCPE-47170)

Damaged Elytra now have their own texture (MCPE-47758)

Fixed an issue that prevented certain items not being suggested in the recipe book correctly

Items cooked on the campfire now stack together correctly (MCPE-47684)

Fixed the default recipe for beds

Players no longer lose items when moving stacks of items into a Cartography Table

Changed how the bell item is held in the player’s hand, so that it is held like an item rather than a weapon (MCPE-43638)

Graphical

Fixed an issue that could cause the home screen to show black corrupted textures after resuming the game on Android (MCPE-39031)

The player model is now visible again while sleeping on a bed

Boat paddling animation now matches Java Edition and resynchronizes when paddling stops

Fixed an issue with water not rendering correctly on some servers (MCPE-46813)

Fix an issue that caused block entities (such as beds) to not render after suspending and resuming the game

Arrows now render correctly when held by Armor Stands

Armor Stands and players can again wear helmets with secondary layers

Fixed Elytra position for skins that don’t use the standard humanoid model

Fixed some graphical errors when launching the game on Oculus Rift

Flowers no longer become invisible in flower pots (MCPE-40806)

Players no longer show the flying animation when using scaffolding while Elytra are equipped

Improved the texture for the stonecutter with non-fancy graphics (MCPE-42487)

Tweaked first-person hand attack animations

Multiple blocks no longer change color to black when moved by pistons

Tweaked the position of the shield when held in the off-hand to fix a minor texture clipping issue

Fixed hand animation when switching to empty hand from held item

User Interface

Accessibility color and contrast fixes and tweaks for dropdowns, buttons and the Play screen

The Text to Speech narrator now works correctly with punctuation in text boxes

Players using touch screens can no longer break blocks when using touch-and-hold to use a fishing rod

Chat instructions no longer appear on screen every time the player travels through a portal (MCPE-45073)

Removed duplicate and overlapping progress bars

Fixed the safe screen area prompt not appearing, when necessary, on certain devices

Keyboard inputs now work correctly when the game loads out of window focus

Fixed the “Open Chat” message for touch screen devices

Flight controls will no longer show when sleeping in a bed in creative (MCPE-44928)

Fixed the inventory screens of some blocks not appearing on the first attempt after the block’s state has changed, like Hoppers and Dispensers

The wither’s health bar no longer disappears during the fight if the player moves away (MCPE-40881)

Using ‘Place All’ (Y) on the Cartography Table output slot now only crafts as many of the shown result possible

Joining a Realm through the ‘Joinable Friends’ list no longer shows world info (MCPE-47731)

The background tint of the player coordinates is now consistent with the chat background (MCPE-43791)

Tweaked the controller cursor position when auto-crafting with a full inventory

Obfuscated text once again works with the smooth font chat setting

Fixed duplicated ‘Sign In’ messages that were overlapping

The correct Marketplace Inventory items are now shown when switching between players

Global resource packs in Settings will now update to the new chosen language

Updated the How to Play section so that it specifies that carved pumpkins should be used as protection from Endermen

Updated the How to Play section about repairing Elytra, which now describes using Phantom Membranes to repair them instead of leather (MCPE-41608)

Updated the How to Play section regarding Raids

Updated the How to Play section regarding Host and Player Options (MCPE-28976)

Updated the How to Play section about taming cats (MCPE-43490)

Commands

Execute detect command now uses local coordinates correctly (MCPE-29942)

Modified ‘CommandPosition’ so that an optional offset can be specified to move the rotation point in case of a local coordinate

Fixed the ‘ExecuteCommand’ detect option to correctly use an entity rather than a position so that it can use the entity orientation to calculate camera relative offsets

Using ‘/spreadplayers’ no longer permanently loads distant chunks

Powered rails placed using ‘/fill’ now work correctly when powered by Redstone

Using ‘/setblock’ on a piston base no longer leaves an invisible piston arm

Cloned active mob spawners now have an animated mob when placed (MCPE-23106)

The ‘/clear’ command once again works correctly with damageable items

Running the “/clear” command message now shows correct amount of items removed (MCPE-34750)

Carpet is now removed correctly when using the ‘/clear’ command

Using ‘/clear @p item’ now clears correctly auxiliary values

Pistons with data values 6 and 7 can no longer be placed using slash commands (MCPE-21558)

Players can no longer use the ‘/spawnpoint’ command in the Nether

Using the command ‘@s[type=…]’ will now work correctly (MCPE-49766)

Fixed an error message that occurred when using the ‘/help’ command

Add-Ons and Script Engine

Fixed MoLang scripting errors that were being logged for older content

Endermen with modified behaviors can now be shot and damaged with projectiles

Loading packs with lots of custom items now works correctly

Custom rideable entities now show the correct action hint when added

Fixed the positioning of particles that were only showing correctly when centered on screen

The ‘timer’ component once again functions on vanilla projectiles

Fixed an issue with the ‘must_see_forget_duration’ component not working

Fixed humanoid eating animation

Fixed the ‘scale’ component failing to scale certain entities

Running the ‘tick_world’ component now removes ticking areas correctly and consistently

Added stone slab aliases to allow backwards compatibility on Add-On packs

The ‘spawn_entity’ component is now executed when an entity is being ridden

Ghasts no longer keep looking at players if the behavior component has been removed

Fixed minecart rider rotation not being updated correctly in some packs

Particle UVs no longer include lines of textures next to the selected UV

Custom entities using ‘nearest_attackable_target’ now re-evaluate current target validity

Fixed mini bows rendering on all mobs other than players in scripting packs

The ‘has_equipment’ filter now works correctly with damageable items

Fixed a scripting error that would appear when shooting arrows from a dispenser

When a global resource pack is deleted, it will now remove itself from the active stack

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

Updated templates for 1.13.0 with new resources, behaviors, documentation, and example packs can be downloaded from aka.ms/MinecraftAddons

New Data-Driven Objects for Add-Ons

Brewing stand potion recipes are now data-driven

Arrow shake animation (MCPE-40744)

Item breaking particles

Data-driven environment damage for entities

Added ‘push’ component that determines whether an entity can be pushed

Added ‘persistent’ component that determines whether an entity should be persistent in the game world

Turtle Lightning interactions are now data-driven

Pufferfish puffed states are now data-driven

Guardian/Elder Guardian animation and rendering

Fixed unparented geometry on pre-1.8 guardians

Elder Guardian spike animation

Fishing hook

Horse models and animations

Snow Golem trail behavior

Dragon Breath particles

Sparkler particles (Education)

Balloons (Education)

Script Engine

Actor Definition Events can now be triggered from scripts

Scripting logs can now be opened and viewed while the game is running

Added new scripting Actor tags

Added ‘container’ scripting component for blocks

Added ‘projectile_hit’ scripting event

Added ‘entity_hurt’ scripting event

Added ‘entity_sneak’ scripting event

Added ‘entity_attack’ scripting event

Added ‘block_exploded’ scripting event

Added new feature rules data that implements existing biome decoration through JSON

Final infrastructure changes required to support fully data-driven features. Rules themselves must be provided in a behavior pack with Experimental Gameplay enabled

Significantly increased the maximum ‘spawnRadius’ distance

Levers now have their own block state

Changed Breathable, RideTick, and Transformation systems to use ViewedEntityContext

All pillar blocks now have their own block state instead of using some values of the direction block state. This allows mirror and rotating with structure blocks

Changes to Pack Manifests

Summary

As of 1.13, we have made some changes to the pack manifest with a new format version of “2”. We recommend that any new packs or world templates that you create use format version of 2 from now on. With this new format, there are a few additional changes to be aware of, detailed below

All Pack Types

The ‘name’ field in the header is now required for all pieces of content

World Templates

The ‘lock_template_options’ field is now required. This Boolean field determines whether the world options for your template should be locked to default values when a player creates a world from the template. They can still choose to unlock and modify the options, but will be warned that doing so could affect gameplay

The ‘base_game_version’ field is required (see below for more info)

The ‘min_engine_version’ field should no longer be used as it isn’t parsed on world templates and produces a warning on import

Resource and Behavior Packs

The ‘min_engine_version’ field is now required. This affects how the game interprets some of the assets loaded from Resource and Behavior Packs. We recommend using the latest available version of the game for this field (e.g. ‘[1, 13, 0]’) to ensure your pack works correctly

Base Game Version Field

For this field, we recommend using the value “*”. This will ensure that anyone using your content in their Minecraft worlds will always get the latest base game (Vanilla) content when an update is available.

In the case that your content relies on specific base game behavior, you can use this field to specify a base game version, starting with 1.13. If you choose to do this, you should omit the third octet; for example, if the version of the game you are targeting is ‘[1, 14, 2]’, you would specify a version of ‘[1, 14, 0]’). If you specify a version this way, any worlds using your custom content will not get new base game content when it becomes available in future releases, which could help prevent unwanted changes to behavior in your content caused by updates to the base game. However, we still recommend using the “*” value to ensure players can continue to enjoy your content in their Minecraft worlds long-term while also receiving updates to the base game

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.12.1

Release date: September 3rd 2019 (North America) / September 4th 2019 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixes:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed players getting stuck on “Generating World” when loading into a world while located in The End (MCPE-49778)

Fixed an issue that caused many players on Nintendo Switch not being able to sign in to their Microsoft Account (MCPE-34662)

Multiple Ender Dragons can no longer spawn at once in The End (MCPE-37590)

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.12.0

Release date: July 9th 2019 (North America) / July 10th 2019 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Changes:

Increased the frequency and volume of the ambient mob sounds made during raids, to make them easier to locate

Added new Wandering Trader sounds (MCPE-41191)

Updated the main menu splash text

Updated the default main menu panorama from Aquatic to Village & Pillage

The “Store” button on the main menu has been renamed to “Marketplace”

Realm owners can now set relevant permissions for players invited to their Realm

Default settings can be set for all new members entering a Realm

The owner can set permissions for an invited player to either visitor, member or operator

When resetting a world, or uploading a new world, already set permissions stay in place

Fixes:

Crashes

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that could occur when launching the game on some Windows 10 devices

Fixed a crash that could occur when certain interactive blocks are loading in when joining a Realm (e.g. beds, chests, furnaces)

Fixed a crash that could occur when switching players on Xbox One

Fixed a crash that could occur when engaging in a fight with an Elder Guardian in an Ocean Monument

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading the game

Fixed a crash that could occur when throwing an Egg or Snowball (MCPE-40435)

Fixed a crash that could occur when trading with a Villager

Fixed a crash that could occur when throwing a trident with Loyalty enchantment

Fixed a crash that could occur on Nintendo Switch when the game was saving or loading (MCPE-45862)

Fixed a crash on Nintendo Switch that could occur when suspending and resuming the game

Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting the game

Fixed a crash that could occur when signing into Xbox Live

Fixed a crash that could occur when choosing a skin on first launch of the game

Fixed a Marketplace issue that could result in the game getting stuck or crashing when loading in items

Fixed a crash that could occur when the game was checking for previously downloaded content

Performance

Made further performance improvements when opening inventory screens (MCPE-27167)

Made several performance improvements related to various UI screens and interactions

Significantly reduced bandwidth usage by allowing the client to reuse chunks it has already seen

Improved chunk loading performance in multiplayer

Improved performance around new villages and villager job sites

Several other performance improvements, included some related to mob AI pathfinding

Frosted ice blocks no longer drops performance while they’re melting (MCPE-39698)

Endermen teleporting particles no longer cause consistent performance drops, especially during boss fights

Reduced the amount of memory required to load textures

Cached resource packs no longer decrease performance on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-36976)

General

Removed an unnecessary Xbox Live sign-in notification

Fixed an issue where consuming the last item in a stack to unlock an achievement could cause the achievement not to unlock

The Haggler achievement once again unlocks when requirements are met

The Zombie Doctor achievement now unlocks when curing a zombie villager (MCPE-46271)

Marketplace resource packs are now immediately applied after downloading in the world edit menu (MCPE-33121)

Player permissions now apply correctly when more than one operator tries to adjust them

Made improvements to roaming skins, which should apply correctly after reloading or reinstalling the game and signing in

Custom skins are now applied correctly without needing to restart the game to see them (On compatible platforms) (MCPE-37926, MCPE-45476)

Skins equipped from the ‘Recent’ section are once again applied when selected

World settings now sync correctly between different Xbox One devices

Resource packs are now applied correctly after downloading through the world or global settings

Newly purchased Realms are now always visible after finalizing the purchase

Fixed an issue that would show an error message when attempting to renew a Realm subscription on Xbox One (REALMS-1686)

Gameplay

Fixed several related issues with End Gateway portals. These should now teleport the player to the correct safe location when used (MCPE-19699, MCPE-43176, MCPE-43177)

Villager trading now properly takes away items from the second slot, when applicable (MCPE-45506)

Only players who fought in a raid now receive the Hero of the Village effect in Realms

The Bad Omen effect is now only received when killing an Illager Captain, not when dealing non-fatal damage with a bow or potion

Players no longer see through the world when clipping into blocks after leaving a boat (MCPE-42593)

You can now interact with blocks while holding a charged crossbow on touch devices

Players no longer clip through walls when transitioning from swimming to standing in water

Players that are being healed can now still be knocked back by TNT. Did I say that right?

Arrows that are shot into blocks keep their position when reloading the world

Area of Effect clouds no longer try to spawn excessive numbers of particles when time of day is changed (MCPE-39595)

Mobs

Corrected the position of leads on Wolves

Tamed cats no longer slide around while sitting (MCPE-44491)

Fixed the missing Taiga Zombie Villager skin

Fixed a z-fighting texture issue on some Villager skins

Dyed leather horse armour colour no longer effects other horse armour (MCPE-43230)

Vindicators can now path correctly over carpet during raids

The Wither no longer plays its spawning animation when reloading a world (MCPE-32415)

Mobs will no longer path-find over Brewing Stands

Added a sound to indicate when a villager does not want to trade (Like during a raid)

Illager Captains now drop banners correctly even if the world is reloaded

Mobs will now spawn on double slabs (MCPE-30765)

Fixed the sitting model for cats that were previously tamed ocelots (MCPE-41929)

Fixed missing zombie villager sounds (MCPE-43329)

V2 zombie villagers now have the correct name in death messages instead of a placeholder name (MCPE-45932)

Mobs no longer get stuck when pathfinding on ladders (MCPE-43034)

Evokers no longer move too fast when moving towards villages in raids

Mobs no longer spawn inside leaves during raids

Villagers that are actively trading with players will no longer run and hide when the raid bell rings

Clerics now correctly pathfind to their job sites

Tamed tuxedo cats now use the proper texture (MCPE-43527)

Stray cats can no longer claim beds in villages for worlds converted from version 1.10 (MCPE-44299)

The ghast spinning model in monster spawners is now the correct size

Fixed wandering trader podzol and coral trades

Fletchers now trade 16 arrows instead of 5

Changed the cost of butcher’s cooked rabbit trade

Leatherworker’s saddle trade is lowered from 10 to 6 emeralds

Removed the sand trade from the wandering trader and adjusted the cost of a diamond hoe from tool smith villagers

Iron Golems no longer run to the world center after their village is destroyed (MCPE-45509)

Villagers without professions now follow regular schedules and will actually sleep, which they deeply need

Fixed the creeper model in some Marketplace maps

Converting a normal Pillager to a Captain with tag commands now displays the banner correctly

Blocks

Fixed various scenarios where certain blocks couldn’t be placed until the game was restarted

Frosted ice blocks can now be broken (MCPE-41256)

Fixed Sea Grass texture brightness (MCPE-34795)

Bamboo leaves are now lighter (MCPE-42635)

Flowing lava once again turns into cobblestone when hit by water (MCPE-43990)

Red sandstone stairs now have correct textures on all sides (MCPE-20677)

Players no longer lose villager job site locations if they replace a job site block that is tied to an experienced villager

Village job site blocks now have consistent sound volume levels when used by players

Scaffolding can no longer be placed on Conduit blocks

The Bell now swings towards a player when it is hit (MCPE-42469)

Note Block particles now correctly correspond to the notes played

The grindstone now correctly combines and repairs two damaged items

Farmland now has the correct side and bottom textures (MCPE-42746)

Smokers now have the correct bottom texture (MCPE-43944)

Fixed door and trapdoor textures (MCPE-43173)

Cocoa beans now break and drop when pushed by pistons (MCPE-41868)

Slabs and other non-solid blocks once again prevent grass from growing on dirt (MCPE-42975)

Flowing water is no longer left behind after flowing over string (MCPE-36343)

Bells now ring when hit with splash and lingering potions

Composter growth particles now appear in the correct location

Blocks can once again be placed on unlit Redstone Ore (MCPE-44305)

Fixed animated textures for flowing lava and water on several texture packs

Items

Efficiency pickaxes now break packed ice at a faster rate (MCPE-23648)

Dropped items no longer prevent minecarts from being placed on rails

Empty glass bottles now stack correctly when removed from brewing stands (MCPE-42175)

Banner patterns can no longer be lost or duplicated when switching them in a loom with a full inventory

Using Pick Block on sweet berry bushes now gives the player the correct item (MCPE-41877)

Bone meal is now consumed correctly when used on grass

Cactus blocks of different growth stages can be smelted into green dye again (MCPE-42497)

Stripped birch wood is no longer used to craft acacia planks when playing on Realms (MCPE-44398)

Shields no longer appear too bright in item frames (MCPE-41222)

Updated the Illager Banner texture (MCPE-43233)

Barrels now appear in the proper place of the creative inventory (MCPE-43946)

Correct colors of wool are now displayed as a material required to create colored banners in the recipe book

The player’s arm is no longer displaced in first person view after eating food (MCPE-40135)

Tinted spawn eggs are now properly scaled in item frames

World Generation

Fixed a bug on dedicated servers and Realms which could cause the wrong block types to generate in the world

Tweaked the number of job sites that generate in villages

User Interface

Updated the glass texture for locked maps in the Cartography Table UI (MCPE-43314)

Adjusted the Cartography Table screen to fit Android screens when using Classic UI

Pressing the Y button on controller on the Cartography output slot now only crafts the correct amount

Added controller tooltips for the Lectern screen

The villager trading screen no longer opens and closes if the player is standing too far away

Items that are split between slots in the villager trading screen still count as a total trade amount

The How to Play button on the Cartography Table now directs to the proper screen

Killing a wandering trader’s llama can no longer display their inventory screen

The screen reader prompt no longer appears every time network settings are adjusted on Nintendo Switch

The ‘Always Day’ toggle now correctly animates and shows the correct setting (MCPE-43304)

Dates appear again next to player earned achievements in the Achievements menu

The ‘Invite to Game’ button is no longer enabled on Featured Servers

Going back to the Play screen (or Settings screen) will now properly select the previously selected tab when Text to Speech is enabled

The “Wheel Turning” button is now only shown once in the Minecraft VR settings

Made improvements to the patch notes to make sure the correct ones show up after an update

The Marketplace search screen now displays the proper pack icons

The ‘New’ tag will be properly removed from a Marketplace collection once it has been viewed

Fixed Marketplace sale items not showing the discount percentage

Commands

Further improvements to performance when using selectors with commands

Removed “tile” prefix in the ‘/give’ command (MCPE-44667)

Made item names more consistent by removing “tile” from the beginning of some of them

Blocks and entities that aren’t available in the Creative inventory no longer require the “minecraft” namespace when used as parameters in commands

After ‘fishing_hook’ is killed by command, players can now cast the hook again without having to cast twice

Killing a rideable entity no longer respawns its rider when killed in the same tick

The ‘testforblock’ command now works reliably with items renamed in the language files

Add-Ons and Script Engine

The Behavior Pack template once again contains the ‘spawn_rules’ folder

Removing a timer component and adding a new one should no longer have the new timer inherit the old timer’s time value

Custom underwater mobs can now spawn naturally

Custom entities now correctly re-evaluate current target validity

‘getBlocks’ now returns a 3D array of block objects

Fixed a scripting issue that could cause the player to float

‘ScriptAttackComponent’ and ScriptCollisionBoxComponent’ now correctly retrieve updated data

Pick Block now works correctly on non-vanilla entities that have been added using Add-Ons (MCPE-38205)

Functions ran on a game loop now use an origin which has Game Master permissions, not Owner permissions

Added a new constructor parameter to the ‘ServerCommandOrigin’ so that the Function Manager can create an instance with upgraded permissions

Player Position is now reported for the player feet like other mobs

Collision Box and Attack components report the correct data now

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

Updated templates for 1.12.0 with new resources, behaviors, documentation, and example packs can be downloaded from aka.ms/MinecraftAddons

Created a screen to view content log errors for Behavior and Resource Packs

The log screen can be opened using Ctrl + H after enabling in Profile Settings

Enabled content logging for creators on Bedrock Dedicated Server to debug pack errors

Mob events can now be toggled using the new ‘/mobevent’ command

Particle emitters can now trigger slash commands, actor events, and MoLang expressions

Added the ability to play single animations at any time, overriding an entity’s current state-based animation

Animations and particles can be spawned without being linked to entities using animation timelines

Sound effects can now be triggered by animation events

Added auto-complete to the Command Input field for command blocks

Delay in Ticks for Command Blocks

A delay can be added to the command block using the new field, measured in Redstone ticks

Data-Driven Crafting Recipes (Experimental)

Allows custom crafting recipes for shaped crafting, shapeless crafting, and furnaces using Behavior Packs

Recipe JSON files have been added to the Behavior Pack template

Add New Simple Item (Experimental)

New “simple” items can be added to the game using Behavior Packs

Currently, only a subset of components has been exposed, with more being added in future updates to allow more complex behaviors

Some items, such as food, are now data-driven and their JSON files have been added to the Behavior Pack template

Add New Simple Block (Experimental)

New “simple” blocks can be added to the game using Behavior Packs

Currently, only a subset of components has been exposed, with more being added in future updates to allow more complex behaviors

New Data-Driven Particles:

Llama Spit

Large Explosions

Colored Flames

Redstone Dust

Falling Dust

Lava

Enchanting Table

Conduit

New Data-Driven Animations:

Wolf

Fang Attack

Arrow

Shulker Bullet

Bow

Water Movement

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.11.4

Release date: May 24th 2019 (North America, Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed several crashes on Nintendo Switch that could occur during gameplay, especially surrounding villager job site blocks

Fixed issues with Marketplace maps so ‘villager_v2’ works in command selectors again, targeting both V1 and V2 villagers

Additional Fixes from 1.11.3:

Fixed a crash that could occur when mobs found the nearest attackable mob

When converting from V1 to V2, villagers now keep their XP level

Villagers cured of zombification can no longer change their profession if they have enough XP (MCPE-42348)

Another fix for villagers changing their professions when they’re not supposed to

Fixed pathfinding so when an entity can’t float, swim, or be amphibious, it can still walk at the bottom of water

Fixed gamertags and gamerpics of Realms members not appearing on the members list

The Realms members list no longer returns to the first page when navigating to another page

When using commands, the villager and zombie_villager target selectors now target both V1 and V2 mob types

Additional notes: update includes both Ver. 1.11.3 and Ver. 1.11.4
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.11.1

Release date: May 2nd 2019 (North America) / May 3rd 2019 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay (198369)

Fixed a crash that could occur when signing into Xbox Live (194319)

Mobs no longer spawn from monster spawners in areas over light level 7 (179567 / MCPE-42427)

Villagers now always spawn as V1 when using template worlds, including Marketplace worlds
(197080)

Fixed a memory leak that occurred with the Script Engine (197629)

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.11.0 – Village & Pillage

Release date: April 23rd 2019 (North America) / April 24th 2019 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Village:

Updated Villages

Many new building types and enhanced village generation

Biome specific architecture for plains, desert, savannah, and taiga

New Villagers

Villagers have new clothing to indicate their level, profession, and biome

Added Mason and Nitwit villagers

Villagers now sleep in beds

Villagers now visit their job sites during the day and go home at night

Greatly improved villager pathfinding

Villagers in existing worlds will convert to new villagers (if they are not part of a template world)

Zombie Villagers now have biome-specific and profession skin layers

Village Job Sites

Villagers can now take on a new profession when near a job site block

While villagers claim these sites, they also have functions for players

Cartography Table – Provides an easier way to copy and enlarge maps. Maps can be locked by using glass panes

Grindstone – Used to repair weapons and tools, plus disenchanting

Barrel – Stores items like a chest but can still be opened with blocks on top of it

Smoker – Cooks food much faster than a furnace

Blast Furnace – Faster ore smelting

Composter – Adding enough crops will produce bone meal

Stonecutter – Easy crafting for stone and cobblestone items

Smithing Table and Fletching Table – Functionality coming in a later update

Villager Trading

Added brand new villager trades

Villagers now have a visual based trading system and will hold up an item they wish to trade if the player is holding something they want

When villagers make trades, they gain experience. When they gain enough experience, they level up. Leveling up unlocks new trades

Villagers will resupply their trades when arriving at their job site

Wandering Trader

A villager mob that will appear at a village’s gathering site periodically and stays for a period of 2-3 game days

This trader offers items from a wide variety of different biomes, random dyes, and other rare materials

Accompanied on their journey by two fancy llamas!

Bells

When rung, all villagers will run into their houses

Bells ring when players interact with them or are powered by redstone

New Features:

Campfire

A new light source to cozy up your village

Works great as a fireplace in a home, with no fire spread to worry about

Throw some food on it and become a campfire cooking pro!

Sweet Berries

A new source of food

Sweet Berry Bushes can be found in Taiga biomes

Watch out for thorns!

Bamboo Jungle

Bamboo is now generated in Jungles and more densely in the new Bamboo Jungle biome

New Achievements

Plethora of Cats – Befriend twenty stray cats (20G)

Kill the Beast! – Defeat a Ravager (30G)

Buy Low, Sell High – Trade for the best possible price (50G)

Disenchanted – Use a Grindstone to get experience from an enchanted item (20G)

We’re being attacked – Trigger a Pillager Raid (20G)

Sound the Alarm! – Ring the bell with a hostile enemy in the village (20G)

I’ve got a bad feeling about this – Kill a Pillager Captain (20G)

Roaming Skin Choice

When choosing a skin from a skin pack, the selected skin will now be selected automatically on other Bedrock devices using the same account

Some skin packs may not be eligible for roaming selection

Accessibility Features

Text to Speech can now be enabled to read in-game chat

UI Screen Reader can be enabled to say the name of interface controls and their current state

Accessibility features can be enabled in Settings

Changes:

Note on World Generation: In order to deliver the coolest generated villages possible, some world seeds may have villages generate in different areas than they used to before this update

A fresh new batch of seeds are now available in the Seed Picker when creating a new world

Added even more new textures to blocks and items, including stained glass

Increased the amount of scaffolding that can be placed out from its initial support

Changes to the way cats spawn in villages:

Cats now respawn based on number of beds in the village

The number of cats = 1/4 the number of beds

Cat total caps at 10 cats per village

Lecterns now emit a redstone signal when turning pages

Darkened portions of the game’s menus to provide stronger contrast for accessibility

Fixes:

Crashes/Performance

Improved the performance when opening the player inventory with the crafting recipes open (MCPE-41772, MCPE-41166, MCPE-27167)

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed a crash that occurred when using invalid characters on signs (MCPE-41671)

Fixed a crash that could occur when enabling Texel Anti-Aliasing

Fixed a crash that could occur when spawning a Vile Spider from the MINECON Add-On pack

Fixed a crash that could occur on Bedrock Dedicated Server

Using pick block on a nether portal no longer causes the game to crash (MCPE-41735)

Giving the player a cobblestone wall variant no longer crashes the game (MCPE-41657)

Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting Save & Quit on Nintendo Switch

Fixed a crash that could occur when signing in or out of Xbox Live on Xbox One

Fixed a crash that could occur when resuming gameplay while connected to a server

Fixed a crash that could occur when replacing a world with an unsynced world

General

Windows 10 players with Minecraft installed on a different drive no longer get an error message saying that they are out of storage space, unless they are truly out of space (MCPE-32501)

The Treasure Hunter Achievement can now be unlocked when using a treasure map in the off-hand slot (MCPE-33382)

Global resource packs will now stay applied if you revisit the settings screen after restarting the game, then restarting the game

Disabling the Multiplayer Game setting will now apply when the world is packaged as a world template

Players on Xbox are no longer prompted to sign into Xbox Live if they have already done so

Made further improvements to world saving, to prevent worlds becoming disappearing from the world list

Players can view skin selection menu when offline on Nintendo Switch without receiving the internet connection message

Nintendo Switch payers can now select the Super Mario skins from the expanded skin pack list while in game

Fixed an issue with renewing Realms on Windows 10 (REALMS-1319)

Gameplay

Players no longer float around beds while sleeping (MCPE-41344)

Players can now climb vines and ladders using the jump button again (MCPE-40535)

Fixed players falling through blocks at around 65K blocks on the X or Z axes (MCPE-39299)

Players using VR Controllers no longer fly after swimming (MCPE-39833)

Players can no longer suffocate in the ground while spawning into the world (MCPE-42310)

TNT now knocks back healing players

World Generation

Fixed mineshaft generation – no longer generate in a giant cluster and should more closely resemble those found in the Java Edition (MCPE-28485)

Mesa Plateau biomes now generate more like those in the Java Edition

Mobs

Villagers will actually follow proper etiquette and close doors behind them (MCPE-41170)

Mobs can now path their way through waterlogged blocks, such as seagrass (MCPE-37005)

Underwater mobs no longer spawn on land (MCPE-40783)

Panda eating animation is now faster. Om nom nom! (MCPE-40743)

Shulkers now have a chance to drop more shulker shells when killed with looting (MCPE-39893)

Vindicators no longer become passive when renamed (MCPE-27927)

Guardians no longer spawn outside water (MCPE-39941)

Pandas no longer roll into dangerous blocks

Creepers can now spawn in a 1.8 high space, like under trapdoors (MCPE-24120)

Skeletons once again turn before shooting

Skeleton horses spawned in from earlier versions can be ridden once again (MCPE-40857)

Tamed cats now lay on their sides when sleeping on a bed (MCPE-40726)

Mobs now rotate correctly after exiting boats (MCPE-41341)

Farmer villagers no longer produce infinite amounts of bread (MCPE-33608)

Drowned converted from zombies will now attack players

Villagers no longer get stuck on lanterns

Reduced the range of drowned attacking the nearest player

Blocks

Fixed particles not appearing while mining blocks

Seagrass can no longer delete blocks above it as it grows (MCPE-43617)

XP can now be stored for auto smelters using furnaces, blast furnaces, and smokers

Coral plants and sea grass now break when a supporting block is removed

Smooth and Chiselled Quartz blocks no longer have directional placement (MCPE-39074)

Scaffolding placed over the void now supports the player (MCPE-38064)

Using Ctrl + Pick block no longer creates a new bed with extra data attached (MCPE-42494)

Surrounded leaves are now the correct color

Items

Banners can once again be copied in the crafting grid (MCPE-42534)

Fixed some items having invisible bits when placed in item frames (MCPE-42415)

Maps once again show underwater terrain differences (MCPE-40740)

Smelting stone into smooth stone now gives XP (MCPE-41551)

The fishing bobber now floats slightly higher in water (MCPE-32976)

Silk touch tools now work correctly right up to their very last use (MCPE-41789)

Renamed Firework Stars and Firework Rockets now display their new names

Fixed an item duplication issue that involved sticky pistons

Leather horse armour is now properly coloured (MCPE-40124)

Banners no longer render as wall variants when held (MCPE-41228)

Shields held in the off-hand are no longer upside-down (MCPE-41221)

Creative players no longer get additional buckets when collecting water or lava (MCPE-37070)

Renaming items using an anvil no longer increases the prior work penalty (MCPE-36931)

Signs can now be used as fuel in furnaces (MCPE-35740)

Chorus fruit now plays the teleport sound after eating it

User Interface

Fixed signs not having a text limit, leading to performance issues (MCPE-42647)

Items can now be split if they are spread in a crafting grid on touch devices

The on-screen keyboard no longer obscures text entry when writing in a book on Xbox One

The outline of the saddle item on the horse inventory screen now matches the new saddle texture

Fixed the lack of controller tooltip for interacting with the lectern

Global resource reset message now appears if the load screen is taking too long on some devices (MCPE-39045)

Ratings button for server consumables now shows ‘Rate this pack!’ instead of the purchase button

Commands

Fixed performance issues when using selectors with commands

The ‘replaceitem’ command now takes selector arguments into account when replacing items in the offhand slot

Fixed command suggestion icons offset (MCPE-41169)

Different cauldron types will no longer overwrite each other in the player’s inventory when using the give command

End portal blocks no longer drop as items when destroyed using the ‘setblock’ command (MCPE-42991)

Add-Ons and Script Engine

Fixed pivot point changes to Endermen made with Add-Ons

A component group is now correctly removed on second activation of ‘minecraft:damage_sensor’

Target selectors are no longer case-specific

Scoreboard scores are no longer saved earlier than other information when exiting a world

Leash positions now use vanilla positions if not specified in the pack

Renamed blocks in resource packs now keep their custom names

Fixed baby Zombie Pigman sword scale with Add-Ons

Additional notes: none
Source: Mojang

Minecraft – Ver. 1.10.0

Release date: February 5th 2019 (North America) / February 6th 2019 (Europe, Japan)
Patch notes:

Highlights from the 1.10 Update:

Shields have arrived!

New features including the Texture Update, crossbows, lanterns, and the loom

Many experimental features coming in the Village & Pillage Update (1.11)

The ability to create new entities using Add-Ons

Several gameplay tweaks

Hundreds of bug fixes

New Features:

Shields! Shields! Shields!

A long-requested community feature has made its way to Minecraft

Shields can be used to block enemy attacks

Sneaking activates the shield when equipped in either hand

Texture Update

Many items, blocks, and more have fresh new textures!

More updates to textures and tweaks will be arriving in the upcoming 1.11 update

Crossbow weapon with new enchantments

Multishot

Piercing

Quick Charge

New Wood blocks and Stripped Wood blocks

Known to many players as Bark blocks

Existing wood blocks have been renamed to Logs and Stripped Logs

Lantern

A new light source that can be placed above or below blocks

Lectern

Place a Book and Quill or Written Book on the lectern, which will allow multiple players to read it together

A Book and Quill can be read, but not edited when placed on a lectern

Redstone functionality will come in a later update

Loom

A much easier method to create banners!

The Loom only uses one dye to apply a pattern. It can also use Banner Patterns to apply special patterns

Banner Patterns can be crafted using Paper and various items

Pressing the help button links to the relevant How to Play section for more information

Jellie

Winner of the community cat contest!

A new cat variant that can be found in villages

Pillagers

A new illager mob that engages players and villagers with ranged attacks

In the 1.10 update, pillagers are only available in Creative Mode

Further functionality and spawning in Survival Mode will be released in the 1.11 update

New Achievement: Fruit on the Loom

Make a banner using a Enchanted Apple Stencil (20G)

Current Experimental Features:

(Work in progress features that are only available when Experimental Gameplay is enabled in world settings)

New Villages

Many new building types and enhanced village generation

Villagers have new clothing to indicate their level, profession, and biome

Villagers can now take on a new profession when near a job site block

Villagers now have their own schedules throughout the day

Villagers now mingle together around bells in a village

Villagers now sleep in beds

Improved villager pathfinding

Added Mason and Nitwit villagers

Villagers will attempt to find a door when it rains during the day, but will navigate to their bed at night

Villagers now have a visual based trading system and will hold up an item they wish to trade if the player is holding something they want

Zombie Villagers now have biome-specific and profession skin layers

Bells may spawn in villages, with more functionality coming in a future update

Village Job Sites (We’ve added in the basic blocks in Experimental Gameplay, which can be used for decoration for now. Full functionality will be added at a later date)

Cartography Table

Fletching Table

Grindstone

Barrel

Smithing Table

Smoker

Blast Furnace

Composter

Stonecutter

Wandering Trader

A villager mob that will appear at a village’s gathering site periodically and stays for a period of 2-3 game days

This trader offers items from a wide variety of different biomes, random dyes, and other rare materials

Accompanied on their journey by two fancy llamas!

Sweet Berries

A new source of food

Sweet Berry Bushes can be found in Taiga biomes

Watch out for thorns!

Pillager Outpost

Outposts generate in the same biomes as villages, and Pillagers will respawn around the tower

Clear them out and score some loot

Illager Beast

A powerful, new enemy mob

Animations and full behavior will be added in the 1.11 update

Will be renamed to Ravager in the 1.11 update

Campfire

A new light source to make your villages look extra cozy

Works great as a fireplace in a home, with no fire spread!

Cooking functionality and smoke particles will be added in a future update

Bamboo Jungle

Bamboo is now generated in Jungles and more densely in the new Bamboo Jungle biome

Minecraft Script Engine

The Minecraft Script Engine uses the JavaScript language

Several bug fixes and updates are listed at the end of this changelog

Scripts can be written and bundled with Behavior Packs to listen and respond to game events, get and modify data in components that entities have, and affect different parts of the game.

See the Minecraft Wiki for reference guides and sample packs

This functionality is currently only available on Windows 10 PCs when using Experimental Gameplay

Changes:

Placing a wet sponge in the nether immediately dries it out

Decaying leaves now have a chance of dropping sticks

Chorus Fruit Flowers now break when struck by arrows

Added Dead Bush as a furnace fuel

Rabbit Stew and Beetroot Soup now have shapeless crafting recipes

Creepers now drop music discs when killed by strays

Dispensers with shears can now shear sheep

Undyed glass panes and white carpet can now be dyed directly in the crafting table

Improvements to Operator status and permission settings, with the added option to enable cheats or not

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

Updated templates for 1.10.0 with new resources and behaviors can be downloaded from aka.ms/minecraftaddons

New Add-Ons Functionality

New entities can now be created without replacing existing entities. See more information on the Entity Components Documentation

Particle effects can now be created and edited in resource packs. See the Particles Documentation for more details and examples

Animations have been data-driven and can now be created and edited. See the Animation Documentation for more details

Mob events and behavior can be scheduled using the ‘minecraft:scheduler’ component

Resource packs are now separate from world templates and can be updated independently in existing worlds

Added default parenting to the Evoker nose, in line with over villager-derived mobs

Fixes:

Crashes/Performance

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay

Fixed several crashes that could occur when loading the game

Fixed a crash that could occur when repeatedly attempting to cancel joining a multiplayer game

Fixed a crash that could occur when rejoining the game in The End dimension

Fixed a crash that could occur when entering a portal on some servers

Resource packs that are nested in an extra folder no longer cause the game to crash

Fixed a crash that could occur when adding a resource pack with a missing pack icon

Stacking slabs to make a double slab no longer crashes the game

Fixed a crash that could occur on Xbox One if a player was not signed in correctly

Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a world and reentering it on Xbox One

Fixed a crash that could occur when using a jukebox on Nintendo Switch

Fixed a crash that could occur when downloading or copying a large world on Nintendo Switch

Fixed a crash when trying to launch the marketplace packs “City Cars” and “Mineville Film Studios” on mobile devices

Fixed a crash that could happen after running scripts for a long period of time

Fixed a crash that could occur when loading large world templates

Optimized particles to improve performance

Looping UI animations no longer increase memory usage over time

Removing ticking areas from the game now correctly frees up used memory

Fixed a scripting crash that could occur when using ‘SpawnParticleInWorld’ events

General

Fixed another issue that could cause the game to sometimes not load past the Minecraft splash screen on some devices (MCPE-35078)

Players are now informed if they are disconnected from Xbox Live when the Xbox One console is resumed from standby

Various fixes and improvements to the Marketplace sorting and search results

Fixed an issue on Xbox One that would disable LAN games when the player did not have multiplayer permissions

Fixed a bug with converted worlds on Nintendo Switch that prevented cross-platform multiplayer (MCPE-34641)

Gameplay

Players can once again travel through End gateway portals without suffocating and no longer encounter world loading issues as a result (MCPE-41533, MCPE-40538)

Player position is now accurately saved when exiting and rejoining a world

Lightning no longer has a downward area of effect when hitting blocks, so will no longer strike mobs sheltering underneath blocks

The descend button now works correctly when underwater and using touch controls

Fixed a bug where players could respawn some distance away from their beds (MCPE-39261)

Fixed a bug where lava could hurt a player through block corners (MCPE-37726)

The re-center button on Minecraft VR has been mapped to Y now instead of X

Players using Oculus Rift can no longer fly in Survival mode after swimming (MCPE-39833)

World Generation

Trapdoors in shipwrecks are now correctly rotated

Snow layers generate around grass and flowers again in snow biomes (MCPE-38018)

Strongholds now generate with the correct stair variants again (MCPE-39380)

Mutated Birch Forest biomes now generate with extra tall Birch trees again (MCPE-29698)

The correct amount of white terracotta now generates in Mesa biomes

Mobs

Reduced the number of Drowned mobs that can spawn in an area (MCPE-34032)

Passive mobs now spawn on the correct block types (MCPE-39727)

Turtles no longer levitate above the ground

Damage cooldown no longer hinders other mob attacks

Wither skeletons and Vex mobs can now be renamed with nametags (MCPE-20701)

Fixed the pathfinding for zombies chasing villagers inside buildings (MCPE-37424)

Fixed the Wither’s ranged and swoop attacks (MCPE-39773)

Skeletons once again attack iron golems

Cats can now be healed by feeding them fish

Cats are no longer tempted by food when they are too far from the player

Fixed an issue with the sword held by the Vex mob

Fixed sleep goal so mobs can get in beds that have blocks on the sides

Mobs can no longer destroy paintings if Mob Griefing is disabled (MCPE-38916)

Blocks

Bamboo saplings no longer destroy blocks above them as they grow (MCPE-39854)

‘Monster Egg’ blocks are now named ‘Infested’ blocks to match Java Edition

Infested Bricks mined with silk touch now drop as its non-infested variant

It is now possible to climb through snow layers placed on top of scaffolding (MCPE-39324)

Hanging banners no longer show as floor standing banner variants (MCPE-39507)

Scaffolding no longer gets left hanging unsupported when being placed rapidly (MCPE-38338)

Horizontal scaffolding extensions can now be placed over non-solid blocks correctly (MCPE-39296)

Fixed a bug where kelp would grow in horizontal flowing water (MCPE-37155)

Items

Items can no longer be duplicated in the crafting grid (MCPE-40253)

Fixed an exploit that allowed players to gain unlimited items from the recipe book (MCPE-41905)

The new dye types can now be used to dye Shulker mobs (MCPE-40279)

Graphical

Players on split-screen no longer have limited visibility underwater (MCPE-39539)

Fixed a bug that could cause missing textures if the player suspended the game while it is still loading

Fixed an issue that could cause lighting issues in chunks when flying around

Pandas eating bamboo now show correctly colored food particles (MCPE-38285)

Food held by pandas is now sized, positioned, and textured correctly (MCPE-39061)

Upside-down Shulkers now have the correct opening animation (MCPE-40110)

Graphics no longer become corrupted when disabling Texel Anti-Aliasing on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-34820)

Colored beacon beam textures no longer appear compressed

Mobs no longer spawn with heart particles

Weapons held by armor stands are now the correct size (MCPE-39064)

Fixed Skeleton melee attack animation

Firework Stars no longer appear black in the Creative inventory

Fixed animations for cow and parrot mobs

Ender dragon attacks now show a particle trail

Cornflowers now render correctly in item frames

Existing armour stands no longer turn white

Fixed the spider leg animation in the Dwarven Mining Company marketplace map

Fixed Wither Skeleton model geometry issue that was affecting some Marketplace content

Fixed the head rotation of Pigmen when non-standard texture packs are used (MCPE-40629)

User Interface

Menu buttons no longer stay highlighted after being selected (MCPE-37640)

Worlds no longer show single player only warning message when multiplayer is enabled (MCPE-39194)

Texture packs applied to a freshly created world are now displayed in the active list

Global resource packs no longer show in the active packs list if they are not applied to a specific world

The ‘Unlock Template World Options’ popup no longer has a placeholder message

Fixed an issue with the black and pink missing texture icon that would sometimes appear in the marketplace

Players are prompted to redownload packs if they have been applied to a world but removed from the cache

Players who are disconnected while downloading a multiplayer pack no longer get stuck on the saving world screen

Fixed an issue that could cause the player to get stuck on the ‘Converting World’ screen if the game is suspended

Enabling ‘Touch only affects the hotbar’ on Nintendo Switch now works as expected: (MCPE-38614)

Controller sensitivity setting (touching the screen no longer interferes with controller movement)

Removed increased build distance in creative including place/mine tooltips

When the last hotbar slot selected, touching the screen no longer switches to 8th slot

Fixed the ability to unblock players from Realms on the Members list for pages two and above

Commands

Giving a Cobblestone Wall variant with commands no longer crashes the game (MCPE-41657)

Chest minecarts now drop their contents if destroyed with the /kill command

Multiple commands run from Functions now run from the correct point of execution (MCPE-38983, MCPE-39785)

Players no longer receive command feedback when cheats are disabled (MCPE-39590)

Fixed an issue related to scoreboard not showing the correct entries

Using scoreboard selectors no longer adds extra characters to player names

Scoreboards now work correctly with custom named entities

Scoreboard data is now saved more accurately when exiting a world

Various fixes and improvements to the randomTickSpeed function

Add-Ons / Script Engine

Renamed blocks in resource packs now keep their custom names

Packs missing ‘experimental_custom_ui’ don’t allow loading UI any more

Script queries no longer show error messages when detecting dropped item entities (MCPE-40437)

‘minecraft:look_at’ component now has consistent naming between scripting and JSON

The scripting event ‘entity_created’ will now fire correctly

Fixed an issue with the scripting event ‘isValidEntity’ not working as expected

Fixed the ‘damage_sensor’ scripting component that was not working as expected

Scripting can now be used to attach particles to mobs correctly

Fixed issue of region filters not working if inside a custom spawn event

Renamed the ‘player_attacked_actor’ scripting event to ‘player_attacked’

Scripting ‘isValidEntity’ now correctly checks for valid entities only

Fixed incorrect results for ‘hasComponent’ on some entity components

Players without scripting enabled now see an appropriate message if they try and join an incompatible server that has scripting enabled

Updating a player’s position with scripting now correctly syncs with the player

Creating actors via script now avoids the spawning logic. This prevents hard coded logic like ocelots spawning along with baby ocelots

Improved the message wording for players who get disconnected due to unsupported scripts

Renamed Views to Actor/Entity Queries

Added sound events

Added Event Data to ‘load_ui’

Custom UIs can now be made like regular in-game UI screens

Added ‘Global Objects’

Refactored JavaScript object registration

Added ability to enable and disable scripting error and warning logging

Additional notes: none.
Source: Mojang

How to download updates for Minecraft and Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates manually, you have three options:

let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet