Known Issues

• Players cannot stack split items while using gamepads or mouse and keyboard. We hope to have this issue resolved as soon as possible!

Experimental Features

Gameplay

• Camels no longer get pulled into rideable entities

Note Blocks

• Mob heads can now be placed on top of note blocks without sneaking
  • This bypasses the default interaction, and we would love your feedback on this change!

Touch Controls

• Correct dismount tip now shows if not using classic touch controls

Features and Bug Fixes

Blocks

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

Commands

• Fixed potential crash when teleporting players to other dimensions using commands

Commands Parity

• Running ‘/execute if|unless score’ on a player that doesn’t have a score set will now return false
• ‘/execute if|unless score’ no longer accepts selectors that can return multiple entities (ie. @e, @a)

General

• Redstone Dust now emits a sound when placed on the ground
• Player will now respond correctly to speed changes using minecraft:movement

Input

• Fixed a bug where the mouse cursor was visible and is no longer usable to control the player camera on the HUD screen after exiting the menu screen with a touch while moving the mouse around

Items

• Wither and Ender Dragon Spawn Eggs are no longer available in the Creative Inventory but are still available using commands

Mobs

• Players can now “pick” Iron Golems, Snow Golems, Withers, and Ender Dragons, obtaining their respective Spawn Eggs
• Piglins can once again spawn at light levels above 7 in the Nether
• Evokers now play a ‘sit’ animation when riding a mount or vehicle

Particle Effects

• Updated particles documentation with descriptions of new materials and included example particles in the example resource pack

Performance and Stability

• Fixed potential crash when using “instant_despawn” component
• Fixed potential crash when loading actors
• ClientSide LevelChunk generation is now Server authoritative, preventing Clients from generating unnecessary chunks

Touch Controls

• Resolved an issue that pressing the inventory button could interact with the world instead of opening the inventory on some devices
• Fixed an issue that players couldn’t scroll pages when one row was off-screen
• Added several levels of intervals for repeat crafting when holding on the crafted items
• Removed the camera movement delay when the player swiped from the attack and build buttons in crosshair mode
• The touch focus circle has been reactivated with the new touch controls (not in Crosshair mode)

User Interface

• Toast notifications can now be swiped away on touch devices in-game
• Touch control settings section is no longer visible on Xbox

Vanilla Parity

• Change various blocks’ map colors to match Java Edition
• Change frogspawn map color to match Java Edition
• Change bed block map colors to match Java Edition

Blocks

• Wooden Doors, Iron Doors, Wooden Trapdoors, Iron Trapdoors and Fence Gates now use the same opening and closing sounds as Java Edition
• Updated Pressure Plates to have different sound pitches based on their behaviour to match Java Edition
• Added a unique button click sound for Wooden Buttons to match Java Edition

Technical Updates

API

• Entity
  • Fixed a bug where the getEffect method could return an invalid Effect (and another case where an Effect could become invalid after a new Effect was added)
• EntityHurtEvent
  • Added read-only property damageSource: EntityDamageSource – Gets information about the damage source
  • EntityDamageSource
    • Added property cause: EntityDamageCause – Gets the damage cause
    • Added property damagingEntity?: Entity – Gets the damaging Entity
    • Added property damagingProjectile?: Entity – Gets the damaging projectile Entity
    • Added function applyDamage(amount: number, source?: EntityDamageSource): boolean – Applies damage to the Entity and returns the result of the operation
  • Dimension
    • Added function fillBlocks(begin: BlockLocation, end: BlockLocation, block: BlockPermutation | BlockType, options?: BlockFillOptions): number
      • Fills an area between begin and end with block of type block. Returns number of blocks placed
    • Added new interface BlockFillOptions with member matchingBlock?: BlockPermutation | BlockType
      • Used with fillBlocks to apply additional options, such as only filling blocks matching matchingBlock
    • Player
      • Added function addLevels(amount: number): number – Adds/Removes level to/from the Player and returns the current level of the Player
      • Added function addExperience(amount: number): number – Adds/Removes experience to/from the Player and returns the current experience of the Player
      • Added function resetLevel(): void – Resets the level of the Player
      • Added function getTotalXp(): number – Gets the total experience of the Player
      • Added read-only property level – Gets the level of the Player
      • Added read-only property xpEarnedAtCurrentLevel – Gets the experience earned at the current level of the Player
      • Added read-only property totalXpNeededForNextLevel – Gets the total experience required for the current level of the Player

Recipes

• Renamed and converted all Smithing Table recipes to use the newly introduced “minecraft:recipe_smithing_transform” recipe format

General

• Added content error for the condition that Custom blocks with permutations or properties fail to load in non-experimental worlds for JSON formats 1.19.60 and onwards