Experimental Features

Recipe Unlocking

• We tested having a notification that informed you about new ways of creating recipes you’ve already unlocked. It didn’t feel helpful. Do you know how many ways there are to make sticks?! Yeah, a lot. We are removing this version of the unlocking notification
• Spectator mode is for spectating. Not unlocking recipes! With this fix recipes won’t unlock when you’re in spectator mode
• Unlocking a new recipe no longer sets the inventory toggle option to be “All”. The craftable toggle will now reliably stay the way you left it

Sneak and Crawl

• Fixed an issue that caused players to automatically sneak while on ladders
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to get stuck at the top of a ladder when sneaking
• Crawling head rotation no longer follows camera rotation directly
• Fixed an issue where Swift Sneak did not increase Crawling speed
• Fixed an issue where legacy Crawling was not working correctly with the Sneak and Crawl toggle turned off
• Fixed an issue where mobs did not have the correct collision box when spawning
• Short Sneaking has now been ‘de-experimentified’ and is available during normal gameplay
• Crawling animation is no longer triggered while gliding below blocks
• Players can now be forced into sneak/crawl state while flying

Features and Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed player capes not properly flapping when moving forward but looking sideways (fixed for real this time!)
• Reduce cases where players might see ‘Unable to connect’ errors due to ‘Expired Auth from Discovery’
• Fixed issues with unresponsive or laggy input when using Mouse together with a Controller

Mouse Input

• Improved handling of simultaneous mouse clicks, triggering each individual associated action/response

Accessibility

• Text-to-speech narrator will now say “Slash button” when hovering over the “/” button in the chat screen
• Default chat duration now set to 10 seconds while default toast notification duration remains at 3 seconds
• Text-to-speech Narrator now reads item names when selecting items in the hotbar

Actors

• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to switch mounts without first manually dismounting

Blocks

• Pumpkin, Carved Pumpkin and Lit Pumpkin “minecraft:cardinal_direction” state string is now accepted during a world update
• Mushrooms are now able to spawn on fallen tree trunks
• Conduit now has the correct lighting when placed on ground

Gameplay

• Recipe for crafting barrels with sticks is removed
• Entities no longer continue to freeze without Powder Snow if there is a Powder Snow block near the west & north side

Chiseled Bookshelf

• The correct sound effect is now played when removing an enchanted Book from Chiseled Bookshelf
• Chiseled Bookshelf slot interactions are now symmetrical

Boat

• Boats retain the ability to carry passengers when upgraded to Trails and Tales
  • Boats that were affected by this bug can once again carry passengers

User Interface

• Cursor no longer snaps to a random inventory slot using a controller
• Horse and Donkey jump bar, and camel dash bar, now scale properly to experience bar

Commands

• /time querycommand will now return the correct day and time of day when the absolute time is negative

Technical Updates

Dedicated Server

• Fixed invalid entries in allowlist.json causing crash

Add-Ons and Script Engine

• Actually fixed the bug that caused player capes to stop flapping when moving forward but looking sideways in the query.cape_flap_amount by switching the rotation used from the player’s looking rotation to the player’s body rotation
• Observer blocks use state “minecraft:facing_direction” instead of “facing_direction”. “minecraft:facing_direction” uses string values (“down”, “up”, “north”, “south”, “east”, “west”)

Entities

• Custom entities are no longer restricted to overriding Vanilla entities released before 1.20. All Vanilla entities can be used in the “identifier” or “runtime_identifier” field, including Camel and Sniffer.

Items

• Released the “minecraft:shooter” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.10 and higher
• Released the “minecraft:throwable” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.10 and higher
• Released the “minecraft:projectile” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.10 and higher
• Released the “minecraft:can_destroy_in_creative” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.10 and higher
• Released the “minecraft:hover_text_color” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.10 and higher

Editor

The Editor is in early development, and available for keyboard/mouse on Windows PC Bedrock Preview builds.

• Fixed a bug where error messages related to initial script loading were not being displayed in the log panel
• /scriptEvent command can now be used in the editor without the need to enable the Beta APIs experiments
• Fixed a bug where the viewport scaling was not working correctly on devices that use D3D11

Experimental Technical Updates

API

• Dynamic Property identifiers are now limited to 1024 characters.
• Removed MinecraftEffectTypes defined in @minecraft/server. See @minecraft/vanilla-data NPM package for an equivalent.

Moved several APIs to stable 1.3.0:

• Moving tryTeleport(location: Vector3, duration: number, options: ScriptTeleportOptions) to 1.3.0
• Moving teleport(location: Vector3, options: ScriptTeleportOptions) to 1.3.0
• Moved function getComponent to 1.3.0
• Moved world event PlayerJoinAfterEvent to 1.3.0
• Moved world event PlayerLeaveAfterEvent to 1.3.0
• Moved world event PlayerSpawnAfterEvent to 1.3.0
• Moved EntityComponent EntityHealableComponent to 1.3.0
• Moved EntityComponent EntityHealthComponent to 1.3.0
• Moved class FeedItem to 1.3.0
• Moved class FeedItemEffect to 1.3.0
• Moving addEffect(effectType: string | EffectType, duration: number, options: EntityEffectOptions) to 1.3.0
• Moved getEffect(effectType: string | EffectType) to 1.3.0
• Moved getEffects to 1.3.0
• Moved removeEffect(effectType: string | EffectType) to 1.3.0
• AfterEvents
  • Moving ButtonPushEvent to 1.3.0
  • Moving LeverActivateEvent to 1.3.0
• Moved function spawnEntity to 1.3.0
• Moved function spawnItem to 1.3.0

Spawn Point Updates:

• Removed function clearSpawn
• Removed property spawnDimension
• Added function getSpawnPoint: DimensionLocation | undefined– Returns the player’s spawn point
• Added function setSpawnPoint(spawnPoint?: DimensionLocation): void– Sets the player’s spawn point, or clears it if spawnPoint is undefined
• Renamed function getDefaultSpawnPosition to getDefaultSpawnLocation
• Renamed function setDefaultSpawn to setDefaultSpawnLocation
• DimensionLocation
  • Added new interface DimensionLocation– Represents a location in a dimension
• Added hasParticipant function to ScoreboardObjective.
• The following functions in ScoreboardObjective can now accept Entity or string types as participants:
  • getScore
  • setScore
  • removeParticipant
• Removed getScore, setScore from ScoreboardIdentity and Scoreboard.

Removed the removeFromObjective function from ScoreboardIdentity.

• Fixed bug where scoreboard values would not be updated on the client when updated from script.
• Raycasting
  • Changed function getBlockFromRay
    • Changed return type from Block to BlockRaycastHit | undefined
  • Changed function getEntitiesFromRay
    • Changed return type from Entity[] to EntityRaycastHit[]
  • Changed function getBlockFromViewDirection
    • Changed return type from Block to BlockRaycastHit | undefined
  • Changed function getEntitiesFromViewDirection
    • Changed return type from Entity[] to EntityRaycastHit[]
  • Added interface BlockRaycastHit
  • Added interface EntityRaycastHit
• Renamed leverActivate after event to leverAction
  • Removed class EntityHitAfterEvent.
  • Added class EntityHitBlockAfterEvent
  • Added class EntityHitEntityAfterEvent
  • Class WorldAfterEvents
    • Removed property entityHit
    • Added property entityHitBlock
    • Added property entityHitEntity
  • Added helper function isValid to several classes in order to check if the object is valid. This can safely be used on any handle to a native object before accessing or using the object, to ensure the underlying object still exists and is valid to use.
    • Block (checks the block is a valid position in bounds and the containing chunk is loaded & ticking)
    • Container (checks the relevent container inventory exists and is valid)
    • Effect (checks the owning entity is valid and the effect exists on that entity)
    • ScreenDisplay (checks the owning player is valid)
    • ScoreboardObjective (checks the objective entry exists and is attached to a valid scoreboard)
    • Entity (checks that the entity exists in the world. Will return true if the entity is dead)
      • Player
      • SimulatedPlayer (Note simulated players do not automatically get removed from the world, so isValid will return true long after they are dead)
    • ContainerSlot (checks the item context is valid: Container exists in the world, such as the owning entity, and the slot is within the container bounds)
      • Already existed as a readonly property, changed to a method for consistency
    • Component
      • EntityAttributeComponent (checks the owning entity is valid and the attribute exists on the entity)
      • BlockLiquidContainerComponent (checks block exists and is a valid cauldron type)
        • Added read only method isValidLiquid which checks if the liquid in the cauldron matches the component in question (EG. BlockLavaContainerComponent checks for lava liquid)
      • EntityComponent (checks the owning entity exists)
      • ItemComponent (checks the owning item exists)

• World
• Renamed getTime to getTimeOfDay.
• Renamed setTime to setTimeOfDay.
• setTimeOfDay now accepts a TimeOfDay enum as an argument.
• The timeOfDay argument for setTime must now be within 0-23999 (inclusive).
• Added getDay

Updated the following enums’ values to be PascalCase instead of camelCase:

• ClipboardMirrorAxis
• ClipboardRotation
• HttpRequestMethod
• FormCancelationReason
• Direction
• DisplaySlotId
• EntityLifetimeState
• FluidType
• ObjectiveSortOrder
• ScoreboardIdentityType
• ScriptEventSource
• SignSide
• WatchdogTerminateReason
• WeatherType 

Experimental Cameras

• Camera preset JSON now supports an optional bool ‘player_effects’ value which causes game rendering to use player effect state (for example night vision) when this preset is active. Added the “example:example_player_effects” preset to demonstrate this
• Camera command can now take a ‘facing’ option instead of a ‘rot’ option with a target entity or position specified
• Fixed custom cameras to not use the ‘inside block’ effect when player head is inside a block

Items

• Deprecate “minecraft:render_offsets” component in json formats 1.20.10 and higher
• Changed charging action behavior in “minecraft:shooter” to match Vanilla crossbow Changed shooting behavior for a charged “minecraft:shooter” with an empty inventory/offhand to successfully shoot the charged ammunition