Added the Cactus Flower, a new type of flower which has a chance of generating on Cactuses in Deserts and Badlands
Cactus Flower can be placed on Cactus blocks or any block which has center support at the top of the block
Cactus Flowers have a chance of growing on Cactus blocks
If a Cactus is 1-2 blocks high the Cactus Flower has a 10% chance to grow instead of the Cactus getting higher
If a Cactus is 3 blocks high the Cactus Flower has a 25% chance to grow instead of the Cactus getting higher
Cactus Flowers can be used in the Composter
A Cactus Flower can be used to craft 1 Pink Dye
Chicken Variants
Added two new Chicken variants – Warm Chicken and Cold Chicken!
These have their own unique texture and geometry, but not a separate spawn egg
They spawn in the same biomes as the Warm, Cold, and Temperate variants of Pigs and Cows
Two new Egg items have been added for the Warm and Cold Chicken variants
Blue Egg – The Egg that is laid by and can hatch Cold Chicken variants
Brown Egg – The Egg that is laid by and can hatch Warm Chicken variants
Firefly Bush
Added ambient sounds to the Firefly Bush that will play when the moon is visible to the block
Fixed held Firefly Bush texture to better match Java Edition
General
Fixed the Bush block emitting brightness
Leaf Litter can now be placed on any block which provides center support
Fixed Leaf Litter step sound being in the block audio category not player
Change Leaf Litter map colour to be Brown
Fixed trailing spaces on new item names
Short and Tall Dry Grass
Added two new types of grass: Short Dry Grass and Tall Dry Grass
Both are 1 block high, which makes Tall Dry Grass differ from Tall Grass which is 2 blocks high
Both generate in the Desert and Badlands
Both can be placed on types of Sand, Terracotta and Dirt blocks like the Dead Bush
Both can be bone mealed
Using Bone Meal on Short Dry Grass grows it into a Tall Dry Grass
Using Bone Meal on Tall Dry Grass places a neighbouring Short Dry Grass next to the block if possible
Both can be used in the Composter
Sheep can eat both to regrow its wool
Both can be used as fuel for smelting
Animal Variants
Applied the warm and cold animal variant tags to all appropriate biomes, so that animals spawned in these biomes by spawn eggs or commands are an appropriate variant even if they still do not spawn in the biome naturally
Cold Farm Animal Biomes:
Deep Frozen Ocean
Frozen Ocean
Frozen Peaks
Frozen River
Grove
Ice Spikes
Jagged Peaks
Snowy Beach
Snowy Plains
Snowy Slopes
Snowy Taiga
The End
Cold Ocean
Deep Cold Ocean
Deep Dark
End Barrens
End Highlands
End Midlands
Small End Islands
Stony Peaks
Old Growth Pine Taiga
Old Growth Spruce Taiga
Taiga
Windswept Forest
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Windswept Hills
Warm Farm Animal Biomes
Mangrove Swamp
Badlands
Bamboo Jungle
Basalt Deltas
Crimson Forest
Desert
Eroded Badlands
Jungle
Nether Wastes
Savanna Plateau
Savanna
Soul Sand Valley
Sparse Jungle
Warm Ocean
Warped Forest
Windswept Savanna
Wooded Badlands
Deep Lukewarm Ocean
Lukewarm Ocean
Temperate Farm Animal Biomes
Swamp
Beach
Birch Forest
Cherry Grove
Dark Forest
Dripstone Caves
Flower Forest
Forest
Lush Caves
Meadow
Mushroom Fields
Ocean
Old Growth Birch Forest
Plains
River
Stony Shore
Sunflower Plains
Lukewarm Ocean
The Void
Pale Garden
Features and Bug Fixes
Known Issues
We have a couple of known issues in this week’s update that we hope to have addressed soon
The Player’s character is moving sideways
Other Players in Multiplayer sessions can get stuck in dying animation after respawn
Blocks
Fixed z-fighting textures in Flower Pot and Nether Sprout blocks
Fixed a crash that would sometimes happen when entities with an excessively large hitbox entered liquid
Fixed blocks using the minecraft:destructible_by_mining component with item_specific_speeds defined flickering during their block breaking animation
Fixed trigger rate of red stone powered droppers and dispensers
Gameplay
Using Riptide while standing in shallow water will once again launch the player as if they weren’t standing in water.
General
In Server Authoritative movement, the Player will not constantly bop up and down if flying state change during small loss of connection with the server.
Removing experimental files cold_taiga, cold_taiga_hills, and cold_taiga_mutated from behavior packs. These files were only loaded with the custom biomes experiment enabled, and this change does not remove the biomes themselves.
User Interface
Fixed some typos and inaccuracies in the minecraft Encyclopedia
Screen Safe Area Settings: Disables Horizontal and Vertical Screen Position sliders if the Safe area is set to 100%
Stops Screen Position from displaying -0.0 due to a rounding error.
Long splash texts on the start screen will break into two lines to be more readable.
The invite button on the pause screen is moved up a bit and now has an icon.
Scaled and moved the title logo to make room for the friends drawer button.
Added new loading tips for creative mode.
Technical Updates
API
Component minecraft:fluidContainer has been renamed to minecraft:fluid_container in V2.
Commands
Fixed commands not executing when command is entered with leading spaces
Moved the place feature and place featurerule subcommands out of the Upcoming Creator Features experiment
Components
Added the “minecraft:is_collidable” component
This component allows other mobs to have vertical and horizontal collisions with the component’s owner
For a collision to occur, both mobs must have a “minecraft:collision_box” component
This component can only be used on mobs and enables collisions exclusively between mobs
Please note that this type of collision is unreliable for moving mobs
It is recommended to use this component only in scenarios where the mob remains stationary
Collidable behavior is closely related to stackable behavior
While the “minecraft:is_collidable” component governs how other mobs interact with the component’s owner, the “minecraft:is_stackable” component describes how an entity interacts with others of its own kind
The “entity_sensor” component now has two additional fields:
“y_offset”, applies a vertical offset to the entity’s position when calculating distances to other entities
“find_players_only”, restricts the search to Players only, affecting all subsensors
Added the “minecraft:body_rotation_axis_aligned” component, that causes the entity’s body to automatically rotate to align with the nearest cardinal direction based on its current facing direction
Combining this with the “minecraft:body_rotation_blocked” component will cause the entity to align to the nearest cardinal direction and remain fixed in that orientation, regardless of future changes in its facing direction
Data-driven Jigsaw Structures
Fixed placement of Jigsaw structures that contain blocks with minecraft:tick component.
Editor
Added Block Inspector tool which allows you to view block states and permutations of blocks
Added Entity Inspector tool which allows you to view and modify entity components
Added a new IRootPropertyPane.createModalOverlayPane API function, allowing the creation of IModalOverlayPane to display on top of the pane content. Each pane supports one active modal overlay at a time, but it can own multiple modals. Modal overlays can be managed through the root pane’s setActiveModalOverlay function or the overlay pane’s show and hide functions
Fixed an assert encountered on client disconnect from dedicated server and re-entry into a world
Fixed block picker UI dialog persisting after a client disconnect from a dedicated server
Entity Components
Added on_spawn trigger to spawn_chance on hit sub-component, triggered on the newly spawned entity with other set to the owning entity
Added particle_item_name map to particle_on_hit on hit sub-component, maps an item name to an actor filter to determine what the name of the item used in the particle should be. Falls back to the name of the entity itself as before.
Goals
“minecraft:behavior.float_wander” AI goal will now restrict mobs to their home position if they have the “minecraft:home” component
Mobs
Added maximum value of 100000000.0 and minimum value of -100000000.0 to “minecraft:collision_box” component
Network Protocol
Added ActorFlags::COLLIDABLE
Added ActorFlags::BODY_ROTATION_AXIS_ALIGNED
Sounds
Sound effects found in animations and animation controllers can now include an optional “locator” field similar to particle effects allowing them to originate from the locator on the entity rather than the origin
Experimental Technical Updates
API
World
Added getDifficulty(): Difficulty method to beta. This method gets the worlds current game difficulty.
Added setDifficulty(difficulty: Difficulty): void method to beta. This method sets the worlds current game difficulty.
ActionFormData
Added method header(text: minecraftserver.RawMessage): ActionFormData;. It adds a header into the form.
Added method label(text: minecraftserver.RawMessage): ActionFormData;. It adds a label into the form.
ModalFormData
Added method header(text: minecraftserver.RawMessage): ModalFormData;. It adds a header into the form.
Added method label(text: minecraftserver.RawMessage): ModalFormData;. It adds a label into the form.
Added new script module @minecraft/diagnostics version 1.0.0-beta. This module is dedicated server only for now and allows script modules to connect their script packs to Sentry . This enables remote error tracking and monitoring for script packs.
Graphical
Fixed a bug that caused water to render through the bottom of boats in the Deferred Technical Preview.
Fixed a bug that caused weather (rain, snow, etc…) to appear brighter than it should be at night in the Deferred Technical Preview.
