Category: Minecraft News

Hey all.  A few days back Mojang Studios announced Minecraft Preview which is the successor of the Minecraft Bedrock Beta program.  Those who have been playing on their Xbox, Windows 10 computers, and Android devices have been able to sign up and try out and test the new features that will eventually be officially released into the base version of the game.  Below I’ll cover what this new program is and what that means for the beta program going forward.

What is it?

The Minecraft Preview is the next step in Mojang Studio’s plan to bring this program to additional platforms.  While currently, the Preview is only available on Xbox, Windows, and Android for now, (additional information in the next point).  The key feature to the Preview is that you don’t have to choose between playing on Beta or playing the current official release of the game.  Both are available on your platform at the same time.

Are there any new platforms available and possible future platforms?

Actually yes!  iOS and Windows 10/11 are the first two new platforms testing this out.  At this time there isn’t a definite answer but Mojang Studios is looking to add more in the future.  Stay tuned for information at a later date.

As of writing this though the current batch of allowed players to test the Preview on iOS is already full.  There will be more information later when others can join in as well.

What does this mean for Beta?

Ultimately this means that Beta will eventually be retired and Preview will take its place.  For now, the Beta and Preview will overlap slightly with those still testing the Beta.

How do I join?

• On iOS, there will be a specific URL that you can use to sign up.  Spots are limited for now (and are currently full), but more spots will become available in time.
• On Xbox and Windows everyone who owns a copy of Minecraft (Bedrock).  It should appear in your Games & Apps library and should be ready to install.
• For Xbox users, do note that this has not officially been released.  Xbox Insiders will first help test this out before being released to the public.  Information on Xbox’s Inside Hub can be found here.
• Later this year this will be added for Xbox Gamepass players.
• Those using the Minecraft Launcher will see Minecraft Preview later this year as well.

What about my old worlds?

Unfortunately importing your old worlds is not currently available at this time.

Why should I switch to Preview now?

There are many features available that may spark your interest.

• Use of the Marketplace.
• Realms / Featured Servers
• Cross-platform multiplayer
• Achievements

This covers the need-to-know information regarding the Minecraft Preview program.  As always, if you encounter any bugs please report them to Mojang Studios so they can get them sorted!

It’s a new year and a new Snapshot.  Mojang has been hard at work fixing the bugs that you all have been reporting.  There have been a few changes to seeds which you can read below.

Changes in 22W03A

• A seed of the number zero is no longer handled as a special case
• Any spaces before/after an inputted seed will now be trimmed
• Ender chests are no longer gift wrapped around Christmas

Technical Changes in 22W03A

• The locate command now uses a namespaced id parameter
• Added command: placefeature

placefeature

A new command that places a configured feature at a given location.
Syntax: placefeature <id> [pos]

Parameters:

• id: The namespaced id of a configured feature to place
• pos: The position to use as the origin for the feature placement (if omitted, ~ ~ ~ is used)

Fixed Bugs in 22W03A

• MC-83938 – Standing on entities with solid collision boxes (shulkers, boats) kicks you for flying
• MC-98727 – Server: Entering a boat/minecart/horse while going upwards from jumping causes a kick for flying
• MC-111082 – Riding a boat with NoGravity on a server without flight enabled causes a kick for flying
• MC-126772 – Underwater fog doesn’t hide the edge of chunks correctly at low render distances
• MC-135989 – Kicked for flying using trident with Riptide enchantment
• MC-167763 – Blindness does not work underwater for certain graphics cards
• MC-185545 – Knockback Resistance on players is still affected by chance
• MC-185695 – Twisting vines don’t reliably protect the player from fall damage
• MC-205232 – Player can see farther in powder snow with a blindness effect
• MC-223834 – Pointed dripstone can form below some non-full (non-solid) blocks
• MC-226359 – The Zero-Width Non-Joiner shows as a “ZWNJ” box
• MC-229313 – Some blocks that negate fall damage don’t reliably protect mobs at certain heights
• MC-230905 – Sky background is visible on certain reduced fog situations
• MC-233599 – /spreadplayers command does not allow for negative “under” values
• MC-235574 – Game crashes when replacing a block with a wall with blockstate up:false
• MC-236693 – “Done” button in the controls submenu is very low
• MC-237262 – Crash report and tick profiling causes “Failed to find module info for _” spam to log
• MC-238114 – Meadow trees can spawn without bee nests
• MC-238866 – Snow/powder snow can generate underwater
• MC-239031 – Glitchy chunk rendering persists since 21w41a
• MC-239436 – Broken culling in very long caves
• MC-240559 – JFR JSON report’s bytesPerSecond is incorrectly calculated
• MC-241152 – Powder snow is part of #goat_spawnable_on block tag / Goats can spawn on powder snow
• MC-241205 – Sandstone generates 2-5 layers instead of 3-8 layers
• MC-242010 – Snow Blocks, Powder Snow aren’t a part of #azalea_root_replaceable / Rooted dirt can’t replace Snow Blocks & Powder Snow
• MC-242331 – Entities are displayed faster than chunks
• MC-242543 – Suffocation always uses the entity head center position for predicate and collision box
• MC-242709 – Pointed dripstone clusters create holes in the ground when generating in aquifers
• MC-243015 – Falling blocks at chunk generation cause tons of entities and (client-side) lag
• MC-243196 – Driver view angle resets when another player enters or exits the boat
• MC-243245 – Unable to select “What is Realms?” button using Tab
• MC-243489 – Console spam: Skipping update for removed player
• MC-243619 – Raid waves can spawn outside of simulation distance
• MC-244164 – Upgrade to 1.18 makes chests invisible and empty
• MC-244174 – Fog effect for void, blindness, water, lava & powder snow is cylindrical
• MC-245345 – Crash when reloading chunks
• MC-245347 – Flying with an elytra and colliding with floating flowing water sometimes doesn’t reset fall damage
• MC-245406 – Memory leak leading to crashes when loading pre-1.18 chunks
• MC-245416 – Baby turtles suffocate on soul sand
• MC-246445 – Game crashes when dispenser with shears is used on a non-beehive block in #beehives tag
• MC-246449 – Game crashes when villager tries to open non-door in #wooden_doors tag
• MC-246464 – Game crashes when dispensing a bone meal in a warm ocean and there is a block with no facing block state in #wall_corals
• MC-247415 – Game crashes if coral related block tags are empty during coral reef generation

Remember that only those on Xbox One / Windows 10 / and Android may participate in the Beta builds.  You will not be able to join Realms or non-beta players worlds and you will not be able to open worlds opened in the Beta in earlier/current stable builds of Bedrock.  These builds are not to be considered a final build and are a work in progress.

Today’s update provides some fixes for some of those pesky crashes to help with performance and stability.  Make sure to let Mojang know of any bugs you encounter so those can be taken care of. 

https://bugs.mojang.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa

Features and Bug Fixes

Performance and Stability

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when computing the loot table of a Villager without user data 

Pathfinding

• Fixed an issue where the “Ranged Attack Goal” could not be used to move mobs in some Marketplace packs 

User Interface

• Play screen exit button now present with touch input on Nintendo Switch 
• Fixed crash when hovering a pattern in the Stonecutter UI 

Technical

• Fixed block namespace not being recorded in item stack’s placement and destroy rules when sent over the network or saved to disk 

Remember that only those on Xbox One / Windows 10 / and Android may participate in the Beta builds.  You will not be able to join Realms or non-beta players worlds and you will not be able to open worlds opened in the Beta in earlier/current stable builds of Bedrock.  These builds are not to be considered a final build and are a work in progress.

Are your frogs hungry?  Yes?  Why not feed your hoppy friend a nice magma cube!  This build brings new lights called Froglights.  The opening line wasn’t a joke, you really feed a Magma Cube to a Frog and depending on the Frog varient you have will give you one of the three new light blocks.  Read below for more information!

Known Issue

• Chests may not show all inventory slots when using the Pocket UI. As a workaround, you might want to enable the Classic UI setting.

Experimental Features

Frogs

• Frogs and Tadpoles now have sounds (MCPE-150742)
• Frog panic speed is now appropriate
• Tadpoles now have the panic goal

Frog Egg

• Glow Lichen can no longer be placed on top of Frog Egg

Froglight

• Three new Froglight blocks have been added (Pearlescent, Verdant, 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

Features and Bug Fixes

Stability and Performance

• Fixed an issue that could cause the 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)

Vanilla Parity

• 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)
• Glow Lichen now has similar brightness as on Java Edition
• Foxes now aim downwards when they pounce (MCPE-143664)
• Removed the emerald icon above a Villager’s head when trading
• Updated trade tables for Butchers, Cartographers, Librarians, and Wandering Traders
• Iron Golems now only attack players with a very bad standing in a village after attacking a villager

Accessibility

• Text-to-speech (TTS) now correctly reads the names of experimental toggles

Commands

• 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

Feature placement

• 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)

Furnaces

• Blast Furnaces and Smokers once again give XP (MCPE-150427)

Gameplay

• 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 trees (MCPE-148361)
• Fixed Light Block’s brightness not being adjustable when playing in VR
• Fixed Light Block not being continuously placed while holding right-click and moving (MCPE-135669)
• Light Blocks can now be waterlogged (MCPE-148391)
• Fixed issue where breaking blocks, opening chests and entering portals would be delayed/not work when there are lots of mobs nearby (MCPE-149214)
• Grass and double flowers now have proper animations when breaking (MCPE-150786)
• Flower blocks are now properly destroyed by explosions when inside snow layers (MCPE-146492)
• Skeleton Horsemen now pathfind correctly (MCPE-147521)

World Generation

• 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)

Technical Updates

GameTest Framework (Experimental)

• Entity
  • Added function teleport(location: Location, dimension: Dimension, xRotation (optional): float, yRotation (optional): float)
  • Added function teleportFacing(location: Location, dimension: Dimension, facingLocation: Location)
• Added registerAsyncmethod to register and properly track the state of GameTests using async functions

General

• Reapplied changes to use “allowlist” instead of “whitelist” (BDS-14119)

JumpToBlockGoal

• JumpToBlockGoal now correctly searches the same distance upwards and downwards when looking for jumpblockcandidates, allowing mobs that use the goal to jump equally high as low

Blocks

• Added support for blocks having the same name as long as they belong to different namespaces

Animations

• Fixed animation controller recursion checks from falsely disallowing normal repeat usage of a controller

User-Interface

• Fixed issue where up and down arrow buttons in the Resource Pack Settings screen became bigger when highlighted (MCPE-147708)

Minecraft Earth (a mobile AR version of the game for phones) has released their final build today, with the notice that the game will be closed down and removed from the app stores on June 30, 2021.

https://twitter.com/minecraftearth/status/1346501720357167106

It is with a heavy heart that we must announce today we’re releasing the final Minecraft Earth build. We’ve made several adjustments to make the next few months as fun as possible, but the game will be officially close down and be removed from the app stores on June 30, 2021.

Thank you for your support over the past year and we hope we can spend the next few months making some great memories together.

– The Minecraft Earth Team

They have also pushed their news psot about it, which covers more information about the changes in the build today.

 https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-earth-coming-end

That said, we still have one update left. Today we are releasing the final build of the game, containing some changes to make your time in Minecraft Earth as fun as possible. We hope these adjustments will allow you to explore, craft, and build more – while staying safe indoors. Starting with today’s update, we are:

• Removing real-money transactions

• Drastically reducing ruby costs

• Including all completed, unreleased content currently in our pipeline

• Reducing time requirements for crafting and smelting

• Replacing unused crafting & smelting boosts with radius boosts of the same level

• Granting a set of Character Creator items to players who sign in between January 5 and June 30 

Did you play Minecraft Earth? Do you have any screenshots or images you wish to share? Comment down below!

Happy Holidays!

We generally do not do news posts for site changes, however we feel this update that has rolled out is important to share.

We have added support for logging in to Minecraft Forum with your Google account. What this means is that you can log into an MCF account with with a Twitch account or a Google account, or even both if you’re so inclined!

To link a Google account to your MCF account, visit your account page (you can get there using this link: https://www.minecraftforum.net/account). 

Click “Link Google” and you will be redirected to Google.

Select which Google account you wish to use to log into MCF with.

And that is it! You can now log into MCF using the “Google” option on our login page. 

You can even unlink your Twitch account from the site using the “Unlink Twitch” if you no longer wish to have your Twitch account tied to your account.

We will be adding more options over time. Microsoft Login is next on our list as Java Edition is moving to using Microsoft logins, joining Bedrock and Dungeons.

Experience Minecraft on Windows 10 in a whole new light with the official launch of Mojang’s Render Dragon technology powered by NVIDIA’s Ray Tracing technology!  If you’ve been following along our previous posts you know just how pretty Minecraft can be.  In order to experience this newest update, you will need at least a GeForce RTX 2060 GPU.  Check out the video from Mojang’s YouTube channel below to get a glimpse of what your Minecraft may look like if you have an available card.

Sweepstakes

For those who may be interested in a 30 series graphics card, NVIDIA is hosting a sweepstake.  Head over to NVIDIA’s announcement page to learn more about your chance to win either a GeForce RTX 3080 or RTX 3070! 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/minecraft-rtx-dlss-official-release/

Already on Beta?

A lot of you have been playing on the Beta and have been sharing your screenshots for months now.  If you’re unsure how to swap over to the official release just follow these steps listed below:

1. Back up your existing worlds, saves, and profiles, just in case
2. Open the Xbox Insider Hub application
3. Navigate to Insider Content and click on Minecraft
4. Click Manage, select “Unenroll”, and then Done
5. Wait a few minutes, then check for Minecraft updates in the Windows Store app
6. If you haven’t been updated, uninstall Minecraft completely, and install a fresh copy from the Windows Store
7. And if you’re still having issues, uninstall Minecraft, log out from the Insider Hub, Xbox Companion App, and Windows Store. Restart your PC, then log back into the Windows Store and download Minecraft anew

Are you wanting to convert your JAVA worlds or make your own PBR textures?  NVIDIA has created an easy to follow guide containing details for all you need to know.  Please check it out if you are interested!

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/minecraft-rtx-texturing-guide/

Colosseum RTX

Creator: BANV
Pack Type: World

Do you love the history of the Roman Empire?  Experience the Colosseum in its glory day in this beautiful recreation containing historical trivia.  Find hidden locations and take in the marvelous sights it holds.

Dungeon Dash RTX

Coming Soon

Creator: BlockWorks
Type: Action

A dangerous and challenging medieval countryside.  Fight your way through an Orc Fortress, a treetop village, a mysterious mine, and floating islands as you conquer each of the 10 unique dungeons.

Final Words

Check out NVIDIA’s site for more in-depth information regarding the RTX update along with information about their DLSS technology.  If you have any questions check out Mojang’s FAQ.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/minecraft-rtx-dlss-official-release/
https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360041035092-Minecraft-NVIDIA-RTX-FAQ

A new Minecraft update is here with a lot of changes, bug fixes, and good things for content creators (add ons and map makers that is). For those of you on the Switch version please hang tight until 5pm GMT to have those multiplayer issues solved.

• 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

• 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)

• Added several new experimental toggles to enable previews of upcoming engine technology and support Add-Ons and Marketplace content
• Added the new Mojang Studios logo splash screen on Android devices (MCPE-79353)

• Xbox One controllers don’t work as expected when playing on Oculus Rift

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

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

For those who have been here long enough, you know what this means.  Our Minecraft: Java Edition accounts are migrating for a second time.  For those who have an account now, we will need to Migrate from a Mojang Account to a Microsoft account in early 2021.  Starting later this fall, however, new accounts will already be required to create Microsoft accounts.  I know change can be bothersome but Mojang does state some good points when making the switch.

• More account security.
• All Minecraft accounts connected.  
• Parents can have more control for the safety of their child/children
• Chat and invitation blocking

In the coming months Mojang will list out what exactly is needed and how to migrate your account, this will be mandatory if you wish to continue playing Minecraft: Java Edition.  Here on the Forums, we will do our best to also help remind members of the upcoming switch as well as list the how-to/need-to-know for account Migration.  For those who are Migrating Mojang Studios do have a nice added bonus, a cape!

To ensure that the Migration happens smoothly Mojang Studios will be migrating players in batches to hopefully make this an easy process for all.  Make sure your emails are up to date for your Mojang account as you will receive instructions when it is time to Migrate.

For those worrying, Java Edition itself is not changing, it is only the account that you use to login that is changing.  You will still keep your current names, new players will still be able to pick their name.  Your login is just finding a new home.

For now, read over the FAQ Mojang has provided so far: https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360050865492-JAVA-Account-Migration-FAQ

The Winner is Glow Squid!

Moobloom
-Fan favorite from Minecraft Earth

-Interacts with bees by unsure how

-New Flower, Buttercup

Iceologer

-Thrives in snow, icy, and rocky areas.

-Hostile

-Hurls flying ice clouds at you

Glow Squid

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312450131837345792

-Debuted in Minecraft Earth

-Glows in the same way Enderman’s eyes do

-Similar to other squids

Caves & Cliffs Update

New Cave Biomes

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312425504696344577

Lush Caves

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312424276096581632

-Beautiful foliage, new flowers, and hanging plants from the ceiling

-Azalea Trees will mark where to look, just follow their roots

-Spore blossoms are large pink flowers that hang from the ceiling.  They drop particles and you can move these flowers to have these particles anywhere.

Dripstone Cave

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312425972856238081

-Dripstone stalagmites and stalactites.

-Stalagtites will fall if the block is broken above.

-Stalagmites will hurt if you follow

New Mobs

Warden

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312427526946521088

-First blind mob in Minecraft.  Will react to vibrations

-Fast and strong

-Dangerous even in full netherite armor

-Can sneak around to not be detected

Goats

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312428831249248258

-Can knock you around as they can ram you

-Can jump high

Axolotl

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312448388747591680

-Found in Lush Caves

-Can be scooped in a bucket

-Plays dead to heal, maybe can heal you as well

New Blocks & Items

Powdered Snow

-When you or a mob walks on them you will fall through. 

Sculk Growth

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312426419327299586

Sculk Sensor

-Detects footsteps and vibrations

-Wireless redstone

-Placing a wool block between the sensor and vibrations will allow the vibration to not be detected

-Sneaking will not activate it.

Amethyst Geodes

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312444177020407814

-Harvest crystal shards for new recipes

-Provides dim light

Telescopes

Lightning Rods

Copper Ore

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312444863216930816

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312445373672161280

Bundles

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312446162352238592

-Carry around multiple items in one slot

-Stack limits apply

Brush

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1312447418886090753

New Archeology System

New Dungeons DLC

Howling Peaks

-Ravagers

-Iceologer

-New Gamemode for everyone: Apocalypse+ 

-Nether, Fortress, Underwater, and The End themed maps.

Minecraft Education Global Build Championship!

-Full details here.

This article will update throughout the event.  Refresh periodically as well as check our discord to chat with other members of our community as we enjoy the Livestream.  Also join us and watch along with us here: https://www.minecraftforum.net/minecraft-live/oct2020/stream