Minecraft Beta 1.17.40.20 : A Bedrock Beta Changelog

Minecraft Beta 1.17.40.20 : A Bedrock Beta Changelog

KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS BETA

• Bee Nests generate too frequently in the world

EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES

GENERAL

• Added a new mountain biome: Stony Peaks!
  • This is just 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, frequency is similar but exact positions will differ
• Maps now correctly show the colors of blocks below a Y level of zero (MCPE-136638)

LUSH CAVES

• Vines now generate in Lush Caves instead of generating above the surface (MCPE-125800)
• Vines can now grow down below zero height

VILLAGES

• Villages now generate in the style of the biome they are located in (MCPE-136939)

NON-EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES AND BUG FIXES

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

CANDLE CAKE BLOCKS

• Pressing the ‘use’ button on a Candle Cake now consumes the correct amount of cake slices (MCPE-135519)

CHARACTER CREATOR

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using Character Creator
• Tweaked color tint for default Steve skin to match default Steve (MCPE-120818)
• Altered message for when friends change skins (MCPE-92772)

COMMANDS

• Education Edition items are no longer shown as an option when using @e[type=] (MCPE-78363)

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed a bug that caused players to be set on fire upon changing dimensions if there was Lava underneath the Nether Portal (MCPE-28765)
• Players can no longer eat food at full hunger in Survival mode (MCPE-60807)
• Sea Grass no longer spawns under Lily Pads during world generation to avoid breaking them
• Villagers can no longer spam doors open and closed (MCPE-28055)
• Cartographers now more consistently give new maps on all platforms

WORLD GENERATION

• 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)

GRAPHICAL

• Improved world visibility culling for underground situations to eliminate seeing sky at the end of tunnels/stairs

MOBS

• Improved mob pathing around partial blocks (MCPE-127381)
• Armor no longer renders on Pillagers and Vindicators, but 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 spawn underground in the Overworld

POWDER SNOW

• Powder Snow no longer disappears when looking at it from a distance (MCPE-127565)

STRUCTURE BLOCK

• Trapdoors now rotate correctly when loaded from a Structure block (MCPE-66933)

USER INTERFACE

• Fixed an issue where the d-pad and directional keys could not be used to navigate in certain parts of the UI (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 gamerule was added to settings (MCPE-139025)
• Fix keyboard/d-pad navigation from custom server to edit server button
• New achievements screens are available on Windows 10 ARM-based PCs
• The sign in text on the start screen will no longer overlap the Marketplace button
• Add space between tab title and the word ‘Tab’ for text-to-speech on Settings screen
• Added “More Info” button to failed sign-in modal

TECHNICAL UPDATES

DATA DRIVEN ITEMS

• Updated documentation for Block Rotation Component
• Added required toggles to documentation and to content error for block components

COMMANDS

• 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)
• Fix alignment of the sidebar display from the /scoreboard command when text length changes

DATA DRIVEN BLOCKS

• Updated documentation for BlockExplosionResistance

GRAPHICS

• Fixed failure to render leash when attached to a mob outside of viewport (MCPE-63931)
• Added a content error for using a material but not providing the required number of textures to the render controller
• Testing RenderDragon engine across subset of Android devices (ARMv7)