Bedrock Edition 1.21.50/Development versions

This is a list of Bedrock Edition 1.21.50 development versions.

Preview 1.21.50.20

Beta 1.21.50.20 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 1.21.50.20 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the first beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.21.50, released on October 9, 2024, which adds The Garden Awakens features and fixes bugs.

This version was accidentally released for all Android players, including those not enrolled in the beta program. This was fixed the next day by reuploading Bedrock Edition 1.21.31 for all players, and then reuploading the beta correctly with the version number 1.21.50.22.

Additions

Blocks

Creaking Heart

• A creaking heart is a “living” block generating in pale oak trees, covered on all sides by pale oak wood logs.
  • It can spawn a creaking mob when it is nighttime, and it is placed between two correctly aligned pale oak log blocks.
  • Is active during night and dormant during day.
• Sends a trail of particles towards the connected creaking when the creaking gets hit by the player.
  • Particle speed is affected by the distance of the creaking from the heart block.
• Mining the block is most efficiently done with an axe, but it only drops when using a Silk Touch tool.
  • When creaking heart block is destroyed, the connected creaking is removed.

Pale Hanging Moss

• Pale hanging moss generates naturally in the pale garden biome under the foliage of pale oaks.
  • Pale hanging moss does not grow randomly, but can be bonemealed to grow down.

Pale Moss Block

• Generates naturally in the pale garden biome.
  • Pale moss blocks can be bonemealed to spread to compatible blocks.

Pale Moss Carpet

• Generates naturally in the pale garden biome.
  • When placed, pale moss carpet grows up to two blocks on the solid faces of any block that borders it.
  • Pale moss carpet can be bonemealed to grow to full on all solid faces of any block that borders it.

Pale Oak Leaves

• A new type of leaves.

Pale Oak Log

• A new type of log, as well as a stripped variant.
• Can be used to craft pale oak wood and planks.

Pale Oak Planks

• A new type of plank.
• Can be used to craft pale oak boats, boats with chest, buttons, doors, fences, fence gates, hanging signs, pressure plates, signs, slabs, stairs, and trapdoors.

Pale Oak Sapling

• A new type of sapling.
• Can be placed in flower pots.

Pale Oak Wood

• A new type of wood, as well as a stripped variant.
• Can be used to craft pale oak planks.

Mobs

Creaking

• The creaking spawns at night in the pale garden biome if there is a creaking heart block that has been generated in a pale oak tree.
  • Is not affected by light levels but spawns and despawns based on day/night cycle.
• It will follow and attack players up to 32 blocks away from its creaking heart block.
  • An activated creaking will not move if a player is looking at it.
  • A player wearing a carved pumpkin on their head can look at creaking without it freezing in place.
• Creaking is invulnerable to damage.
  • When hit, a particle trail is shown between the creaking and the creaking heart block it is connected to.
  • When the creaking heart block the creaking is connected to is destroyed, the creaking is removed, with no loot or experience dropped from the mob.
• Creaking cannot enter boats.
• Creaking spawned from a creaking heart can not go through portals.
• The Creaking Spawn Egg will spawn a creaking mob that is not connected to a creaking heart. The creaking mob will persist through day and night, loads and saves, and will take damage from attacks and other damage sources. It has one point of health (half a heart).
  • Creaking summoned from the creaking heart cannot be spawned with a spawn egg, nor can it be summoned with commands. It can only exist as a part of the creaking heart block.

World generation

Pale Garden

• A new biome which contains pale oaks and Pale Moss blocks/carpet.
• It is a variation of the dark forest biome, with pale oak trees instead of dark oak trees.
• Animal mobs do not spawn naturally.
• The grass in the pale garden has a desaturated, grayish look, the sky is a smoky gray, and water is a pale light blue.
  • Any tinted leaves places in the biome also get a desaturated, gray look.

Pale oak

• A new type of tree which can be grown from pale oak saplings in a 2x2 configuration.
  • Generates naturally in the pale garden biome.

Pale moss patch

• Vegetation patch feature consisting of pale moss and other plants found in the pale garden.

General

Sounds

• Ambient sounds in the pale garden biome do not come from the biome settings but are generated by blocks found in the biome.
  • Pale hanging moss emits subtle atmospheric sounds when it is attached to pale oak logs and pale oak leaves.
  • Creaking heart block emits a set of eerie sounds when it is active during night and surrounded by Logs on all sides.

Changes

Blocks

Bamboo

• Pickaxes and shovels no longer mine them as quickly as axes.

Bamboo Saplings

• Swords can now cut them instantly, as they do bamboo.
• Axes no longer mine them faster.

Cobweb

• Maces no longer mine them faster than other non-sword tools.

Copper Trapdoors and Copper Bulbs

• They now require a stone pickaxe or better for drops and quick mining.

Crafters

• They now can be mined quickly with any pickaxe.

Dragon Egg

• If player somehow manage to mine it, which is almost impossible, it no longer requires a pickaxe to drop and is equally quick to mine with any tool.

Heavy Cores

• They are now faster to mine with any improper tool.
• A note block placed above them now plays the proper sound.

Moss Carpets

• Axes no longer mine them faster.

Command format

/set_movement_authority

• Added a new option to toggle between Server Authoritative Movement and Client Authoritative Movement.
  • Use /set_movement_authority server to enable Server Authoritative Movement.
  • Use /set_movement_authority client to enable Client Authoritative Movement.
  • This command is currently preview-only and may not be active in some vanilla world.

/schedule

• Added delay overload to the command, which allows players to queue a function to be executed after a certain amount of time. Time can be specified with no postfix, postfix t to indicate ticks, postfix s to indicate seconds, or with the postfix d to indicate days. Players can also give the argument append to add their request to the queue no matter what, or replace (which is also the default) to replace all current matching requests with the new one.
  • /schedule delay add <function> <delay (ticks)> [append|replace]
  • /schedule delay clear <function>

Gameplay

Messages

• There is now a warning message when the player is prevented from entering an unloaded chunk.

Death

• Players will keep their inventory after dying on Easy and Peaceful difficulties.

General

Tags

• The following block tags are no longer behind the "Upcoming Creator Features" experimental toggle:
  • minecraft:diamond_tier_destructible
  • minecraft:iron_tier_destructible
  • minecraft:is_axe_item_destructible
    • Has been renamed from minecraft:is_hatchet_item_destructible.
  • minecraft:is_hoe_item_destructible
  • minecraft:is_mace_item_destructible
  • minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible
  • minecraft:is_shears_item_destructible
  • minecraft:is_shovel_item_destructible
  • minecraft:is_sword_item_destructible
  • minecraft:netherite_tier_destructible
  • minecraft:stone_tier_destructible
• Removed the following block tags:
  • minecraft:is_digger_item_destructible
  • minecraft:is_tool_item_destructible
  • minecraft:gold_tier_destructible
  • minecraft:wood_tier_destructible

UI

• Migrated JSON UI Trial Mode modal that was shown in Create New World and Edit World to Ore UI.
• Change the order of tabs in the settings screen.
• Added UI controls for enabling/disabling beds working and the percentage of players sleeping needed to pass the night.
• Hid "Create from template", and "Import world" buttons when in trial mode.
• Toggle renderer is now a bindable action under Keyboard and Mouse settings menu.

Items

Mace

• Mace damage now scales with distance fallen when it is used by mobs.

Mobs

Foxes

• They can now pick up bundles.

Technical

Add-Ons and Script Engine

• The [Beta] fields in the minecraft:looked_at and minecraft:home entity components are no longer marked as [Beta] and no longer require use_beta_features to be specified in the root JSON object.

Blocks

• Updated minecraft:destructible_by_mining component, new field item_specific_speeds no longer experimental.

Entity Components

• Added new component minecraft:can_attack_ghast. When added to an entity, it enables that entity to target and attack ghasts.

Entity Event Responses

• Added the play_sound entity event response, which allows the owner entity to emit sounds.
  • The sound field specifies the sound event to play.
  • Sounds are played at the owner entity's position.

General

• Creating a new world from a template that supports random seeds will now clear any stored spawn position from the level data.

Network Protocol

• New actor type added: Creaking (146).
• New level events added: ParticleCreakingHeartTrail, ParticleCreakingTeardown.
• New level sound events added: ImitateCreaking, CreakingHeartTrail, CreakingHeartSpawn, Activate, Deactivate, Freeze, Unfreeze.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", and "Creator Cameras: New Third Person Presets" experimental toggles.

Additions

Command format

/loot

• The mine overload was added to the /loot command under the Upcoming Creator Features experiments.

Technical

Add-Ons and Script Engine

• Added canUseBlockAsIcon bool to the minecraft:block_placer item component network data to fix bug where clients did not render the block item correctly.

API

• Add collectRuntimeStats to @minecraft/debug-utilities module, exposing script runtime memory usage.
• Added new input permissions that effectively allow creators to enable/disable player inputs including: lateral movement, move forward, move backward, move left, move right, sneak, jump, mount, and dismount.
  • Extended PlayerInputPermissions script class to read and write the new input permissions
  • Extended /inputpermission command to use the new input permissions
  • Extended haspermission selector to use the new input permissions
• Added initialRotation optional member to SpawnEntityOptions for specifying the initial rotation of the spawned entity in degrees.

Camera

• Added minecraft:fixed_boom preset to the "Creator Cameras: New Third Person Presets" experimental toggle.

Molang

• Added query.last_input_mode_is_any.
  • It takes one or more arguments (keyboard_and_mouse, touch, gamepad, or motion_controller). If the last input used is any of the specified string values, returns 1.0. Otherwise returns 0.0. Available on the Client (Resource Packs) only.
• Added query.touch_only_affects_hotbar.
  • It returns 1.0 if the touch input only affects the touchbar, otherwise returns 0.0. Available on the Client (Resource Packs) only.

Scripting

• Added enum InputMode.
  • export enum InputMode { Gamepad = 'Gamepad', KeyboardAndMouse = 'KeyboardAndMouse', MotionController = 'MotionController', Touch = 'Touch', Undetermined = 'Undetermined', }
• Added class InputInfo.
  • Field touchOnlyAffectsHotbar. Whether the player touch input only affects the touchbar or not.
  • Field lastInputModeUsed. The last input mode used by the player.
  • Added field inputInfo.
• Added class PlayerInputModeChangeAfterEvent.
  • Field newInputModeUsed, the new input mode used by the player.
  • Field player, the player that had the input mode change.
  • Field previousInputModeUsed, the previous input mode used by the player.
• Added class PlayerInputModeChangeAfterEventSignal.

Changes

Technical

API

• BlockComponentTypes
  • Moved FluidContainer from beta to 1.16.0.
• Moved BlockFluidContainerComponent from beta to 1.16.0.
• Moved FluidContainer from beta to 1.16.0.

Graphical

• End Portals now cast shadows in the Deferred Technical Preview.
• Improved the visibility of reflective surfaces when underground in the Deferred Technical Preview.
• Slightly reduced the intensity of the wrapping effect of sub surface scattering in the Deferred Technical Preview.

Fixes

37 issues fixed

From released versions before Bedrock Edition 1.21.50

• MCPE-32826 – Wither boss heads does not look at the player or mob correctly when he is attacking.
• MCPE-42373 – Vindicators/Evokers attack Pillagers when hit by them.
• MCPE-44454 – Vexes don't take damage after a period of time.
• MCPE-46922 – Respiration enchantment does not increase the time between taking drowning damage.
• MCPE-48265 – Wither boss still can move during the spawn animation.
• MCPE-50057 – Stone bricks cannot be used to craft chiseled stone bricks in the stonecutter.
• MCPE-53775 – Vines, tallgrass and ferns have color overlays applied twice.
• MCPE-64537 – Wither spawning and death animations are broken.
• MCPE-93323 – Swords breaks blocks faster than hand.
• MCPE-120237 – Player world spawn is sometimes underwater.
• MCPE-135605 – Chiseled sandstone and chiseled red sandstone cannot be used to craft sandstone stairs and red sandstone stairs.
• MCPE-135606 – Purpur pillars cannot be used to craft purpur slabs.
• MCPE-162158 – Stone buttons do not drop when broken by hand.
• MCPE-164543 – Can't distribute items across other items.
• MCPE-170791 – Content Log GUI in Education Edition worlds.
• MCPE-173582 – Sponges no longer make a sound when absorbing water.
• MCPE-174345 – Sponge and Wet Sponge blocks don't have new sounds.
• MCPE-179702 – If name of world is "tnt" it displays as "TNT" instead.
• MCPE-180140 – Warden textures are completely black in the Deferred Technical Preview.
• MCPE-181435 – The Enable Experiments Modal in Create New and Edit World Screens is Inaccurate with Hardcore Mode Turned On.
• MCPE-186619 – Bundle UI sounds play from the corner of the block the player is standing on.

Other

• Fixed a bug where duplicate gamepad input hints would be shown in certain scenarios on the death screen when using multiple input methods.
• Joining worlds created from world templates on Realms and dedicated servers no longer prompt the user to download packs for templates they have locally.
• Players can no longer earn achievements or trophies after dying and respawning as a spectator in Hardcore mode.
• Fixed a bug where new invite links on Realm are shown as Expired after being created on Kindle devices.
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur after uploading and joining a Realm.
• Fixed an issue where the game would occasionally hang when loading resources.
• Fixed a bug where players on the manage members screen are not updated when returning from "Find friends".
• Improved feedback to user when Realm uploads fail due to naming.
• The item currently selected inside a Bundle is now correctly displayed as part of the bundle's icon when the Bundle is placed in the inventory or crafting table's crafting grid.
• Fixed a visual glitch which could occur when navigating between the death screen and game menu.
• Fixed a bug where the chat button on the experimental bed screen could be focused when not being visible in certain scenarios (Preview only).
• Fixed a bug where the chat button would be incorrectly shown on the new bed screen when the playerssleepingpercentage game rule was set to above 100 in certain scenarios (Preview only).
• Fixed issue that caused the export as template functionality to generate invalid mctemplate UUIDs.
• Fixed soft-lock UI bug when an expired Realm was deleted.
• Fixed TextureSets for multi-textured mobs, such as llamas in the Deferred Technical Preview.
• Fixed the orientation of normal maps for mobs on Android in the Deferred Technical Preview.

Preview 1.21.50.24

Beta 1.21.50.24 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 1.21.50.24 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the third beta and second Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.21.50, released on October 17, 2024, which fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

All Copper Doors, Iron Door, Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate, Light Weighted Pressure Plate, Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate, and Stone Pressure Plate

• The blocks that require support now always drop when broken with any tool.

Block of Amethyst

• Adjusted volume & pitch for break, hit, place, fall, step & land sounds for it.

Budding Amethyst

• Is now slower to mine with an improper tool.

Creaking Heart

• Creaking heart with a spawned creaking and partial pale oak support now deactivates if the creaking is despawned via commands.
• Creaking heart data is no longer retained when ctrl-picking the block in Creative mode.
• Creaking heart is now immovable by pistons.
• Creaking heart can no longer be used as fuel.
• Creaking heart spawning and despawning its creaking now emits vibrations from the creaking’s position.

Flowers and Mushrooms

• They no longer generate in the Pale Garden biome.

Pale Oak Saplings

• They are now grown into pale oaks with hanging pale moss on them, but no pale moss patch at their base.

Items

Heavy Cores

• Updated item's texture.

Pale Oak Boat with Chest

• The texture of the item has been adjusted for consistency with other boats with chest.

Mobs

Zombified Piglins

• Zombified piglins spawned by nether portals now have a 15-second cooldown before they can use the portal again.

General

Realms

• Added a loading modal when changing active Realms slots to prevent a glitch where multiple Realms slot settings screen are pushed to the stack because of player's button mashing the edit world button.
• Added a new Realm Event related to mobs.

UI

• Removed the "New Bed Screen" toggle from video settings. (Preview only)
• Added missing quickswap animations in GUI for several blocks.

World generation

Pale moss patches

• Tweaked the size and placement of pale moss patches:
  • Pale moss patches are now larger when naturally generated.
  • Pale moss patches now have a chance to naturally generate without being adjacent to a pale oak.
  • Pale moss patches now have less tall grass growing on them.

Pale oak

• Increased pale oak density to match Java Edition.

Technical

API

• Added beforeEvents object to @minecraft/server-net module version 1.0.0-beta which exposes two events:
  • packetReceive: This event is called when the game server receives a network packet from a client. If cancelled, the server will silently ignore the packet.
  • packetSend: This event is called when the game server sends a network packet to client(s). If cancelled, the packet is dropped and never sent to the recipients.

Blocks

• Added new field ambient_occlusion_exponent to blocks.json file schema in resource packs, replaces broken brightness_gamma field.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs" experimental toggle.

Additions

Technical

API

• Added new method lookAt to Entity which sets the rotation of the entity to face the desired target location.

Changes

Technical

Scripting

• Enum InputMode.
  • Removed Undetermined entry.
• Class InputInfo.
  • Throws EngineError instead of Error in case of internal error.

Fixes

20 issues fixed

From released versions before Bedrock Edition 1.21.50

• MCPE-33950 – Dispensers, droppers, brewing stands, furnaces, blast furnaces, enchantment tables, hoppers, smokers, stonecutters, cauldrons will drop if you break them using your hands.
• MCPE-145524 – Haptic feedback not working on block destroy [on iOS and iPadOS].
• MCPE-166005 – Thai language fonts are broken - only partially render.
• MCPE-174191 – Blocks with texture variations will ignore PBR texture sets when using deferred lighting.
• MCPE-176374 – Crafter breaking times are different on Bedrock.
• MCPE-185964 – Touch control buttons get scrambled when switching to multi-windowed/split-screen mode and back.
• MCPE-186341 – Paper doll overlaps with the armor bar in Pocket UI.

From the previous development version

• MCPE-187289 – Pale oak sign item and block texture is not consistent with previous signs.
• MCPE-187291 – Pale Garden fog is blue.
• MCPE-187294 – Stripped Pale Oak Log texture is inconsistent with Java.
• MCPE-187298 – Untethered creaking mob when switching creaking heart using pistons.
• MCPE-187304 – Pale oak sign edit UI has a gap in the left top corner.
• MCPE-187305 – Parity issue: the creaking heart can be pushed by pistons on bedrock.
• MCPE-187335 – Pale oak trees grown by player don’t generate pale moss or vines.
• MCPE-187389 – Pale Garden tree density is much lower on Bedrock than Java.

Other

• Pale moss carpet no longer floats in the player’s hand while in 3rd-person view.
• The /kill command or any damage greater or equal to the target's current life will now kill it in base game versions below 1.18.20.
• Fixed issue where game mode and difficulty were not being preserved after uploading or replacing world in Realms Slot.
• Bundles that are moved under a player's cursor now correctly update their tooltip.
• Fixed a spelling error in an advanced tip for worlds with resource packs.

Preview 1.21.50.25

Beta 1.21.50.25 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 1.21.50.25 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the fourth beta and third Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.21.50, released on October 23, 2024, which adds the resin family of blocks, a new flower and fixes bugs.

Additions

Blocks

Resin block family

• Resin clumps are a new multi-face block:
  • Dropped by the creaking heart when it is destroyed.
  • Placed around the creaking heart when its creaking is attacked.
  • Can be crafted into a block of resin.
  • Can be hardened into resin brick items in a furnace.
  • Can be used to trim armor.
• Resin bricks can be crafted into the resin brick set:
  • Resin brick block
  • Resin brick stairs
  • Resin brick wall
  • Resin brick slab
  • Chiseled resin bricks
• Both can be found in chests in the woodland mansion.
• Blocks of resin can be crafted into a creaking heart using two pale oak logs.

Eyeblossom

• Eyeblossoms are new flowers that generate in the pale garden biome.
  • They exist in two variants: closed and open.
  • Eyeblossoms transition between the two variants based on the time of day.
    • During the night, eyeblossoms will become open.
    • During the day, they will become closed.
  • In dimensions that do not have a day/night cycle, they will remain as-is.
  • Eyeblossoms planted on the ground will communicate with each other, helping each other to open or close.
  • Open eyeblossoms have glowing eyes during the night.
  • Eyeblossoms can be obtained by bonemealing the grass in the pale garden biome or bonemealing an existing eyeblossom.
  • Bees get poisoned when they interact with eyeblossoms.
  • Suspicious stew made from eyeblossom will have blindness or nausea effect depending on the variant.
  • Gray or orange dye can be crafted from closed and open eyeblossoms respectively.

Changes

Blocks

Creaking Heart

• Naturally generated creaking Hearts now drop 20 to 24 experience, even when collected with silk touch.
• Increased frequency of the creaking heart ambience sound.

Kelp

• Removed the unintended darker tinting of kelp.

Pale Oak Sign and Pale Oak Hanging Sign

• The textures of the pale oak sign and pale oak hanging sign items have been adjusted for consistency with other signs.

Slate

• Have accidentally been added to the creative inventory.

Mobs

Creaking

• Increased the speed of aggravated creakings.
• Creakings now deal more attack damage 3HP.
• When a creaking heart is destroyed, its creaking will now twitch for a few seconds before crumbling.
• Creakings spawned by a creaking heart will crumble when stuck in a hole with a player for more than 5 seconds.
  • This prevents a potential soft lock, as the invulnerable creaking would prevent the player from mining or placing any blocks, requiring them to exit and re-enter the world to force the creaking to despawn.
• A Creaking crumbling now causes nearby sculk catalysts to bloom.
  • However, no sculk will be placed since the creaking does not drop any XP.
• The creaking's walking animation has been updated.
• The creaking's attack animation has been updated.
• A creaking spawned by a creaking heart no longer avoids damaging blocks.
• A creaking spawned by command or spawn egg is no longer invulnerable to fire and lava.
• A creaking spawned by command or spawn egg now avoids damaging blocks.

General

UI

• Second passenger in a boat or camel will now also have the warning message when hitting unloaded chunk.
• Removed opt-out option from Realms Stories settings, now that it is in the timeline tab instead.
• The size of shield items no longer changes when the item is moved between slots.
• Bundles that are moved under a player's cursor now correctly update their tooltip.
• It is now possible to collect crafting output with a bundle to add the crafted items to the bundle.
• Remove "X" closing button from the command block UI when player is using gamepad.
• A popup now appears showing the item's name when it is selected in a bundle's tooltip on touch screen devices.

World generation

Pale Garden

• Further adjusted the color of the pale garden sky at the horizon to more closely match Java Edition.
• Increased frequency of the pale hanging moss ambience sound.
• Pale hanging moss no longer generates on pale oak trees grown from pale oak saplings.

Trial Chambers

• Changed contents of chest in end_2 to reference a loot table.

Technical

API

• Added additional optional arguments of name and parentThemeId to addNewTheme(). When a valid parentThemeId has been passed through the function, the newly created theme would inherit all the theme color properties from the parent.

Entity Components

• Removed the minecraft:can_attack_ghast component and replaced it with a new component minecraft:cannot_be_attacked. When added to an entity it prevents other entities from attacking it unless they fulfill an exception filter, in vanilla it is added to ghasts, creators can add their entities to the exception filter allowing them to then attack ghasts.

Entity Event Responses

• The execute_event_on_home_block entity event response is now marked as [Beta] and requires use_beta_features to be specified in the root JSON object.
• Added the emit_particle entity event response, allowing particles to be emitted at the center of the entity's bounding box.
  • The particle field allows to specify the type of particle to emit.

Network Protocol

• Level event removed: ParticleCreakingTeardown.
• New particle type added: CreakingCrumble.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", and "Aim Assist" experimental toggles.

Additions

Technical

Camera

• Added experimental toggle "Aim Assist" to allow easy targeting while using custom camera perspectives.
  • Aim assist currently targets blocks. Entities will be enabled in a future release.
• Aim assist can be enabled through /aimassist command.
  • Aim assist's targeting behavior (distance, width, and height) can be configured through the settings under aim_assist folder using a behavior pack.
  • Aim assist will highlight the selected target. The highlighting textures are customizable through textures under textures\ui folder using a resource pack.

API

• Added shutdown event to beforeEvents within the system class. This is fired after all players have left and the world is about to shutdown/close.
• Input APIs
  • Added a suite of input APIs that are readable even if the player's input is disabled with input permissions
  • Added getMovementVector(): Vector2 to InputInfo to read raw movement values
  • Added enum InputButton with values Jump and Sneak
  • Added enum ButtonState with values Pressed and Released
  • Added getButtonState(button: InputButton): ButtonState to InputInfo to read raw player button inputs
  • Added world.afterEvents.playerButtonInput event to listen to button change events

Creator Options

• Added section "Device Info Settings".
  • Added option to allow override memory tier used in Scripting and Molang.

Fixes

26 issues fixed

From released versions before Bedrock Edition 1.21.50

• MCPE-62132 – Grass blocks under hoppers turn into dirt blocks.
• MCPE-120237 – Player world spawn is sometimes underwater.
• MCPE-169713 – The kelp has a dark color.
• MCPE-180023 – Parity: Breeze idle sounds do not play correctly.
• MCPE-182930 – Shulker boxes do not have their color in their name.
• MCPE-183512 – Wind charges that are on fire don't ignite TNT and TNT minecarts.
• MCPE-184404 – Player can interact with the world while customizing controls.
• MCPE-185236 – Pressing fly up and fly down in quick succession causes player to stop flying in the D-Pad control scheme.
• MCPE-185237 – Player can't stop flying by double tapping fly up in the joystick control schemes.
• MCPE-186928 – Chunks in all dimensions have their biome replaced with an Ocean biome upon reloading in updated older worlds created prior to <1.17.40.
• MCPE-186979 – Tools in your hotbar once again do the popup animation when durability decreases.
• MCPE-187287 – Wet sponge blocks have no sound.

From the previous development version

• MCPE-187306 – Pale oak sign UI is inconsistent with pale oak sign entity.
• MCPE-187309 – Creaking attack speed doesn't match Java Edition.
• MCPE-187322 – Trees cannot grow on pale moss blocks.
• MCPE-187327 – Pale hanging moss uses vine sounds instead of moss sounds.
• MCPE-187395 – Creaking Heart has inconsistent and miscolored pixels.
• MCPE-187457 – Pale oak saplings cannot be composted.
• MCPE-187519 – Pale Garden fog is still not in parity with Java Edition.

Other

• Grass and nylium no longer decay to dirt and netherrack when below slime, honey, hopper, or chemical heat (Education Edition block).
• Grass and nylium now decay to dirt and netherrack when below observer.
• The camera now rotates the correct way around the X and Y axes when using the /camera command
• Using an empty bundle now causes an animation to play in both first and third person.
• Fixed a bug where blocks could be duplicated on chunk boundaries in the End.
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to create a new world on an active Realm.
• Fixed an issue that caused IP addresses with bad input to not be properly validated before joining an external server in the New Servers Tab (Preview only).

Preview 1.21.50.26

Beta 1.21.50.26 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 1.21.50.26 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the fifth beta and fourth Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.21.50, released on October 30, 2024, which fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

Creaking Heart

• Reduced the distance by which the creaking heart can spread resin clumps by one block.
• Resin clumps can now only spread onto pale oak log, stripped pale oak log, pale oak wood, and stripped pale oak wood.

Eyeblossoms

• Eyeblossoms now play sounds when opening and closing.
• Open eyeblossoms now emit ambient sounds when placed on a pale moss block.
• Eyeblossoms placed in world and in flower pots now emit a particle when opening/closing.
• Open and closed eyeblossoms can now be used on mooshrooms to obtain their respective suspicious stews when milking.

Glow Lichen

• Glow lichen now play their step sound when on top of a block an actor is walking on.

Jigsaw

• Dimension padding is now taken into account when placing the start piece of a jigsaw structure.

Pale Moss, Pale Moss Carpet, and Pale Hanging Moss

• They now burn more quickly but take longer to catch on fire.
• They can now be ignited by lava.

Pale Oak Leaves

• They now emit falling leaf particles.

Resin Bricks

• Recipes for resin brick slabs, stairs, and walls now give the same amount of blocks as the nether brick ones.

Resin Clump

• Mobs now correctly pathfind over resin clumps.
• Resin clumps now play their step sound when on top of a block an actor is walking on.

Slime Block

• Sneaking while landing on a slime block no longer causes fall damage.

Trial Spawner

• Some trial spawners did not have an extra breeze out at once when ominous.

Vine, Cave Vines, Twisting Vines, and Weeping Vines

• They now play their correct sounds instead of the nether wart sound.

General

UI

• Enables selecting disabled buttons on the "join friends" menu while crossplay is turned off.
• Dualsense gamepads now have correct tooltip icons on mobile devices.
• Added an option to enable a "pick block" button for touch controls in Creative mode.

Title screen

• The panorama was changed to showcase pale gardens.

Sounds

Pale Garden

• Music volume now gradually lowers to zero when entering a Pale Garden and gradually resumes when leaving it.

Mobs

Creaking

• The volume and pitch of the creaking's step sounds have been adjusted.
• The attenuation drop-off rate for some of the creaking's sounds is now linear, allowing them to be heard from greater distances.
• Reduced the speed of non-hostile creakings.
• Tamed wolves' attacks no longer prevent creakings from attacking the player.
• Creakings can no longer move when only their feet are observed, and their feet are in soul sand or mud.
• Creakings can now approach a player which is looking downward, stopping only once they enter the player's field of view.
• The creaking now sways when hit by a projectile.
• The creaking's attack animation has been smoothed out for a more natural motion.

Wandering Trader

• Can now sell pale oak saplings, open eyeblossoms, pale moss blocks, and pale hanging moss.

World generation

Tall Grass

• Tall grass generates properly with its top part in the pale garden biome.
• Tall grass generates properly with its top part in the lush caves biome.

Trees

• All trees can now grow through leaves, with the exception of cherry trees, which cannot grow through their own leaves.
• All trees can grow on dirt-like blocks

Technical

API

• Vanilla trial spawner NBT normalConfig and ominousConfig tags values now support references to common configurations as an alternative to inline configuration.

Audio

• Per-biome ambient sounds are now defined in client_biome JSON components
  • This uses the new minecraft:ambient_sounds component
  • Named sounds must be defined in individual_named_sounds in sounds.json files.

Biomes

• Client biome JSON files now support a minecraft:biome_music component with a volume_multiplier field which will gradually affect music volume when the audio listener is inside the corresponding biome.
  • The gradual volume change will take roughly ten seconds and will linearly increase but exponentially decrease.

Blocks

• Added the minecraft:liquid_detection component which controls the basic liquid detection properties of a block, such as liquidlogging, liquid blocking, and being broken or popped by liquid spread. The only liquid currently supported by the component is water.
• Using the minecraft:block_placer item component to render the referenced block as the item icon no longer requires the "Upcoming Creator Features" toggle.

Entity Components

• The minecraft:looked_at component's look_at_locations field now accepts a list of objects as a parameter, each containing two fields
  • location, the location of the entity that must be visible
    • Valid values: head, body, feet
  • vertical_offset, an optional vertical offset applied to the entity's location

Molang

• Moved query.client_memory_tier to stable.
  • Removed Undetermined. It returns a number representing the client RAM memory tier, 0 = SuperLow, 1 = Low, 2 = Mid, 3 = High, or 4 = SuperHigh. Available on the Client (Resource Packs) only.
• Moved query.server_memory_tier to stable.
  • Removed Undetermined. It returns a number representing the server RAM memory tier, 0 = SuperLow, 1 = Low, 2 = Mid, 3 = High, or 4 = SuperHigh. Available on the server side (Behavior Packs) only.
• Moved query.client_max_render_distance to stable.

Network Protocol

• New level sound events added: Open, OpenLong, Close, and CloseLong
• New Particle Type added: EyeblossomOpen
• New Particle Type added: EyeblossomClose
• New particle type added: PaleOakLeaves

Scripting API

• Moved ClientSystemInfo from beta to 1.16.0.
• Moved MemoryTier from beta to 1.16.0.
• Moved PlatformType from beta to 1.16.0.
• Moved SystemInfo from beta to 1.16.0.
• Enum MemoryTier.
  • Removed Undetermined entry.

Stability and Performance

• Some stats for packs discovered on launch are stored locally to enable faster future launches on some platforms.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", "Data-Driven Jigsaw Structures", and "Aim Assist" experimental toggles.

Additions

Command format

/place

• Added /place.

Technical

Blocks

• Added minecraft:item_visual block component. This component takes nested minecraft:geometry and minecraft:material_instances components to configure the item representation of a block
  • geometry and material_instances fields are required. They utilize the same fields/requirements as minecraft:geometry and minecraft:material_instances respectively
  • Block must include minecraft:geometry and minecraft:material_instances components alongside the minecraft:item_visual component
  • Requires the "Upcoming Creator Features" toggle
• Cobwebs now obey blockshape and textures properties set in blocks.json
  • Requires the "Upcoming Creator Features" toggle

API

• Added access to the composting chance for existing Vanilla items via the ItemStack API
• Added access to the composting chance for items with CompostableItemComponent via the Item Component API

Camera

• Added the rotation to the camera command for the fixed_boom camera

Component

• Added the minecraft:compostable item component to Upcoming Creator Features experimental toggle

Scripting

• Added support for input glyph replacement for server forms (ActionFormData, MessageFormData, and ModalFormData).

Structures

• Expose "Data-Driven Jigsaw Structures" experiment toggle to Creators
  • Creators will be able to modify structure generation rules around placement (location and frequency), layout (how structure pieces are placed relative to one another), and customization (how blocks within a structure piece are modified or replaced).
  • There are 4 new JSON files comprising Jigsaw Structure data:
    • Jigsaw Structures: These are structures that can be constructed throughout the world with various structure pieces. The connection block is a jigsaw block.
    • Processors: A processor can add custom behaviors to the structure that affects how it looks.
    • Structure Sets: Structure sets are JSON that indicate where and how a structure is placed throughout the world.
    • Template Pools: A template pool contains the structure pieces that make up a structure.

Fixes

20 issues fixed

From released versions before Bedrock Edition 1.21.50

• MCPE-71859 – Blackstone cannot be used to repair stone tools and weapons in an anvil
• MCPE-90625 – Sky color transitions abruptly between biomes
• MCPE-112420 – Blocks sometimes disappear when placed
• MCPE-171001 – rawtext %%%%1 cannot be escaped correctly
• MCPE-178520 – Crash with crafting recipe mod
• MCPE-180725 – Cherry Leaves count as custom blocks
• MCPE-184404 – Player can interact with the world while customizing controls
• MCPE-185354 – Jumping when falling onto a slime block no longer cancels the bounce effect

From the previous development version

• MCPE-186963 – Wrong effect seconds is displayed when using /effect
• MCPE-187301 – Pale oak leaves stop any sapling but pale oak saplings from growing up
• MCPE-187302 – Some tree leaves stop pale oak saplings from growing up
• MCPE-187326 – Pale garden ambient sounds are too quiet and rare
• MCPE-187397 – Pale hanging moss model does not match cave vines model
• MCPE-187456 – Wandering traders don't sell pale oak saplings
• MCPE-187514 – Mangrove swamps spawn many incorrect animals

Other

• Resin clump and resin brick items no longer float in the player's hand in 3rd person view.
• Fixed bug where loading screens while loading a realm were not showing Realms UI elements.
• Improved game loading stability.
• Fixed spacing on Realms Stories and Timeline pages.
• Fixed a bug where the death screen and new bed screen would sometimes have incorrect textures applied when resource packs were used.

Preview 1.21.50.28

Beta 1.21.50.28 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 1.21.50.28 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the sixth beta and fifth Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.21.50, released on November 7, 2024, which fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

Creaking Heart

• Adjusted the frequency of ambient sounds emitted by creaking hearts to better align with Java Edition.
• Creaking Heart breaking and placing sounds are now quieter.

Eyeblossom

• Closed eyeblossoms no longer poison bees.
• The poison effect from open eyeblossoms now also damages bees while they are within the block, rather than only upon exiting.
• Reduced the duration of the poison effect applied by open eyeblossoms.
• Adjusted the frequency of ambient sounds emitted by eyeblossoms to better align with Java Edition.

Pale Hanging Moss

• Adjusted the frequency of ambient sounds emitted by pale hanging moss to better align with Java Edition.

Resin

• Added more breaking sounds for resin.

Slate

• Removed from the creative inventory.

Mobs

Bees

• Bees can no longer be tempted or pollinate within closed eyeblossoms.
• Feeding bees open eyeblossoms now applies the poison effect.

Creaking

• Creaking now plays 4 different sway sounds.
• Creaking now plays new attack sounds.

Items

Resin Brick

• Resin Bricks are now used to apply the resin armor trim instead of resin clumps.

Suspicious Stew

• The effect durations of Suspicious Stew have been adjusted to be the same across versions.

General

UI

• Items in a bundle tooltip now have a gray background.
• Screenshots: Added the ability to Feature and Showcase screenshots for others to see when they visit player's Profile. Added ability to set custom world thumbnail from screenshots.

World generation

Features

• The following feature types are now unable to place internal-only features:
  • minecraft:aggregate_feature
  • minecraft:snap_to_surface_feature
  • minecraft:surface_relative_threshold_feature
  • minecraft:weighted_random_feature

Technical

Entity Components

• Added the minecraft:ignore_cannot_be_attacked component and moved the filter from minecraft:cannot_be_attacked to it. This allows content to have custom mobs which bypass the cannot_be_attacked component (for example the one on the ghast) without requiring a modification of the attacked mob's settings.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", and "Focus Target" experimental toggles.

Additions

Technical

API

• CameraFixedBoomOptions
  • Added property entityOffset?: Vector3.
• Added new CameraTargetOptions parameter inside setCamera for beta. This can be used to modify the minecraft:free preset if the Focus Target experimental camera toggle is enabled.

Cameras

• Added content error when trying to target an entity when not on a free camera.

UI

• Added support for input glyph replacement for signed books. For example, using input string :_input_key.jump: will be replaced with "JUMP" when using keyboard, or an emoji in case of using a gamepad.

Changes

Technical

API

• Moved BlockFillOptions from beta to v1.16.0.
• Moved UnloadedChunksError from beta to v1.16.0.
• Dimension
  • Moved containsBlock(volume: BlockVolumeBase, filter: BlockFilter, allowUnloadedChunks?: boolean): boolean from beta to v1.16.0.
  • Moved getBlocks(volume: BlockVolumeBase, filter: BlockFilter, allowUnloadedChunks?: boolean): ListBlockVolume from beta to v1.16.0.
  • Moved fillBlocks(volume: BlockVolumeBase, block: BlockPermutation BlockType string, options?: BlockFillOptions): ListBlockVolume; from beta to v1.16.0.
• ItemUseOnBeforeEvent
  • Move property readonly isFirstEvent: boolean from beta to v1.16.0.
• ItemUseOnAfterEvent
  • Move property readonly isFirstEvent: boolean from beta to v1.16.0.

Block Components

• Modified ambient_occlusion field for minecraft:material_instances component to be a float value, requires Upcoming Creator Features experiment.

Cameras

• Tracking a target using the free camera preset: optional tracking_radius float value for setting a listening radius for a target entity

Fixes

35 issues fixed

From released versions before Bedrock Edition 1.21.50

• MCPE-68327 – Other zombified piglins aggro when you one-hit kill one of them
• MCPE-131325 – Rain/snow sometimes does not visually match the actual weather
• MCPE-156469 – Opaque mangrove leaves have an inconsistent texture
• MCPE-169375 – Ravager doesn't destroy plants added since 1.19
• MCPE-170516 – Mangrove leaves don't use separate opaque textures
• MCPE-176933 – Some of the newer blocks' sounds are much louder than other blocks
• MCPE-178719 – Copper grates have glitched rendering with fluids underneath them.
• MCPE-184406 – Player's camera can get stuck when leaving a boat after interacting with an interface
• MCPE-185960 – Trial spawners that have had spawn eggs used on them revert to their initial state after their cooldown expires

From the previous development version

• MCPE-187373 – The Pale Moss Carpet Decoration Vines don't have proper ambient occlusion and face dimming
• MCPE-187539 – Pale Garden weather fog color is incorrect
• MCPE-187566 – Pale moss carpet with vines Z-fights upon being mined
• MCPE-187696 – Slate appears in Creative Inventory with Education toggle off
• MCPE-187697 – Resin drops from creaking hearts are not seemingly affected by Fortune
• MCPE-187713 – Jumping on resin blocks sounds like stone
• MCPE-187759 – Eyeblossoms do not change their state when snowlogged
• MCPE-187802 – Suspicious stew gives different durations of Blindness for Eyeblossom and Azure Bluet
• MCPE-187806 – The textures for Resin, Nether, Red, and Clay Bricks are misaligned.
• MCPE-188088 – Creaking Heart uses stone jump and land sounds

Other

• The orientation of the pale oak leaves texture is no longer randomized for each block.
• Decorated pots no longer activate observers on world load.
• Sculk sensors now detect Eyeblossoms opening and closing.
• Fixed all skull block variants being turned into skeleton_skull when opening a world-template version locked below 1.21.40 or structures. Note, this fix will not apply to already overwritten chunks.
• The creaking will no longer sometimes phase through blocks if you are looking at it far away.
• Magma cube model part UVs no longer overlap each other.
• Fixed crash on several platforms when navigating back to Realms Stories after inviting a player on the manage members screen.
• Fall & step sound events for sponge, wet sponge, creaking heart, resin brick and resin blocks changed to "player".
• Bundle tooltip correctly appears after being placed from the cursor.
• Gamepad tooltips are now correct when hovering the crafting output in inventory screen and crafting table Screen with a bundle on the cursor.
• Managing to kill a wolf, bee, or silverfish in one hit no longer angers nearby mobs of the same type.
• Head blocks can now be placed on the side of blocks even if they lack a supporting block below them.
• The game no longer crashes if a mob attacks with an item that breaks during the attack.
• Fixed a bug where vanilla items with the minecraft:block_placer component had the wrong icon on split-screen clients.
• Fixed an API script processing error that could result in an infinite loop.
• Fixed bug where Dimension.fillBlocks would set blocks outside of the ticking area when ignoreChunkBoundErrors was set to true.

Preview 1.21.50.29

Beta 1.21.50.29 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 1.21.50.29 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the seventh and final beta version and sixth Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.21.50, released on November 13, 2024, which fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

Chiseled Resin Bricks

• Addressed a single-pixel inconsistency between the textures of chiseled resin bricks and standard resin bricks.

Creaking Heart

• Increased the base amount of time it takes to destroy a creaking heart with no tool to 15 seconds.

General

UI

• Using the scroll wheel when hovering a bundle placed in hotbar with creative inventory search tab active now selects an item in the bundle.

Fixes

3 issues fixed

From the previous development version

• MCPE-188200 – Nether Bricks & Red Nether Bricks remain not aligned to Bricks blocks

Other

• Resolves an Android (Adreno only) specific stall that can occur at high frame rates.
• Fixed glow lichen playing the grass sound when stepped on instead of the vine sound like Java.

Preview 1.21.50.30

Preview 1.21.50.30 (PlayStation) is the seventh and final Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.21.50, released on November 19, 2024 for PlayStation 4 only, which fixes performance issues.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that was causing a performance drop on PlayStation 4.