Minecraft 1.21.60.24

The developers have released a new version of Minecraft Beta and Preview 1.21.60.24. The update aims to fix some bugs and make changes to improve world generation and other features. More details below and on the developers' website.

Changes

• The Monster Hunter achievement can now be unlocked by destroying a Creaking Heart while it has a spawned Creaking.
• Resin Bricks are no longer found in Woodland Mansion chests.
• The XP rewarded for smelting Resin Clump into Resin Bricks has been reduced from 0.3 to 0.1.
• [PlayStation®5] 'Enable Screen Reader' accessibility setting is now used to initialize Text-to-Speech during first launch.
• Changed wording for enabling/disabling player's sleep skipping the night to "Skip night by sleeping" from "Beds work".
• Add additional debug info regarding Realms features in the general settings screen.
• Updated the text on the new bed screen when sleeping to skip the night is disabled.
• Shears can now be used on Cave Vines, Kelp, Twisting Vines, and Weeping Vines while sneaking.
• Using Shears on Cave Vines, Kelp, Twisting Vines, and Weeping Vines now plays the arm swing animation.
• Creaking Hearts now generate more often in naturally generated Pale Oaks.
• Canyons now generate more often.

Fixes

• Players on Switch should remain signed into their Microsoft Account after putting Minecraft app to sleep and resuming it.
• The second passenger of a boat will no longer have large camera twitches when rotating toward the west direction.
• Open Bundle textures updated such that there is no longer a missing string pixel.
• Creakings spawned from Creaking Hearts now always persist upon reloading the world.
• Creaking's eyes now properly flicker when the Creaking Heart which spawned it is destroyed.
• Tall Grass Blocks that are placed when using Bone Meal on Moss Blocks or Pale Moss Blocks no longer render only their bottom half.
• On Play Screen Friends Tab hide a Joinable Friends world if it is a realm world and not a Joianable Realm.
• Fixed, player permissions no longer reverts to the previous state after leaving the Manage Realm tab.
• Fixed issue where game mode appears as Unknown on the Realms Tab even if the realm has a world with a valid game mode.
• Some Savanna Villages no longer have a hole where a Dirt Path block should be.
• Fixed a bug where the game could soft lock in certain scenarios when it was suspended right before the player dying.
• Sniffer Egg block now only provides provides center support on top and bottom faces.
• Water and Lava no longer remains in the world when placing a Water or Lava Bucket against a Cave Vine with Glow Berries.
• Collecting Glow Berries when holding Shears no longer picks the berries and shears at the same time.
• Sniffer Egg block no longer provides side support to any block.
• Canyons can once again reach the surface.
• Canyons can once again generate on the ocean floor.
• Canyons now completely carve through Copper Ore veins and most other underground blocks.
• Canyons now properly interact with aquifers, filling with water instead of generating as disconnected segments.