Minecraft 1.19.70.21

In Minecraft 1.19.70.21, developers have focused on bug fixes and crashes. The update does not bring new content to the game, but improves its stability.

Experimental Features

• Piglin and Dragon Head blocks no longer animate in the hotbar or inventory

Changes

• Added the leave Boat button when the player falls from a height within in the boat
  
• Players are now able to place top Slabs in blocks that are only partially blocked by an entity
  
• Players can no longer see through partial blocks when sneaking or riding in third person
  
• Players are now able to interact with functional blocks while sneaking in a gap without the sneak button held

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where Zombified Piglins would spawn in the Nether in light levels above 11
  
• Error messages about building outside the world height limits no longer appear when simply interacting with blocks at the world height limits from certain angles
  
• Minecarts can now eject mobs into liquid blocks

Technical Updates

• Crafting Table component no longer appends "tile." when defaulting to use block name for crafting table label

Technical Updates (experimental)

• In JSON formats 1.19.70 and later, blocks fail to load if the "condition" field in Block Permutations is not a valid Molang string
  
• Added function playAnimation(animationName: string, options?: PlayAnimationOptions) - Plays the specified animation for an entity
  
• Removed function clearItem- To clear the item, call setItem with undefined
  
• Removed function clearLore- To clear lore, call setLore with an empty array or undefined
  
• Added optional searchDistanceparameter to assertEntityPresent(entityTypeIdentifier: string, blockLocation: BlockLocation, searchDistance?: number, isPresent?: boolean)
  
• Added assertEntityInstancePresentInArea(entity: Entity, isPresent?: boolean)to check if an entity instance is present in the test area
  
• Made the searchDistanceparameter optional in assertItemEntityPresent