Minecraft Release 1.9.0 - what's new?

The new version Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.9 brings to the game a number of interesting new innovations for Android, iOS, Windows 10, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Let's take a look at what's new in the update!

New features:

• Added new flowers: lily of the valley and cornflower
  
• Added new types of plates
  
• Added new types of stairs, slabs and walls
  
• Added the 'showDeathMessages' option for the /gamerule command, which allows you to enable and disable the output of messages about the death of players
  
• Added the Immediate Respawn option for /gamerule
  
• New feedback button on the pause screen

Changes:

• Added a few new hints on the loading screen and other little things suggested by the community!
  
• Added several new splashes to the main menu of the game
  
• Added the ability to delete expired Realms from the list of worlds
  
• Lava can now be poured into the boiler
  
• The tension sensor can now simply be broken without activation if you use scissors
  
• Added the output of notifications about the death of tamed animals
  
• The learning button is now available from the settings menu in the game

Experimental Gameplay:

• Minecraft Scripting Engine
  • Uses JS
    
  • Scripts are stored in a set of behaviors and are used to listen and respond to game events, receive and modify data in components that have entities and affect other different parts of the game.
    
  • Go to aka.ms/minecraftaddons for more information
    
  • Only available for Windows 10
• Looters
  
• Bamboo is now generated in the jungle
  
• Lamps
  
• New blocks (functionality for them will be later):
  • Cartographer's desk
    
  • Archer's Table
    
  • Whetstone
    
  • The Bell
    
  • Barrel
    
  • Blacksmith's Table
    
  • Smokehouse
    
  • Melting furnace
• Crossbow with new enchants:
  • Multishot
    
  • Quick Charge
    
  • Piercing

For map and addon developers:

• Updated templates for 1.9, which can be downloaded on the page minecraft.net/en-us/creator
  
• Added Tags - Custom tags can be applied to entities and players
  
• Added the has_tag filter to the components that checks the specified tag for this creature
  
• Autofill in chat can be used for tags
  
• The number of commands executed through functions can now be limited by the new functioncommandlimit' rule (10k by default) to limit performance issues.
  
• Functions can now be run every tick, creating an update cycle
  
• Added the lock_template_options option in the manifest for any world template, which allows you to prohibit the player from changing the world settings
  
• Implemented support for JSON format in commands, on plates, titles and books
  
• Added the Translate parameter for JSON format, which makes it much easier to translate maps now

Fixed various game bugs.

You can download the new version on the [DOWNLOAD MINECRAFT RELEASE 1.9].