Minecraft Beta 1.16.100.57 - What's New?

Minecraft Bedrock (PE) Beta testing continues with the release of build 1.16.100.57, which fixes bugs and brings several changes!

Performance and Stability:

• Fixed some bugs that caused the game to crash.
• Fixed a bug where the game could crash if it was paused on one of the new achievement screens.
• Optimized code to improve chunk loading performance.

Beta Changes:

• The Nether portal no longer breaks in a ripple pattern.
• Mob spawn eggs can now be used on underwater monster spawners.

Performance and Stability:

• Fixed a bug where worlds disappeared from the world list during a crash on world launch.
• The "Beaconator" achievement can now be unlocked.
• Fixed a bug where the "Archer" achievement would not unlock after meeting the criteria.
• End city chests with loot now generate correctly.
• Basalt pillars now appear again in Soul Sand Valleys.
• Fixed the hitbox while swimming.

Mobs:

• Mob spawning range now depends on simulation range.
• Villagers from older versions now properly level up when trading.
• Improved villager performance when harvesting or planting crops.
• Fixed a bug where farmer villagers could not harvest crops.
• Player-controlled striders now jump onto magma blocks and partial blocks in front of them when players control them with a warped fungus on a stick.
• Overworld animals on a lead no longer break free when the player returns from the Nether.
• Striders now correctly execute the move_to_liquid goal.
• Baby animals can now be tamed before they grow up.
• Bees can now only exit beehives and bee nests through air blocks.

Blocks:

• Beehives and bee nests now show the correct front texture.
• Crimson and warped stems/hyphae are now sorted into the correct groups in the creative inventory.

Items:

• Item names now display correctly.
• The "Skull" banner pattern can again be found in the creative inventory.
• Banner pattern can now be crafted in a 2x2 crafting grid.
• Crafted items now display correctly.
• Written books are no longer available in the creative inventory.
• Fixed a bug where item damage count was not set until the world was reloaded.
• The player can now see item durability immediately after crafting.
• Fixed a bug where an empty item was not returned to inventory after using food like soup or stew.
• Fixed a bug where a stack of dropped items could become invisible after merging with another stack.
• Fixed a bug where iron, gold, and diamond horse armor appeared white.
• Mob heads and bee spawn eggs now display correctly in the inventory.
• Netherite armor no longer loses durability from the player standing on a magma block.

Sound:

• The pitch set in sound_definitions.json is no longer ignored.
• Phantom wings now make flapping sounds.

User Interface:

• The beacon container interface no longer moves items around inventory slots when trying to quick-move items from inventory while the hotbar is full.
• The "Press the Sneak button to dismount" ("Ride Exit") tooltip now clears other messages.
• Updated the profanity filter list.

Character Creator:

• Fixed navigation issues in the Character Creator between favorite items, achievement rewards, emotes, and wardrobe.

Crafting Screen:

• Added various improvements to the crafting interface when using a controller.
• Items in the inventory will no longer move to the crafting grid when hovering over recipes.
• The selected recipe will no longer be cleared when switching tabs, even if not all required ingredients are available for that recipe.

Touch Controls:

• Pressing the "Leave Boat" button on touch devices no longer causes the player to hit the passenger or destroy the boat.
• Added a button icon to the NPC dialog screen to show which gamepad button to press to close the window.
• Fixed an issue where the item name and its properties overlapped above the hotbar.
• The "Change Player Tag" and "Account Management" buttons on the Settings screen (under "Profile") now correctly open URLs on iOS and Android.

Commands:

• Added the '/clearspawnpoint' command to clear the spawn point.
• Added a new '/event' command that can be used to trigger an event on an entity.
• Using the '/spawnpointcommand' command will not affect sleeping players.

Technical Changes:

• Added item lock components to lock items in the inventory, lock them in slots, or keep them on death.
• Added a new 'loop_delay' field for skeletal animation files, which controls the delay between each iteration of a looping animation.
• Fixed a bug where 'start_delay' fields in skeletal animations were used for both the initial delay before playing the animation and inter-loop delays.
• Fixed a crash on Android and added a detailed error description on the content screen.
• Added the '/camerashake' command to enable the camera shake effect.
• Villagers/zombie villagers will again correctly spawn as babies when using the summon command with the event "minecraft:entity_born".
• Older versions of commands using '/execute' will now use the correct position for command selectors when calculating radius.

Items:

• Banners using the 'set_banner_details' function no longer cause a content error if 'base_color' is not specified, only when 'base_color' is invalid.
• Added a 'decrement_count' event response for items.

MoveTowardsRestrictionGoal:

• This goal has been removed in favor of two new child goals that make the behavior clearer. The behavior works the same but is now properly split into two goals.

MoveTowardsDwellingRestrictionGoal:

• This goal is intended for actors that are part of a village.
• This goal requires the 'DwellerComponent' component.

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