Category: Minecraft News

Mojang is still hard at work to get those bugs squashed.  Continue reporting bugs you find while playing to bugs.mojang.com.  You can still play with your friends running 1.14, but those on the Nintendo Switch will still have a bit to wait before this update is released to them.

• Crashes / Performance
  • Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
  • 256x resolution packs are now restricted on Xbox One to prevent crashing
    • This is a temporary solution until we have the crashing issue resolved
  • Fixed a crash that could occur in certain worlds (MCPE-59756)

• General
  • Split-screen will now display a message to join when the main controller is disconnected
  • Realms can no longer be purchased if not logged into Xbox Live
  • Players that are not linked to a Nintendo account on Switch are once again able to edit characters
  • Fixed an issue where joinable friends on Nintendo Switch were still visible after the world has been closed

• Gameplay
  • Auto-jump will no longer trigger unexpectedly when trying to walk through open doors (MCPE-52213)
    • Further fixes will be made in the future to allow auto-jump to work more consistently, for example, when trying to jump up one block through an open door

• Blocks
  • Restored kelp growth to its proper, faster rate (MCPE-57330)
  • Bamboo in Flower Pots are no longer empty after converting a world from Editions

• Items
  • Crafting multiple Honey Blocks now returns the correct amount of empty glass bottles on a 2×2 grid (MCPE-58579)

• User Interface
  • The ‘Sign In’ button is now scaled properly on all platforms
  • Fixed placeholder text appearing on the pause menu when hosting a game without an internet connection

• Add-Ons
  • Entities no longer stop moving when the ‘circle_around_anchor’ behavior is added via a component group added by an event and/or there was a block close to their hitbox

Things are heating up as we dive into the first Snapshot for the Nether Update.  Everythings exciting and Diamond is no longer king!  Be sure to share your thoughts and findings in the comments below!

• Added new Nether blocks!
• Knockback resistance is now a scale instead of a probability
• Added Crimson Forest biome to the Nether
• Added Hoglins – they don’t do much yet, but they have cute flappy ears!
• Patrols no longer spawn when the player is close to any village
• Added Netherite!
• Added Soulsand Valley biome to the Nether
• Walls do not have gaps anymore when stacked vertically
• Added Warped Forest biome to the Nether

Many new block types have been added!

• Two new wood-like materials – Crimson Stems and Warped Stems
• Basalt blocks – you can find them as pillars but they can be placed in any direction
• New ground surface blocks: Crimson Nylium and Warped Nylium
• New vegetation: Nether Sprouts, Crimson Roots and Warped Roots
• Two types of Fungi: Crimson and Warped – try using bone meal to grow them!
• Warped Wart blocks
• Weeping Vines that grow from the bottom of a block downwards!
• A new natural light source: Shroomlights
• Added Soul Soil! Whenever fire burns on Soul Soil, it burns with a blue flame!
• Soul Soil can be used to craft Soul Torches – and those can be crafted into Soul Lanterns!
• Using bone meal on Netherrack can now spread Nylium

Crimson Forests can now be found in the Nether!

• Crimson nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation
• Huge Crimson Fungi make up the “trees” of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor
• Weeping Vines grow from the cave ceilings and fungi
• Hoglins wander these forests
• Crimson spores swirl through the air

• A new high-level material found in the Nether. Use it to upgrade your diamond gear!

How to Make Netherite

• Mine Ancient Debris in the lower depths of the Nether. At own risk. No insurance coverage for that
• Refine it into Netherite Scrap in a Furnace (although that’s kind of slow so you might want a Blast Furnace)
• Combine 4 Nether Scrap with 4 Gold Ingots in a crafting table to make a Netherite Ingot

Netherite Effects

• Netherite items float in lava so you don’t lose all your gear after that unplanned lava bath
• Netherite items have higher enchantment value than diamond (but not as high as gold)
• Netherite tools work faster and last longer than diamond
• Netherite weapons do more damage than diamond
• Netherite armor have higher toughness and durability than diamond
• Netherite armor gives you knockback resistance, so you barely get knocked back at all when hit by arrows and such
• …and it looks cool!

Soulsand Valleys can now be found in the Nether!

• An open space made mostly of Soul Sand and Soul Soil
• Basalt pillars span from floor to ceiling
• Fossil remains of unknown creatures from the past litter the valley
• Ash falls through the air
• A light blue glow envelopes the valley
• Beware of Skeletons here!

Sounds

• Ghasts sounds are now heard at a shorter range
• Updated block sounds for Bone Blocks, Netherrack, Soul Sand, Netherwart, Nether Bricks and Quartz Ore

Warped Forests can now be found in the Nether!

• Warped nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation
• Huge Warped Fungi make up the “trees” of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor
• A dark blue fog covers the forest
• Warped spores swirl through the air
• The Warped Forests are strange, but also the least hostile place of Nether

World Generation

• The old Nether biome is now called Nether Wastes
• Made shipwrecks and ocean ruins a bit less common, so you get more excited when you find one!

• Added a locatebiome command

LOCATEBIOME

New command that locates a specified biome. Useful in creative mode when you’re looking for a specific biome and don’t want to fly around randomly searching for it.

Syntax: locatebiome <biome>
Parameters:

• biome – The id of the biome to find

Particles

• New particle types: ash, crimson_spore, soul_fire_flame and warped_spore

Rendering

• Nailed Entity shadows to the ground.

• MC-17431 – Shift-clicking stacked items with a data tag into the enchanting table GUI removes data tags from the moved item
• MC-45619 – Water, Signs, Vines, Torches etc. in the same block as item frame break item frame’s redstone signal
• MC-52178 – Cape doesn’t move down while sneaking / Cape detaches from body while sneaking
• MC-59363 – Items in item frames are deleted if both mouse buttons are used simultaneously
• MC-82235 – Baby pigs turn into adult zombie pigmen when struck by lightning
• MC-92889 – Mending doesn’t always consume experience if the player wears items with mending that are already fully repaired
• MC-93198 – Throwing potions / throwable projectiles causes both hands to bob up and down
• MC-93631 – Pistons pop off blocks attached to their back when retracting
• MC-96436 – Eggs/snowballs/xp-bottles break instantly when thrown while riding a horse
• MC-97958 – Small slime has no jump or squish sound
• MC-103655 – Cats don’t stand up when using right click on them while they’re sitting on chests or beds
• MC-109370 – Bottom face of column blocks are rotated 180 degrees
• MC-109844 – en_us.json contains unused strings
• MC-109850 – Redstone wire doesn’t have a bottom texture
• MC-112630 – Carrot on a stick cannot be broken
• MC-113381 – Falling dust particles of anvil and concrete powder blocks are black
• MC-120335 – Flower pot bottom texture is not rendered because of incorrect “uv” values in the model file
• MC-131440 – The message for trying to sleep at the wrong time implies that you can only sleep at night during a thunderstorm
• MC-131770 – Rain particles appear one block below the water or lava surface
• MC-132607 – Splitting slimes and magma cubes do not copy NoAI value
• MC-134162 – Item entities can break turtle eggs
• MC-136868 – Ignited TNT, arrow or trident turns black when it falls on soul sand or snow layers
• MC-138600 – Cats don’t bring gifts if they have already decided to sit on your bed
• MC-140544 – Pickaxes don’t speed up piston breaking
• MC-148474 – Sloped powered detector rails break when pushed or pulled by a piston
• MC-149052 – Stonecutter recipe list doesn’t show item tooltips
• MC-149776 – Cartography Table requires string for the recipe to show up in the recipe book
• MC-150020 – Composter is in the “Miscellaneous” category instead of “Decoration” like the other workstation blocks
• MC-154867 – Tamed cats remain sitting if the world is reloaded while the cat is sitting on a chest
• MC-158807 – You can remove cursed enchantments on items by repairing them in inventory
• MC-159300 – Villagers that have been infected by a zombie can despawn, even if they have been traded with
• MC-159773 – Shulkers can teleport to non-solid faces, and don’t teleport to some solid faces
• MC-159918 – Foxes don’t run from polar bears
• MC-159963 – Minecarts can break turtle eggs
• MC-160897 – Dropping an item using the drop key displays the hand animation but dropping items from within the inventory does not
• MC-160902 – Arm swings when right-clicking on full minecart
• MC-161156 – Silverfish and endermites appear black on soul sand
• MC-161259 – Using the carrot on a stick while riding a pig plays no hand animation
• MC-162881 – Composter doesn’t display particles when being fed composting items through a hopper
• MC-163286 – /setblock ~ ~ ~ air destroy does not destroy liquids
• MC-164184 – Breaking a shulker box with contents in Creative mode drops the block at an incorrect location
• MC-164948 – Entity shadow renders through transparent blocks
• MC-167077 – Foxes sleep on top of honey blocks, even in broad daylight
• MC-167512 – Glass in the hand is rendered differently depending on the “Clouds” setting
• MC-167989 – Spawn point is not set when monsters are nearby
• MC-168540 – Threads created by net.minecraft.Util.backgroundExecutor() have misleading names
• MC-168772 – Experience orbs can crush turtle eggs
• MC-169679 – Composters do not make sounds when fed by hoppers
• MC-169692 – Entity shadow floats slightly above the ground
• MC-169832 – Transparent item models have inconsistent rendering when a glowing entity is present
• MC-170128 – Cannot build an EntityType without a datafixer due to an IllegalArgumentException

Remember that only those on Xbox One / Windows 10 / and Android may participate in the Beta builds.  You will not be able to join Realms or non-beta players worlds and you will not be able to open worlds opened in the Beta in earlier/current stable builds of Bedrock.

• Crashes/Performance
  • Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
  • 256x resolution packs are now restricted on Xbox One to prevent crashing
  • Fixed a crash that could occur in certain worlds (MCPE-59756) 

• General
  • Split-screen will now display a message to join when the main controller is disconnected

• Gameplay
  • Auto-jump will no longer trigger unexpectedly when trying to walk through open doors (MCPE-52213)
    • Further fixes will be made in the future to allow auto-jump to work more consistently
  • Crafting multiple Honey blocks now returns the correct amount of empty glass bottles on a 2×2 grid. (MCPE-58579)

Mojang brings fixes with this latest release.  Those on the Nintendo Switch will have to wait just a bit longer before you receive this update.

• Crashes / Performance
  • Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
  • Fixed several crashes that could occur when loading into world on Nintendo Switch
  • Placing a compass and locator map in the crafting grid no longer causes the game to crash (MCPE-57882)
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when travelling through a Nether Portal with another entity (MCPE-58568)
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when converting a world with fireworks equipped in a crossbow
  • Fixed a crash that could occur with raids on converted worlds
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when loading the ‘Extreme Speed Runner’ Marketplace world on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

• General
  • Classic skin choices no longer revert after reloading the game (MCPE-55278)
  • Fixed .mcworld and .mctemplate files not importing on devices running iOS 13
  • Fixed the LittleBigPlanet world and textures not being usable if the game was installed from disc
  • Fixed issues with the ‘Chroma Hills’ texture pack not loading on Nintendo Switch
  • Split-screen players can no longer be left in a limbo state when joining the game while the primary player quits at the same time

• Gameplay
  • Projectiles can now be shot through the gap between two honey blocks
  • Players no longer bounce when being pushed and pulled by honey blocks and pistons (MCPE-53815)

• Mobs
  • Fixed an issue that prevented mobs from spawning under transparent blocks (MCPE-59682)
    • Please note, that this fix will revert the changes made in MCPE-54241, which will require further work and will be fixed in a future update
  • Bees no longer fly in and out of a beehive or nest that is on fire (MCPE-53872)
  • Fixed tamed wolves not breeding by increasing their breeding priority (MCPE-59570)
  • Tamed parrots sitting on the player’s shoulder are now transitioned after world conversion
  • Fixed Pillagers not attacking players after world conversion
  • Fixed players not obtaining Bad Omen when killing a Pillager Captain after world conversion

• Items
  • Tridents no longer bounce continuously on the sides of honey blocks (MCPE-53626)
  • Honey Bottles now show the proper item tooltip (MCPE-61195)
  • Undyed Shulker Boxes now retain their color after world conversion (MCPE-36744)

• User Interface
  • A confirmation prompt now appears if purchasing Realms on Nintendo Switch
  • Fixed an issue that could cause text to overlap when using different window resolutions in the Marketplace

• Commands
  • Beehives and bee nests now have proper textures when placed with the ‘/setblock’ command
  • Defining an execute location no longer breaks the “detect” argument

• Add-Ons
  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent Behavior Pack animations from working on Android (MCPE-56117)
  • The sensing component (used for ranged attacks) now calculates the view direction like it used to, making it so mobs can see their target on the y-axis
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing players from being teleported and rotated smoothly
  • Fixed the order of ‘on_exit’ and ‘on_entry’ events being reversed in animation controller state transitions
  • Local space for particles attached to entities will once again inherit the locator’s bone rotation

All versions of 1.14 are compatible with multiplayer.  Happy gaming!

Remember that only those on Xbox One / Windows 10 / and Android may participate in the Beta builds.  You will not be able to join Realms or non-beta players worlds and you will not be able to open worlds opened in the Beta in earlier/current stable builds of Bedrock.

• Crashes/Performance
  • Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when searching the Marketplace
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when spawning in an item

• General
  • Transparent blocks will no longer prevent mob spawning on the same Y axes (MCPE-59682)
    • Please note, that this fix will revert the changes made in MCPE-54241, which will require further work and will be fixed in a future update
  • Tamed Parrots will now sit on a player’s shoulder correctly after the world save is converted to Bedrock
  • Split-screen players are no longer left in a limbo split-screen state when joining the game while the primary player quits at the same time 

• Mobs
  • Fixed an issue that prevented tamed wolves from moving towards each other to breed (MCPE-59570) 

• Items
  • The honey bottle item tooltip now says ‘Items’ instead ‘Nature’ (MCPE-61195) 

• Commands
  • Beehives and nests now have the correct front texture when placed by the setblock command
  • Defining an execute location no longer breaks the use of the detect command

Unification.

That is the overall goal Mojang has in mind with this next combat update.  They want Minecrafters to have fun and they want to have balance for PvE and PvP content alike.  The changes we’ll see here will come in a future update to all official editions of Minecraft.  This snapshot is based on the 1.15.2 pre-release and if you want to get a peek at what changes are coming to the combat system you better check it out.  If you’d like to make a suggestion don’t be afraid to check out Mojang’s Feedback website or join in on the conversation on the official Reddit post.

• Attack rates are generally faster
• You are only able to attack when the attack timer has recharged
• The attack timer only resets when attacking (compared to switching items)
• You can keep pressing the attack button to continuously attack
• Weapons deal less damage overall
• Weapons now have different reach (tridents and hoes reach farther, axes reach less)
• Natural healing from food has been rebalanced (no more saturation boost)
• Projectiles are more accurate and don’t inherit the shooter’s momentum
• Experimental enchantment called “Chopping” for axes
• Many other smaller changes to tridents, snowballs, shields, and knockback mechanics

Read can read about all the changes over time in the Reddit posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (this one)

In detail, weapons:

• Stone tier lowered to +0 (same as wood, was +1)

• Iron tier lowered to +1 (was +2)

• Diamond tier lowered to +2 (was +3)

• Swords lowered to +2 (was +3)

• Axes lowered to +3 (was +4)

• Trident lowered to 5 (was 6)

For example, a Diamond Sword now deals 2+2+2=6 points of damage. This was 2+3+3=8 in the previous test, and 1+3+3=7 in 1.9/1.8 (base damage is 2 now, same as on Bedrock).

In detail, food rebalance:

• Saturation boost removed

• Eating food is now slower (40 ticks, was 32 ticks)

• Natural healing works longer (down to 6 food points, used to be down to 18)

• Natural healing is faster (every 3 seconds, was 4)

• New: Natural healing now always drains food points. Saturation is not used when healing damage and is only relevant as a “pause” until food drains (as originally intended)

• Sprinting is no longer affected by the food value

Other changes:

• Various block-hitting and air-swinging bug fixes

• Made it possible to hit players with snowballs (TODO: game rule)

• Reintroduced upwards knockback when hitting players in the air… Probably too strong right now, but can be balanced later

• Changed the swing animation to emphasize the rhythm of the attacks

• Added cooldown to egg

Bonus controversial edit…

• Added a kind of “Coyote Time” that activates for a fraction of a second if you aim at something but attack outside its bounding box. The background to this change is that since you can’t attack between swings, it often gave the impression that your input was “lost”. It also made fighting small and fast targets (rabbits or baby zombies) unnecessarily frustrating

It felt like only yesterday when we had the first prerelease.  Looks like Mojang is wrapping things up to get us 1.15.2 as soon as possible.  For now, take some fixes as they clean up for a final release around the corner.

• Fixed bugs

• MC-169825 – “Multiplayer (3rd party)” shows in window title when disconnecting from a singleplayer world
• MC-169839 – Certain potion effects that override lower level effects don’t get removed after their duration ends
• MC-169840 – Drinking a level 1 potion under a level 2 beacon and leaving results in the effect being lost
• MC-169848 – Crashes when trying to create Beehive From planted tree
• MC-169886 – No older world protection in 1.15.2 PR 1

Tired of collecting bee nests and having bees get angry at you?  How about when creating that one map and needing patrols to spawn so you can ambush the player when they least expect it?  It’s that time again where we’re starting off our journey towards the next major update.  Annoyed that you keep falling down ladders with your elytra or having your potion effects removed by a beacon?  

Yeah, I thought so.  Mojang is listening and they’ve heard you as they’ve released the first pre-release of the year for Java Edition!.  We’re still a good ways out from the Nether Update, but while we’re waiting let’s take a look at what the first pre-release for Java Edition has to offer.
 

• Bees no longer anger when a nearby nest/hive is destroyed using a silk touch tool
• Added doPatrolSpawning and doTraderSpawning game rules that control spawning of patrols and wandering traders, respectively
• Added gui_light option in block models to allow controlling light when rendering model as item in GUI
• Controls light when rendering block model inside slot. If set to side, model will be rendered like block. If set to front, model is shaded like flat item
• Fixed bugs

• MC-862 – Spawn protection doesn’t work for item frames, paintings and armor stands
• MC-1541 – Beacon effect removes potion effect of the same type
• MC-51053 – Furnace minecarts lose power after navigating corners
• MC-150575 – Concrete powder does not turn into concrete when letting it fall beside water
• MC-153987 – Falling down ladders while wearing elytra
• MC-165695 – Hoppers harvesting honeycomb from bee hives and bee nests only pick up one honeycomb
• MC-166312 – Loom UI pattern icons are too dark
• MC-166319 – B on “Open in browser” is lowercase in link confirmation GUI
• MC-166324 – “Raw input” button has lowercase “i”
• MC-166722 – Some custom item models appear dark in the inventory
• MC-167018 – Misplaced pixel in critical hit particle texture
• MC-167079 – Horse Armor texture is off
• MC-167201 – Invisible glowing entities do not respect their team color
• MC-167219 – Reloading a resource pack enough times will cause intense lag
• MC-167220 – Items on marker armor stands no longer glow
• MC-167235 – Distance from where you can enter a bed is off center
• MC-167344 – com.mojang.blaze3d.platform.ClipboardManager leaks direct buffers
• MC-167416 – Distance from where a monster will stop you from sleeping is off center
• MC-167444 – iron_golem_crackiness_* textures show up on invisible iron golems that are damaged
• MC-167709 – Bees that ride a boat, minecart or other entities when entering their hive or nest can’t leave the hive or nest ever again
• MC-168091 – Concrete powder doesn’t convert into concrete when dropped into deep water
• MC-168230 – End crystal beam is dark / desaturated
• MC-168467 – Bees do not remember how many crops they’ve pollinated
• MC-169157 – Breaking a hive with obstructed front makes bees vanish

That’s a lot of fixes!  I can’t wait to dive right in and test the changes for myself.  Don’t forget, if you’re planning on using a pre-existing world to back it up!  Don’t want all your hard work to disappear right?  After you’ve done that and if you find any bugs, be sure to report them on Mojang’s Issue Tracker or if you have a suggestion or a change you’d like to see, head on over to Mojang’s Feedback website!

Greetings!

The last year was an interesting one for MinecraftForum. With the planned archiving of the forum and then the change of ownership to keep the forum active, there has been a lot of back-end work to keep this site going. While we’ve definitely been struggling to keep up in some areas (poor news…), we’ve certainly not been twiddling our thumbs behind the scenes. 

With that in mind, we figured it’s probably a good time to just let you know of some of the plans that we hope to get to in the year 2020. Some of these would be more hidden changes, some small, but some giant. Let’s go through what we have in our minds for this year.

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1) Restructure of our forum sections as a whole

This one is a giant goal of ours. We know that the current structure is…. not exactly great for a lot of different reasons. When we made the current structure we tried to keep the naming similar to what Mojang calls their versions of the game, but we knew when we did it that it would be confusing. We’re re-evaluating this and are looking at better ways to collapse or expand sections in order to make the most of what we have from you, the community, and to get your content shared with millions of users. We’ll have posts later in our Forum Discussion and Information section once we have a better plan for how we’d like to restructure things. We know this won’t be an easy change, but we will value your input into this process as we go, to point out things we may not notice or think of. Keep an eye out for more information regarding this.

2) New server list

In continuing the forum restructure, we’ve had a thread that’s been trying to gather ideas for a new server list. If you didn’t know, Minecraft Forum used to run a server list, which tried to help promote servers in a different light. Sadly, this list wasn’t maintained well, and so it was discontinued. We are looking at the idea of bringing a list back, knowing that it has to cater to small servers, large servers, whitelist servers, graylist servers, realms, even just the occasional “i want a friend” servers. And not just for Java Edition, we know there’s more to the multiplayer world. We don’t know if this will happen in 2020 due to the amount of effort it would take, but it’s a goal we have.

3) Alternate logins

We know that only having a Twitch login is a huge turn-off for some people. We are looking into additional providers to support in the future. We’re hoping to offer Xbox Live and Google as alternative providers, perhaps some others too, however there is no ETA on this yet. We are still doing research and work to determine how difficult it will be to support multiple providers like this within our existing system.

4) Better filters for content searching

The server search functionality is a feature that we know is… not great. Not only that, the prefix system that we have is not obvious to users that you can actually use it to find content. We are looking into better ways of making this more apparent, and to make it more of an actual search feature. It’d be a lot nicer to find those 1.15 fantasy packs if we had a simple filter, wouldn’t it?

5) More news

News is one of the most important things that makes it to the front page here. And while we’ve done our best to keep up with the essential updates, we know we’ve been really slacking to keep you all up to date on all that’s going on in the world of Minecraft. We are looking at ways to better put news in front of you that you would care about, and not just repeat what Mojang already gives you. After all, there’s more to the community than just the latest build update. 

6) More bug fixes

2019 was full of back-end fixes that you may not have seen. Although, being able to see your old PMs was definitely a fix I know some of you have noticed. We know there’s still a lot of issues with the site, and will be continuing to work on improving your experience so that you can find and share your content. 

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That about covers it for this update! We will continue to strive to keep this forum going far into the future with Magic Find, whose administrative & dev teams have been directly working with us to make the site work even better than before. Let us know of any other things you’d like to see, and who knows, maybe your ideas might be done.

Several gamers were invited to experience the Bedrock-based version of Minecraft with RTX on.

Check out this video from NVIDIA showing off some of the builds these gamers produced, using the power of RTX.