so, here’s the tea on #ACNH NPC spawns
every week, you’re guaranteed to get Saharah, Kicks and Leif on weekdays (if you meet their criteria, e.g. having Able Sisters built)
that leaves two weekday slots that will be randomly filled by Gulliver, Label, CJ, Flick or Redd

— Ninji ??????????? (@_Ninji) May 14, 2020

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Crashes and Stability 

• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to stack different types of slab (MCPE-73435)

General

• Removed quotation marks from loading screen tips
• Fixed the issue with ambient noises playing too frequently in the Nether (MCPE-69154)
• Renamed various blocks, and renamed json files to reflect changed block names (MCPE-65390)
• The “Change Emotes” Button is no longer missing on Android Devices (MCPE-69082)
• The “p” in “Pigstep” music disc is now capitalized (MCPE-70466)
• Adjusted hopper hitbox shape (MCPE-47541)
• Nether Sprouts item texture no longer extend outside the bounds of an Item Frame when rotated

Gameplay

• Spawned cave mobs aren’t counted as surface mobs anymore (MCPE-41273)
• Added nether wood crafting recipes and make them not burn as fuel in furnaces (MCPE-65391)
• Fire now ticks properly, and can be extinguished by rain (MCPE-69072)
• Added chain crafting recipe (MCPE-69089)
• Added fire sound for soul fire (MCPE-66899)
• Gold ore can now be smelted in Furnaces and Blast Furnaces (MCPE-68978)
• Smelting Ancient Debris now gives XP (MCPE-65787)
• Quartz Bricks can be now only be crafted Quartz blocks
• Polished Basalt can now be crafted using a stonecutter
• Crafting polished Basalt now gives the player the correct amount of blocks in return (MCPE-66515)
• Warped and Crimson Stems can no longer replace blocks when grown or are generated (MCPE-65661)
• Shields can now be dispensed and equipped to players
• Fortune enchantment now works again (MCPE-67169)
• Pumpkins and Melons will now grow when underneath observers (MCPE-48717)
• Fixed a bug that would cause the Ender Dragon to reset after leaving and returning to fight area (MCPE-51501)
• Fixed an issue with too many cats spawning in Villages (MCPE-60331)

Mobs

• Hoglins no longer spin around when moving down full blocks
• Fixed bug in `MeleeAttackGoal` where mobs would not attack if they were sitting in a boat or minecart
• Tweaked spawn rates for Piglins, Hoglins, and Zombified Piglins
• Piglins now correctly equip golden armour when it is thrown to them
• Piglins that are admiring now drop gold ingot if one-shotted
• Hoglin and Strider babies now have the lead attached at the correct spot
• Zombified Piglins are now immune to fire damage (MCPE-65381)
• Also changed the ‘fireimmune’ attribute to be correct for multiple mobs
• Wither skeletons now render armour correctly
• Fixed a bug where a mob could catch on fire if it was standing on an entity that was in lava
• Bees no longer get stuck under stairs (MCPE-61625)
• Tweaked the Baby Strider hitbox which was too small
• Baby Hoglins now have ‘cute’ oversized heads (MCPE-65454)
• Mobs now correctly equip Netherite armor
• Piglins can now exist in Peaceful difficulty (MCPE-65405)
• Piglins no longer hover when aboard boats and minecarts  (MCPE-68258)
• Endermen can now spawn in the Soulsand Valley biome
• Piglins and Hoglins now flee from Zoglins (MCPE-69784)
• The correct sound now plays when Hoglins transform into Zoglins

World Generation

• Ruined portals in nether now use Blackstone
• Fire charges can now be found in Ruined Portal chests
• Tweaked Ruined Portal loot tables – changed number of rolls to match Java
• Made Ruined Portals spawn less frequently
• Updated Bastion loot tables (MCPE-69005, MCPE-68986)
• Magma Cube spawners now generate inside Bastions (MCPE-69424)
• Walls in generated structures now form the proper connections (MCPE-66369)

Graphical

• Tweaked Piglin and Hoglin spawn eggs to match Java
• Golden Tools that are being examined by Piglins render correctly in their hands (MCPE-72477, MCPE-70868)
• Piglins arms now swing correctly when walking
• Fire now burns blue when burning on Soul Sand (MCPE-65429)

User Interface

• Fixed iOS keyboard covering the text input box when typing (MCPE-53030)

Crashes and Stability

• Fixed several graphics-related crashes
• Fixed a bug where the game would crash if the player attempted to purchase coins without being signed into Xbox Live
• Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to create a world with the “ZigZag” resource pack applied

Graphics

• The fancy leaves option now appears correctly in the settings on Windows 10
• Fixed an issue where cubemaps were not fully updating when resource packs were changed
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause fonts to disappear after quitting to the main menu
• Fixed an issue with flickering usernames above players’ heads
• Fixed an issue where chunks would flicker after altering render distance values
• Fixed an issue where the missing textures were constantly being converted which would cause the game to spam warnings in the log message

General

• Running the /kill command will now correctly kills summoned NPCs (MCPE-65403)
• Set the default chat font to Mojangles (MCPE-45857)

Marketplace

• Fixed bug where, on some platforms, thumbnails would infinitely load in the marketplace
• Fixed issue where the download bar was not always functioning correctly

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Python’s Tilde ~n operator is the bitwise negation operator: it takes the number n as binary number and “flips” all bits 0 to 1 and 1 to 0 to obtain the complement binary number. For example, the tilde operation ~1 becomes 0 and ~0 becomes 1 and ~101 becomes 010.

Read all about the Tilde operator in my detailed tutorial on this blog.

Sometimes, you’ll see the tilde operator in a Pandas DataFrame for indexing. Here’s an example:

import pandas as pd # Create a DataFrame

df = pd.DataFrame([{'User': 'Alice', 'Age': 22}, {'User': 'Bob', 'Age': 24}])

print(df) ''' User Age

0 Alice 22

1 Bob 24 ''' # Use Tilde to access all lines where user doesn't contain 'A'

df = df[~df['User'].str.contains('A')]

print(df) ''' User Age

1 Bob 24 '''

To improve your practical understanding, feel free to run this code in your browser in our interactive Python shell:

The tilde operator negates the Boolean values in the DataFrame: True becomes False and False becomes True.

You can see this in action when printing the result of different operations:

This is the original DataFrame in the code:

print(df) ''' User Age

0 Alice 22

1 Bob 24 '''

Now apply the contains operation to find all user names that contain the character 'A'.

print(df['User'].str.contains('A')) '''

0 True

1 False

Name: User, dtype: bool '''

The result is a DataFrame with Boolean values that indicate whether a user contains the character 'A' or not.

Let’s apply the Tilde operator on the result:

print(~df['User'].str.contains('A')) '''

0 False

1 True

Name: User, dtype: bool '''

Now, we use this DataFrame to access only those rows with users that don’t contain the character 'A'.

df = df[~df['User'].str.contains('A')]

print(df) ''' User Age

1 Bob 24 '''

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