Minecraft Bedrock Edition 0.16 changelog

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New Features:

• Ocean Monuments
• Guardians and Elder Guardians
• Prismarine, dark prismarine & prismarine bricks
• Prismarine shard & prismarine crystal
• Sea lantern
• The Wither!
• Nether star
• Beacon
• Wet & dry sponges
• You can now use slash commands (which have auto-complete now) by enabling cheats for a world in the options screen (but this will disable Xbox Live achievements for that world even if you are in survival)
• Good news for left-handed players - you can now do custom key binding for keyboard!
• You can now search in the Creative inventory
• Add-on section for world settings
• Search added in creative inventory
• You can change game modes in Realms (if you do this in world settings, it will restart the realm but if you individually change a player's game mode through commands, it won't restart the realm)
• Ability to upload & download worlds in Realms
• Ability to promote players as operators in Realms

Tweaks:

• Lots of cool, new UI changes! 
• Performance improvements
• Tweaks to various mob action/behavior triggers, including fixing creeper explosions
• Elder guardian de-buff visuals fixed (feedback from Android beta)
• Fishing rods & arrows will fire in more than just one direction
• Lots of tweaks to water textures to make underwater more fun
• Tweaks to Realms settings
• Visual tweaks to sun, moon & stars when rendering in VR immersive mode

Bug Fixes:

• See the following Beta changelogs: https://aka.ms/mc16beta1 & https://aka.ms/mc16beta5
• Item durability updates correctly now.
• Language subpacks for jp_JP & zh_TW now load correctly.
• Mobs now spawn in accumulated snow & so spawn correctly in snow biomes.
• Endermen no longer continue to attack the player after the player respawns.
• Charged creepers have the correct size of explosion.
• Splash potions no longer being dispensed like eggs instead of thrown potions.
• You can now open your inventory using touch while riding horses/donkeys/mules/pigs/boats.
• Game no longer crashes when a filled cauldron is moved by a piston.
• Import/export function now works with non UTF-8 characters in the file path.
• Horses can be dismounted while sneaking.
• You can now see the camera shake from damage.
• Guardians now spawning correctly inside ocean monuments (fix from Android beta).
• TNT minecarts can be detonated by more than just flint & steel.
• Hurt sounds have returned!
• When you feed ocelots to make baby ocelots, they actually eat the food now (and the amount you feed them is deducted from your stack of food in your inventory).
• Clouds no longer flicker when fog updates.
• Behavior of activator rails corrected- no longer reversed & interact correctly with hopper minecarts.
• If your computer is joined to a domain, you can now log in with a different account (for those of us who play Minecraft at work!)
• Fixed crash on player spawn.
• Fixed consistency of tipped arrows & healing.
• Fixed a crash on Windows Phone (MCPE only).
• Shears fixed so you can use them on sheep & mooshroom even when they aren't at full durability.
• Fixed untamed horses so you can't accidentally saddle them & lose the saddle.
• Fixed a crash with item frames and compass/clocks.
• Fixed a crash when selecting a custom skin.
• ""Saddle up"" achievement should work now.
• Monster spawners no longer will occasionally spawn mobs in areas that are well-lit (and thus shouldn't be spawning hostile mobs).
• Wolves now attack other mobs with the appropriate frequency.
• Wither skeletons inflict Wither I effect
• Removed the restrict distance from leads but functionality is maintained.
• Fixed bugs with fireballs and large fireballs.
• Beacon effects no longer disappear when re-entering a world (feedback from Android beta).
• Fixed a crash when a player accepted a Realms invite while playing in a world.
• TNT Minecart's fuse timing fixed.
• Fixed Wither's death animation (feedback from Android beta).
• Fixed issue of sheep not always retaining their colors on spawn.
• Fixed ""Archer"" achievement.
• Creepers can no longer explode while dying.
• Walking up stairs no longer causes suffocation (but you will still hit your head).
• Wet sponges and bricks now show up on the furnace UI (MCPE only).
• Fixed experience accumulation bug- can't disconnect and reconnect from a world to get back your spent experience point levels.
• Elder guardian mining fatigue sound plays (feedback from Android beta).
• A player's mining sound is now only audible to the player.
• Guardian beam attack sound at appropriate volume now (feedback from Android beta).
• Strays again spawn in ice biomes.
• Iron Golem damaged fixed to the appropriate amount.
• Saddled pigs now drop the saddle when killed.
• Dropped items no longer damage farmland (feedback from Android beta).
• Inventory no longer lost when language is changed to or from Japanese or Traditional Chinese.