Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.10.0.3 changelog

30 January 2019

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta: 

• You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta. Featured servers may also be unavailable 
• The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions 
• Beta builds will likely be unstable and are not representative of final version quality. Please backup your Worlds before joining the beta 
• Finished releases may not include all new features, changes, and fixes from the beta to preserve stability and may slip to a later release 

Experimental Gameplay: (Only available when Experimental Gameplay is enabled in world settings) 

• Wandering Trader 
  • The Wandering Trader is a villager mob that will appear at a village's gathering site periodically and stays for a period of 2-3 game days. This trader offers items from a wide variety of different biomes, random dyes, and other rare materials 
  • Accompanied by a fancy custom Llama!

• Illager Beast
  • We’ve added the basic mob, additional behavior and tweaks will be added in a future update 

• New blocks - we've added in the basic blocks to this beta, which can be used for decoration for now.  Future functionality will be added at a later date! 
  • Composter  
  • New Stonecutter 
  • Campfire  
  • Cooking and smoke particles will be added in a future update! 
• Sweet Berries and Sweet Berry Bushes 
  • Can be found in Taiga biomes 
• Pillager Outposts! 
  • Outposts generate in the same biomes as villages, and Pillagers will respawn around the tower  
• Villages have a new look!
• Added Village job sites  
• Added crafting recipes for the following blocks:  
  • Grindstone 
  • Smoker 
  • Blast Furnace 
  • Cartography table 
  • Smithing Table 
  • Fletching Table   
  • Lantern 
  • Barrel 
  • Composter 
• New Villager behavior: 
  • Implemented some of the new Villager schedule behaviors  
  • Implemented new Villager sleep behaviors  
  • Villagers may wander to the village outskirts  
  • Villagers will attempt to find a door when it rains during the day, but will navigate to their bed at night 
  • Updated and improved Villager pathfinding  
  • Villagers now have a visual based trading system, and will hold up an item they wish to trade  
  • Villagers have new clothing to indicate their level, profession, and biome  
  • Villagers will now mingle together around job sites in the Village  
  • Librarians will inspect bookshelves 
• Added Mason and Green robed villagers

New Features: 

• Shields! 
  • Sneaking activates the shield when equipped in either hand  

Sneaking activates the shield when equipped in either hand   

• Lectern
  • Place a Book and Quill or Written Book on the lectern, which will allow multiple players to read it together 
  • A Book and Quill can be read, but not edited when placed on a lectern 
  • Redstone functionality coming in a later update! 
• Banner patterns can now be crafted using the Loom block  
• Added new loom sounds 
• Pressing help button links to the relevant how to play section 
• Added new Wood blocks and Stripped Wood blocks: 
  • Known to many as bark blocks! 
  • Existing wood blocks have been renamed to Logs and Stripped Logs 
• Added Jellie, the Minecraft community cat contest winner! 
• Script Engine updates:  
  • Players without scripting enabled now see an appropriate message if they try and join an incompatible server that has scripting enabled  
  • Updating a player's position with scripting now correctly syncs with the player 
  • Creating actors via script now avoids the spawning logic. This prevents hard coded logic like ocelots spawning along with baby ocelots
  • Improved the message wording for players who get disconnected due to unsupported scripts 
  • Allow events to fire without a defined event data object. This will get patched back in during a later refactor in 1.10
  • Renaming Views to Actor/Entity Queries 
  • Added sound events to the scripting API  
  • Add Event Data to load_ui  
• Custom UIs can now be made like regular in game UI screens 
• Added 'Global Objects' to the scripting API  
• Refactored JavaScript object registration 
• Added ability to enable and disable scripting error and warning logging 
• Added further data-driven animation changes:  
  • Refactored the animation system to support hierarchical animation, and treat animations and animation controllers as 'animations' 
  • Updated JSON with new animation support, upgraded schema for actor definition, and included upgrades for animation controllers and actor definitions 
  • Converted sheep and pigs to the new animation system 
  • Move locators to bones 
  • Blend state transitions 
  • Removed cod lead locator 
  • Renamed ActorAnimation to ActorSkeletalAnimation 
  • Initial poly mesh support 
  • Added TextureMesh geometry 
  • Various fixes to the texture tessellator 
  • Bug fixes for pig, sheep, and slimes 
  • Fix to not rebuild all mob meshes every frame 
  • Fixes for non-data-driven materials where they use a colour in the vertex format for the base skinning material already 
  • Flipping data driven entities test to enable new entities to use 'bind_pose_rotation' 
  • Events now have defined data objects containing all event data 
  • Added new villager animations  

Changes: 

• Crossbows are no longer behind the experimental toggle 
• Placing a wet sponge in the nether immediately dries it out
• Decaying leaves now have a chance of dropping sticks
• Chorus Fruit Flowers now break when struck via an arrow 
• Added Dead Bush as a furnace fuel 
• Rabbit Stew and Beetroot Soup now have shapeless crafting recipes  
• Creepers now drop music discs when killed by strays and skeletons  
• Dispensers with shears can now shear sheep
• Undyed glass panes white carpet can now be dyed directly in the crafting table 
• Zombie Villagers now have biome-specific and profession skin layers
• Mob events and behavior can be scheduled using JSON 
• Improvements to the Op status and permission settings, with the added option to enable cheats or not  
• Particles can now be edited using standard JSON formatting 
• Improved and added Bell placement features 
• Resource packs are now separate from world templates and can be updated independently in existing worlds 
• Data driven model changes - Added default parenting to the Evoker nose, in line with over villager-derived mobs 
• Add entity scripting function is no longer behind experimental features 
• Pillager is no longer under the experimental features toggle 
• Updated the 'How to Play' section 
• Added new Pillager sounds (MCPE-39111) 
• Lanterns can now be attached to the bottom of slabs
• The new vanilla textures are now set as the default pack

Fixes: 

• Fixed several crashes that occurred during gameplay 
• Fixed a crash that could occur when repeatedly attempting to cancel joining a multiplayer game 
• Resource packs that are nested in an extra folder no longer cause the game to crash 
• Stacking slabs to make a double slab no longer crashes the game  
• Fixed a crash when trying to launch the marketplace packs "City Cars" and "Mineville Film Studios" on mobile devices  
• Worlds no longer show single player only warning message when multiplayer is enabled (MCPE-39194) 
• Player position is now accurately saved when exiting and rejoining a world
• Removing ticking areas from the game now correctly frees up used memory
• The descend button now works correctly when underwater and using touch controls 
• Turtles no longer levitate above the ground 
• Optimized particles to improve performance 
• Players are now informed if they are disconnected from Xbox Live when the Xbox console is resumed from standby
• Looping UI animations no longer increase memory usage over time ) 
• Damage cooldown no longer hinders other mob attacks
• Colored beacon beam textures no longer appear compressed
• Wither skeletons and Vex mobs can be renamed with nametags (MCPE-20701) 
• Horizontal scaffolding extensions can now be placed over non-solid blocks correctly (MCPE-39296)  
• Fixed the head rotation of Pigmen when non-standard texture packs are used (MCPE-40629) 
• 'Monster Egg' blocks are now named 'Infested blocks', to match the Java edition  
• Infested Bricks mined with silk touch now drop as its non-infested variant.  
• Texture packs applied to a freshly created world are now displayed in the active list.  
• Players are prompted to redownload packs if they have been applied to a world but removed from the cache  
• Armor stands can now hold unloaded crossbows (MCPE-39094) 
• It is now possible to climb through snow layers placed on top of scaffolding (MCPE-39324) 
• Pandas eating bamboo now show correctly colored food particles (MCPE-38285) 
• Strongholds now generate with the correct stair variants again (MCPE-39380) 
• Weapons held by armor stands are now the correct size (MCPE-39064) 
• Food held by pandas is now sized and positioned correctly (MCPE-39061) 
• Fixed a bug where players could respawn some distance away from their beds (MCPE-39261) 
• Fixed a bug where lava could hurt a player through block corners (MCPE-37726) 
• Fixed the pathfinding for zombies chasing villagers inside buildings (MCPE-37424) 
• Hanging banners no longer show as floor standing banner variants (MCPE-39507) 
• Scaffolding no longer gets left hanging unsupported when being placed rapidly (MCPE-38338) 
• Snow layers generate around grass and flowers again in snow biomes (MCPE-38018) 
• The correct amount of white terracotta now generates in Mesa biomes 
• Skeletons once again attack iron golems 
• Mobs no longer spawn with heart particles
• Added correct biome shading for water in bamboo jungles 
• Cats can now be healed by feeding them fish  
• Fixed a crash that could happen after running scripts for a long period of time  
• The Re-center button on Minecraft VR has been mapped to Y now instead of X 
• Chest minecarts now drop their contents if destroyed with the /kill command  
• Global resource packs no longer show in the active packs list if they are not applied to a specific world  
• Fixed a z-fighting texture issue on the Grindstone block  
• The new dye types can now be used to dye Shulker mobs (MCPE-40279) 
• Fixed the Wither's ranged and swoop attacks (MCPE-39773) 
• Multiple commands run from Functions now run from the correct point of execution (MCPE-38983 / MCPE-39785) 
• The 'Unlock Template World Options' popup no longer has a placeholder type message 
• Packs missing 'experimental_custom_ui' don't allow loading UI any more  
• 'minecraft:look_at' component now has consistent naming between scripting and JSON 
• Upside-down Shulkers now have the correct opening animation (MCPE-40110) 
• Fixed the texture of food being eaten by pandas 
• Menu buttons no longer stay highlighted after being selected (MCPE-37640) 
• Fixed an issue related to scoreboard not showing the correct entries 
• Passive mobs now spawn on the correct block types (MCPE-39727) 
• Mutated Birch Forest biomes now generate with extra tall Birch trees again (MCPE-29698) 
• Players can no longer receive command feedback with cheats disabled (MCPE-39590) 
• Trapdoors in shipwrecks are now correctly rotated 
• Cats now spawn correctly in previously generated villages
• Fixed the issue with wrongly scaled textures that affected some Windows 10 users (MCPE-39081) 
• Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong description for Marketplace bundles 
• "New" banner now shows correctly on all new marketplace items 
• Fixed Skeleton melee attack animation 
• Fixed the bug that caused the FPS value in the beta header information to always read 0.0 (MCPE-30536) 
• Fixed a crash that could occur when rejoining the game in the End dimension 
• Fixed a bug that prevented the game from launching correctly on some devices (MCPE-39877) 
• Fix a crash that could sometimes occur when copying a large world on Switch 
• Partially copied worlds will now show up in settings storage tab only 
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using a jukebox on Nintendo Switch 
• Fixed the spider leg animation in the Dwarven Mining Company marketplace map  
• Fixed an issue on Xbox one that would disable LAN games when the user does not have multiplayer permissions 
• Fix issue of region filters not working if inside a custom spawn event  
• Various fixes and improvements to the randomTickSpeed function
• Graphics no longer become corrupted when disabling Texel Anti-Aliasing on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-34820) 
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when loading the game 
• Various fixes and improvements to the Marketplace sorting and search results 
• Fixed an issue with screenshots taken in VR-mode 
• Fixed an issue that could cause the user to get stuck on the 'Converting World' screen if the game is suspended
• Players who are disconnected while downloading a multiplayer pack no longer get stuck on the saving world screen  
• Fixed sleep goal so mobs can get in beds that have blocks on the sides 
• Charging a crossbow with a firework rocket no longer briefly shows an arrow being loaded (MCPE-40745) 
• Fixed a crash that could occur on Xbox if a user was not signed in correctly 
• Tags that start with a percentage now display correctly
• Cornflowers now render correctly in item frames  
• Enabling 'Touch only affects the hotbar' on Nintendo Switch now works as expected: (MCPE-38614) 
  • Controller sensitivity setting (touching the screen no longer interferes with controller movement)​ 
  • Removed increased build distance in creative including place/mine tooltips​ 

• When last hotbar slot selected, touching the screen no longer switches to 8th slot 
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when downloading a large world on Nintendo Switch 
• Fixed a bug where kelp would grow in horizontal flowing water (MCPE-37155) 
• Fixed a crash that could occur when entering a portal on some servers  
• Fixed an issue that could cause lighting issues in chunks when flying around 
• Cats are no longer tempted by food when they are too far from the player  
• Fixed Wither Skeleton model geometry issue that was affecting some marketplace content 
• Using scoreboard selectors no longer adds extra characters to player names
• Fixed animations for cow and parrot mobs 
• Ender dragon attacks now show a particle trail  
• Mobs can no longer destroy paintings if mob griefing is disabled (MCPE-38916) 
• Script queries no longer show error messages when detecting dropped item entities (MCPE-40437) 
• Fixed a bug with converted worlds on Nintendo Switch that prevented cross platform multiplayer (MCPE-34641) 
• Renamed ‘player_attacked_actor’ scripting event to ‘player_attacked’ 
• Scripting can now be used to attach particles to mobs correctly
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading large world templates 
• Reduced the number of Drowned mob spawning (MCPE-34032) 
• Firework Stars no longer appear black in Creative inventory 
• The scripting event 'entity_created' will now fire correctly 
• Fixed an issue with the scripting event 'isValidEntity' not working as expected  
• Fixed the 'damage_sensor' scripting component that was not working as expected
• Existing armor stands no longer turn white 
• Fixed an issue with the black and pink missing texture icon that would sometimes appear in the marketplace  
• Fixed a bug that could cause missing textures if the player suspended the game while it is still loading 
• Fixed an issue with the sword held by the Vex mob