Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.16.100.58 changelog

Posted: 30 September 2020

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Performance and Stability

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
• Fixed a crash that occurred when rendering
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a stunned entity loaded into the world
• Fixed a crash that could occur in certain Marketplace layouts, and ensured the carousel is always populated correctly

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue with tall plants (bamboo, sugar cane, and cactus) breaking instantly (MCPE-98111)
• Fixed a bug that prevented lava buckets from being used as fuel (MCPE-100405)

General

• Fixed an issue where animations in the achievement screen could be played backwards
• Fixed missing translation loading screen tip (MCPE-100308)

Technical Changes

• Removed legacy fall damage packet from client
• Made some small changes around how we calculate the spawn position of dropped items from a player that dies from falling
• Added support for the music command, allowing creators to play and control custom music
• Changed LegacyCubemap from opaque to transparent (MCPE-94275)
• Fog Definition identifier cannot use the "minecraft" namespace unless it's from a vanilla resource pack
• Blocks that have ticking components will now clear their pending ticks from the ticking queue upon removal
  • Added the on_player_destroyed trigger component

DataDrivenBlocks

• Middle click on non-default permutations of data driven blocks no longer throws an assert. Middle click now adds the default permutation of the block to your inventory
• Added a fix for blocks computing ambient occlusion to behave more like vanilla by only contributing ambient occlusion if it's an opaque unit cube
• Made data driven blocks with disabled collision pathable 

Documentation

• Added documentation for block event responses and re-organized block documentation