Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.17.10.20 changelog

Posted: May 26, 2021

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• Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft 
• You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta
• Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them 
• Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality 
• 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

It's time for another Caves & Cliffs beta update! Please continue to leave us your feedback in the threads at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and search and reports any new bugs you may encounter at bugs.mojang.com.

Known Issue: 

• May 27, 2021 - The team is aware of a crash that occurs when breaking blocks while the Caves & Cliffs experimental toggle is enabled. While we work on a fix, avoid playing on worlds with the experimental toggle.
  
  

Features and Bug Fixes

Vanilla Parity

• Thunderstorms now happen as often as on Minecraft: Java Edition (MCPE-72798)

Axolotl

• Axolotls no longer move their tails while playing dead (MCPE-123309)
• Feeding Axolotls with Bucket of Tropical Fish now returns Water Bucket instead of empty Bucket (MCPE-127382)
• Axolotl's hitbox is now smaller to match the size of the mob
• Guardians and Elder Guardians now attack Axolotl on sight
• Drowned now attack Axolotls on sight

Azalea

• Azalea can now be bone-mealed when placed on Clay
• Using Pick Block on Azalea Leaves and Flowering Azalea Leaves now results in the correct blocks being picked (MCPE-128092)

Copper Ore

• Copper Ore is now placed after other overworld ores in the Creative inventory (MCPE-119724)

Deepslate

• Deepslate is now placed after other stones in the Creative inventory (MCPE-127592)

Glow Item Frame

• Glow Item Frame is now placed after regular Item Frame in the Creative inventory (MCPE-117532)

Hanging Roots

• Hanging Roots are now destroyed by water (MCPE-121676, MCPE-127677)

Lightning Rod

• Lightning Rod no longer breaks falling blocks that land on it (MCPE-116545)

Rooted Dirt

• Rooted Dirt texture is now randomly rotated, matching the behaviour of the regular Dirt Block (MCPE-123197)

Character Creator

• Items can now be previewed in the Character Creator and equipped using the Equip button
• Added Equip button to Classic Skins and Capes tab

Commands

• '/title clear' now correctly clears the title and subtitle from the HUD (MCPE-97636)

Dressing Room

• Profile screen reload button is now localized

Gameplay

• Fixed split-screen players not able to rename items on Anvils (MCPE-108405)

Graphical

• Projectiles such as Snowballs and Eggs no longer cast shadows

Items

• All dropped items now have a similar floating height
• Data-driven items now swing faster when not targeting blocks (MCPE-119702)
• Firework Rockets obtained from '/replaceitem' command now have a flight duration (MCPE-109037)
• Firework Stars obtained from '/replaceitem' command now have proper color values (MCPE-109037)

Lush Caves

• Small Dripleaf now only drops itself when broken with Shears

Skeleton

• Skeletons now turn into Strays after 20 seconds in Powder Snow, reduced from 45 seconds

Powder Snow

• Burning mobs can no longer destroy Powder Snow when the Mob Griefing gamerule is disabled (MC-221842)

User Interface

• Hotbar item tooltip duration now scales with the length of the tooltip's text
• Added a new accessibility icon in the Settings menu

Technical Updates

Gameplay

• Loot chests with Seed=0 now correctly randomize if placed on the same coordinates. Note that pickblocking a Vanilla loot chest before opening it will now result in identical loot in each copy unless you set the seed to 0 in the NBT

Data Driven Mobs

• The Ender Dragon rendering and animations are now fully data-driven
• The Ender Crystal rendering and animations are now fully data-driven

Graphics

• Graphics hardware that supports a maximum D3D11 feature level of 9_3 or below are no longer supported

Stability and Performance

• Added better error handling for json parsing. Also added several new content errors for item parsing as well as for loot tables

Actors

• Incoming client-sync properties for newly seen types will properly register with client-side Actor Property Manager groups

Molang

• "query.wing_flap_position" now works with the Ender Dragon
• Added "query.show_bottom" - a query for determining whether or not the entity's bottom is rendered
• Added "query.death_time" - a query for determining the elapsed ticks since a mob started dying
• Added "math.min_angle" - a math expression for minimizing the angle magnitude (in degrees) into the range [-180, 180)

Experimental Features

GameTest Framework

• Updated the '/clearall ' command to also clear tests outside of loaded areas
• Dimension
  • getEntitiesAtBlockLocation(location : BlockLocation) : Entity[] - Returns an array of all entities at the given block location
  • spawnEntity(identifier : String, location : BlockLocation) : Entity - Spawns an entity with the given identifier at the given block location
  • [Removed] function getName()
  • property id : String - Gets the entity's identifier
  • property nameTag : String - Gets or sets the entity's name tag

• Player
  • property name : String - Gets the player's name
  • method getPlayers() : Player[] - Returns all players in the server