Minecraft:Legacy Console Edition exclusive features

This is a list of all of the features exclusive to the Minecraft:Legacy Console Edition.

General

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The Mansion in the TU7–TU11 Tutorial World on the Xbox 360.

Tutorial

DLC

• Minecraft:Mash-up packs
  • Has more Minecraft:music tracks.
• Minecraft:Texture packs
  • Legacy Console Edition texture packs
  • They were replaced by resource packs from Minecraft:Java Edition in 1.6.1.

Minecraft:Achievements/Minecraft:Trophies

• More achievements/trophies.

Minecraft:Bonus Chest

• Labeled as "Bonus Chest" instead of just "Chest" in the UI. Minecraft:Breaking and then placing the Minecraft:chest back down removes this unique label.

Minecraft:Skins

• 14 extra default skins.
• Certain Console Edition-exclusive Minecraft:skin packs.

Minecraft:Leaderboards

Mini Games

• Tumble mini-game
• Battle mini-game
• Glide mini-game

Descriptions

• Gives the player detailed instructions about what an item/block/entity does.

Minecraft:Sleeping

• New sleeping animation.

World generation

Minecraft:World sizes

• Options for classic (864×864), small (1024×1024), medium (3072×3072), and large (5120×5120) world sizes. Large, medium, and small are only available on the Minecraft:Xbox One Edition and Minecraft:PlayStation 4 Edition. On the Minecraft:Nintendo Switch Edition, there are only classic, small, and medium world sizes.
  • Water moat occupies the outer 2 chunks to smoothly transition to the edge of the world.
  • Overwrite world edges option when expanding a world from a smaller size to a larger size, resetting the outer 2 chunks in the smaller world, removes the water moat at the edge of the world.
  • Classic world size generates more villages than large world sizes.

Biome Scale

• Small, medium, and large option. The small option is the default due to limited world size, so one world can have more biomes.
  • Biome generation is roughly based on Java Edition 64 bit generation seeds. Large biome size is equivalent to biome size 4 from Java Edition Minecraft:Old Customized worlds, Medium is rough approximation on biome size 3, and small biome size roughly approximates to biome size 2. This is due to biome scaling taking place before hill biomes, edge biomes, and beach biome are applied to the map, unlike Java Edition Old Customized worlds where the scaling occurs after.
  • Mushroom biomes generate in different locations compared to Java Edition.
  • Since the Exploration Update, temples and Minecraft:structures attempt to spawn more frequently, due to limited world sizes, especially with Minecraft:woodland mansions.
• There is a "Find Balanced Seed" option, selected by default, which makes the game randomly select seeds that have a better variety of biomes.

Minecraft:The Nether

• Noise generation is loosely based on Java Edition Nether noise generation.
• Has limited size, at 288×288, and is slightly larger with a larger world size. On Large worlds, the Nether is up to 640×640.
• The Nether-Overworld portal ratio is larger depending on world size: 1:3 in Classic and Small; 1:6 in Medium; and 1:8, like other versions of Minecraft:Minecraft, in Large.
• Nether wart spawns randomly wherever Minecraft:soul sand is generated in the Nether.
• The edge of this dimension is made of bedrock.
• The Nether is hollow, with a flat ground, when using a Minecraft:superflat world.

Minecraft:The End

• Up to one Minecraft:End gateway can generate on Minecraft:Xbox 360 Edition, Minecraft:PlayStation 3 Edition, Minecraft:PlayStation Vita Edition, and Minecraft:Wii U Edition, whereas up to four End gateways can generate on Minecraft:Xbox One Edition, Minecraft:PlayStation 4 Edition, and Minecraft:Nintendo Switch Edition.
  • The coordinates they generate are as follows, with the first set of coordinates being that of the first End gateway, and the remaining 3 gateways using the 3 remaining coordinates, but not in any particular order:
    • x:65 y:75 z:0
      • Leads to the southern island and is guaranteed to generate an Minecraft:End city.
    • x:-65 y:75 z:0
      • Leads to the eastern island.
    • x:0 y:75 z:65
      • Leads to the northern island.
    • x:0 y:75 z:-65
      • Leads to the western island.
• Each End gateway portal leads to one outer island, which is as big as the main island. On the Minecraft:Xbox 360 Edition, Minecraft:PlayStation 3 Edition, Minecraft:PlayStation Vita Edition, and Minecraft:Wii U Edition, the only generated outer island always generates an End city with an Minecraft:End ship.
• The End gateways in the outer islands generate at a random position in a random corner and always 10 blocks above the ground just like in Java Edition.
• The size does not change with regard to the world's Minecraft:world size. Even on the classic world size, the islands are so far apart that they are all on different Minecraft:maps.
  • The spawn End island generates at 0,0, up to 96 blocks form the origin. Outer islands generate 2048 blocks from the origin in cardinal directions.
• Each island is surrounded by invisible walls, making it impossible to go between them without the use of End gateways.
  • Only a 192 by 192 block area (12 by 12 chunks generate, 6 chunks from the center) for each island.
• Only the spawn End island's noise generation loosely follows Minecraft:Java Edition End noise generation. The outer End islands always generate the End island; rather than other End biomes (small End islands).
• The Minecraft:obsidian platform is located at X=60, Y=49, Z=60; unlike that of Java or Bedrock.
• Minecraft:End spikes are generated differently:
  • Generates 8 pillars instead of 10.
  • Centers of the pillars have a horizontal Minecraft:euclidean distance of 40 blocks to the exit portal.
  • Are sorted by size with an ascending order clockwise.
  • Start generating at Y-Level 1 instead of 0.
  • The smallest pillar generates until Y-Level 73. Each next pillar going clockwise is 3 blocks taller.
  • The 2 tallest pillars have Minecraft:iron bars.
• The Minecraft:exit portal always generates at Y-Level 63.
• The exit portal always generates with a small island made out of Minecraft:End stone around it even with world seeds that otherwise do not generate a central island.

Minecraft:Superflat Interface

• An interface for creating superflat worlds. While a similar interface exists on older versions of Minecraft:Java Edition, in Legacy Console Edition, it is much more versatile, allowing you to change what generates, how much it generates, and more.
• A maximum of 128 layers, including at least one layer of Minecraft:bedrock always at the bottom of the world that cannot be changed or removed.
  • The Legacy Console Edition is the only edition of the game to have a block selection menu and biome selection menu for custom superflats, the layout of which are shown below:
    • There are a total of 250 unique different blocks in the custom superflat block selection menu as of Minecraft:PlayStation 4 Edition 1.95. Not all blocks can be used for custom superflat, such as Minecraft:slabs or Minecraft:stairs.
    • There are a total of 21 different biomes in the biome selection menu for custom superflats. Not all Minecraft:biomes can be used, such as the Minecraft:birch forest, which is notably missing from the custom superflat biome selection menu.

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Options

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Game options menu on Legacy Console Edition.

Command-like Minecraft:options

• All Template:Cmd command options except for reducedDebugInfo, randomTickSpeed and some others with an interface.

Game Minecraft:options

• Online Game
• Invite Only
• Allow friends of friends
• Player vs Player
• Host Privileges
• Minecraft:Daylight Cycle
• Minecraft:Weather Cycle
• Keep Minecraft:Inventory
• Minecraft:Mob Spawning
• Mob Griefing
• Mob Loot
• Minecraft:Tile Drops
• Natural Regeneration
• Biome Scale Slider
• Find Balanced Seed
• Autosave on/off

Minecraft:HUD Options

• Interface Opacity
• Interface Sensitivity
• Display HUD
• Display Hand
• In-Game Tooltips
• In-Game Gamertags
• Splitscreen Gamertags
• HUD Size
• HUD Size (Splitscreen)

Other options

• Cave Sounds
• Minecart Sounds
• Manual Minecraft:crafting
• Reset Nether
• Reset Minecraft:The End
• Hints
• Minecraft:Death messages

Render distance

• The render distance is set to 10 Minecraft:chunks on the Minecraft:Xbox 360 Edition, Minecraft:PlayStation 3 Edition, and the Wii U Edition whereas on the Minecraft:Xbox One Edition and the Minecraft:PlayStation 4 Edition it is set to 18 chunks.

Blocks and items

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Coordinates displayed on maps on Legacy Console Edition.

Minecraft:Banners

• Have an automatic crafting option.

Minecraft:Dead bushes

• Always drop 1 Minecraft:stick instead of 0-2.

Minecraft:Enchanted golden apple

• Can be crafted with 1 Minecraft:apple and 8 Minecraft:blocks of gold.
  • Template:JE had this recipe until 1.9.
  • Template:BE had this recipe until 1.2.10.

Minecraft:Block of Emerald

• Use the texture from 18w50a.Template:Only

Minecraft:Golden Armor

• Use the texture from 18w43a.Template:Only

Minecraft:Leather Armor

• Use the texture from Minecraft:Java Edition 1.13.Template:Only

Minecraft:Firework rockets

• Five pre-crafted firework rockets are available in Creative Mode. The types are as follows:
  • Duration 1, small ball, light blue, twinkle
    • Crafted by creating a firework star using gunpowder, light blue dye, and glowstone dust; then use the firework star, one paper, and one gunpowder; to craft the firework rocket.
  • Duration 2, creeper shaped, green
    • Crafted by creating a firework star using gunpowder, green dye, and a mob head; then use the firework star, one paper, and two gunpowder; to craft the firework rocket.
  • Duration 2, burst, red, fade to orange
    • Crafted by creating a firework star using gunpowder, red dye, and a feather; then add orange dye to the firework star; then use the firework star, one paper, and two gunpowder; to craft the firework rocket.
  • Duration 3, burst, magenta, fade to blue, twinkle
    • Crafted by creating a firework star using gunpowder, magenta dye, a feather and glowstone dust; then add blue dye to the firework star; then use the firework star, one paper, and three gunpowder; to craft the firework rocket.
  • Duration 2, star shaped, yellow, fade to orange, trail
    • Crafted by creating a firework star using gunpowder, yellow dye, a gold nugget, and a diamond; then add orange dye to the firework star; then use the firework star, one paper, and two gunpowder; to craft the firework rocket.
• Minecraft:Firework stars are not directly obtainable in the Creative inventory.

Minecraft:Grass blocks

• Render 3D in the side when not snowy.Template:Only

Minecraft:Jack o'Lantern

• Named "Jack-O-Lantern".

Minecraft:Jungle sapling

• Named "Jungle Tree Sapling".

Minecraft:Kelp

• Has a different hitbox.

Minecraft:Lava

• Cannot be placed within a 33x33 area around the world spawn point (similar to the default size of Minecraft:spawn protection in Template:JE) and attempting to do so shows a warning.

Can't Place Here!
Placing lava close to the level spawn point is not allowed due to the possibility of instant death for spawning players.

Minecraft:Maps

• When upgrading the world in the Minecraft:PlayStation 4 Edition, it will turn into a Minecraft:Locator map, but cannot be stacked with others.

• The Minecraft:player always begins a new world with an empty map; it will be a map of 1024×1024 area size (1:8 scale, zoom step 3).
• Maps will display the coordinates that the player is located at.
  • Coordinates displayed are that of the player's eye level, not the player's feet.
• Cannot be zoomed in.
• Are snapped to a grid different from Minecraft:Java Edition and Minecraft:Bedrock Edition.
  • Specifically, maps center on 0,0, so the map at spawn would cover up to 512 blocks from the origin. Large world maps cover from 512 to 1536 blocks, and then 1536 to 2560 blocks. The center of these maps are at 1024 or 2048.

Minecraft:Melons

• Can drop 10 Minecraft:melon slices when mined with Minecraft:fortune 3.

Minecraft:Music disc

• After the music disc "cat" finishes playing, the soundtrack "Dog" starts playing.
• Playing a music disc in a jukebox stops background music for the duration of the music disc.

Minecraft:Nether wart

• Nether wart generates randomly on any Minecraft:soul sand in Minecraft:the Nether, rather than exclusively in Minecraft:Nether fortresses.

Minecraft:Sand and Minecraft:red sand

• Can be smelted in a Minecraft:blast furnace.

Minecraft:Short grass

• Named "Tall Grass".

Minecraft:Shrubs

• Obtainable in the Minecraft:Creative inventory.

Minecraft:Spawn eggs

• Cannot spawn monsters on Peaceful Minecraft:difficulty. The player gets an error message and the spawn egg is not consumed.

You can't spawn enemies in Peaceful mode.

Minecraft:Stonecutter

• Shows all possible blocks that can be crafted, instead of just craftable blocks. This is the case even if the "Classic Crafting" option is off.

Minecraft:Tall grass

• Named "Double Tall Grass".

Mobs & entities

Minecraft:Blazes

• Blazes drop 0-2 Minecraft:glowstone dust when killed.

Minecraft:Minecarts

• Twice the speed as Template:In.

Minecraft:Phantoms

• Only have 10 health instead of 20.

Minecraft:Skeletons

• Use the old sounds for taking Minecraft:damage and dying.

Minecraft:Vindicators

• Deal less damage.
  • Easy: 6 instead of 7
  • Normal: 10 instead of 13
  • Hard: 15 instead of 19

Minecraft:Wandering traders

• Are able to sell Minecraft:lilacs, Minecraft:rose bushes, Minecraft:sunflowers, Minecraft:peonies and Minecraft:red sandstone.

Minecraft:Witches

• File:18w50a witch.png Use the texture from 18w50a.Template:Only

Minecraft:Withers

• Perform their dash attack much more often than its Template:Edition counterpart.

Minecraft:Wither skeletons

• Spawn in all parts of the Nether rather than only in Nether fortresses.<ref>MCCE-4165 — resolved as "Works As Intended".</ref>

Zombie Pigmen

• Entity model is taller than the player, rather than the same height.

Crafting

File:Crafting Table LCE.png

Legacy Console Edition's crafting table interface

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2×2 crafting interface

The game has a Minecraft:crafting system with the following categories. The categories of blocks and items in the crafting menu differ significantly from the Creative menu, and various blocks and items are grouped differently. Minecraft:Stonecutters have a separate interface, although it functions very similar to the crafting menu.

The crafting system Template:In could be changed to use the system from the Java Edition by checking the "Classic Crafting" option under "User Interface" in the options menu.

By default, Legacy Console Edition used a simplified crafting system. It did not require the Minecraft:player to place items in the correct place in the crafting interface, but instead displayed the ingredients required to craft the selected item and allows the player to craft that item as long as the player has the required crafting ingredients.

The PlayStation Vita and Wii U editions did not have the ability to craft using touch input.

Layout

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• Template:ItemLink: - all colors, all shapes, all effects
• Template:InvSprite: - all colors
• Template:ItemLink: - GunpowderTemplate:Info needed

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• Template:Tint Armor, Color: - all leather armor equipment, all colors
• Template:ItemLink: - BedsTemplate:Info needed, all colors

Stonecutter block:

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Notes

• Minecraft:Crafting entries with an asterisk (*) do not appear outside the crafting table.
• The armor tab does not show in the inventory crafting menu, only in the Minecraft:crafting table. All other crafting tabs show even in the Minecraft:inventorycrafting menu. Only three of the six banner tabs show in the inventory banner crafting menu, including the select banner tab.
• As with the Minecraft:Creative inventory, there is no search tab, unlike the Minecraft:recipe book on Java and Bedrock. Players must instead browse each individual tab to find the item in question, or toggle to show craftable items only.
• When using the Minecraft:loom for banner crafting, only the banner crafting interface with the banner specific navigation tabs are available. In the first tab, only "Select Banner" is available.
• Minecraft:Furnaces, Minecraft:blast furnaces, and Minecraft:smokers do not have a predefined menu selection of blocks, unlike the Minecraft:recipe book on other editions such as Java.
• Colored materials are ordered by color data values, unlike colored items in the Creative inventory. This applies to all tabs (crafting, banners, dyes, fireworks), in both the crafting table and loom. The order of dyes in the crafting dyes in the decorations tab is different.

Creative inventory

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Creative mode item selection screen in Legacy Console Edition

The Minecraft:Creative inventory in Legacy Console Edition was the same as Java Edition, albeit with slightly different tabs and its own set of items.

On Minecraft:PlayStation 4 Edition 1.95, there are a total of 1,043 unique items in the Creative inventory.

Layout

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Differences

• There is no search tab, with all of the Creative inventory's items in a single tab, on Legacy Console. Players must instead browse each individual tab to find the item in question.
• Scrolling up and down in the Creative inventory and custom superflat scrolls one entire page at a time (five rows of items) on Legacy Console; instead of scrolling one row at a time like all other editions of the game.
• Both Luck effect and Decay effect potions and tipped arrows are available on Legacy Console.
• All Minecraft:Potion and Minecraft:Tipped Arrow types are arranged by base variants, followed by extended variants, and enhanced variants. They aren't arranged by regular, splash, and lingering potions like on Java or Bedrock.
• Colored blocks and items are arranged in a different order from Java and Bedrock. They don't use a rainbow order like all colored blocks and items on Java (almost all on Bedrock).
• Banners on Legacy Console are arranged differently from all other colored blocks and items within.
• Enchanted books are ordered partially like that of Java, and those added after the World of Color update, partially like that of Bedrock, with other minor differences to the order of enchanted books.
• Unlike later versions of Java or Bedrock Edition, spawn eggs are not sorted alphabetically, nor are they sorted with most passive mobs before most hostile ones. Instead; most hostile mob spawn eggs are listed before most passive mob spawn eggs.
• Minecraft:Slabs, Minecraft:stairs, and Minecraft:walls share the same order between Legacy Console and Bedrock Edition with the following exception: Stone brick and mossy stone brick stairs and slabs are found between mossy cobblestone and wooden variants on Legacy Console, rather than between wooden and sandstone variants like on Bedrock.

Exclusive Items in the Creative inventory

• Exclusive to Legacy Console Edition only, and cannot be found on any other platform:
  • Template:BlockLink
  • Template:ItemLink, five types
• Also available on New Nintendo 3DS, and historically on Bedrock, prior to Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.12.0:
  • Template:BlockLink
• Also available on Java, but not Bedrock:
  • Luck effect Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, and Template:ItemLink
  • Template:ItemLink
• Historically exclusive to Java and Legacy Console only, but not Bedrock, prior to Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.12.0:
  • Template:BlockLink
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• Also available on Bedrock, but not Java:
  • Decay effect Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, and Template:ItemLink
• Historically exclusive to Bedrock and Legacy Console only, but not Java, prior to Minecraft:Java Edition 1.15:
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Unobtainable items in the Creative inventory

• The following items cannot be obtained directly in the Creative inventory on Legacy Console only. On other Minecraft:Minecraft editions such as Java or Bedrock, these items are in the Creative inventory.
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  • Template:BlockLink
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  • Template:BlockLink
  • Template:ItemLink, four types with no effects
  • Mundane and Thick Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, and Template:ItemLink
  • Awkward Template:ItemLink, and Template:ItemLink
  • Template:ItemLink, those that are not the highest level.
• The following items on Legacy Console are not obtainable in the base game. On other Minecraft editions, these items are available through commands or are in the Creative inventory.
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  • Template:BlockLink
  • Template:BlockLink
  • Template:BlockLink, all types
  • Template:ItemLink
• Unlike Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, Minecraft:Update Aquatic and Minecraft:Village & Pillage did not add the following items on Legacy Console, and are as such unavailable in the game:
  • Slowness IV effect Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, Template:ItemLink, and Template:ItemLink
  • Template:BlockLink, all types
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  • Template:ItemLink, all types
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  • Template:ItemLink
  • Template:ItemLink

Other

• Villager Minecraft:trading has a different GUI compared to other Minecraft:Minecraft editions.

• 3D blocks in the inventory have the same lighting on the X and Z axis facing sides, unlike Java and Bedrock. This is the case on more recent versions on some platforms.Template:Info needed

• In the editions with the Minecraft:Update Aquatic, Minecraft:players can enter swimming mode if any part of their character is touching water, not just their head.

• In all Legacy Console Editions there is a debug mode used by Minecraft:4J Studios. Currently it can only be accessed in Minecraft:Xbox 360 Edition TU4 or below.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpufpKw0HBc</ref>

• Rotating horizontally while gliding with an Minecraft:elytra tilts the camera. This can be disabled under "game options".

• Sneaking while gliding with an Minecraft:elytra and not holding anything in the mainhand rotates the arm by 180° in third person.

• Items that are renamed using an Minecraft:anvil have an orange name instead of an italic name.

• Worn Minecraft:heads, Minecraft:carved pumpkins, and Minecraft:banners flash red when the entity takes damage.

• Block breaking speed is not reduced when not touching the ground.

• Sprinting is not cancelled when sprinting against a block.

• Players can open inventory UIs while being inside a Minecraft:Nether portal.

• An exclusive "Gary Banner!" splash exists.Template:When

• Entering or leaving Minecraft:the End shows a message for other players. In the editions with the Update Aquatic, the player entering or leaving the End sees it too.

• In the editions with the Update Aquatic, players swim up faster in Minecraft:water, allowing them to swim up in dragging Minecraft:bubble columns.
• On the Minecraft:Xbox One Edition, you can add worlds to a ban list and when you join a world that's on the ban list, you will get a dialog box telling you if a world you joined is on the ban list.<ref>[1]</ref>

• Minecraft:Villager trading GUI
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• Debug options
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• Debug menu
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