Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.17.0.50

Beta 1.17.0.50 is the fifth beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.17.0, released on April 21, 2021,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which adds amethyst, Minecraft:calcite, raw metal, Minecraft:spyglass, tinted glass and Minecraft:tuff.

It is the last beta release to support Android 4.2 and 4.3 (Jelly Bean).

Additions

Blocks

Amethyst Bud

• Grows from budding amethyst, which is found in amethyst geodes.
• Starts out tiny, but grows into medium after a while, large after even more time, and eventually becomes an amethyst cluster.
• Unlike crops, each growth stage is a separate block instead of a block state.
• Drops only when mined with a Minecraft:Silk Touch pickaxe.
• There is a total of 3 variants (stages).

Minecraft:Amethyst Cluster

• The final, mature stage of the amethyst bud, which grows from budding amethyst in amethyst geodes.
• Drops amethyst shards if broken, in an amount affected by Fortune, but can also be picked up with Silk Touch.
  • Breaking by hand, Minecraft:piston, or other means drops only 2 amethyst shards instead of 4 that would be dropped by using any Minecraft:pickaxe.
• Emits a light level of 5.

Amethyst Block

• A decorative block found in amethyst geodes.
• Unlike Budding Amethyst, the Block of Amethyst can be obtained when mined.
• Can also be crafted with 4 amethyst shards.

Block of Raw Metal

• Raw copper, raw gold and raw iron can be crafted into the respective block of raw metal.

Minecraft:Budding Amethyst

• Generates amethyst buds/clusters on any side that is exposed either to air or a water source block.
• Cannot be obtained when mined, even with Silk Touch, and does not drop anything.
• Breaks immediately if pushed by a Minecraft:piston or sticky piston.
  • Cannot be pulled by sticky pistons.
• Generates in amethyst geodes.

Minecraft:Calcite

• An off-white stone that generates in geodes, between smooth basalt and amethyst.

Minecraft:Smooth Basalt

• A Minecraft:basalt variant that composes the outer layer of amethyst geodes.
• Can be obtained by smelting Minecraft:basalt.

Minecraft:Tinted Glass

• A black variant of glass that is transparent to players, but does not let light through.
• Can be crafted with 4 amethyst shards and a glass block.
  • Stained glass cannot be used to craft tinted glass.
• Drops itself if mined without Minecraft:Silk Touch or even by hand, unlike Minecraft:glass.

Minecraft:Tuff

• A deep grayish stone that can generate in blobs between Y = 16 to Y = 0 of the world.

Items

Minecraft:Amethyst Shard

• Obtained from breaking amethyst clusters.
• The amount dropped can be increased with the Fortune enchantment.
• Can be used to craft tinted glass, blocks of amethyst, and spyglasses.

Raw metal

• Added raw iron, raw copper and raw gold.
  • Drop from their respective Minecraft:ore.
    • The ores can still be obtained with Minecraft:Silk Touch.
  • Can be smelted into an ingot.
  • Minecraft:Piglins attempt to pick up raw gold.

Minecraft:Spyglass

• Crafted with 2 copper ingots and an amethyst shard.
• When used, it zooms in on wherever the player is looking but limits their view to a square.
  • The scope texture is a Minecraft:glass square with a copper border.
  • The overlay that limits the view can be removed with a resource pack.
• There is a unique animation for using the spyglass, which is visible in a third-person perspective or by another player.

World generation

Amethyst Geodes

• A new feature found uncommonly underground (can rarely appear exposed to the surface close to sea level).
• Contains blocks of amethyst and budding amethyst blocks, which are encased in a shell of calcite and tuff.
  • Also generates with a small air pocket nearby which may open into the geode.
• Most commonly generates at lower levels. (y = 6 to y = 47)
• Overrides standard caves and ravines, but is overridden by mineshafts.

General

Minecraft:Settings

• Added "Spyglass Damping" scale option ranging from 0 to 100.
  • Sets the camera movement speed when looking through a Spyglass to make it more comfortable to use.

Changes

Blocks

Azalea Leaves and Flowering Azalea Leaves

• Now have a chance to drop Azalea or Flowering Azalea when broken.

Minecraft:Blackstone, gilded blackstone, and stair, Minecraft:slab and Minecraft:wall variants

• Slightly changed the texture.

Minecraft:Block of Copper

• Copper surfaces now deoxidize in a more random pattern when struck by lightning.
• Horizontally placed Lightning Rods now interact properly with respect to de-oxidizing Copper Blocks.
• Copper Blocks struck by lightning now deoxidize even if there's no Lightning Rod present.
• Added sounds for scrapping off wax and oxidization.

Deepslate Coal Ore, Deepslate Copper Ore, and Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore

• Changed and slightly tweaked the textures of these blocks.

Minecraft:Cobbled Deepslate

• Can now be used as crafting material for tools, furnaces, and brewing stands.

Minecraft:Glow Item Frame

• Glow Item Frame textures are no longer inconsistent between Bedrock and Java.
• Now produces redstone signals.

Minecraft:Glow Lichen

• Now available outside the Caves & Cliffs experiments toggle.
• Can now be placed with all six faces set.

Snowy Grass Block

• Changed snowy grass block side texture.

Minecraft:Lightning Rod

• Blocks connected to a Lightning Rod now correctly conduct redstone signal when the rod is hit by lightning.

Minecraft:Moss Block

• Can now replace Dirt, Podzol, Rooted Dirt, Stone, and Cave Vines.

Minecraft:Pointed Dripstone

• If a stalactite is hanging from a dripstone block with a water source above, it will slowly grow both the stalactite from above and a stalagmite from below.
  • Growth speed is random but very slow; a single growth step can take several in-game days.
• A stalactite will only grow up to 7 blocks long.
• A stalactite will only cause stalagmite growth if the floor or stalagmite below is within 10 blocks.
• If the stalactite tip is inside water it won’t drip, and therefore will not trigger any growth.
• If the stalagmite tip is inside water or there is a fluid between the two dripstone blocks, it will not receive the water drops, and therefore will not be grown by a dripping stalactite.
  • A stalagmite or stalactite will never grow when submerged in fluid.

Minecraft:Powder Snow

• Now available outside the Caves & Cliffs experiments toggle.
• Powder Snow blocks are now removed by flowing water and lava.

Minecraft:Signs

• Changed the textures of oak signs to reflect new textures in the Texture Update.

Minecraft:Small Dripleaf

• Applying bone meal to small dripleaves now creates big dripleaves of a random height between 1-5 blocks.

Minecraft:Smoker

• Changed the top texture of the smoker.

Items

Jungle Doors

• Changed the texture of the jungle door item to reflect the block texture in the Texture Update.

Minecraft:Signs

• Changed textures of all Minecraft:sign items.

Minecraft:Sugar Cane

• Changed the texture of the sugar cane item to better reflect biome tinting.

Mobs

Axolotl

• Bucketing an Axolotl no longer unlocks the "I am a Marine Biologist" achievement.
• Now much more likely to spawn.
• No longer grant themselves regeneration when killing their target.

Foxes

• Can now walk over powder snow without sinking.

Guardian and Elder Guardian

• Removed some stray pixels from the texture file.

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:Paintings

• Changed the back texture to reflect the planks texture in the Texture Update.

World generation

Dripstone Caves

• Now randomly generate rarely underground
  • Can only be generated by enabling "Caves & Cliffs" toggle in the world settings.

Minecraft:Lush Caves

• Now randomly generate rarely underground
  • Can only be generated by enabling "Caves & Cliffs" toggle in the world settings.

Mineshaft

• Cobwebs no longer generate suspended in the air in mineshaft.

Sounds

Minecraft:Bone Meal

• Added sounds for using bone meal.

General

• Added distinct damage sounds for burning, freezing, and drowning.
• Walking sound will now play below y=0.

Technical

Actors

• Internal state flag Template:Cd that was stopping interactions with items will be properly set/cleared when looking at a mob that cannot be ridden.

General

• Added two new variables to the biomes_client.json file: Template:Cd and Template:Cd, which control fog merging and/or inheritance.
  • Template:Cd, when true, will clear all previous fog definitions stored on the stack, making the current pack the new "starting point" for fogs.
  • Template:Cd, when true, will merge a biome's fog definition with matching biomes on the stack then create a new merged definition for it.
• Template:Cd tag should only affect rendering in first person camera perspective.

Fixes

Caves & Cliffs

• Player now receives experience points after breeding Axolotls (Template:Bug)
• Copper Stairs now produce their unique footstep sounds at positions below y=0 (Template:Bug)
• Cobbled Deepslate, Deepslate Bricks, and Deepslate Tiles now give experience from smelting in a Furnace (Template:Bug)
• Landing on Dripstone no longer deals fall damage when gamerule falldamage is set to false
• Dripstone Block is now correctly named (Template:Bug)
• Only the tips of stalagmites deal increased fall damage (Template:Bug)
• Cauldrons fill slightly faster with water from dripping stalactites
• Throwing a Channeling trident at a rod during a thunderstorm now correctly converts nearby mobs (Template:Bug)
• Throwing a Channeling trident at a rod during a thunderstorm now correctly affects villagers
• Moss Carpet now has Block Placing sound (Template:Bug)
• Azalea and Flowering Azalea now have ambient occlusion (Template:Bug)
• Powder Snow blocks are now removed by flowing water and lava (Template:Bug)
• Foxes can now walk on Powder Snow (Template:Bug)
• Exiting a world while being slowed down from freezing will no longer keep the Character slowed after rejoining (Template:Bug)
• Powder Snow now only applies the freeze component to entities server-side
• Glow Lichen no longer generates floating in air
• Glow Lichen can no longer exist with no faces present

General

• Fixed invite icon remaining on start screen after signing out of Microsoft account.

Accessibility

• Fixed a bug where Text-to-speech read the wrong text when displaying toasts.

Commands

• Fixed issue where Template:Cmd command is listed in the middle of both Template:Cmd commands (Template:Bug).
• Fixed issue where the Template:Cmd command crashes/freezes the game completely (Template:Bug).

Gameplay

• Renamed Structure Blocks will no longer have the incorrect data mode on creation (Template:Bug).

Graphical

• Cubemap no longer blinks when loading the game, loading into a world or leaving a world (Template:Bug).
• Fixed Strider, Hoglin, Zoglin, Piglin, Piglin Brute Spawn Eggs turning red when quick-moved inside any Inventory in RenderDragon builds.
• Fixed enchantment glint shape of Charged Bow and Crossbow icons in RenderDragon builds.

Items

• Using an axe on Wood blocks turns them into Stripped Wood blocks (Template:Bug).
• Fixed items playing “attack” and “using” animations at the same time on touch input (Template:Bug).

Vanilla Parity

• Critical hit particles now generate around a mob instead of under it (Template:Bug).

Scoreboards

• Fixed a crash that sometimes happened when an entity with a scoreboard value was removed from the level.

Stability and Performance

• Added content warnings for invalid map item parent id caused by the outdated Marketplace world templates.

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