Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.17.0.52

Beta 1.17.0.52 is the sixth beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.17.0, released on April 28, 2021,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which moved some features out from experimental gameplay, and fixes bugs.

It is the last Bedrock version to support Android 4.4 (KitKat).

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Amethyst Cluster, Amethyst Bud, Minecraft:Azalea, Azalea Leaves, Flowering Azalea Leaves Minecraft:Flowering Azalea, Minecraft:Big Dripleaf, Minecraft:Block of Amethyst, Block of Raw Metal, Minecraft:Budding Amethyst, Minecraft:Calcite, Minecraft:Copper Ore, Minecraft:Deepslate and variants, Minecraft:Deepslate ores, Minecraft:Dripstone Block, Minecraft:Hanging Roots, Minecraft:Lightning Rod, Minecraft:Moss Block, Minecraft:Moss Carpet, Minecraft:Pointed Dripstone, Minecraft:Rooted Dirt, Minecraft:Smooth Basalt, Minecraft:Tinted Glass and Minecraft:Tuff

• Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Minecraft:Block of Copper, Minecraft:Cut Copper and stair and Minecraft:slab variants

• Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper Slabs can now be merged into full Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper blocks.
• Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Minecraft:Cauldron

• Can now be filled with powder snow.
• Collects powder snow during snowfall.
• Using a Minecraft:bucket on a cauldron filled with powder snow empties the cauldron and creates a powder snow bucket.

Minecraft:Cobblestone and Minecraft:Cobbled Deepslate

• Can now be used to repair stone tools and weapons on an Anvil.

Minecraft:Glow Item Frame

• Maps now glow in Glow Item Frames.
• Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Minecraft:Small Dripleaf

• Can now also be placed on moss blocks.
• Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Minecraft:Stone, Minecraft:Andesite, Minecraft:Diorite, and Minecraft:Granite

• No longer used to repair stone tools and weapons on an Anvil.

Items

Minecraft:Amethyst Shard, Minecraft:Copper Ingot, Minecraft:Glow Ink Sac and Minecraft:Spyglass

• Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Raw Metal

• Fortune enchantment now will drop more raw iron/gold/copper when mined.
• Raw copper, iron, and gold ore are now available outside the experimental toggle.

Minecraft:Powder Snow Bucket

• Can now be filled from Minecraft:cauldrons filled with powder snow.

Minecraft:Saplings

• Can now grow on moss block.

Minecraft:Spawn Eggs

• Axolotl, glow squid, and goat spawn eggs are now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Mobs

Axolotl

• Axolotls can be rehydrated with a splash and lingering water bottles.
• Now spawn in any biome and up to Y=63 instead of Y=30.
• Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Glow Squid

• Now spawn in any biome and up to Y=63 instead of Y=30.
• Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Goat

• Changelog states they no longer drop Mutton when killed, though this is not the case.
• Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Snow Golem and Strider

• Are now damaged by splash and lingering water bottles.

World generation

Amethyst Geode

• Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

General

File:Bedrock 1.17 Updated Loading Screen.png

Updated loading screen.

User Interface

• Updated the appearance of the loading screen.

Technical

Minecraft:Add-ons and Script Engine

• Added a MoLang query to get default bone pivots.
• Updated MoLang query to return normalized item use time remaining based off given parameters.

Fixes

Caves & Cliffs

• Axolotls now have their missing sounds (Template:Bug).
• Axolotls now swim way more often (Template:Bug).
• Using Bone Meal on a sapling planted on a Moss block now correctly grows a tree (Template:Bug).
• Cobblestone and Cobbled Deepslate are now used to repair stone items on an Anvil (Template:Bug).
• Cauldrons fill up in snowy weather, creating a renewable source of Powder Snow (Template:Bug).
• Glow Lichen is now visibly as close to the surface it is placed on as Java Edition (Template:Bug).
• Glow Lichen now has a map color that more closely resembles the color of the block (Template:Bug).
• Azalea Leaves and Flowered Azalea Leaves have correct color on maps.
• Maps now glow in Glow Item Frames (Template:Bug).
• Pointed Dripstone now correctly gets destroyed after the block it was placed on are broken by block updates.

Blocks

• Colors applied to text on signs are no longer barely visible (Template:Bug).

General

• Players can once again host multiplayer games and send invites over mobile/cellular data (Template:Bug).

Graphical

• Chemistry items icons no longer disappear after suspend/resume in Education Edition worlds.
• Fixed issue with underwater fog being the same for all biomes and view distance not increasing over time (Template:Bug, Template:Bug).
• Underwater view distance is increased in Rivers and land biomes to be more like Minecraft Java when “Caves and Cliffs” experiment toggle is enabled.

Items

• Boats now break when they collide with a Cactus from the side (Template:Bug).
• Changed the position of bow to match previous versions (Template:Bug).
• Crossbows in players' and mobs' hands are now rendered correctly in all perspective modes (Template:Bug).
• Fixed animation issue causing an off-hand held shield to appear to re-equip whenever the player changes their main-hand item (Template:Bug).
• Cauldrons that have been emptied after containing potion are now correctly filled with water when it rains.
• Fixed issue where Fireworks of all colors could be crafted from any other color of Firework Charges (Template:Bug).

Mobs

• Blazes and Enderman once again receive damage from splash water bottles (Template:Bug).
• Fixed a bug where mobs would not spawn below y=0 when the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle is enabled (Template:Bug).

Android

• Android should once again see invite notifications and achievement toasts (Template:Bug).

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue with certain blocks which could cause them to grow too quickly when ticked.

Mobs

• Mobs and entities once again make a sound when entering water.

Commands

• The Template:Cmd command is now prohibited in legacy worlds and affected worlds will reset their altered spawn positions to the original position (Template:Bug).

Navigation

de:Bedrock Edition beta 1.17.0.52 fr:Édition Bedrock bêta 1.17.0.52 pt:Edição Bedrock beta 1.17.0.52 ru:Beta 1.17.0.52 (Bedrock Edition) zh:基岩版1.17.0.52