Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.0.55

Beta 1.16.0.55 is the eighth beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.16.0, released on April 2, 2020,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which fixes bugs.

Fixes

Crashes

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when creating a new world on iOS.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting a world with particles present.
• Fixed several crash issues related to the player entering water.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when a mob's state changed.

General

• Light propagation now works correctly, fixing hostile mob spawning. (Template:Bug)
• Chunks should no longer fail to load properly in +250MB worlds. (Template:Bug)
• Fixed a bug with light persisting after a block change.
• Ticking areas can no longer be removed on the same tick they are created (Template:Bug).
• Lighting now propagates correctly through chunk/subchunk borders (Template:Bug).
• Fixed an issue that could cause areas to show lighting errors on servers.
• Added new overload for Template:Cmd with an option for destroy (the old behavior) or keep (the command will return an error if an item occupies that slot).
• The smooth camera option (from full keyboard gameplay) is no longer jittery and is smooth again (Template:Bug).
• The screen no longer twitches when the player dies in the Nether or End.

Gameplay

• Water can now be collected from bubble columns (Template:Bug)
• Casting a fishing rod will no longer attach itself to a parrot mounted on the player’s shoulder (Template:Bug).
• Fully grown sweet berry bushes can now be harvested when holding bone meal (Template:Bug).
• Parity: Carrot on a stick, shield, and shovel now lose durability consistently in Bedrock.
• Fire charges are now consumed after lighting a tnt block (Template:Bug).
• Player icons no longer appear as a white square on locator maps.

Blocks

• Wall signs attached to doors are no longer left floating after the bottom half of the door is broken (Template:Bug).

Mobs

• Creepers no longer lose aggro immediately after losing sight of its target (Template:Bug).
• Ghast hitbox now matches its rendering (Template:Bug).
• Fixed the "MeleeAttackGoal" to allow entities to hit target entities beneath them.
• The iron golem's legs don't swing as far anymore.

Graphics and rendering

• Experience orbs have been data-driven.
• Fireballs have been data-driven.
• NPC geometry and animations have been data-driven.
• Items no longer flash green when being removed from a furnace.
• Fixed a bug where glass and water could be drawn incorrectly when close to each other.
• Fixed the custom glint texture issue when added to compasses.

Scripting and components

• Removed type property from Template:Cd as it was never used.
• Updated Template:Cd to have an internal entities object or array.
• Updated the Template:Cd behavior.
• Added Template:Cd to the Template:Cd goal.
• Fixed removed or destroyed entities querying as valid in script.
• Invalid items in the Template:Cd field of a Template:Cd now display an error.
• Template:Cd no longer uses Template:Cd as it now searches all blocks in the specified area.
• Fixed Template:Cd to handle the case where it is used on a flying entity, so that the flying entity will not cause lag while it is touching the ground.
• The Template:Cd component is now documented in the Spawn Rules documentation section (Template:Bug).
• A content error will now show up if you provide an invalid item name to Template:Cd in the Template:Cd field.