Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.210.53

Beta 1.16.210.53 is the third beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.16.210, released on December 17, 2020,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which brought changes to Minecraft:powder snow, added full screen keyboard shortcut, and fixes bugs. This is the final beta released in 2020.

Additions

Command format

Minecraft:Gamerules

• freezeDamage
  • Whether entities take damage from freezing inside of Minecraft:powder snow.

Changes

Items

Leather Minecraft:armor

• Wearing any piece of leather armor now prevents freezing entirely.

Command format

Template:Cmd, Template:Cmd, Template:Cmd

• Added new slash command options for passing in a list of block states to set on the block being spawned.

Template:Cmd

• Now removed entirely from the game.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Death messages

• Added death messages for freezing:
  • "<player> froze to death".

General

Minecraft:Controls

• Fullscreen can now be toggled with Template:Key keyboard shortcut.

Minecraft:Settings

• Broadcasting options are now completely removed from the game since Mixer streaming services are no longer available.

Minecraft:Particles

• Added a new particle type: Template:Cd.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Minecraft:Caves & Cliffs" experimental toggles.

Items

Minecraft:Powder Snow Bucket

• Using a Minecraft:bucket on Minecraft:powder snow creates a powder snow bucket.
• Powder snow buckets can be used to place powder snow.

Blocks

Minecraft:Powder Snow

• Now emits particles when an entity is moving inside of it, or landing on it.
• Freezing effect is now removed from any mobs or players that catch fire.
• Mobs that have sunk into powder snow now can navigate through it.
• Entities on fire now have their fires extinguished when stepping into powder snow.
• Redstone dust, torches, and item frames can no longer be placed on powder snow.
• Gravity blocks no longer break when landing on powder snow.
• While within powder snow blocks third person camera is no longer pushed to the inside of the character's head.
• Mobs spawned inside Powder snow no longer have a risk of spawning underground.
• Powder snow block forms are no longer present in Creative Inventory anymore (Template:Bug).
• Powder snow no longer stops projectiles in Bedrock (Template:Bug).
• Lightweight mobs now can climb and navigate through powder snow blocks.
• Rabbits, silverfish, and endermites don't fall through powder snow blocks.
• An entity walking through powder snow will make the correct step sound regardless of which block is being walked on.
• Wearing Leather Boots now allows entities to climb powder snow Blocks (Template:Bug).
• Powder snow now has unique interaction sounds.

Mobs

Minecraft:Goat

• Now avoids walking into powder snow while path-finding.

Fixes

Nether Ambient Sounds

• Mobile players now experience ambient sounds in The Nether (Template:Bug).

General

• Shulker Boxes no longer lose their inventory when undyed in cauldrons (Template:Bug).
• Added new logic for mobs dismounting rideables.
• This also introduces a more fine-grained entity height check allowing different dismount places for entities of different heights.
• The player will no longer dismount into liquids (lava or water) from rideables such as boats.
• Sign-in failures now have a more helpful error message and provide error codes.

Gameplay

• In all worlds created with the same seed, the same chest will now always generate the same content in the same order (Template:Bug).
• Double Chests placed at chunk borders don't become partially invisible and don't crash the title when they are opened (Template:Bug).
• Golden Apple and Enchanted Apple now have colored hotbar text when selecting them (Template:Bug).

Technical

• Changing Template:Cd property Template:Cd to function for custom mobs.