Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.230.54

Beta 1.16.230.54 is the third beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.17.0,Template:Efn released on April 8, 2021,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which makes changes and tweaks to the Minecraft:Caves & Cliffs features, and fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Azalea and Minecraft:Flowering Azalea

• Azalea and flowering azalea can now be grown into an azalea tree when using bone meal.

Minecraft:Coal Ore, Minecraft:Diamond Ore, Minecraft:Gold Ore, Minecraft:Iron Ore, Minecraft:Lapis Ore

• The textures of these ores have been changed.
  • Iron ore no longer has streaks, better matching the appearance of other ores.
  • Diamond ore closer resembles deepslate diamond ore.

Minecraft:Dripleaf

• Breaking a dripleaf stem now drops a dripleaf item, matching Java Edition.
• Small dripleaf can now be composted.

Minecraft:Glow Lichen

• Glow lichen can now appear on the walls of underground water lakes.

Minecraft:Moss Block

• Moss can now also spread vertically when using bone meal.
• Applying Minecraft:bone meal to a moss block can also grow vegetation on existing moss blocks.

Minecraft:Pointed Dripstone

• Water and lava now drip more often from pointed dripstone.

Minecraft:Powder Snow

• Powder snow’s hardness was slightly increased, from 0.1 to 0.25.
• Freeze time has decreased to 7 seconds and hurt frequency has decreased to 2 seconds.
• Entities on fire now melt powder snow when colliding.
• Increased vertical movement speed within powder snow (entities fall through powder snow faster).
• Mobs now shake when they are fully frozen.
• Entities wearing leather boots falling from a height of > 2.5 blocks sink into powder snow instead of landing on top of it.
• Applied fog effect while standing close outside a powder snow block.

Minecraft:Structure Block

• Added placement animation options in Load Mode, similar to the Template:Cmd functionality.
  • There are three animation mode options: None, Place by Layer, and Place by Block.
  • These animations can be adjusted by time in seconds.

Items

Minecraft:Leather Horse Armor

• Now protects Minecraft:horses from freeze damage.

Mobs

Minecraft:Blaze, Minecraft:magma cube, and Minecraft:strider

• Now take more damage from freezing.

Minecraft:Polar bear, Minecraft:snow golem, and Minecraft:stray

• Are now immune to freezing.

Minecraft:Wandering trader

• Added the following trades to the wandering trader:
  • Sells 2 Minecraft:pointed dripstones for an emerald.
  • Sells 2 Minecraft:rooted dirt for an emerald.
  • Sells 2 Minecraft:moss blocks for an emerald.
  • Sells 2 Minecraft:small dripleafs for an emerald.

Minecraft:Villagers

• Mason villagers can now sell 4 Minecraft:dripstone blocks for an Minecraft:emerald.

World generation

Minecraft:Caves

• Dripstone and Minecraft:dripstone clusters can now be found rarely in regular caves below Y=59.

Minecraft:Mineshafts

• Minecraft:Glow berries can be found in mineshaft Minecraft:chest minecarts.

Minecraft:Shipwrecks

• Minecraft:Moss blocks can be found in supply chests.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Chat

• Added a warning message when attempting to place blocks at the minimum height limit.

Technical

GameTest Framework

• Updated interfaces:
  • assertContainerContains
    • ItemIdentifier parameter changed to ItemStack.
  • assertItemEntityNotPresent and assertItemEntityPresent APIs
    • ItemStack parameter changed to ItemType.
• Added new interfaces:
  • assertEntityNotTouching(entityIdentifier: string, position : Location)
    • Asserts that there is no entity of the given type at the given position.
  • assertEntityTouching(entityIdentifier: string, position : Location)
    • Asserts that there is an entity of the given type at the given position.
  • assertItemEntityCountIs(itemType : ItemType, position : BlockLocation, searchDistance : number, count : number)
    • Asserts that the entity item count in the given search area matches the expected count.
  • pulseRedstone(position : BlockLocation, duration : number)
    • Creates a redstone block at the given position and destroys it after "duration" ticks.

Fixes

Caves & Cliffs

• Leads now correctly attach to axolotl.
• There are no longer any unknown items in the creative inventory. (Template:Bug)
• Cobbled deepslate is now next to cobblestone in the Creative inventory. Polished deepslate is next to deepslate.
• Deepslate bricks now have correct breaktime.
• Fixed pointed dripstone texture mapping.
• The game no longer crashes when placing glow lichen on all sides of a single block.
• Hanging roots now drop correctly when mined by Silk Touch enchanted tool.
• Dripleaves now break completely when the leaf part is broken. (Template:Bug)
• Applying bone meal to moss blocks no longer generates ferns. (Template:Bug)

Striders

• Striders shake properly when out of lava again. (Template:Bug)

General

• Fixed a bug where if the view bobbing setting was disabled, the player's hand would still bob. (Template:Bug)
• Zombie villagers properly shake while being cured.
• Fixed player spawning in unsafe locations when entering a random world for the first time. (Template:Bug)

Commands

• Fix output message for Template:Cmd being incorrect. (Template:Bug)

Graphical

• Charged creeper aura is rendered correctly in most cases now. (Template:Bug)
• Fixed paintings no longer rendering.
• Ray tracing specific textures are allocated/deallocated when toggling ray tracing on/off.

Items

• Switching between some items (bow, trident, crossbow, shield) in your main hand no longer skips animation. (Template:Bug)

Gameplay

• Underwater visibility has been improved.
• Underwater color has been tuned to better match Java Edition with a richer blue tint.

User Interface

• A message now displays when trying to place blocks below the minimum build height.

Notes

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