Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.17.0.56

Beta 1.17.0.56 is the eighth beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.17.0, released on May 13, 2021,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which adds lava aquifers and fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Azalea and Minecraft:Flowering Azalea

• Now correctly turns into a tree if placed on Moss Block.

Minecraft:Deepslate and Minecraft:Infested Deepslate

• Top and bottom textures are now applied in isotropic manner.
  • Due to tessellation limitations, isotropic are limited to deepslate when these textures are up and down (as this is a rotatable block) for now.

Minecraft:Powder Snow

• Textures are no longer randomly rotated.

Mobs

Minecraft:Axolotl

• Axolotl no longer attacks invisible mobs.
• Axolotl textures have been updated.

Minecraft:Glow Squid

• Naturally spawned Glow Squid now despawn.

Minecraft:Wither

• Is now immune to freezing.

World generation

Minecraft:Amethyst Geode

• Are now slightly rarer, from 1 geode in 48 chunks to 1 geode in 53 chunks.

General

Controller tooltips

• Added tooltips for:
  • Holding a Spyglass.
  • Collecting Minecraft:lava from a Minecraft:cauldron using a Minecraft:bucket.
  • Collecting powder snow from a powder snow block using a bucket.
  • Empty lava into a cauldron from a bucket.
  • Empty powder snow into a cauldron from a bucket.

Experiments toggle

• Added a warning for loading an old world with Experimental features in a new version of the game.
• Added a label that indicates that a world is Experimental.
• Added a description for Experimental features in the world creation screen.

Experimental

Changes have been made behind the Caves & Cliffs experiments toggle, which gives early access to the world generation coming in Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.18.0.

Aquifers

• Aquifers below Y=0 will sometimes be made of lava.

Fixes

Caves & Cliffs

• Bred Axolotl maintain their color after being placed from a Bucket (Template:Bug).
• Amethyst Buds and cluster breaking animation no longer floats in the air.
• Aligned in-hand rendering of Amethyst Bud items with Java Edition (Template:Bug).
• Players are now able to use Pick Block Small Dripleaf (Template:Bug).
• When bonemealing Small Dripleaf, the resulting Big Dripleaf is at least 2 blocks tall (Template:Bug).
• Mobs can once again pathfind around Pointed Dripstone.
• Naturally spawned Glow Squid now despawn (Template:Bug).
• Using Pick Block on a Glow Squid in Creative now gives the Glow Squid Egg (Template:Bug).
• Lightning that strikes Lightning Rod no longer has the chance to trigger Skeleton traps.
• Multiple blocks can no longer be placed on Powder Snow (Template:Bug).
• Fences and Walls no longer connect to Powder Snow (Template:Bug).
• Fog effect is no longer applied to the third-person camera when the camera isn't inside Powder Snow (Template:Bug).
• Powder Snow Block no longer becomes invisible if the Player is extinguished by both the Powder Snow Block and any other method at the same time (Template:Bug).
• Powder Snow no longer has one corner that collides with mobs.

Mobs

• Skeletons transforming in to Strays now play appropriate transformation sounds.
• Withers no longer take freeze damage from Powder Snow (Template:Bug).
• Bees no longer gather nectar from Sweet Berry Bushes.
• Bees can once again enter Beehives and Bee Nests (Template:Bug).

Gameplay

• Player who receives negative damage will not generate absorption heart (Template:Bug).
• When a Player using the touch interface presses and holds the crafting output window, they can rapidly craft items up to one stack (Template:Bug).

Iron and Gold ore

• Iron and Gold Ore now drops the correct block item instead of nothing when mined on worlds that have a Base Game Version locked to a value lower than 1.17.

Items

• Picking up part of a stack no longer picks up the entire stack and drops the excess (Template:Bug).

Player Animations

• Fixed Players showing the Bow holding animation after respawning when killed by another Player (Template:Bug).
• Fixed issue where certain items (Bow, Crossbow, Trident, shield in main hand) wouldn't bob with View Bobbing turned on (Template:Bug).

Technical

• Fixed issue with Simburbia world where standing next to a windows shutter block would obscure the view with the "update" texture.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when using the Template:Cmd command to stop the elytra.loop sound (Template:Bug).
• Fixed a merge bug when loading json definitions for Vanilla mobs.
• Fixed a bug with the summonable property of overridden vanilla mobs pre JSON version 1.8.0, which caused Bees to not be summonable (Template:Bug).
• The "has_equipment" filter will now properly evaluate custom entity spawn eggs.
• The "ImpactDamageSubcomponent" will again only prevent damage from being dealt to fire immune mobs if the 'catchFire' field is true and the projectile is on fire.

Graphical

• Fixed a crash on Windows 10 that can occur in ray tracing mode due to a stale pointer reference.
• Fixed various cases when ray tracing textures would not be reloaded (resolution switching, upscaling mode switching, ray tracing on/off toggling).
• Fixed Enchanted Bow's textures being too dark (Template:Bug).

Dedicated Server

• The dedicated server log will now list all Experiments enabled in a world when loading it.