Bedrock Edition 1.16.20

1.16.20 is an upcoming minor update to Bedrock Edition, which adds piglin brutes, as well as changes to sounds, block behaviors and bug fixes.

Items

 * Spawn Eggs
 * Added the piglin brute spawn eggs.

Mobs

 * Piglin Brutes
 * Stronger variants of piglins that wield golden axes.
 * Are always hostile towards players, unlike piglins.
 * Have health.
 * Only spawn in bastion remnants.

Blocks

 * Crimson Planks and Warped Planks
 * Now play wood sounds when being placed and stepped on.


 * Furnaces
 * Breaking a furnace now gives the experience for the smelted things inside.


 * Soul Campfire
 * Now emits a light level of 10.


 * Vines, Twisting Vines and Weeping Vines
 * Now play sounds when climbed.


 * Walls
 * Now connects to glass and trapdoors.

Items

 * Netherite
 * Now floats on lava.


 * Netherite armor
 * Now has its own sounds when equipping.

Mobs

 * Hoglins
 * No longer attack players on peaceful when being too close to them.


 * Zoglins
 * Now have their own sounds.


 * Piglins
 * Now spawn on peaceful difficulty.
 * The attack animation of unarmed piglins has been changed.


 * Vindicators
 * The attack animation of unarmed vindicators has been changed.

General

 * Inventory
 * Recipe selected items put in the crafting input grid can now be hovered over with controller to see their tooltip names.
 * Hovering over recipes will show them in the crafting grid when no recipe is selected.
 * Can now deselect the selected recipe when hovering above in the recipe book with the controller.
 * Can now clear the crafting grid by clicking the right stick on the controller.

Fixes

 * Baby pigs now despawn properly.
 * Dolphins, fish, and squid now spawn in bubble columns again.
 * Mobs max spawn radius is now 44 blocks.
 * Walls now connect to open trapdoors.
 * Walls now connect to glass blocks.
 * Breaking a Furnace will now drop the stored experience from smelting.
 * Stem blocks now break again when the block below them is destroyed.
 * Using Bonemeal on flowers or grass blocks no longer consumes the item if nothing can grow.
 * Wither health bar no longer depletes to zero after half of the health is gone.
 * Boats are no longer slowed down by objects with no collision.
 * Ambience cave sounds are no longer played in marketplace content.
 * Slime blocks pushed by pistons launch players correctly again.
 * Soul Campfires now emits correct light level.
 * Climbing vines now emits sounds.
 * Corrected sound for Nether Wart placement.
 * Placing or stepping on Warped or Crimson processed materials or planks now make wood sound.
 * Hoglins no longer attack on Peaceful mode when too close.
 * Piglins can no longer naturally spawn on Shroomlight.
 * Tamed wolves no longer disappear when returning to overworld through a Nether portal.
 * Piglins now spawn on peaceful difficulty.
 * Netherite items no longer bounce on lava.
 * Netherite armor now has a unique sound when equipping.
 * Zoglins now have sounds distinct from pigs.
 * Speed of credits roll is no longer dependant on framerate.
 * Using locate command to find a Ruined Portal will no longer return a placeholder text.
 * Hyphae blocks now take as long as stem blocks to destroy.
 * New Nether biomes, blocks and structures no longer generate into worlds with a fixed version.
 * The tooltip 'Open' is no longer shown when looking at piglins.
 * Piglins arms are now behaving more like the player's arms, and less like the zombie's arms.
 * Piglin killed with a single blow while admiring Gold Ingot now drops the admired Gold Ingot.
 * Fixed issues around duplicating items, when reloading a world while Piglin is admiring an item.
 * Netherite items in lava no longer disappear when reloading world.
 * Updated Piglin geometry and entity files, fixed issue with scaling carried item for baby humanoid mobs.
 * Quartz Block can no longer be created from Chiseled Quartz Block and Pillar Quartz Block in a Furnace.
 * Quartz Bricks can no longer be crafted from anything but Quartz Blocks on the Stonecutter.
 * Target Block's zones for particular redstone signal strength are no longer misplaced because of old Arrow Geometry.
 * We no longer try to draw Netherite in the Beacon UI.
 * Setting Soul Sand on fire no longer produces a placeholder Soul Fire block on Pre Nether version locked content.
 * Piglin no longer drops up to a full stack of Gold Ingots upon giving him one by right-clicking and reloading a world while he is admiring it, instead it drops something from its loot table.
 * Piglins no longer pick up entire stacks of gold.
 * Wither boss bar now reappears when returning from other dimensions.
 * Piglin no longer spawn with enchanted gear.
 * Husks now prefer iron armor over chainmail armor.
 * Players can no longer interact with piglin babies.
 * Fixed recipes when crafting a barrel from Warped or Crimson slab.
 * Pressure plates have been fixed to have no collision again
 * Local split-screen players can once again see the ender dragon and ender crystal
 * Fixed a crash that occurred on PlayStation 4 due to other players using custom skins.
 * The Angry system now checks if the mob with the angry component can attack before broadcasting anger to others, rather than after broadcasting anger to others. This avoids a never-ending loop when multiple mobs triggered each other’s anger indefinitely on Peaceful.
 * The field on is now used again.
 * Behavior animation components will no longer try to reload after a suspend resume and a mob/player rides something.
 * Drowned geometry is no longer broken in content packs.
 * Zombies can spawn underground again.
 * Making command selectors use the current position of an actor rather than the previous position of an actor.
 * Fixed an issue that could prevent the Marketplace loading correctly.
 * Meeting requirements for some achievements offline will now unlock it after reconnecting.
 * Fixed an issue that could cause command blocks to stop working unexpectedly.
 * The bounding box of the player used for spawning is now the correct size, so we don't think a player is in a dangerous spot when they are actually safe.
 * Parity: Fixed the issue with chests with loot tables not generating loot until opened or destroyed.
 * Made using the command more efficient, improving performance.
 * Fixed a crash that could occur when pressing the Manage Account button in Profile settings.
 * Fixed notifications not appearing on iOS.
 * Loom blocks will no longer cause an out of memory crash when using high resolution resource packs.
 * Legacy chunk upgrades will no longer cause the chunk to become 100% air.
 * Players can once again host 8 max player worlds on PlayStation 4.
 * now correctly removes all blocks with the same block name when no data argument is passed in.
 * Piglins and Piglin Brutes can now spawn with enchanted weapons.
 * Fixed an issue where the Hot Tourist Destination trophy would not unlock when visiting the last required Nether biome on PlayStation 4.
 * Fixed an issue that prevented players from being able to place beehives or bee nests from their inventory after an update.
 * Fixed broken trading screen slots on iOS.