Bedrock Edition removed features

Some features have been removed from the Pocket and Bedrock editions. These features may have been replaced, or a developer decided against the feature later on.

Note that this page only documents game features that were removed, features of a particular game element that were removed are noted in that element's history. There are some features that were accidentally added from the Education Edition, the features were removed shortly later and made exclusive to the Education Edition again.

Brewing
Brewing previously did not require blaze powder as fuel. This feature was removed in 1.2, because in 1.0, igloos were added, allowing the player to brew in Survival mode via brewing stand in igloo basements, meaning that the player is now able to brew potions without entering the Nether.

Splashes
When a splash is removed, the line it occupied in splashes.txt is deleted, meaning the line number of all subsequent splashes lowers by one.

Sprinting
Before Beta 1.2.13.8, the player was able to sprint on water; however, this feature was removed, due to the new swimming mechanic.

Enhanced underwater visibility
Before Bedrock Edition 1.4, wearing an enchanted helmet with the Respiration enchantment would boost underwater vision and the higher the level, it better it improved the player's vision. This can feature now only be obtained from the Water Breathing status effect or by combining both the enchantment and status effects. This enhanced vision has been removed, due to the water texture being changed and because the player can now see clearly underwater without effects or enchantments. However, night vision is still required for better visibility. Also, the enhanced underwater vision is still obtainable from other methods such as Conduit Power.

Allow & Deny
Allow and deny blocks are supposed to be used to create restricted building areas or areas where users can build in. They were an Education Edition feature that was accidentally added in the first development version of the Alpha 0.16.0 update, it was removed shortly later because it was only meant to be an Education Edition feature.

Chalkboard
The chalkboard blocks are supposed to have a function with a right click. They were an Education Edition feature that was accidentally added in the first development version of the Alpha 0.16.0 update, it was removed shortly later because it was only meant to be an Education Edition feature.

The Board block came in three different sizes:
 * Slate (1×1)
 * Poster (2×1)
 * Board (2×3)

Border
Border blocks are unbreakable blocks shaped like cobblestone walls that prohibit movement through, over or under the block they had been placed on. They were an Education Edition feature that was accidentally added in the first development version of the Alpha 0.16.0 update, it was removed shortly later because it was only meant to be an Education Edition feature.

Cyan flower


The cyan flower was replaced with the poppy in Alpha 0.9.0 build 1. However, Johan said it may return.

Nether Reactor functions
The functionality of the Nether Reactor was removed in Alpha 0.12.1, due to the addition of the Nether. The block still exists, but nothing will happen when the player taps it.

Nether Reactor Core
The functionality of the Nether Reactor was removed in Pocket Edition Alpha 0.12.1. However, the reactor core block still exists in game, and can be obtained through inventory editing or by retaining it from previous worlds before the update. It now drops its ingredients instead of itself, allowing players to recover them.

Glowing Obsidian


Being a part of the nether reactor, the glowing obsidian block was also removed in Alpha 0.12.1. It emitted a soft red glow at light level 12. Despite being a variant of obsidian, it only requires an iron pickaxe. When broken, it dropped a block of obsidian. It can now only be obtained through inventory editing.

Instant Powered Rail
Prior to Alpha 0.13.0 build 1, any placed powered rail would be always active, this is because redstone mechanics didn't exist at that point in time.

Stonecutter Function
Prior to Alpha 0.13.0 build 1, the stonecutter could be used the same way as a crafting table can be used, but for stone. Any type of stone block, which can be crafted in 2x2 or 3x3 grid, can only be crafted in here and cannot be crafted in crafting table, or 2x2 inventory crafting. However after Alpha 0.13.0 build 1, any stone block can be crafted in a crafting table, making the stonecutter's functionality only for decoration purposes.

Portfolio


In Education Edition, the portfolio is used to document a screenshot taken from the camera. It was accidentally added to Pocket Edition in Alpha 0.16.0 build 1. It could only be obtained using commands and had no function. It was later removed because it was only supposed to be an Education Edition feature.

Camera
The camera was an entity in Pocket Edition that would capture pictures in the game. In the Education Edition, it works together with the portfolio item to create collections of pictures.

Before then, cameras was first added to the game in Alpha 0.1.0 and were available until Alpha 0.9.0 build 1. Later, it was re-added to the game in Alpha 0.14.0 build 1, but got removed again in Alpha 0.16.0 build 4 due to becoming an Education Edition item. Cameras are currently available in Education Edition.

NPC
NPCs were a villager-like mob, but slightly taller than a normal villager. They were an Education Edition feature that got accidentally added in the first development version for the Alpha 0.16.0 update; they were removed shortly after because they were only supposed to be an Education Edition feature.

Magma Cubes taking damage when wet
The magma cube previously took damage when they became wet, as the vanilla behavior pack had the magma cube's behavior "minecraft_hurt_when_wet": set to true. Magma Cube would also take damage, if exposed to sunlight or moonlight during rain and while in water. However, as of an unknown build, this feature was considered a bug and removed as its vanilla behavior of taking damage when wet has been set to false again.

Instant Chicken Jockey
Prior to Alpha 0.14.0 build 1, chicken jockeys had a chance to spawn from zombies and zombie pigmen and their spawn eggs, at that time baby zombies and baby zombie pigmen had a 5% chance to spawn as a chicken jockey. However, as of update 0.14.0 build 1, chicken jockeys were partially removed and no longer spawn naturally, but baby zombies, baby zombie villagers or baby husks had a 15% chance to spawn as a jockey when trying to attack the player, villagers, iron golems or snow golems, baby zombies, baby zombie villagers, or baby husks will check nearby mobs that can be ridden such as cows, chickens, mooshrooms, ocelots, wolves, zombies, husks, polar bears, llamas, horses, donkeys, pigs, mules, sheep, skeleton horses, zombie horses, zombie pigmen, zombie villagers, spiders, and cave spiders. However, baby zombie pigman didn't have ability to mount nearby mobs when neutral, and most mountable mobs spawn in overworld, causing zombie pigmen chicken jockeys completely removed.

Chicken spawn in Nether
Due to the natural zombie pigman chicken jockey removal, chickens are no longer able to rarely spawn naturally in the Nether since zombie pigmen will no longer spawn as zombie pigmen chicken jockeys.

Zombie Drops
Prior to Alpha 0.11.0 build 1, zombies dropped feathers, however this drop feature was removed and feathers are no longer dropped by zombies, and were replaced by rotten flesh.

Hostile Zombie Pigmen Drops and their behavior
Before Alpha 0.11.0, zombie pigmen dropped feathers as common drops and potatoes or carrots as rare drops. This was changed in 0.11.0 build 1 and the zombie pigmen's new common drop now was changed to rotten flesh and its rare drop was changed to gold ingots. In Alpha 0.12.1 build 1, gold nuggets were also added as common drops. Before 0.12.1 build 1, zombie pigmen were hostile mobs that burned in sunlight, but were also immune to fire. Though, during this time, fire particles would still be shown around them, even though the zombie pigman, itself, didn't take any damage. During this time, they also lacked a hat layer, moved slowly and both of their hands didn't draw up. In Alpha 0.11.0 build 1, they had a chicken jockey variant, but in 0.14.0 build 1, their chicken jockey variant was removed and prior to 0.12.1 build 1, the only way to make the variant spawn naturally was from an active nether reactor core.

Horses
When the horse was added, it used an older model, which was replaced with a newer model and at earlier version of Alpha 0.15. Horses could be tamed by feeding them food, although this feature was removed and now the player is required to mount the horse to tame it.

Old mob dying animation
When mobs were killed, their bodies would jump and then disappear, this feature was then later replaced with a new dying animation, which is simply falling to the ground on their sides like mobs in Java Edition.

Food healing
Prior to 0.12.1 build 1, eating food would heal the player's health while it was lost. However, with the addition of the hunger bar, this feature was removed.

Rotten Flesh
Prior to 0.12.1 build 1, eating rotten flesh would inflict a poison status effect, instead of the hunger status effect.

Pufferfish
Before 0.12.1 build 1, eating pufferfish wouldn't inflict the hunger status effect.

Enchanted Golden Apple
When the enchanted golden apple was added to the game, it would only give Absorption I, instead of Absorption IV.

Biome
When colden oak trees existed, there was an Oak Forest Biome, which was a forest that only consisted of oak trees. In Pocket Edition Alpha, Extreme Hills and its variant don't generate top snow above Y layer 90.
 * Oak Forest
 * Non-snowy Extreme Hills

Village
Before 0.11.0 build 1, villages used gravel paths as roads, however this was changed to grass path as village roads. Prior to 0.15.0 build 1, village that generate in savannah biome use oak wood, oak wood planks, oak fence and oak stairs, but this village was later replaced with the acacia village.
 * Gravel Path
 * Oak Savannah Village

Tree
The "cold-en" oak, or winter oak, was a tree formed by a very rare glitch in older versions of Pocket Edition prior to 0.9.0. It causes a small tree with a leaf arrangement that was the same as that of small oak or birch to be generated on the border of a forest and a snowy area (one of which is usually mountainous). It is composed with spruce leaves and spruce logs (seen in both the lite and newer versions prior to 0.9.0) or rarely oak logs (paid only).
 * Cold-en Oak

At same time where an colden oak existed, oak trees at the time would only generate with 2 logs in a canopy, rather than 3.
 * old Oak Tree

Broken Stronghold Generation
As of update 0.15.0 build 1, Strongholds only generate one room which is spiral staircase room, no other room can generate including the end portal room, making it impossible to obtain a loot chest in a stronghold due to strongholds only generating one room. there are 2 type of this stronghold; If a stronghold generates under the village well, the stronghold will generate at the place where the village well generates, which is not underground, resulting in a weird structure in the village. If bottom staircase room is mined into, the village well will be revealed that was generated under the weird stronghold room. If a stronghold is generated and is not in a village, it generates at the very deep Y layer which is at bedrock layer and cutting the bottom bedrock layer at y=0 with stone brick, making it possible to fall into void in survival without cheats and it also only generates one room, which is the spiral staircase room. However this stronghold wasn't been removed for a relatively long time. From 0.15.0 build 1 to 0.15.10 and finally in 0.16.0 build 1, this stronghold generation was been removed due to it being considered a bug.
 * A Stronghold is in a Village
 * A Stronghold is Not in a Village

Abandoned Mineshaft
When abandoned mineshafts were added to Bedrock Edition in 0.9.0 build 1, it generated a monster spawner with spider instead of a cave spider, which was because in that version, cave spiders didn’t exist yet in Bedrock Edition.
 * Spider Spawner

Nether Spire
Nether Spire is huge structure consisting of netherrack that generates when a Nether Reactor Core actives, it will replace many blocks and start spawning multiple rare items, and zombie pigmen, but only if the player's difficulty is set higher than peaceful mode. When the nether reactor core stops working and all reactor blocks that already become glowing obsidian transform into normal obsidian, the Nether Spire structure will start to break causing holes to form on the spire, it also causes the time to set to night. The Nether Spire consists of many floors and will destroy and break many block in its path. If the Nether Spire generates in a high place, the upper part of nether spire will not generate properly and become cut off due to the height limit which was only 128 blocks high at the time.

Sounds
Many sounds were removed in the Bedrock Edition, such as old footsteps, old breaking block sounds, old glass and metal block sounds, old sounds for cow, zombie villager, husk, stray, explosion sound, water, squid, etc.

Sounds were also vastly different between the iOS and Android versions, lasting from an unknown version between 0.2.1 and 0.5.0 all through way through to Alpha 0.12.1.

Cocoa beans
In Alpha 0.8.0 build 3, cocoa beans were added with its exclusive recipes. Since Alpha 0.9.0 build 1, cocoa beans are able to be obtained with cocoa pods. In the Alpha 0.16.0 official release, the cocoa bean crafting recipe was removed.

The recipe was removed because didn't make sense any longer after the addition to obtain cocoa beans from cocoa pods. It was reported by a user in the bug tracker and was confirmed as a bug.

Enchanted golden apple
The enchanted golden apple recipe was removed in 1.2 build 1.

Enchanted golden apples may still be obtained in other ways.

Bed
The recipe of crafting the red bed with any wool color was removed in 1.1 build 1. The reason why this recipe was removed because prior to 1.1 build 1, only red beds existed in game, and now it is required to have matching red wool to craft a red bed.

Stonecutter
Crafting recipe for stonecutter was removed, making it only creative mode.

Nether Reactor Core
The nether reactor core's recipe was made no longer available and it no longer appears in creative inventory and will drop its ingredients when broken.

Rose red
The reason of the removal of the recipe is unknown and still questionable. It may have been because of the name being rose red, implying it comes from roses instead of mushrooms.