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
Didn't use to require blaze powder as fuel. This feature was removed in 1.2, because in 1.0, igloos were added and player can brew in survival via Brewing Stand in igloo basement, meaning player can 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, player can sprint on water, but this feature has been removed, due to new swimming mechanic.

Enhanced Underwater Visibility
Before Bedrock Edition 1.4, wearing an enchanted helmet with respiration would boost underwater vision, higher levels gave the player better vision, this can also be obtained from the Water Breathing status effect, or by combining both enchantment and status effect. This enhanced vision has been removed, due to the new water texture and the player can see clearly underwater without effects or enchantments. However, the night vision is still required for better visibility and also 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 supposedly 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 were removed in Alpha 0.12.1 due to the addition of the Nether. The block still exists, but nothing will happen when tapping 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 will 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, Stonecutter can be used with the same way as crafting table 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 crafting table, making functionality only for decoration purpose.

Portfolio


In Education Edition, the Portfolio is used to document a screenshot taken from the Camera, it got 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 later because they were only supposed to be an Education Edition feature.

Magma Cubes getting hurt when wet
The Magma Cube previously became hurt when wet as the vanilla behavior pack had the magma cube behavior "minecraft_hurt_when_wet": set to true, Magma Cube will be hurt if exposed to sunlight or moonlight during rain, and take damage while on water. However as of an unknown build this feature was considered a bug and removed, its Vanilla behavior of getting hurt when wet has been set to false again.

Instant Chicken Jockey
Prior to 0.14.0 build 1, chicken jockeys had a chance to spawn from zombies and zombie pigmen and their spawn egg, 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 want to be a jockey when trying to attack players, 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, llama, horse, donkey, pig, mule, sheep, skeleton horse, zombie horse, zombie pigman, zombie villager, spider, and cave spider. However, baby zombie pigman didn't have ability to mount nearby mobs when neutral, and most mountable mobs spawn in overworld, causing Chicken Pigman Jockey completely removed.

Chicken spawn in Nether
Due to natural chicken jockey was removed, Chicken no longer can spawn naturally in the Nether rarely when zombie pigman spawn as pigman chicken jockey.

Zombie Drops
Prior to 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 Pigman Drop and its behavior
Before 0.11.0 zombie pigman drop feather as common drop and potato or carrot as rare drop, this was changed in 0.11.0 build 1, that zombie pigman common drop now is rotten flesh and its rare drop is gold ingot, at 0.12.1 build 1, gold nugget also added as common drop, before 0.12.1 build 1, Zombie pigman is hostitle mobs and also burn in sunlight but immune to fire, making only burning particle play, while zombie pigmen itself didn't take damage it also lack of hat layer, move slowly and has both hand didn't draw up, at 0.11.0 build 1 it has chicken jockey variant but at 0.14.0 build 1, its chicken jockey variant was removed and prior to 0.12.1 build 1, the only way to make it spawn naturaly is from active Nether Reactor Core.

Horse
At the first time when horse added it use old model which was replaced with new model and at earlier version of 0.15., horse can be tamed by feeding them a food, this feature was removed as now player require to mount it to make horse tamed.

Old mob dying
When mob is killed, its body will jump and then disappear, this feature then later replaced with new dying animation which is just laying to the side of ground.

Food healing
Prior to 0.12.1 build 1, Eating food will heal losing health, however as of addition of hunger bar, this feature was removed

Rotten Flesh
Prior to 0.12.1 build 1, eating rotten flesh will inflict poison effect instead of hunger effect

Pufferfish
Before 0.12.1 build 1 eating pufferfish won't inflict hunger effect

Enchanted Golden Apple
When Enchanted Apple added to the game, it only give Absorption level I instead of Absorption IV.

Biome
At the time where colden oak exist, there is an Oak Forest Biome which is a forest only consist of Oak tree and no birch tree generate in this Biome 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, Village use Gravel Path as a road, however this was changed to Grass Path as a village road. Prior to 0.15.0 build 1, village that generate in savannah biome use oak wood, oak wood plank, oak fence,and oak stair.but this village later replaced with 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 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 exist, Oak tree at the that time only generation with 2 log in canopy, rather than 3 in current version.
 * 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 imposible 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 generate which is not underground, resulting weird structure in the village.If bottom staircase room dug, village well will revealed that generate 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 its posible to fall into void in survival without cheats,and it also only generates one room which is the spiral staircase room. However this stronghold hasn't removed for relative long time from 0.15.0 build 1 to 0.15.10 and finally in 0.16.0 build 1, this stronghold generation has been removed due to considered as a bug.
 * A Stronghold is in a Village
 * A Stronghold is Not in a Village

Abandoned Mineshaft
When abandoned mineshaft added to bedrock edition at 0.9.0 build 1, it generate monster spawner with spider instead of cave spider, the reason is because at that version, cave spider in bedrock edition still not available.
 * Spider Spawner

Nether Spire
Nether Spire is huge structure consist of Netherack that generate when Nether Reactor Core active, it will replace many block and start spawning many dropped items and zombie pigman if difficulty is not peaceful. When nether reactor core stopped working and all reactor block that already become glowing obsidian transform into normal obsidian and Nether Spire structure missing some netherack, creating hole to get out and time set to night. Nether Spire consist of many floor and will destroy and break many block in its path. If Nether Spire generate in high place, upper part of nether spire will not generate, due to cut off height limit which was only 128 block tall.

Sounds
Many sounds were removed in the Bedrock Edition, such as old footsteps, old breaking block sounds, old glass and metal block sounds, old sound 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. In Alpha 0.9.0 build 1 cocoa beans can now be obtained with cocoa pods. In Alpha 0.16.0 official release, the cocoa bean crafting recipe was removed.

The recipe was removed because doesn't make sense 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 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 bed exist in game, and now it require matching red wool to craft red bed

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

Nether Reactor Core
It recipe no longer available, it no longer appear in creative inventory and will drop its ingredient when broken

Rose red
The reason of the removal of the recipe is unknown and still questionable. It may have been because of Rose Red implying it comes from Roses instead of Mushrooms.