Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.230.54

beta 1.16.230.54

Edition	Bedrock Edition
Type	Beta
Release date	Xbox One, Windows 10, Android: April 8, 2021
Beta for	1.16.230
Protocol version	435
◄◄ 1.16.221 ◄ beta 1.16.230.52 beta 1.16.230.56 ► 1.17.0 ►►

Beta 1.16.230.54 is the third beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.16.230, released on April 8, 2021, which makes changes and tweaks to the Caves & Cliffs features, and fixes bugs.

Contents

Changes

Blocks

Azalea and Flowering Azalea

• Azalea and Flowering Azalea can now be grown into an Azalea Tree when using bone meal.

Coal Ore, Diamond Ore, Gold Ore, Iron 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.

Dripleaf

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

Glow Lichen

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

Moss

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

Pointed Dripstone

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

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 very close outside a Powder Snow block.

Structure Block

• Added placement animation options in Load Mode, similar to the /structure 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

Leather Horse Armor

• Now protects horses from freeze damage.

Mobs

Blaze, Magma cube, and Strider

• Now take more damage from freezing.

Polar Bear, Snow Golem, and Stray

• Are now immune to freezing.

Wandering Trader

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

Villagers

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

World generation

Caves

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

Mineshafts

• Glow berries can be found in mineshaft chest minecarts.

Shipwrecks

• Moss blocks can be found in supply chests.

Gameplay

Chat

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

Fixes

Caves & Cliffs

• Leads now correctly attach to Axolotl
• There are no longer any unknown items in the creative inventory (MCPE-119503)
• 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 (MCPE-121804)
• Bonemealing moss blocks no longer generates ferns (MCPE-122800)

Striders

• Striders shake properly when out of lava again (MCPE-69511)

General

• Fixed a bug where if the view bobbing setting was disabled, the player's hand would still bob (MCPE-79380).
• Zombie Villagers properly shake while being cured.
• Fixed player spawning in unsafe locations when entering a random world for the first time (MCPE-42310).

Commands

• Fix output message for '/stopsound' being incorrect (MCPE-116772).

Graphical

• Charged creeper aura is rendered correctly in most cases now (MCPE-65798).
• Fixed Paintings no longer rendering
• Ray tracing specific textures will be allocated/deallocated when toggling ray tracing on/off.

Items

• Switching between some items (bow, trident, crossbow, shield) in your main hand will no longer skip animation (MCPE-116680).

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 will now display when trying to place blocks below the minimum build height.