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Beta 1.17.0.52 is the second beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.17.0, released on April 28, 2021,[1] which moved some features out from experimental gameplay into default world, and fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

Amethyst Cluster, Amethyst Bud, Block of Amethyst, and Budding Amethyst
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Azalea and Flowering Azalea
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Azalea Leaves and Flowering Azalea Leaves
  • Now have correct color on maps.
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Big Dripleaf
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Block of Copper, Cut Copper and stair and slab variants
  • Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper Slabs can now be merged into full Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper blocks.
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Block of Raw Metal
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Calcite
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Copper Ore
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Deepslate and variants
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Deepslate ores
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Dripstone Block
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Glow Item Frame
  • Maps now glow in Glow Item Frames.
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Hanging Roots
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Lightning Rod
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Moss Block
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Moss Carpet
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Pointed Dripstone
  • Now correctly gets destroyed after the block it was placed on are broken by block updates.
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Powder Snow
  • Using a Bucket of Powder Snow on a Cauldron filled with Powder Snow results in a Powder Snow block being placed above the Cauldron.
  • Most mobs cannot walk on Powder Snow, but fall into the block instead.
  • Fall damage is now correctly prevented when a player or mob falls on a single powder snow block.
Rooted Dirt
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Small Dripleaf
  • Small dripleaf can now be placed on moss.
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Smooth Basalt
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Tinted Glass
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Tuff
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Items

Amethyst Shard
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Copper Ingot
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Glow Ink Sac
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Raw Metal
  • Fortune enchantment now cause more raw iron/gold/copper ore to be dropped.
  • Raw copper, iron and gold ore are now available outside the experimental toggle.
Spawn Eggs
  • Axolotl, glow squid, and goat spawn egg now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Spyglass
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Mobs

Axolotl.
  • Axolotls can be rehydrated with Splash Water Bottle and Lingering Water Bottle.
  • Now spawn in any biome and up to Y=63 instead of Y=30.
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Glow Squid
  • Now spawn in any biome and up to Y=63 instead of Y=30.
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.
Goat
  • Goats no longer drop Mutton when killed.
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

World generation

Amethyst Geodes
  • Now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle.

Gameplay

User Interface
  • Updated the appearance of the loading screen.

Fixes

Caves & Cliffs
  • Axolotls now have their missing sounds (MCPE-123304).
  • Axolotls now swim way more often (MCPE-123263).
  • Using Bone Meal on a sapling planted on a Moss block now correctly grows a tree (MCPE-125689).
  • Cobblestone and Cobbled Deepslate are now used to repair stone items on an Anvil (MCPE-123670).
  • Cauldrons fill up in snowy weather, creating a renewable source of Powder Snow (MCPE-105412).
  • Glow Lichen is now visibly as close to the surface it is placed on as Java Edition (MCPE-122665).
  • Glow Lichen now has a map color that more closely resembles the color of the block (MCPE-126316).
  • Colors applied to text on signs are no longer barely visible (MCPE-117516).
  • Maps now glow in Glow Item Frames (MCPE-117503).
General
  • Chemistry items icons no longer disappear after suspend/resume in Education Edition worlds.
  • Fixed issue with underwater fog being the same for all biomes and view distance not increasing over time (MCPE-124282, MCPE-124266).
  • Underwater view distance is increased in Rivers and land biomes to be more like Minecraft Java when “Caves and Cliffs” experiment toggle is enabled.
Items
  • Boats now break when they collide with a Cactus from the side (MCPE-106044).
  • Changed the position of bow to match previous versions (MCPE-116741).
  • Crossbows in players' and mobs' hands are now rendered correctly in all perspective modes (MCPE-116737).
  • Fixed animation issue causing an off-hand held shield to appear to re-equip whenever the player changes their main-hand item (MCPE-116773).
  • Cauldrons that have been emptied after containing potion are now correctly filled with water when it rains.
  • Fixed issue where Fireworks of all colors could be crafted from any other color of Firework Charges (MCPE-90715).
Mobs
  • Blazes and Enderman once again receive damage from splash water bottles (MCPE-97483).
  • Fixed a bug where mobs would not spawn below y=0 when the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle is enabled (MCPE-122056).
Android
  • Android should once again see invite notifications and achievement toasts (MCPE-54902).
Gameplay
  • Fixed an issue with certain blocks which could cause them to grow too quickly when ticked.
Mobs
  • Mobs and entities once again make a sound when entering water.
Commands
  • The '/setworldspawn' command is now prohibited in legacy worlds and affected worlds will reset their altered spawn positions to the original position (MCPE-27797).

References

  1. "Minecraft Beta - 1.17.0.52 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)" – feedback.minecraft.net, April 28, 2021.
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