Beta 1.17.20.22 is the third beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.17.30, released on July 14, 2021,[1][2] which made mob spawning changes behind experimental toggle, and fixes bugs.
Changes[]
Blocks[]
- Light blocks now reveal a particle when the player is holding the item.
- Unlike in Java Edition, the respective item texture is used as the particle instead of four yellow stars.
Mobs[]
- Axolotls now spawn only where there's a stone block less than 10 blocks below the spawning space.
General[]
- User Interface
- Slightly changed the Minecraft logo on the loading screen and main menu (before Beta panorama loaded).
Technical[]
- Commands
- Target selectors
ry
andrym
now support wrapping around north
- Spawning
- Similar to the
spawns_on_block_filter
, thespawns_above_block_filter
specifies a list of blocks and a distance.- The mob can then spawn only if the nearest block within the specified distance below the desired spawnpoint is in that list (water and air not included).
Experimental[]
These changes are accessible by enabling the "Caves & Cliffs" and "Enable GameTest Framework" experimental toggle.
Blocks[]
- Can now generate below Y=0 to Y=-64.
Mobs[]
- Now only spawn in lush caves.
- Can now spawn below Y=0 to Y=-64.
- Can now spawn below Y=0 to Y=-64.
- Now only spawn in mountain meadow biome.
- General
- Hostile mobs will only spawn in areas where the light level is equal 0.
- This change only affects block-light and not sky-light.[3]
World generation[]
- Can now generate below Y=0 to Y=-64.
- Dripstone Caves and Lush Caves biome
- Can now generate below Y=0 to Y=-64.
Technical[]
- GameTest Framework
- Renamed
BlockTypes
class toMinecraftBlockTypes
- Renamed
Effects
class toMinecraftEffectTypes
- Renamed
Items
class toMinecraftItemTypes
- Events
- Added read-only property currentTick to tick event - Returns the current server tick
- Renamed event
createEntity
toentityCreate
- Renamed event
addEffect
toeffectAdd
- Renamed event
activatePiston
topistonActivate
- Renamed event
beforeActivatePiston
tobeforePistonActivate
- Renamed event
explodeBlock
toblockExplode
- Renamed event
changeWeather
toweatherChange
Fixes[]
- Stability and performance
- Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
- Blocks
- Amethyst cluster block can no longer be placed on grass path.
- Corrected deepslate lapis lazuli ore block name from deepslate lapis ore (MCPE-123605).
- Dispensers now remove bubble columns when removing water (MCPE-56462).
- Sea pickles now change light depending on being in water or not (MCPE-131642).
- Snow layers are now melted by light from torches, etc. (MCPE-131272).
- Vanilla parity: falling gravity blocks will no longer break when landing on certain blocks (MCPE-20109).
- Gameplay
- Vanilla parity: using bone meal on moss blocks now also replaces tuff blocks (MCPE-125922).
- Vanilla parity: fixed light block not being displayed correctly when being held (MCPE-123249).
- Fixed held items not disappearing visually to other players after a player dies when the keep inventory gamerule is enabled (MCPE-64235).
- Nether portals placed between chunks no longer break when leaving the Nether (MCPE-74333).
- Shears now correctly cut vines and glow lichen faster (MCPE-123139).
- Weeping and twisting vines now grow correctly after the player breaks them (MCPE-90932).
- Graphical
- Adjusted padding for HD textures in mipmaps level 1 in texture atlas to fix texture bleeding.
- Half of the enchantment table book doesn't render dark anymore (MCPE-106627).
- Blocks moved by a piston are no longer white while moving (MCPE-66250).
- Mobs
- Axolotl spawns only when there is stone up to 10 blocks under them, and not in bubble columns.
- Armor stands now drop equipped items when destroyed by fire or lava (MCPE-94603).
- Limited the maximum number of phantom mobs that can spawn (MCPE-106557).
- Goats now play their "impact 3" sound (MCPE-127757).
- User interface
- Recipe book crafting estimates no longer differ from the actual results.
- Experimental warning message is no longer displayed inconsistently when loading beta worlds.
- Cursor items no longer count towards recipe ingredient in recipe book.
- Selected recipe is now deselected when the player runs out of ingredients.
- Non-craftable recipes no longer displayed in recipe book when search mechanism is used.
- Nether blocks now appear in the crafting grid if any other ingredient is unavailable.
- Fixed a wireless network connection error message that appeared when players were connected via a wired network.
- Fixed various spelling errors in character creator.
- Hover of widget buttons were showing corrupted appearance before full load was complete.
- Fixed a legibility issue with some Japanese font characters.
- Riding an animal now displays the correct tooltip term when played on a non-touch screen.
- Technical
- Killing a custom mob with an unknown loot table entry type will no longer cause a crash, and will now throw a content error (MCPE-129006).
- Rabbit with initialEvent specified now scales properly to adult rabbit size (MCPE-76643).
References[]
- ↑ "Minecraft Beta - 1.17.20.22 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)" – feedback.minecraft.net, July 14, 2021.
- ↑ "Minecraft Beta 1.17.20.22" by Jay Wells. Minecraft.net, July 14, 2021
- ↑ "Some more information about: "Monsters will only spawn in complete darkness" * This means that generic monster spawning is now only in complete darkness. (Mobs that have special rules like slimes or phantoms are unaffected by this) * This only affects block-light, not sky-light" – @_Ulraf_ on X, July 13, 2021