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Patch 3 was a version of Wii U Edition released on February 26, 2016.[1] This version is equivalent to Java Edition 1.8, adding content from the Bountiful Update. [edit]


Additions[]

Blocks[]

Items[]

Mobs[]

World generation[]

Structures
Biomes
  • Added Mesa, Mega Taiga, Roofed Forest, Birch Forest, Forest, Savanna, Extreme Hills+, Deep Ocean, Snowless Taiga, and 20 new technical biomes.

Gameplay[]

Enchantments
  • Luck of the Sea, Lure, Depth Strider
Creative Inventory
  • Added silverfish mossy stone brick, silverfish cracked stone brick, and silverfish chiseled stone brick variants of silverfish blocks to the Creative inventory.

General[]

Tutorial
  • Created a new tutorial world.
Skin packs
  • Added Biome Settlers Skin Pack 1.

Changes[]

Blocks[]

Items[]

Mobs[]

  • Most mobs can now swim.
  • Skeletons and rabbits now flee from wolves.
  • Creepers, skeletons, wither skeletons and zombies drop their heads when killed by charged creepers.
  • Spiders no longer see players through solid blocks.
  • Babies' growth can be accelerated by feeding them.
  • Baby zombies now drop experience.
  • Creepers can now be ignited with flint and steel.
  • Adult zombie pigmen will forgive after a short time (and lose the aggro speed boost), but will continue to attack until the player escapes their aggro distance.
  • Witches can now drink and drop potions of water breathing.
  • Sheep now drop mutton when they die.
  • Updated sounds for cows and mooshrooms.
  • Villagers have additional professions and trades, will now harvest crops if they are farmers, will only breed when willing and will turn into witches when struck by lightning.

World generation[]

  • Melons can now be found in jungle biomes similar to pumpkins.
  • Swamp biomes now spawn with blue orchid flowers and the coast is covered in staggered dirt block with lily pads between them.
  • Plains biomes now generate with azure bluets, oxeye daises, tulips and double tall grass.
  • Extreme hills biomes now have snow at higher elevations, gravel, flat valleys near sea level and are slightly higher.
  • Ocean biomes contains only gravel on the floor instead of sand, dirt and gravel.
  • Desert temples now spawn with stained clay instead of dyed wool.

Gameplay[]

Fishing
Enchanting

General[]

Nether portals
  • New nether portal building rules: any rectangular shape from 4×5 to 23×23.
  • If the portal in the nether is big enough, ghasts can travel through.
  • Will now be activated by any fire block within the frame.

Fixes[]

This version combines fixes from several other console versions


113 issues fixed
  • MCCE-48 – Water Spreading Creates New Source Blocks.
  • MCCE-571 – Interface Opacity and Tooltip Opacity issues on PS Vita.
  • MCCE-772 – Animals get stuck in corners of fence-type blocks.
  • MCCE-817 – Map walls are broken since CU19 on Xbox One.
  • MCCE-826 – Beacon height limit.
  • MCCE-829 – The end build limit is smaller.
  • MCCE-831 – Player skin is the default skin when holding a map.
  • MCCE-833 – When Interface opacity is down, hotbar faded tools will not show their durability.
  • MCCE-856 – Red sandstone stairs texture incorrect.
  • MCCE-863 – The map does not work as it should unless "View Hand" is turned on.
  • MCCE-865 – Rabbits only appear to spawn naturally in snow biomes.
  • MCCE-878 – Book and quill saving issue: opening and closing an edited (not signed) writeable book deletes the saved pages.
  • MCCE-885 – Feather Falling enchantment does not reduce fall or ender pearl damage.
  • MCCE-886 – Feather Falling IV not working
  • MCCE-962 – Increase to slime spawning.
  • MCCE-1009 – Skulls in the inventory and held in first person are oversized.
  • MCCE-1024 – Raw fish and raw salmon have the same texture in the Natural Texture Pack.
  • MCCE-1072 – In the City Texture Pack it shows smooth red sandstone as a rough block but when you place it, it is smooth.
  • MCCE-1091 – Some fire caused by ghast's fireball explosion is not displayed.
  • MCCE-1127 – Wolfs default collar color had changed from orange to red.
  • MCCE-1142 – Minecraft Capes using incorrect texture.
  • MCCE-1192 – Texture under the bed is the texture of the top of the bed.
  • MCCE-1202 – Map dark when facing north or south.
  • MCCE-1214 – Texture of any potion turns black while holding it in the End or Nether.
  • MCCE-1349 – Penned animals de-spawn when leaving the chunk.
  • MCCE-1366 – When placing a torch under water to reset / refill the air meter will often cause a crash.
  • MCCE-1367 – Melon farm with piston causes crash.
  • MCCE-1403 – Hunger meter always regenerates when switching from peaceful to any other difficulty.
  • MCCE-1415 – Hunger meter depletion glitch
  • MCCE-1434 – Fishing rod bobber sticks to walls.
  • MCCE-1455 – Piston/slime block duplication.
  • MCCE-1457 – TNT can destroy blocks placed well beyond the world border.
  • MCCE-1476 – Skin Pack 6: Faith Connors' Mirror's Edge Skin first person view bugged on Xbox 360.
  • MCCE-1488 – 'Getting an Upgrade' trophy/achievement fails to unlock while crafting a stone pickaxe using classic crafting.
  • Fix for crash when ender chest is mined for a few seconds.
  • Fix for an intermittent crash when placing beds on snow.
  • Fix for a crash when a Superflat world session with a combination of multiple planks or wood, lava and air layers is saved.
  • Fix for a crash after destroying blocks and exploring a Superflat world with multiple sand, air and TNT Layers.
  • Improved random seed generator to select worlds with a better spread of biomes.
  • Fix for Villagers not harvesting crops from farmland created by the player.
  • Fix for glass not being able to be broken by hand in Adventure mode.
  • Fix for an issue where the user renames a 'Spawn Egg' and places it in water, causing debug text to be displayed.
  • Fix for an issue when the "Body Guard" trophy/achievement does not unlock as expected when the iron golem is built in a certain way.
  • Fix for an issue where a player cannot see other players after dying and respawning.
  • Fix for an issue where baby horses appear to be adults after feeding with one golden carrot.
  • Fix for issue where two primary powers can be applied to the player's character through the beacon UI.
  • Fix for an issue where a Torch and a Redstone Torch have two hitboxes.
  • Fix for de-spawn protections not being applied to baby animals created with Spawn Eggs.
  • Fix for issue where item quantity for bottle o' enchanting, nether star, enchanted golden apple and strength indicator for potions are not affected by Interface Opacity when in Quick Select.
  • Fix for death message with incorrect text is displayed when the player is killed with a named weapon.
  • Fix for worlds generating slightly differently every time even with the same seed.
  • Fix for issue where leather clothes, spawn eggs and potions are displayed improperly when the player is above 256 blocks or is in a place where there is no source of daylight.
  • Fix for Doors, Trapdoors and Fence Gates missing a sound effect when closing.
  • Fix for issue where opening certain menus does not cancel the eating, drinking or bow charging animations.
  • Fixed an issue where items that have no custom names were not showing up in edit text field in the Anvil.
  • Fix for ocelots not sprinting away from the player.
  • Fix for pistons and objects pushed by them having corrupted, black textures while animating.
  • Fix for falling gravel, Sand and Red Sand blocks displaying with very dark textures.
  • Fix for issue where texture pack changes to vanilla Minecraft textures if the player joins a friend's session.
  • Added first person rendering of additional skin parts for the left and right arms.
  • Fix for an issue when in a split-screen session where at least one player does not get critical hit particles.
  • Fix for seeing through the base of falling blocks.
  • Fix for missing mining animation for skulls, heads, signs, chests and beacons.
  • Fix for issue where changing the Interface Opacity to specific values causes visual issues with the item and button icons on the HUD.
  • Fix for issue when traveling directly north or south in a minecart where the player automatically turns to face eastwards.
  • Fix for missing tooltip for 'Exit' / 'Dismount' actions.
  • Fix for guardians not being spawned around ocean monuments on a Superflat world.
  • Fix for city Texture Pack missing textures for multiple kinds of doors while holding in the player's hand
  • Fix for sign text not displaying.
  • Fix for cows needing to take 11 hits with hand or 3 hits with any Sword to be killed.
  • Fix for clownfish description displaying incorrect information.
  • Fix to update the sponge texture.
  • Fix for the tutorial message about boats shows the wrong button prompt for exiting the boat.
  • Fix to allow saves that had been well explored to save player state again.
  • Fix for Golden Apple's regeneration animation not being smooth.
  • Fix for issues using certain symbols while renaming items on the Anvil.
  • Fixed an issue unlocking the 'Iron Belly' trophy.
  • Fix for 'Acquire Hardware' achievement not unlocking when an ingot is removed by the Quick Move button.
  • Fix for 'Delicious Fish' achievement being able to be be unlocked without cooking a Raw Fish.
  • Fix for a crash when adding a Split-screen Client on the host's console while the game player slots are full.


29 issues fixed
  • MCCE-11 – Tall building glitch
  • MCCE-29 – Cloud sync fails
  • MCCE-61 – Heart misplace
  • MCCE-64 – Falling sand bug
  • MCCE-85 – Jukebox: "Now playing: Music Disc" never disappears
  • MCCE-89 – Lead animation incorrect when horse is tied to post
  • MCCE-181 – Inventory and world save were at different points
  • MCCE-216 – No Minecart Sound
  • MCCE-237 – Beacon Beam working incorrectly.
  • MCCE-245 – Hoppers always enabled with redstone deactivation.
  • MCCE-298 – Faliure to load:' Already Playing Game'
  • MCCE-390 – Title lags or crashes when creating a superflat world with many layers of degrading grass or mycelium tiles.
  • MCCE-420 – Doors do not stack correctly (should stack up to 64)
  • MCCE-438 – Double Piston Extenders Broken
  • MCCE-466 – Water flickers/change colors at distance with Natural Texture Pack
  • MCCE-486 – When ending regeneration while health display is bouncing, it stops on a certain frame of the bounce
  • MCCE-494 – Sign hitbox flicker
  • MCCE-555 – No sound when walking on grass
  • MCCE-564 – Horses not spawning
  • MCCE-598 – Lag when looking in some parts of world
  • MCCE-607 – Netherack fence connects to wood fence
  • MCCE-653 – Game mode slider broken
  • MCCE-656 – Survival bug
  • MCCE-667 – Bug when switching game mode
  • MCCE-668 – Switching gamemode in game does not switch completely
  • MCCE-670 – Worlds do not show Creative menu
  • MCCE-685 – Switching between game mode causes game to go crazy
  • MCCE-734 – Wood and nether brick fences connect
  • MCCE-762 – Iron golems not working


18 issues fixed
  • MCCE-499 – Ocelots Spawning endless
  • MCCE-635 – Chest Quick Move
  • MCCE-689 – Gamemode switch does not work from host options
  • MCCE-690 – Weird Knockback
  • MCCE-712 – Rotten flesh is called Rådden fisk in danish
  • MCCE-786 – Single users saves being deleted while others aren't.
  • MCCE-819 – When I save it doesn't always save/the autosave feature does not work
  • MCCE-863 – The map does not work as it should (unless "View Hand" is turned on)
  • MCCE-1005 – Name tags freeze console
  • MCCE-1026 – Stuck in sign unable to type, exit sign or even dashboard
  • MCCE-1569 – Oak and Iron Doors Items have wrong texture In the Inventory
  • MCCE-1691 – Slimes Are Spawning in Witch huts
  • MCCE-1695 – Slime chunk in the End
  • MCCE-1698 – slime spawn in witch hut
  • MCCE-1706 – slimes are spawning in the nether
  • MCCE-1758 – There are slimes sapwning in the Nether
  • Fix for animals in love mode lacking heart particles for the duration of Love Mode.
  • Fix for slimes spawning in the Nether.


113 issues fixed
  • MCCE-48 – Water Spreading Creates New Source Blocks.
  • MCCE-571 – Interface Opacity and Tooltip Opacity issues on PS Vita.
  • MCCE-772 – Animals get stuck in corners of fence-type blocks.
  • MCCE-817 – Map walls are broken since CU19 on Xbox One.
  • MCCE-826 – Beacon height limit.
  • MCCE-829 – The end build limit is smaller.
  • MCCE-831 – Player skin is the default skin when holding a map.
  • MCCE-833 – When Interface opacity is down, hotbar faded tools will not show their durability.
  • MCCE-856 – Red sandstone stairs texture incorrect.
  • MCCE-863 – The map does not work as it should unless "View Hand" is turned on.
  • MCCE-865 – Rabbits only appear to spawn naturally in snow biomes.
  • MCCE-878 – Book and quill saving issue: opening and closing an edited (not signed) writeable book deletes the saved pages.
  • MCCE-885 – Feather Falling enchantment does not reduce fall or ender pearl damage.
  • MCCE-886 – Feather Falling IV not working
  • MCCE-962 – Increase to slime spawning.
  • MCCE-1009 – Skulls in the inventory and held in first person are oversized.
  • MCCE-1024 – Raw fish and raw salmon have the same texture in the Natural Texture Pack.
  • MCCE-1072 – In the City Texture Pack it shows smooth red sandstone as a rough block but when you place it, it is smooth.
  • MCCE-1091 – Some fire caused by ghast's fireball explosion is not displayed.
  • MCCE-1127 – Wolfs default collar color had changed from orange to red.
  • MCCE-1142 – Minecraft Capes using incorrect texture.
  • MCCE-1192 – Texture under the bed is the texture of the top of the bed.
  • MCCE-1202 – Map dark when facing north or south.
  • MCCE-1214 – Texture of any potion turns black while holding it in the End or Nether.
  • MCCE-1349 – Penned animals de-spawn when leaving the chunk.
  • MCCE-1366 – When placing a torch under water to reset / refill the air meter will often cause a crash.
  • MCCE-1367 – Melon farm with piston causes crash.
  • MCCE-1403 – Hunger meter always regenerates when switching from peaceful to any other difficulty.
  • MCCE-1415 – Hunger meter depletion glitch
  • MCCE-1434 – Fishing rod bobber sticks to walls.
  • MCCE-1455 – Piston/slime block duplication.
  • MCCE-1457 – TNT can destroy blocks placed well beyond the world border.
  • MCCE-1476 – Skin Pack 6: Faith Connors' Mirror's Edge Skin first person view bugged on Xbox 360.
  • MCCE-1488 – 'Getting an Upgrade' trophy/achievement fails to unlock while crafting a stone pickaxe using classic crafting.
  • Fix for crash when ender chest is mined for a few seconds.
  • Fix for an intermittent crash when placing beds on snow.
  • Fix for a crash when a Superflat world session with a combination of multiple planks or wood, lava and air layers is saved.
  • Fix for a crash after destroying blocks and exploring a Superflat world with multiple sand, air and TNT Layers.
  • Improved random seed generator to select worlds with a better spread of biomes.
  • Fix for Villagers not harvesting crops from farmland created by the player.
  • Fix for glass not being able to be broken by hand in Adventure mode.
  • Fix for an issue where the user renames a 'Spawn Egg' and places it in water, causing debug text to be displayed.
  • Fix for an issue when the "Body Guard" trophy/achievement does not unlock as expected when the iron golem is built in a certain way.
  • Fix for an issue where a player cannot see other players after dying and respawning.
  • Fix for an issue where baby horses appear to be adults after feeding with one golden carrot.
  • Fix for issue where two primary powers can be applied to the player's character through the beacon UI.
  • Fix for an issue where a Torch and a Redstone Torch have two hitboxes.
  • Fix for de-spawn protections not being applied to baby animals created with Spawn Eggs.
  • Fix for issue where item quantity for bottle o' enchanting, nether star, enchanted golden apple and strength indicator for potions are not affected by Interface Opacity when in Quick Select.
  • Fix for death message with incorrect text is displayed when the player is killed with a named weapon.
  • Fix for worlds generating slightly differently every time even with the same seed.
  • Fix for issue where leather clothes, spawn eggs and potions are displayed improperly when the player is above 256 blocks or is in a place where there is no source of daylight.
  • Fix for Doors, Trapdoors and Fence Gates missing a sound effect when closing.
  • Fix for issue where opening certain menus does not cancel the eating, drinking or bow charging animations.
  • Fixed an issue where items that have no custom names were not showing up in edit text field in the Anvil.
  • Fix for ocelots not sprinting away from the player.
  • Fix for pistons and objects pushed by them having corrupted, black textures while animating.
  • Fix for falling gravel, Sand and Red Sand blocks displaying with very dark textures.
  • Fix for issue where texture pack changes to vanilla Minecraft textures if the player joins a friend's session.
  • Added first person rendering of additional skin parts for the left and right arms.
  • Fix for an issue when in a split-screen session where at least one player does not get critical hit particles.
  • Fix for seeing through the base of falling blocks.
  • Fix for missing mining animation for skulls, heads, signs, chests and beacons.
  • Fix for issue where changing the Interface Opacity to specific values causes visual issues with the item and button icons on the HUD.
  • Fix for issue when traveling directly north or south in a minecart where the player automatically turns to face eastwards.
  • Fix for missing tooltip for 'Exit' / 'Dismount' actions.
  • Fix for guardians not being spawned around ocean monuments on a Superflat world.
  • Fix for city Texture Pack missing textures for multiple kinds of doors while holding in the player's hand
  • Fix for sign text not displaying.
  • Fix for cows needing to take 11 hits with hand or 3 hits with any Sword to be killed.
  • Fix for clownfish description displaying incorrect information.
  • Fix to update the sponge texture.
  • Fix for the tutorial message about boats shows the wrong button prompt for exiting the boat.
  • Fix to allow saves that had been well explored to save player state again.
  • Fix for Golden Apple's regeneration animation not being smooth.
  • Fix for issues using certain symbols while renaming items on the Anvil.
  • Fixed an issue unlocking the 'Iron Belly' trophy.
  • Fix for 'Acquire Hardware' achievement not unlocking when an ingot is removed by the Quick Move button.
  • Fix for 'Delicious Fish' achievement being able to be be unlocked without cooking a Raw Fish.
  • Fix for a crash when adding a Split-screen Client on the host's console while the game player slots are full.


See also[]

References[]

  1. "Minecraft: Wii U Edition Patch change logs" – Minecraft Forum, February 26, 2016.
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