Minecraft Beta 1.17.40.20 : A Bedrock Beta Changelog
KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS BETA
Bee Nests generate too frequently in the world
EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES
GENERAL
Added a new mountain biome: Stony Peaks!
This is just a variant of lofty/snow-capped peaks that uses stone and gravel instead of snow and ice, and is used to avoid temperature clashes such as a snow-capped peak sticking up from a jungle
Corrected vegetation in Mountain Meadows
Dripstone Clusters can now only be found in the Dripstone biome
Dripstone features now only generate in Dripstone biome
Mountain biomes now have correct feature places to match the Java Edition side-snapshot
Infested Stone can be found under new mountains
Tweaked ore distribution to match the Java Edition side-snapshot
Clouds are now at Y level 192
Tweaked biome placement, river size, and terrain shapes for a better overworld experience
Tweaked mob spawning in mountain and cave biomes to match the Java Edition side-snapshot
Trees in swamps can now generate slightly deeper when in water
Deepslate now generates at lower depths (MCPE-125117)
Dripstone features now generate at Deepslate depths
The placement logic of Small Dripstone feature has been refactored, frequency is similar but exact positions will differ
Maps now correctly show the colors of blocks below a Y level of zero (MCPE-136638)
LUSH CAVES
Vines now generate in Lush Caves instead of generating above the surface (MCPE-125800)
Vines can now grow down below zero height
VILLAGES
Villages now generate in the style of the biome they are located in (MCPE-136939)
NON-EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES AND BUG FIXES
BLOCKS
Falling stalactites are now offset properly to avoid interacting with entities outside their intended hitbox (MCPE-132772)
Beehives now generate in the world facing south
CANDLE CAKE BLOCKS
Pressing the ‘use’ button on a Candle Cake now consumes the correct amount of cake slices (MCPE-135519)
CHARACTER CREATOR
Fixed a crash that could occur when using Character Creator
Tweaked color tint for default Steve skin to match default Steve (MCPE-120818)
Altered message for when friends change skins (MCPE-92772)
COMMANDS
Education Edition items are no longer shown as an option when using @e[type=] (MCPE-78363)
GAMEPLAY
Fixed a bug that caused players to be set on fire upon changing dimensions if there was Lava underneath the Nether Portal (MCPE-28765)
Players can no longer eat food at full hunger in Survival mode (MCPE-60807)
Sea Grass no longer spawns under Lily Pads during world generation to avoid breaking them
Villagers can no longer spam doors open and closed (MCPE-28055)
Cartographers now more consistently give new maps on all platforms
WORLD GENERATION
Amethyst geodes are now much less likely to generate in Strongholds, and if they do they will not destroy End Portals (MCPE-129861, MCPE-128799)
GRAPHICAL
Improved world visibility culling for underground situations to eliminate seeing sky at the end of tunnels/stairs
MOBS
Improved mob pathing around partial blocks (MCPE-127381)
Armor no longer renders on Pillagers and Vindicators, but are still granted armor effects (MCPE-74242)
Fixed an issue with mob rendering that caused Vindicator Axes to be visible even when they’re not attacking on older Resource Packs (MCPE-123229)
More mobs will spawn underground in the Overworld
POWDER SNOW
Powder Snow no longer disappears when looking at it from a distance (MCPE-127565)
STRUCTURE BLOCK
Trapdoors now rotate correctly when loaded from a Structure block (MCPE-66933)
USER INTERFACE
Fixed an issue where the d-pad and directional keys could not be used to navigate in certain parts of the UIÂ (MCPE-132826)
Fixed an issue where an error message could be shown after suspending the game on the achievements screens with screen animations disabled (MCPE-132269)
Fixed an issue where an obscure gamerule was added to settings (MCPE-139025)
Fix keyboard/d-pad navigation from custom server to edit server button
New achievements screens are available on Windows 10 ARM-based PCs
The sign in text on the start screen will no longer overlap the Marketplace button
Add space between tab title and the word ‘Tab’ for text-to-speech on Settings screen
Added “More Info” button to failed sign-in modal
TECHNICAL UPDATES
DATA DRIVEN ITEMS
Updated documentation for Block Rotation Component
Added required toggles to documentation and to content error for block components
COMMANDS
Command blocks with ‘Needs Redstone’ and a non-zero ‘Delay in Ticks’ will now execute only if they remain powered for the delay duration (MCPE-74281)
Fix alignment of the sidebar display from the /scoreboard command when text length changes
DATA DRIVEN BLOCKS
Updated documentation for BlockExplosionResistance
GRAPHICS
Fixed failure to render leash when attached to a mob outside of viewport (MCPE-63931)
Added a content error for using a material but not providing the required number of textures to the render controller
Testing RenderDragon engine across subset of Android devices (ARMv7)
