Minecraft 1.16.230.54 Changelog

Axolotl 

• Leads now correctly attach to Axolotl  

Creative Inventory 

• There are no longer any unknown items in the creative inventory
• Cobbled Deepslate is now next to cobblestone in the Creative inventory. Polished Deepslate is next to Deepslate  

Deepslate 

• Deepslate Bricks now have correct breaktime  

Dripstone 

• Water and lava now drip more often from pointed dripstone  
• Fixed pointed dripstone texture mapping  

Glow Lichen 

• Glow lichen can now appear on the walls of underground water lakes  
• The game no longer crashes when placing glow lichen on all sides of a single block  

Glow Squid 

• Leads now attach correctly to glow squid (and squid)  

Lush Caves 

• Hanging roots now drop correctly when mined by silk touch enchanted tool  
• Moss can now also spread vertically when fertilized
• Dripleaves now break completely when the leaf part is broken
• Breaking a dripleaf stem now drops a dripleaf item, matching the Java Edition
• Fertilizing a moss block can now also grow vegetation on existing moss blocks  
• Small Dripleaves can now be composted just like Big Dripleaves
• Bonemealing moss blocks no longer generates ferns
• Azalea and Flowering Azalea can now be grown into an Azalea Tree when fertilized (No ID) 

Powder Snow 

• Leather horse armor prevents horses from freezing in powder snow  
• Mobs that enjoy the heat (Blazes, Magma Cubes, and Striders) take increased freeze damage  
• Polar bears, strays, and snow golems no longer take freeze damage  
• The time taken to fully freeze is now 7 seconds instead of 15  
• Frozen entities now take damage every 2 seconds instead of every 3 seconds  
• The speed at which entities can move vertically when inside powder snow has increased  
• Powder snow takes slightly longer to mine  
• Entities wearing leather boots falling from a height of > 2.5 blocks sink into powder snow instead of landing on top of it  
• Entities that are on fire that walk into powder snow now melt the powder snow block in addition to extinguishing the fire  
• Entities that are fully frozen now shake  
• Applied fog effect while standing very close outside a Powder Snow block  

Striders 

• Striders shake properly when out of lava again

Other Experimental Tweaks and Changes 

• Dripstone feature and dripstone cluster feature now rarely generate in caves below y59 
• Rooted dirt, Small dripleaf, Moss Block and Pointed dripstone can now be obtained from the Wandering Trader 
• Glow berries can be found in abandoned mineshaft minecart chests 
• Moss block can be found in shipwreck chests 
• Masons now trade Dripstone blocks 
• Dripstone block can be crafted from pointed dripstone 
• Axolotl and Glow Squid now spawn in water in non-ocean biomes under y = 30  

General Bug Fixes and Tweaks 

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

Structure Blocks 

• The structure placement block now has placement animation options similar to '/structure' command  

Commands 

• Fix output message for '/stopsound' being incorrect

Graphical 

• Charged creeper aura is rendered correctly in most cases now 
• 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

Underwater Gameplay Experience 

• 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  

Technical Updates 

 GameTest Framework 

 Updated Interfaces: 

• assertContainerContains - ItemIdentifier parameter changed to ItemStack 
• assertItemEntityNotPresent and assertItemEntityPresent APIs - ItemStack parameter changed to ItemType  

Added New Interfaces: 

• assertEntityNotTouching(entityIdentifier: string, position : Location) - Asserts that there is no entity of the given type at the given position 
• assertEntityTouching(entityIdentifier: string, position : Location) - Asserts that there is an entity of the given type at the given position 
• assertItemEntityCountIs(itemType : ItemType, position : BlockLocation, searchDistance : number, count : number) - Asserts that the entity item count in the given search area matches the expected count 
• pulseRedstone(position : BlockLocation, duration : number) - Creates a Redstone block at the given position and destroys it after "duration" ticks 

 Known Issues in this Beta 

• Parts of Villages' generate underground  
• Axolotl doesn't spawn naturally  
• Glow Squid does not spawn naturally