Minecraft 1.17.0.50 Changelog

Experimental Features

Amethysts and Geodes

• Amethyst Geodes have been added to the game!
  • These huge geodes can be found anywhere underground in the Overworld
  • Amethyst geodes have an outer layer of a new block called Smooth Basalt
  • Amethyst geodes have a second layer of another new block called Calcite
  • Amethyst geodes have an inner layer of various Amethyst blocks
• Calcite, Tuff, and Smooth Basalt have been added to the game!
  • Just smelt basalt to obtain smooth basalt!
• Amethyst Clusters have been added to the game!
  • Amethyst Clusters grow from Budding Amethyst, which can be found inside geodes
  • Clusters have four growth stages: Small Amethyst Bud, Medium Amethyst Bud, Large Amethyst Bud, and Amethyst Cluster
  • Clusters can only grow when they are placed on Budding Amethyst blocks
  • Fully-grown Amethyst Clusters drop four Amethyst Shards (or more with Fortune) when an Iron Pickaxe or higher is used, and otherwise drop nothing when broken
  • Clusters can be Silk Touched at any stage
• Budding Amethyst has been added to the game!
  • On any side of a Budding Amethyst block where there is air or a water source block, a Small Amethyst Bud will eventually grow
  • Amethyst Buds can only grow when attached to Budding Amethyst, and will grow until they become Amethyst
• Clusters Amethyst Blocks have been added to the game!
  • Amethyst comes in block form inside the geodes in two ways: Block of Amethyst and Budding Amethyst
  • All types of Amethyst blocks (clusters included) create beautiful sounds when you walk on them, break them, place them, or hit them with a projectile – go make some music!
• Tinted Glass has been added to the game!
  • Tinted Glass is a type of glass that does not allow light to pass through
  • Tinted Glass is crafted by putting a Glass block in the middle of four Amethyst Shards
  • Tinted Glass can be obtained without Silk Touch; it does not shatter like normal glass
• Amethyst Shards have been added to the game!
  • Amethyst Clusters drop four Amethyst Shards (or more with Fortune)

Spyglass

• The Spyglass item has been added to game, and can be crafted with Copper Ingots and an Amethyst Shard
• Camera movement when looking through a Spyglass is slowed to make it more comfortable to use. This is adjustable using the Spyglass Damping slider in Settings

Smeltable Ore Drops

• Added Raw Copper, Raw Iron and Raw Gold items
• Ores that are smeltable now drop raw item forms of the ore instead of the ore block, and these can be smelted just like before
• This is to open up the design space for more base stones with ores without cluttering the inventory, and have consistency with Fortune on all ores
• Ore blocks will continue to be smeltable, meaning you can smelt ore blocks from inventories on old worlds

Raw Ore Blocks

• Added Block of Raw Iron, Copper, and Gold
• Just like other ore materials, you can craft a compact version with raw ore items in order to save inventory space

Tuff

• Blobs of tuff now generate in the world at y-levels below 16

Tweaks and Fixes

Axolotl

• Bucketing an Axolotl no longer unlocks the "I am a Marine Biologist" achievement
• Axolotls are now much more likely to spawn
• Axolotls no longer grant themselves regeneration when killing their target
• Player now receives experience points after breeding Axolotls

Caves

• Cobwebs no longer generate suspended in the air in mineshafts

Copper

• Copper surfaces now deoxidize in a more random pattern when struck by lightning

Copper Block

• Horizontally placed Lightning Rods now interact properly with respect to de-oxidizing Copper Blocks
• Copper Blocks struck by lightning now deoxidize even if there's no lightning rod present
• Copper stairs now produce their unique footstep sounds at positions below y=0

Deepslate

• Cobbled Deepslate, Deepslate Bricks, and Deepslate Tiles now give experience from smelting in a Furnace
• Cobbled deepslate can now be used as crafting material for tools, furnace and brewing stand

Dripstone

• Landing on dripstone no longer deals fall damage when gamerule falldamage is set to false
• Dripstone Block is now correctly named
• Only the tips of stalagmites deal increased fall damage
• Cauldrons fill slightly faster with water from dripping stalactites

Glow Item Frame

• Glow Item Frame's textures are no longer inconsistent between Bedrock and Java
• Glow Item Frame now produces Redstone signal

Lightning Rod

• Lightning Rod is now rendered correctly when held in hand
• Throwing a Channeling trident at a rod during a thunderstorm now correctly converts nearby mobs
• Blocks connected to a Lightning Rod now correctly conduct redstone signal when the rod is hit by lightning
• Throwing a Channeling trident at a rod during a thunderstorm now correctly affects villagers

Lush Caves

• Lush Cave biomes now randomly generate underground
• Azalea and Flowering Azalea leaves now have a chance to drop Azalea or Flowering Azalea when broken
• Moss Carpet now has Block Placing sound
• Azalea and Flowering Azalea now have ambient occlusion
• Bonemealing Small Dripleaves now creates Big Dripleaves of a random height between 1-5
• Changed which blocks some world generation features can replace with Moss blocks and Lush Ground:
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  • Moss blocks can replace: Dirt, Podzol, Rooted Dirt, Stone, Cave Vines
  • Lush Ground can replace: Dirt, Podzol, Rooted Dirt, Stone, Cave Vines, Clay, Moss Block, Sand, Gravel
• Moss block bonemealing behavior tweaks:
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  • Bonemealing a Moss block can now also replace Grass and Mycelium
  • The maximum radius covered by Moss bonemealing has been reduced by 1
  • The chance of growing vegetation when bonemealing a Moss block has been decreased

Pointed Dripstone

• If a Stalactite is hanging from a Dripstone block with a water source above, it will slowly grow both the Stalactite from above and a Stalagmite from below
• Growth speed is random but very slow, a single growth step can take several Minecraft days
• A Stalactite will only trigger growth if it is max 7 in length, and if the Stalagmite or floor is max 10 blocks below
• If the stalactite tip is inside water it won't drip, and therefore won't trigger any growth
• If the Stalagmite tip is underwater it won't receive drops, and therefore won't be grown by a dripping Stalactite. Same thing if there is any fluid between the two tips
• A Stalagmite or Stalactite will never grow into a fluid

Bone Meal

• Bone Meal now makes a sound when used

Player

• Added distinct damage sounds for burning, freezing and drowning
• Walking sound will now play at positions below y=0

Features No Longer Behind the Experimental Toggle

Powder Snow

• Powder Snow is now available in the Creative inventory in the game, outside of the Experimental Features
• Most mobs cannot walk on Powder Snow, but fall into the block instead
• Mobs inside a block of Powder Snow start to freeze and eventually take damage
• Players can protect themselves from Powder Snow by equipping leather armor
• Buckets can be used to scoop up and place Powder Snow
• Powder Snow blocks are now removed by flowing water and lava
• Foxes can now walk on Powder Snow
• Exiting a world while being slowed down from freezing will no longer keep the Character slowed after rejoining
• Powder Snow now only applies the freeze component to entities server-side

Glow Lichen

• Glow Lichen is now available outside the Caves & Cliffs experiment
• Glow Lichen can now be placed with all six faces set
• Glow Lichen no longer generates floating in air
• Glow Lichen can no longer exist with no faces present

Features and Bug Fixes

• Fixed invite icon remaining on start screen after signing out of Microsoft account

Accessibility Features

• Fixed a bug where Text-to-speech read the wrong text when displaying toasts

Commands

• Fixed issue where /structure delete command is listed in the middle of both /structure load commands
• Fixed issue where the /stopsound command crashes/freezes the game completely

Gameplay

• Renamed Structure Blocks will no longer have the incorrect data mode on creation

Graphical

• Cubemap no longer blinks when loading the game, loading into a world or leaving a world
• Fixed Strider, Hoglin, Zoglin, Piglin, Piglin Brute Spawn Eggs turning red when quick-moved inside any Inventory in RenderDragon builds
• Fixed enchantment glint shape of Charged Bow and Crossbow icons in RenderDragon builds

Items

• Using an axe on Wood blocks turns them into Stripped Wood blocks
• Fixed items playing “attack” and “using” animations at the same time on touch input

Vanilla Parity

• Critical hit particles now generate around a mob instead of under it

Technical Updates

Actors

• Internal state flag CAN_RIDE_TARGET that was stopping interactions with items will be properly set/cleared when looking at a mob that cannot be ridden

General

• Added two new variables to the biomes_client.json file: "remove_all_prior_fog" and "inherit_from_prior_fog",which control fog merging and/or inheritance
• "remove_all_prior_fog", when true, will clear all previous fog definitions stored on the stack, making the current pack the new "starting point" for fogs
• "inherit_from_prior_fog", when true, will merge a biome's fog definition with matching biomes on the stack then create a new merged definition for it
• transparentattachable tag should only affect rendering in first person camera perspective

Scoreboards

• Fixed a crash that sometimes happened when an entity with a scoreboard value was removed from the level

Stability and Performance

• Added content warnings for invalid map item parent id caused by the outdated Marketplace world templates