Minecraft PE 1.19.70.21 Changelog

Experimental Features

Blocks

• Piglin and Dragon Head blocks no longer animate in the hotbar or inventory

Features and Bug Fixes

Gameplay

• Players are now able to place top Slabs in blocks that are only partially blocked by an entity
• Players can no longer see through partial blocks when sneaking or riding in third person
• Error messages about building outside the world height limits no longer appear when simply interacting with blocks at the world height limits from certain angles
• Players are now able to interact with functional blocks while sneaking in a gap without the sneak button held

Vanilla Parity

• Fixed bug where Zombified Piglins would spawn in the Nether in light levels above 11
• Minecarts can now eject mobs into liquid blocks

Touch Controls

• Allowed left and right D-pad buttons to keep input when the forward button is pressed
• Added the leave Boat button when the player falls from a height within in the boat.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from removing equipped armor by tapping on an item or block in the Creative inventory

Performance and Stability

• Fixed an issue where simultaneously pressing the "Mine" and "Place" button on any input device while targeting a Structure Block could cause the game to crash

Marketplace

• Navigating right with controller left stick on sidebar now collapses it

Commands

• Removed support for field "data" in commands /clone, /execute, /fill, /setblock and /testforblock beyond version 1.19.70, eg. /setblock ~ ~ ~ minecraft:wool 1will only have its equivalent /setblock ~ ~ ~ minecraft:wool ["color":"orange"] supported
• Volume arguments no longer floor the selector's position
• Selecting targets by volume will now select all entities whose hitbox collides with the volume box. This is versioned for 1.19.70 and later
• Previous behavior works as expected on versions less than 1.19.70
• Volume arguments for selectors (dx, dy, dz) now support float values

Technical Updates

General

• Crafting Table component no longer appends "tile." when defaulting to use block name for crafting table label

Experimental Technical Updates

API

• Added function playAnimation(animationName: string, options?: PlayAnimationOptions) - Plays the specified animation for an entity
• ItemStack
  • ItemStack can now be constructed using a string identifier
  • Removed constructor parameter data
  • Removed property data
  • Removed function clearLore- To clear lore, call setLore with an empty array or undefined
  • Setting nameTagto an empty string will now clear the name tag
  • Setting nameTagto a string longer than 255 characters will now result in an exception
  • Setting amountgreater than the maximum stack size will now clamp the value to the maximum stack size
  • Setting amountto a value less than 1 will now result in an exception
• ContainerSlot
  • Removed function clearItem- To clear the item, call setItem with undefined
  • Removed function clearLore- To clear lore, call setLore with an empty array or undefined

GameTest Framework

• Test
  • Added optional searchDistanceparameter to assertEntityPresent(entityTypeIdentifier: string, blockLocation: BlockLocation, searchDistance?: number, isPresent?: boolean)
  • Added assertEntityInstancePresentInArea(entity: Entity, isPresent?: boolean)to check if an entity instance is present in the test area
  • Made the searchDistanceparameter optional in assertItemEntityPresent

General

• In JSON formats 1.19.70 and later, blocks fail to load if the "condition" field in Block Permutations is not a valid Molang string