Minecraft PE 1.21.120.22 Changelog

End Gateway Portal

• Mitigated an issue that the player can get pushed to the void after teleporting from end portal

Blocks

• Copper Lantern textures are now animated
• Soul Fire Lantern textures are now animated
• Interacting with a Shelf while empty-handed in Creative mode no longer produces a sound effect 

Graphical

• Fixed an issue where the Copper Golem's eyes did not glow when viewed through water in Vibrant Visuals
• Adjusted rendering settings in Vibrant Visuals
  • Slightly reduced contrast across all biomes
  • Reduced the intensity of temperature-based color grading in certain biomes, such as Desert and Mesa biomes
  • Adjusted the sky color in the End dimension
  • Added unique biome settings for the Roofed Forest biomes

Mobs

• Copper Golem Statue no longer renders incorrectly in the UI
• Wither skeleton can now pick up copper swords

Copper Golem

• When interacting with a Copper Golem, Scraping and Waxing particles now appear at the Copper Golem's location instead of at the Block location

Stability and Performance

• Improved stability around Hopper Block destruction

User Interface

• Touch Controls: Sneak button now has its proper outline when activating Swap Jump and Sneak
• Accessibility and Language Settings are now updated with a new layout and design
• Text to Speech with Device Settings and Improved Input Response toggles are now available from settings screen on Windows 

Technical Updates

API

• Released initialRotation member of SpawnEntityOptions to 2.3.0
• Released initialPersistence member of SpawnEntityOptions to 2.3.0
• Entity
  • Fixed an issue with Players phasing through blocks when using applyImpulse(vector: Vector3): void
• Releasing the light detection API from experimental to stable.
• Removed entity override limit on Player method setPropertyOverrideForEntity

Editor

• A preview thumbnail of a structure is added to the structure list item
• Undo/redo support for Ruler Tool
• Fix an issue with client hanging when copy/pasting large structures

General

• Corrected the aim assist command error message that did not properly explain why it failed for the first person camera 
• Network changes may result in better download speeds on Windows devices 

Item Components

• Added the new "minecraft:swing_duration" item component, which defines the duration, in seconds, of the item's swing animation when mining or attacking
  • The duration is specified in the component's "value" field
  • Affects visuals only and does not impact attack frequency or gameplay mechanics
• The "minecraft:fire_resistant" item component no longer accepts a direct value assignment and now requires the value to be specified through the "value" field

Molang

• Added "query.base_swing_duration", which returns the duration of the mob's swing/attack animation, determined by the carried item and unmodified by effects applied on the mob
• Added "query.modified_swing_duration", which returns the duration of the mob's swing/attack animation, determined by the carried item and modified by effects applied on the mob

Network

• The following level events now emit particles at the exact specified position instead of at the center of the matching block position:
  • WaxOn, WaxOff, Scrape

Experimental Technical Updates

API

• Added Control Scheme string enum.
  • Added method setControlScheme(controlScheme?: string): void; to beta.
  • Added method getControlScheme(): ControlScheme; to beta.
• Added Scripting API for BlockPrecipitationInteractions component.
  • This api includes a component class for the BlockPrecipitationInteractions component and the two methods (accumulatesSnow and obstructsRain) of said component.
• Loot table discovery API now includes information about Loot Item Conditions
  • Modified method from setControlScheme(controlScheme?: string): void; to setControlScheme(controlScheme?: ControlScheme): void; in beta. 

Blocks

• Added minecraft:precipitation_interactions component.
  • This component allows creators to determine whether a block should obstruct precipitations or not. And if it does, whether falling snow should accumulate on the block or not.