Minecraft PE 1.21.60.24 Changelog

Achievements

• The Monster Hunter achievement can now be unlocked by destroying a Creaking Heart while it has a spawned Creaking

Blocks

• Tall Grass that is placed when using Bone Meal on Moss Blocks or Pale Moss Blocks no longer render only their bottom half

Gameplay

• The second passenger of a boat will no longer have large camera twitches when rotating toward the west direction

Items

• Open Bundle textures updated such that there is no longer a missing string pixel
• Resin Bricks are no longer found in Woodland Mansion chests
• The XP rewarded for smelting Resin Clumps into Resin Bricks has been reduced from 0.3 to 0.1

Mobs

• Creakings spawned from Creaking Hearts now always persist upon reloading the world
• Creaking's eyes now properly flicker when the Creaking Heart which spawned it is destroyed

Realms

• The friends tab on the Play screen now shows the correct list of joinable worlds and Realms
• Player permissions no longer revert to the previous state after leaving the Manage Realm tab
• Fixed issue where game mode appears as Unknown on the Realms Tab even if the Realm has a world with a valid game mode

Stability and Performance

• Players on Switch should remain signed into their Microsoft Account after putting Minecraft app to sleep and resuming it

Structures

• Some Savanna Villages no longer have a hole where a Dirt Path block should be

User Interface

• [PlayStation®5] 'Enable Screen Reader' accessibility setting is now used to initialize Text-to-Speech during first launch
• Fixed a bug where the game could soft lock in certain scenarios when it was suspended right before the player dying
• Changed wording for enabling/disabling player's sleep skipping the night to "Skip night by sleeping" from "Beds work"
• Added additional debug info regarding Realms features in the general settings screen
• Updated the text on the new bed screen when sleeping to skip the night is disabled

Vanilla Parity

Blocks

• Sniffer Egg block now only provides center support on top and bottom faces
• Shears can now be used on Cave Vines, Kelp, Twisting Vines, and Weeping Vines while sneaking
• Using Shears on Cave Vines, Kelp, Twisting Vines, and Weeping Vines now plays the arm swing animation
• Water and Lava no longer remain in the world when placing a Water or Lava Bucket against a Cave Vine with Glow Berries
• Collecting Glow Berries when holding Shears no longer picks the Berries and shears at the same time
• Sniffer Egg block no longer provides side support to any block

World Generation

• Creaking Hearts now generate more often in naturally generated Pale Oaks
• Canyons now generate more often
• Canyons can once again reach the surface
• Canyons can once again generate on the ocean floor
• Canyons now completely carve through Copper Ore veins and most other underground blocks
• Canyons now properly interact with aquifers, filling with water instead of generating as disconnected segments

Technical Updates

Blocks

• Fixed issue where legacy data driven block didn't apply the render layer from the material instances component
• Fix spurious content log error: 'trying to override the Geometry component with blocks.json settings for a custom block'
• Door blocks use state minecraft:cardinal_direction instead of minecraft:direction. Uses string values ("north, south, east, west")

Components

• Moved the minecraft:liquid_detection component out of the Upcoming Creator Features experiment for format_versions 1.21.60 and above

Collisions

• Entities with no collision box but with the minecraft:custom_hit_test component are no longer sometimes unable to be interacted with

Components

• Expand the minecraft:breedable component to allow inheriting properties to child entities
  • Adds the new "property_inheritance" field which takes property name keyed objects
  • The objects in property_inheritance can contain a "mutation_chance" which give the chance it should not inherit from either parent
  • They can also contain the "mutation_values" array of values to select from if mutating and the component has random mutation set

Editor

• Centers block thumbnail images in hotbar, block picker and lists
• Adds data-driven rendering to editor block images
  • Adds block name aliasing for signs
  • Adds support for namespace block names for block:// protocol
• Player model is now fully hidden while in tool mode

Fog

• Fixed issue where "inherit_from_prior_fog" field in biomes_client.json was ignored on first content on resource pack stack

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug where opening a chest while the clone command is spamming could crash the server

Graphical

• Single-channel textures in resource packs are now interpreted as grayscale, rather than red. This change does not apply to single-channel UI textures, which were already interpreted as such

Graphics

• client_biome JSON files now support a "surface_opacity" field in the "minecraft:water_appearance" component
  • This change also restores swampland and warm_ocean surface opacity to what they were until recently when the client_biome JSON files were introduced

Items

• Fixed an issue where non-host clients joining multiplayer sessions would be missing an icon for packs that had duplicate items
• The following legacy item (pre 1.16.100) components are now synced to the client:
  • minecraft:camera
  • minecraft:seed
  • minecraft:max_damage
  • minecraft:hand_equipped
  • minecraft:stacked_by_data
  • minecraft:foil
  • minecraft:block
  • minecraft:use_duration
  • minecraft:max_stack_size

Scripting

• Fixed Entity.getComponent and Entity.getComponents from crashing when called within EntityDieAfterEvent callback.

Experimental Technical Features

Scripting

• system.scriptEvent updated to return a new error for exceeding the message size
• Structure
  • Added waterlogged: boolean parameter to setBlockPermutation. This can be used to set whether the specified block within a structure is waterlogged.
• Removed ScriptBlockType.canBeWaterlogged from Beta - instead, ScriptBlock.canContainLiquid or ScriptBlockPermutation.canContainLiquid can be used to check if a block can be waterlogged.

Camera

• Aim assist will no longer get automatically enabled when switched to vanilla third-person-behind camera by default