Minecraft PE 26.30.31 Changelog

Biomes

• Added a grass color override specific to the Sulfur Caves

Blocks

• The textures of Sulfur and Cinnabar Blocks have been updated to match Java

• Chiseled Sulfur and Chiseled Cinnabar can no longer be crafted by stonecutting Polished Sulfur and Cinnabar Bricks, respectively

• Sulfur Spikes now grow over time

Potent Sulfur

• Entities propelled by erupting Potent Sulfur now travel slightly higher, matching Java Edition

• Erupting Potent Sulfur particles now travel slightly higher, matching Java Edition

• Erupting Potent Sulfur particles no longer get blocked as easily by surrounding blocks

• Noxious Gas particles now darken based on surrounding light levels

• Potent Sulfur can no longer be moved by Pistons or by Sticky Pistons

• Fixed a bug where naturally generated Sulfur Springs would occasionally not produce a geyser

Sulfur Caves

• Sulfur Caves now spawn more Sulfur pools

• Adjusted spawn ratios for the following mobs within the Sulfur Caves .

  • Creeper: spawns less frequently and always in groups of two
  • Skeleton: spawns less frequently and always in groups of two
  • Sulfur Cube: spawns in groups of two to four
  • Witch: spawns less frequently
  • Zombie: spawns less frequently and always in groups of two
  • Cave Spiders replace Spiders

• Reduced the amount of Glow Lichen occurring to be in line with other caves

• Sulfur Caves exposed to the surface now generate with all the features

Sulfur Cube

• Fixed bug where the Sulfur Cube would look for blocks and be tempted at a longer distance than intended

• Fixed an issue where upward gravity compensation was incorrectly applied after a slow, straight-up bounce on the Sulfur Cube

• Sulfur Cubes can no longer pick up more than one item at a time by themselves

• Fixed bug where the Sulfur Cube would inconsistently stay floating after absorbing a block that should make it sink

• Improved server-side performance when lots of Sulfur Cubes are in an area

• Added death message for when a player is killed by a Magma Sulfur Cube 

• Sulfur Cube with an absorbed block is now immune to the Poison effect

• Fixed the Sulfur Cube not being able to spawn in 1x1 large spaces

• TNT Sulfur Cubes can now be ignited when in contact with either a Magma block or a Sulfur Cube with a Magma block inside of it

• Magma Sulfur Cubes now won't damage Netherite Armor anymore

• Shields don't block the damage from Magma Sulfur Cubes anymore 

• Fire Resistance effect now properly protects against Magma Sulfur Cubes 

• Sulfur Cubes with an absorbed block no longer push player-controlled mounts

• Sulfur Cubes using the fast_flat archetype are no longer buoyant

• Sulfur Cubes using the hot archetype now have the same physics properties as the regular archetype

Sounds

• Regular Sulfur Cube once again plays a landing sound after a jump

• Geysers now have unique sounds when continuously erupting

Features and Bug Fixes

Biomes

• Fixed a bug that caused custom Nether biomes to generate with a repeating tiling pattern across chunk boundaries

Blocks

• TNT blocks now have smoke particles when ignited

Character Creator

• Fixed error message displayed when importing a custom skin on android without enough device space

General

• Fixed an issue where accepting a game invite while the game was loading could fail due to skins not yet being loaded

• Fixed placement of Lakes where they would not break above the surface

• Fixed a scenario where the game would send excessive web requests.

Graphical

• Fixed Vibrant Visuals shadows and reflections not rendering on PlayStation 4

• Fixed a crash that could occur on Windows when resizing the game window during initial loading

Loot Tables

• Fixed loot table container filling so that when trying to insert a new item, existing partial stacks will be merged to open up slots for new additions

Marketplace

• Fixed issue causing the Marketplace screen to throw an assert

Mobs

• Sulfur Cubes can now receive angled knockback when hit using weapons enchanted with Knockback and when the attacker is sprinting or swimming

Music

• Reference to the nonexistent clark.ogg sound asset has been removed

Realms

• Fixed an issue where clearing Realm members via "Clear All Members" resulted in a crash

• Adding in a hardcore heart and border in the Realms Hub Slots section

• Fixed an issue where pack content would not visually reset until leaving the screen when resetting the world

User Interface

• Fixed a freeze when opening a furnace without recipes

• Replaced the Locator Bar toggle in the Multiplayer tab of the Create New World and Edit World screens with a Player Waypoints setting, allowing players to choose between "Off" (no players shown on the locator bar) and "Everyone" (all players shown on the locator bar)

• Added support for new Marketplace Content Cards

• Updated skin info panel in dressing room to remove duplicate author label

World Storage

• Increased Windows Preview cloud backup storage capacity to 4GB

Technical Updates

Add-Ons

• Released the Custom Projectiles experiment. They can now be used beyond the experimental context

Editor

• Added a modal dialog to Vibrant Visuals that allows users to map per-biome lighting configurations, letting creators assign specific lighting groups, atmospheric scattering, color grading, water, and cubemap settings to individual biomes

• Added Dimensions and Biome Data Assignment tools

• Added the Custom Mesh tool to Editor, allowing creators to import STL mesh files and place them as blocks

• Updated editor tools to show a load/busy mouse cursor during longer-running operations (shape placement, flood apply, chunk operations).

• Modifying buttons in a button pane now works correctly again

API

• Fixed a bug where the @minecraft/debug-utilities package didn't have a peer dependency on the beta version of @minecraft/server.

• Released EntityUpgradeAfterEvent and EntityUpgradeAfterEventSignal from beta to stable

• Released LocatorBarErrorReason from beta to v2.8.0

• Released WaypointTexture from beta to v2.8.0

• Released EntityWaypoint from beta to v2.8.0

• Released LocationWaypoint from beta to v2.8.0

• Released LocatorBar from beta to v2.8.0

• Released PlayerWaypoint from beta to v2.8.0

• Released Waypoint from beta to v2.8.0

• Released WaypointTextureBounds from beta to v2.8.0

• Released WaypointTextureSelector from beta to v2.8.0

• Released InvalidWaypointError from beta to v2.8.0

• Released InvalidWaypointTextureSelectorError from beta to v2.8.0

• Released LocatorBarError from beta to v2.8.0

• Released CustomTexture from beta to v2.8.0

• Released EntityVisibilityRules from beta to v2.8.0

• Released PlayerVisibilityRules from beta to v2.8.0

• Released DimensionRegistry from beta to v2.8.0

• Released StartupBeforeEvent.dimensionRegistry from beta to v2.8.0

• Released CustomDimensionAlreadyRegisteredError from beta to v2.8.0

• Released CustomDimensionInvalidRegistryError from beta to v2.8.0

• Released CustomDimensionNameError from beta to v2.8.0

• Released CustomDimensionReloadNewDimensionError from beta to v2.8.0

• Added new @minecraft/server-ui 2.1.0 release

DDUI

• Released MessageBox, CustomForm, and all supporting APIs out of beta and into @minecraft/server-ui 2.1.0

Biome Components

• The minecraft:noise_gradient surface builder type has been updated. The API is the same as before, but the noise ranges provided are now clamped to the range [-1, 1] instead of [0, 1]

Blocks

• The "lava_flammable" field of the "minecraft:flammable" component is now usable without the Experimental Upcoming Creator Features

• Fixed block traits not respecting experimental requirements for format_version >= 1.26.20

• Blocks with a custom beforeOnPlayerPlace scripting event placed by an item with a minecraft:block_placer component no longer desyncs upon placement

Commands

• Fixed an issue where every /camerashake add changed the shake types of previously added shake events

• Fix missing suggestions for commands typed after '/execute run setblock'

Components

• Added field 'stop_if_holding_item' to "minecraft:behavior.pickup_items"

  • Defaults to false,
  • If true, the mob will not pick up another item if the item's preferred slot matches

Entity Components

• Added the field extra_knockback_approach to minecraft:apply_knockback_rules preset settings for handling extra knockback from enchantments, sprinting and swimming

  • reapply_default preserves the current behaviour where knockback is reapplied with the new power and a default preset
  • multiply instead combines it into the original knockback calculation by multiplying the power value in the preset provided by minecraft:apply_knockback_rules

• Made several changes to minecraft:pushable_by_entity presets:

  • The min_distance field now controls the minimum range at which push interactions can occur for all push_mode values

    • Distance is measured as the horizontal distance between the centers of the two entities

  • Renamed the kick_distance_threshold field to max_distance, which now controls the maximum range at which push interactions can occur for all push_mode values

    • Distance is measured as the horizontal distance between the center of the pushed entity and the edge of the pushing entity's collision box

  • Added a play_sound field to control whether the pushed_by_player sound is played

  • Added a new none value to the push_mode field, which disables pushing behavior entirely

Items

• Items with both a "minecraft:use_modifiers" and a "minecraft:shooter" component with no available ammo will no longer draw with "start_using" set to "if_first" on the "minecraft:use_modifiers" component

Renderer

• Entity held_item_scale now accepts a Molang expression for state-driven scaling, and consistently applies to the main hand only in both first- and third-person

Stability and Performance

• When leaving the game in split screen the ecomode system could receive a callback after the client had been removed causing a crash

User Interface

• Fixed a bug where the coin icon may not appear on certain Marketplace offers

World Generation

• Bedrock floor and ceiling will be placed regardless of "minecraft:surface_builder" and "minecraft:subsurface_builder" presence in the biome.json file

Experimental Technical Updates

API

• Added EntityFogComponent to @minecraft/server (beta) for manipulating a player's fog settings, with push, pop, remove, getStack, getTags, and applyStack methods

• Added EntityFogComponentError to @minecraft/server (beta)

Blocks

• Added the minecraft:instrument_sound block component behind the Upcoming Creator Features experiment

  • it can be used to assign an instrument to "up" and "down" faces of a block and it's permutations

    • all current instruments can be used to define a sound
    • newly added "note.none" can be used to specify no sound for a face
    • if a face is not defined it will use its default value; "up": "note.harp" and "down": "note.none"
    • at least one face must be defined for the component to be valid Example:

{
	"format_version": "1.26.20",
	"minecraft:block": {
		"description": {
			"identifier": "test:test_block"
		},
		"components": {
			"minecraft:instrument_sound": {
				"up": "note.bit",
                		"down": "note.bell"
			}
		}
	}
}

API

• Fixed a race condition when connecting script websocket clients to a server which caused the socket to fail to connect.

• Added class PlayerCancelBreakingBlockAfterEvent to beta

• Added class PlayerCancelBreakingBlockAfterEventSignal to beta

• Added property WorldAfterEvents.playerCancelBreakingBlock to beta

General

• Fixed player spawn position when rejoining a world after their previously saved custom dimension becomes inactive

User Interface

• Add support for responding to Xbox friend requests from the Social Drawer