Minecraft PE 26.40.20 Changelog

Accessibility Features

• Fixed text field narration restarting label and description on every keypress

• Text field now narrates its content when editing is stopped via keyboard or gamepad

• Fixed a bug where Sweet Berry Bush damage did not produce closed captions

Biomes

• Water fog in Sulfur Caves is now more blue than green, to better match Java Edition

Blocks

• Fixed an issue where a ghost block was being created when simultaneously releasing crouch and placing a block on an interactive block such as a Decorated Pot, Item Frame, or Chest

• Potent Sulfur can now erupt through flowing liquids

• Potent sulfur is located after sulfur instead of polished sulfur in the creative inventory

Cloud Storage

• Fix issue where banner presenting "Low Cloud Storage" was displayed briefly when duplicating worlds.

Gameplay

• Minecart entity separation is now working as it previously did prior to 1.21.0

• Player names will now show as blue when in a party

Graphical

• Guardian and Elder Guardian beams now render with their correct animated textures when Texture Streaming is enabled

• End Crystal beams no longer appear as white cylinders when Texture Streaming is enabled

• Fixed enchantment glint effect disappearing from items with texture streaming enabled after some time passes

• Fixed high resolution textures from Texture Packs appearing blurred when Texture Streaming is enabled

• Fixed Anti-Aliasing not being applied when launching the title in fullscreen mode

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when relaunching the game near an End gateway beam after changing graphics mode.

• Custom dimension fog color matches the brightness depending on time of day

• Fixed an issue where cloud reflections in water were unusually bright for a few seconds after switching to midnight time in Vibrant Visuals

• Fixed an issue where component-rendered custom blocks did not show emissive/MER effects when held, dropped, or displayed in item frames or shelves with Vibrant Visuals enabled.

Items

• Mobs released from a Bucket no longer carry over their state from before they were captured 

  • Mobs no longer take fall damage accumulated before being captured
  • Mobs captured while on fire are no longer still burning when released
  • Mobs captured while suffocating no longer take leftover suffocation damage when released
  • Mobs captured shortly after using a Nether portal can now use one again immediately when released
  • Mobs no longer keep any status effects they had when captured
  • Mobs no longer immediately resume attacking their previous target when released

• The "Bounce" music disc can now be found in abandoned mineshafts when the "Villager Trade Rebalancing" experiment is enabled

• Mobs released from a Bucket no longer retain the movement they had when captured

Mobs

• Turtles can now be attached to Balloons with the EDU toggle on

• Fixed leashed mobs being incorrectly pulled by Leash Knots 

  • This could happen to Sulfur Cubes being leashed to Fences, after being hit repeatedly with a Mace, making it look like the Sulfur Cube lost gravity

• Sulfur Cubes no longer push each other when placed on adjacent blocks

• The Sulfur Cube no longer absorbs a block in the player's hand from further distance than 8 blocks

• The item label for a Bucket of a named Sulfur Cube now includes its absorbed Block

• Sulfur Cubes with a block absorbed can no longer freeze

Character Creator

• Added toast notification when character creator fails to initalize on Realm join

Realms

• Moving Realm tags to the left side of the Information Panel

• Fixed the spacing in the Realms Hub Side Panel

• Various adjustments to the Realms Hub Community screen components

• When the client is outdated load the Realm List and allow access to Realms Hub, but the player will be unable to play until they update their game.

• Shrink focus size of side menu in stories comments and report screens to fit the content

• Fixed an issue in Realms hub admin logs where gamertags of players who are no longer members of the Realm were delayed on loading

• Removed the Realms Subscriptions from the Settings->Subscriptions page

• Adding in the Admin Log icon to the Community Tab in Realms Hub

Sounds

• Fixed Shulker hurt sounds not playing due to mismatched audio file names

• Fixed Pillager celebrate sound not playing due to a typo in the sound definition (elebrate3 → celebrate3)

• Fixed Panda idle, aggressive idle, and worried sounds referencing non-existent audio files, which could cause missing audio

• Sulfur spikes now have their own dedicated block sounds and events

• Updated hurt and death sounds for one of the chicken sound variants

• Main menu music will now start after the initial loading screen to prevent stuttering

• Background music will now stop when a player is close to a playing Jukebox

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a memory leak in the Character Creator that could cause crashes after extended use on memory-constrained platforms

User Interface

• Added a specific error message when adding or editing an external server with an address and port that already exists

• Fixed missing localized text for the Follow Me, Over There, Simple Clap, and Wave emotes

• The Marketplace Pass accordion is now hidden when the player is in any beta

  • When the player is in a beta on PlayStation, Nintendo or iOS, the "Get more" Marketplace button is hidden as well

• Fixed missing Storage Location option in New Storage Tab for Android devices

• Fixed a bug that caused the New Settings Screen to display a deprecated warning modal when enabling text-to-speech while an unsupported language is selected

Technical Updates

AI Goals

• Made schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.40 and newer.

  • minecraft:behavior.leap_at_target
  • minecraft:behavior.silverfish_merge_with_stone
  • minecraft:behavior.silverfish_wake_up_friends

• Made schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.40 and newer.

  • minecraft:behavior.squid_dive
  • minecraft:behavior.squid_flee
  • minecraft:behavior.squid_idle
  • minecraft:behavior.squid_move_away_from_ground
  • minecraft:behavior.squid_out_of_water

• Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.beg stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.40 and newer. Int Range field look_time now only accepts an object with min and max values. Other formats will fail to parse

• Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.drink_potion stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.40 and newer

• Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.float_wander stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.40 and newer. Float Range field float_duration now only accepts an object with min and max values. Other formats will fail to parse

• Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.summon_entity stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.40 and newer

• Made schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.40 and newer.

  • minecraft:behavior.nap
  • minecraft:behavior.move_to_block
  • minecraft:behavior.snacking
  • minecraft:behavior.stalk_and_pounce_on_target

• Made schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.40 and newer.

  • minecraft:behavior.charge_held_item
  • minecraft:behavior.eat_block
  • minecraft:behavior.knockback_roar
  • minecraft:behavior.ranged_attack

• Actor goal minecraft:behavior.ranged_attack takes a float range for attack_interval instead of attack_interval_min and attack_interval_max for versions 1.26.40 and newer.

API

• Released @minecraft/server version 2.9.0

• Added @minecraft/server version 2.10.0-beta

• Fixed invulnerable timer bypass when changing before hurt event damage below source amount

• Moved nameplateDepthTested and nameplateRenderDistance from beta to V2.8.0

• Moved SoundInstance class from beta to V1.2.0.

• Moved SoundInstance.stop from beta to V2.9.0.

• Moved Player.playSound returning a SoundInstance from beta to V1.2.0.

• Moved Dimension.playSound returning a SoundInstance from beta to V1.11.0.

Dimension

• Significantly improved block search speed when using BlockVolume for 'fillBlocks' API.

Blocks

• Added "shelf" as an "item_display_transforms" offsets value inside geo.json

  • This is to give the offsets when placed inside a Shelf Block
  • Pre 1.26.40 blocks with a "fixed" value will have that value copied to "shelf"
  • New 1.26.40 blocks will be able to define "fixed" for Item Frame and "self" for Shelf Block

Bug

• Updating a structure from clipboard now opens a confirmation dialog before overwriting, and the option is disabled when the clipboard has no content

• Added pagination and selector menu support for tabs

• Using mouse wheel scroll on tool rail, action bar items and floating window tabs will now toggle between pages

• Added scrolling support for the menu bar and context submenus when they extend beyond the window size

Editor

• Builds no longer crash or incorrectly copies data out of the Shared 'minecraftWorlds' folder for worlds (with behavior / resource packs enabled) upon exiting the Edit Project screen using the Back / Resume buttons

• Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor preview volume vanishes after toggling Vibrant Visuals on/off

• Added real-time chunk sync to the Biome Data Assignment Tool

• The Vibrant Visuals generate resource pack button now exports any edited configurations to a resource pack with a folder link provided

Entity Components

• Added a new require_collision_overlap boolean field to minecraft:pushable_by_entity's presets:

  • Determines whether the collision boxes of two entities must overlap for pushing to occur
  • For format versions 1.26.40 and higher, this field defaults to true
  • For format versions below 1.26.40, this field defaults to false

Item Components

• Item component minecraft:wearable setting slot field to slot.armor.body will not cause assert.

Items

• Fixed minecraft:shooter component not being able to shoot if no ammunition was defined

• Items declared with a format_version of 1.26.30 or higher now require at least one entry under minecraft:item.components. Previously such items would silently fall back to legacy item parsing; they now fail to register with a content error.

• Custom item definitions in resource packs now reliably override their Vanilla counterparts in two previously-broken cases:

  • A custom definition using an older format_version will now be applied on top of a Vanilla item that ships with format_version 1.16+ (previously the custom data was silently dropped). In Vanilla this only affects minecraft:apple and minecraft:breeze_rod.

  • A custom definition targeting a Vanilla item by its flattened identifier (e.g. minecraft:enchanted_golden_apple) now correctly applies even when Vanilla defines the item under its legacy identifier (e.g. minecraft:appleEnchanted).

Particles

• Particles using textures from the font folder no longer produces erroneous content log error

User Interface

• Refactor of ProfileSystem subscriptions for a speculative fix for profile fetches resulting in a crash due to stale reference

Experimental Technical Updates

API

• Added a new loot function CarryOverBlockEntityDataFunction with a single boolean field "dynamic_properties" behind beta

• Added ItemBlockDynamicPropertiesComponent item component behind beta

  • It may be retrieved on an item that resulted from a carry_over_block_entity_data loot function
  • It has two methods, get and totalByteCount which work like their block component counterparts

• Added EntityStartSneakingAfterEvent and EntityStartSneakingAfterEventSignal to beta.

• Added EntityStopSneakingAfterEvent and EntityStopSneakingAfterEventSignal to beta.

• Added clear() to AllowList in @minecraft/server-admin in beta

• Added setVolume, setPitch, fade, and seekTo methods to SoundInstance in beta

• Added loopCount option to PlayerSoundOptions and WorldSoundOptions in beta

• Infinitely-looping sounds (loopCount: -1) stop automatically when the last SoundInstance reference is dropped; retain the handle to keep the sound playing

• Added enum CameraShakeType to beta

• Added interface CameraShakeOptions to beta

• Added function Camera.addShake to beta

• Added function Camera.stopShaking to beta

• Added class EntityTamedAfterEvent to beta

• Added class EntityTamedAfterEventSignal to beta

• Added interface EntityTamedEventFilter to beta

• Added property WorldAfterEvents.entityTamed to beta

• Added interface BlockQueryOptions to beta

• Changed Dimension.getBlocks in beta to accept BlockQueryOptions instead of BlockFilter which adds support for closest, farthest, and location options

• SoundInstance in beta now exposes a soundEventId property that reports the sound event the instance was started with

• SoundInstance in beta now exposes a recipient property that returns the Player the sound was played for, or undefined for broadcast sounds

• SoundInstance in beta now exposes a durationInfo property that returns a SoundDurationInfo when the underlying sound definition includes duration information, otherwise undefined

• Added SoundDurationInfo in beta with a duration property, an isActive property, and a getPlaybackPosition() getter that returns the elapsed playback time in seconds

• SoundInstance now exposes an id property that returns a unique identifier for the instance

• WorldAfterEvents in beta now exposes a soundCompleted signal with a soundInstanceId property that matches the id of the SoundInstance that completed that fires when a tracked sound's declared duration elapses

• Added API for minecraft:instrument_sound component

  • it has a getInstrumentName function to get the assigned instrument given a valid facing Direction
  • it has a playInstrumentSound function to play the instrument sound assinged to a given valid facing Direction
  • the component can be obtained from any custom or vanilla block; if a block does not have the component explicitly defined, then a component with the default sounds will be returned

• Fixed PlayerStartBreakingBlock and PlayerCancelBreakingBlock from firing when a block can't be broken by item in creative

Blocks

• When applying a "minecraft:sixteen_way_rotation" value via console command, autocomplete suggestions will now correctly show numbers 0-15. Sixteen-way placement direction block trait now applies its rotation with the same orientation as existing Cardinal Direction and Facing Direction traits.

• Added some trait restrictions for blocks with the minecraft:multi_block trait

  • Cannot also define the minecraft:connection trait

  • Cannot also define the minecraft:placement_position trait

  • If the minecraft:placement_direction is defined, only the minecraft:cardinal_direction state is allowed to be enabled

  • The component minecraft:geometry cannot define n_way_visual_rotation for multi-blocks

  • Cannot also define the minecraft:block_entity component

Voxel Shapes

• Added occlusion voxel shapes for one-arm, two-arm, three-arm, four-arm, and full-arm wall connections. These shapes will be applied to all Wall variations when the Voxel Shapes experiment is enabled. These shapes improve face culling so that hidden faces of custom blocks are correctly removed when attached to different Wall geometries: single posts, wall runs, corners, T-junctions, intersections, and wall clusters

DDUI

• Fixing default behavior for close button bellow DDUI custom forms
  • Default visibility value is false

##Items

• Added a new loot function "carry_over_block_entity_data" with a single boolean field "dynamic_properties" defaulted to false
  • When looting a block with a block-entity and dynamic-properties, it will try to carry its dynamic-properties over to the created item-stack
  • Requires "Upcoming Creator Features Experiment"

Sounds

• Added a new minecraft:server_sound_definitions payload to sounds/sound_definitions.json that lets behavior packs declare server-side sound definitions for sounds played from script

• Each definition can include an optional duration_info with a seconds length and a mode that controls how playback time is tracked

• A mode of game_time means the duration is tracked by ticks

• A mode of real_time means the duration is tracked by wall-clock time

Example:

{
    "format_version": "beta",
    "minecraft:server_sound_definitions": [
        {
            "sound_event_name": "creatorpack:my_cool_song",
            "duration_info": {
                "mode": "game_time",
                "seconds": 180.0
            }
        },
        {
            "sound_event_name": "creatorpack:my_other_song",
            "duration_info": {
                "mode": "real_time",
                "seconds": 12.5
            }
        },
        {
            "sound_event_name": "creatorpack:ambient_loop"
        }
    ]
}

Graphical

• Updated point lights to use a shadow atlas

  • Shadows should look identical to before, with some improvements to performance and update rate