Minecraft PE 26.70.23 Changelog

Block set

• Introduced Calcite Blocksets
  • Calcite Stairs, Slab and Wall are added matching the already existing Calcite Block
  • Added Polished Calcite Blockset
  • Added Polished Calcite Brick Blockset
  • Added Calcite Pillar Block
  • They are all Decorative blocksets
  • They are all Building blocks

Blocks

• Jukeboxes no longer emit vibrations when taking or swapping a Music Disc from their playlist
• Packed Ice Bricks and Chiseled Packed Ice now conduct redstone signals
• Packed Ice Brick Walls no longer prevent Chests from opening
• Packed Ice and Packed Ice Bricks can now be used in a Stonecutter to make Packed Ice Bricks, Packed Ice Brick Slabs, Packed Ice Brick Stairs, Packed Ice Brick Walls, and Chiseled Packed Ice
• Brittle Ice, Packed Ice Bricks, Chiseled Packed Ice, and Snow Bricks now block light correctly, so mobs underneath no longer burn in daylight
• All parts of the Packed Ice Bricks set now play the correct sounds

Freezing Mob Effect

• Being on fire now prevents freezing from building up until the fire goes out
• Standing in fire or lava while freezing no longer plays the fizz sound and particles continuously

Ice Ball

• Being killed by an Ice Ball now shows the correct death message

Items

• Added a new music disc with the song "flurry" by composer Hyper Potions
  • This music disc has a 30% chance to be found inside Igloo chests

Features and Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• Added tab description to narration context of all tabs in Create New World menu
• Narration of template cards now reads the number of ratings on the offer
• Screen narration now includes focusable, non-interactive list rows in item positions and group counts
• Fixed an issue where FAQ accordions are not enumerated correctly when expanded
• Realms AdminLog items now narrate correctly when Text-to-Speech is enabled
• Fixed options on the choose Realm screen not being enumerated properly
• Fishing bobbers now display the appropriate subtitle when hooking fish
• Leads now display the appropriate subtitle when tied, untied, and broken

Blocks

• Added a new decorative block to the game... somewhere
• Fixed two inconsistent pixels in the Jukebox side texture and updated the Jukebox MERS textures to match
• Tuff blocks now display the appropriate subtitle when mined and when broken
• Fixed hoppers and other containers losing their items when replaced using the /fill or /setblock commands
• Hanging signs now display the appropriate subtitle when being mined
• Icicles now show the correct color on Explorer Maps
• Frosted Ice and Cracking Ice now push items out of them
• The Brittle Ice now respect the "mob_griefing" gamerule when a mob steps on it
• Ice and Frosted Ice now reduce light by 1 instead of 3, aligning them with their intended design
• Sulfur and Cinnabar Walls no longer prevent Chests from opening

Character Creator

• Classic skins equipped from the Dressing Room now update the player's in-world appearance

Controls

• You can now swap available items between your main hand and off-hand.
  • On keyboard and mouse, press F by default.
  • On controller, the Crafting button now swaps items instead of opening your inventory
  • You'll see a "Swap off-hand" hint when holding an item that can be held in either hand.
  • Known issue: Items that are currently available to be placed in the off-hand slot are not available to swap with the keybind at this time.

Dedicated Server

• Bedrock Dedicated Server now defaults NetherNet UDP connections to a shared port matching server-port and correctly advertises configured public addresses and port mappings
• Invalid network settings now prevent server startup; legacy IP prefixes in server-udp-ports remain supported but are deprecated in favor of server-public-ip

Gameplay

• Worlds using platform-restricted skins on Nintendo Switch no longer appear in LAN discovery on other platforms
• Fixed Hoppers collecting dropped items more slowly when connected to a container below them
• Fixed an issue where chest loot could differ on the same seed

Graphical

• Block cracking textures no longer appear on the transparent parts of Icicles and other custom geometry blocks
• Fixed leaf transparency when switching between Simple and Fancy on mobile platforms

Mobs

• Turtle egg blocks now display the appropriate captions when stomped by Zombie, Husk, Drowned, Zombified Piglin, Zombie Villager, and Frostbite
• Pigs now display the appropriate subtitle when hit, fed, or killed
• Chickens now display the appropriate subtitle when hit or killed
• Cows now display the appropriate subtitle when hit or killed
• Cats now display the appropriate subtitle when hit or killed
• Sheep now display the appropriate subtitle when hit or killed
• The correct subtitles are now displayed when villagers do work at their workstations
• Stray no longer crack Brittle Ice when they stand on it
• Zombies, Husks, Drowned, and Skeletons wearing any piece of Leather Armor no longer convert when submerged in Powder Snow
• Fixed missing sound cue when a Zombie converts into a Drowned

Music Features Add-On

• Jukeboxes and Pocket Jukeboxes now show a popup and a chat message naming any Track Discs that can't play because the music service is unavailable, Online audio is turned off, or mobile data isn't allowed for online play
• Jukeboxes and Pocket Jukeboxes now show a popup and a chat message naming any Track Discs that can't play because the player is offline
• Jukeboxes and Pocket Jukeboxes now show a popup and a chat message naming any Track Discs that can't play because no connected player owns the song
• Jukebox playlists where no disc can play now stop and try again every 10 seconds or as soon as the playlist changes, instead of cycling through the discs

Disc Press

• Improved the music list and track tooltips in Classic and Pocket UI
• Added ascending and descending sorting by song title, artist, and duration
• Songs must now be selected explicitly before pressing a disc, and searching or filtering no longer automatically selects a replacement song
• Improved keyboard and gamepad navigation on the disc press screen
• Added screen reader announcements for the screen, item slots, and song titles, artists, and durations

Realms

• When claiming beta or preview realm, if there is only one realm to choose from, it will now auto select that realm
• Changing text in Realms member filter from Show all to Realm Member list to better reflect the absence of Blocked members #
• Fixed a crash when selecting Info or Edit for a player who reported a Realms Stories post

Sounds

• Throwing an Ice Ball now produces a sound
• Throwing an Ice Ball now produces the correct closed caption
• Track discs now have a two second startup delay in block jukeboxes to account for online audio buffering, with late loading audio catching up to the song's current position
• Parrot now plays a sound when imitating Frostbite

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a memory leak when repeatedly navigating between the Play and world creation screens
• Fixed a crash that could occur on PS4 when entering a world or adding a second player via split screen
• Improved loading times for Ore UI screens on Nintendo Switch

User Interface

• Fixed an issue where only Nintendo Switch friends actively playing in worlds would be visible in the social drawer friends list
• The player character on the new main menu no longer disappears after activating or deactivating a resource pack
• Fixed softlock that occurs when opening the social drawer too quickly when launching the game
• Fixed softlock that occurs when backing out from Marketplace after launching game using Store offer
• Fixed the UI disappearing when backing out of a first-time external server join
• The Marketplace Pass purchase terms on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 now show the automatic renewal notice provided by Nintendo eShop
• Improved Marketplace image loading and fixed invalid image requests blocking other images from loading
• Fixed button text in server forms being truncated after a line break when Japanese is selected (JIRA .
• Fixed text spacing on the Subscriptions page
• Fixed gift purchases getting stuck on "Purchase in progress..." after an unsuccessful Minecoin purchase
• Players with insufficient Minecoins when purchasing a gift are now taken to the Coin Bundle screen instead of seeing a "Connection Failed" error
• The "Use" tooltip now appears for all held music discs when looking at an empty Jukebox
• Fixed fallback artwork briefly appearing while images were still loading

Technical Updates

API

• Released the stable BlockVibrationPropertiesComponent Script API for reading a block's vibration behavior through getCanDampenVibrations() and getCanOccludeVibrations() in V2_12_0
• Released class BlockComponentNeighborChangedAfterEvent from beta to v2.12.0
• Released interface NeighborChange from beta to v2.12.0
• Released BlockComponentNamedTickEvent from beta to v2.12.0 in @minecraft/server
• Released ScriptBlock.scheduleNamedTick from beta to v2.12.0 in @minecraft/server
• Released ScriptBlock.hasScheduledNamedTick from beta to v2.12.0 in @minecraft/server
• Released ScriptBlock.removeScheduledNamedTicks from beta to v2.12.0 in @minecraft/server
• Released ScriptBlock.getScheduledNamedTickCount from beta to v2.12.0 in @minecraft/server
• Released ScriptBlock.getAllScheduledNamedTicks from beta to v2.12.0 in @minecraft/server

BlockInventoryComponent

• Custom blocks whose minecraft:block_entity component declares a container now provide BlockInventoryComponent without requiring any experiments

PoiBlockInstance

• Fixed type returning undefined instead of a PoiBlockType object for instances returned by POI queries

Block Components

minecraft:block_entity

• Released the container field from experimental, so custom blocks using format_version 1.26.20 or later no longer need the Upcoming Creator Features experiment to declare a container with slot_count (1 to 54) and the optional title and show_ui_on_interaction fields

Blocks

• Released the minecraft:vibration_properties block component for custom blocks in format version 1_26_60, with dampen_vibrations and occlude_vibrations properties that control whether blocks dampen or occlude vibrations
• Released the minecraft:neighbor_change block component from the Upcoming Creator Features experiment. It requires format version 1.26.60 or later
  • neighbor_directions configures which neighboring directions trigger the onNeighborChanged block custom component event
• Released the minecraft:enchantment_power_transmitter block component from the Upcoming Creator Features experiment. It requires format version 1.26.60 or later

Commands

• Fixed POI records being copied into other regions when loading a world, causing /locate poi and scripting queries to return locations without matching POIs

Dedicated Server

• Updated PackOptimizer config format to take the output mode: brpak (default), brarchive or unpacked
• When using PackOptimizer, each input pack is transformed according to the specified output mode, regardless of its original format
• Improved error handling and feedback when using PackOptimizer

Editor

• Fixed a bug that caused simulation to be paused in editor test worlds
• Fixed a bug that caused broken blocks to not get added to player inventory
• Fixed an issue where pressing F4 in Editor mode to open the Social Drawer would trigger an error.
• Fixed a bug that caused an error when selecting the Shadows Setting Group in the Vibrant Visuals pane

Entities

• Added the Beta-only field to an entity's description field clear_behaviors_on_component_changes to opt into clearing a mob's existing AI components when any component changes occur; it defaults to false for Beta documents

Entity Components

• Added a new minecraft:entity_rotation_always_follows_head entity component, available to entity definitions using the beta format version, which keeps the entity's rotation aligned with its head after look behaviors run
  • It overrides the yaw set by movement components, so it is intended for entities that turn in place
• Added a new minecraft:spherical_look_control entity component, which turns the entity's head toward targets set by look behaviors along the shortest arc in 3D, combining upward or downward rotation (pitch) with side-to-side rotation (yaw) in a single turn
  • Look requests turn at the average of the pitch and yaw speeds supplied by the look behavior, optionally scaled by distance
  • With no look request, the head keeps its current direction unless its pitch is outside pitch_limits, in which case it returns toward the nearest limit at pitch_recovery_speed
  • pitch_recovery_speed: The speed in degrees per second used to return the head's pitch within pitch_limits when no look request is present, from 0 to 3600, defaulting to 60
    • Set to 0 to disable pitch recovery when no look request is present
    • Does not limit turning toward requested targets
  • reference_distance: An optional positive distance in blocks at or below which the look behavior's average pitch and yaw speed applies unchanged
    • Beyond this distance, turn speed is multiplied by reference_distance divided by the target distance, so doubling the distance halves the speed
    • Distance is measured from the entity's breathing point to the requested look position
    • Applies only to position targets, with distance scaling disabled when omitted
  • pitch_limits: The min and max pitch in degrees, from -90 (straight up) to 90 (straight down) and defaulting to -90 and 90
    • Set both to the same value for a fixed pitch
  • Only available to entity definitions using the beta format version

minecraft:projectile

• Added death_message_override to on_hit.impact_damage for entity format versions 1.26.70 and later, setting the localization key of the death message shown when the impact damage kills an entity
  • In the death message, %1$s is the name of the killed entity and %2$s is the name of the projectile's owner, or of the projectile itself if it has no owner

User Interface

Data-Driven Containers

• Creators are expected not to modify the UI for data-driven containers (ui/data_driven_container_screen.json and the data_driven_container namespace), as it may receive breaking changes in future updates and comes with no backwards compatibility guarantees

Experimental Technical Updates

API

• Added includeNamespace and excludeNamespace to BiomeFilter
  • If a namespace is added to includeNamespace, a biome using that namespace can be found
  • If a namespace is added to excludeNamespace, a biome using that namespace cannot be found
• Added includeNamespace and excludeNamespace to BlockFilter
  • If a namespace is added to includeNamespace, a block using that namespace can be found
  • If a namespace is added to excludeNamespace, a block using that namespace cannot be found
• Added namespaces and excludeNamespaces to EntityFilter
  • If a namespace is added to namespaces, an entity using that namespace can be found
  • If a namespace is added to excludeNamespaces, an entity using that namespace cannot be found
• Added world.afterEvents.portalActivate, PortalActivateAfterEvent, and PortalActivateAfterEventSignal to @minecraft/server in beta to notify scripts after a Nether portal is activated, providing its dimension, ignition location, and initiating player when known
• Added property ItemCustomComponent.onReleaseUse to beta
• Added two new methods to BlockEntityStorageComponent and ItemBlockEntityStorageComponent, still behind beta:
  • remove removes a stored entity from the current content pack's storage without releasing it into the world. No entity, experience, or item drops are spawned.
  • totalSize returns the total number of entities stored in this block's entity storage across all content packs.

Actor

• Passenger of block will now take into account the rotation limit they were given
• Passenger of block will stop being passenger when their supporting block is removed or replaced with a different block type

PlayerDimensionchangeAfterEvent

• Added the beta read-only source property, which reports what caused the player to change dimensions using the new PlayerDimensionchangeSource enum

PlayerDimensionchangeSource

• Added the beta PlayerDimensionchangeSource enum with the values Portal, TeleportCommand, PlayerRespawn, and Unknown

Blocks

• minecraft:collision_box has been updated to support voxel shape identifiers as a collision shape from 1.26.70 and onwards:
  • Requires the "Voxel Shapes" experiment. Using the component as a 'bool' or a box array remains non-experimental.
  • Identifiers can be a custom voxel shape, minecraft:unit_cube, or minecraft:empty.
  • Voxel shapes that exceed the collision bounds of [0,0,0] to [16,24,16] will be clamped and registered with a warning. "format_version": "1.26.70", "identifier": "test:block_v1_26_70" "minecraft:collision_box": "custom:collision_shape"

Ore UI Emoji

• Support existing custom Minecraft emoji Unicode code points in Ore UI screens