Posted: 12 December 2024

Information on Minecraft Preview and Beta:

• These work-in-progress versions can be unstable and may not be representative of final version quality
• Minecraft Preview is available on Xbox, PlayStation, Windows, and iOS devices. More information can be found at aka.ms/PreviewFAQ
• The beta is available on Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

It's time for a new Preview and Beta! As always, we’re keen to get your feedback on these new features at feedback.minecraft.net, and you can report any bugs at bugs.mojang.com! Here's what's new this week:

New Features and Bug Fixes

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 (MCPE-188789)

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 (MCPE-188355)
• Resin Bricks are no longer found in Woodland Mansion chests (MCPE-188234)
• 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 (MCPE-188352)
• 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 (MCPE-169520)
• Shears can now be used on Cave Vines, Kelp, Twisting Vines, and Weeping Vines while sneaking (MCPE-188474)
• Using Shears on Cave Vines, Kelp, Twisting Vines, and Weeping Vines now plays the arm swing animation (MCPE-188473)
• 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 (MCPE-188476)
• Sniffer Egg block no longer provides side support to any block

World Generation

• Creaking Hearts now generate more often in naturally generated Pale Oaks (MCPE-187337)
• Canyons now generate more often
• Canyons can once again reach the surface (MCPE-121708)
• Canyons can once again generate on the ocean floor
• Canyons now completely carve through Copper Ore veins and most other underground blocks (MCPE-181410)
• 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 (MCPE-187805)

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 (MCPE-188005)