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New Features:
- Ocean Monuments
- Guardians and Elder Guardians
- Prismarine, dark prismarine & prismarine bricks
- Prismarine shard & prismarine crystal
- Sea lantern
- The Wither!
- Nether star
- Beacon
- Wet & dry sponges
- You can now use slash commands (which have auto-complete now) by enabling cheats for a world in the options screen (but this will disable Xbox Live achievements for that world even if you are in survival)
- Good news for left-handed players - you can now do custom key binding for keyboard!
- You can now search in the Creative inventory
- Add-on section for world settings
- Search added in creative inventory
- You can change game modes in Realms (if you do this in world settings, it will restart the realm but if you individually change a player's game mode through commands, it won't restart the realm)
- Ability to upload & download worlds in Realms
- Ability to promote players as operators in Realms
Tweaks:
- Lots of cool, new UI changes!
- Performance improvements
- Tweaks to various mob action/behavior triggers, including fixing creeper explosions
- Elder guardian de-buff visuals fixed (feedback from Android beta)
- Fishing rods & arrows will fire in more than just one direction
- Lots of tweaks to water textures to make underwater more fun
- Tweaks to Realms settings
- Visual tweaks to sun, moon & stars when rendering in VR immersive mode
Bug Fixes:
- See the following Beta changelogs: https://aka.ms/mc16beta1 & https://aka.ms/mc16beta5
- Item durability updates correctly now.
- Language subpacks for jp_JP & zh_TW now load correctly.
- Mobs now spawn in accumulated snow & so spawn correctly in snow biomes.
- Endermen no longer continue to attack the player after the player respawns.
- Charged creepers have the correct size of explosion.
- Splash potions no longer being dispensed like eggs instead of thrown potions.
- You can now open your inventory using touch while riding horses/donkeys/mules/pigs/boats.
- Game no longer crashes when a filled cauldron is moved by a piston.
- Import/export function now works with non UTF-8 characters in the file path.
- Horses can be dismounted while sneaking.
- You can now see the camera shake from damage.
- Guardians now spawning correctly inside ocean monuments (fix from Android beta).
- TNT minecarts can be detonated by more than just flint & steel.
- Hurt sounds have returned!
- When you feed ocelots to make baby ocelots, they actually eat the food now (and the amount you feed them is deducted from your stack of food in your inventory).
- Clouds no longer flicker when fog updates.
- Behavior of activator rails corrected- no longer reversed & interact correctly with hopper minecarts.
- If your computer is joined to a domain, you can now log in with a different account (for those of us who play Minecraft at work!)
- Fixed crash on player spawn.
- Fixed consistency of tipped arrows & healing.
- Fixed a crash on Windows Phone (MCPE only).
- Shears fixed so you can use them on sheep & mooshroom even when they aren't at full durability.
- Fixed untamed horses so you can't accidentally saddle them & lose the saddle.
- Fixed a crash with item frames and compass/clocks.
- Fixed a crash when selecting a custom skin.
- ""Saddle up"" achievement should work now.
- Monster spawners no longer will occasionally spawn mobs in areas that are well-lit (and thus shouldn't be spawning hostile mobs).
- Wolves now attack other mobs with the appropriate frequency.
- Wither skeletons inflict Wither I effect
- Removed the restrict distance from leads but functionality is maintained.
- Fixed bugs with fireballs and large fireballs.
- Beacon effects no longer disappear when re-entering a world (feedback from Android beta).
- Fixed a crash when a player accepted a Realms invite while playing in a world.
- TNT Minecart's fuse timing fixed.
- Fixed Wither's death animation (feedback from Android beta).
- Fixed issue of sheep not always retaining their colors on spawn.
- Fixed ""Archer"" achievement.
- Creepers can no longer explode while dying.
- Walking up stairs no longer causes suffocation (but you will still hit your head).
- Wet sponges and bricks now show up on the furnace UI (MCPE only).
- Fixed experience accumulation bug- can't disconnect and reconnect from a world to get back your spent experience point levels.
- Elder guardian mining fatigue sound plays (feedback from Android beta).
- A player's mining sound is now only audible to the player.
- Guardian beam attack sound at appropriate volume now (feedback from Android beta).
- Strays again spawn in ice biomes.
- Iron Golem damaged fixed to the appropriate amount.
- Saddled pigs now drop the saddle when killed.
- Dropped items no longer damage farmland (feedback from Android beta).
- Inventory no longer lost when language is changed to or from Japanese or Traditional Chinese.