PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta:
- Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft
- You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta
- Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them
- Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality
- The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions
Fixes:
- Crashes/Performance
- Improved the performance when opening the player inventory with the crafting recipes open (MCPE-41772, MCPE-41166, MCPE-27167)
- Please note - we have made some progress on this and the related bugs, but we are also working on further crafting and inventory optimisations that will be included in a future update
- Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
- Fixed a crash that could occur when entities like XP orbs touch bell blocks (MCPE-43224)
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using a crafting table in creative mode
- Fixed a crash that could occur when spawning a Vile Spider from the MINECON add-on pack
- Sneezing Pandas no longer crash the game
- Fixed a crash that could occur when suspending the game on Gear VR
- Fixed a bug that could cause the game to freeze when selecting Save & Quit
- Fixed a crash that could occur on Bedrock Dedicated Server
- Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing owned skin packs
- Fixed a crash that could occur when the text to speech feature tried to read a special character
- General performance improvements
- Improved performance by adjusting the 'RandomStroll' mob behaviour
- Improved the performance when opening the player inventory with the crafting recipes open (MCPE-41772, MCPE-41166, MCPE-27167)
- General
- Text to Speech now only operates when focus is on Minecraft
- Text to speech no longer stops working if too many punctuation marks are used
- Choosing the "Allow Games to Speak to Me" option on Xbox now works correctly with Minecraft
- Updated text to speech popup text
- Text to Speech now correctly reads the generating world dialog boxes
- Text to speech will now only auto-enable when the client is set to English
- Text to speech for touch now uses single tap for focus and double tap for press
- Fixed a bug where the text to speech narrator would read world names twice
- Made further improvements to world saving, to prevent worlds becoming disappearing from the world list
- Worlds should no longer get stuck on the 'generating world' screen when the player is in the end dimension (MCPE-41513)
- Free preview skins now roam across devices when signed in to Xbox Live
- Gameplay
- If a player exits and re-enters a world during a Raid, the Boss Bar no longer disappears, and the 'Hero of the Village' effect can still be obtained
- Raids no longer fail to spawn waves while player is flying
- Reverted the fix for players falling through blocks around blocks 65k from spawn - more work is needed to fully fix this bug! (MCPE-39299)
- Mobs
- Skeleton horses spawned in from earlier versions can be ridden once again (MCPE-40857)
- Removed the distance restriction for phantom spawning, meaning they should spawn more readily now (MCPE-43736)
- Villagers can now properly access the entire village outskirts, without showing frustrated particles because it's too far
- Spawned villagers who are levelled up now start with preferred profession and won't change when introduced to a new village
- Blocks
- End portal blocks can no longer drop as items (MCPE-42991)
- Items
- Crafted items will once again stack correctly with partial stacks already in the player's inventory (MCPE-42719)
- Graphical
- Clouds are 100% more fluffy again (MCPE-43505)
- On screen animation no longer plays for all mob effects (MCPE-43502)
- User Interface
- Ratings button for server consumables now shows 'Rate this pack!' instead of the purchase button
- Add-Ons / Script Engine
- Added component references for new villagers
- Original Villager and Zombie variant spawn eggs can still be obtained and used in Marketplace content that utilised them