Minecraft - Buzzy Bees - 1.14.0 (Bedrock)

Technical Update

Full Changelog

Gameplay Update

Posted: December 10, 2019

New Features:

• PlayStation®4

  • Welcome PlayStation®4 players to the Bedrock version of Minecraft! All Bedrock platforms can now cross-play with PS4™ consoles. More information can be found in the Minecraft for PlayStation®4 FAQ.

• Bees!

  • Bees are cute, fuzzy, neutral mobs
  • Don’t hurt them, they don’t want to hurt you
  • Bees love pretty flowers and spend their lives gathering pollen from them
  • After gathering pollen, bees fly back to their nest
  • If a bee can't find pollen, it will return home
  • If a bee doesn’t have a home nest, it will wander around until it finds one it can use
  • Bees don’t like the rain and they sleep at night. They will return to their nest in these cases

• Bee Nests and Beehives

  • Bee Nests generate in Flower Forests, Plains, and Sunflower Plains biomes
  • When a bee visits a nest and completes its journey undisturbed, the level of honey increases
  • Using shears on a full hive or nest will harvest Honeycomb and using a glass bottle will give a Honey Bottle
  • Campfire smoke calms bees - Place one underneath the nest or hive to keep them in chill mode
  • Redstone friendly! Dispensers can shear honeycombs from hives and nests

• Honey Block

  • Greatly reduces movement speed and jump height, but also reduces fall damage
  • You can “slide” down a wall of honey blocks to slow your fall (Parkour FTW!)
  • When a honey block is piston-moved, adjacent blocks also move
  • When a honey block is piston-moved, entities on top are moved along with it

• Honeycomb Block

  • A decorative block that can be crafted with Honeycomb

• New Achievements

  • Bee our guest - Use a Campfire to collect Honey from a Beehive using a Bottle without aggravating the bees (15G)
  • Total Beelocation - Move and place a Bee Nest, with 3 bees inside, using Silk Touch (30G)
  • Sticky Situation - Slide down a honey block to slow your fall (30G)

Changes:

• Updated to a fresh menu background full of bees
• Leads can now be used on Polar Bears, Parrots, Ocelots, and Dolphins (MCPE-46866)
• Dispensers can now fill bottles with water and honey
• Tweaked the amount of XP dropped by animals to match Java Edition
  • Most animals will now drop 1-3 XP when killed, but Dolphins now drop 0 XP
• Item tags can now be hidden in the inventory using the '/gamerule showtags' command

Fixes:

• Cr****ashes / Performance

  • Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when signing into Xbox Live on Android
  • Fixed an issue with kelp growth causing lag in specific chunks (MCPE-50175)

• General

  • Fixed a render distance issue that could cause an old style (limited) world to not load correctly if a player logged out in a specific corner of that world
  • Fixed an issue that was causing scripting error messages to show on the Alien Worlds Marketplace world

• Gameplay

  • Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing chests to become invisible (MCPE-52790)
  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause touch screen controls to become inverted (MCPE-50256)
  • Players once again experience kinetic energy and get dead upon gliding into walls at high speed with Elytra (MCPE-21141)
  • Players can no longer initiate swimming in shallow water

• Mobs

  • Improved the accuracy of pathfinding for flying mobs
  • Pillager Patrols can no longer spawn in the End or Nether dimensions (MCPE-51481)
  • Baby Pigmen now hold their swords in their hands, rather than around their necks (MCPE-53454)

• Blocks

  • Updated the Slime Block texture to match Java Edition
  • Fixed an issue that was causing sugar cane to break when a nearby water source became waterlogged (MCPE-52314)

• Items

  • Arrows and tridents no longer fall through the ground after being deflected by a shield (MCPE-44721)
  • Dragon Heads now appear at the correct height (MCPE-53129)
  • Buckets can once again be used to milk cows (MCPE-54623)
  • Milk buckets can again be used to craft cakes (MCPE-52774)
  • Fixed acacia leaves sometimes becoming stuck in the inventory hotbar
  • Placing Armor on an Armor Stand in Creative mode no longer equips it on the player as well

• Character Creator

  • Various fixes to the Character Creator
  • Fixed an issue that was causing worn items to transfer between Character Creator models unexpectedly
  • Adding or removing the Founder's Cape now updates the skin in-game without needing to restart
  • Platform restricted skins can now be previewed in the Character Creator
  • Fixed capes not rendering in some skin packs (MCPE-54181)
  • Fixed another issue that was causing player skins to revert to a default Alex or Steve after relaunching the game
  • Skins that don't roam to Minecraft Earth no longer display 'Usable Everywhere' in the Character Creator
  • Equipping a new custom skin will now update the player model without needing to restart the game
  • Optimized the size of Character Creator skins to improve performance when playing in multiplayer

• Graphical

  • Fixed the held item bobbing animation when moving in first person view (MCPE-51212)
  • The block breaking animation will again show if a block is below water when the player is above
  • The player's hand no longer disappears when gliding with Elytra (MCPE-53092)
  • Water now renders correctly when Kelp is placed next to a Glass block

• User Interface

  • Fixed a navigation issue that could cause an incorrect focus change when choosing an option from the pause menu
  • Fixed an issue that could cause menu flickering when navigating through the Character Creator
  • The 'See Pack in Store' button in the Character Creator can now be highlighted and selected when using a controller
  • Fixed some misspelled splash text

• Add-Ons and Script Engine

  • Custom entities once again show their health bar correctly while being ridden
  • Fixed an issue with particle billboarding that was causing them to appear flipped in the wrong direction
  • Fixed an issue with pivot points for custom geometry cube models
  • Fixed a bug that was causing tamed entity damage to be counted as coming from mounted players

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

• Updated templates for 1.14.0 with new resources, BEEhaviors, documentation, and example packs can be downloaded from minecraft.net/addons

Technical Update