Minecraft - 1.2 (Bedrock)

Technical Update

Full Changelog

Gameplay Update

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New Features:

• Stained Glass

• Cross-platform play between Xbox One, Windows 10, and mobile devices

• Server Partners (inPVP, Lifeboat, and Mineplex)

• Fireworks (with Elytra boost!)

• Parrots

• Banners

• Armor Stands

• Jukebox and music discs

• Recipe Book

• Book & Quill

• Ravines

• Coarse Dirt

• New world start options:

• Starting Map

• Bonus Chest

• Trust Players

• New game rules:

• Show Coordinates

• TNT Explodes

• Natural Regeneration

• Added '/tickingarea' command to create areas that still update when no players are there

• Player permissions

• Zombie Villager spawn egg

• In-game host options

• New achievements

• Realms invite links

• Paper doll viewer

• Outline selection toggle

• In-game player names toggle

• HUD opacity toggle

• Sprint button mapping for controllers

• Expanded Xbox Live multiplayer world settings

• New loading screens with funny and helpful tips

• How to Play screen

• Remix 3D export functionality (Windows 10 only)

• Mash-up Packs and Texture Packs will now decorate the main menu and in-game HUD

• Updated Add-On resource and behavior packs are available on minecraft.net/addons

New Marketplace Content:

• Worlds

• Sunnyside Academy by Imagiverse

• Abstraction: SOLAR by Jigarbov

• Halfling Burrows by Razzleberries

• Dinosaur Survival by PixelHeads

• Sunset Coast by Blockworks

• Resource Packs

• Beyond the Lands by Tomaxed

• Mash-Up Packs

• Halo (with NEW gameplay!)

• Halloween

• Skin Packs

• Battle & Beasts 2

• Mini Game Heroes

• Mini Game Masters

• Star Wars Classic

• Star Wars Prequel

• Star Wars Rebels

• Legacy Skin Pack

• Kawaii by 57Digital

• Sports Heroes by 57Digital

• Wildlife by 57Digital

• Steampunk Skin Pack by Blockception

• Autumn Bliss by Eneija

• Mob Friends by Eneija

• Dungeoneers by Irish

• Heroes and Legends by Irish

• Dinosaur Island Characters by PixelHeads

• Random Pack by PixelHeads

• Dapper Folk by Polymaps

• 8-Bit Minis by Razzleberries

• Back to School by Razzleberries

• Circus by Razzleberries

• Emoji by Visula

• Freaks and Zombies by Visula

• Back to School by Imagiverse

Tweaks:

• Rebalanced most of the game sound effects and music, such as rain being much quieter

• It is now much easier to see underwater after drinking a Potion of Water Breathing and Potion of Night Vision

• Blaze Powder is now needed to fuel brewing stands

• Ice blocks are now transparent

• Maps can now be held off-hand and show the heads of players' skins

• Locator maps now track the owner's position, regardless of dimension

• Worlds can now be set to Invite Only, Friends Only, or Friends of Friends

• Various improvements and changes to navigating the user interface

• Redesigned button mapping and added Pick Block for controllers

• Render Clouds and Fancy Leaves can now be toggled in Video Settings

• Skins can now be changed from the pause menu

• Chat messages can now be muted

• Items picked up are now animated on the hotbar

• Stained glass and banners will now spawn on End Cities

• Increased the default player limit on worlds from 5 to 8 on higher-end devices

• Block placement speed now matches the player's movement speed

• Temperature decreases with height and it can now snow at high elevations

• Observer blocks have updated textures and will now blink red when outputting a redstone pulse

• Adjusted the color that flashes when mobs are attacked

• Brick Blocks, Nether Brick Blocks, and Clay Blocks have been renamed to better differentiate from other items

• Underwater particles

• Copy world button is now next to ""delete world"" and ""export world"" (Xbox only)

• Jungle leaves are now transparent on higher-end devices when Fancy Leaves are enabled

• Changed the sound effects for Creeper explosions

• Added sound effects for placing Eyes of Ender into portal frames and opening The End portal

• Cake now has a stack size of 64

Bug Fixes:

• The moon is now correctly oriented, while the stars properly traverse the heavens

• Ghasts will no longer shoot fireballs from farther than they can be seen

• Fixed missing walking sounds for mobs

• Arrows now shake upon impact with blocks

• Players will no longer burn when standing near lava in the Nether

• Observer blocks can now detect many more block changes

• Optimized chunk generation and loading

• The Lapis Lazuli icon is no longer missing from the Enchantment Table screen

• Endermen will now drop the blocks they're carrying when they die

• Villagers will now close doors and stop getting themselves attacked by Zombies

• The proper sound effect will now play after looking directly at an Enderman

• XP orbs should no longer disappear in blocks and be easier for players to collect

• Wolves tamed by players not present in a session will no longer change their whole body color

• End rods now give off light particles

• Increased the strength of the redstone pulse outputted by Observer blocks and they no longer pulse twice when observing a retracting piston

• Glazed Terracotta now shows proper colors on maps

• Dandelions can now be crafted into yellow dye when Pocket UI is enabled

• Fixed quartz pillars not being craftable using Pocket UI

• Fixed the level up sound not playing for every five levels gained

• Other players should no longer be seen levitating in their sleep

• Woodland Mansions will now spawn with birch wood floors instead of oak

• Witches will now drink Potion of Fire Resistance when standing on Magma blocks

• Sounds now play when witches drink potions

• Skeletons, Strays, and Zombie Pigmen now have a chance of spawning with enchanted gear and weapons

• Skeleton horses can now be saddled

• Lingering water bottles will now deal damage to Blazes, Endermen, and Snow Golems

• Only one bucket can be placed in a furnace at a time so buckets will no longer be lost

• Ghast fireballs can now set obsidian on fire and open Nether portals

• Fixed a crash that could occur when destroying maps

• Fixed a crash that could occur when the host enters a portal in multiplayer

• Empty maps can now be combined with a compass on an anvil to create a locator map

• Fixed the texture of fences in the inventory and in-hand

• Fishing now uses the proper loot tables to acquire enchanted items and books

• The available enchants on enchantment tables will no longer revert back to the originally available enchants upon world reload

• Evokers will no longer attack players on Peaceful difficulty

• Fixed mobs not attacking Evokers after being attacked by Evokers

• The proper sound now plays when Evokers are transforming blue sheep

• Mining speed with Haste II and Efficiency V has been increased to its correct speed

• Signs can no longer be set on fire

• The snow golem's face can now only be seen once it's sheered. No peaking!

• Fixed the hand placement of tools on the inventory screen

• Text chat can now be opened with controllers and touch screens when sleeping in a bed

• Players can now go to bed if there are monsters nearby on Peaceful difficulty

• Colored beds can no longer be dyed using the same color of dye

• Trapdoors will now open when placed to adjacent, active power sources

• Fixed names above baby animals being too high

• The underside of sandstone slabs now have the cracked texture

• Directional audio will continue to match the player's point of view while standing still

• Fixed an item duplication issue that occurred when Pocket UI was enabled

• Mobs will now avoid cacti, fire, and lava

• Fixed the position of several items when held in the off-hand

• Players can now spawn into areas occupied by partial blocks

• Horses can no longer run off when loading a world if they were leashed to a fence

• Lead knots can now be untied using right-click

• Lead knots now play a sound when placed

• Eating and using bows can now be done while riding in a Minecart for maximum multi-tasking!

• Incrementally zooming out a map and renaming it on an anvil now costs only experience level

• Particles will now appear when the Ender Dragon uses its dragon's breath attack while perched

• Fixed graphical issues that sometimes occurred at sunset

• The cellular data warning message will now appear in Settings when using a controller

• Singleplayer worlds no longer appear in the Friends tab

• Anvils will no longer consume the entire input stack when crafting a map

• Sheared sheep will no longer drop wool when they die

• Fixed some players appearing invisible in-game when they should not be

• Fixed a crash when placing Glazed Terracotta with '/fill' and '/setblock' commands

• Fixed the controller tooltips shown on the inventory screen when placing and taking items

• Fixed icons stretching in the inventory when Pocket UI was enabled

• Increased the pace and smoothness of moving up stairs while riding a mob

• The crosshair now points at the correct block when sneaking

• Opening and closing the command block screen will no longer activate an observer block

• Maps, including exploration maps, can now be obtained using the '/give' command

• Mooshroom now only spawns on Mycelium blocks

• Mycelium no longer turns into dirt when there's a giant mushroom above it

• Fixed seeing through stairs, End portal and hoppers when they are placed next to each other

• Hoppers will no longer intake items from the side when there is a full block above

• The chat screen can now be closed by pressing Enter when no text is present

• Fixed milking a cow with the last bucket in a stack not giving milk

• Players can no longer drink milk instantly after milking a cow

• Blocks can now be placed on top of fences that have Lead knots attached

• Explosions near water will now properly deal damage to players and mobs

• The Wither will no longer play overlapping sounds

• Items will now be pushed when a transparent block is placed over them

• Creepers now flash properly when they're about to explode

• Boats no longer continue to move when the player leaves the boat and a mob is still in it

• Controller sensitivity is now set to 60 by default

• The pause button now appears on the HUD (Android Only)

• Chicken jockeys will no longer sink in the water

• Players with Op status will now receive messages about commands that were entered by another Op

• Lingering potions will no longer clip through the player that threw them

• Block highlighting will no longer appear when Hide GUI is enabled

• Different top slab types no longer override each other

• Arrows will no longer infinitely bounce off the top of players in Creative mode

• Fixed a rogue pixel on the nametag texture

• Creepers will now take damage if they fall while following players

• End Stone now has the proper blast resistance

• Evocation fangs can now be summoned using commands

• Mobs will now drop loot and XP orbs when killed with a splash or lingering Potion of Decay

• Evokers no longer run away from invisible players

• Vexes will now attack villagers and iron golems

• Fixed several issues with excessive mob spawning and despawning

• Fixed hostile mobs spawning in well-lit areas

• Improved performance of mob AI

• Arrows are no longer deflected when shooting at burning mobs

• When fishing, the bobber will now submerge and play the right sound when a fish bites

• A message will now display when a bed is too far away when attempting to sleep

• Realms that were named with the '§' symbol can now be renamed

• Command block chat messages will no longer appear on the pause menu

• Slimes will no longer clip through blocks

• Fish hooks will now properly stick to mobs

• Adventure mode can now be selected in the world settings for imported template worlds that were set to Adventure by default

• Baby villagers have learned how to hold items the right way

• Farmer villagers now trade 5-7 apples for one emerald

• Open fence gates can no longer push or pull entities

• The Ender Dragon's wings will no longer flicker

• Diorite, andesite, and granite can no longer be used as a replacement for stone in crafting recipes

• The texture on top of TNT no longer rotates when ignited

• Adult polar bears now drop the correct amount of XP

• Cauldron water will no longer briefly change color when pushed by a piston

• Llamas will no longer creepily turn their heads to stare at you while riding them

• Various fixes to the Marketplace screens

• Bats can no longer swim underwater

• Redstone repeaters and comparators now have the proper bottom texture

• Paintings can now occupy same space as snow and carpet

• The '/effect instant_damage' command will now cause damage if [amplifier: int] is 255

• The GUI can now be hidden by pressing F1 while riding in boats

• Villagers no longer accept Charcoal as Coal whole trading

• Fishing rods are now held properly in-hand

• The base of end crystals have been adjusted

• Nether Brick block side textures have been brightened

• The title now displays properly on the dispenser screen

• Iron Golems can no longer be knocked back with Punch arrows

• Iron Golems will now avoid fire

• Beds can no longer be placed in a way that clips through snow layers

• New trade offers from villagers can be observed quicker, after the trades are unlocked

• Various fixes to the Storage screen

• Setting the 'sendcommandfeedback' gamerule to false no longer prevents players from displaying non-op commands such as '/list' and '/help'

• Fixed texture clipping on the inside of Shulker boxes

• Shulker box opening and closing animations are now much faster

• Shulker boxes are now held properly in-hand

• Shulker boxes will now remain open until all players have closed the inventory

• Shulker boxes can now be opened when placed adjacent to Shulkers

• Shulker boxes placed by dispensers will now rotate based on the surrounding blocks

• Shulker boxes are no longer misaligned in item frames

• Shulker boxes now play the proper sound when placed and broken

• Shulker boxes dropped as an item can now be destroyed by explosions

• Shulker boxes now change their collision box when opened

• Shulkers can now be teleported using commands

• Shulkers can no longer be set on fire

• Shulkers have improved their camouflage and have restored their original color

• Shulkers can now be spawned upside-down from spawn eggs

• Shulkers can no longer teleport into a block already occupied by another Shulker

• Shulkers will now teleport out of water

• The hand will no longer wave repeatedly when a player can't build

• Bone meal is now properly consumed on tall grass and ferns

• Minecarts now wobble correctly when passing over activator rails

• Giving a resistance amplifier of 8 or higher no longer causes players to gain absorption health when hurt

• Creepers stop exploding now if they lose their target

• Fixed up the Ender Dragon's death animation so its wings no longer turn white

• Riding a horse while eating or drinking will no longer slow it down

• Light no longer stays visible after burning a two-block tall plant

• Entities that are teleported while in boats or minecarts will no longer be teleported underground

• Improved performance when there are many items on the ground, like during Wither fights

• Adult polar bears now panic when on fire

• Pistons now push arrows

• Fixed the text height on signs in the Greek Mythology Texture Pack

• Custom skins will now show properly on the skin picker without having to re-launch the game

• The '/fill' command will now return proper results, if failed

• The '/fill' command now gives repeaters the correct delay

• 'Pick block' will no longer behave strangely after dropping items from the inventory

• Blocks that are affected by gravity will no longer break when pushed by a piston facing up

• Repeating command blocks that are copied with 'pick block' and then placed will now activate repeatedly

• The ""Open"" button will no longer appear when looking at a command block in minecart while playing Survival

• Fixed redstone ore producing too many particles when items are dropped on top of them

• Fixed jittery squid movement after a player or mob touches it

• Mobs will now immediately take damage from magma blocks

• The Wither will now die in the void

• The Wither's heads will now look around more and skulls will now shoot from multiple heads

• Adjusted the look of Buttons that are equipped in-hand

• Large chests will now clone correctly when using the '/clone' command

• Fixed the missing wolf idle sounds

• Fixed some mismatched villager trading sounds

• Cats now purrrrrr again

• Beds placed with the '/fill' and '/setblock' commands will no longer be invisible

• Players will no longer fall one block when teleporting with an ender pearl

• Magma Cubes will now take drowning damage

• Villagers will now run away from Vindicators, Evokers, and Vexes

• Can no longer see through blocks when viewed from below and underwater

• Non-dyed leather armor with no longer use up water from a cauldron

• 'Pick Block' now works on llamas to get llama spawn eggs

• Arrows are now destroyed by end crystal explosions

• Arrows are now destroyed when using ""/kill @e[type=arrow]""

• Other mob heads no longer appear momentarily when a mob head is placed

• Fixed exploration maps showing as blank until the game is re-launched

• Fixed Add-Ons with dependencies not loading if there was another activated pack with dependencies

• Baby mob heads are now scaled properly with Add-Ons

• When an Ocelot spawns with two baby Ocelots, the baby Ocelots can now be tamed

• Mobs are now properly affected by Splash Potion of Strength

• Seeds will no longer pop off of covered farmland at night

• Farmland will only dry up if there is no nearby water and nothing is planted on it

• Monster spawners are now only able to spawn up to 4 mobs at a time

• Arrows can now be picked up after shooting at Endermen

• Air bubbles will no longer appear on the HUD when suffocating inside blocks

• The '/setworldspawn' command can no longer be executed if the Y coordinate has a negative value

• Zombie Villagers now sit at the proper height in boats and minecarts

• Baby Zombie Jockeys will now properly mount mobs

• Rabbits now hop at the proper speed

• The 'mobgriefing' gamerule now applies to Monster Egg blocks

• Blocks can no longer be seen through when flying close to the ground with Elytra in third-person

• Players and mobs can no longer activate pressure plates beside them

• Fixed an issue that showed the mining animation for blocks that were being stood on

• The '/clear' command will now properly clear glazed terracotta that has been renamed

• Moss stone is now much easier to find in mega taiga biomes

• Walking and sneaking slowly near water with Frost Walker boots will now turn water into frosted ice

• Fixed End Portal block top texture rotating when being placed

• Beds, pistons, and enchantment tables will now render properly on the edge of the screen

• Improved performance with oceans by removing dynamic water blocks

• Hoppers will now only send redstone signals upwards

• Fixed horizontal seams that were visible around flames on burning entities

• Animals that have been fed an item for breeding can no longer be fed anymore until the cooldown wears off

• Fixed Silverfish not spawning from Monster Egg blocks

• Smoothed the animation of falling asleep

• When using the '/clone' command, overlapping chests and their contents will now be replaced, not merged

• Vines can no longer exist in only-bottom-side-block position

• Redstone comparators now properly test for valid power sources

• Comparators will no longer trigger a short pulse when placed adjacent to a detector rail with a minecart on top

• Fixed the durability bar always staying green on enchantment table, furnace, and anvil screens

• Lightning no longer strikes biomes that don't rain

• Mobs can no longer detect players through solid non-transparent blocks

• Blazes and Endermites will now retaliate when attacked by other mobs

• 'Great View From Up Here' achievement is now unlockable

• Fixed 'Organizational Wizard' achievement not unlocking

• Fixed the background image of the End poem (Oculus Rift and Gear VR only)

• Fixed chunks loading and flashing when looking around rapidly (Oculus Rift and Gear VR only)

• Fixed a crash that occurred when headphones were plugged in while selecting any button on the main men (Gear VR only)

• Fixed a crash when loading the game on iOS devices

• Fixed Xbox Live notifications for invites and achievements not appearing (iOS only)

• Lowered the blast resistance of Nether Wart blocks

• Snow Golems no longer put their hands up while rotating

• Map tooltips now load properly after storing them in a chest and reentering a world

• The XP bar will now update once an XP orb has been picked up

• Fixed seeing through leaf blocks when the Fancy Leaves option is turned off

• Texture packs that use the 'flame_atlas' texture that isn't the size of vanilla now work again

• Glowstone will now show up on maps

• Fog now appears properly in the Nether

• Levers, signs, item frames, ladders, paintings, torches, and redstone torches no longer drop if connected to a block in a different chunk

• Magma blocks now melt top snow and ice directly above

• One layer of snow can now be replaced with a sign

• Fixed the Dragon Head item in the inventory appearing pixelated

• Decreased the size of hitboxes for several items including anvils, piston arms, and single glass panes

• Only the block being targeted should take damage or break

• Fixed the breaking particles of End Rods now having the right color

• Horses, donkeys, and mules will now take fall damage if dismounted before hitting the ground

• Horses, donkeys, and mules no longer shake when jumping

• Creepers can no longer stop themselves from exploding after being ignited with flint and steel

• Villagers will no longer become paralyzed when their inventory is full

• When cloning a chest next to another chest to create a double chest, the contents will not be erased

• Droppers can now dispense into another container when that container has all its slots full and the items are stackable

• Pistons will remain extended upon world reload

• Fixed the textures of horizontally placed pistons in several texture packs

• Shulker boxes now have correct textures and orientation in hand and inventory

• Fixed sugar cane not disappearing when water is removed

• The 'Generate Random' button has been renamed to 'Create New World'

• Animations of some blocks are no longer synchronized after world reload

• Fixed mining animation for a block behind a torch not appearing after destroying the torch

• Fixed sprinting when brushing against blocks so sprinting will only stop if directly hitting a block

• Slightly increased sprinting and walking speeds

• Pressing the X button while over the hotbar will now clear its items in Creative mode

• The Nether travel sound effect will now play when exiting a Nether portal

• Fixed text not translating after changing language settings until the game was restarted

• Horses no longer clip through players when jumping… or did players clip through horses?

• Redstone dust can now be placed on Sea Lanterns and Glowstone

• The paper doll on the inventory screen no longer flips while using Elytra wings

• Naturally spawned villagers will now have the full range of professions

• Using Carrot on a Stick to break blocks will no longer decrease its durability

• Boats will now move faster on ice

• Original Music Pack will now be imported properly after downloading and no longer cause the game to crash

• Guardian and Elder Guardian laser attacks can now penetrate armor to damage players

• The sneak button on controllers can now be used to get out of boats

• Squid will now spawn properly in oceans

• Creepers start hissing a bit earlier now

• Slightly decreased Creeper explosion damage

• Nether portal blocks are now breakable in Creative mode when the default game mode was Survival

• Fixed Dragon Egg not breaking when falling on torches and breaking anvils

• '/ReplaceItem' repeating no longer makes it impossible for players to change inventory slots

• Creepers will no longer explode if they lose sight of a player

• Creepers exploding inside minecarts and boats will not destroy the minecart or boat

• Attempting to load a world before signing in will no longer make worlds unable to load

• Glazed terracotta blocks can be pushed but no longer pulled by sticky pistons

• The 'hideParticles' argument for '/effect' will now hide particles of selected status effects when set to ""true""

• '/execute…detect' now has the right position offsets

• Fixed the hitbox on Chorus plants

• Fixed a crash that occurred when setting ""minecraft:explode"" power to 0 and standing in TNT

• The ""spawn_entity"" sub-component of ""minecraft:interact"" now works as intended

• Localized the death message that appears when a player is killed by a horse when using Add-Ons

Changelog for Space Battle Simulator:

• Fixed equipment bugs

• Minor text fixes

• Fixed bug where the barrack respawn messages/effects would sometimes go to the wrong team

Changelog for Relics of the Privateers:

• Updated various mobs for 1.2

• Balanced giant crabs, sharks, and jaguars

• Sharks and Megalodon can no longer ride along in boats

• Sharks now fight when overpopulated

• Arrow traps no longer give the player free arrows or build up lag

• Grass side biome overlay added

• Course dirt fixed for 1.2

• Megalodon made browner

• Golden Skeleton Skull made less like a Golden Zombie Skull

• Fixed snow from appearing in the jungle

• Jungle Temple Panther now harder to fight

• More ways to start the Jungle Temple traps

• Reward noises added in the Temple and Vault

• Most flowing water around the world fixed

• A large amount of gold discovered and removed by the mountain spa

Changelog for ANNIE: The Rise of Londinium:

• Added stained glass to pods

• Added stained glass walls to stages 1, 2 & 3

• Edited villager behavior pack to make them not targetable

Changelog for Stone Age Texture Pack:

• Added textures for music discs

• Added textures for zombie villager and parrot spawn eggs

• Added armor stand textures

• Added parrot textures

• Added stained glass textures

• Altered note block texture and made the drum the jukebox texture instead

• Added frozen ice texture for Frost Walker enchantment

• Fixed firework charge texture (Was unused before)

• Added undyed Shulker and Shulker box textures

• Added banner textures

• Fixed light blue concrete powder

• Added inventory tab icons

• Removed unused or default textures

Update for PureBDcraft:

• Added all 1.2 blocks textures

• Added brand new PureBDcraft HD UI

• Fixed bugs

Changelog for Monster Battle Arena:

• Added more team direction signs

• Fixed iron upgrade chest not applying properly

• Fixed ""READY"" sign door entrance for WAVES

• Fixed CREDITS sign the credits room ""EXIT""

• Fixed the wither family behavior

Changelog for Destructobot 5000:

• Fixed an issue with the size of TNT explosions changing
• Fixed mob spawning issues and cleared the map of the wrong mobs

Technical Update