Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.

It can also be about adventuring with friends or watching the sunrise over a blocky ocean. It's pretty. Brave players battle terrible things in The Nether, which is more scary than pretty. You can also visit a land of mushrooms if it sounds more like your cup of tea.

How do I update Minecraft?

Open the Minecraft Launcher. Click on "Options," next to the username text box, then press "Force update!" and login with your Minecraft credentials afterwards. Minecraft will start updating itself. This can also be used to get a fresh Minecraft installation, which will keep your saved games and texture packs, but not your mods.

What is the difference between Minecraft Java Edition and Minecraft Bedrock Edition?

Java is, by and large, the more powerful and feature-rich version of Minecraft, but it lacks the compatibility and cross-play support of Bedrock. Furthermore, Bedrock Edition comes packaged with microtransactions, RTX support, and a handful of other exclusive functions (not to mention a broader set of supported devices).

Java Edition is PC only and players can only interact with other Java Edition players. Meanwhile, Bedrock Edition is multi-platform which means Bedrock players can interact with each other be it console, mobile or PC.

Gamers on the Java Edition have access to numerous communities and endless mods. These two combined make the multiplayer experience of the game a lot more malleable. The biggest con for Java Edition is that it requires higher spec machines to run smoothly.

Bedrock Edition does offer a few things that the Java Edition does not have. Mainly its marketplace, where you can acquire skins and add-ons, and the option to use controllers. Parental controls via Xbox services also provide peace of mind to parents.

How do I find other Minecraft players online?

To play Minecraft with other players, find a server first. Different servers offer different gameplay. Some are centered around building, others offer an MMO experience, and others are centered around survival.

There is a universe of possibilities, so your best bet is use any search engine to find Minecraft servers with the kind of gameplay style you're looking for. Such is the diversity that if you're looking for gameplay similar to GTA all you have to do is search "Grand Theft Auto Minecraft servers'' to get a list of options. Once you have found a server, open Minecraft, select Multiplayer, and choose "Add Server."

Note: To play Minecraft Java Edition please download and install Java first. (Minecraft 1.19+ requires Java 17)

What's New

Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.4 is a minor update to Java Edition, which fixes one bug. This version is not compatible with 1.20.2 servers.

  • MC-267185 – Decorated Pots could be deleted when reloading the world.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.20.30 is a minor update to Bedrock Edition released on September 19, 2023, which makes experimental changes to the villager and wandering trader trades, brings more parity from Java Edition, and fixes bugs.

Game rules

  • Added dolimitedcrafting, controlling whether players can craft only those recipes that they have unlocked, defaults to false.
  • Added playerssleepingpercentage, set to 100 by default.
  • Added recipesunlock, controlling whether the player needs to collect items to unlock recipes in the recipe book, defaults to true.

Experiments

  • Added the "Villager Trade Rebalancing" experimental toggle.

Options

  • Added "Recipe unlocking" game and advanced option (recipesunlock game rule).
  • Added alerts for iOS and iPadOS users who have run out of disk space.
  • Now is displayed a message when the players presses the camera perspective change button but a particular perspective is already set via the /camera command.
  • Added "Vertical Sync" video option.

Block Breaking

  • Changed the hardness and blast resistance of 188 blocks to match Java Edition.

Sculk Sensor and Calibrated Sculk Sensor

Can now detect the following events:

  • Throwing an eye of ender.
  • Minecarts, consistently when moving on rails while empty.
  • Collecting fish, axolotls, and tadpoles with buckets.
  • Cleaning items in cauldrons.
  • Dying leather armor in cauldrons.
  • Tipping arrows in cauldrons.
  • Using dyes to change cauldrons' water color.
  • Non-player actors event when equipping shields in their off-hand slot.
  • Applying a nametag.
  • Evokers summoning vexes or fangs.
  • Chickens, frogs, and turtles laying eggs.
  • Using bone meal.
  • Chiseled bookshelves when books are inserted into them using hoppers.
  • Extinguishing fire.
  • Mounting or dismounting a vehicle.
  • Rabbits eating carrot crops.
  • Foxes eating sweet berry bushes.
  • Unequipping armor.
  • Placing a banner, bamboo sapling, lily pad, or a head.
  • Placing frogspawns.
  • Placing or adding sea pickles.
  • Adding/destroying a turtle egg.
  • Turtle eggs cracking.

Crawling

  • The ability to crawl is now available without using the "Crawling" experimental toggle.
  • The player now gets forced out of crawl state when riding.
  • Players can now toggle flying when crawling in Creative mode.

UI

  • Updated the menu HUD icons for touch controls.
  • Added three new user-friendly disconnection error messages and improved two others.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.20.15 is a minor update to Bedrock Edition which fixes bugs.

  • Fixed a top crash that could occur during gameplay
  • Fixed a bug related to some packs not being available to purchase successfully from the Marketplace

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.20.12 is a minor update to Bedrock Edition which fixes bugs.

  • Fixed resource pack crashes with launch of 1.20.10
  • Fixed a crash that could occur on iOS and iPadOS
  • Fixed connection stability related to "Abandoned connection closed" errors

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.20.10 (1.20.11 on Xbox) is a minor update to Bedrock Edition released on July 11, 2023, which brings more parity from Java Edition and fixes bugs.

Experiments

  • Added "Crawling" experimental toggle.
    • Allow players crawl under 1 block gaps.
  • Added "Recipe Unlocking" experimental toggle.
    • Enable the new recipe unlocking system and the /recipe command.

Options

  • Added the slider "GUI Scale Modifier" to the accessibility section.
  • Added "Extra Large GUI Scaling" accessibility and video option, to make the UI "bigger" (only works on some devices).

Splashes

  • Added a new splash text: Joule is neat too!

Changes

Blocks
Barrel

  • Recipe now use planks instead of sticks to match Java Edition.

Concrete

  • The IDs of concrete have now been split up into their own IDs.

Decorated Pot

  • If they crafted with at least one pottery sherd now have a hover tooltip displaying the pottery sherd and brick ingredients.

Note Block

  • Now produces the "harp" sound instead of "snare" using soul soil.

Packed Mud

  • Can no longer mine faster with a shovel.

Sculk Sensor

  • Can now detect the following events:
    • Placing, rotating, or removing an item in an item frame or a glow item frame.
    • Charging a respawn anchor.
    • Scraping or applying wax to blocks of the copper block set.
    • Switching a daylight detector to an inverted daylight detector or vice-versa.
    • Adding food to a campfire.
    • Adding or removing a music disc to a jukebox.
    • Mud turning into clay.
    • Harvesting sweet berries.
    • Placing an eye of ender in an end portal frame.
    • Bees entering or exiting a beehive or a bee nest.
    • Interacting with composter.
    • Attaching or detaching a lead from a fence.
    • Attaching or detaching a lead from a mob.
    • Dying a sheep.
    • Picking glow berries.
    • Farmland turning into dirt.
    • Using a spawn egg on a monster spawner.
    • Silverfish merging with blocks.
    • Using a hoe on rooted dirt.
    • Using a shovel to create dirt paths.
    • Placing a door.
    • Planting seeds in farmland.

Shulker Box

  • The IDs of shulker_box have now been split up into their own IDs.

Gameplay

Sneaking

  • Sneak under 1.5 blocks tall is now available without the "Short Sneaking/Short Sneaking and Crawling" experimental toggle.
  • Players can now be forced into sneak state while flying.

Sound

  • Camera position is now used for audio listening and ambient sounds.
  • Previously the player position and rotation were sometimes used for audio listening.

Rendering engine

  • Rendering of snow or rain is now based on camera position instead of player position.

Technical

Bedrock Editor

  • Resolved an issue where the selection cursor was causing the glass block to render invisible.
  • Added "Log Panel" for "Tool Mode" to display log messages. It can be accessed from the "View Menu" or by using the CTRLâ¯+â¯H shortcut.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented additional servers to be added from "Servers Tab" in "Editor mode".
  • Fixed a bug that caused the gizmo to be hidden in "Crosshair Mode".
  • Converted "properties" to "states" for custom blocks.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to change a mob's scale while it was colliding with blocks.
  • /scriptevent can now be used in the editor without the need to enable the "Beta APIs" experimental toggle.

JSON

  • Added deprecation error message for the part_visibility component.
  • Fixed an issue where adding a minecraft:peek component to a custom entity would cause the game to crash.
  • Updated the minecraft:geometry block component to allow bone visibility to be defined with a molang expression.
  • Added a content error when minecraft:balloonable is used on minecraft:player to prevent issues as this component is not supported in this way.
  • Invalid JSON objects within the entity component minecraft:behavior.nearest_attackable_target will no longer crash the game.

Minecraft 1.20.2 Java Edition

Minecraft 1.20.2 is a minor update to Java Edition, which adds the Villager Trade Rebalance experimental toggle and the /random command, and fixes bugs. It is not compatible with 1.20 to 1.20.1 servers.

Fixes

  • MC-2310 – Wrong attack radius calculation damages/kills entities through blocks and corners.
  • MC-25088 – Health Boost completely reset if applied again.
  • MC-29371 – Several buttons and icons use the old tooltip design upon being hovered over.
  • MC-61041 – CustomPotionEffects, ActiveEffects, and Effects NBT tags still use numeral IDs.
  • MC-67532 – Bottom 2 rows of pixels in selected hotbar slot texture don't appear in game.
  • MC-69387 – The /item command cannot replace items within jukeboxes.
  • MC-70127 – Some block state changes aren't communicated to clients.
  • MC-72721 – Chat messages show after death independent of chat setting.
  • MC-80876 – Entity riding vehicle has always same offset.
  • MC-85582 – Entity models in the inventory can render outside the boundaries of the black box.
  • MC-86918 – Ender dragon and piglin heads are not activated when powered by comparators.
  • MC-93320 – Water freezes even if randomTickSpeed is 0.
  • MC-96409 – Creepers can't blow up the boat and boat with chest they ride, when it is on the land.
  • MC-103800 – Sometimes armor stands won't update their visual rotation.
  • MC-109346 – Newly rendered players always look south until they move their head.
  • MC-112133 – Eating chorus fruit does not reset fall distance.
  • MC-118616 – The sounds of magma cubes and slimes aren't controlled by the "Hostile Creatures" sound slider.
  • MC-119873 – The text used for the credits button within the title screen is untranslatable.
  • MC-121772 – Can't scroll while holding ⧠Shift on macOS.
  • MC-122296 – Horizontal scrolling does not work on Mac [Magic Mouse].
  • MC-122547 – Barriers can produce fall particles.
  • MC-122645 – Narrator hotkey cannot be customized or disabled.
  • MC-125046 – RepairCost NBT tag is created on any renamed item using anvils which can cause items to not stack properly.
  • MC-131684 – Chunk data packet allocates an extra byte for each section using GlobalPalette.
  • MC-135339 – Host's skin is not visible to other players in a LAN world if the host has not opened any world before.
  • MC-140646 – Text fields don't scroll while selecting text with ⧠Shift.
  • MC-147766 – ⧠Shift key stays pressed until press any other key.
  • MC-154827 – Typo in splash text "Verlet intregration!".
  • MC-164080 – Entities riding on Ghast are partially or fully inside it.
  • MC-169530 – Player sneaks client-side when riding a pig in a two block high tunnel.
  • MC-173057 – Text field can scroll when auto completing, so that you do not see what you auto completed.
  • MC-177110 – Mob stepping sounds are inconsistently subtitled.
  • MC-177172 – Dash in villager/trader UI is hardcoded / untranslatable.
  • MC-181109 – Grindstone adds RepairCost: 0.
  • MC-181190 – The discount for curing a villager is multiplied if the villager is reinfected and cured again.
  • MC-182820 – Repeaters and comparators use wood sounds for placing/breaking despite being made mostly of stone.
  • MC-190815 – Shulker boxes don't conduct redstone when open, but don't trigger redstone updates when opened.
  • MC-193457 – Dropper/Dispenser 'Triggered' block state not updating without player interaction.
  • MC-197473 – Renamed block entities don't stack properly.
  • MC-200484 – Jukeboxes use stone sounds despite being composed predominantly of wood.
  • MC-202432 – Absorption effect does not go away even after the hearts are gone.
  • MC-206182 – Cannot tab out of console text field of command block.
  • MC-208909 – Axolotl will still be dry on the boat or boat with chest if it's in water when raining.
  • MC-209798 – Sculk sensors are not activated upon using bone meal.
  • MC-210485 – Sculk sensors are not activated upon evokers summoning vexes.
  • MC-214126 – Bees don't pollinate themselves with spore blossoms or chorus flowers.
  • MC-215768 – Sculk sensors do not detect turtles clearing away sand.
  • MC-217628 – Levers use wood sounds rather than stone.
  • MC-217629 – Tripwire hooks use stone sounds, rather than wood.
  • MC-219440 – Sculk sensors do not detect fire being put out by a water splash potion.
  • MC-227338 – Vindicators have insane range when riding a ravager.
  • MC-228420 – World not loading / falling through the world when joining a server / travelling between dimensions / respawning.
  • MC-229121 – JVM crash in jdk.internal.loader.NativeLibraries.load.
  • MC-230732 – Minecraft local difficulty setting is calculated/displayed wrongly when running a world in a server.
  • MC-232840 – Baby zombie legs clip through heads of mobs they are riding.
  • MC-235762 – Screenshots wider than 16384 pixels causes a crash / java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Out of stack space.
  • MC-237326 – Horse flashing heart texture is unused.
  • MC-237333 – Cake, banners and paintings cannot be placed on chorus flowers, despite being able to support them.
  • MC-237427 – Horse flashing heart background texture is unused.
  • MC-237428 – Flashing hunger icon texture is unused.
  • MC-237429 – Flashing hunger background texture is unused.
  • MC-242076 – The skeleton of a spider jockey sits "inside" of spider model rather than on top of the spider.
  • MC-242092 – Texture map for magma cube (magmacube.png) has unused pixels.
  • MC-242385 – Inconsistency on the buffer size calculation in the chunk packet data.
  • MC-242395 – Texture map for the blaze (blaze.png) contains unused pixels.
  • MC-242396 – Texture map for armor stand (wood.png) contains unused pixels.
  • MC-242397 – Texture maps for cow, red & brown mooshroom (red/brown_mooshroom.png & cow.png) contain unused pixels.
  • MC-242398 – Texture maps for the sheep and sheep fur (sheep.png & sheep_fur.png) contain unused pixels.
  • MC-242591 – Texture maps for the Llama and Trader Llama (white/gray/creamy/brown.png) contain unused pixels.
  • MC-242592 – Texture map for the polar bear (polarbear.png) contain unused pixels.
  • MC-248778 – The item count symbol within shulker box tooltips is untranslatable.
  • MC-248833 – The parentheses used before and after the warning label within the language menu are untranslatable.
  • MC-248844 – The page indicator symbol within the recipe book GUI is untranslatable.
  • MC-248846 – The colon used within the death screen to show the player's score is untranslatable.
  • MC-249109 – Sniffers, frogs, goats, and camels don't panic when attached to leads.
  • MC-249355 – The hyphen used within the statistics menu to show a null value is untranslatable.
  • MC-249702 – Server crash when attempting to start a server with malformatted banned-ips.json.
  • MC-249776 – Players sneak client-side while riding boat chests under hoppers.
  • MC-250985 – Unused recipe book button in crafting and inventory texture.
  • MC-251525 – Sculk sensors are not activated upon rabbits eating planted carrots.
  • MC-252231 – Warm Frog texture has inconsistent pixels.
  • MC-252295 – The word "whilst" within several death messages isn't spelled in American English.
  • MC-252298 – Death messages relating to the Thorns enchantment don't contain conjunctions where appropriate.
  • MC-252316 – The word "burnt" within some death messages isn't spelled in American English.
  • MC-253137 – The game output console is logged with errors regarding missing signatures from property textures when joining LAN worlds.
  • MC-253241 – The player count indicator symbol within the multiplayer menu is untranslatable.
  • MC-253269 – The advancement progress indicator symbol within the advancements menu is untranslatable.
  • MC-253270 – The hyphen used within boss bars for raids is untranslatable.
  • MC-253278 – The percentage symbol used within the level loading screen to show the loading progress of the world is untranslatable.
  • MC-253281 – Text within filled map tooltips when advanced tooltips are hidden is untranslatable.
  • MC-253283 – The percentage and chunk indicator symbols used within the optimize world menu are untranslatable.
  • MC-253638 – The symbols used within shulker box tooltips to show random loot table contents are untranslatable.
  • MC-254100 – Iron golem spawn rate decreased.
  • MC-255418 – Vertical redstone dust placed against dropper/dispenser/hopper doesn't visually disappear when the dust above is removed.
  • MC-255967 – Old chunks that would have Deep Dark biomes below Y=0 if generated newly doesn't completely generate; only Ancient Cities are spawned.
  • MC-256466 – Raft entities are named boats.
  • MC-256482 – Sculk sensors are not activated upon camels standing up or sitting down.
  • MC-256485 – Camels that spawn within villages can spawn inside blocks.
  • MC-256549 – Baby camels that aren't moving face in the direction of their adults when pathfinding to players that are tempting them.
  • MC-256641 – Bamboo fence and fence gate aren't grouped with the other fences and fence gates in the crafting table.
  • MC-256652 – Endermen are almost unable to attack Players on a Camel.
  • MC-256675 – Z-fighting occurs between the legs of the camel and the texture of the saddle when it is sitting.
  • MC-256690 – Camels attempt to stand up when blocks are placed over them, causing them to take suffocation damage if blocks are at eye level.
  • MC-256696 – Player sneaks client-side while riding a camel in a three-block high space.
  • MC-256737 – Sniffers, frogs, goats, and camels prioritize pathfinding to their lover when fed over panicking when being damaged.
  • MC-256777 – The two characters used within the tab list to show players' health are untranslatable.
  • MC-257342 – You get slowed down when riding a camel in a 3 block tall area.
  • MC-257431 – Bamboo fence gates utilize the wrong textures.
  • MC-257628 – Sculk sensors are not activated upon camels dashing.
  • MC-257909 – Zoglins, hoglins, and pandas can still attack players riding camels.
  • MC-258379 – Parity issue: The locations of camels' ears differ across platforms.
  • MC-258620 – Piglins barter every 121 game ticks instead of every 120 game ticks.
  • MC-259152 – Player's model displayed in inventory while sneaking differs between the versions.
  • MC-259382 – Message Failed to get element is logged repeatedly when giving yourself armor with invalid trimming pattern or material.
  • MC-259401 – Lapis lazuli icons in enchanting table and smithing table are inconsistent.
  • MC-259452 – Baby Camel's laying down/getting up sounds are not sped up.
  • MC-259475 – The rotation of controlling passengers on sitting camels is sometimes restricted while adjusting your rotation slowly.
  • MC-259769 – Firework explosions no longer deal knockback to entities.
  • MC-259794 – Armor enchanted with curse of binding cannot be swapped via right-clicking in creative mode.
  • MC-259860 – Sitting camels that have passengers continuously look up and down for other players.
  • MC-260054 – Pink Petals hitbox does not adjust to contents.
  • MC-260058 – Pick Block does not work properly for blank decorated pots.
  • MC-260085 – Particles are created when using a brush on a barrier.
  • MC-260096 – Decorated pots don't have creative mode tooltips.
  • MC-260485 – The /item command cannot remove items within chiseled bookshelves.
  • MC-260490 – Passenger's riding position is too low for non-default-sized mobs.
  • MC-260604 – Terrible loudness following consecutive use of /fill.
  • MC-260675 – Decorated pots render blank on the first frame after being placed.
  • MC-260819 – The death.attack.message_too_long string is missing an article before the word "stripped".
  • MC-260968 – The narrator does not narrate the word "Experimental" in the world selection screen.
  • MC-261119 – Accessibility button in the Welcome screen needs its own string.
  • MC-261123 – item_display entity breaks certain mobs' AI when being used as a passenger.
  • MC-261182 – Sign color looks different in world and in editing screen.
  • MC-261261 – Sculk sensors do not detect when a chiseled bookshelf changes via hoppers and droppers.
  • MC-261411 – All Smithing Templates share the same translation key.
  • MC-261420 – Sculk sensor and calibrated sculk sensor don't detect a witch drinking a potion.
  • MC-261427 – Sculk sensors and calibrated sculk sensors don't detect totem of undying activating.
  • MC-261440 – Resizing the window makes it so you can't change names in anvils.
  • MC-261926 – Cannot join a realm because of realms ad.
  • MC-261951 – Dragon/piglin head does not move when placed on a jukebox that is playing a record.
  • MC-262295 – Warped and Crimson hanging signs uses their respective plank sounds, despite their stripped stems having unique sounds.
  • MC-262442 – Camels stand a bit too close to players that are tempting them.
  • MC-262620 – Llamas and trader llamas need to be tamed in order to be ridden by the mob which is inconsistent with other rideable mobs.
  • MC-262638 – When a Size:0 slime and magma cube rides on some mobs the rendering position is too low.
  • MC-262804 – Players' swimming animations are jittery for other players.
  • MC-263133 – Inconsistent word usage in Out of Memory screen.

Minecraft 1.20 changelog

Planned additions

Blocks

  • Bamboo Planks.png Bamboo Planks
    • Crafted from bamboo.
    • Can be used to craft respective slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, buttons, doors, rafts, hanging signs, and trapdoors.
    • Can also be crafted into bamboo mosaics, a new block.
  • Bamboo Mosaic.png Bamboo Mosaic
    • Crafted from bamboo planks.
    • Can be used to craft respective slabs and stairs.
  • Chiseled Bookshelf
    • Can store up to six books, enchanted books, or books and quills.
    • Books are directly added and removed, so there is no interface.
    • Can be used with a redstone comparator to detect the last slot that was interacted with.
  • Hanging Sign
    • Crafted using stripped logs and chains.
    • Has a total of 10 wood variants: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, crimson, warped and bamboo.
    • Has 3 block variants, hanging from the side of a block, hanging below a wider block and hanging below a narrower block such as fences or chains.
    • Can be tinted with glow ink sacs to make text glow.
    • Acts like a regular sign.
  • Sniffer Egg[unofficial name]
    • Can be found in ocean ruin chests.
    • Hatches into a baby sniffer.

Items

  • Ancient Seeds[unofficial name]
    • Can be dug out of the ground by the sniffer.
    • Can be planted on the ground to grow new plants.

Mobs

Camel

  • A rideable entity.
    • Mobs like husks can't reach entities riding camels due to its height.
    • Can carry up to two players at a time.
  • Can be bred with cactus to produce a baby camel.
  • Can dash to walk faster, or to jump over obstacles such as ravines and rivers.

Sniffer

  • Won the mob vote during Minecraft Live 2022.
  • An ancient mob that is hatched from sniffer eggs, which can be found in chests in underwater ruins. Upon hatching, the sniffer can find ancient seeds, which can be used to grow new types of decorative plants.

Non-mob entities

Raft

  • A new type of boat, crafted with bamboo planks.
  • Can be used to craft a variant with a chest.

Planned changes
Blocks

  • Cactus
    • Can be used to breed camels.

Item

  • Saddle
    • Can be placed on camels.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.19.83 is a minor update to Bedrock Edition released, which fixes bugs.

Fixes from released versions before v1.19.83

  • MCPE-169176 – Inventory cursor jumps all over the place
  • MCPE-170184 – Trade Tables no longer support custom entity Spawn Eggs

Other

  • Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
  • Fixed custom textures that override 'minecraft' blocks with aux metadata as a list of textures

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.19.81 Changelog

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.19.81 is a minor update to Bedrock Edition released on April 27, 2023 on all platforms except Switch, which recieved the update later. It fixes bugs.

Fixes

  • Fixed a crash with the /tell command (and some other commands) that could occur on Realms.
  • Fixed an issue with Purchase buttons loading infinitely on Featured Servers.
  • Fixed Featured Server offers not displaying the "Show More" button.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.19.80 Changelog

Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.19.80 is a minor update to Bedrock Edition that was released on April 26, 2023. It added more to the Trails and Tales experimental toggle, adding the 1.5 Sneak Toggle, more parity with Java Edition, and fixed several bugs.

Bedrock Editor

  • Added the bedrock editor, is currently available for keyboard/mouse on Windows PC Bedrock Preview builds.
  • It is an in-engine, multiblock editing experience focused on making it possible for creators of all skillsets to easily craft high-quality experiences.

Experiments

  • Added the "Short Sneaking" experimental toggle.
    • Enables the ability to sneak under 1.5 blocks of height.

Options

  • Added "Glint Speed" and "Glint Strength" accessibility option for adjusting the speed and transparency of enchantment glints.
  • Added "New 'You Died' Screen (Experimental)" video option to disable/enable the new death screen.

Touch Controls

  • Re-enabled the new stack splitting UI.

Fixes

Gameplay

  • Fixed the player moving in the wrong direction after exiting a container screen while using a gamepad. (MCPE-121565)
  • Players can no longer sneak while flying. (MCPE-166834)
  • Fixed an issue where unnecessary black boxes appeared in VR while around partial blocks.
  • Fixed animation transition between swimming and walking. (MCPE-166769)
  • Fixed a bug where command blocks could cause actors within a level chunk to freeze. (MCPE-162011)
  • The health boost effect will no longer fully replenish the player's health after the effect runs out. (MCPE-165434)

General

  • Fixed ambient cave sounds to no longer play when the player enters or loads into the end. (MCPE-141493)
  • Cooking Chorus Fruit in a Furnace will now generate experience. (MCPE-68127)
  • Nether portals can now replace blocks other than just air when being generated. This includes blocks such as grass and snow layers. (MCPE-162272)
  • Light blocks can no longer have their light levels changed in survival or adventure modes. (MCPE-138868)
  • Campfire sounds are now louder and more clear. (MCPE-122296)
  • Nylium blocks are now grouped with Netherrack in the creative inventory. (MCPE-163587)
  • Flowers are once again displayed immediately when placed inside a flower pot.

Graphical

  • Fixed the issue where multiple light sources (such as torches) were incorrectly emitting white light in RTX. (MCPE-166947)
  • Boots do not z-fight anymore when worn by player.
  • The "leg" and "belt" parts of leggings do not z-fight anymore when worn by player.
  • Capes no longer flash red when getting damaged. (MCPE-105347)
  • Fixed a visible gap in Hopper model. (MCPE-55122)
  • Fixed alignment of the output slot of crafting table. (MCPE-143255)
  • Halved the default visibility of the glint on enchanted items, which can now be modified in the accessibility settings. (MCPE-167814)

Stability and Performance

  • Fixed a bug where invalid banner patterns were causing players in render distance to crash. (MCPE-164478)

Touch controls

  • Fixed an issue where items could get stuck in the crafting table when using touch input.
  • If the player is underwater and auto-jump is enabled, as they approach a block that is 1 level higher than the current level, they will rise. This also allows auto-jumping out of water onto land.

Marketplace

  • In the map WDW Magic Kingdom, the carts on the Big Thunder Mountain, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Space Mountain rides now properly align with the invisible Minecart they are attached to.

Mobs

  • Mobs no longer play the player eat sound when fed breeding materials.

Commands

  • Fixed an issue where the paste button in the command block UI would remember extra presses from failed pastes. (MCPE-163705)
  • Armor stands now vanish with no sound effects when killed with the /kill command. (MCPE-159136)
  • Removed the character limit for scoreboard objective names and objective display names. (MCPE-165064)

User Interface

  • Feedback button on the pause menu will now prompt the user with a modal before redirecting to the browser.