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It’s time for another Caves & Cliffs beta update! Please continue to leave us your feedback in the threads at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and search and reports any new bugs you may encounter at bugs.mojang.com.
Features and Bug Fixes
World Settings
- Added the “Respawn Blocks Explode” game rule, which can be used to prevent Respawn Anchors and Beds from exploding (MCPE-76687)
Caves And Cliffs
- Worlds with the Caves & Cliffs experimental toggle enabled are now more likely to have the same default world spawn position as worlds without the experiment using the same seed (MCPE-127708)
Vanilla Parity
- Monster spawning in the Nether has been changed to more closely match Java Edition (MCPE-65762)
- There will now be a maximum of 15 to 20 mobs around the player in the Nether, instead of 30 to 40
- Block interaction “click” sounds are now controlled by the “Blocks” volume slider (MCPE-104983)
- Swapped toggle sounds for levers so that they are now parity with Java Edition
General
- Fixed a bug where the contents of a Shulker Box are deleted when dyeing from the recipe tab (MCPE-131809)
- Swords now break Bamboo in a single swing (MCPE-64013)
- Disabled biome tinting for Spruce and Birch Leaves (MCPE-128996)
- Using a Powder Snow Bucket on a Cauldron filled with Powder Snow no longer creates a new Powder Snow block (MCPE-131177)
- Using a Water Bucket on a fully filled Cauldron now produces the correct sound (MCPE-131177)
- Lava Buckets can now be emptied into a Cauldron filled with Lava
- Cave Vines can now be pollinated by Bees (MCPE-127821)
- Enchantment Tables now emit light level 7 (MCPE-130868)
- The falling position of Pointed Dripstone is no longer slightly offset (MCPE-119548)
- Powder Snow can now be collected with a Dispenser (MCPE-127564)
- Placing a Sign on Rooted Dirt now correctly opens the text editor (MCPE-129280)
- Target Blocks now conduct Redstone signals (MCPE-75034)
- Message/tell commands no longer fail when cheats are not activated (REALMS-7760)
- Teleporting a mob between dimensions no longer causes the mob to despawn (MCPE-127414)
- Fixed offhand Shields clipping into players’ arms while in third-person perspective (MCPE-122672)
- Minecart with Chest will now copy over its chest contents when pick blocked
- Soul Speed Boots can now be unequipped properly after losing durability (MCPE-106367)
- Baby Goats no longer have horns (MCPE-123253)
- Diamond Pickaxes found in Hoglin Stable chests are now enchanted (MCPE-129750)
- Bubble Columns are now placed properly when loaded with a Structure Block (MCPE-97027)
Sounds
- Amethyst walking sounds are now affected by the “Player” audio setting
- Deepslate walking sounds are now affected by the “Player” audio setting
- Moss Block walking sounds are now affected by the “Player” audio setting
- Sounds of moving in/on Powder Snow are now affected by the “Player” audio setting
- Jumping and landing on blocks have now their sounds affected by the “Player” audio slider (No ID)
- Dripstone drip sounds are now affected by the “Block” audio slider
- Turtle Eggs no longer produce the Bone Meal sound when placed on Sand (MCPE-127189)
- Big Dripleaf now has a distinct tilt up sound (MCPE-123488)
User Interface
- The Sign In dialog is no longer shown on a split-screen game to anyone other than the primary player on PlayStation 4
- A debug string is no longer shown for how to open chat (MCPE-128955)
Technical Updates
Fixes
- ‘behavior.knockback_roar’ now has a vertical and horizontal strength value
Data-Driven Items
- Added required toggle to component item documentation, and to content error
GameTest Framework (Experimental)
- GameTest
- Added helper method spawnAtLocation(location : Location) : Entity – Spawns an entity at the given Location
- Added helper method walkToLocation(mob : Entity, location : Location, speedModifier : number) : Commands an entity to move to the given Location
- Added method assertCanReachLocation(mob : Entity, location : BlockLocation, bool canReach) – Asserts that the given mob can reach the target block location
- Events
- Added event World.events.beforeExplosion – Fires before an explosion occurs
- Added event World.events.explosion – Fires when an explosion occurs
- Added event World.events.explodeBlock – Fires when a block breaks due to an explosion
- Added event World.event.beforeActivatePiston – Fires before a piston is activated
- Added event World.event.activatePiston – Fires when a piston is activated
- Block
- Added method getDimension() : Dimension
- BlockPistonComponent
- Read-only property attachedBlocks – Returns an array containing the BlockLocation of each block attached to the piston
- Read-only property isMoving – Returns true if the piston is expanding or retracting
- Read-only property isExpanded – Returns true if the piston is fully expanded
- Read-only property isExpanding – Returns true if the piston is expanding
- Read-only property isRetracting – Returns true if the piston is retracting
- Read-only property isRetracted – Returns true if the piston is fully retracted
source: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/4403617652109
