Minecraft Bedrock Edition Beta & Preview 1.21.80.28

17th April 2025
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Posted: 15 April 2025

Information on Minecraft Preview and Beta:

  • These work-in-progress versions can be unstable and may not be representative of final version quality
  • Minecraft Preview is available on Xbox, PlayStation, Windows, and iOS devices. More information can be found at aka.ms/PreviewFAQ 
  • The beta is available on Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta  for detailed instructions

It’s time for another Preview and Beta! For the full list of goodies, browse the changelog below. And as always, we’re keen to get your feedback on these new features at feedback.minecraft.net, and you can report any bugs at bugs.mojang.com.

Note: The features outlined in today’s article Unleash Your Imagination are coming soon to Bedrock Beta & Preview.

Features and Bug Fixes

Blocks

  • Dried Ghast blocks no longer generate with the “Drop 2 2025” experiment turned off (MCPE-199218)

Bundles

  • Empty open Bundle icon now renders correctly when Bundles are tapped with Touch Controls

Stability and Performance

  • Fixed bugs causing marketplace addon content to sometimes not load in a world

Realms

  • Realms Server Hosting Region Preference Selection:
    • Added a new “Advanced” tab to the Realms settings screen
    • In the advanced tab, Realm owners can select which datacenter region they would like to host their Realm in
    • Options include a list of regions, or allowing the Realms service to automatically select the best region for the Realm owner or the first player to join the Realm in a given session
    • Note that this selection is a preference only and due to server capacity, your Realm may be hosted in a different region than selected
    • In that case, the next closest region to your preference will be selected
    • Added a message during joining a Realm to indicate which server region your Realm is assigned to for that session
    • More information will be shared about Realms server hosting with the next full release
    • Known issue: The “set region help” help article has not been published yet, so that button will link to the Minecraft help site home page

Technical Updates

Stability and Performance

  • Fixed a crash caused by buffer overrun in the data driven renderer when multiple values wrote to overlay color
  • Fixed null pointer de-referencing crash in chunk rendering

Structures

  • Data-driven Jigsaw Structures have been put back behind the experimental toggle

Experimental Technical Features

Graphical

  • Updated the format of “lighting/global.json” to include support for controlling the new End light flash in Vibrant Visuals. The “directional_lights” section now has two groups: “orbital”, which contains the lighting information around the sun and moon, and “flash”, which contains information about the End light flash. The “flash” section supports an “illuminance” field which controls the max illuminance of the End light flash, and a “color” field, which controls the color of the flash. Example JSON with this new format follows:
{
  "format_version": "1.21.80",
  "minecraft:lighting_settings": {
    "description": {
      "identifier": "minecraft:default_lighting"
    },
    "directional_lights": {
      "orbital": {
        "sun": {
          "illuminance": {
            "0.0": 1.0,
          },
          "color": {
            "0.0": [ 255, 255, 0 ]
          }
        },
        "moon": {
          "illuminance": {
            "0.0": 1.0,
          },
          "color": {
            "0.0": [ 0, 0, 255 ]
          }
        },
        "orbital_offset_degrees": 5.0
      },
      "flash": {
        "illuminance": 1.0,
        "color": [ 255, 0, 255 ]
      }
    },
    "emissive": {
      "desaturation": 0.2
    },
    "ambient": {
      "color": "#FFFFFF",
      "illuminance": 0.4
    },
    "sky": {
      "intensity": 0.8
    }
  }
}

source: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/35868117841933-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-1-21-80-28

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