... 6 Feb 2020 4:58 pm. It supports both a string and string array format, where the string is the command intended to run. The update became available on June 23 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Windows 10, and other platforms on the Bedrock version of Minecraft. Additional notes: update went out early on Nintendo Switch, causing multiplayer compatibility issues. It will be available on other platforms later today. SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Minecraft Dungeons’ Update, Today’s New Releases Featuring ‘Cobra Kai’ and More, Plus the Latest Sales Posted on October 27, 2020 October 27, 2020 … The splash screen has been updated with the shiny, new Mojang Studios logo! Continuous updates to the title and the sandbox gameplay inspiring seemingly never-ending creativity just keeps players coming back, and new content was likely to only boost that further. MINECRAFT developer Mojang is getting ready to release a huge new update on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android. Meet the Piglins. Scripts can be written and bundled with Behavior Packs to listen and respond to game events, get and modify data in components that entities have, and affect different parts of the game. Minecraft Bedrock Edition's latest update for the Switch, 1.6.20, is crashing Minecraft, and even causing other games to malfunction. What you need to know Minecraft is currently on the 1.16 update, or the Nether Update. Default value is false, item/stored_in_inventory – Specifies if the item is desired to be picked up and stored in the mob’s inventory. See How to Play in the game for more details and tips! Release date: September 8th 2020 (North America) / September 9th 2020 (Europe, Japan), Fixed the Microsoft account sign-in screen repeatedly appearing after losing internet connection on Nintendo Switch (, Fixed an issue with the account sign-in button becoming unresponsive after backing out of the sign-in prompt screen, Release date: August 11th 2020 (North America) / August 12th 2020 (Europe, Japan), Fixed stability issues discovered when interacting with Minecraft and the home screen while signed in to Microsoft Accounts (, Release date: TBA (North America) / TBA (Europe, Japan), Fixed several issues with Netherite items being lost in fire or lava (, Recipe Select button prompt shows when hovering over a non-craftable recipe book item using controller (, Recipe selected items put in the crafting input grid can now be hovered over with the controller to see their tooltip names, Fixed a crash that could occur when playing an emote and suspending the game (, Emotes can no longer be equipped before unlocking them (, Custom skins once again work properly on multiplayer (, Release date: June 23rd 2020 (North America) / June 24th 2020 (Europe, Japan), Four new Nether biomes including Crimson Forest, Warped Forest, Soulsand Valley, and Basalt Deltas, Watch out for a collection of new dangers like Piglins and Hoglins, and keep your eyes open for the ridable, lava walking Strider, Get building with new bricks and wood galore and get growing with eerie new vegetation, New music and ambient sounds fill the air, including fresh tunes from Lena Raine and includes a snappy tune called “Pigstep”, Keep yourself safe and take your diamond gear to the next level with Netherite, Over 300 bug fixes since the Buzzy Bees update, with fixes to over 180 community reported bugs, Be sure to check out the list of parity updates, as we address some issues regarding mob spawning, curses, villages, aquatic music, and sounds, Warped Nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation, Huge Warped Fungi make up the “trees” of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor, Warped Wart blocks can be cleared quickly using a hoe, Twisting Vines grow from the cave floor and fungi, The Warped Forests are strange, but also the least hostile place of Nether, Crimson Nylium carpets the cave floor with all kinds of strange new vegetation, Huge Crimson Fungi make up the “trees” of this forest, with Shroomlights lighting up the forest floor, Nether Wart blocks can be cleared quickly using a hoe, Weeping Vines grow from the cave ceilings and fungi, An open space made mostly of Soul Sand and Soul Soil, Basalt pillars span from floor to ceiling, Fossile remains of unknown creatures from the past litter the valley, Remnants of volcanic eruptions, this biome sports a high concentration of Basalt columns and lava deltas, Walking through, you will be surrounded by flakes of flowing white ash, Magma Cubes finally have a place to call home, spawning very frequently, A new block, Blackstone, can be found in large patches here, The original Nether biome is now called Nether Wastes. There are Emotes available for free, purchase, and as achievement rewards, This feature rewards players with Dressing Room items when completing achievements. Minecraft Dungeons is a dungeon crawler game that was announced at MineCon 2018 and released on 26 May 2020. For Minecraft: Java Edition there are snapshots showcasing upcoming features before final release. Can be a constant, defaults to: 0, ‘any_tag’ functionality added to several actor components. Minecraft is a great game to play with friends, and you can cross-play with them no matter the platform, as long as you have the same version.. Game updates usually happen when the developers feel that they're playable, fun and ready for release. If you specify a version this way, any worlds using your custom content will not get new base game content when it becomes available in future releases, which could help prevent unwanted changes to behavior in your content caused by updates to the base game. Want to keep hoglins off your back? If a value is not supplied, the component will stay with its default name. Use a field called “canMerge” that sits next to the “splashes” field, it is a bool that defaults to ‘false’. You can also clear the crafting grid by clicking the right thumbstick, Fixed a crash that occurred on PlayStation 4 due to other players using custom skins, Fixed a crash that could occur when pressing the Manage Account button in Profile settings, Loom blocks no longer cause an out of memory crash when using high resolution resource packs (, Worlds can once again be uploaded to Realms on Nintendo Switch (, Players can once again host 8 max player worlds on PlayStation 4 (, Fixed an issue where the Hot Tourist Destination trophy would not unlock after visiting the last required Nether biome on PlayStation 4 (, Meeting requirements for some achievements offline will now unlock it after reconnecting, Custom skins once again work properly in multiplayer (, Emotes can no longer be equipped before unlocking them (, Breaking a Furnace will now drop the stored experience from smelting (, Boats are no longer slowed down by objects with no collision (, Legacy chunk upgrades will no longer cause chunks to become 100% air (, New Nether biomes, blocks, and structures no longer generates into worlds with a fixed version (, Parity: Fixed chests with loot tables not generating loot until opened or destroyed, Local split-screen players can once again see the Ender Dragon and Ender Crystal (, The bounding box of the player used for spawning is now the correct size, so we don’t think a player is in a dangerous spot when they are actually safe, Mobs max spawn radius is now 44 blocks at sim distance 4 (, Dolphins, fish, and squid now spawn in bubble columns again (, Hoglins no longer attack on Peaceful mode when too close (, Piglins and Brutes can now spawn with enchanted weapons (, Piglins no longer naturally spawn on Shroomlights, Piglin arms are now behaving more like the players arms and less like zombie arms (, Piglins killed with a single blow while admiring Gold Ingots now drop the admired the Gold Ingot :(, Gold Ingots given to baby Piglins are no longer consumed, Piglins no longer drop up to a full stack of Gold Ingots upon giving them one by right-clicking and reloading a world while they are admiring it, instead it drops something from its loot table, Piglins no longer pick up entire stacks of Gold (, Piglins no longer spawn with enchanted gear, Tweaked arm animation for mobs that have their weapons removed (, Tamed wolves no longer disappear when returning to overworld through a Nether portal, Husks now prefer iron armor over chain armor, Pressure plates have been fixed to have no collision again (, Melon and pumpkin stems now break again when the block below them is destroyed (, Slime blocks pushed by pistons launch players correctly again (, Fixed an issue that prevented players from being able to place beehives or bee nests from their inventory after an update (, Soul Campfires now emit the correct light level (, Hyphae blocks now take as long as stem blocks to destroy (, Quartz Block can no longer be created from Chiseled Quartz Block and Pillar Quartz Block in a Furnace, Fixed recipes when crafting a Barrel from Warped or Crimson Slabs, Quartz Bricks can no longer be crafted from anything but Quartz Blocks on the Stonecutter, Target Block’s zones for particular redstone signal strength are no longer misplaced because of old Arrow geometry, Setting Soul Sand on fire no longer produces a placeholder Soul Fire block on pre-Nether version locked content, Netherite items no longer bounce on lava (, Using Bone Meal on flowers or grass blocks no longer consumes the item if nothing can grow (, Fixed issues around duplicating items when reloading a world while Piglin is admiring an item, Zoglins now have sounds distinct from pigs (, Netherite armor now has a unique sound when equipped, Placing or stepping on Warped or Crimson processed materials or planks now make wood sounds (, Ambient cave sounds are no longer played in Marketplace content prior to 1.16, Wither health bar no longer depletes to zero after half of the health is gone (, Wither health bar now reappears when returning from another dimension, The ‘Open’ tooltip is no longer displayed when looking at Piglins (, Speed of credits roll is no longer dependent on framerate, Fixed an issue with several commands being used while cheats were disabled (, Made using the ‘/fill’ command more efficient, improving performance, Using the ‘/locate’ command to find a Ruined Portal will no longer return placeholder text (, The ‘/clear’ command now correctly removes all blocks with the same block name when no data argument is passed in, Making command selectors use the current position of an actor rather than the previous position of an actor, Fixed an issue that could cause Command Blocks to stop working unexpectedly, Updated Piglin geometry and entity files: Fixed issue with scaling carried item for baby humanoid mobs, Accessing a Beacon no longer spams the content log with warnings (, The ‘rider_can_interact’ field on ‘minecraft:rideable’ is now used again, Behavior animation components will no longer try to reload after a suspend resume and a mob/player rides something, Drowned geometry is no longer broken in content packs, Fixed an issue that could cause Minecraft not to launch past the loading screen after updating (, Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting a world, Fixed a crash that could occur when a split-screen player left the game, Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay on Nintendo Switch, Fixed an issue that showed a false prompt that a device was out of storage space (, Fixed an issue with the Marketplace not loading when not signed into a Microsoft account, Fixed issues with content not transferring to a Microsoft account if the content was purchased without being signed in, Fixed some special characters not appearing on Signs or Book & Quill, Animation Controllers in Behavior Packs can now run commands on Realms (, Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay, Fixed a crash that could occur in certain worlds (, Split-screen will now display a message to join when the main controller is disconnected, Realms can no longer be purchased if not logged into Xbox Live, Players that are not linked to a Nintendo account on Switch are once again able to edit characters, Fixed an issue where joinable friends on Nintendo Switch were still visible after the world has been closed, Auto-jump will no longer trigger unexpectedly when trying to walk through open doors (, Further fixes will be made in the future to allow auto-jump to work more consistently, for example, when trying to jump up one block through an open door, Restored kelp growth to its proper, faster rate (, Bamboo in Flower Pots are no longer empty after converting a world from Editions, Crafting multiple Honey Blocks now returns the correct amount of empty glass bottles on a 2×2 grid (, The ‘Sign In’ button is now scaled properly on all platforms, Fixed placeholder text appearing on the pause menu when hosting a game without an internet connection, Entities no longer stop moving when the ‘circle_around_anchor’ behavior is added via a component group added by an event and/or there was a block close to their hitbox, Fixed several crashes that could occur when loading into world on Nintendo Switch, Placing a compass and locator map in the crafting grid no longer causes the game to crash (, Fixed a crash that could occur when travelling through a Nether Portal with another entity (, Fixed a crash that could occur when converting a world with fireworks equipped in a crossbow, Fixed a crash that could occur with raids on converted worlds, Fixed a crash that could occur when loading the ‘Extreme Speed Runner’ Marketplace world on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Classic skin choices no longer revert after reloading the game (, Fixed .mcworld and .mctemplate files not importing on devices running iOS 13, Fixed the LittleBigPlanet world and textures not being usable if the game was installed from disc, Fixed issues with the ‘Chroma Hills’ texture pack not loading on Nintendo Switch, Split-screen players can no longer be left in a limbo state when joining the game while the primary player quits at the same time, Projectiles can now be shot through the gap between two honey blocks, Players no longer bounce when being pushed and pulled by honey blocks and pistons (, Fixed an issue that prevented mobs from spawning under transparent blocks (, Bees no longer fly in and out of a beehive or nest that is on fire (, Fixed tamed wolves not breeding by increasing their breeding priority (, Tamed parrots sitting on the player’s shoulder are now transitioned after world conversion, Fixed Pillagers not attacking players after world conversion, Fixed players not obtaining Bad Omen when killing a Pillager Captain after world conversion, Tridents no longer bounce continuously on the sides of honey blocks (, Honey Bottles now show the proper item tooltip (, Undyed Shulker Boxes now retain their color after world conversion (, A confirmation prompt now appears if purchasing Realms on Nintendo Switch, Fixed an issue that could cause text to overlap when using different window resolutions in the Marketplace, Beehives and bee nests now have proper textures when placed with the ‘/setblock’ command, Defining an execute location no longer breaks the “detect” argument, Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent Behavior Pack animations from working on Android (, The sensing component (used for ranged attacks) now calculates the view direction like it used to, making it so mobs can see their target on the y-axis, Fixed an issue that was preventing players from being teleported and rotated smoothly, Fixed the order of ‘on_exit’ and ‘on_entry’ events being reversed in animation controller state transitions, Local space for particles attached to entities will once again inherit the locator’s bone rotation, Fixed several of the top crashes that occurred during gameplay, across all platforms, Fixed a crash that occurred when signing into Xbox Live on some Android devices, Added a potential fix for a crash and user interface corruption that occurred after updating the game on Xbox One, Improved performance in areas with high numbers of players, Increased performance when loading skins on Featured Servers, Made several improvements to improve the stability of online features like Marketplace and access to purchased content, Fixed errors with logging into a Microsoft account on PlayStation®4 (, Fixed some achievements and trophies unlocking for all players during a multiplayer session, View bobbing once again behaves correctly when facing North and South (, Bees now become angry when baby bees are attacked, Monsters no longer spawn on glass and leaves, Fixed items disappearing when crafting several items (, Fixed some instances of milk randomly disappearing from buckets (, Fixed some Character Creator items appearing incorrectly, Fixes to Character Creator screens when scrolling with the right thumbstick, Fixed broken textures appearing after Resource Packs are deactivated, Fixed the prompt that appears when split-screen guests attempt to join a multiplayer world without a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, Fixed the Sign In button on the main menu having the wrong position and touching the edge of the screen with some languages, Fixed an issue that caused some players not to be able to leave the Inventory screen on the Marketplace, Fixed placeholder text appearing on the Resource Packs and Behavior Packs screens, Various fixes to the user interface when using Japanese language, Fixed the Mario Skin Pack’s description never loading on Nintendo Switch, 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. >> by yeetiboye Nov 23, 2020… Changes to the way cats spawn in villages: Cats now respawn based on number of beds in the village, The number of cats = 1/4 the number of beds, Lecterns now emit a redstone signal when turning pages, Darkened portions of the game’s menus to provide stronger contrast for accessibility, Improved the performance when opening the player inventory with the crafting recipes open (, Fixed a crash that occurred when using invalid characters on signs (, Fixed a crash that could occur when enabling Texel Anti-Aliasing, Fixed a crash that could occur when spawning a Vile Spider from the MINECON Add-On pack, Fixed a crash that could occur on Bedrock Dedicated Server, Using pick block on a nether portal no longer causes the game to crash (, Giving the player a cobblestone wall variant no longer crashes the game (, Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting Save & Quit on Nintendo Switch, Fixed a crash that could occur when signing in or out of Xbox Live on Xbox One, Fixed a crash that could occur when resuming gameplay while connected to a server, Fixed a crash that could occur when replacing a world with an unsynced world, Windows 10 players with Minecraft installed on a different drive no longer get an error message saying that they are out of storage space, unless they are truly out of space (, The Treasure Hunter Achievement can now be unlocked when using a treasure map in the off-hand slot (, Global resource packs will now stay applied if you revisit the settings screen after restarting the game, then restarting the game, Disabling the Multiplayer Game setting will now apply when the world is packaged as a world template, Players on Xbox are no longer prompted to sign into Xbox Live if they have already done so, Made further improvements to world saving, to prevent worlds becoming disappearing from the world list, Players can view skin selection menu when offline on Nintendo Switch without receiving the internet connection message, Nintendo Switch payers can now select the Super Mario skins from the expanded skin pack list while in game, Fixed an issue with renewing Realms on Windows 10 (, Players no longer float around beds while sleeping (, Players can now climb vines and ladders using the jump button again (, Fixed players falling through blocks at around 65K blocks on the X or Z axes (, Players using VR Controllers no longer fly after swimming (, Players can no longer suffocate in the ground while spawning into the world (, Fixed mineshaft generation – no longer generate in a giant cluster and should more closely resemble those found in the Java Edition (, Mesa Plateau biomes now generate more like those in the Java Edition, Villagers will actually follow proper etiquette and close doors behind them (, Mobs can now path their way through waterlogged blocks, such as seagrass (, Underwater mobs no longer spawn on land (, Panda eating animation is now faster. Existing digital owners are still able to access, re-download, and play this version. ... 2020). On higher simulation distances, mobs are despawned when they’re in a chunk at the edge of the simulation distance up to a distance or 128 blocks from the nearest player, Fish automatically despawn at a max range of 40 blocks or further on all simulation distances, If mobs are between 32 and 44 blocks from the nearest player, they must not take damage for 30 seconds as well as succeeding a 1 in 800 chance. Mojang has officially acknowledged the issue, providing a pop-up warning in-game that details the freezing issues for Switch users. It is called the Nether update and has become a trending topic amongst the Minecraft community. (, Shulkers now have a chance to drop more shulker shells when killed with looting  (, Vindicators no longer become passive when renamed (, Guardians no longer spawn outside water (, Pandas no longer roll into dangerous blocks, Creepers can now spawn in a 1.8 high space, like under trapdoors (, Skeletons once again turn before shooting, Skeleton horses spawned in from earlier versions can be ridden once again (, Tamed cats now lay on their sides when sleeping on a bed (, Mobs now rotate correctly after exiting boats (, Farmer villagers no longer produce infinite amounts of bread (, Drowned converted from zombies will now attack players, Villagers no longer get stuck on lanterns, Reduced the range of drowned attacking the nearest player, Fixed particles not appearing while mining blocks, Seagrass can no longer delete blocks above it as it grows (, XP can now be stored for auto smelters using furnaces, blast furnaces, and smokers, Coral plants and sea grass now break when a supporting block is removed, Smooth and Chiselled Quartz blocks no longer have directional placement (, Scaffolding placed over the void now supports the player (, Using Ctrl + Pick block no longer creates a new bed with extra data attached (, Surrounded leaves are now the correct color, Banners can once again be copied in the crafting grid (, Fixed some items having invisible bits when placed in item frames (, Maps once again show underwater terrain differences (, Smelting stone into smooth stone now gives XP (, The fishing bobber now floats slightly higher in water (, Silk touch tools now work correctly right up to their very last use (, Renamed Firework Stars and Firework Rockets now display their new names, Fixed an item duplication issue that involved sticky pistons, Leather horse armour is now properly coloured (, Banners no longer render as wall variants when held (, Shields held in the off-hand are no longer upside-down (, Creative players no longer get additional buckets when collecting water or lava (, Renaming items using an anvil no longer increases the prior work penalty (, Signs can now be used as fuel in furnaces (, Chorus fruit now plays the teleport sound after eating it, Fixed signs not having a text limit, leading to performance issues (, Items can now be split if they are spread in a crafting grid on touch devices, The on-screen keyboard no longer obscures text entry when writing in a book on Xbox One, The outline of the saddle item on the horse inventory screen now matches the new saddle texture, Fixed the lack of controller tooltip for interacting with the lectern, Global resource reset message now appears if the load screen is taking too long on some devices (, Ratings button for server consumables now shows ‘Rate this pack!’ instead of the purchase button, Fixed performance issues when using selectors with commands, The ‘replaceitem’ command now takes selector arguments into account when replacing items in the offhand slot, Different cauldron types will no longer overwrite each other in the player’s inventory when using the give command, End portal blocks no longer drop as items when destroyed using the ‘setblock’ command (, Fixed pivot point changes to Endermen made with Add-Ons, A component group is now correctly removed on second activation of ‘minecraft:damage_sensor’, Target selectors are no longer case-specific, Scoreboard scores are no longer saved earlier than other information when exiting a world, Leash positions now use vanilla positions if not specified in the pack, Renamed blocks in resource packs now keep their custom names, Fixed baby Zombie Pigman sword scale with Add-Ons, Release date: February 5th 2019 (North America) / February 6th 2019 (Europe, Japan), New features including the Texture Update, crossbows, lanterns, and the loom, Many experimental features coming in the Village & Pillage Update (1.11), The ability to create new entities using Add-Ons, A long-requested community feature has made its way to Minecraft, Shields can be used to block enemy attacks, Sneaking activates the shield when equipped in either hand.