Minecraft Beta & Preview 1.21.50.20 Update Out Now, Patch Notes Revealed

Minecraft is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios. The game was created by Markus “Notch” Persson in the Java programming language. Following several early private testing versions, it was first made public in May 2009 before being fully released in November 2011, with Notch stepping down and Jens “Jeb” Bergensten taking over development. The game received a new update, which focuses on the game’s issues. Let’s dive deep into the Minecraft Beta & Preview 1.21.50.20 update patch notes.

Minecraft Beta & Preview 1.21.50.20 Update Patch Notes

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

The Pale Garden, with a Creaking mob camouflaged in front of a Pale Oak tree, its eyes just visible

Get ready for a particularly eerie preview this week – because foxes can now pick up bundles! No wait, that’s not right. I mean – because the pale garden is coming to Bedrock preview! The pale garden is a new biome that might feel serene during the day, but just wait until night falls. Dense with pale oak trees (which bring a new pale oak woodset), and covered in pale moss and pale hanging moss – it might feel like you’re all alone, but are you? Peer a little closer in the darkness and you might find a creaking peering back! There’s a secret to defeating this new hostile mob though – and you’ll have to find a creaking heart block to discover it. As always, we’re keen to get your feedback on these new features at aka.ms/mcgamedropfeedback, and you can report any bugs at bugs.mojang.com!

Winter Drop

Added Pale Garden Biome, Pale Oak tree, Pale Moss block, Pale Moss carpet, Pale Hanging Moss and Pale Oak wood set
Added Creaking mob, Creaking Spawn Egg and Creaking Heart block

Creaking Heart

A Creaking Heart is a “living” block generating in Pale Oak trees, covered on all sides by Pale Oak wood logs. It can spawn a Creaking mob when it is night time, and it is placed between two correctly aligned Pale Oak log blocks.

Is active during night and dormant during day
Sends a trail of particles towards the connected Creaking when the Creaking gets hit by the player
When Creaking Heart block is destroyed, the connected Creaking is removed

Creaking Mob

The Creaking mob spawns at night in the Pale Garden biome if there is a Creaking Heart block that has been generated in a Pale Oak tree. Gameplay features:

An activated Creaking will not move if a player is looking at it
Creaking is invulnerable to damage
When hit, a particle trail is shown between the Creaking and the Creaking Heart block it is connected to
When the Creaking Heart block the Creaking is connected to is destroyed, the Creaking is removed
Is not affected by light levels but spawns and despawns based on day/night cycle
Creaking cannot enter Boats
Creaking spawned from a Creaking Heart can not go through portals
The Creaking Spawn Egg will spawn a Creaking mob that is not connected to a Creaking Heart. The Creaking mob will persist through day and night, loads and saves, and will take damage from attacks and other damage sources. It has one point of health (half a heart)
Creaking summoned from the Creaking Heart cannot be spawned with a spawn egg, nor can it be summoned with commands. It can only exist as a part of the Creaking Heart block
Player wearing a carved pumpkin on their head can look at Creaking without it freezing in place

New system for Pale Garden ambient sounds

Ambient sounds in the Pale Garden biome do not come from the biome settings but are generated by blocks found in the biome

Pale Hanging Moss emits subtle atmospheric sounds when it is attached to Pale Oak Logs and Pale Oak Leaves
Creaking Heart block emits a set of eerie sounds when it is active during night and surrounded by Logs on all sides

Pale Garden

Pale Garden is a biome variation of Dark Forest. Unique features:

Pale Oaks generate here
Pale Moss blocks/carpet generate on the ground here
Hanging Pale Moss generate hanging from the foliage of Pale Oaks
Animal mobs do not spawn naturally in Pale Gardens
New biome specific ambient sounds
Creaking Heart block can generate in Pale Oaks

Pale Hanging Moss

Pale Hanging Moss generates naturally in the Pale Garden biome under the foliage of Pale Oaks

Pale Hanging Moss does not grow randomly, but can be bone-mealed to grow down

Pale Moss Block

Pale Moss block generates naturally in the Pale Garden biome

Pale Moss Carpet

Pale Moss block generates naturally in the Pale Garden biome. Unique features:

When placed, Pale Moss Carpet grows up to two blocks on the solid faces of any block that borders it
Pale Moss Carpet can be bone-mealed to grow to full on all solid faces of any block that borders it

Pale Oak Tree

Pale Oak Leaves drop Pale Oak Saplings that can be planted in a 2×2 configuration to grow Pale Oak trees
Pale Oaks logs can be crafted into the Pale Oak wood set:
- Door
- Fence
- Fence Gate
- Plank
- Sign
- Hanging Sign
- Slab
- Stairs
- Trapdoor
- Wood
- Stripped Log
- Stripped Wood
- Button
- Pressure Plate
- Boat
- Boat with Chest

Features and Bug Fixes

User Interface

Fixed a bug where duplicate gamepad input hints would be shown in certain scenarios on the death screen when using multiple input methods
Migrated JSON UI Trial Mode modal that was shown in Create New World and Edit World to Ore UI

Add-Ons

Joining worlds created from world templates on Realms and dedicated servers no longer prompt the user to download packs for templates they have locally

Audio

Sponges and Wet Sponges now play fall, hit, jump, land, break, hit and place sounds (MCPE-174345)
Sponges now play a sound when absorbing water (MCPE-173582)

Blocks & Items

Swords can now cut Bamboo Saplings instantly, as they do Bamboo
Axes no longer mine Bamboo Saplings and Moss Carpets faster
Pickaxes and Shovels no longer mine Bamboo as quickly as Axes
Maces no longer mine Cobwebs faster than other non-Sword tools
Heavy Core is now faster to mine with any improper tool
A Note Block placed above Heavy Core now plays the proper sound
Crafter now can be mined quickly with any Pickaxe
If you somehow manage to mine a Dragon Egg, which is almost impossible, it no longer requires a Pickaxe to drop and is equally quick to mine with any tool
Copper Trapdoors and Copper Bulbs now require a Stone Pickaxe or better for drops and quick mining
Swords no longer mine all blocks faster than bare hands, instead doing that only for some plant-type blocks that aren’t already insta-minable, such as Leaves, Pumpkins, Big Dripleaf, Chorus Flower, Chorus Plant, Cocoa, Glow Lichen, Melon Block, Moss Carpet, and Vines (MCPE-93323)
Stone Button and Polished Blackstone Button no longer require a Pickaxe to drop, and are now faster to mine with any improper tool (MCPE-162158)

Commands

Added a new option to toggle between Server Authoritative Movement and Client Authoritative Movement. Use /set_movement_authority server to enable Server Authoritative Movement. Use /set_movement_authority client to enable Client Authoritative Movement. This command is currently preview-only and may not be active in some vanilla world.
The “mine” overload was added to the /loot command under the Upcoming Creator Features experiments
Added delay overload to the Schedule command, which allows you to queue a function to be executed after a certain amount of time. Time can be specified with no postfix, postfix ‘t’ to indicate ticks, postfix ‘s’ to indicate seconds, or with the postfix ‘d’ to indicate days. You can also give the argument ‘append’ to add your request to the queue no matter what, or ‘replace’ (which is also the default) to replace all current matching requests with the new one.
- /schedule delay add <function> <delay (ticks)> [append|replace]
- /schedule delay clear <function>

EDU Toggle

Fixed an issue where content log errors and warnings would appear when loading a world with Education Edition toggle enabled (MCPE-170791)

Gameplay

There is now a warning message when you are prevented from entering an unloaded chunk )
Now the respiration enchantment reduces the chance of taking drowning damage (MCPE-46922)
Players can no longer earn achievements or trophies after dying and respawning as a spectator in hardcore mode
Mace damage now scales with distance fallen when it is used by mobs
Players will keep their inventory after dying on Easy and Peaceful as we’re testing ways to adapt our difficulty levels. Your feedback is greatly appreciated on this page.

General

The world spawn point algorithm has been improved, so that locations with good biomes but far from the world’s origin are preferred over really bad locations but closer to the origin (MCPE-120237)

Mobs

Evokers and Vindicators no longer attack Pillagers when hit by them (MCPE-42373)

Wither

The spawn and death animations smoothly transition it between a white color overlay and its normal textures (MCPE-64537)
The Wither will no longer move during its spawning animation (MCPE-48265)
The Wither’s heads now look at their target more consistently (MCPE-32826)

Realms

Fixed a bug where new invite links on Realm are shown as Expired after being created on Kindle devices

Stability and Performance

Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur after uploading and joining a Realm
Fixed an issue where the game would occasionally hang when loading resources

User Interface

Change the order of tabs in the Settings screen
Fixed a bug where players on the manage members screen are not updated when returning from ‘Find friends’
Improved feedback to user when Realm uploads fail due to naming
When enabling experiments in world settings (OreUI) we no longer faulty state that it would “Automatically turn on Cheats”. (MCPE-181435)
The item currently selected inside a Bundle is now correctly displayed as part of the Bundle’s icon when the Bundle is placed in the inventory or Crafting Table’s crafting grid
The sounds of moving items in or out of a Bundle now originate from the player’s location instead of the corner of the block the player is standing on (MCPE-186619)
Fixed a bug where the world name text would sometimes show up wrong on the pause menu (MCPE-179702)
Fixed a visual glitch which could occur when navigating between the death screen and game menu.
Fixed a bug where the chat button on the experimental bed screen could be focused when not being visible in certain scenarios. (Preview only)
Fixed a bug where the chat button would be incorrectly shown on the new bed screen when the “playerssleepingpercentage” game rule was set to above 100 in certain scenarios. (Preview only)
Fixed a bug with inventory touch controls where items could not be distributed across existing item stacks of the same item (MCPE-164543)
Added UI controls for enabling/disabling beds working and the percentage of players sleeping needed to pass the night
The items “short_grass”, “fern”, “seagrass” and “vine” are now brighter in the inventory, they used to be incorrectly multiplied by a shade a green (MCPE-53775)
Hid Create from template button and Import world button when in Trial mode.

Vanilla Parity

Foxes can now pick up Bundles

Items

Chiseled Stone Brick can now be crafted in the Stonecutter using Stone Brick (MCPE-50057)
Added two more recipes each for Sandstone Stairs and Red Sandstone Stairs (MCPE-135605)
- Chiseled Sandstone and Cut Sandstone can now be used to craft Sandstone Stairs
- Red Chiseled Sandstone and Red Cut Sandstone can now be used to craft Red Sandstone Stairs
Purpur Slabs can now be crafted using Purpur Pillars (MCPE-135606)

Mobs

Vexes summoned by an Evoker now start taking damage after 30 to 119 seconds (MCPE-44454)

Technical Updates

General

Fixed issue that caused the export as template functionality to generate invalid mctemplate UUIDs

Add-Ons and Script Engine

The [Beta] fields in the “minecraft:looked_at” and “minecraft:home” entity components are no longer marked as [Beta] and no longer require “use_beta_features” to be specified in the root JSON object

Blocks

Updated minecraft:destructible_by_mining component, new field item_specific_speeds no longer experimental.
Removed the following vanilla block tags from experimental
- “minecraft:diamond_tier_destructible”
- “minecraft:iron_tier_destructible”
- “minecraft:is_hatchet_item_destructible”
- “minecraft:is_hoe_item_destructible”
- “minecraft:is_mace_item_destructible”
- “minecraft:is_pickaxe_item_destructible”
- “minecraft:is_shears_item_destructible”
- “minecraft:is_shovel_item_destructible”
- “minecraft:is_sword_item_destructible”
- “minecraft:netherite_tier_destructible”
- “minecraft:stone_tier_destructible”
Renamed vanilla block tag “minecraft:is_hatchet_item_destructible” to “minecraft:is_axe_item_destructible”.
Removed the following vanilla block tags.
- “minecraft:is_digger_item_destructible”
- “minecraft:is_tool_item_destructible”
- “minecraft:gold_tier_destructible”
- “minecraft:wood_tier_destructible”

Editor

Selection now has a freehand select that uses brushes to paint
Updated general brush functionality:
- Brush shapes are visualized as grey wireframes, and show only affected blocks in yellow
- Cusor Control / Mouse Mode is now using a common control which is shared across extensions
- Brush Selection, Masking and Brush Properties is now using a custom control which is shared across extensions
- Brush Painting now visualizes only affected blocks
Added addToggleGroup function to IPropertyPane API to create toggle groups with selectable icon buttons
Added support for Brush Shape Offsets
Added a new settings screen in View > View Settings to configure certain view related settings (like invisible block visibility and chunk boundaries)
Added mouse button event data to the widget state change event so that server scripts can track mouse button events (press, release, drag) and the state of modifier keys (shift, ctrl)
Added an optional infoTooltip: TooltipInteractiveContent property to IRootPropertyPane API, displayed as an icon in the drawer header. Interactive tooltips remain active on hover and support links and paragraphs.
Added serialize(obj) and deserialize(string) functions. These act like JSON.stringify/JSON.parse but will use custom serializers/deserializers registered with registerSerializationForType
- CompoundBlockVolume and BlockVolume are able to be serialized and deserialized with these functions
Added registerSerializationForType<T>(constructor, name, serializer, deserializer) which registers any type with custom serialization/deserialization for serialize and deserialize
Updated Block Masks to work when empty (always match)
Added ‘cancel’ property to endPainting()
Added control buttons next to the hotbar to switch the active palette and manage other palettes
Updated Selection Volume and Cursor colors to default to the colors of those keys in the currrently-selected theme. Changed Client Widget X, Y, and Z arrows to always be the colors of those keys in the currently-selected theme. Changed deleted fillColor and outlineColor in CursorProperties so that causes the Cursor colors to return back to the colors of those keys in the currently-selected theme.
Fixed issues with selection being cleared on tool focus change

Entity Components

Added new component ‘minecraft:can_attack_ghast’. When added to an entity, it enables that entity to target and attack Ghasts.
‘behavior.summon_entity’ now lets creators specify an event to be invoked on the summoned entity immediately after summon (MCPE-44454)

Entity Event Responses

Added the “play_sound” entity event response, which allows the owner entity to emit sounds
- The “sound” field specifies the sound event to play
- Sounds are played at the owner entity’s position

General

Creating a new world from a template that supports random seeds will now clear any stored spawn position from the level data

Network Protocol

New actor type added: Creaking (146)
New level events added: ParticleCreakingHeartTrail, ParticleCreakingTeardown
New level sound events added: ImitateCreaking, CreakingHeartTrail, CreakingHeartSpawn, Activate, Deactivate, Freeze, Unfreeze

Realms

Fixed soft-lock UI bug when an expired Realm was deleted

Experimental Technical Updates

Add-Ons and Script Engine

Added “canUseBlockAsIcon” bool to the “minecraft:block_placer” item component network data to fix bug where clients did not render the block item correctly.

API

Add collectRuntimeStats to @minecraft/debug-utilities module, exposing script runtime memory usage.
Added new input permissions that effectively allow creators to enable/disable player inputs including: lateral movement, move forward, move backward, move left, move right, sneak, jump, mount, and dismount.
- Extended PlayerInputPermissions script class to read and write the new input permissions
- Extended /inputpermissions command to use the new input permissions
- Extended haspermission selector to use the new input permissions
BlockComponentTypes
- Moved FluidContainer from beta to 1.16.0
Moved BlockFluidContainerComponent from beta to 1.16.0
Moved FluidContainer from beta to 1.16.0
Added initialRotation optional member to SpawnEntityOptions for specifying the initial rotation of the spawned entity in degrees.

Graphical

Fixed rendering of Wardens in the Deferred Technical Preview. (MCPE-180140)
Fixed TextureSets for multi-textured mobs, such as llamas in the Deferred Technical Preview.
Fixed the orientation of normal maps for mobs on Android in the Deferred Technical Preview.
End Portals now cast shadows in the Deferred Technical Preview.
Improved the visibility of reflective surfaces when underground in the Deferred Technical Preview.
Slightly reduced the intensity of the wrapping effect of sub surface scattering in the Deferred Technical Preview.

Molang

Added query.last_input_mode_is_any. It takes one or more arguments (‘keyboard_and_mouse’, ‘touch’, ‘gamepad’, or ‘motion_controller’). If the last input used is any of the specified string values, returns 1.0. Otherwise returns 0.0. Available on the Client (Resource Packs) only. Added query.touch_only_affects_hotbar. It returns 1.0 if the touch input only affects the touchbar, otherwise returns 0.0. Available on the Client (Resource Packs) only.

Scripting

Added enum InputMode. export enum InputMode { Gamepad = ‘Gamepad’, KeyboardAndMouse = ‘KeyboardAndMouse’, MotionController = ‘MotionController’, Touch = ‘Touch’, Undetermined = ‘Undetermined’, }
Added class InputInfo.
- Field touchOnlyAffectsHotbar. Whether the player touch input only affects the touchbar or not.
- Field lastInputModeUsed. The last input mode used by the player.
- Added field inputInfo.
Added class PlayerInputModeChangeAfterEvent.
- Field newInputModeUsed, the new input mode used by the player.
- Field player, the player that had the input mode change.
- Field previousInputModeUsed, the previous input mode used by the player.
Added class PlayerInputModeChangeAfterEventSignal.