Minecraft Beta - 1.17.30.21 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)

Posted: 12 August 2021

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta: 

• Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft 
• You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta
• Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them 
• Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality 
• The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

It's time for another Bedrock Beta update! Please continue to send us your feedback in the threads at https://aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and search and report any new bugs you may encounter at https://bugs.mojang.com.  

Features and Bug Fixes 

Stability and Performance 

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay 
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when downloading large marketplace worlds  
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash or prevented worlds from being accessed or opened on some Android 11 devices (MCPE-137652) 

Vanilla Parity 

• Matched respawn from bed behavior with Java by attempting to avoid placing the player on damage dealing blocks when waking up from a bed 
• Matched respawn from bed behavior with Java by attempting to place the player on the side of the bed they entered from when waking up from a bed (MCPE-118654)  
• Mob spawners no longer emit light (Java parity) 

Mobs 

• Staying close to Powder Snow doesn't protect undead mobs from burning under sunlight (MCPE-131005)  

Character Creator 

• Infinite loading no longer appears after selecting the "See pack in store" button within the skin pack description section of the dressing room  

User Interface and HUD 

• Fixed an issue where the item category text color did not match the item text color if it was changed in resource packs  
• Fixed an issue where patterns in the loom would not display correctly with some texture packs  

Technical Updates 

Data Driven Blocks - Experimental Features 

• Adds BlockPartVisibilityComponent  
  • Allows creators to specify Molang conditions for each “bone” listed in the geometry JSON that turn on/off bones based on the block state 
  • Must have experimental toggle on to use 

Molang 

• Fixed experimental query.bone_orientation_trs to have correct translation Y and scale results  
• Adds experimental block_neighbor_has_any_tags and block_neighbor_has_all_tags MoLang queries  
  • Takes a block relative position and a set of tags 
  • Returns 0/1 
  • Must have experimental toggle on to use 

Graphics 

• Added DragonFX materials to support rasterized g-buffer prepass of raytracing resources  

Data Driven Items 

• Updated documentation for DamageableItemComponent  

Molang 

• Crash will no longer occur when entering a world with a custom resource pack that contains query.armor_color_slot (MCPE-106437)  
• Moved experimental Molang queries (other than those related to Actor Properties) to a new 'Experimental Molang Features' toggle  

User Interface 

• Fixed controller support when editing NPC dialog  
• Parsing of UI json field "ignored" now throws a content_error if it is invalid