New Marketplace Content:

Worlds

Silvermist by Pathway Studios

Wizard’s Retreat by Imagiverse

Forbidden Forest by Blockception

Abstraction: GRID by Jigarbov

- Adventure Maps

Wildlife: Savanna by PixelHeads

 Autumn Mini-Games Festival by Noxcrew

- Skin Packs

 12 Wonders Skin Pack by Toyaplays

 Adventure Together by Pathway Studios

 Mineplex Heroes by Mineplex

 Foodies by 57 Digital

 Autumn Festival by Noxcrew

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed a crash that occurred when loading worlds

- Fixed a crash when backing out from a menu using a controller if there was a setting toggled by touch or mouse/keyboard

- Fixed a crash when signing out of the safe area screen after switching to a new profile (Xbox One only)

- Fixed a crash that occurred in the World Settings screen

- Fixed a crash that occurred when joining servers

- Fixed a crash related to inputting and rendering text (Xbox One only)

- Increased performance when navigating the main menu (Xbox One only)

- Holding sneak and jump at the same time while flying will no longer drift slowly downward

- Realms invite links now appear (Xbox One only)

- The cake is not a lie! On controller, the Recipe Book no longer says ingredients are missing when they are present in the inventory

- Redstone dust and components now properly show their active/inactive status

- Redstone components no longer freeze or trigger when reloading a world

- Eggs thrown at other players will now cause knockback effect

- All firework rockets can now be taken from the Recipe Book without disappearing

- Resource packs are now applied to the main menu after restarting the game

when the resource pack was previously added to Active Packs in the Global Resources menu

- Each player in split-screen now has appropriate lighting for the dimension they are in

- Fixed issue of Efficiency III diamond pickaxes not continually mining blocks that are fast to mine, such as netherrack

- Mending enchantment will now work properly with fishing rods

- Using commands or Pick Block to get Shulker boxes no longer displays the placeholder name

- Mob heads can now be equipped if the stack contains more than one when using a touch screen

- Ladders placed on other ladders or slabs will no longer be invisible

- Pressing the left thumbstick will now toggle the Recipe Book on if it was closed

- Recipe Book now updates properly when opening and the Craftable toggle is off

- Armors of the same type will now visually switch properly in armor slots on Classic UI

- Fixed the B Button not closing the settings menu when a slider is highlighted

- Chat and Active Status Effect screens will now open on the first press of d-pad buttons

- Fixed overlap issues with the Players Permission dropdown menu

- Fixed incorrect controller tooltips appearing on several menu screens

- Fixed Old worlds crashing and taking too long to load

New Features:

- Added a button to join a Realm using an invite code on the Friends tab, for platforms that can’t click on Realms invite links

New Marketplace Content:

- Adventure Maps

 Block & Seek by Polymaps

 Dr. Splice’s Lab Escape by 57Digital

Mystery Lands: Scary Chunks by Pathway Studios

 The Cube Theater by Qwertyuiopthepie

 The Haunted Neighborhood by PixelHeads

- Worlds

Fall Fest by Blockception

 FightMe! By Pathway Studios

 Land’s End by Blockworks

SkyFair by Blockworks

- Skin Packs

 Boo! by 57Digital

 Cute But Spoopy by Eneija

 Onsie by Eneija

 The Boo Crew by Razzleberries

Lucha Libre by 57Digital

 Spookfest by Irish

 Sci-Fi Horror by Pathway Studios

 Space Crew by InPvP

 Spooky Skeleton by Blockception

Tweaks:

- Pressing the A button on the Creative inventory will now place one item in the inventory, not a full stack.

Pressing the Y button will place a full stack and X will clear the hotbar in Creative mode

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed an exploit that allowed child accounts to join servers when multiplayer permissions were disabled

- Fixed a crash when the game was suspended (Xbox One only)

- Fixed a crash that occurred if a player with blocked multiplayer privileges

was in a world and accepted an invite from another player (Xbox One only)

- Fixed a crash that occurred when closing the skin picker

- Fixed a crash that occurred when loading world chunks

- Fixed a crash that occurred when using the crafting screen

- Fixed a crash that occurred when going through a Nether portal and then using a piston

- Fixed a crash that occurred when crafting items while a split-screen player joined (Xbox One only)

- Fixed a crash that occurred with Iron Golems on converted worlds

- Fixed a crash that occurred when using the ‚/fill‘ command that caused to many spawned entities to fall

- Fixed a crash that occurred when using uppercase letters in ‚/gamerule‘ commands

- The game will no longer freeze if a second player joins with split-screen while the first player controller is disconnected (Xbox One only)

- Decreased the sensitivity of placing blocks

- The ‚Sniper Duel‘ achievement is now unlockable (Xbox One only)

- The ‚Inception‘ achievement in now unlockable on all platforms

- Fixed an exploit that caused rails to be duplicated

- Fixed an exploit that caused Shulker boxes to be duplicated when broken by an explosion

- Fixed worlds that were created on Xbox One not opening after being downloaded to another platform from Realms

- Fire Resistance effect will now properly protect players after quitting and rejoining a world

- Fixed torches and other light sources giving off very little light when Smooth Lighting was enabled

- Attacking or mining with an enchanted book will no longer apply the book’s enchantment

- Players can no longer be targeted by mobs before loading into a world or dimension

- Fixed an issue causing transparency issues on several skins

- Pressing the A button no longer cancels Elytra flight and will now make the player ascend

- Players will no longer cease climbing stairs and slabs while flying

- Fixed Iron Golems not causing enough Knockback effect

- Servers will no longer briefly appear on the Friends tab

- Heavy blocks no longer break when falling on leaf blocks

- Fixed the texture offset of Mooshroom’s udder layer

- Cobweb will now drop as an item when cut with shears

- Sheep no longer emit two sounds when dying

- Food particles now appear when feeding animals

- Items renamed in an anvil that have been placed will now retain their names after being mined

- Several improvements to handling split-screen controller assignments (Xbox One only)

- The game will no longer accept input from the previous controller after changing controllers while the game is suspended (Xbox One only)

- Split-screen players are now correctly assigned after their controllers are disconnected and reconnect in a different order (Xbox One only)

- Fixed Guardians not spawning in Ocean Monuments

- Leaves that have snow over them will no longer appear black

- Fixed an issue that could cause chat to freeze if there was a high amount of chat output

- Skulls can now be placed on the ground when a layer of snow is already there

- Endermen now take damage in filled cauldrons

- Doors, Wooden Buttons, Ladders and Fishing Rods can now be used as fuel in a Furnace

- Fixed some vines being destroyed when pressing right-click

- Fixed an incorrect controller tooltip when moving an item in the Creative inventory over the hotbar

- All mobs can now be spawned on water by players

- It’s now easier to see the texture animation of flowing water

- Spider and Endermen eyes are now slightly visible when hit with invisibility potions

- Fixed no sound when filling a bottle with Dragon’s Breath

- „Elytra Wings“ are now referred to simply as „Elytra“

- Players with Fire Resistance will now receive damage from lightning

- Fixed a constant green highlight on the inventory screen of tamable mobs

- Pumpkins and mob heads can now be equipped directly from the Creative inventory on Pocket UI

- When placing layered snow, only one block will now be taken from the inventory

- Flint and Steel no longer takes damage when hitting mobs

- Using Pick Block on giant mushrooms will no longer give unobtainable mushroom blocks

- Arrows that are picked up will now join an existing stack in the offhand slot, not creating a separate stack

- Minecarts and boats can no longer be destroyed by Ender Pearls

- Door and fence gates can now be placed on dirt path blocks

- Items moving in flowing water will no longer have jittery movement

- Dead bushes can now be replaced when placing blocks and items

- Decreased the hitbox size on crops

- The hitbox size of Nether Wart will now increase as it grows

- Increased the distance that the Enchantment Table book will open when a player approaches it

- Runes no longer float from bookshelves to the Enchantment Table at the same time

- Fixed graphical issues with the experience bar when the Candy Texture Pack is applied

- Banners will now wave when daylight cycle is disabled

- Light Gray Shulker Boxes now have the proper name

- Shulker Boxes now only give a full Redstone signal when filled with 27 full item stacks

- Top snow is now destroyed immediately after placing water or lava over it

- Food particles no longer come out of players‘ foreheads

- Crafting and container screens now close when a player takes from another player or mob

- It is no longer possible for players to place a block in the same space they are sneaking, causing them to fall

- Uncraftable and unobtainable items no longer appear in the Recipe Book in Survival mode

- The tooltip for Stone variants in the Recipe Book now properly show they’re in the „Nature“ category

- Split-screen GUI Scale is now saved separately from Fullscreen GUI Scale (Xbox One only)

- Mooshroom now displays a particle effect when sheared

- Eating and drinking animations are now visible when a player is seen from third-person view while under the invisibility status effect

- Additional Map items are no longer lost when more than one Map is placed in an Anvil’s input slot while creating a Locator Map

- Fixed player’s camera Y-value from flickering up/down when the player teleports

- Fixed „Custom“ skin name appearing as placeholder text on player skin change notifications

- Fixed the left leg being rotated the wrong way on armor stand poses

- Items replaced by a command are now visible instantly in the inventory

- The „Choose Skin“ text no longer flickers on the Skin Picker (Android only)

- Scroll bars in menus no longer jitter when using the right stick to scroll

- Fixed low-speed movement occurring after controller thumbstick is released (VR only)

- When pressing tab to complete a command, the choices are now sorted correctly

- Adding a ‚damage_sensor‘ to an entity type no longer prevents ‚/kill‘ from working

New Features:

- Added a new Recipe Book toggle with the ability to view the Creative inventory in fullscreen

- Windows Mixed Reality support

- Mixer Interactivity: Game commands can now be linked to interactive buttons for viewers to interact directly with the game.

- Mobile Broadcasting: Native broadcasting for several streaming services has been added. Look for the new Broadcast button directly in-game

 - Added a content rating system to the Marketplace

New Marketplace Content:

Adventure Maps

 My Gorilla Adventure by Toya

Infinity Plumber by Jigarbov Productions

Worlds

Sandspear Castle by Blockception

Birch Island by Norvale

Shipwreck Shantytown by Everbloom Studios

Skin Packs

Frontiers by Irish

Birdies! by 57Digital

Woof! by 57Digital

Meow! by 57Digital

Star Knights by Pathway Studios

Space Dinos by Pathway Studios

Plumber Pack by Jigarbov Productions

Happy Thanksgiving by PixelHeads

Tweaks:

Improvements to the Create screen for available templates

The Server tab now displays a loading bar when fetching server ping and player count

The main menu background now has a raised camera angle and scales properly based on the device’s aspect ratio

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed an issue where some owners of Minecraft on Android devices would be prompted to acquire a license

- Fixed being unable to create or launch worlds after signing out of Xbox Live with an encrypted pack applied (Windows 10 only)

- Removed the hard-coded chat filter from featured servers

- Coordinates are no longer censored

- Xbox Live accounts with Communication & Multiplayer settings set to „Blocked“ are no longer able to join Realms by using invite links/codes

- Fixed an exploit surrounding the use of encrypted skin packs

- Editing ‚options.txt‘ can once again be used to increase chunk render distance

- The ‚minecraft:transformation‘ component now has a ‚keep_owner‘ property to allow for an entity to keep its original owner

Crashes/Performance

- Fixed a crash that occurred when dispensing an undyed Shulker Box

- Fixed a crash that occurred when destroying banners

- Fixed a crash that occurred when using the ‚/fill‘ command with several different blocks

- Fixed a crash that occurred when loading a Realm that contains banners

- Fixed a crash that occurred when leaving a world (iOS only)

- Fixed a crash that occurred when entering a world while wearing armor

- Fixed a crash that occurred when sending a message containing „%0“

- Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting to teleport millions of blocks away

- Fixed a crash that occurred when mobs were killed by something that wasn’t an entity

- Increased performance when jumping into water when mobs are nearby

Xbox One World Conversion and Cloud Saves

- Fixed several issues with missing chunks and lost progress during world conversion

- Worlds deleted or changed on other consoles will now sync with the console they were created on

- Fixed changes made in converted worlds not saving after a player walks into another dimension

- Template world data is no longer lost when loading a cloud save on a different console

Gameplay

- Armor Stands ride in minecarts again

- Armor stands will now wobble when hit by players

- Fixed issue of standing signs not breaking when their support is destroyed

- Players without block breaking permissions can no longer break crops by jumping

- The arrow marker on a map no longer becomes a dot when a player walks out of the map bounds

- Tools will no longer lose durability faster than mobs take damage

- Fall height is no longer compounded the next time a player takes fall damage when chorus fruit teleports a player from a higher elevation

- Players can no longer take damage when walking backwards and placing blocks at head level

- Flying is no longer activated when trying to sprint in water with Auto Jump enabled in Creative mode

- Players will no longer spawn at a the position of a destroyed bed when leaving the End

- Natural Regeneration can now be disabled on Peaceful difficulty

- Decreased explosion resistance of slabs

- Lily pads can now be broken by boats when colliding from any direction

- Banners in item frames no longer change patterns based on the banner that the player in holding

- Fixed hopper minecarts not filling from chests when slightly clipped into a block

Redstone

- Redstone Repeaters facing into Redstone Dust now properly redirect the Dust

- Observers facing each other now output a steady, repeating Redstone signal

- Observers now properly redirect Redstone Dust

- Observers powering Redstone Dust below will now power components adjacent to the dust

- Pistons no longer get stuck or break randomly

- Fixed the timing of pistons interacting with other pistons

- Daylight sensors no longer output power at night when they have no view of the sky

Mobs

- Hostile mobs will no longer spawn on top or inside transparent blocks

- Zombie Pigmen no longer disappear immediately after spawning in Nether portals

- Endermen will only become hostile when looking at their heads

- Skeletons now turn before shooting

- Creepers standing in double tallgrass now deal appropriate damage

- Parrots no longer choose the same mob to follow repeatedly

- Parrots will now react to being on fire in Survival mode but will no longer burn when perched on a player’s shoulder in Creative mode

- Tamed horses, donkeys, and mules can now be ridden immediately if mounted while eating grass

- Fixed parrots losing their sitting status when loading a world and, incidentally, fixed chickens flapping their wings after spawn

- The Ender Dragon can no longer get stuck in boats

- Sheep that spawned from breeding will now drop loot

- Slightly increased the spawn rate of Ocelots

Crafting

- Repeaters and Comparators can now only be crafted using normal stone

- Bed recipe will now appear in the Recipe Book when only one ingredient is present in the inventory

- Starting maps will now upgrade correctly on an anvil

 - After running out of materials for torches, books, or bookshelves, cursor focus no longer moves to another item

Graphical / Audio

- The camera no longer flickers along the Y-axis after teleporting

- Hitting mobs will now produce an impact/damage sound

- Fixed the sound when throwing items

- Non-full blocks no longer appear as the full width of a block when moved by pistons

- Blocks moved by pistons no longer leave stretched graphical artifacts

- Fixed items in item frames not being lit correctly when viewed at certain angles

- Fixed banner items being too bright

- Fixed misplaced particles when breaking doors and gates

- Fixed chests, pumpkins, and stairs not facing the right direction in hand

- Entities and particles are now properly lit in the Nether when playing in split-screen (Xbox One only)

- Fixed a corrupted audio loop when pointing at an item frame in Adventure mode

User Interface

- Signs will now close when the virtual keyboard is closed

- Fixed the XP Cost text on the anvil screen not being readable

- Resource Packs downloaded from the store will no longer appear in the Behavior Packs section of the Storage screen

- Content is now fully removed from Storage if deleted after restarting the game

- The „Import started“ notification will no longer be delayed to appear when importing large content packs

- Improved navigation when using a controller on several menu screens

- Items on the cursor will now be dropped when the inventory is full and the inventory screen is closed

- Improved navigation of the inventory screen when using the controller cursor

- Settings sliders can no longer be adjusted with the D-pad until the A button is used to select them

- Controller hints will now say „Place“ while sneaking and aiming at a container

- Fixed placeholder images for items on the Storage screen

- Fixed the rendering of borders on the Skin Picker screen

- Scroll bars are now visible after switching tabs on the Settings screen

- Default Settings option in Controller Settings now properly resets Hide Controller Hints and Hide Gamepad Cursor options

Several fixes to Marketplace menus

Commands

- Having the PvP game rule disabled no longer makes players immune to the ‚/kill‘ command

- The ‚/clear‘ command will now clear items from armor slots by item name

- Flowers and beds are now properly cloned by the ‚/clone‘ command

 - Using the ‚/give‘ command when the inventory is full will drop items in front of the player

- Arrow of Decay can now be given using the ‚/give‘ command

- Mobs can now be rotated using the ‚xRot‘ and ‚yRot‘ arguments when using teleport commands

- Names of players outside of render distance will now appear in auto-complete when typing commands

- Fixed an incorrect error message when the ‚/replaceitem‘ command has an out of range value

New Features:

- Minecraft Realms have Xbox Live Clubs integrated!

Now you can share pictures and posts with the members of your Realm, not only within but also outside the game.

You can also get to your new club with the Xbox app on your phone, PC, or console

New Marketplace Content:

Adventure Maps

 - Alteria by Razzleberries

- Jurassic Depths by Everbloom Studios

Worlds

- Winter Mini-Games Festival by Noxcrew

- Dropper of Horrors by Noxcrew

- Winter Fest by Blockception

- Ugah Ugah by Pathway Studios

- Kingdom Assault by Blockception

Skin Packs

- The Kingdom by Pixel²

- Holly Jolly by Eneija

- Festive Birdies! by 57Digital

- Winter Festival Skin Pack by Noxcrew

 - K-Pop: Pink Star by Pathway Studios

Tweaks:

- An updated look for Horses, Mules, and Donkeys

- Changed the color of the menu button hover state to improve accessibility

Bug Fixes:

- Free Marketplace content no longer requires signing in to Xbox Live to download

- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to unlock achievements when cheats were enabled

- Skins will now change when purchased and equipped in the in-game Skin Picker

- Fixed Villagers not picking up food or breed in converted worlds (Xbox One)

- All End Gateway portals will now convert properly from old worlds (Xbox One)

- Spider Jockeys no longer disappear after world conversion (Xbox One)

- Consumable items can now be repurchased on servers

Crashes/Performance

- Fixed a crash that occurred when exiting a world with a ticking area

- Fixed a crash that occurred when world chunks were discarded

- Fixed a crash that occurred when resuming the application (Windows 10)

- Fixed a crash that occurred when changing users (Xbox One)

- Fixed a crash that occurred when navigating the Minecraft Store

Gameplay

- Fixed block placement not being as easy as it should be when holding down place block

- Increased the joystick deadzone on Windows Mixed Reality controllers

- Players will no longer suffocate inside blocks after getting out of bed

- Boats will now be descend smoothly on ice blocks

- Extra layers of snow will no longer appear in snowy biomes after reloading a world

- Tools no longer disappear when dispensed to a player’s empty inventory slot

Redstone

- Fixed Redstone not powering horizontally adjacent blocks

Mobs

- Animals can once again jump over blocks while being lured with food

- Decreased the spawn rate of Zombie Pigmen from Nether portals

Crafting

- Pistons will now stack in the inventory and will not be lost after crafting

Graphical / Audio

- Black lines no longer appear on the edges of blocks when riding in a minecart

- Minecarts will no longer make footstep sounds

- Sound effects will no longer play when disconnected from a world

- Food particles now appear when feeding all types of animals

- Fixed graphic corruption on the paper doll (Windows Mixed Reality)

User Interface

- Items no longer disappear when painted in the crafting inventory with touch controls

- The inventory cursor no longer gains a durability bar after dropping damaged items

- The Screen Size prompt slider is now active by default when loading the game for the first time

- Store items will no longer appear twice in the same category

- Menus are now properly aligned, regardless of Screen Safe Area value

- Fixed text when disembarking a boat with touch controls

Commands

- Using ‚detect‘ with ‚/execute‘ is now much more reliable

- Teleporting a non-host player no longer causes entities riding that player to dismount

- Teleporting entities to or from a ticking area will no longer fail to render or be non-interactive

Tweaks:

- Coordinates, Fire Spreads, TNT Explodes, Mob Loot, Tile Drops, and Natural Regeneration can

now be toggled from the world edit screen without enabling cheats

- Increased the spawn rate of animals to make them easier to find

Bug Fixes

Crashes/Performance

- Fixed a crash that occurred when signing into Xbox Live on Android devices

- Fixed a crash that occurred when moving items in Beacons and Enchanting Tables when using Pocket UI

- Fixed a crash that occurred when loading chunks

- Fixed a crash that occurred when rendering moon phases and game time was negative

- Fixed a crash that occurred when editing a world or Realm name that was more than six characters in length

General

- Fixed a rare issue that caused items, experience, and player positions to change after rejoining a world

Gameplay

- Creepers will now stop walking when they are about to explode

- Creepers will no longer explode after losing their line of sight of players

- Blocks can once again be continually placed while sneaking

- Wither Skeletons will once again spawn in Nether fortresses

- Animals are now attracted to food if the player is outside of a fenced area or standing inside a Fence block

- Animals can once again be lured over uneven terrain without losing interest

- Text entry no longer continues on the first line of a sign even after creating a new line

- Fixed signs with formatting (§) not being able have new lines of text

Graphical/Audio

- Safe Screen Area now has independent horizontal and vertical options and can be set separately on each platform

- Pocket UI now respects Screen Safe Area and fixed the iPhone X default Screen Safe Area

- Graphical artifacts no longer appear in split-screen when riding a pig

- Fixed the labels of ‚Back‘ buttons on menu screens

- Book & Quill text is now readable with the Natural texture pack

Changes:

- Gamepad cursor sensitivity can now be adjusted in Controller settings

- Increased tick radius range, which can be adjusted when creating or editing a world

Bug Fixes:

- Enabling the Mute toggle will no longer suppress non-chat messages like players leaving and joining

- Cartographer Villagers will now give maps for new Ocean Monuments and Woodland Mansions that are not in known generated chunks

- Fixed the hunger bar not filling up in converted Xbox One worlds

- Opening the chat screen with „/“ no longer places the cursor before the slash

- Changed the error message that appeared when attempting to purchase content and not having enough Minecoins

- Players can no longer accidentally purchase marketplace content from the patch notes screen by repeatedly mashing the A button

New Features:

- Realms now create automatic backups that can be downloaded and restored

- Added two options to swap A/B buttons and X/Y buttons on controllers, which can be found in Controller Settings

- Added menu screen transitions, which can be toggled in Settings

Changes:

- Many screens and actions now respond when a button is pressed instead of released so they now feel extra responsive

- Palleted chunks! This means we can now have (almost) infinite different types of blocks (and also no more BlockIDs).

 It also means the game should be less likely to crash due to being out of memory

- Falling on Hay Bales now reduces fall damage

- Owned skin packs will now appear at the top of the Skin Picker

- Purchased content will now auto-update, which can be toggled in Profile settings

- Realms member lists can now be cleared from the Members screen

- Updated look for the Marketplace and Search functionality to easily find specific content

Experimental Gameplay:

A handful of features from Update Aquatic have been added through Experimental Gameplay.

These features are incomplete and are not representative of final gameplay but feedback is absolutely welcome!

These are not all of the Update Aquatic features coming to Minecraft and more is on the way

‚Use Experimental Gameplay‘ can be toggled in World Settings.

This may break your world so a copy of your world will be created with „[EX]“ before the world name.

This feature cannot be disabled once it is enabled for a world and any progress will not be saved to the original world.

- Added Drowned mobs

- Added the Trident and new enchantments

Channeling

Loyalty

Riptide

Impaling

- Added Stripped Wood

- Added Slabs and Stairs for Prismarine, Prismarine Brick, and Dark Prismarine

- New swimming animation while sprinting in water

Bug Fixes

Crashes/Performance

- Many optimizations to chunk rendering and game performance

- Chunk generation is now prioritized first to the chunks closest to the player

- Fixed a crash that occurred on Android devices due to rendering issues

- Fixed a crash that occurred when creating multiple worlds of Relics of the Privateers

 - Fixed a crash that occurred when uploading a screenshot to a Club and losing internet connection

- Fixed a crash that occurred when using CTRL+MMB on a signed, written book contained in an item frame

- Fixed a crash that occurred when quickly entering and leaving the marketplace

- Fixed a crash that occurred when the host leaves their world and another player is looking in a chest

- Fixed a crash that occurred when a double chest is split using pistons and items are placed or taken from the half that was not moved

- Fixed a crash that occurred when navigating menus using the D-pad and mouse simultaneously

- Fixed a crash that occurred due to an issue with Redstone Torches

- Fixed a crash that occurred when navigating the Store on low-end and mid-tier devices

 - Fixed a crash that occurred when leaving The End

General

- The game is once again playable on Windows 10 Mobile when using an Xbox One controller

- Viewing the presence on a player profile will now be accurate when playing split-screen

- Custom skins with uppercase ‚.PNG‘ extensions are now recognized in Windows 10

- The achievement screen will now show the most recent status without having to close and reopen the game

- Fixed local co-op not properly saving player progress

- Disabling „Visible to LAN Players“ for one world no longer disables it for all worlds

Gameplay

 - Crops can once again be harvested continuously

- Crops will now pop out of the ground if the light level is 7 or lower

- Fixed Villager trade items not being replenished

- Fixed some Villager trades not granting XP

- Fixed spawn points not moving when obstructed by lava

- It is now possible to sleep when a Skeleton Horse is nearby

- Bows will now inflict the same amount of damage to players and mobs

- Eyes of Ender and ‚/locate‘ will now point to the right location of a Stronghold

- For Book & Quill, the „Sign and Close“ button is no longer active if a name has not been entered

- Double ferns now appear in Mega Taigas

- Protection enchantment no longer makes players immune to fire damage

 - Activating sneak in one world and quitting no longer causes the player to spawn sneaking in in every other world

- Pressing Open Chat together with Place Block on controller no longer causes Place Block action to repeat

- Fixed fire spreading from covered lava

- Fixed Pick Block replacing currently selected hotbar slot, even if other slots were empty

- Exploding Creepers and Beds in the Nether can no longer ignite TNT in worlds that have ‚TNT Explodes‘ turned off

- The second player in split-screen can no longer die if their personal game mode is set to Creative

- Experience can now be earned from cooking Porkchops in a Furnace

- Players are no longer set on fire when walking on non-full blocks placed next to a lava source

 - Fixed player faces on maps so they no longer turn into arrows when they move too far

from other players but will turn into arrows when close to other players

- Fixed Creative flight speed being too slow until changing altitude after entering a world

- Falling on a Slime Block while sneaking now inflicts fall damage

Items

 - Fixed items losing durability when used on other players and the PvP game rule is disabled

- Enchanted Apples can once again be found in loot chests

- Name Tags can once again be found from Villager trading and fishing

- Diamonds will now appear in the loot chests of Jungle Temples and Strongholds

- Map items in converted Xbox One Edition worlds now have the proper alignment

- The starting maps for Old Worlds are now zoomed in to level 1/4

 - Maps will no longer show a green marker only for the last map that was placed in an item frame

- Glass Bottles can now be filled from water sources in Creative mode

- Pickaxes now break Stone Buttons faster than hands

- Bows can no longer be used to mine while charging

Blocks

- Extra blocks will no longer be placed when placing a block straight down

- Glass Panes now align to Stairs

- Increased the hitbox of Soul Sand

- Grass blocks will now turn into Dirt if Grass Path blocks are placed above them

- Vines can no longer be placed invisibly under leaf blocks

- Leaves no longer cut through blocks when growing trees using Bone Meal

- Anvils now drop as items when falling on Torches

- Stone Slabs and Cobblestone Walls now have the proper blast resistance

- Top Snow falling on a Top Snow Block no longer loses one layer

- Breaking Cobblestone that is being pushed by a Piston no longer drops an invalid ‚Update‘ block

Redstone

- Automated Chicken cookers using slabs will now function properly

- Fixed Redstone not powering horizontally adjacent blocks

- Hoppers and Droppers can now only put Music Discs inside Jukeboxes

- Minecart with Hopper and TNT will no longer shake on Activator Rails

- Renamed Shulker Boxes no longer lose their names when fired from a dispenser

- Daylight Sensors can no longer generate power in the Nether

- Undyed Shulker Boxes can no longer be placed inside other Shulker Boxes using Hoppers and Droppers

- Mobs in Minecarts no longer activate rails next to them as they try to walk

- Observers no longer visually cut Redstone Dust

- Rails will now take block power into account when attaching to other rails

- Dispensers, Droppers, and Redstone Lamps will now activate properly when Redstone Dust is placed on top of them

- Trapped Chests with slabs or stairs above no longer power Redstone Dust adjacent to the block below when the chest is open

- Glazed Terracotta can no longer be pulled using Slime Blocks and Sticky Pistons

- Minecarts no longer get stuck when passing through blocks on diagonal rails

- Armor can now be equipped to an Armor Stand using a Dispenser

- The power output of Redstone Comparators is no longer lost after a world is converted from Xbox One Edition

Mobs

- Baby Chickens no longer get stuck in the corners of fences

- Increased the spawn rate of Slimes

- Fixed mobs shaking while riding in Minecarts

- Horses can no longer be steered in deep water

- Llamas now form a caravan when following Llamas on a Lead instead of acting silly and running around in circles

- Llamas can now be healed by feeding them Hay Bales and Wheat

- Mobs no longer view closed doors as valid paths and shouldn’t get stuck when trying to walk through them

- Mobs can no longer spawn on carpet

- Mobs will once again spawn when the player is below a height of 30 blocks

- Mobs will once again not spawn on transparent blocks like Glass and Fences

- Rabbits will now follow players that are holding carrots and flowers in Survival mode

- Elder Guardian and Zombie Villager spawn eggs can now be obtained with Pick Block in Creative mode

- Smaller mobs can no longer trample farmland and crops

- Fixed medium Slimes not dealing damage to players

- Endermites will no longer suffocate when riding in Minecarts and Boats that are not on rails or in the water

- Fixed Villager behavior when it’s raining so they now disperse to separate houses

- The Wither will now face the right direction when attacking

- Pigs being steered using Carrot on a Stick will no longer jump up slab staircases and simply walk up them

- Fixed flowers that disappeared after being generated with Bone Meal

- Mob spawners will now stop spawning when there are 6 or more mobs in the vicinity

- Zombies and Skeletons now burn during daytime in warm biomes when it’s raining in other biomes

- Fixed Witches not spawning inside Witch Huts

- Wolves will no longer run from Llamas if they are out of sight

- Increased the spawn rate of Ghasts in the Nether

- Increased the spawn rate of Ocelots

- Spiders no longer give up so easily when attacking

- Parrots will now properly dismount when the player it’s riding dies

- Parrots riding on players‘ shoulders will no longer hinder block placement while sneaking

- Parrots will no longer leave player shoulders when boarding a Boat

- Villagers will now breed on converted Xbox One worlds

- Overworld mobs will no longer spawn in the Nether on converted Xbox One worlds

- Iron Golems will no longer turn hostile toward the player that spawned them

- Iron Golems no longer spawn when Mob Spawning is disabled

Crafting

- Enchanted Apples can no longer be crafted (Golden Apples are still craftable)

- Various improvements to selecting items on the Recipe Book with touch screens when using Classic UI

- Crafting items that used ingredients in the hotbar no longer causes the hotbar to get shuffled when using a controller

 - Mossy Stone Bricks can no longer be crafted from themselves and no longer results in loss of blocks

- Fixed Mojang logo banners not being craftable on converted Xbox One worlds

- Bucket, Water Bucket, Lava Bucket, and Milk have been moved to the ‚Items‘ inventory tab

Exploits

- Players can no longer attack others with bows when Friendly Fire is disabled

- Minecart with Hopper can no longer duplicate items

- Items can no longer be duplicated using Item Frames and Hoppers

- Any item held by a player that is killed by Thorns armor will no longer be duplicated

- Rails can no longer be duplicated when pulled by two pistons simultaneously

- Breaking a Cauldron, Furnace, Banner, Beacon, Jukebox, or Daylight Sensor with Silk Touch no longer drops two of each item

- Breaking an Ender Chest with Silk Touch will no longer drop Obsidian

- Items can no longer be duplicated using Item Frames and Hoppers

- Switching between bows while aiming will no longer transfer item durability

- Players can no longer attack through walls in third-person perspective

- Killing an animal attached to a Fence with a Lead no longer duplicates the Lead

Realms

- Permissions are no longer reset to default when a player re-enters a Realm

- Operator status will now properly reflect in the in-game Player Permissions screen

- Fixed a soft lock that occurred when attempting to replace a world and the connection was lost

- Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented Realms from being renewed

Graphical

- The line is now properly connected to the Fishing Rod and floater

- Rain is now visible through glass

- Sugar Cane now has proper biome coloring

 - Beacons will now shine through lava

- Maps are no longer cut off when being held on vertical split-screen

- Jungle Leaves now have transparency when held in-hand

- Slimes now emit slime particles when jumping

- Fixed a missing piece of the Hopper texture

- Flickering no longer occurs when looking through leaves that are next to snow

- Split-screen players will no longer share parts of the sky box backgrounds when they are in separate dimensions

- Block breaking animation no longer goes out of sync when jumping or changing tools

- Fixed the jumping animation for Spiders

- Fixed shadow issues with Chorus Flowers when Smooth Lighting is disabled

- Fire, Cobwebs, and Leaves can no longer be seen through blocks at certain distances

- Jumping on a Horse, Donkey, or Mule while pushing against a wall with items attached to it no longer causes black blocks to appear around the wall

- Fixed the Wither textures during spawning and death animations

- Fixed the Axe not being attached to Vindicator’s hand when attacking

- Pistons and beds no longer have large visual outlines for a split second when being placed

- Fixed being able to see through lava when Blindness effect is used

- End Crystal beam is now centered at the Crystal and not at the fire base

- End Crystal items now have the enchantment effect

- Zombie Villagers now produce red particles while being cured

- The Dragon Head will no longer flicker when using Norse Mythology textures

- Resource Packs will now affect the look of the gamepad cursor

- The moon will no longer graphically stutter when Do Daylight Cycle is disabled

- TNT ignited by Redstone now shows the hopping animation

- Items held by Zombie Villagers are now in the right position

- Undyed Shulker Boxes no longer flash when being placed

- Particles left after Dragon’s Breath attack and Lingering potions no longer leave visual artifacts

- Smooth lighting will now be changed immediately after toggling in Settings

- Fixed floating items that appeared after a player died and remained until they respawned when Keep Inventory was enabled

- Chests are now placed in Item Frames with the proper rotation

- Rain, smoke particles, and shadows are no longer visible through lava

- Fixed a rare issue where rain and snow would fall through roofs

Audio

- Fixed the sound effect not playing when equipping armor from the hotbar

 - Fixed missing sound when moving through End Gateways

- The proper sound effects will now play when using Ender Chests, Brewing Stands, Armor Stands, Furnaces

- Thrown entities no longer play footstep sounds

- Sound will no longer continue to play on the disconnect screen

- Minecarts will no longer make walking sounds after being pushed off and back on to rails

User Interface

- Text can now be properly copied and pasted in text fields when using a keyboard

- Fixed signs with formatting (§) not being able to create new lines

- Fixed a rare issue when pressing the A key on the virtual keyboard would delete all other text

 - Reassigning the ‚Toggle Perspective‘ key no longer changes perspective while typing in chat

- Fixed world names not being editable if they contained over 24 characters

- Non-functional split-screen options are no longer visible in Settings for VR and mobile devices

- The oxygen bar is no longer misplaced when getting out of a boat and diving underwater

- Several improvements to navigating menus while using a controller

- After cancelling the „Checking Download“ prompt, players are now taken back to the World Settings screen

- World save size is now properly reported immediately after saving and exiting

- The number of worlds on the Worlds tab is no longer overlapped by the world icon

- Fixed an issue that caused players to get stuck after posting a screenshot to a Club

- Changing Screen Safe Area size and GUI scale will now set the proper positions for the hotbar, health, hunger, and paper doll

- Deleting a world with a colored name no longer has extra colored text in the confirmation prompt

- The player model no longer appears in from the ‚Choose New Skin‘ button

- Fixed an unhelpful error message when attempting to create a Realm and the „You can create and join clubs“ permission is blocked

- Pressing the screen is no longer offset slightly to the left on Windows 10 Mobile

- Disabling Controller Hints will now turn off hints on in-game menus

- Fixed the Creative hotbar not always clearing when X is pressed on the controller

- When editing a page in Book & Quill, pressing B on the controller will now quit page edit mode instead of the whole book screen

- Items can once again be dropped by moving them into the grey space of the Creative inventory screen

- Fixed the gamepad cursor snapping incorrectly when highlighting the off-hand slot and clicking the Left Thumbstick

- Fixed not being able to snap the gamepad cursor between the Furnace fuel slot and output slot

- Expandable inventory groups in Pocket UI are now titled properly

- Shift-clicking items into a Donkey’s full chest will no longer cause the items to disappear

- Fixed incorrect items appearing in Creative inventory searches

- Shulker Box inventory tooltips are now properly translated to other languages

- A loading screen will now appear when applying Global Resources

- Fixed chat messages not appearing after signing in to Xbox Live in-game from the Achievements screen

- The Jukebox now has a controller tooltip for block use

- Fixed a delay in the ‚Boost‘ button appearing when mounting a Pig with Carrot on a Stick in hand

- Fixed lowered frame rate when unfocusing from the Book & Quill

- HUD opacity now affects Banners mob heads in the hotbar

- Fixed delays when typing in chat and other text fields

- Fixed screen ratio and portions of the HUD being blocked when playing on iPhone X

- Sea Lanterns now appear in the proper category when searching the inventory

- Fixed double notifications appearing when importing a world

- A warning now appears instructing players not to close the game when exporting a world

- Fixed some worlds not appearing on the Available Templates list when not downloaded

- Navigating left or right on the Available Templates list will no longer move focus to the top of the list

- Several translation fixes for Español (Mexico)

- Store descriptions can now be scrolled on mobile devices

Commands

- Cloned Banners no longer appear as blank black Banners

- The „Facing“ component of ‚/teleport‘ is no longer executed before teleporting a player

- Redstone Dust can no longer be placed in air, or blocks not suited for it, using commands

- Players can now be killed using ‚/kill‘ when they have a resistance effect of 4 or higher

- Fixed repeating damage sound and animation when using ‚/effect‘ to get health and simultaneously taking damage

- The screen will no longer shake when standing on Magma blocks after applying Regeneration effect of 255 or more

- Banners placed with ‚/fill‘ command are no longer random colors on Realms

- Teleporting entities to or from a ticking area no longer fail to render or be interacted with

- Players will no longer receive an Unknown Map when using ‘/replaceitem’ command to place a map in the off-hand slot

- Items will now be received immediately and correctly when using ‚/give‘ command with a Chain Command Block

- Fixed ‚End_gateway‘ and ‚End_portal‘ having placeholder images when auto-completing commands

- Teleporting a horse while it’s being ridden now works as intended

- Buttons cloned in a „pressed“ state no longer remain pressed forever

- Repeatedly teleporting TNT vertically will no longer separate the visual block from its explosive location

- Ocelots no longer spawn in groups when spawned using commands

Add-Ons (Resource and Behavior Packs):

Updated templates for 1.2.13 with new assets and behaviors can be downloaded at minecraft.net/addons

- Armor models now support hat layers

- Boats can now have more than one seat

- ‚llamaspit.json‘ has been properly renamed to ‚llama_spit.json‘

- Removed ’slot.armor.chest‘ from Horses and Llamas

- ‚behavior.hurt_by_target‘ no longer triggers if an entity is not actually hurt by its target

- All parameters of ‚minecraft:breathable‘ now function properly

- Name Tags can now be always visible if they are set to do so through a Behavior Pack

New Features:

- Water has a completely new look and increased visibility while underwater

- Dolphins

 - Tropical Fish

- Cod, Salmon, and Pufferfish mobs

- New ocean biomes of varying depths and temperatures

- Shipwrecks

- Ocean ravines and caves

- Icebergs

- Underwater ruins

- Coral reefs

- Buried Treasure and Treasure Maps

- Swimming animation while sprinting in water

- Heart of the Sea: Be sure to collect these for later to construct a Conduit that will be introduced in an upcoming update!

- Trident weapon with new enchantments

Channeling

Loyalty

Riptide

Impaling

New water behavior

A water source block can be placed inside of most non-solid blocks

Flowing water will still not flow into non-solid blocks

Blocks can be placed underwater without creating pockets of air around them

- Coral, Coral Fans, and Coral Blocks

- Kelp, Dried Kelp, and Dried Kelp Blocks

- Blue Ice blocks

- Seagrass and Tall Seagrass

- Sea Pickles can now be found on the ocean floor as a source of light

- Stripped Wood

- Wood variants for Buttons, Pressure Plates, and Trapdoors

- Prismarine Stairs and Slabs

- Fish can now be scooped into buckets

New Achievements

Atlantis? - Find an underwater ruin (20G)

Ahoy! - Find a shipwreck (20G)

Castaway - Eat nothing but dried kelp for three in-game days (20G)

Me Gold! - Dig up a buried treasure (30G)

Alternative Fuel - Power a furnace with a kelp block (20G)

Sail the 7 Seas - Visit all ocean biomes (40G)

Sleep with the Fishes - Stay underwater for one day without a potion (30G)

I’m a Marine Biologist - Collect a fish in a bucket (20G)

- Added an Inventory section to the Store to manage all your acquired content

- Added sorting and filtering to the Store

- Minecraft: Education Edition Chemistry features can now be enabled under Cheats! For tips on getting started

Changes:

- New item textures for Raw Fish, Cooked Fish, Raw Salmon, Cooked Salmon, Tropical Fish, and Pufferfish

- Pumpkins can now be sheared into Carved Pumpkins

- Leads can now be attached to boats

- Tweaks to the directional movement of the Gameplay Cursor for more predictable movement

- The breath meter now slowly regenerates after being underwater

- Players can now swim through 1×1 gaps

- Items now float in water

- Baby Zombies now burn in daylight

- Spawn points can now be set using Beds during the day

- The default author for books are now set to „Author Unknown“

- Buttons made from Oak or Stone are now displayed as Oak Button and Stone Button, respectively

Bug Fixes:

Crashes/Performance

- Fixed several of the top crashes that occurred during gameplay

- Fixed a crash that occurred when importing an Add-On with an invalid manifest file

- Fixed a crash that occurred after rating content in the Marketplace

- Fixed a crash that occurred when using the ‚/fill‘ command directly after ‚/clone‘ in the same tick

- Reduced the delay when placing or destroying blocks

- Improved load times in the Skin Picker and when applying Resource Packs

- Improvements to Store load times

General

- ‚Delicious Fish‘ achievement can now be unlocked after cooking and eating Salmon

- Activated resource packs will now stay active upon downloading any other resource pack during world creation

- Several fixes to joining as a second player on Xbox One split-screen

- Split-screen controls are no longer mixed up when the game is launched while using keyboard and mouse input on Xbox One

- Disconnecting a controller while making input no longer continues that input until the controller is reconnected

Gameplay

- Fishing will now give the proper chance of catching a stack of 10 Ink Sacs

- Items can no longer be duplicated by rapidly dropping them while playing multiplayer

 - Lava with a block on top no longer prevents fire damage to entities and will fix Chicken cookers

- Fire Resistance potions now protect Snow Golems from dying in warm biomes

- Soul Sand and Gravel once again generate in the Nether

- Fixed the crafting recipes of Prismarine Bricks and Dark Prismarine being swapped

- When riding a boat and hitting a mob with the Knockback enchantment, the mob will no longer always be knocked toward the East

- Zombies and Skeletons now burn in daylight while in boats

- Players can once again build straight down while holding the jump and place buttons simultaneously

- Fixed Villager trades becoming deactivated in certain cases when using touch controls

- Curse of Binding and Vanishing books can no longer be acquired by trading with a Librarian Villager

Graphical

- Cocoa Beans now display correctly when using HD Resource Packs

- Farmland and Grass Paths no longer have water textures when seen underwater

- Disconnected water flows no longer visually show as connected

- Water source blocks surrounding Glass, Slime blocks, and Sea Lanterns no longer turn into flowing water blocks

- Snow covered leaves no longer appear red when Smooth Lighting is disabled

- Fixed the appearance of bubbles around the Guardian laser attack

User Interface

- „Destroy Block (vibrate)“ toggle once again appears in Touch settings

- The Paper Doll is no longer in a running pose on the main menu

- Firework Rockets now appear in the Recipe Book when being searched for in Survival

- Initiating World Template screen now shows a progress bar

- Fixed the ‚Disconnected from server‘ prompt being too large on Gear VR

- Fixed some toggles and buttons staying highlighted in Settings when they shouldn’t

 - Chroma Hills HD Texture Pack fonts now apply correctly