Minecraft Update Adds First New Paintings in Years

04/11/2024 05:56 pm EDT

Minecraft has gone through all kinds of changes over the years, but it's been a minute since the team at Mojang dropped a new painting into the game. That's finally happening with the latest preview update for the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft, though it's far from the only addition. Players who download the experimental update will be able to try out five new paintings, including "Baroque, Humble, and Mediative." Of course, those paintings (and the rest of the update) will hopefully come to the live version of Minecraft relatively soon, but anyone who wants an early peak can go ahead and download it now.

As for the rest of the update, the most impactful addition is the three new Enchantments players can add to their Mace. Wind Burst lets you slam enemies with an extra gust of window when attacking, Density makes the Mace even heavier, and Breach lets you bypass some armor when attacking. There are also several bug fixes related to mobs like the Armadillo and a few gameplay fixes to iron out various issues. Finally, the new Hardcore Mode has gotten a few updates.

Minecraft is available now on PlayStation, Switch, mobile, Xbox, and PC platforms. You'll find the full patch notes for the new preview build below.

Minecraft 1.21.0.21 Preview Update Patch Notes

EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES

MACE

• The Mace now has three brand new Enchantments available for use! 
  • Wind Burst generates a burst of wind when successfully striking enemies, launching the wielder in the air!
  • Density makes the already heavy Mace EVEN HEAVIER, adding additional heft to its Smash Attack!
  • Breach allows the Mace to bypass a portion of an enemy's Armor, striking fear into the hearts of even the most protected enemies!
• Added a new explosive particle effect when executing a smash attack with the Mace to really show the player's power when using it! 
• Known issues: Particles appear grey in water and on some leaves. Particles appear when target is hit in the air.

MOB EFFECTS

• Added Raid Omen 
  • Instead of triggering a Raid directly, Bad Omen will transform into a Raid Omen variant with a duration of 30 seconds
  • Once the Raid Omen expires, a Raid will start at the location the player gained the Raid Omen
  • Like any other effect, players can drink a Bucket of Milk to clear the Raid Omen to prevent the Raid from starting
• Added activation sounds to Bad Omen, Trial Omen, and Raid Omen

PAINTINGS

• Added five new paintings by artist Sarah Boeving:
  • Baroque
  • Humble
  • Meditative
  • Prairie Ride
  • Unpacked

TRIAL CHAMBERS

• Trial Chambers are now more consistently buried by terrain when found underground 

TRIAL SPAWNER

• Ominous Trial Spawners now show a preview of the item that is about to be dropped 

FEATURES AND BUG FIXES

BLOCKS

• "coral_block" block is now split into unique instances: "tube_coral_block", "brain_coral_block", "bubble_coral_block", "fire_coral_block", "horn_coral_block", "dead_tube_coral_block", "dead_brain_coral_block", "dead_bubble_coral_block", "dead_fire_coral_block" and "dead_horn_coral_block" 

EDU TOGGLE

• Chemistry items now appear in the creative inventory when the Education edition toggle is on 

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed a crash that could occur when teleporting to a region where a Piston is pushing a Chest (MCPE-179440)
• Fixed a crash that could occur when the player begins losing air 

HARDCORE MODE (PREVIEW ONLY)

• The death screen now shows "Spectate World" option when playing in Hardcore Mode (MCPE-180287)

MOBS

• Armadillos no longer repeatedly roll and unroll when receiving damage from blocks (MCPE-180142) 

REALMS

• Fixed several instances of periods being narrated as 'dot' on the Realms Stories 'Opt In' screen (Preview only) 

ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES

• Added text-to-speech support for member search results in the Realms Stories Member tab (Preview Only) 
• The Realms Stories Opt In screen now enumerates its active buttons with text-to-speech on (Preview Only)

USER INTERFACE

• Added slide-off persistence to new d-pad touch control scheme 
• Changes positioning and scale of default new touch d-pad control scheme. Also allows for moving the dpad closer to the hotbar when customizing touch controls. 
• Made the jump and ascend in water button overlap so now the player can stay above water more easily (MCPE-179689) 
• Fix a bug that prevented navigating to previously sent messages with a keyboard on Xbox (MCPE-174648)

TECHNICAL UPDATES

ADD-ONS AND SCRIPT ENGINE

• Fixed some places in documentation generation where elements were accidentally overwritten. This caused a minor amount of documentation to appear or move in the Animations, Blocks, Entities, and Particles files 

BLOCKS

• Updated block geometry to allow uv rotations
  • This allows you to rotate the specified uv rect in 90 degree increments before applying it to a block face
  • Supported from minecraft:geometryformat version 1.21.0 and up 
• Added pivot for scale in the Block Transformation Component
• Added pivot for rotation in the Block Transformation Component 

DOCUMENTATION

• Documentation for version v1.13.0 of "Decoration Features" is now up to date

EDITOR

Editor is now in v0.6 with the following new features:

• New Panel Layout – panels can be toggled, resized, and support auto-hide
• Widget Framework – editor extensions can now use custom entities and animations to mark information within the world
• Global Block Hotbar + Picker – customize and swap between your most common blocks to build even faster
• Brush Shape Framework – use our resizable brush shapes to quickly modify the world or add your own with editor extensions
• Summon Tool – quickly create, move, rotate, and delete entities
• Line Tool – build parkour maps, bridges, roads with our new line tool
• Improved performance, bug fixes, and many more!

See the full changelog for our v0.6 release on the Editor GitHub Discussion page!

Learn how to use the Editor, join the GitHub Discussion forum to engage with the team, and get started building extensions via the starter kit and samples.

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNICAL UPDATES

API

• get will now handle items whose names have changed so that scripts referencing old names will still work as intended 
• Added ItemComponentUseOnEvent for beta
• Moved typeIdand Block.matches from beta to stable 
• Update JavaScript engine
  • BigInt support
  • hasOwn
  • Array findLast and at
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes
• @minecraft/server.BlockType
  • Moved idAPI from beta to stable v1.11.0
• @minecraft/server.BlockTypes
  • Moved BlockTypes API from beta to stable v1.11.0
  • Moved typeAPI from beta to stable v1.11.0
• @minecraft/server.Block
  • Moved typeAPI from beta to stable v1.11.0

GRAPHICAL

• Fixed heightmap textures not rendering correctly in the Deferred Technical Preview

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