Minecraft Finally Getting Long Overdue Feature on Xbox Consoles

Minecraft gamers on Xbox are lastly getting a characteristic they have been wanting for years.

Minecraft has been round for greater than a decade, delivering followers throughout each main platform with an open-world sandbox stuffed with issues to do. Over the years, the builders at Mojang have repeatedly up to date the sport with new options, enhancements, and bug fixes; nonetheless, there’s at the very least one main replace Xbox followers have been begging for that hasn’t come to Minecraft. That is till Mojang not too long ago dropped the Minecraft Preview 1.20.60.23 preview. Among many different additions, this replace provides 4K decision help to the Xbox Series X/S model of the sport, lastly giving followers of that system the characteristic they have been asking about for a number of years.

Of course, the brand new 4K help is barely a small a part of this replace. It’s additionally value noting that that is an experimental patch and is not fairly prepared for primetime. Still, with the characteristic lastly included within the preview construct, it is solely a matter of time earlier than Xbox Series X/S gamers in all places can enhance Minecraft as much as 4K on their system. The different large additions with this patch are the armadillo that gained the Mob Vote at Minecraft Live 2023 and the wolf armor now you can craft utilizing the supplies gained from the armadillo. There can be a wholesome dose of recent bug fixes and enhancements that run the gamut of issues gamers have been asking for.

Below, you will discover the total patch notes for the newest Minecraft preview construct. Minecraft is out there now on PlayStation, Switch, cell, Xbox, and PC platforms.

Minecraft Preview 1.20.60.23 Patch Notes

EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES

ARMADILLO

• Added the Armadillo
• The Armadillo is a impartial mob
• Drops Armadillo Scutes periodically
• Drops Armadillo Scutes when brushed
• Spawns in Savannas
• Favorite meals is Spider Eyes
• When an Armadillo detects a risk, it rolls up
  • Threats are:
    • Players who’re sprinting
    • Players on a mount or in a car
    • Undead mobs
  • It doesn’t roll up whether it is fleeing, in water, within the air, or if being led
  • When an Armadillo is rolled up it doesn’t stroll, can’t eat, and won’t be tempted by meals
  • It continues to scan for threats, and if there aren’t any threats detected for 3 seconds, it’ll unroll

ARMADILLO SCUTES

• Can be used to craft Wolf Armor
• Dropped by Armadillos
• Dispensers can be utilized to brush Armadillo Scutes off Armadillos

WOLF ARMOR

• Using Wolf Armor on an grownup tamed Wolf will equip the armor on the Wolf
  • Only a Wolf’s proprietor can put Wolf Armor on their tamed Wolf, and with this in thoughts, Dispensers can’t put Wolf Armor on Wolves
• Using Shears on a Wolf that’s sporting armor will make it drop the armor
  • Only a Wolf’s proprietor can shear a Wolf Armor from it, and with this in thoughts, Dispensers can’t take away Wolf Armor from Wolves
• Wolf Armor offers the identical safety as Diamond Horse Armor
• If a Wolf dies whereas sporting armor, it’ll drop the armor

BLOCKS

• Exposed, Weathered, and Oxidized Copper Bulbs in Trial Chambers at the moment are waxed (MCPE-176949)
• Trial Spawner randomizes the loot desk solely as soon as every fight, for all gamers

COPPER GRATE

• Fixed a problem with Waxed Copper Grate transparency (MCPE-177171)

BREEZE

• Breeze wind and wind cost rendering have been tweaked

COMMANDS

• Added a brand new command that can cover and reset HUD parts visibility.
  • /hud cover <hud factor>
  • /hud reset <hud factor>

The HUD parts obtainable are:

• paperdoll
• armor
• tooltips
• touch_controls
• crosshair
• hotbar
• well being
• progress_bar
• starvation
• air_bubbles
• horse_health
• all
• To use the command, flip on the Upcoming Creator Features toggle.

FEATURES AND BUG FIXES

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed a crash prevalence when switching between dimensions ceaselessly (MCPE-166934)
• Fixed sure circumstances that induced gamers to take sudden fall injury when performing interactions at particular heights like 62 (MCPE-168518)
• Reintroduced a repair for gamers typically taking sudden fall injury whereas constructing blocks whereas standing on them (MCPE-120140)
• Fixed some circumstances the place gamers might take sudden fall injury close to ledges that they had been visibly not falling off of (MCPE-120140)

MOBS

• Fixed a problem the place mobs, equivalent to Zombies, had been unable to choose up full stacks of things from the bottom

GRAPHICAL

• Added 4k decision help for Xbox Series consoles

USER INTERFACE

• The buddies drawer within the new Play display screen now permits becoming a member of a good friend’s world with a be a part of button. Please ship us your suggestions on this new characteristic right here!

UPDATED EDIT WORLD SCREEN

The newest Bedrock Preview introduces a brand new means of enhancing your worlds in a brand new redesigned expertise. Some options are usually not supported but, however we wished to provide you an early have a look at what we’re constructing. An up to date Edit World expertise will step by step be rolled out to gamers beginning right now.

Changes: Edit World is being up to date with improved navigation, extra descriptions, and a brand new appear and feel that matches the brand new Create New World Screen. It’ll be rolled out step by step throughout Android, iOS, Windows, and Xbox within the following days. We’re nonetheless working on some issues, like help for different platforms, and a few minor bugs and enhancements. We want some extra time to work on these options with a purpose to present the absolute best expertise. We would love to listen to what you assume! Share your suggestions on the Feedback Site and put “Edit World” within the title so we will discover it.

REALMS

• Introduced Realms Stories, a brand new social hub to your Realm
  • Realms Stories options embrace:
    • The Story Feed – enables you to share your biggest gameplay moments together with your fellow Realm members
    • The Timeline – enables you to see when different members are enjoying on the Realm
    • The Members tab – reveals a listing of all Realm members and their permission ranges
  • Please be aware that Realms Stories won’t be accessible the primary time you launch 1.20.60.23. To use Realms Stories, launch the sport, shut it, after which launch it once more.
  • You can discover extra particulars about this characteristic on the suggestions website, the place we additionally hope you’ll share your ideas concerning the characteristic.
  • Known points:
    • The Story Feed will not replace with new tales posted by different customers till you exit Realms Stories and are available again
    • Users which were invited to the Realm however haven’t but joined, and prior members who had been within the Realm however have since left, will present up within the Members tab
    • Notifying house owners about tales/feedback does not work
    • Clicking the ‘Manage Members’ button as a Realm proprietor may end up in a dangle
    • Comments could not at all times seem correctly
    • Screen-reader narration is not completed
    • Realm members do not see themselves within the Members tab 

TECHNICAL UPDATES

ADD-ONS AND SCRIPT ENGINE

• The “minecraft:geometry.full_block” identifier for the “minecraft:geometry” block element has been added
  • The “minecraft:geometry.full_block” identifier offers a centered 1x1x1 dice geometry
  • When mixed with a material_instances element with “render_layer”: “opaque”, it permits rendering-only capabilities beforehand included within the “minecraft:unit_cube” element together with:
    • Occludes each vanilla and customized neighboring full blocks
    • Culls faces that neighbor vanilla and customized neighboring full blocks to enhance rendering efficiency
• Add content material error logging to assist creators determine content material that hits or exceeds the state bit/permutation rely per block (MCPE-177045)

GENERAL

• Updated listed values for the Vanilla “orientation” block state in documentation

API

• Added Biome Registry biome names and ConstructionFeatureSort enum to vanilla metadata technology

COMPONENTS

• Added an “interact_filters” area to the “ageable” element, which permits to specify circumstances on when the actor will be fed

EDITOR

The Editor and its corresponding API are in early growth, and obtainable for keyboard/mouse on Windows PC Bedrock Preview builds. Tag us on social channels with #BedrockEditor.

Learn methods to use the Editor, be a part of the GitHub Discussion dialogue discussion board to have interaction with the staff, and get began constructing extensions by way of the starter equipment and samples.

Updates this week:

• Default block for BlockType in Selection device is now ‘grass’.
• Scripted property panes will now be scrollable as soon as they attain a sure top.
• Editor Playtest pane now helps setting time of day and climate when testing ranges, in addition to minor tweaks to the structure. Time within the Playtest pane helps both Minecraft time (0-23999) or 24hr time (00:00-23:59). 
• Added new bindings and help for scripts to have the ability to push a TypeScript object as a payload on to the transaction stack, and register a set of handler capabilities which is able to obtain the payload when the transaction system receives an undo or redo occasion
• A Navigation document system has been added to Editor. View the GitHub launch notes for extra particulars on options and performance. 
• Added an export for stringFromExtension in order that it may be utilized in each inside and exterior Creator extensions
• A brand new line device is added to the Editor. View the GitHub launch notes for extra particulars on options and performance. 
• Editor UI now scales in accordance with the display screen decision slightly than the sport window measurement.
• Property choices within the play/check pane retain their values when the sport reloads. 

This week we’re formally closing the v0.4.X semantic iterations and contemplating our work in direction of v0.5 carried out. View launch notes in GitHub for added particulars and an mixture abstract of all v0.4.X iteration updates.

MOLANG

• Released Molang queries from experimental
  • question.is_cooldown_type
  • question.cooldown_time
  • question.cooldown_time_remaining
  • question.relative_block_has_any_tag
  • question.relative_block_has_all_tags
  • question.block_neighbor_has_any_tag
  • question.block_neighbor_has_all_tags
  • question.block_has_any_tag
  • question.block_has_all_tags
  • question.bone_orientation_trs
  • question.bone_orientation_matrix

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNICAL FEATURES

• The “minecraft:unit_cube” block element has been deprecated. Using it in content material marked 1.20.60 and past will present a content material error
  • Using content material marked previous to 1.20.60 may have their “minecraft:unit_cube” block element upgraded to a “minecraft:geometry” block element with a “minecraft:geometry.full_block” identifier, however will keep backwards compatibility with all behaviors

• Updated operate addEffect to return the added impact (or undefined if it failed). This change is in beta and doesn’t have an effect on the presently launched variations of this operate.
• Added merchandise dynamic properties
  • Added operate clearDynamicProperties(): void – Removes all dynamic properties from the merchandise stack
  • Added operate getDynamicProperty(identifier: string): boolean | quantity | string | Vector3 | undefined – Returns the worth of the dynamic property with the given identifier if it exists, in any other case returns undefined
  • Added operate getDynamicPropertyIds(): string[] – Returns an array of all dynamic property identifiers on the merchandise stack
  • Added operate getDynamicPropertyTotalByteCount(): quantity – Returns the overall byte rely of all dynamic properties on the merchandise stack
  • Added operate setDynamicProperty(identifier: string, worth?: boolean | quantity | string | Vector3): void – Sets the worth of the dynamic property with the given identifier. If the worth is undefined, the dynamic property can be eliminated
  • Added operate clearDynamicProperties(): void – Removes all dynamic properties from the merchandise stack
  • Added operate getDynamicProperty(identifier: string): boolean | quantity | string | Vector3 | undefined – Returns the worth of the dynamic property with the given identifier if it exists, in any other case returns undefined
  • Added operate getDynamicPropertyIds(): string[] – Returns an array of all dynamic property identifiers on the merchandise stack
  • Added operate getDynamicPropertyTotalByteCount(): quantity – Returns the overall byte rely of all dynamic properties on the merchandise stack
  • Added operate setDynamicProperty(identifier: string, worth?: boolean | quantity | string | Vector3): void – Sets the worth of the dynamic property with the given identifier. If the worth is undefined, the dynamic property can be eliminated
• Added class EntityProjectileComponent. This element is used to shoot a projectile entity and modify its properties
• Added interface ProjectileShootOptions. This interface is used with operate EntityProjectileComponent.shoot to optionally modify the accuracy of the projectile when shot

• Changed cooldown question slot IDs to be required for container slots with a couple of index, logging content material errors if not supplied
  • question.cooldown_time(slotName,slotId)
  • question.cooldown_time_remaining(slotName,slotId)
  • question.is_cooldown_type(cooldownName,slotName,slotId)

• The participant’s physique will now solid a shadow in first particular person mode within the Deferred Technical Preview. Note that some held objects will nonetheless not solid shadows
• The loading display screen will now not flip black on Android when getting into a PBR-capable world with the Deferred Technical Preview enabled
• Hoppers in Minecarts now not exhibit ghosting artifacts throughout digicam movement when the Deferred Technical Preview is enabled
• The recreation now not crashes when exiting a world with the Deferred Technical Preview enabled