Minecraft 1.17.0.52 Beta for Xbox One/Windows 10/Android

Minecraft 1.17.0.52 Beta for Xbox One/Windows 10/Android

Features No Longer Behind the Experimental Toggle 

Axolotl & Glow Squid 

• Axolotls are now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experiment  
• Axolotls can be rehydrated with Splash Water Bottle and Lingering Water Bottle  
• Axolotls now have their missing sounds (MCPE-123304)  
• Axolotls now swim way more often (MCPE-123263)  
• Updated the axolotl and glow squid spawn rules. They can now spawn in any biome and up to y=63 instead of y=30  

Deepslate 

• Cobblestone and Cobbled Deepslate are now used to repair stone items on an Anvil (MCPE-123670)

Powder Snow 

• Powder Snow is now available in the Creative inventory  
• Using a Bucket of Powder Snow on a Cauldron filled with Powder Snow results in a Powder Snow block being placed above the Cauldron  
• Cauldrons fill up in snowy weather, creating a renewable source of Powder Snow (MCPE-105412)
• Most mobs cannot walk on Powder Snow, but fall into the block instead 
• Mobs inside a block of Powder Snow start to freeze and eventually take damage 
• Players can protect themselves from Powder Snow by equipping leather armor 
• Buckets can be used to scoop up and place Powder Snow 
• Fall damage is now correctly prevented when a player or mob falls on a single powder snow block  

Glow Lichen 

• Glow Lichen is now visibly as close to the surface it is placed on as Java Edition (MCPE-122665)  
• Glow Lichen now has a map color that more closely resembles the color of the block (MCPE-126316)  

Blocks 

• Colors applied to text on signs are no longer barely visible (MCPE-117516)  

Crystals 

• Amethysts, Amethyst Shards, Amethyst Cluster Variants, Amethyst Buds, Budding Amethysts, Tuff Blocks, Calcite, and Smooth Basalt are now available in the Creative inventory  
• Spyglass is now available in the Creative inventory  
• Deepslate is now available in the Creative inventory  

Lush Caves 

• Azalea Leaves and Flowered Azalea Leaves have correct color on maps  
• Small dripleaf can now be placed on moss 
• Lush Cave blocks are now available in the Creative inventory  

Dripstone 

• Dripstone is now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle  
• Pointed dripstone is now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle  
• Water drips from stalactites 

Glow Squid 

• Glow Squid is now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle  
• Glow Item Frames are now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle  
• Glow Ink is now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle  
• Maps now glow in Glow Item Frames (MCPE-117503)  

Goat 

• Goats no longer drop Mutton when killed 
• Goats are now available outside the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle  

Copper 

• Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper Slabs can now be merged into full Waxed Oxidized Cut Copper blocks  
• Copper is now available in the Creative inventory   
• Lightning Rod is now available in the Creative inventory  

Moss block 

• Using Bone Meal on a sapling planted on a Moss block now correctly grows a tree (MCPE-125689)  

Pointed Dripstone 

• Pointed Dripstone now correctly gets destroyed after the block it was placed on are broken by block updates  

Raw Ore 

• Fortune enchantment now cause more raw iron/gold/copper ore to be dropped  
• Raw copper, iron and gold ore are now available outside the experimental toggle  

Localization 

• The “Caves and Cliffs” toggle is now correctly localized 

General Tweaks and Bug Fixes

• Players can once again host multiplayer games and send invites over mobile/cellular data (MCPE-55405)   

Graphical 

• Chemistry items icons no longer disappear after suspend/resume in Education Edition worlds  
• Fixed issue with underwater fog being the same for all Biomes and view distance not increasing over time (MCPE-124282, MCPE-124266) 
• Underwater view distance is increased in Rivers and land biomes to be more like Minecraft Java when “Caves and Cliffs” experiment toggle is enabled. 

Items 

• Boats now break when they collide with a Cactus from the side (MCPE-106044)  
• Changed the position of the bow to match previous versions (MCPE-116741)  
• Crossbows in players’ and mobs’ hands are now rendered correctly in all perspective modes (MCPE-116737)  
• Fixed animation issue causing an off-hand held shield to appear to re-equip whenever the player changes their main-hand item (MCPE-116773)  
• Cauldrons that have been emptied after containing potion are now correctly filled with water when it rains  
• Fixed issue where Fireworks of all colors could be crafted from any other color of Firework Charges (MCPE-90715)  

Mobs 

• Blazes and Enderman once again receive damage from splash water bottles (MCPE-97483)  
• Fixed a bug where mobs would not spawn below y=0 when the Caves and Cliffs experimental toggle is enabled (MCPE-122056)  

User Interface 

• Updated the appearance of the loading screen  

Android 

• Android should once again see invite notifications and achievement toasts! (MCPE-54902) 

Gameplay 

• Fixed an issue with certain blocks which could cause them to grow too quickly when ticked  

Mobs 

• Mobs and entities once again make a sound when entering water  

Commands 

• The ‘/setworldspawn’ command is now prohibited in legacy worlds and affected worlds will reset their altered spawn positions to the original position (MCPE-27797)  

Technical Updates 

Add-Ons and Script Engine 

• Added a MoLang query to get default bone pivots (MCPE-116741)  
• Updated MoLang query to return normalized item use time remaining based on given parameters (MCPE-116737)  

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