Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.70 Update Notes for Creators

Minecraft Bedrock has been updated to 1.21.70 and there are a number of changes of note for creators. The following features do not require experimental toggles.

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Editor

Editor v0.9 The Realms Update

Editor is now available on stable builds and is accessible via the Minecraft Launcher on Windows PC.

Editor v0.9 added a number of new capabilities including:

• Realms integration
• Grid Repeat
• Updated Structure Management
• Updated Extrude Visualization

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Platform

• Input APIs - Script APIs to detect player input & modes:
  • InputButton
  • ButtonState
  • InputInfo
    • getButtonState
    • getMovementVector
• Sound Locators on Entities

Blocks

• Loot table - Item tags that support "match_tool" move out of experimental.
• Liquid APIs - Moved from beta to stable
  • LiquidType
  • Block
    • canBeDestroyedByLiquidSpread
    • isLiquidBlocking
    • liquidSpreadCausesSpawn
    • liquidCanFlowFromDirection
    • canContainLiquid
  • BlockPermutation
    • canBeDestroyedByLiquidSpread
    • isLiquidBlocking
    • liquidSpreadCausesSpawn
    • canContainLiquid
• replaceable - Define a block as "squashable" by another block (a block placed on another block replaces that block without a drop).

Entities

• Player spawn particle
  • Player.spawnParticle

Camera

• Aim Assist - Functionality to target blocks, entities, custom tinting, and custom colors per player no longer behind an experimental toggle.
• 3rd person presets & improvements- The second preset is no longer experimental.

World Generation

• Structure loading - It is now possible for structures to load in unloaded chunks.
• /place structure with entity - Entity placement works with place structure command.

What's Next

Looking ahead, here's what you can expect coming in future releases.

What's Next for World Gen

• Jigsaw Block - All of the functionality currently available in experimental is coming to stable in the upcoming releases.
• /place feature - A command that allows placing of features.
• Improved Spawn rules - Allowing for customized mob spawning in biomes and structures.

What's Next for Camera

• Over-the-shoulder style orbit preset
• Camera-relative player control schemes

What's Next for Blocks

• Data-Driven biome tinting - Supports block textures per biome.
• destruction_particles - This represents the particles used when the Block is destroyed
• Isotropic textures - Allows for random rotation of textures (e.g. vanilla dirt).
• Destruction particle - Set a texture that appears when block is broken.
• particle intensity - When breaking a block, defines the quantity of particles that appear.
• Textures – UV locking - This will make it so there is no longer a need to define new geo every time a texture is rotated.
• Loot & destroy API - Allow reading loot tables through scripting. Apply different loot tables through scripting when destroying entity or block.
• Culling rules - A subset of culling rules will be delivered to support behaviors such as how leaves appear when configured in a tree with neighbor rules.

What's Next for Script API, Molang and Commands

• server-ui - Improvements to sever-ui forms allowing for more formatting options.
• Scripting 2.0 changes - See Scripting 2.0 Overview for more information.
• Custom Commands - Similar to block and item custom components, this will allow creation of custom slash commands via script.
• Custom Components V2 - Allowing block and item custom components to pass parameters specifying properties via script.

For more information on what's next, follow our Beta/Preview Changelogs.