Bedrock Edition 1.5.0

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1.5.0,^[1] also known as Phase Two of the Update Aquatic, is a major update to Bedrock Edition released on July 10, 2018.^[2] It adds many of the Update Aquatic features not included within 1.4.0, such as turtles, conduits, bubble columns, and more along with numerous changes and fixes.

Bubble columns

• Created by placing magma blocks or soul sand in water.
  • Magma block columns pull entities down.
  • Soul sand columns pushes entities up.
• Version exclusive: Have a "Fancy Bubbles" toggle.

Conduit

• Crafted with 1 heart of the sea and 8 nautilus shells.
• Can be activated by placing prismarine, prismarine bricks, dark prismarine, and/or sea lanterns in 5×5 open squares around it.
  • When active, will give nearby players the Conduit Power status effect.
• Will not create a water source block when placed
• Version exclusive: When activated by 42 specified blocks, its inside texture will change again, similar to 👁 EffectSprite conduit-power.png: Sprite image for conduit-power in Minecraft
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• Version exclusive: Can be oriented in 16 different directions on top of a block like mob heads.
• Version exclusive: Cannot be active if contact with rain.

Turtle eggs

• Created by breeding turtles.
• Version exclusive: Are named Sea Turtle Eggs.

Spawn eggs

• Sea Turtle

Turtle Scutes

• Dropped when baby turtles grow up.
• Can be used to craft turtle shells.

Turtle shells

• Crafted with 5 scutes.
• Can be used as a helmet, adding 2 armor points.
  • While equipped and in air, it will give the player the Water Breathing effect for 10 seconds.
• Can be used to brew the potion of the Turtle Master.

Potion of the Turtle Master

• Brewed with turtle shells.
• Gives the player Slowness IV and Resistance III.

Splash Potion of the Turtle Master

• Brewed with gunpowder.

Lingering Potion of the Turtle Master

• Brewed with Dragon's Breath

Arrow of the Turtle Master

• Crafted with 1 lingering potion of the Turtle Master and 8 arrows.

Turtles

• Water mobs which make nests comprised of eggs on shorelines throughout various biomes.
• Can be bred using seagrass.
• Spawn on warm beaches in small groups.
• Lay eggs in their home beach.
• Drop 0-2 seagrass upon death.
• Version exclusive: The items call them "Sea Turtles", but their actual name is still Turtle.^[3]

Achievements

• Version exclusive: More achievements, which include the following:
  • "Do a Barrel Roll!" - Use Riptide to give yourself a boost (30G)
  • "One Pickle, Two Pickle, Sea Pickle, Four" - Place 4 Sea Pickles in a group (20G)
  • "Echolocation" - Feed a Dolphin Fish and have it lure you to Treasure (20G)
  • "Moskstraumen" - Activate a Conduit (50G)

Status effects

• 👁 Image
  Conduit Power
  • Gives players Haste, Night Vision, and Water Breathing.

• Added new commands that only affect worlds with Minecraft Education enabled:
  • /ability
    • Sets a player's ability.
  • /immutableworld
    • Sets the immutable state of the world.
  • /worldbuilder
    • Toggle World Builder status of caller.

Realms

• Are now available on Nintendo Switch.

Blue ice

• Is now more slippery.

Coral blocks

• No longer die as long as one side is touching water.

Kelp

• Updated the top texture of kelp.

Cooked cod

• Updated texture.

Nautilus shells

• Are no longer only available through Experimental gameplay.

Tridents

• Can now be enchanted with Mending and Unbreaking.
• Added an animation when using Riptide in first person perspective.
• Are no longer able to break blocks in Creative mode (similar to swords)
• Are now obtainable in survival mode without the use of cheats
• Version exclusive: The Riptide spin has a different texture.

Dolphins

• Can now be given raw cod or raw salmon and will swim towards the nearest ocean ruins or shipwreck.

Drowned

• Now have a chance to spawn with a nautilus shell.
• Are no longer only available through Experimental gameplay.

Husks

• If they are sunk in water, they can now transform into zombies and then into drowned.

Zombies

• If they are sunk in water, they can now transform into drowned.

Skeleton horses

• Can now be ridden underwater.

Skeletons and strays

• Will now switch from ranged to melee attacks while underwater and switch back when out of water.

Undead mobs

• Now sink in water and can walk on the bottom.

Ocean ravines

• Magma blocks and soul sand in ocean ravines now create bubble columns.

Boats

• Changed the steering when using keyboard and mouse by pressing W to move forward and S to reverse.

Marketplace

• Moved the inventory button to the top of the page.

Menu screen

• Moved the settings and store buttons on the main menu to be below each other.
• New pop-up asking if the player is enjoying Minecraft. This will only show up once randomly when exiting a world.
• Changed the background to reflect Update Aquatic.

Settings

• Reduced the default field of view from 70 to 60.

Crashes/performance

• Fixed several crashes that occurred during gameplay.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when suspending the game during world generation.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a piston moved a cauldron underwater.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when playing Truffletop Town and dying while using elytra and fireworks.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when searching the Store on Oculus Rift and Gear VR.
• Increased performance when viewing particles from the ender dragon's attack and lingering potions.
• Improved performance around ocean monuments on Android devices. (MCPE-32523)

General

• Personal game mode is now fully applied in Game Settings when switched from Survival to Creative.
• The first mouse click after re-mapping an action to a key is now recognized.
• Players will no longer inherit the host's spawn, inventory, and location when rejoining a world with a resource pack removed.
• Fixed players not able to join worlds hosted by players who previously joined another player's world.
• Fixed the controller not being detected when resuming the game from suspended state after changing profiles.
• Changes made to the 'Trust Player Permissions' setting during world creation will now persist after loading into the world.
• Fixed an issue with saved worlds not syncing properly between Xbox One consoles.
• Players without an Xbox Live Gold membership can once again join and host LAN games on Xbox One.
• Resource and behavior packs are now properly enabled/disabled on Realms when restoring backups or replacing worlds.
• The Mob Griefing game rule now converts properly from Console Edition worlds.
• The 'Castaway' achievement no longer unlocks before completing the requirement.

Gameplay

• Flying speed now stays constant while descending in Creative mode.
• Players will no longer gradually drift up or down when swimming straight ahead.
• Fixed experience orbs not always being picked up by players.
• Bone meal is now depleted when used on kelp from a dispenser.
• Dropped items can once again pass under top slabs. (MCPE-25100)
• Tall birch trees will once again generate in mutated birch forests. (MCPE-29698)
• Fixed water flow being inconsistent and suspended around caves and ravines.
• Splash water bottles will now keep dolphins hydrated on land.
• Pick Block now works in Survival mode. (MCPE-12456)
• Pick Block now selects the proper variant of buttons and pressure plates. (MCPE-31887)
• Players can no longer refill breath and breathe underwater by swimming into ice blocks.
• Sneaking and jumping into water no longer prevents jumping or swimming upwards. (MCPE-32478)
• Riptide can no longer be used while riding a mount.
• Fixed entering a minecart from another minecart. (MCPE-32074)
• Passengers in boats will now take damage when falling from a high place.
• Fire resistance once again protects players from blaze ranged attacks.
• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to get infinite lava buckets. (MCPE-33280)
• Fixed an exploit that generated unlimited items and XP from furnaces.
• Players without permission can no longer attack mobs shooting arrows at them.
• Protection enchantments once again protects players from all types of damage. (MCPE-32945)
• The Friendly Fire game rule now prevents damage from players using Fire Aspect, Flame, and Channeling enchantments.
• Decreased the damage given by standing in lava when armor with Fire Protection and Protection enchantments is equipped.
• TNT exploding underwater no longer deals damage to players and other entities.
• Activating a dispenser with its exit covered and a bucket of fish inside will now drop the bucket of fish as an item.

Items

• The trident will now be thrown the direction the cursor is pointing when playing in VR.
• Fixed tridents damaging multiple mobs in a single throw.
• Tridents can no longer be destroyed by explosions.
• Tridents thrown into soul sand now land properly and no longer prevent Loyalty from working. (MCPE-32412)
• Tridents thrown underwater will no longer produce infinite bubbles.
• Tridents fired from a dispenser no longer have the exact same trajectory and will now lose durability.
• Woodland explorer maps once again point players correctly to woodland mansions. (MCPE-33534)
• Items will no longer get stuck in flowing water source blocks. (MCPE-32389)
• Dropped items no longer float against the water current (MCPE-33628)
• Fixed received items disappearing after trading a renamed item with a villager. (MCPE-33830)
• Throwable items will no longer hit the player when there is a parrot riding on their shoulder.
• It's once again possible to eat raw fish.
• Leather horse armor no longer loses its dyed color after world conversion.
• Arrows fired by skeletons can no longer be picked up by players.
• Leads and balloons can no longer be attached to horses being ridden by players.
• Banners are no longer consumed from the inventory when placed in Creative mode.

Mobs

• The ender dragon will no longer get stuck if the player moves too far away. (MCPE-31765)
• Dolphins and cod no longer get the jitters when swimming in groups.
• Silverfish can once again enter stone blocks.
• Increased the collision size of fish mobs.
• Donkeys and mules no longer become horses after Console Edition world conversion.
• Mobs will no longer rotate their heads 360 degrees while in boats.
• Baby animals will no longer take damage in boats.
• Zombie villagers created during world generation are no longer super-fast.
• Fixed issues with zombie pathfinding and not attacking players.
• Guardians once again spawn in valid water source blocks. (MCPE-29520)
• Fixed two elder guardians sometimes spawning in each chamber of an ocean monument.
• Arrows fired by skeletons and strays can now damage the wither.
• Dolphins can no longer fully clip through magma blocks.
• Mobs will no longer spawn on top of redstone components. (MCPE-27122)
• Pumpkins are now consumed when creating an iron golem.
• Salmon will no longer get stuck on the edges of Old worlds.

Blocks

• Fixed the hitbox of coral fans.
• Blocks can no longer be placed with no other block to support it when sprint-flying underwater in Creative mode.
• Command blocks can now be modified when set to 'Repeat' and 'Always Active'.
• Fixed blocks that were removed underwater not creating source water blocks.
• Ice placed on magma blocks in the Nether no longer create water source blocks when melted.
• Powered observers now convert properly from Console Edition worlds.
• Cauldrons with varying levels of water now convert properly from Console Edition worlds.
• TNT can no longer deal damage or destroy blocks underwater when placed on non-full blocks.
• Crops will no longer grow by repeatedly placing a full size, non-transparent block on top of them.
• Blocks can once again be repeatedly placed when flying sideways in Creative mode.
• Decreased the time it takes to break coral fans in Survival.
• Redstone, torches, and redstone torches can no longer be placed on seagrass underwater.
• Lava falling onto a water block with seagrass or kelp from will now become stone.
• Armor stands can now be destroyed by thrown tridents.
• Fixed water flowing incorrectly from stairs that contained water source blocks.
• Blocks can no longer be placed underwater without highlighting another block while sprint-swimming in Creative mode.
• Top snow will now break once it hits water.
• Top snow falling on a snow block no longer loses one layer.

World generation

• Icebergs, seagrass, and kelp can no longer replace blocks of an ocean monument when generated.
• Mutated savanna plateau and mutated mesa plateau biomes now convert properly from old worlds.
• All overhangs and floating islands will once again generate with grass or snow under them. (MCPE-32572)
• Bryce mesa biomes will now generate correctly. (MCPE-30612)

Graphical

• The surface of water can now be seen when viewing from behind glass underwater.
• Fixed water not rendering when swimming against the bottom of a block.
• Fixed water not rendering when viewed at certain angles near the surface.
• Rain no longer severely limits view distance.
• Entities no longer become invisible based on the position of the observing player.
• Fixed the mining cracking animation being out of sync when mining from a boat.
• Particles now appear when player jump into water.
• Particles now appear when tropical fish flop into the water.
• Double doors once again display correctly.
• Fixed the texture of dark prismarine Stairs.
• Fixed water coloring in mutated biomes.
• Fixed the glint on enchanted tridents in first person.
• Fixed the rotation of tridents while charging in first person.
• Fixed some chunk rendering that caused players to see through the ground at certain angles. (MCPE-30626)
• Minimized animation delays with large stacks of falling blocks.
• The lead attach point no longer appears in front of the player when swimming.
• Fixed some visual issues with kelp.
• Lava will now render when the player's perspective is right below the surface.
• Fixed bows not appearing in the right hand when being charged. (MCPE-31990)
• Fixed the texture of the wither's armor not appearing properly with several texture packs.
• Fixed the rotation of oak trapdoor textures.
• Fixed seam lines appearing between cactus blocks on the City Texture Pack.
• Improved swimming motion when using full VR mode.
• Players can no longer see through blocks while swimming against blocks in Virtual Living Room mode on Oculus Rift and Gear VR.
• Fixed missing water textures while underwater and a block is placed above the water. (MCPE-33264 / MCPE-32927)
• Glass once again renders properly at further distances and certain angles.
• All button items now display properly in the hotbar and when placed in an item frame.
• Fixed the cracking animation not appearing when mining blocks through the water surface.
• Fixed textures on low-end devices when the Education toggle was enabled.
• Fixed the delay in ice textures appearing when using the Frost Walker enchantment.
• Enchanted tridents no longer flash red when entering fire.
• Fixed helmets being visible after being destroyed by taking damage from a mob.
• Water now appears properly around ladders. (MCPE-32600)
• Flowing water now angles properly when flowing down.
• Flowing water touching stairs that contains a water source no longer causes water to flow from the solid face of the stairs.
• Hay bales now have the correct bottom texture when held or seen in item frames.

Audio

• Fixed some Update Aquatic sound effects not playing on low memory devices. (MCPE-30843)
• Beacons now have sound effects.
• The drinking sound is no longer played twice when drinking a potion or milk.

User interface

• The 'Sign In' button will now disappear from the main menu after signing in.
• Pressing the 'Default Settings' button will now only affect the control scheme that is selected.
• Improved messaging when there are no Old worlds to sync.
• A controller tooltip will now appear when it is possible to place blocks underwater.
• Fixed the marker on treasure maps disappearing when another player quits and rejoins a world.
• Cached data once again appears on the Storage screen.
• Enchantment names can now be seen on the enchantment table screen with Pocket UI when using keyboard and mouse.
• Image thumbnails and game modes for worlds and world templates will now appear when searching on the Storage screen.
• The book on the enchantment table screen no longer overlaps the suggested enchantment's name.
• Fixed spelling errors for Anemone and Red Lipped Blenny tropical fish.
• The "Manage who can send you invites" button in Profile settings now points to the proper location. (MCPE-28270)
• Pressing down on the controller no longer loses focus on the chat field.
• Changes to a world's name when it is initially created from a template will now update properly after saving and quitting.
• The paper doll no longer sticks out of the frame on the inventory screen while swimming.
• Fixed Slowness levels over 4 not appearing on the mob effects screen.
• The player model in the skin picker no longer covers the rotate icons in certain GUI scales. (MCPE-32545)

Commands

• The coordinates of buried treasure are now accurate when using the '/locate' command.
• Seagrass obtained by commands is now functional and stackable.
• Special symbols in a player’s nickname no longer cause a syntax error when trying to teleport that player from the Host Options tab.
• Using the '/spreadplayers' command will no longer set entities or players at y=255.
• Ladders no longer appear as invisible blocks with collision when placed using '/setblock'.
• Map items now have the proper name displayed in chat for players when using commands.
• Replacing or moving containers no longer causes the items from the container to drop to the ground.