Bedrock Edition Preview 1.21.0.24

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Beta 1.21.0.24 (Android) or Preview 1.21.0.24 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the fifth beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.21.0, released on May 1, 2024,^[1][2] which adds 15 new paintings, 3 new music discs, 9 new music tracks, and fixes bugs.

Music Discs

• Added 3 new music discs, which play songs with the same names from the Minecraft: Tricky Trials (Original Game Soundtrack):
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    "Precipice" by Aaron Cherof.
    • Can be found rarely in standard vaults.
    • Has a comparator output of 13 when played in a jukebox.
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    "Creator" by Lena Raine.
    • Can be found rarely in ominous vaults.
    • Has a comparator output of 12 when played in a jukebox.
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    "Creator (Music Box)" by Lena Raine.
    • Can be found rarely in decorated pots broken in trial chambers.
    • Has a comparator output of 11 when played in a jukebox.

Paintings

• Added fifteen new paintings by artist Kristoffer Zetterstrand:

Picture	Name	Size
👁 Image	Backyard	3x4
👁 Image	Bouquet	3x3
👁 Image	Cavebird	3x3
👁 Image	Changing	4x2
👁 Image	Cotán	3x3
👁 Image	Endboss	3x3
👁 Image	Fern	3x3
👁 Image	Finding	4x2
👁 Image	Lowmist	4x2
👁 Image	Orb	4x4
👁 Image	Owlemons	3x3
👁 Image	Passage	4x2
👁 Image	Pond	3x4
👁 Image	Sunflowers	3x3
👁 Image	Tides	3x3

• Added 9 new background music tracks. These can all play on the menu screens.

• "Featherfall" can play in every "other" biome, but it also plays in the specific biomes listed above.
• Removed "A Familiar Room", "Bromeliad", "Crescent Dunes", and "Echo in the Wind" from the menu screens.

Player Profile

• The updated Player Profile page is now available for all platforms. (Preview only)

Tuff blocks

• The tuff wall, polished tuff wall, and tuff brick wall are now visible on maps.
• The tuff brick slab and polished tuff slab now have the correct blast resistance values.

Copper Doors and Copper Trapdoors

• Copper doors and trapdoors are now crafted from copper ingots instead of copper blocks.
• Only copper doors and copper trapdoors can now be crafted; other variants are no longer craftable.

Ominous Trial Spawner

• Now correctly ejects ominous trial keys instead of trial keys.
• Mobs spawned with equipment that is part of an ominous trial no longer have a chance to drop that equipment upon death.
• Mobs that can wear equipment now usually spawn with enchanted weapons and armor.
  • Armor enchantments include Protection IV, Projectile Protection IV, and Fire Protection IV.
  • Weapon enchantments include Sharpness I, Knockback I, Power I, and Punch I.
• Doubled the total number of mobs that ominous trial spawners can spawn when they spawn mobs that are unable to wear equipment (i.e. double the total mob count).
  • Increased the number of simultaneous mobs that those spawners can have by 1 (i.e. increased the simultaneous mob count by 1).

Trial Spawner

• Trial spawners no longer spawn mobs when the doMobSpawning game rule is set to false.
• Ominous trial spawner does not spawn potions and projectiles when there are no valid players in its range.
• The rewards that trial spawners and ominous trial spawners eject is now in parity with Java Edition.
• Projectiles spawned by ominous trial spawner can no longer spawn inside solid blocks.

Ominous Trials

• Removed the bottle o' enchanting from the possible projectiles that can be spawned by an ominous trial spawner.

Oxygen bar

• Added an empty state for air bubbles (👁 Image
  ) along with a wobble when the player is drowning.
• Added a popping sound when bubbles pop on the oxygen bar.

Trial Chambers

• Decorated pots in trial chambers now drop less types of items, in order to ease inventory management.^[3]​^{[more information needed]}
• Trial spawner mob distribution:
  • Spider spawners have been moved from the "small melee" category to the "melee" category.
  • Slime spawners have been moved to the "melee" category to the "small melee" category.
• Adjusted the drop chance of the Precipice music disc.
• Removed the TNT trap in the Eruption chamber (chamber/eruption).
• Fixed the seams in corridors so they now match.
• Added new variants of the entrance chamber (corridor/entrance_1).
• Added empty chests to the entrances of some chambers.​^{[more information needed]}

Game Tips

• Improved game tip interruption handling. Different kinds of interruptions can now be tracked separately.
• Added interruption for when player is in lava.
• Added interruption when input mode is switched.
• Added interruption when mobs are nearby.
• Changed base timing for camera game tip to 15 seconds.
• Changed base timing for movement game tip to 30 seconds.
• Changed base timing for break block game tip to 2 minutes.
• Changed base timing in survival for place block game tip to 5 minutes.
• Deactivated swimming game tip for touch devices.

Main Menu

• Added new cubemap background for 1.21.

Mace

• The mace smash attack no longer creates dirt particles when hitting a target whose center is in the air.
• Doubled the mace's durability from 250 to 500.
• Density is no longer as powerful and the mace now does less damage when falling from great heights.
  • See the § New mace damage formula below.
  • Reduced the mace's base damage to 5HP👁 ❤️
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    . This means the player will do 6HP👁 ❤️
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    damage when attack with it.
  • Reduced the damage per block per level of Density from 1HP👁 💔
    to 0.5HP👁 ❤️
    × 0.25 (a quarter heart).
  • Increased the mace smash attack's damage for shorter falls, and decreased the damage for longer falls:
    • The first 3 blocks fallen increase the damage by 4HP👁 ❤️
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      per block
    • The next 5 blocks fallen increase the damage by 2HP👁 ❤️
      per block
    • Each block fallen after that increases the damage by 1HP👁 💔
      
• Density, Breach, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are now all incompatiable with each other. Each mace can only have 1 of these enchantments.

is the damage done by the mace when falling from a height of blocks

Here is a graph of what that formula means:

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API

• Moved entity from beta to 1.11.0
• Moved EntityTameMountComponent and method tame from beta to 1.11.0.

Add-Ons and Script Engine

• Changed biome documentation to generate with a different system, which will cause the layout and order of those documentation elements to change.

General

• The free camera experiment has been deprecated and the toggle removed as this feature has shipped.
  • Future improvements to the free camera preset will be found in new experimental toggles as those capabilities become available. Samples can be found in the document for the camera command.

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs" experimental toggle.

API

• Added new interface VectorXZ.
• Added method getTopmostBlockwhich will perform a raycast from the top of the world downwards, trying to find the first solid block.
• Added method getBlockAbovewhich will perform a raycast from a given position, trying to find the first solid block above.
• Added method getBlockBelowwhich will perform a raycast from a given position, trying to find the first solid block below.
• EntityAddRiderComponent
  • Moved property readonly entityType: string from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly spawnEvent: string from beta to 1.11.0.
• EntityRideableComponent
  • Moved property readonly setCount: number from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly crouchingSkipInteract: boolean from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly interactText: string from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly controllingSeat: number from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly passengerMaxWidth: number from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly pullInEntities: boolean from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly riderCanInteract: boolean from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly seatCount: number from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved function addRider(rider: Entity): boolean from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved function ejectRider(rider: Entity): void from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved function ejectRiders(): void from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved function getFamilyTypes(): string[] from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved function getRiders(): Entity[] from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved function getSeats(): Seat[] from beta to 1.11.0.
• Seat
  • Moved property readonly lockRiderRotation: number from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly maxRiderCount: number from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly minRiderCount: number from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly position: Vector3 from beta to 1.11.0.
  • Moved property readonly seatRotation: number from beta to 1.11.0.
• EntityRidingComponent
  • Moved property readonly entityRidingOn: Entity from beta to 1.11.0.

21 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.21.0

• MCPE-37112 – Thrown trident hurts perched ender dragon
• MCPE-118433 – "Castaway" achievement cannot be unlocked
• MCPE-128908 – Large Marketplace Content Creator Hats Display when wearing Mob Heads
• MCPE-139168 – Tamed wolfs float when sliding down honey from a high place
• MCPE-176362 – Tuff slabs, stairs, and walls use stone sounds instead of tuff sounds
• MCPE-176434 – Polished Tuff Slab and Tuff Brick Slab breaks instantly
• MCPE-178574 – Navigating to previous chat messages is glitched on iOS and Android
• MCPE-178894 – Exiting the water using wind charge causes fall damage
• MCPE-178902 – Bogged doesn't retaliate against attacks from other mobs
• MCPE-179379 – Breeze's wind charge negates fall damage
• MCPE-180190 – Tuff Slabs do not appear on maps

From the previous development version

• MCPE-179928 – Fixed issue where block with custom components could not have a block placed onto them without crouching.
• MCPE-180271 – Status effect name in the potions of wind charging and infestation tooltip uses a different name on Bedrock, compared to Java
• MCPE-180485 – Wind charges can harm the ender dragon while it perches on top of the end portal, unlike arrows
• MCPE-180764 – Wind Burst enchantment is obtainable from villager trading

Others

• Crafters now show the correct particle when broken.
• Player-shot Wind Charges' burst sound is no longer affected by the "Hostile Creatures" sound setting.
• Mobs under the Infested status effect no longer spawn Silverfish when blocking damage with a Shield.
• The Breeze can now pathfind close to fire.
• Fixed various broken or incorrect jigsaw data in Trial Chambers.
• Fixed a bug where, if a block and item are registered with the same identifier, the block returns a null item when "picked".