1.21.50.28 - Preview

[earnest olive]

Beta and Preview Changelogs

Minecraft Beta & Preview - 1.21.50.28

It's that day of the week!
A new Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Preview is out now!

Posted on · Nov 7, 2024, 4:40 PM

first

[frigid relic]

nice

[visual hedge]

first

[frigid relic]

[meager heart]

sweet

[strong kiln]

Yay.

[frigid relic]

lol

[strong kiln]

Where .27?

[fading grail]

YOO

[strong kiln]

Almost got a heart attack.

[quasi venture]

editor v0.8

[strong kiln]

Oh?

[zinc knot]

bruh

[brittle cipher]

Rare .28 preview

[trim musk]

new brushes my beloved

[brittle cipher]

.29 probably gonna be the last preview of this cycle

[tight portal]

h

[delicate rapids]

meow

[trim musk]

• Added a new session.extensionContext.blockUtilities object which will present a number of high-performance common block operations. First function added is a fillVolume function to perform large scale fill operation which honors Editors different block palette types

hmm

[brittle cipher]

Imagine deferred optimization in this preview

[quasi venture]

Added support for input glyph replacement for signed books. For example, using input string ":_input_key.jump:" will be replaced with "JUMP" when using keyboard, or an emoji in case of using a gamepad.
subtle but very cool change

[trim musk]

nothing in the changelog

[brittle cipher]

They don’t have to mention it

[tight portal]

This one sucks.

[brittle cipher]

We got performance improvements on iOS last week

And it wasn’t mentioned

Let’s not forget they have dropped new features in deferred without mentioning it in the changelogs before

[visual hedge]

Nice. they might've also changed glsl shaders for this

[fading grail]

it's an overall chill preview, pretty cool\

although editor mode has so many changes

[fading grail]

i ated it

[compact jackal]

LAST

[trim musk]

why are they still updating those?

arent they unused?

[terse moon]

MCPE-169754 still not fixed...

[gentle wadi]

nice editor changes

[trim musk]

congratulations to harya for having the most amount of messages mentioning MCPE-169754

[cursive otter]

Nothing interesting:(

[frigid relic]

yeah, its just editor stuff like they said, nothing new in the api

[trail otter]

NO WAY

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-surprised-gasp-what-cat-shock-gif-5991920615405934389

[tight portal]

Impossible

[frigid relic]

woah.

[viral pilot]

WHA

[meager heart]

they love us

[gentle wadi]

Finally

[frigid relic]

no biome painting

[tame kestrel]

.28 intresting

[normal gale]

😔

[earnest olive]

Bedrock Dedicated Server for Minecraft Preview v1.21.50.28 is out now!

[idle mango]

Are you trying to tell me that me spamming /weather clear and it still raining after the 10th time will no longer happen?

[earnest olive]

Minecraft Preview v1.21.50.28 is out now on the Microsoft Store!

[tame kestrel]

yes

[tight portal]

hi

[idle mango]

absolutely wacky

[grim dagger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1290320527726088253.gif?size=48

[regal gyro]

The brainrot is real

[grim dagger]

LMAO

[cursive otter]

I've never encountered such a problem. How long ago did it appear?

[idle mango]

Forever

[charred hollow]

hello

[tight portal]

hahah funny

[idle mango]

what brainrot?

[snow salmon]

Here's a few demo of the new features:

Flatten
Fill
Smooth
Quick Extrude

[snow salmon]

Repeater
Compass
Fly Speed

[regal gyro]

@strong kiln there was a trending meme a few months back about still water

[grim dagger]

We love Editor mode

[strong kiln]

Any chance compass can include the Y axis as well?

[strong kiln]

?

[sudden hare]

Editor is great. It has also come a long way since the initial release

[grim dagger]

Mhm!!

[spark jacinth]

Holy massive editor stuff

[strong kiln]

I think compass having the cardinal names under the axis would be nice.

[tame kestrel]

slate is gone dam

[delicate rapids]

woah Editor is cooked🔥

[grave hill]

As always. The most late person has entered the chat who has his nitro expired a day early damn.

[spark jacinth]

Rip slate

[snow salmon]

How do you want to use the compass with the Y axis?

[charred hollow]

wow

[strong kiln]

I'm just thinking of this like TinkerCAD where you can look directly down or UP.

[snow salmon]

@crisp slate agrees with you and it's coming 😄

[strong kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/absolute-cinema-jane-doe-zzz-zenless-zone-zero-gif-5205700925222114759

[real dawn]

a cool version, very interesting for those who can use editor mode

[tame kestrel]

tinkercad my enemy

[terse moon]

thank you

it's always a pleasure

[grave hill]

happy preview day everyone!

[tame kestrel]

new stats?

[grave hill]

gn

[crystal anvil]

fellow lads

I am once again here

what did we get this time?

[tame kestrel]

edito changes

[spark jacinth]

Massive editor changes

[crystal anvil]

saw it, seem quite cool

@vestal ledge this seems quite cool for WGE

[charred hollow]

nah, nothing only thing is thats its stable now

[crystal anvil]

yup ik

and we extra avoided using experimental stuff

[charred hollow]

nah you didn't in this cases bc there is no other way to perform fill really fast

[strong kiln]

Speed.

Should this material have ambient occlusion applied when lighting? If true, shadows will be created around and underneath the block. Optionally can be constructed with float to control exponent applied to ao value after lighting.

[trail otter]

Yes

[fading grail]

AYO?

[trail otter]

@viscid citrus You did not lie about the Editor mode cause it is 🔥

[tame kestrel]

hmm new event coming up soon?

[boreal marten]

OMG WE WON

EXECUTION SIGN IS NO MORE

[tame kestrel]

rare footage of mojang fiking translations

[boreal marten]

although problems still remain the worst one has been fixed now

[warped elk]

Happy preview!

[terse moon]

Really mojang?

[normal gale]

So how do you do this?

[strong kiln]

Take a screenshot using the button then go to edit world and edit the thumbnail.

Don't know why they keep reiterating features from old previews.

[strong kiln]

particle and particles moment.

[terse moon]

At this point I don't know how this can be possible lmao

[normal gale]

I meant the profile

[terse moon]

they gotta do this on purpose

[strong kiln]

Screenshot gallery.

[normal gale]

I went there, but I didn't see anything that changes this

[strong kiln]

.

[strong kiln]

So you see nothing at all? Or?

[normal gale]

I don't see anything new if that's what you're wondering

Nothing related to the profile anyway

[strong kiln]

Which then relates to my previous message.

[normal gale]

Well do you know how to change the profile screenshot?

[strong kiln]

The button in the top left you dont have?

[torpid jay]

That was so annoying. If it's actually fixed that's a great thing!

[normal gale]

No I don't have it. Weird

Speaking of which, can't wait until they make the new play screen work in Editor mode

[normal gale]

oookkk. Now I see it when I got in editor mode instead

Unless..

Does it only show up when you're in a world?

[strong kiln]

Did it via the main menu.

[terse moon]

https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-188200

[stone scroll]

(MCPE-188200) Nether Bricks & Red Nether Bricks remain not aligned to Bricks blocks

Reported by

HARYAMC_

Status

To Do (Open)

Resolution

Unresolved

[terse moon]

GG mojang

[tight portal]

There's a bug where your mouse exists the game window this preview in windowed mode.

[normal gale]

It happened before this preview to me. But after I restarted the PC it was fine

While it wasn't working on preview, it was also not working in retail so maybe it's PC specific?

[tight portal]

I am also testing jigsaw generation and so far it seems better, but it could just be my luck.

[strong kiln]

No secret components.

[tight portal]

Can confirm, it's just my luck 😔

[tame kestrel]

hmm weird editor does not like when u u set size to 100

but it does things with 99

[crisp slate]

??

[strong kiln]

Someone accidentally did < 100 instead of <= 100.

[tame kestrel]

when i set slection size to 100x100x100 it does not delete anything, but with 99x99x99 it works perfectly fine

[crisp slate]

You made a selection volume of 100x100x100 and attempted to delete/fill and it failed/errored?
I'll take a look this afternoon

[tame kestrel]

yes

[meager heart]

what issues have you been coming across?

[tight portal]

same one as in my bug report

[sterile tinsel]

I'm curious about the AllowUnloadedChunks option in the getblocks and containsblock functions. I'm assuming that allows for loading and checking unloaded chunks? If so, why add it to those two, but not the fillblocks function?

Nvm, I guess the flag suppresses the error you would normally get if part of the function would access unloaded chunks and only processes the loaded ones.

[normal gale]

I can't figure out the smooth tool. I wonder if I'll have better luck looking directly at the code

[sterile tinsel]

So are creators still building worlds for sale on the marketplace? As someone who plays vanilla and writes scripting -style Addons, I don't really understand the in-game editor that's getting so much focus.

[normal gale]

Maps are still being made. Just not maps that would contain things that should be an add-on.

Also, it's hard to use editor mode in production when it's still in preview

Well this is interesting

[sterile tinsel]

Sure, sure, I'm just at a loss as to what's needed beyond creative mode for world editing.

[normal gale]

I'm not sure how you don't see how this can grealtly help. You know world edit and axiom? Well think of editor mode like them

[sterile tinsel]

I'm assuming editor mode gives you like volumes to paint multiple blocks at once without using fill commands

[frigid relic]

yes

[plain musk]

i should get into the editor
all that stuff seem interesting

[sterile tinsel]

I've heard of world edit, but only play Bedrock

Never heard of axiom

[frigid relic]

there's world edit bedrock edition

[normal gale]

Wow

[frigid relic]

wonder who made that though

[plain musk]

lol

[normal gale]

Like, Wow. You don't know WorldEdit?

[sterile tinsel]

Nope

Lol

I'm an old man with no visual imagination

[normal gale]

I'm actually shocked. I didn't even know that was possible

[sterile tinsel]

🙂

I'm aware that it's some sort of 3d block editor, like a Minecraft version of Blender or something

[plain musk]

@sterile tinsel
https://github.com/SIsilicon/WorldEdit-BE

[sterile tinsel]

But no first-hand experience with it.

[normal gale]

You flatter me, but it might be better if he knows about the original

[frigid relic]

it does, but im going to wait until it comes out of preview to use it, I could use chunker to import worlds on stable versions however the process would take forever between edits

[sterile tinsel]

I'm not going to load the original, I detest Java edition, but that's too off topic

[frigid relic]

why lol

[normal gale]

TLDR; editor mode lets you manipulate the world in many more useful ways than the "one block at a time" way of creative mode

[sterile tinsel]

Cool beans

[plain musk]

i sent it because he said he only play bedrock. meaning he didn't know about your port

[sterile tinsel]

Thanks for that.

[frigid relic]

...

[normal gale]

Let's not bother

[frigid relic]

lets not what

[normal gale]

He says let's not go offtopic so we won't pry on that matter

I also prefer we don't go down that road

[frigid relic]

What road will it be?

because I wasnt going to argue, I just wanted to know why

[normal gale]

The editor road

[plain musk]

btw @normal gale
are there any plan to make extensions for the editor? sense you have similar experience

[snow salmon]

We're also working on adding other things to help make content like the deferred editor tool! Structures is an area we're putting a lot of thinking in right now so if you have feedback on things you'd want to see to help there come over to #old-editor and let us know!

[sterile tinsel]

@frigid relic I DMed you. I'm happy to discuss my opinions, I just don't want to muddy the topic here.

[frigid relic]

alr

[normal gale]

There were many things I wanted to add that they did themselves. But yes I'm thinking of making an extenstion for the more specific stuff

Like gradients and non-90 degree rotations

[plain musk]

good to know

[normal gale]

If only I could do it in a way that's as optimized as native functions, but what can you do

[distant salmon]

Keel over and cry

[plain musk]

lol

good luck with that

[visual hedge]

makes me wonder if this texture syntax can be used anywhere else

And what else can be changed, besides filtering

[normal gale]

Imagine making an online "store" where you can download assets and load into the game

Want a palm tree? you got it

[visual hedge]

Fr, they should call it "marketplace"

[normal gale]

Castle? Here you go

Wonderful

[visual hedge]

Actually, having some kind of structure pack on marketplace might be an interesting idea

Maybe it's already possible to submit those, as addons

[bitter valve]

no jigsaw stuff AAA

[bitter valve]

nope

all things features are locked to dynamic worlds

[strong kiln]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/documents/uniqueentitybehaviors?view=minecraft-bedrock-stable Did Mojang finally document runtime IDs?

[bitter valve]

wish i knew why

[normal gale]

Buut you can still make an addon that comes prebuilt with structures that the user can paste anywhere

It doesn't have to be worldgen specific

[bitter valve]

true

but for what Veka is talking about its not really clear

[normal gale]

The context is editor mode sooo

[bitter valve]

welp

not happening

editor is locked to preview

for now

[normal gale]

I just found some code that generates ticking areas on the fly

Wait.

Nahh. It's public. I think I'm fine

[bitter valve]

oh cool

[visual hedge]

server_editor_bindings_namespaceObject

[crisp slate]

You guys! Hah. Don’t get too used to that. It’s temporary until Editor gets a proper “work permit” system for operations outside normal ticking areas, and is supported by the new native block utility functions.

[strong kiln]

Temporary code often becomes permanent.

[normal gale]

Heh. This is exactly what I do in my addon

It juggles ticking areas for various operations to work

[crisp slate]

Not on Editor. I’m not shy of ripping stuff out I don’t like.
We’re not hampered by back-compatibility the way the game is

[normal gale]

Still trying to find where the smoothing operation takes place

[bitter valve]

true, since the editor is still in Preview

[normal gale]

I know you guys will enjoy obfuscating your little secrets.

[crisp slate]

No secrets. We're quite open about this stuff, and we're moving to a point where a lot of the glue that holds Editor together is visible

[normal gale]

I see. The graphics team could learn from you 😒

[visual hedge]

^^^

[strong kiln]

🥱 Open source the entire engine.

[crisp slate]

Most of the time we "keep secrets" is mostly because we don't want to make promises we can't keep. Judging times/deliveries is hard, and we just hate to disappoint

[normal gale]

Well while I'm here, there's a typo for terrain telemetry.

[frigid relic]

telemetry is correct

[crisp slate]

Painting isn't

[frigid relic]

lol

[normal gale]

misdirection

[frigid relic]

yeah

[crisp slate]

Checking that we're paying attention :p

[strong kiln]

No no, it is correct, start being in pain. Terraforming is hard.

[frigid relic]

evil

[tame hare]

Can the fill brush be set to a weighted group of blocks?

[hexed osprey]

Finally, you can fix it without restarting the world tho

[snow salmon]

Double click the block in the hotbar and hit 'make list' to make a weighted block palette.
You can set the relative weights inside the hotbar pane that pops up

[normal gale]

Oooh fancy

[plain musk]

that is really cool

[normal gale]

I still can't find the smoothin code!

RAAA

[tame hare]

Awesome

[bitter valve]

start paining LOL

[snow salmon]

Like this

[bitter valve]

time for everyone to HURT

[strong kiln]

What algorithm is used for the weighted or is it just Math.random().

[crisp slate]

random with distributed weights

[charred hollow]

nice very nice

[sterile tinsel]

Y'all were talking about an addon with structures in it. I've been working on a recipe-based system that creates an empty structure in memory and reads the recipe to build structures.

[crisp slate]

Sounds like Jigsaw Structure stuff

[sterile tinsel]

how do I paste code in here...

[bitter valve]

cant wait to see if Jigsaw's max block width gets expanded

thatll be lots of fun

[bitter valve]

upload as a file

[sterile tinsel]

no, I mean like a codeblock of text

I'm not gonna throw the whole file in here

found it

bah, it's like 3000 characters

lol

[bitter valve]

use ` 3 times on either end

[frigid relic]

thats awesome

[sterile tinsel]

I had to restrict my rooms with vertical trapdoors in them from being randomly rotated because there's a bug with their blockstates and rotation currently

[normal gale]

I get it now...

The smoothing... It's native code... 😔

[sterile tinsel]

is that a good or bad thing?

[normal gale]

It means I can't see how they did it

[sterile tinsel]

ah

gotcha

so in your case, a bad thing

[normal gale]

Good and bad. Good because it means they're not using JS instead of C++

Bad because I won't know how exactly they did it

[sterile tinsel]

true

yeah

[crisp slate]

Just ask dude. We're not hiding it, it just had to move to native for performance purposes.
It's just the same as a gaussian blur. We're not doing anything fancy (yet)

[strong kiln]

Upload pseudocode?

[normal gale]

I know about the gaussian. The reason why I was looking so hard is because I'm having a lot of trouble using it. It doesn't work how I expect it to

[sterile tinsel]

speaking of performance and native code, I don't suppose you guys have considered a c++ api where those of us with more programming experience could write addon modules in c++, have you?

[crisp slate]

I'll consider adding JS version of some of these things into our sample set... I have time earmarked over the next month or two to revamp our samples and documentation.

[sterile tinsel]

I suppose then we'd have to compile for all of your supported platforms

so maybe not

[normal gale]

I mean if this will just be for editor mode, it would be really beneficial for performance

[crisp slate]

Too many platform Sku's and platform holder rules to deal with. I'd figure that be highly unlikely. (not to mention different CPU's and system architectures)

[sterile tinsel]

yeah, makes sense. I almost regretted the question right after I hit enter, lol

[normal gale]

I'm gonna post the image with my problem in #old-editor

[crisp slate]

Put it here - https://github.com/Mojang/minecraft-editor/discussions/categories/bugs
We track issues properly in there

[normal gale]

Done. https://github.com/Mojang/minecraft-editor/discussions/208

[bitter valve]

has any other JS runtime been considered for the API? QuickJS isnt exactly the best one to use in most cases...

[crisp slate]

Not my area, I'm afraid 😦

[bitter valve]

sadge

[strong kiln]

Right, github for editor not Mojira?

[crisp slate]

Yeah, Editor works entirely within github. Unless it's proper gameplay bugs or issues

[hybrid geyser]

when i went into the changes under dimensions, i thought for a second they added a dimension constructor (or the ability to add new dimensions). i can only hope so much.

but still, the current changes are welcome :D

[meager heart]

do u have a link to it?

[ocean pulsar]

Thankfully. mojira sucks

[warped elk]

But I chuckled more at the idea of a StartPain telem event than paint!

[ancient ice]

im late

HAPPY PREVIEW DAY

[opal thicket]

Ender chest component when😔

[sterile tinsel]

Yey! Thank you, Devs!

[normal gale]

I'm not the only who sees this right?

It's been like this for a few previews

[night oriole]

I love how they implemented bee poisoning in this preview. Feeding the item adds a component group with spell_effects, and also a timer that waits a single tick before removing that same component group. Such a hack, the kind of thing I would write myself while muttering annoyances

[strong kiln]

Yep.

[stone scroll]

(MCPE-187995) Custom jigsaw structures generate incorrectly

Reported by

XxPoggyisLitxX

Votes

6

Project

MCPE

Created

<t:1730312990:R>

Updated

<t:1730986531:R>

Status

To Do (Reopened)

Since version

1.21.50.26 Preview

Resolution

Unresolved

Fix version

Unset

[tight portal]

Here ^

[strong kiln]

Oh shoot, sorry for late ping @ancient ice but did you ever figure out why ItemStack has both Compostable component and field?

[ancient ice]

Yeah, should be fixed in the next release

[boreal marten]

Do Mojang develeopers actually use behavior pack to develop the game

That's crazy

[meager heart]

thanks

main issue i've been noticing is that sometimes my jigsaws are cut off

[sterile tinsel]

Why would that be crazy? If they're using it internally, it helps them know what is working or isn't working before it rolls out to us.

[strong kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/jm-gif-18068790282636308332

[spark jacinth]

new telemetry data??

[strong kiln]

The 3rd line?

[spark jacinth]

yea i dont remember that being there before

but i also usually have it hidden

[bitter valve]

wait you can hide telemetry?

[spark jacinth]

yea. i use a pack that hides it

[bitter valve]

oh

[sudden hare]

It uses JSON UI so you can ignore rendering it

[unreal terrace]

Tree features work again and have an updated schema to use block tags, neet

[astral nebula]

Bring back hcf's add_effect

[grim pelican]

@sudden hare why am i not getting pings anymore

@sudden hare why am i not getting pings anymore

[sudden hare]

oop- I'm guessing someone's lagging

[sudden hare]

Might've pulled an old commit but thinking about moving to roles (thank you Majestik) though unsure if the bot would get spammy or ratelimited because too many users might have the role

[fading grail]

maybe you can divide the roles to preview and stable releases to ping the one that care for said releases

[grim pelican]

Oh I see

When will it be fixed

[sudden hare]

I already added you to the list

[grim pelican]

okay thanks 🙂

[real dawn]

Now with the implementation of the Ore UI on the world editing screen, does Mojang intend to add the export worlds button on mobile? Because so far it is exclusive to Windows, and mobile can only activate it with texture, but now with the Ore UI it is really impossible to enable the button.

[opal thicket]

I’d say it’s always been possible but it just isn’t on their list of properties

[real dawn]

Yes, the button exists and works very well, but it is hidden and can only be activated with a texture pack, but now with the Ore UI screen, this is kind of invalidated and makes the button inaccessible for Android, and with Android's limitations it makes it impossible for you to save backup or transfer your worlds to another device or storage.

I really wish they would enable the button on the ore ui screen for mobile users as this is a very important feature

[opal thicket]

Android doesn’t have much limitations, you just have to go to your files and get the world folder and archive it into a .zip to send it to someone

Same thing on iPhone

[fading grail]

I think some people can't access there world folders

[opal thicket]

Pretty sure every android can along as you have a file explorer

[real dawn]

actually no, from android 13 the game folder becomes inaccessible in normal ways

[fading grail]

Yep

[real dawn]

You can only do this if you use alternative methods such as root

[fading grail]

Or as I like to do, connect my phone to my laptop using a data cable and accessing my files on my laptop

[real dawn]

but well, this method is not a very practical method like the native button to export worlds

[fading grail]

Fair

[opal thicket]

Oh weird, didn’t know

[real dawn]

so I would like the addition of the official forms button not only the export worlds button but also the export structures button