Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.17.0.56 adds lava aquifers and more from 'Caves and Cliffs Update'

 Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.17.0.56 adds lava aquifers and more from 'Caves and Cliffs Update'

The latest beta adds spicy lakes and shakes things up a little.

What you need to know

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition has a long-running beta program to test upcoming features and updates.

The latest beta is now available with lots of tweaks, bug fixes, and new experimental lava aquifers.

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.17.0.56 from the 'Caves and Cliffs Update' also tweaks the "Experimental Features" toggle.

You can now install the latest beta on Xbox, Windows 10, and Android devices if you're enrolled in the beta program.

Minecraft is giving hardcore players a lot to play with today with the release of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.17.0.56 to testers. The latest beta continues to test developments from the upcoming Caves and Cliffs Update, which is now releasing in two parts later this year. Beta 1.17.0.56 includes a sizeable number of changes, fixes, and tweaks, including changes to how the "Experimental Features" toggle works and the addition of lava aquifers to the aforementioned experiment.

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The full changelog for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.17.0.56 includes:

Experimental features User interface

Added a warning for loading an old world with Experimental features in a new version of the game

Added a label that indicates that a world is Experimental

Added a description for Experimental features in the world creation screen

Aquifers

Aquifers filled with lava are now placed underground during world generation

Features & bug fixes Axolotl

Axolotl no longer attacks invisible mobs

Axolotl textures have been updated

Bred Axolotl maintain their color after being placed from a Bucket

Spyglass

There is now a tooltip on controller for holding a Spyglass

Amethyst

Amethyst Buds and cluster breaking animation no longer float in the air

Aligned in-hand rendering of Amethyst Bud items with Java Edition

Amethyst Geodes were made slightly rarer

Azalea

Bonemealing Azalea / Flowering Azalea now correctly turns into a tree if placed on Moss Block

Deepslate

Deepslate top and bottom textures are now applied in isotropic manner. Due to tessellation limitations, we are limiting the isotropicness of Deepslate to when these textures are up and down (as this is a rotatable block) for now

Small dripleaf

Players are now able to use Pick Block Small Dripleaf

When bonemealing Small Dripleaf, the resulting Big Dripleaf is at least 2 blocks tall

Dripstone

Mobs can once again pathfind around Pointed Dripstone

Glow squid

Naturally spawned Glow Squid now despawn

Using Pick Block on a Glow Squid in Creative now gives the Glow Squid Egg

Lightning rod

Lightning that strikes Lightning Rod no longer has the chance to trigger Skeleton traps

Powder snow

Textures are now applied in isotropic manner

Multiple blocks can no longer be placed on Powder Snow

Fences and Walls no longer connect to Powder Snow in Bedrock

Fog effect is no longer applied to the third-person camera when the camera isn't inside Powder Snow

Powder Snow Block no longer becomes invisible if the Player is extinguished by both the Powder Snow Block and any other method at the same time

Powder Snow no longer has one corner that collides with mobs

Mobs

Skeletons transforming in to Strays now play appropriate transformation sounds

Withers no longer take freeze damage from Powder Snow

Bees no longer gather nectar from Sweet Berry Bushes

Bees can once again enter Beehives and Bee Nests

Controller tooltips

Added tooltips for:

Collect Lava from Cauldron using Bucket

Collect Powder Snow from Powder Snow Block using Bucket

Empty Lava into Cauldron from Bucket

Empty Powder Snow into Cauldron from Bucket

Gameplay

Player who receives negative damage will not generate absorption heart

When a Player using the touch interface presses and holds the crafting output window, they can rapidly craft items up to one stack

Iron & gold ore

Iron and Gold Ore now drops the correct block item instead of nothing when mined on worlds that have a Base Game Version locked to a value lower than 1.17

Items

Picking up part of a stack no longer picks up the entire stack and drops the excess

Player animations

Fixed Players showing the Bow holding animation after respawning when killed by another Player

Fixed issue where certain items (Bow, Cossbow, Trident, shield in main hand) wouldn't bob with View Bobbing turned on

Translation

Removed Lit Deepslate Redstone translation

Technical updates

Fixed issue with Simburbia world where standing next to a windows shutter block would obscure the view with the "update" texture

Fixed a crash that occurred when using the /stopsound command to stop the elytra.loop sound

Graphical

Fixed a crash on Windows 10 that can occur in ray tracing mode due to a stale pointer reference

Fixed various cases when ray tracing textures would not be reloaded (resolution switching, upscaling mode switching, ray tracing on / off toggling)

Fixed Enchanted Bow's textures being too dark

Summon Prefix fixes

Fixed a merge bug when loading json definitions for Vanilla mobs

Fixed a bug with the summonable property of overridden vanilla mobs pre JSON version 1.8.0, which caused Bees to not be summonable

Items

The has_equipment filter will now properly evaluate custom entity spawn eggs

Projectiles

The ImpactDamageSubcomponent will again only prevent damage from being dealt to fire immune mobs if the catchFire field is true and the projectile is on fire

Dedicated server

The dedicated server log will now list all Experiments enabled in a world when loading it

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