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Minecraft Beta Update 1.17.0.56 Patch Notes Revealed

Posted on May 20, 2021 by bisecthosting

Those on the cutting edge of Minecraft have a massive new update to improve on the Caves and Cliffs features available now in the Beta.

That new Minecraft Beta update is 1.17.0.56, and it packs some nice improvements in its patch notes. So let's dive in.

Minecraft Caves and Cliffs Beta

Minecraft Caves and Cliffs has captivated fans since its announcement in 2020, and players have flocked to trying the many new features and improvements it promises.

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This is where the Minecraft Caves and Cliffs Beta comes into play.

Players can try out many Caves and Cliffs changes early via the Beta, and it constantly gets better with regular patches and updates.

The newest Minecraft Beta update, 1.17.0.56, has arrived, and you don't want to miss it!

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Minecraft 1.17.0.56 Patch Notes

Get strapped in - Minecraft Update 1.17.0.56 is a big one for the Beta! Read over its full patch notes below.

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Caves & Cliffs Experimental

User Interface

Added a warning for loading an old world with Experimental features in a new version of the game
Introduced 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 can be found underground during world generation

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Non-Experimental Features and Fixes

Axolotl

Axolotl no longer attacks invisible mobs
Textures for Axolotls have been updated
Bred Axolotl maintain their color after being placed from a Bucket (MCPE-123328)

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 (MCPE-126726)
Amethyst Geodes were made slightly rarer

Azalea

Bonemealing Azalea/Flowering Azalea now correctly turns into a tree if placed on Moss Block (MCPE-125767)

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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 (MCPE-123571)
When bonemealing Small Dripleaf, the resulting Big Dripleaf is at least 2 blocks tall (MC-214159)

Dripstone

Mobs can once again pathfind around Pointed Dripstone

Glow Squid

Naturally spawned Glow Squid now despawn (MCPE-126701)
Using Pick Block on a Glow Squid in Creative now gives the Glow Squid Egg (MCPE-126946)

Lightning Rod

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

Powder Snow

Textures will now apply in isotropic manner
Multiple blocks can't be placed on Powder Snow (MCPE-116205)
Fences and Walls no longer connect to Powder Snow in Bedrock (MCPE-113504)
Fog effect is no longer applied to the third-person camera when the camera isn't inside Powder Snow (MCPE-126028)
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 (MCPE-124414)
Powder Snow no longer has one corner that collides with mobs

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Features and Bug Fixes

Mobs

Skeletons transforming in to Strays now play appropriate transformation sounds
Withers no longer take freeze damage from Powder Snow (MCPE-126788)
Bees no longer gather nectar from Sweet Berry Bushes
Bees can once again enter Beehives and Bee Nests (MCPE-122705)

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 (MCPE-94178)
When a Player using the touch interface presses and holds the crafting output window, they can rapidly craft items up to one stack (MCPE-28689)

Iron and 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 (MCPE-105330)

Player Animations

Fixed Players showing the Bow holding animation after respawning when killed by another Player (MCPE-58861)
Fixed issue where certain items (Bow, Cossbow, Trident, shield in main hand) wouldn't bob with View Bobbing turned on (MCPE-125853)

Translation

Removed Lit Deepslate Redstone translation (MCPE-123605)

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 (MCPE-120336)

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)
Addressed Enchanted Bow's textures being too dark (MCPE-119701)

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 (MCPE-58557)

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