Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.30 Update Notes for Creators

Minecraft Bedrock has been updated to 1.21.30 and there are a number of changes of note for Add-On creators. The following features do not require experimental toggles.

Blocks

• Item Display Transforms - Allows customization of the block rendering in "item" scenarios (such as: in-hand, floating item, and in the inventory/GUI).

Entities

• Breeze entity goals are now available for creators to use.
  • minecraft:behavior.move_around_target
  • minecraft:behavior.fire_at_target
  • minecraft:behavior.jump_around_target

Items

• dyeable - Dyeable Item Component
• rarity - Rarity Item Component

Loot Tables

• set_potion - This function for loot tables can set the potion type of compatible items with a potion id.

Commands

• /reload all command causes players to quit the world and rejoin and also reloads all behavior and resource packs.

Creator API

Another set of Creator APIs have been released out of beta and into stable (see: script versioning for information on how we version Creator APIs). These APIs should be a lot more stable and also allow Marketplace content creators to leverage them with backwards compatibility support.

APIs included in the @minecraft/server version 1.14.0 release:

• Player Emote Event
  • PlayerEmoteAfterEvent
• EntityStrength APIs
  • EntityStrengthComponent
• BlockRecordPlayer APIs
  • BlockRecordPlayerComponent
• TargetSelector for Entity Properties APIs
  • EntityQueryPropertyOptions
• Inventory APIs
  • PlayerCursorInventoryComponent

APIs included in the @minecraft/server-ui version 1.3.0 release:

• Close All Server-UI Forms
  • UIManager
    • closeAllForms

Beta APIs will continue to be developed behind the Beta API experimental flag. Read more about script versioning.

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What's Next

Looking ahead, here's what you can expect coming in future releases.

What's Next for Camera

• 3rd Person Preset - currently in experimental, this will add another camera preset type for use with the camera command and APIs.
• Focus Target - A new parameter allowing the Free Cam to track an entity.
• Aim Assist - A feature that allows for Aim Assist to improve usability in Custom Camera scenarios.

What's Next for Blocks

• Destructible_by_mining - This will allow creators to set the tool tiers for vanilla and custom blocks.
• Redstone properties and components - This will allow for access to customize Redstone connectivity.

What's Next for Entities

• Improved spawn rules

What's Next for Items

• Bundle components - Several components are coming to allow some creator customization of bundles:
  • minecraft:storage_item
  • minecraft:bundle_interaction

What's Next for Script API

• Player Interact Events
• Block Volume APIs
• Block Liquid APIs
• Redstone (getRedstonePower) API

For more information on what's next, follow our Beta/Preview Changelogs.