Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100 Update Notes for Creators

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Minecraft Bedrock has been updated to 1.21.100 and there are a number of changes of note for creators. The following features do not require experimental toggles.

Editor

Editor v1.0.4 Editor has been updated with a number of quality-of-life features.

• Tool Tip GIFs
• Brush Rotation
• Pencil Tool
• Structure Drag and Drop

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Blocks

• Particle Count - When breaking a block, defines the quantity of particles that appear with a particle_count property on destruction particles.
• Textures - UV Locking (minecraft:geometry uv_lock) - This will make it so there is no longer a need to define new geo every time a texture is rotated.
• Moveable - Defines if block is immovable, pushable, or pullable by a piston.
• Random offset (minecraft:random_offset) - Defines a block to have a variable offset, allowing for the kind of randomization seen in dirt blocks.

Entities

• minecraft:behavior.take_block AI goal allows an entity to take blocks from the world with various options.
• minecraft:behavior.place_block AI goal allows an entity to place blocks in the world with various options.

Scripting

• Custom Commands - Similar to block and item custom components, this allows creation of custom slash commands via script.
• Player inventory events
  • PlayerHotbarSelectedSlotChangeAfterEvent
  • PlayerHotbarSelectedSlotChangeAfterEventSignal
  • PlayerInventoryItemChangeAfterEvent
  • PlayerInventoryItemChangeAfterEventSignal
  • HotbarEventOptions
  • InventoryItemEventOptions
  • PlayerInventoryType
• Armor APIs
  • EntityEquippableComponent
    • totalArmor
    • totalToughness
• Loc Key APIs - Access to localizationKey property for Block, Entity, Dimension, and ItemStack.
• Container.find APIs - An easier method to search the contents of a container.
  • container
    • contains
    • firstEmptySlot
    • firstItem
    • find
    • findLast
• DyeableItemComponent
• MovementType
• StickyType
• BlockMovableComponent

What's Next

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

What's Next for Camera

• FOV - This is a new parameter that will allow you to set a custom FOV for the custom camera presets as well as Vanilla cameras via commands and API.
• Aim assist, projectiles - The aim assist feature is expanded to support projectiles.

What's Next for World Gen

• Jigsaw Block - All of the functionality currently available in experimental is coming to stable in an upcoming release.
• Improved Spawn rules - Allowing for customized mob spawning in biomes and structures.
• Biome replacement - All of the functionality currently available in experimental is coming to stable in an upcoming release.

What's Next for Blocks

• Loot & destroy API - Allow reading loot tables through scripting. Apply different loot tables through scripting when destroying entity or block.

What's Next for Script API, Molang and Commands

• Player apply impulse and clear velocity
• Book APIs

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