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MCPE/WIN 10/Gear VR - 0.16

Published: May 23, 2018 - View official source

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New Features:

  • Ocean Monuments
  • Guardians and Elder Guardians
  • Prismarine, dark prismarine & prismarine bricks
  • Prismarine shard & prismarine crystal
  • Sea lantern
  • The Wither!
  • Nether star
  • Beacon
  • Wet & dry sponges
  • You can now use slash commands (which have auto-complete now) by enabling cheats for a world in the options screen (but this will disable Xbox Live achievements for that world even if you are in survival)
  • Good news for left-handed players - you can now do custom key binding for keyboard!
  • You can now search in the Creative inventory
  • Add-on section for world settings
  • Search added in creative inventory
  • You can change game modes in Realms (if you do this in world settings, it will restart the realm but if you individually change a player's game mode through commands, it won't restart the realm)
  • Ability to upload & download worlds in Realms
  • Ability to promote players as operators in Realms


Tweaks:

  • Lots of cool, new UI changes! 
  • Performance improvements
  • Tweaks to various mob action/behavior triggers, including fixing creeper explosions
  • Elder guardian de-buff visuals fixed (feedback from Android beta)
  • Fishing rods & arrows will fire in more than just one direction
  • Lots of tweaks to water textures to make underwater more fun
  • Tweaks to Realms settings
  • Visual tweaks to sun, moon & stars when rendering in VR immersive mode


Bug Fixes:

  • See the following Beta changelogs: https://aka.ms/mc16beta1 & https://aka.ms/mc16beta5
  • Item durability updates correctly now.
  • Language subpacks for jp_JP & zh_TW now load correctly.
  • Mobs now spawn in accumulated snow & so spawn correctly in snow biomes.
  • Endermen no longer continue to attack the player after the player respawns.
  • Charged creepers have the correct size of explosion.
  • Splash potions no longer being dispensed like eggs instead of thrown potions.
  • You can now open your inventory using touch while riding horses/donkeys/mules/pigs/boats.
  • Game no longer crashes when a filled cauldron is moved by a piston.
  • Import/export function now works with non UTF-8 characters in the file path.
  • Horses can be dismounted while sneaking.
  • You can now see the camera shake from damage.
  • Guardians now spawning correctly inside ocean monuments (fix from Android beta).
  • TNT minecarts can be detonated by more than just flint & steel.
  • Hurt sounds have returned!
  • When you feed ocelots to make baby ocelots, they actually eat the food now (and the amount you feed them is deducted from your stack of food in your inventory).
  • Clouds no longer flicker when fog updates.
  • Behavior of activator rails corrected- no longer reversed & interact correctly with hopper minecarts.
  • If your computer is joined to a domain, you can now log in with a different account (for those of us who play Minecraft at work!)
  • Fixed crash on player spawn.
  • Fixed consistency of tipped arrows & healing.
  • Fixed a crash on Windows Phone (MCPE only).
  • Shears fixed so you can use them on sheep & mooshroom even when they aren't at full durability.
  • Fixed untamed horses so you can't accidentally saddle them & lose the saddle.
  • Fixed a crash with item frames and compass/clocks.
  • Fixed a crash when selecting a custom skin.
  • ""Saddle up"" achievement should work now.
  • Monster spawners no longer will occasionally spawn mobs in areas that are well-lit (and thus shouldn't be spawning hostile mobs).
  • Wolves now attack other mobs with the appropriate frequency.
  • Wither skeletons inflict Wither I effect
  • Removed the restrict distance from leads but functionality is maintained.
  • Fixed bugs with fireballs and large fireballs.
  • Beacon effects no longer disappear when re-entering a world (feedback from Android beta).
  • Fixed a crash when a player accepted a Realms invite while playing in a world.
  • TNT Minecart's fuse timing fixed.
  • Fixed Wither's death animation (feedback from Android beta).
  • Fixed issue of sheep not always retaining their colors on spawn.
  • Fixed ""Archer"" achievement.
  • Creepers can no longer explode while dying.
  • Walking up stairs no longer causes suffocation (but you will still hit your head).
  • Wet sponges and bricks now show up on the furnace UI (MCPE only).
  • Fixed experience accumulation bug- can't disconnect and reconnect from a world to get back your spent experience point levels.
  • Elder guardian mining fatigue sound plays (feedback from Android beta).
  • A player's mining sound is now only audible to the player.
  • Guardian beam attack sound at appropriate volume now (feedback from Android beta).
  • Strays again spawn in ice biomes.
  • Iron Golem damaged fixed to the appropriate amount.
  • Saddled pigs now drop the saddle when killed.
  • Dropped items no longer damage farmland (feedback from Android beta).
  • Inventory no longer lost when language is changed to or from Japanese or Traditional Chinese.