Bedrock Edition 1.14.0

### Release date

**Android, iOS, iPadOS, Fire OS, Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Gear VR, Xbox One, PS4** – December 10, 2019
**Nintendo Switch** – December 11, 2019

### Development versions

**Betas** (6)
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### Downloads

**Server**
Windows Linux

### Protocol version

389

For a guide about all content in this release and the other releases of Buzzy Bees, see Bedrock Edition guides/Buzzy Bees.

**1.14.0**, the first release of **Buzzy Bees**, is a major update to *Bedrock Edition* released on December 10–11, 2019, alongside Java Edition 1.15. It adds bees and bee-related items, such as honey blocks and beehives. It also marks the arrival of Bedrock Edition on PlayStation 4, discontinuing the *PlayStation 4 Edition* and resultantly Legacy Console Edition as a whole.

## Additions

### Blocks

Beehives
* Crafted with 6 planks and 3 honeycombs.
* Function the same as bee nests, but does not need a Silk Touch enchanted tool to be dropped.

Bee nests
* Spawn naturally in flower forests, plains, and sunflower plains biomes.
* Can house up to 3 bees.
* Fill up with honey.
	+ Have a max honey level of 5.
* Can be obtained by using a Silk Touch enchanted tool.

Honeycomb blocks
* Crafted with 4 honeycombs.
* Are purely decorative.

Honey blocks
* Crafted with 4 honey bottles.
* Drastically reduce movement speed and jump height.
* Can be climbed down, and will drag anything on them when moved by a piston.
* Do not stick to slime blocks.
* Reduce fall damage by 80%.

### Items

Honey bottles
* Can be drunk by using it, restoring 6 () hunger points.
	+ Drinking one will also remove the poison effect.
* Can be used to craft sugar and honey blocks.
* Obtained by using a bottle on full bee hives/nests.

Honeycombs
* Obtained by using shears on full bee hives/nests.
* Can be used to craft bee hives and honeycomb blocks.

Spawn eggs
* Added bee spawn egg.

### Mobs

Bees
* Have 10 health.
* Live in groups near hives and nests.
	+ If a bee does not have a home nest, it will wander around until it finds one.
* Can be bred using any flower.
* Adult and baby bees will pollinate flowers, then go back to nests and hives and make honey.
* Bees can make plants grow faster if they pass above it after pollinating flowers.
* Attack in a swarm if provoked, have a baby or if honey is taken from nests/hives without using a campfire.
	+ When they attack, they give Poison to the target and die 50-60 seconds after attacking.
* Are affected by Bane of Arthropods.

### Gameplay

Achievements
* Added 3 new achievements:
	+ *Bee our guest* - Use a campfire to collect honey from a Beehive using a bottle without aggravating the bees (15G)
	+ *Total Beelocation* - Move a Bee Nest with 3 bees inside using Silk Touch (30G)
	+ *Sticky Situation* - Slide down a honey block to slow your fall (30G)

### Command format

Game rules
* Added `showtags` gamerule. [*more information needed*]

### General

* Added support for Bedrock on PlayStation 4 Edition.
	+ Pre-existing players on the PlayStation 4 platform can still play the Legacy Console Edition codebase by launching the legacy version within the *Bedrock Edition* game.
	+ Added the "Editions" button on *Bedrock Edition* and "Launch New Minecraft" button for *PlayStation 4 Edition* allowing for pre-existing players to switch between the two versions.

## Changes

### Blocks

Dispensers
* Can now fill bottles with water or honey.
* Can now shear honeycombs.

Slime blocks
* Changed the texture to match *Java Edition*.

### Items

Leads
* Can now be used on dolphins, ocelots, parrots, and polar bears. (MCPE-46866)

Spawn eggs
* Are now sorted alphabetically in the Creative inventory.

### Gameplay

Swimming
* Players can no longer start swimming in 1-block deep water.

### General

* Improved performance.

Experience
* Tweaked the amount of experience dropped by animals to match *Java Edition*.

Loading tips
* Added new loading screen tips and trivia.

Menu screen
* Changed the title screen background to reflect bees and items related to them.

Map-making and add-ons
* Item tags can now be hidden in the UI using the `/gamerule showtags` command.

Patrols
* Can no longer spawn in the Nether and End.

## Fixes

Crashes
* Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when signing into Xbox Live on Android.

Performance
* Fixed an issue with kelp growth causing lag in specific chunks. (MCPE-50175)

General
* Fixed a render distance issue that could cause an old style (limited) world to not load correctly if a player logged out in a specific corner of that world.
* Fixed an issue that was causing scripting error messages to show on the Alien Worlds Marketplace world.

Gameplay
* Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing chests to become invisible. (MCPE-52790)
* Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause touch screen controls to become inverted. (MCPE-50256)

Mobs
* Improved the accuracy of pathfinding for flying mobs.
* Baby pigmen now hold their swords in their hands, rather than around their necks. (MCPE-53454)

Blocks
* Fixed an issue that was causing sugar cane to break when a nearby water source became waterlogged. (MCPE-52314)

Items
* Arrows and tridents no longer fall through the ground after being deflected by a shield. (MCPE-44721)
* Dragon heads now appear at the correct height. (MCPE-53129)
* Buckets can once again be used to milk cows. (MCPE-54623)
* Milk buckets can again be used to craft cakes. (MCPE-52774)
* Fixed acacia leaves sometimes becoming stuck in the inventory hotbar.
* Placing armor on an armor stand in Creative mode no longer equips it on the player as well.

Character creator
* Various fixes to the character creator.
* Fixed an issue that was causing worn items to transfer between character creator models unexpectedly.
* Adding or removing the founder's cape now updates the skin in-game without needing to restart.
* Platform restricted skins can now be previewed in the character creator.
* Fixed capes not rendering in some skin packs. (MCPE-54181)
* Fixed another issue that was causing player skins to revert to a default Alex or Steve after relaunching the game.
* Skins that don't roam to Minecraft Earth no longer display "Usable Everywhere" in the character creator.
* Equipping a new custom skin now updates the player model without needing to restart the game.
* Optimized the size of character creator skins to improve performance when playing in multiplayer.

Graphical
* Fixed the held item bobbing animation when moving in first person view. (MCPE-51212)
* The block breaking animation now shows again if a block is below water when the player is above.
* The player's hand no longer disappears when gliding with elytra. (MCPE-53092)
* Water now renders correctly when kelp is placed next to a glass block.

User interface
* Fixed a navigation issue that could cause an incorrect focus change when choosing an option from the pause menu.
* Fixed an issue that could cause menu flickering when navigating through the character creator.
* The "See Pack in Store" button in the character creator can now be highlighted and selected when using a controller.
* Fixed some misspelled splash text.

Add-ons and script engine
* Custom entities once again show their health bar correctly while being ridden.
* Fixed an issue with particle billboarding that was causing them to appear flipped in the wrong direction.
* Fixed an issue with pivot points for custom geometry cube models.
* Fixed a bug that was causing tamed entity damage to be counted as coming from mounted players.

## References

1. ↑ "Minecraft - Buzzy Bees - 1.14.0 (Bedrock)" , December 10, 2019.
2. ↑ "Bedrock is coming to PS4" – Minecraft.net, December 9, 2019