Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.0.57

**Beta 1.16.0.57** is the ninth beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.16.0, released on April 15, 2020, which adds more Nether Update features, more parity and fixes bugs.

## Additions

### Blocks

Blackstone
* Naturally generates in basalt deltas and bastion remnants.
* Generates in all Nether biomes below lava level.
* Can be used to craft stone tools and furnaces.

Blackstone Slab, Blackstone Stairs, Blackstone Wall
* Decorative blocks crafted from blackstone.

Chain
* Currently can't be crafted
* Generates in Bastion Remnants
* Has the appearance of top chain of lanterns, making them good for decorations.

Chiseled Nether Bricks
* Crafted from 2 Nether brick slabs.

Cracked Nether Bricks
* Obtained by smelting Nether bricks in a furnace.

Crying Obsidian
* Generates in Ruined Portals.
* Can be crafted into respawn anchor.
* Obtainable through bartering.
* Can be found in ruined portals and bastion remnant chests.

Gilded Blackstone
* Variant of blackstone that can drop gold nuggets.

Hyphae
* Variant of wood using the Nether types.
* Also has a stripped variant.

Lodestone
* Crafted with 1 netherite ingot and 8 chiseled stone bricks.
* Using a compass on it turns the compass into a lodestone compass which points to the connected lodestone.
* Works in all dimensions.
* Currently only available through Experimental Gameplay.

Nether Gold Ore
* Drops several gold nuggets.

Polished Blackstone
* Crafted from 4 blackstone.
* Can be crafted into pressure plates, buttons, slabs, stairs, and walls.

Polished Blackstone Bricks
* Crafted from 4 polished blackstone.
* Can be crafted into slabs, stairs, and walls.

Polished Blackstone Brick Slab, Polished Blackstone Brick Stairs, Polished Blackstone Brick Wall
* Decorative blocks crafted from polished blackstone bricks.

Polished Blackstone Button and Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate
* Redstone blocks crafted from polished blackstone.
* Works like their stone counterparts.

Polished Blackstone Slab, Polished Blackstone Stairs, and Polished Blackstone Wall
* Decorative blocks crafted from polished blackstone.

Quartz Bricks
* Variant of quartz blocks.
* Crafted from 4 blocks of quartz.

Respawn Anchor
* Crafted with 6 crying obsidian and three glowstone.
* Requires a diamond pickaxe or higher to mine.
* Can be used to respawn in the Nether
* It is charged with glowstone and can be charged up to four levels. Whenever someone who charged the respawn anchor dies, they respawn near it and the level goes down by 1.
* Can be charged with dispensers.
* When it is not charged, it does not do anything.
* Similar to how a bed explodes in the Nether, attempting to use a respawn anchor in the Overworld or the End causes it to explode.

Soul Campfire
* Acts the same as a normal campfire.

Twisting Vines
* Another variant of vines found in warped forests.
* Grows upward, unlike weeping vines.
* Can be climbed.

### Items

Piglin Banner Pattern
* Creates a "Hoglin Face" on the banner.
* Generates in mineshaft and bastion remnant chests.

Pigstep Music Disc
* Plays Pigstep, by Lena Raine.
* Generates in bastion remnant chests.

Spawn eggs
* Added strider and zoglin spawn egg.

Warped fungus on a stick
* Crafted with a fishing rod and warped fungus.
* Can be used to control striders in the same way a carrot on a stick controls pigs.

#### Enchantments

Soul Speed
* Used to travel more quickly on soul sand and soul soil.

### Mobs

Strider
* A new passive mob that spawns in the Nether on lava oceans.
* Can be saddled and controlled with warped fungus on a stick.
* Is damaged by water and rain.
* Can be bred with warped fungi.
* Can spawn with zombified piglins or baby striders riding them.
	+ If they spawn with a zombified piglin, they will also have a saddle equipped.

Zoglins
* Created when a hoglin is brought into the Overworld.
* Unlike hoglins, they cannot be bred or fed, and they do not flee from warped fungus.
* Attack most mobs on sight, except for creepers and other zoglins.

### World generation

Basalt deltas
* A volcanic biome in the Nether with fog effects of ash.
* Filled with pillars of basalt and large areas of blackstone.
* Ghasts, magma cubes, and striders spawn in this biome.

Bastion Remnants
* Structures built from blackstone and filled with piglins.
* Contains chests, blocks of gold, and various forms of loot protected by piglins.
* Generate in every biome except basalt deltas.

Ruined Portal
* Structure found in the Overworld and the Nether
* May contain a Chest
* Can be found underground

### Gameplay

Emotes
* You can toggle the emote menu with `B`, or  on Xbox one controllers, or  by default
* Added "Wave" emote

### General

Ambience
* Added ambient cave sounds.
* Added ambient sounds for Crimson Forest, Warped Forest, and Soulsand Valley.

Music
* Added Rubedo, Chrysopoeia, and So Below, by Lena Raine.
* Added Update Aquatic underwater music.

Splashes
* Added the following splash text:
	+ "Honey, I grew the bees"
	+ "Find your claw!"
	+ "Everybody do the Leif!"
	+ "<3 Max & 99 & Ducky"
	+ "Bushy eyebrows"
	+ "Edit is a name"
	+ "From free range developers"

### Command format

`/kick`
* Used to kick players from a world.

## Changes

### Blocks

Beacons
* Can now be fed with netherite ingots

Smithing tables
* Now has functionality and used to upgrade diamond tools.

Jigsaw Block
* Changed texture.
* Now has functionality and can be obtained by `/give` command.

Basalt
* Can now be made if lava touches blue ice while flowing over soul soil.

Honey Block, Honeycomb Block, Netherrack, Nether Brick, Nether Quartz Ore, Bone Block and Soul Sand.
* Added new sounds.

Soul Fire Torch
* Renamed "Soul Fire Torch" to "Soul Torch".
* Can now also be crafted with soul sand.

Soul Fire Lantern
* Renamed "Soul Fire Lantern" to "Soul Lantern".

Block of Netherite
* Netherite blocks can now be used as the base of a beacon.

Target
* Are no longer only available through Experimental Gameplay.

### Items

Hoe
* Are now the default tool for nether wart blocks, warped wart blocks, hay bales, sponges, wet sponges, leaves, dried kelp blocks, target blocks and shroomlight.
* Can be now enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune and Silk Touch.

Fungi, Nether Sprouts, Roots, Nether Wart, Nether Wart Block, Warped Wart Block, Twisting Vines, and Weeping Vines
* Can now be composted.

### Mobs

General
* Mobs that panic now do so for all damage types

Creepers
* Now deal damage when in a boat on water.

Magma Cubes
* Spawn commonly in basalt deltas.

Piglins
* Updated the bartering to match *Java Editon*.
* Piglins now "inspect" the gold ingot before giving the player an item, as opposed to giving the item instantly.
* The health has been reduced from 24 × 12 to 16 × 8.
* Now have their own new sounds.

Hoglins
* Changed hoglin model to match *Java Edition*.
* Now have new sounds.
* Now drop leather when killed.

### World Generation

Soul Sand Valleys
* Soul sand generates below lava level.
* Now generates Nether Fossils.

Bee Nests
* Now have a 3% chance to generate in flower forest.
* Now have a 5% chance to generate in plains and sunflower plains.
* Now have a 0.035% chance to generate in forest, wooded hills, birch forest, tall birch forest, birch forest hills, and tall birch hills biomes.

### Command format

`/spawnpoint`
* Can now be used in the Nether.

### Gameplay

Trading
* Villager trade values have been changed to closely match *Java Edition* (MCPE-47141).

### General

"New Server" window
* Created a new server tab play screen layout to provide more information about third-party servers.
* Added new information sections about third party servers: description, screenshots, available games, and news/updates.
* Removed colors from third party server messages for accessibility purposes.
* Added message which explain what adding a server does.

Server moderation
* Players can be now be kicked or banned from worlds by pausing and going to the "Player Permissions" screen.
	+ Anyone with Operator permissions will be able to kick players.
	+ Kicked players will not be able to rejoin LAN games while the world is open.
* Realm owners can now change permissions of players in their Realm from the "Player Permissions" screen.
* Latency value is now provided separately from the user count when in a multiplayer world.

Pause screen
* The name of the Realm is now shown on the pause screen when in a Realms world.

## Fixes

Crashes
* Fixed a crash related to exploding beds in the nether.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when typing a character into chat that we don’t have a font sheet for.
* Using the `/fill` command with Soul Fire no longer causes the game to crash (MCPE-65672).

General
* Light propagation now works correctly, fixing hostile mob spawning (MCPE-49616).
* Typing in the inventory Search field no longer creates lag (MCPE-64584).
* The smooth camera option (from full keyboard gameplay) is no longer jittery, and is smooth again (MCPE-54969).
* Fixed an issue with the Marketplace not always loading in correctly.
* Fixed an issue with notifications not showing in iOS.
* The hay blocks in the town center in the Abandoned Village seed are now generated correctly.
* The screen reader now only reads the generating world message once when converting worlds to Bedrock
* Ender Dragon’s fireball lingering particles are no longer invisible
* Activator rails now dismount players and other mobs at the correct position (MCPE-30744).
* The Wither’s spawning explosion no longer breaks obsidian (MCPE-59502).
* Obfuscated text color code works on signs placed in the world (MCPE-33780).
* Bamboo has been changed to be unpathable by mobs to prevent them getting stuck (MCPE-46805).
* Target block redstone signal duration is based on projectile type - Long for trident and arrows, short for other projectiles (MCPE-65413).
* Armor stands no longer shift and fall through blocks when a world is reloaded (MCPE-29170).
* Fixed ping latency clarity for users.

Gameplay
* Giant spruce trees once again generate podzol underneath (MCPE-65046).
* Fixed an issue with player experience being lost when reloading a world.
* Minecarts no longer collide with other minecarts on parallel tracks (MCPE-59302).
* Falling top snow can no longer break solid blocks (MCPE-63214).
* Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed villagers and players to respawn inside blocks when getting out of bed (MCPE-46064).
* The XP cost is now readable in the anvil UI screen (MCPE-51908).
* Bamboo can now be placed on top of bamboo saplings without Experimental Gameplay being enabled (MCPE-50088).

Mobs
* The Iron Golem's legs don't swing as far anymore.
* Reduced the melee attack range of mounted mobs (MCPE-48539).
* Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented mobs from burning on bottom-half slabs (MCPE-32822).
* Turtles now lay eggs correctly (MCPE-59043).
* Guardians can now spawn in bubble columns (MCPE-37671).
* Fixed a bug that caused Vex mobs to move too slowly when moving on X and Z axes (MCPE-41879).

Blocks
* Smooth quartz now uses the correct texture (MCPE-42276).
* Using Silk Touch on giant mushrooms now drops the correct blocks (MCPE-34114).

Scripting and add-ons
* Implemented AvoidMobTypeDefinition and converted hardcoded properties to be data-driven.
* A content error will now show up if you provide an invalid item name to `minecraft:interact` in the `transform_to_item` field.
* Add documentation for `minecraft:density_limit` (MCPE-61126).
* Adding a new subject to filters so damage sensors can filter on projectiles.
* Fixed an issue with custom brewing recipes.

## References

1. ↑ "Minecraft Beta - 1.16.0.57 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)" , April 15, 2020.