Bedrock Edition beta 1.17.0.56

**Beta 1.17.0.56** is the eighth beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.17.0, released on May 13, 2021, which adds lava aquifers and fixes bugs.

## Changes

### Blocks

Azalea and Flowering Azalea
* Now correctly turns into a tree if placed on Moss Block.

Deepslate and Infested Deepslate
* Top and bottom textures are now applied in isotropic manner.
	+ Due to tessellation limitations, isotropic are limited to deepslate when these textures are up and down (as this is a rotatable block) for now.

Powder Snow
* Textures are no longer randomly rotated.

### Mobs

Axolotl
* Axolotl no longer attacks invisible mobs.
* Axolotl textures have been updated.

Glow Squid
* Naturally spawned Glow Squid now despawn.

Wither
* Is now immune to freezing.

### World generation

Amethyst Geode
* Are now slightly rarer, from 1 geode in 48 chunks to 1 geode in 53 chunks.

### General

Controller tooltips
* Added tooltips for:
	+ Holding a Spyglass.
	+ Collecting lava from a cauldron using a bucket.
	+ Collecting powder snow from a powder snow block using a bucket.
	+ Empty lava into a cauldron from a bucket.
	+ Empty powder snow into a cauldron from a bucket.

Experiments toggle
* Added a warning for loading an old world with Experimental features in a new version of the game.
* Added a label that indicates that a world is Experimental.
* Added a description for Experimental features in the world creation screen.

### Experimental

Changes have been made behind the Caves & Cliffs experiments toggle, which gives early access to the world generation coming in Bedrock Edition 1.18.0.

Aquifers
* Aquifers below Y=0 will sometimes be made of lava.

## Fixes

Caves & Cliffs
* Bred Axolotl maintain their color after being placed from a Bucket (MCPE-123328).
* Amethyst Buds and cluster breaking animation no longer floats in the air.
* Aligned in-hand rendering of Amethyst Bud items with *Java Edition* (MCPE-126726).
* Players are now able to use Pick Block Small Dripleaf (MCPE-123571).
* When bonemealing Small Dripleaf, the resulting Big Dripleaf is at least 2 blocks tall (MC-214159).
* Mobs can once again pathfind around Pointed Dripstone.
* Naturally spawned Glow Squid now despawn (MCPE-126701).
* Using Pick Block on a Glow Squid in Creative now gives the Glow Squid Egg (MCPE-126946).
* Lightning that strikes Lightning Rod no longer has the chance to trigger Skeleton traps.
* Multiple blocks can no longer be placed on Powder Snow (MCPE-116205).
* Fences and Walls no longer connect to Powder Snow (MCPE-113504).
* Fog effect is no longer applied to the third-person camera when the camera isn't inside Powder Snow (MCPE-126028).
* Powder Snow Block no longer becomes invisible if the Player is extinguished by both the Powder Snow Block and any other method at the same time (MCPE-124414).
* Powder Snow no longer has one corner that collides with mobs.

Mobs
* Skeletons transforming in to Strays now play appropriate transformation sounds.
* Withers no longer take freeze damage from Powder Snow (MCPE-126788).
* Bees no longer gather nectar from Sweet Berry Bushes.
* Bees can once again enter Beehives and Bee Nests (MCPE-122705).

Gameplay
* Player who receives negative damage will not generate absorption heart (MCPE-94178).
* When a Player using the touch interface presses and holds the crafting output window, they can rapidly craft items up to one stack (MCPE-28689).

Iron and Gold ore
* Iron and Gold Ore now drops the correct block item instead of nothing when mined on worlds that have a Base Game Version locked to a value lower than 1.17.

Items
* Picking up part of a stack no longer picks up the entire stack and drops the excess (MCPE-105330).

Player Animations
* Fixed Players showing the Bow holding animation after respawning when killed by another Player (MCPE-58861).
* Fixed issue where certain items (Bow, Crossbow, Trident, shield in main hand) wouldn't bob with View Bobbing turned on (MCPE-125853).

Translation
* Removed Lit Deepslate Redstone translation (MCPE-123605).

Technical
* Fixed issue with Simburbia world where standing next to a windows shutter block would obscure the view with the "update" texture.
* Fixed a crash that occurred when using the `/stopsound` command to stop the elytra.loop sound (MCPE-120336).
* Fixed a merge bug when loading json definitions for Vanilla mobs.
* Fixed a bug with the summonable property of overridden vanilla mobs pre JSON version 1.8.0, which caused Bees to not be summonable (MCPE-58557).
* The "has\_equipment" filter will now properly evaluate custom entity spawn eggs.
* The "ImpactDamageSubcomponent" will again only prevent damage from being dealt to fire immune mobs if the 'catchFire' field is true and the projectile is on fire.

Graphical
* Fixed a crash on Windows 10 that can occur in ray tracing mode due to a stale pointer reference.
* Fixed various cases when ray tracing textures would not be reloaded (resolution switching, upscaling mode switching, ray tracing on/off toggling).
* Fixed Enchanted Bow's textures being too dark (MCPE-119701).

Dedicated Server
* The dedicated server log will now list all Experiments enabled in a world when loading it.

## References

1. ↑ "Minecraft Beta - 1.17.0.56 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)" – feedback.minecraft.net, May 13, 2021.