Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.210.59 adds glowing squids from ‘Caves and Cliffs update’

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Minecraft is launching a new beta for the Bedrock Edition today, which adds some additional “experimental features” from the Caves and Cliffs update. That’s right, players enrolled in the beta program can install Minecraft Beta 1.16.210.59 right now and test the latest mob to join Minecraft: the glowing squid.

In case you’ve forgotten, the glowing squid is the mob that won the fateful Mob Vote during last year’s Minecraft Live event, and will therefore be added to the game via the upcoming Caves and Cliffs update. . In addition to its main purpose of being terrifyingly bright, the Luminous Squid drops bags of Glowing Ink when killed, which can be used to craft new frames of illuminated items to brag about at night.

While perhaps not as exciting as the recent Minecraft: Java Edition snapshot, big things are set to come to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition in the near future.

The complete changelog for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.16.210.59 includes:

Experimental features

shiny squid

• Luminous Squids do not yet spawn naturally in the world, but can be spawned using a spawn egg
• Once killed, the Glow Squid will drop bags of Glow Ink

Bright object frame

• Craft a glowing item frame by combining a glowing ink bag with an item frame in a crafting table. Any object in a light frame is perfectly illuminated, even at night!

Changes

• Players can now use dye to color sign text
• Use a glowing ink bag on the panels to make the text glow!
• Use a regular ink bag to remove the glow effect

laser trace

• As of version 1.16.200, ray tracing is now available on Windows 10 devices with compatible hardware. If you were enrolled in the RTX beta, you are now enrolled in the standard Minecraft beta and will continue to receive the latest beta, including ray tracing features.

Bug fixes

Accessibility

• The screen reader now correctly announces the names of the A/B Button Swap and X/Y Button Swap options
• Fixed an issue where the screen reader would intermittently fail to announce certain button names

Performance & stability

• Fixed a number of crashes that could occur during gameplay
• Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving a world
• Fixed a crash that occasionally occurred on dedicated servers around villages
• Fixed a crash issue related to corrupted biomes when loading the world for various market worlds

General

• Command blocks no longer censor numbers
• Fixed inability to resume mining with touch controls after being interrupted
• Fixed an issue where crafting a bed with the recipe book would unlock the “Changing Sheets” trophy
• Minecarts now correctly update their effects (looping sound, player coordinates) when the minecart is not rendered for the rider
• Fixed skin preview navigation when using a controller
• Fixed arrows getting stuck in the air after hitting a player with high latency
• Fixed overlapping template tabs in the Create New menu
• Fixed missing Incompatible button on Marketplace inventory screen
• Fixed an issue that allowed game patch notes to display more than once
• Fixed some UI issues with scrolling and deleting store filters

Graphic

• Fog now displays correctly in the Nether again

Cloud storage (Xbox)

• Fixed an issue where in some cases a world could not be properly synced to the cloud (Xbox only). If you’re having trouble syncing worlds, try opening the world on the original Xbox, save/exit, then wait a few moments while the world syncs back to the cloud.

Technical fixes and changes

• Fixed an issue animating structures when chunks were unloaded and the animation did not continue
• Attachable objects created in 1.16.2 and earlier will not render for their first person player. Attachable items created after 1.16.2 will be rendered for their first person player unless they are armor
• Custom blocks can now only remove default state when broken, even with Silk Touch
• Fixed validation of render_offset as a string in the component element’s JSON schema
• the/schedulethe command will run again from the entity it originated from if the area has already been loaded

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