Minecraft update out today (version 1.14.0) – PS4 cross-play, bees, more – patch notes

The latest update for Minecraft should be live in a couple of hours. Aside from adding it cross-play with the PS4 version as announced yesterday, bees have been added and more.

Below are the full patch notes:

PlayStation 4
Welcome PlayStation 4 players to the Bedrock version of Minecraft! All Bedrock platforms can now cross-play with PS4 consoles.

Bees!

Bees are cute, fuzzy, neutral mobs
Don’t hurt them, they don’t want to hurt you
Bees love pretty flowers and spend their lives gathering pollen from them
After gathering pollen, bees fly back to their nest
If a bee can’t find pollen, it will return home
If a bee doesn’t have a home nest, it will wander around until it finds one it can use
Bees don’t like the rain and they sleep at night. They will return to their nest in these cases

Bee Nests and Beehives

Bee Nests generate in Flower Forests, Plains, and Sunflower Plains biomes
When a bee visits a nest and completes its journey undisturbed, the level of honey increases
Using shears on a full hive or nest will harvest Honeycomb and using a glass bottle will give a Honey Bottle
Campfire smoke calms bees – Place one underneath the nest or hive to keep them in chill mode
Redstone friendly! Dispensers can shear honeycombs from hives and nests

Honey Block

Greatly reduces movement speed and jump height, but also reduces fall damage
You can “slide” down a wall of honey blocks to slow your fall (Parkour FTW!)
When a honey block is piston-moved, adjacent blocks also move
When a honey block is piston-moved, entities on top are moved along with it

Honeycomb Block

A decorative block that can be crafted with Honeycomb

Changes:

Updated to a fresh menu background full of bees
Leads can now be used on Polar Bears, Parrots, Ocelots, and Dolphins (MCPE-46866)
Dispensers can now fill bottles with water and honey
Tweaked the amount of XP dropped by animals to match Java Edition
Most animals will now drop 1-3 XP when killed, but Dolphins now drop 0 XP
Item tags can now be hidden in the inventory using the ‘/gamerule showtags’ command

Fixes:

Crashes / Performance

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
Fixed a crash that could occur when signing into Xbox Live on Android
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)
Players once again experience kinetic energy and get dead upon gliding into walls at high speed with Elytra (MCPE-21141)
Players can no longer initiate swimming in shallow water

Mobs

Improved the accuracy of pathfinding for flying mobs
Pillager Patrols can no longer spawn in the End or Nether dimensions (MCPE-51481)
Baby Pigmen now hold their swords in their hands, rather than around their necks (MCPE-53454)

Blocks

Updated the Slime Block texture to match Java Edition
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 will now update 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 will again show 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

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

Updated templates for 1.14.0 with new resources, BEEhaviors, documentation, and example packs can be downloaded from minecraft.net/addons

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