Bedrock Edition 1.14.0

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.^[1] 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^[2] and hence Legacy Console Edition as a whole.

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%.

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.

Bees

• Have 10HP 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.

Achievements

Game rules

• Added showtags gamerule. ​^{[more information needed]}

• 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.

Dispensers

• Can now fill glass bottles with water or honey.
• Can now shear honeycombs.

Slime blocks

• Changed the texture to match Java Edition.

Leads

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

Spawn eggs

• Are now sorted alphabetically in the Creative inventory.

Swimming

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

• 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.

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.

• Java Edition 1.15
• PlayStation 4 Edition 1.99