Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.210.53

Beta 1.16.210.53 is the third beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.16.210, released on December 17, 2020,^[1] which brought changes to powder snow, added full screen keyboard shortcut, and fixes bugs. This is the final beta released in 2020.

Gamerules

• freezeDamage
  • Whether entities take damage from freezing inside of powder snow.

Leather armor

• Wearing any piece of leather armor now prevents freezing entirely.

/clone, /fill, /setblock

• Added new slash command options for passing in a list of block states to set on the block being spawned.

/mixer

• Now removed entirely from the game.

Death messages

• Added death messages for freezing:
  • "<player> froze to death".

Controls

• Fullscreen can now be toggled with F11 keyboard shortcut.

Settings

• Broadcasting options are now completely removed from the game since Mixer streaming services are no longer available.

Particles

• Added a new particle type: snowflake_particle.

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Caves & Cliffs" experimental toggles.

Powder Snow Bucket

• Using a bucket on powder snow creates a powder snow bucket.
• Powder snow buckets can be used to place powder snow.

Powder Snow

• Now emits particles when an entity is moving inside of it, or landing on it.
• Freezing effect is now removed from any mobs or players that catch fire.
• Mobs that have sunk into powder snow now can navigate through it.
• Entities on fire now have their fires extinguished when stepping into powder snow.
• Redstone dust, torches, and item frames can no longer be placed on powder snow.
• Gravity blocks no longer break when landing on powder snow.
• While within powder snow blocks third person camera is no longer pushed to the inside of the character's head.
• Mobs spawned inside Powder snow no longer have a risk of spawning underground.
• Powder snow block forms are no longer present in Creative Inventory anymore (MCPE-105407).
• Powder snow no longer stops projectiles in Bedrock (MCPE-104940).
• Lightweight mobs now can climb and navigate through powder snow blocks.
• Rabbits, silverfish, and endermites don't fall through powder snow blocks.
• An entity walking through powder snow will make the correct step sound regardless of which block is being walked on.
• Wearing Leather Boots now allows entities to climb powder snow Blocks (MCPE-105410).
• Powder snow now has unique interaction sounds.

Goat

• Now avoids walking into powder snow while path-finding.

Nether Ambient Sounds

• Mobile players now experience ambient sounds in The Nether (MCPE-74756).

General

• Shulker Boxes no longer lose their inventory when undyed in cauldrons (MCPE-108196).
• Added new logic for mobs dismounting rideables.
• This also introduces a more fine-grained entity height check allowing different dismount places for entities of different heights.
• The player will no longer dismount into liquids (lava or water) from rideables such as boats.
• Sign-in failures now have a more helpful error message and provide error codes.

Gameplay

• In all worlds created with the same seed, the same chest will now always generate the same content in the same order (MCPE-72432).
• Double Chests placed at chunk borders don't become partially invisible and don't crash the title when they are opened (MCPE-106030).
• Golden Apple and Enchanted Apple now have colored hotbar text when selecting them (MCPE-64427).

Technical

• Changing RideableComponent property rotate_rider_by to function for custom mobs.