Bedrock Edition Preview 1.21.90.21

Beta 1.21.90.21 (ChromeOS, Android), or Preview 1.21.90.21 (Windows, Xbox, PlayStation), or Preview 1.21.90.22 (iOS, iPadOS) is the second beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.21.90, released on April 29, 2025,^[1] which fixes bugs.

Beacon

• Maximum beacon beam height is now 2048.

Dead Bush

• Dead bush ambient sounds now have a slightly increased chance of playing.

Dried Ghast

• The recipe for the dried ghast block has been updated to now require a soul sand block rather than a bone block.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Ghast Tear + Soul Sand

Sand, Red Sand, Terracotta

• Ambient sand sounds no longer requires sky access to play.
• Ambient sand sounds now have a slightly decreased chance to play.
• Ambient sand sounds can now play in all biomes.
  • The frequency and conditions for the sounds are now completely independent of the biome the blocks are in.
• Sand, red sand, and terracotta blocks no longer make ambient wind sounds (block.sand.wind).
  • They still make sand sounds (block.sand.idle).

Short Dry Grass and Tall Dry Grass

• Short dry grass and tall dry grass can now make ambient wind sounds (block.sand.wind) when above 2 sand, red sand, or terracotta blocks.

Lead

• The slimeball in the recipe has been replaced with a string.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
String	2

Blaze

• Increased blaze attack sound distance to 32 to match Java Edition.
• Blaze's attack distance has been increased from 16 to 48 blocks to match its target detection range.

Ghastling

• Ghastlings can now follow happy ghasts.

Piglin

• Piglins can now give dried ghast blocks when bartered with.

Zoglin

• Decreased zoglin speed when chasing the player to match Java Edition.
  • Despite being mentioned in the changelog, it was actually decreased in Preview 1.21.90.20.

Zombified Piglin

• Baby zombified piglins can no longer have golden swords equipped.
• Decreased the speed of zombified piglins when chasing the player to match Java Edition.
  • Despite being mentioned in the changelog, it was actually decreased in Preview 1.21.90.20.

Accessibility

• Text to speech will select an appropriate voice if available when changing in-game language on Android, iOS, and Windows 10/11.

Multiplayer

• Gamertags are used on all platforms to identify players in cross-platform multiplayer games.

Graphics

• The local player's vehicle will now always be eligible for rendering, no matter the orientation of the model compared to the render bounding box.

API

@minecraft/server 2.0.0

• Added isValid property on Camera from beta to stable.
• Moved TicksPerDay from beta to stable.
• Moved enum ScriptTintMethod from beta to stable.
• Moved enum ScriptBlockMapColorComponent from beta to stable.

Blocks

• Replaced emitter_intensity with emitter_particle_count in block_destruction.json and block_slide.json. This is to go in line with the particle count field in the BlockDestructionParticlesComponent. emitter_intensity will still be used in the previous versions of these files.

Components

• The minecraft:input_air_controlled component no longer requires use_beta_features.

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features" and "Locator Bar" experimental toggles.

API

@minecraft/server 2.1.0-beta

• Added enum LiquidSettings in beta.
• Added optional property liquidSettings to scripting interfaces JigsawPlaceOptions and JigsawStructurePlaceOptions in beta. Defaults to ApplyWaterlogging.
• New cheatsRequired property on CustomCommand interface.
  • If undefined or true (default is true), custom command execution requires that cheats are enabled. If false, then the custom command can execute without cheats enabled.
• Removed Player.isOp().
• Added read-only property layerPermissionLevel to Player.
• Added property commandPermissionLevel to Player.
• Added PlayerPermissionLevel enum with Visitor, Member, Operator values.

Block Components

• Added field uv_lock to minecraft:geometry block component behind Upcoming Creator Features experiment.
  • UV locking will allow faces to have the same texture orientations as the default geometry state, regardless of how minecraft:transformation component rotates the geometry.

Commands

• Added optional property liquidSettings to /place structure and /place jigsaw commands. Defaults to apply_waterlogging.

Components

• The BlockDestructionParticles component has a new field allowing creators to determine the amount of particles that are generated on the destruction of the block.

Jigsaw

• Added optional property liquid_settings to minecraft:jigsaw JSON to allow control over handling liquids when placing structures. Defaults to apply_waterlogging.

Locator Bar

• The distance of players now modifies the size of the locator bar player dot instead of the opacity.

20 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.21.90

• MCPE-35647 – Blazes attack range too low
• MCPE-64477 – Can't use various items while looking at interactive blocks while sneaking
• MCPE-166103 – Piglins, brutes and hoglins of the bastions doesn't drop xp when killed
• MCPE-174465 – Player is teleported to the void when using an end gateway
• MCPE-174826 – Sponges can absorb water from waterlogged barriers
• MCPE-178295 – Lava disappears when placed or dispensed into a waterlogged block
• MCPE-185829 – Wind Burst now launches much less blocks
• MCPE-194838 – Frozen Peaks, Jagged Peaks & Snowy Slopes replace all water under Y=63 with ice
• MCPE-200797 – Player shadow appears on happy ghast face
• MCPE-212398 – Vibrant Visuals: Deep black pixels trigger graphical artifacts when the player stops moving if TAAU is enabled
• MCPE-216867 – You no longer start to swim automatically when you double tab forward button to sprint jump into water

Other

• Dispensing a lava bucket on a waterlogged Dried Ghast no longer duplicates the Dried Ghast.
• Fixed an issue where swapping item slots during an attack against a mob would re-select the original item slot used during the attack instead of staying on the new inventory slot item.
• Fixed a bug in Vibrant Visuals where materials with certain properties rendered black.
• Mobs will no longer clip through blocks sometimes when viewing them at a distance when they auto step up a block.
• Pigs saddled by hand no longer drop two saddles when killed. (All pigs saddled by hand between 1.21.70 and now will still drop their duplicated saddles on death.)
• Fixed a bug with the minecraft:geometry component where the full block geometry identifier minecraft:geometry.full_block was being ignored for several behaviors, including:
  • Mob spawning (mobs with custom spawn rules can now spawn on blocks using full block geometry)
  • Chest obstruction (blocks with full block geometry will now obstruct Chests)
  • Grass and Farmland survival (Grass and Farmland will turn into Dirt with a block using full block geometry above them)
  • Nylium survival (Nylium will turn into Netherrack with a block using full block geometry above it)
  • Vine growth (Vines will now spread to blocks using full block geometry)
  • Breathability (Mobs and actors can no longer breathe in blocks using full block geometry)
• Fixed incorrect warning for using valid entity with event identifier in minecraft:entity_placer component.
• Fixed query.health to work for the Wither to properly reflect the elapsed ticks since it started dying.
• Jigsaw structures being placed in water no longer replace water incorrectly.