Best features of Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview

The Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview is here, and the experimental build introduces an array of new features and improvements. It also enhances existing mechanics for mobs and blocks to improve the gameplay experience for players.

Here are the best features of Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview.

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Graphics overhaul and other best features of Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview

1) Graphical overhaul

The Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview brings an array of graphical overhauls to the game (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

One of the biggest features of the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview is the array of graphical changes introduced with the build.

As part of the build, leads now attach correctly to the player's hand in first person with Vibrant Visuals enabled, ensuring the visual update works seamlessly for players.

Additionally, the cluster of Mangrove Root blocks and Chain blocks has been rectified to display proper visual aspects.

The update also addresses the functioning of flipbook textures, ensuring it is displayed seamlessly when used in conjunction with variation textures.

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2) Mob features

Mobs and their behavior have been overhauled in the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Mobs have also received a series of modifications and improvements as part of the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview.

Piglin brutes now despawn properly on peaceful difficulty, ensuring the mob conforms to the world rules. The ambient sound interval for animals and the ghast has also been adjusted to six and four seconds, respectively, in parity with the Java edition of the game.

Additionally, the update addresses a bug where Glow Squid would not act as leash anchor points. It also addresses an issue where Happy Ghast could not rotate properly if dismounted while moving vertically.

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3) Improvements to the user interface

The Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview introduce major improvements to the user interface (Image via Mojang Studios)

The Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview has also introduced an array of features and upgrades to the user interface, ensuring users have a seamless gaming experience.

The build has fixed the link text for the stacking add-ons banner when creating a new world. It has also removed the trailing spaces from the new Tears music disc description.

Additionally, the player dots on the Locator Bar now move smoothly when strafing near other players, ensuring a seamless experience without any jarring effects. Alongside this, the button to change camera perspective is now also available in Spectator mode, making it easier for players to observe their worlds after being eliminated.

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4) Biome changes

Biomes have received new features in the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Biomes have also received some love and feature improvements in the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview build, ensuring that trees now generate more sparsely in groves. Meanwhile, they grow more frequently in snowy plains, while mushrooms now properly generate under trees in Swamps and other biomes where they naturally occur.

Moreover, seagrass no longer generates poking through ice in biomes with frozen water surfaces, ensuring its generation is not distorted.

Additionally, the Frozen Ocean and Deep Frozen Ocean surfaces are no longer entirely covered by ice and snow, featuring patches of open water instead. Meanwhile, the color of water and underwater fog in the Swamps has been updated to match the intended look of the game.

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5) Vanilla parity

The 1.21.100.20 beta and preview make an array of changes to ensure parity between both editions of the game (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Vanilla parity is one of the most important tasks for Mojang, ensuring that both editions of the game provide a seamless and equal experience to players when performing similar actions.

Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.100.20 beta and preview makes an array of changes in that regard. As part of the build, players can now set a spawn point in The End through a command, making it a major improvement.

Additionally, certain sprites rendered in the world are now more scaled and offset in parity with the Java edition while also better matching their collider. This affects the behavior of snowballs, ender pearls, ender eyes, experience bottles, splash potions, lingering Potions, as well as ice bombs in Minecraft Education.

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