Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.90.25 beta and preview patch notes: Saddle updates, new music tracks, and more

Mojang has released Minecraft 1.21.90.25 beta and preview for Bedrock Edition, featuring major changes to saddles, new audio tracks, a new music disc, and more.

For a long time, saddles have remained a rare loot item, forcing players to embark on dangerous ventures into structures or rely on trading with leatherworkers in hopes of obtaining one. Fourteen years after its release, the saddle is now finally craftable in Minecraft. Better yet, it only requires two easy-to-obtain items: three leather and one iron ingot.

In addition to saddle improvements, Minecraft 1.21.90.25 also introduces new audio tracks for the Cherry Groves, Forest, Desert, Grove, and Lush Cave biomes, along with a new music disc titled "Tears."

Continue reading to find out everything new in the latest Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.90.25 beta and preview.

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Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.90.25 beta and preview: All you need to know

Features and bug fixes

Saddles Updates

Mojang is making Saddles craftable and generally making it easier to remove them from mobs by using Shears. We have also added Leather to some loot tables instead of Saddles.

Crafting Saddle

• Saddles can now be crafted with 3 Leather and 1 Iron Ingot
• Recipe popup happens when a player picks up their first Leather

Loot Table Changes

Some loot tables have had Saddles removed from them and replaced with 1-5 Leather:

• Monster Room chests
• Ancient City chests
• Desert Pyramid chests
• Jungle Pyramid chests
• Stronghold altar chests

Removing Saddles and Equipment

• Saddles, Horse Armor, harnesses, and Carpets can now be removed from the mobs they can be equipped on by using Shears
• Saddles, Horse Armor, Harnesses, and Carpets cannot be removed by using Shears while the mob has a rider
• Saddles, Horse Armor, Harnesses, and Carpets cannot be removed by using Shears while the player is sneaking
• Saddles cannot be removed from Ravagers using Shears
• Dispensers with Shears cannot remove Saddles, Horse Armor, Harnesses or Carpets equipped on mobs

Music

• Added the following new music tracks by Amos Roddy to Cherry Groves, Forest, Desert, Grove, and Lush Cave Biomes:
• Below and Above
• Broken Clocks
• Fireflies
• Lilypad
• O's Piano
• Added a new Music Disc with the track "Tears" by Amos Roddy in Minecraft
• The Ghast now drops the "Tears" Music Disc when killed by a Fireball deflected by a Player

Related: Minecraft announces new Tears music disc for summer game drop

Blocks

• Fixed Sculk Vein block looking small and elongated when held or in an item frame
• Dried Ghast Block will now block flowing water instead of popping

Gameplay

• Repositioned the teleporting point when using an End Gateway to not be too close to a cliff edge, if possible (MCPE-174465)

Graphical

• Fixed locators for leashing mobs being offset (MCPE-217604)
• Changed shadows in Vibrant Visuals so that they cast further at sunrise and sunset. Prior to this change, shadows were clamped at a 30-degree angle relative to the horizon. This clamp has now been reduced to 10 degrees. This also improves an issue where specular highlights, light rays, and volumetric fog were not properly occluded when the sun or moon was behind a mountain at a low angle.
• Added temperature grading settings to the color grading json files for Vibrant Visuals. Schemas must specify a format version of 1.21.90 to access this new setting.
• New temperature object added to color_grading
• enabled set to true or false controls if temperature grading is enabled
• Type set to either white_balance or color_temperature controls the type of grading applied
• white_balance uses the temperature value to adjust the camera's white point. Lower temperature values will cause the scene to appear more blue.
• color_temperature is the inverse of the white balance operation. Lower temperature values will cause the scene to appear more red.
• temperature sets the temperature in kelvin
• Fixed water not being rendered on the opposite side of clouds in Vibrant Visuals (MCPE-203239)

Items

• Now the Mooshroom Spawn Egg uses its own colors and no longer has two pixels that are the same as the Cow Spawn Egg texture
• Spore Blossoms destroyed by water are now dropped as items (MCPE-127677)

Leashing Updates

• Attaching a leashed entity to another entity and using Shears to cut leashes now takes precedence over other interactions
• Example: Attempting to shear a leashed Sheep will now un-leash it instead of shearing it
• Leash break distance is now calculated between the centers of the two entities' collision boxes, aligning with the rest of the leash physics calculations

Mobs

• Now the Cold Cow variant has the correct mirroring of its horn texture
• Happy Ghast no longer spins rapidly when leashed to a fence with a Lead (MCPE-216786)
• Flying mobs no longer make footstep sounds when moving close to the ground
• Happy Ghasts will now correctly detect players on a different mount on top of them
• Happy Ghast detection of players now extends 1 block outwards from themselves in x,z direction and 2 blocks above them

Sound

• Updated Dried Ghast block sounds for step, place and fall from wood-sounds to custom sounds. Changed the ambient and break sound to sound less alive. Removed the hit-sound and sound event for that since it breaks immediately.
• Sound files for breaking and placing Grass blocks are now slightly louder in Minecraft

Stability and Performance

• Fix a crash in split-screen mode when a player would destroy a chest or book another player had opened
• Fixed an issue where a resource pack error could be encountered when transferring between servers that use different versions of the same resource pack
• Fixed an issue where downloading server resources would infinitely hang if another device requested to download the same resources at the same time

User Interface

• The "Game is paused" text from the pause screen will no longer go out of bounds. (MCPE-217394)
• Hotbar tooltip text now has a drop shadow, to make the text more readable against bright backgrounds (MCPE-217870)
• Fixed the issue where adjusting the brightness in the Vibrant Visuals setting caused the Creeper face icons to inaccurately reflect their expected shades, and where the brightness of the Creeper face icons were affected by the in-game environment. (MCPE-199256)
• The Text Background Opacity accessibility setting now defaults to 60% opacity
• The vertical angle at which the Locator Bar arrow icons become visible now corresponds to the player's FOV setting

Vanilla Parity

• Fix blocks in Minecarts not being lit properly
• Nether Fossils have been tweaked to have a placement frequency more closely aligned with Java (MCPE-74632)

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Technical updates

API

• Added a new condition damaged_by_entity that allows checking which entity type applied damage to an entity that is dropping loot.
• Similar to the killed_by_entity and entity_killed conditions, allows specifying an entity_type field to check against when deciding which entry in a loot table to select.

Block Components

• UV locking will not be supported for geometry using Box UVs if the box sides are not equal, in other words, the box has non square UVs. Geometry with per-face UVs and non square faces will be supported.
• UV locking will not be supported if Block Json format_version is less than 1.19.80.

Blocks

• Fixing a crash that could occur when a block's textures are configured to point to an empty atlas entry
• testforblock ignores block states (JIRA (MCPE-194284)
• Fixing bug introduced in 1.21.70 where the testforblock command no longer recognizes block states (E.g. ["button_pressed_bit" = true] would always return true regardless of button state)
• "culling_layer" field in the block's geometry component has been moved out of experimental
• "condition" field in "rules" for culling has been moved out of experimental

Camera

• Unlocked over the shoulder is now unlocked by using the camera_relative control scheme with the follow_orbit preset

Commands

• Attempting to run extremely long commands will no longer cause a disconnection error. Instead, the command will simply fail. (MCPE-177722)

Components

• Content warnings will log missing block and biome references in Biome JSON
• Fixed incorrect content warnings for missing block textures in "minecraft:material_instances" component.
• The "minecraft:interact" component's "spawn_items" field now has a "y_offset" subfield, which allows for adjusting the vertical spawn position of items

Editor

• Added various tooltips to the Editor menu items.
• Added IPropertyPane.addProxyPane API function to display an existing sub pane within another pane
• Updated Editor to no longer default projects to vibrant visuals graphics mode. It can be toggled on from Deferred Rendering Settings
• Updated Paste Preview keyboard shortcuts
• Past Preview is now initiated using the CTRL+V global key sequence
• CTRL+V in paste preview mode places the current previewed clipboard selection into the world
• SHIFT+CTRL+V will immediately paste the clipboard selection into the world, previously global CTRL+V key sequence
• Fixed a bug where FlattenBrush, BrushPainter, SmoothRoughen and SelectionModeFreehand tools threw an assert when a painting action was in progress
• Fixed a bug where the Tutorial Movement stage didn't wait for pan and look actions to complete
• Fixed a bug that caused brush paint to not end when the Tutorial stage changes
• Fixed a bug that caused Contiguous Selection Settings in Extrude tool pane to not show

Entity Filters

• Added the new is_riding_self (entity filter
• Returns true if the subject entity is riding the calling entity on which the filter is used

Gameplay

• Fixed issue with the player_relative control scheme that made it really hard to travel directly forward or directly backwards
• Fixed an issue where the player's head would sometimes jitter when using certain control schemes

Graphical

• Particles rendered without the "minecraft:particle_appareance_lighting" component are now rendered as expected in Vibrant Visuals
• Removed ';' debug feature for toggling graphics modes

Items

• Extended "minecraft:wearable" item component to allow hiding Players' locations, similar to Mob Heads and the Carved Pumpkin
• The new "hides_player_location" boolean field defines whether Players are hidden on the Locator Bar and Locator Maps when equipped in the appropriate wearable slot, defined by the "slot" field
• The default value of "hides_player_location" is false in Minecraft
• All "minecraft:wearable" item components defined previously will have the value of "hides_player_location" default to false

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Experimental technical updates

API @minecraft/diagnostics

Updated SentryOptions properties:

• dsn: Updated to allow the usage of SecretString, allowing for secrets from @minecraft/server-admin to be used to initialize Sentry.
• (new) maxBreadcrumbs: The maximum number of breadcrumbs to store and report per error event to Sentry. Default is 20, supported values range from 0 (no breadcrumbs) to 100.
• (new) sampleRate: A number between 0 and 1 that indicates the percentage of events that should be sent to Sentry. For example, a value of 0.5 means that 50% of events will be sent. Default is 1 (100% of events). 0 means no events will be sent.
• (new) debug: When set to true, additional content logging from the Sentry system will be enabled. Defaults to false.

Editor

• Clipboard origin incorrectly shows fractional origin values when the clipboard item has even sizes
• Remove the Marquee Selection info panel when in freehand/magic select mode
• Disable Point Lights in Vibrant Visuals settings when Deferred Technical Preview is disabled
• Added Numeric & Color Timeline graphs to Vibrant Visuals Settings
• Added support for localized help and tool tips into the schema
• Fixed a bug with structure data validation so that it doesn't try to test all the sibling rules against the property it's looking for (this was resulting in lots of reported errors in the water properties, but they weren't actually errors)

Experimental

• Deprecated align_target_and_camera_forward. Use control_scheme to switch between control schemes instead.

Gameplay

• Fixed the camera_relative_strafe control scheme in Minecraft

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The Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.90.25 preview is available for download right away on Windows, Xbox, PlayStation, and for a small group of players with access on iOS devices. However, developers discovered a bug just before releasing the 1.21.90.25 beta for Android. As a result, the beta features will be shipped next week on the Google Play Store.