I love adventuring in Minecraft. Exploring biomes! Mining stuff! I reckon my pet wolf would love it too, but I’m much too much of an overprotective digital dog parent to let them outside the base. Until today! Because not only is the armadillo coming to pre-release versions of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Preview and Beta (check out its adorable rolling up animation!) but wolf armor is coming, too. Meet the first iteration of the cautious armadillo, a neutral, savanna-dwelling mob that loves spider’s eyes, and rolls up whenever it feels threatened. Armadillos also drop a scute that can be used to craft wolf armor, which currently gives your four-legged friend roughly as much protection as diamond horse armor. Snazzy and safer! As always, we’d love your feedback on the armadillo and wolf armor, so please let us know what you think here, and report any bugs (spider’s eyes not included) at bugs.mojang.com. Now if you’ll excuse me, me and my furry friend are off to test the limits of how worried I can be about a cute collection of pixels!
Experimental Features
Armadillo
- Added the Armadillo
- The Armadillo is a neutral mob
- Drops Armadillo Scutes periodically
- Drops Armadillo Scutes when brushed
- Spawns in Savannas
- Favorite food is Spider Eyes
- When an Armadillo detects a threat, it rolls up
- Threats are:
- Players who are sprinting
- Players on a mount or in a vehicle
- Undead mobs
- It does not roll up if it is fleeing, in water, in the air, or if being led
- When an Armadillo is rolled up it does not walk, cannot eat, and will not be tempted by food
- It continues to scan for threats, and if there are no threats detected for 3 seconds, it will unroll
- Threats are:
Armadillo Scutes
- Can be used to craft Wolf Armor
- Dropped by Armadillos
- Dispensers can be used to brush Armadillo Scutes off Armadillos
Wolf Armor
- Using Wolf Armor on an adult tamed Wolf will equip the armor on the Wolf
- Only a Wolf's owner can put Wolf Armor on their tamed Wolf, and with this in mind, Dispensers cannot put Wolf Armor on Wolves
- Using Shears on a Wolf that is wearing armor will make it drop the armor
- Only a Wolf's owner can shear a Wolf Armor from it, and with this in mind, Dispensers cannot remove Wolf Armor from Wolves
- Wolf Armor gives the same protection as Diamond Horse Armor
- If a Wolf dies while wearing armor, it will drop the armor
Blocks
- Exposed, Weathered, and Oxidized Copper Bulbs in Trial Chambers are now waxed (MCPE-176949)
- Trial Spawner randomizes the loot table only once each combat, for all players
Copper Grate
- Fixed an issue with Waxed Copper Grate transparency (MCPE-177171)
Breeze
- Breeze wind and wind charge rendering have been tweaked
Commands
- Added a new command that will hide and reset HUD elements visibility.
- /hud hide <hud element>
- /hud reset <hud element>
The HUD elements available are:
- paperdoll
- armor
- tooltips
- touch_controls
- crosshair
- hotbar
- health
- progress_bar
- hunger
- air_bubbles
- horse_health
- all
- To use the command, turn on the Upcoming Creator Features toggle.
Features and Bug Fixes
Gameplay
- Fixed a crash occurrence when switching between dimensions frequently (MCPE-166934)
- Fixed certain cases that caused players to take unexpected fall damage when performing interactions at specific heights like 62 (MCPE-168518)
- Reintroduced a fix for players sometimes taking unexpected fall damage while building blocks while standing on them (MCPE-120140)
- Fixed some cases where players could take unexpected fall damage near ledges that they were visibly not falling off of (MCPE-120140)
Mobs
- Fixed an issue where mobs, such as Zombies, were unable to pick up full stacks of items from the ground
Graphical
- Added 4k resolution support for Xbox Series consoles
User Interface
- The friends drawer in the new Play screen now allows joining a friend’s world with a join button. Please send us your feedback on this new feature here!
Updated Edit World Screen
The latest Bedrock Preview introduces a new way of editing your worlds in a new redesigned experience. Some features are not supported yet, but we wanted to give you an early look at what we’re building. An updated Edit World experience will gradually be rolled out to players starting today.