Minecraft Beta Version 1.17.10.22

It's time for another Bedrock beta update! This week we have added candles, and fixed a number of important bugs. Please send in your feedback at aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback, and look up and report any new bugs you may encounter at bugs.mojang.com.

Features and Bug Fixes

Candles

• Candles are now available in the game!
• Can be placed in clusters up to four and lit using Flint & Steel
• Try putting one on a Cake and make a wish!
• Candles can be crafted using a Honeycomb and String
• Combine with dye on a crafting grid to craft different colored Candles

Gameplay

• Falling Anvils and Stalactites now deal damage to mobs when landing in liquid
• Fixed a bug where players going through Cobwebs would take fall damage before hitting the ground (MCPE-121550)
• Descending through Powder Snow with touch controls now uses the same button as descending through Scaffolding
• Vanilla Parity: Empty Buckets can no longer be used to collect Fish

Mobs

• Axolotls now only spawn in complete darkness
• Iron Golems and Evokers are no longer sometimes aggressive on Peaceful difficulty (MCPE-47012)
• Glow Squid now darkens to match the surrounding light level when hurt (MCPE-121754)
• When Goats are performing a ram attack, mobs will no longer retaliate against the Goats (MCPE-129619)
• Fixed a warning that could appear in splitscreen when encountering Guardians

Character Creator

• Featured item thumbnails now remain within the featured items window
• The "Choose New Skin" button now shows up even when there is no imported custom skin (MCPE-128971)
• The "Choose New Skin" button no longer disappears after selecting the slim custom option
• Fixed an issue that was causing the player's head to not animate properly with emotes (MCPE-126902)

Known Issues

• Using a fire charge to light objects (such as candles) may cause a crash

Technical Updates

MoLang

• Fixed experimental 'query.target' to work on client-side queries

Data Driven Blocks

• Updated documentation for 'BlockUnwalkableComponent'

General

• Players will now be given a content error when custom recipes are invalid
• Renamed "minecraft:scaffolding_climber" to "minecraft:block_climber", it now processes climbing both Scaffolding and Powder Snow

NPC Dialogue

• Content creators can now create multi-page dialogues with branching narrative for NPCs using the '/dialogue' command and dialogue JSON files

GameTest Framework (Experimental)

Events

• Renamed 'World.event.weatherChanged' to 'World.event.changeWeather'
• Added event 'World.event.addEffect' - Fires when an effect is applied to an entity.
• Added event 'World.event.createEntity' - Fires when an entity is added to the world.
• Removed function 'World.addEventListener'
• Changed function 'getDuration()' to property 'duration'
• Changed function 'getAmplifier()' to property 'amplifier'
• Added property 'displayName' - Gets the display name of the effect

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta: 

• Joining the beta will replace your game with a work in progress version of Minecraft 
• You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta
• Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them 
• Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality 
• The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

As always, you can check out the latest full changelog at aka.ms/MinecraftBeta. Good luck and enjoy the beta update!