Last week was a very busy one both for the game developers because they had to complete a very big and serious full version called Minecraft PE 1.17.30 and for us, the players, who had to explore all its features. Today we have another new version to check and this is Minecraft PE 1.17.40.21. Even if it is not as complex as the previous one and it is a beta, we recommend you try it because it also contains a lot of interesting features.

Experimental features in Minecraft Bedrock 1.17.40.21

Like they always do lately, the MCPE developers paid special attention to the Experimental features. This time, they:

• Updated the cave and flat world generation so it would fit in the new world height and depth even better when upgrading the saved chunks below the y=0 level with the required toggle on (Experimental Features). We must mention that the chunks below Bedrock upgraded previously will remain the same. The newly-upgraded flat worlds will generate starting with the y=-64 level.
  
• Players will be able to fly with elytra above the limits set previously. This way you can fly above y=319 if you have the Experimental features toggle enabled.
  
• Copper will generate up to the y=96 level
  
  
  

Besides the experimental features, the developers also:

• Made mobs that burn avoid pathfinding in lava and fire
  
• Made bee nests generate correctly
  
• Fixed the wrong results expected from hovering top snow layers over grass and flowers
  
• Fixed the elytra behavior when flying upwards
  
• Made dyed signs with formatted color text overwrite the formatted color texts
  
• Made fossils generate less often
  
• Corrected the placements of dungeons and fixed problems affecting their generation when the Experimental features are on
  
• Made iron golems generate exclusively on solid blocks
  
• Fixed a bug making the weapons held by pillagers invisible
  
• Fixed a bug preventing players from seeing a button prompt when using non-touch controls to ride mobs
  
• Fixed a bug preventing players from equipping skins from the Marketplace
  
• Corrected the navigation process when using the Character Creator
  
• Fixed a bug making a sidebar open after expanding skin packs in the Dressing Room
  
• Made default clothes from the Dressing room modify their colors in case the color of any other item was changed previously
  
• Made the featured items from the player’s profile screen open the featured catalog from the Dressing Room
  
• Fixed a bug making some back appearance pieces cover some profile screen elements
  

Like they always do, the game developers also continued to update the technical side of Minecraft Bedrock by making changes and fixing issues.
We hope your Monday won’t be too busy and you will have enough time to try this new beta. Please be kind and share this article with other players so they can check it too and leave feedback.
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