Minecraft Bedrock Update 1.21.30 Patch Notes: New Experimental Bundles, Discontinued PlayStation VR Support, and Additional Features

In recent weeks, Mojang has been actively rolling out beta and preview builds for the highly anticipated Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.30 update. On September 17, 2024, the official Minecraft 1.21.30 update was launched, bundling all features from the beta and preview releases into this final version.

The standout feature of the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.30 update is the long-awaited experimental bundle feature. After nearly four years since its initial announcement, Bedrock players can now utilize this innovative storage solution. The update also includes various other significant enhancements, such as new rarities for numerous items, improvements to Realms, and much more.

Below are the detailed patch notes for the latest Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.30 update.

Minecraft 1.21.30 Update Patch Notes

Experimental Feature

Bundles

The Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.30 update makes bundles available to players, eliminating the need to download a beta or preview. Here’s what you should know about this experimental feature:

Bundles are classified as an experimental feature; ensure to enable the Bundle experiment when creating a new world.
Note: Bundles are still undergoing refinements in the Preview and Betas, and players may notice minor differences.
A Bundle is an item designed to store various items in a single stack.
Each Bundle accommodates one stack (typically up to 64 items), consisting of mixed item types.
Items can be added to a Bundle directly within the inventory.
Bundles display a tooltip showing contained items.
The tooltip accommodates three rows, providing visibility for at least eight different item types.
Users can select any visible item to remove it from the Bundle.
Utilize the scroll wheel with a mouse, the right stick on a game controller, or tap on a touchscreen device for selection.
When an item is chosen to be removed, the Bundle icon will indicate that item is protruding from it.
You can drop the contents of a Bundle onto the ground when holding it.
In the latest Beta & Preview version, selecting a Bundle in the hotbar results in one group of items being emptied at a time, rather than the entire bundle.
Crafters can create a Bundle with one String above one Leather.
The Bundle recipe is unlocked upon acquiring either Leather or String.
Known Issues:
On touch devices, the wrong item icon may momentarily appear while moving items.
Bundles placed in Decorated Pots, bestowed to an Allay, or shuffled through Hoppers and Droppers may lose their contents.

Features and Bug Fixes in Minecraft 1.21.30 Update

Blocks

Dragging waterlogged blocks vertically with a Piston no longer generates “ghost water”for players (MCPE-144222).
The “purpur_block”is now divided into distinct instances: “purpur_block”and “purpur_pillar”; formerly unused chiseled and smooth purpur blocks were renamed to “deprecated_purpur_block_1″and “deprecated_purpur_block_2″for backward compatibility and will not be visible in creative inventory or commands.
The “structure_void”block state has been removed, converting “air”variants to the base block.
New vanilla block and item tags have been added to support vanilla item tier level destruction speeds for data-driven blocks.
All Logs, Stripped Logs, Woods, and Stripped Woods are considered consistently across multiple scenarios:
Flying mobs that can alight on trees will now acknowledge these blocks as suitable landing areas.
Parrots now have a preference for these blocks as landing locations.
Previously, these behaviors were limited to only certain blocks.
Kelp can no longer be placed on any type of Fence, but must adhere to a specific subset.
Seagrass cannot be placed on any Fence type either, restricting it to a subset.
Turtle Eggs can also no longer be placed on all Fence types but are limited to a specific selection.
The “cobblestone_wall”block has been partitioned into distinct instances: “cobblestone_wall”, “mossy_cobblestone_wall”, “granite_wall”, “diorite_wall”, “andesite_wall”, “sandstone_wall”, “brick_wall”, “stone_brick_wall”, “mossy_stone_brick_wall”, “nether_brick_wall”, “end_stone_brick_wall”, “prismarine_wall”, “red_sandstone_wall”, and “red_nether_brick_wall”.
Unique destruction times have been assigned to various wall types.
The “sponge”block is now categorized into “sponge”and “wet_sponge”.
Colored Torch block instances have been renamed for clarity into “colored_torch_red”, “colored_torch_green”, “colored_torch_blue”, and “colored_torch_purple”.

Crafting

In Firework crafting, adding or removing items from the grid now updates the output item correctly (MCPE-183455).

Full Keyboard Gameplay

The Q and E keys have been assigned as equivalents for left and right click in JSON UI menus, including inventory menus, while in Full Keyboard Gameplay mode.

Gameplay

Lower-level Ominous bottles can still apply the Bad Omen effect if the player had one active earlier.
Boats will no longer vanish while sliding on Ice (MCPE-180432).
A crash that could occur when opening a Lectern while a Sticky Piston was manipulating it has been resolved. The Lectern will now close the book interface when moved (MCPE-183508).
Dismounting from a vehicle will no longer cause players to sink into the ground on some platforms (MCPE-184363) (MCPE-182448).
The collision shape for Trial Spawners has been unified to match the size of an ordinary block (MCPE-178305).
A new death message has been created for players defeated by a Mace’s smash attack.
An issue where the End Gateway Portal would teleport some players near their End Portal has been fixed (MCPE-66061).
The ‘/camera set’ command will now execute in the proper sequence while an existing camera interpolation is active (MCPE-183986).

General

A bug causing placeholder textures to show after minimizing and restoring the game window has been fixed.
Input glyph support has been added to entity name tags.

Graphical

An issue causing Banners to render before other transparent objects, regardless of their positions, has been resolved (MCPE-130262).
The maximum framerate slider has been renamed to “Framerate Limit”and now includes a tooltip for enhanced clarity.

How to Play

Added line break functionality for How to Play topic labels, eliminating excessive truncation as “…”when lines extend too long.

Items

Each Banner Pattern item now references its pattern type in its name, replacing previous subtitles (MCPE-182508).
Smithing Template items have been renamed according to their template type, distinguishing them from the general “Smithing Template”label.
Templates specify their category via subtitles in hover text.
Unique textures have been assigned to each Banner Pattern item for better differentiation.
Illager Banner has been rebranded to Ominous Banner to synchronize with Java Edition.
Resolved an issue where block items would incorrectly convert to an alternative variant when importing worlds older than 1.5.0 (MCPE-181944).
EDU: Addressed problems with Material Reducer recipes not functioning correctly with some flattened blocks like Andesite or Terracotta.

Mobs

Fixed the incorrect appearance of custom entity names in death messages (MCPE-158447).
The Breeze can now attack a target without a minimum distance requirement (MCPE-183011).
Parrots have gained the ability to imitate Endermite.
Parrots now can also imitate Drowned (MCPE-46302).

Multiplayer

Addressed an issue where the in-game invite screen would display incorrect substatus.

PlayStation®VR

Support for PlayStation®VR will cease, and will no longer be included in updates after March 2025. Following the final update, players can continue building in their worlds and accessing Marketplace purchases (including Tokens) without PlayStation®VR. However, using PlayStation®VR with Minecraft will no longer be possible in future updates.

Rarity

A new rarity system has been introduced in Minecraft Bedrock:

Numerous items and blocks have had their rarities reassigned (MCPE-182414).
Once these changes are applied to Java Edition in an upcoming snapshot, item and block rarities will align across both platforms.
Rarity serves as a categorization to determine the color used for displaying an item or block’s name.
While it has no gameplay impact, rarity signals the relative difficulty of obtaining specific items.
By default, every item and block, unless otherwise noted, carries a Common rarity, displaying their name in white.
Mojang has re-assessed the rarity of all items and blocks within the game, employing the following guidelines:
Items and blocks become rarer based on several criteria:
The loot table probability, including mob drops.
The distance needed to acquire the item/block.
The difficulty of obstacles present in obtaining the resource.
The total quantity of that item/block within the world.
Craftable items or blocks must adopt the highest rarity of their crafting components.
For instance, a Mace is classified as Epic due to one of its crafting ingredients (the Heavy Core) being Epic as well.
Subsequent lists detail items and blocks that have been reassigned to specific rarity categories.

Common

End Crystal
Golden Apple

Epic

Elytra
Dragon Head
Silence Armor Trim

Rare

Enchanted Golden Apple
The frequency of obtaining Enchanted Golden Apples has increased due to their accessibility in both Ancient Cities and Trial Chambers, resulting in a downgrade from Epic to Rare.
Trident
Mojang previously rated Trident’s rarity as Epic from Common, but after reassessment, concluded that it was more accessible than other Epic items like Heavy Cores or Elytra.
Nether Star
Ward Armor Trim
Eye Armor Trim
Vex Armor Trim
Spire Armor Trim
Wither Skeleton Skull
Skull Charge Banner Pattern
With the new classification of Wither Skeleton Skulls as Rare, these banner patterns are now similarly categorized.
Thing Banner Pattern
With Enchanted Golden Apples now classified as Rare, these patterns are likewise Rare.
The following Music Discs:
Pigstep
otherside
Creator

Uncommon

Sniffer Egg
Chainmail Helmet
Chainmail Chestplate
Chainmail Leggings
Chainmail Boots
Recovery Compass
Disc Fragment 5
Nautilus Shell
Echo Shard
Goat Horns
Pottery Sherds
Ominous Bottles
Ominous Banner
Netherite Upgrade
Sentry Armor Trim
Dune Armor Trim
Coast Armor Trim
Wild Armor Trim
Tide Armor Trim
Snout Armor Trim
Rib Armor Trim
Wayfinder Armor Trim
Shaper Armor Trim
Raiser Armor Trim
Host Armor Trim
Flow Armor Trim
Bolt Armor Trim
The following Music Discs:
13
Cat
Blocks
Chirp
Creator (Music Box)
Far
Mall
Mellohi
He stood
street
Ward
11
Wait
Relic
5
Precipice

Realms

Realms Stories content will no longer be trimmed when scrolling.
Text will no longer obscure screenshots in Realms Stories on Galaxy Z Flip devices regardless of UI size.
The gamepad legend will no longer interfere with UI elements when selecting a preview realm for world creation.
In split-screen mode, the subscriptions tab in the settings menu will only be visible to the primary player.
For preview/beta builds connected to a Realm or while on related screens, the Realm ID will now appear in the debug text.
The Realms backup list will display the creation date of the backup rather than its age.

Sounds

Sculk charge particles now emit sound.
Wither Skeletons have a new “step”sound (MCPE-174857).
Basalt Deltas have regained their moody ambient sound.

Stability and Performance

Fixed a crash that could occur during texture data loading (MCPE-184728).

Touch Controls

The new d-pad for touch controls has been enhanced for compactness and includes back strafing buttons, along with an extended zone to reduce unexpected camera movements. When personalizing controls, diagonal buttons are now visible.
Resolved an issue where the hide HUD command failed to conceal the d-pad touch control.

Trial Chambers

Empty chests at the entrance of chambers have been replaced with a Hopper and Barrel to clarify their intended use for disposal and inventory management!

User Interface

Fixed a soft lock that could appear during subscription purchases.
Corrected a bug where the ‘Drink’ interaction prompt was not displayed when holding an Ominous Bottle.
Resolved a bug that led to player health being rounded down, occasionally making the HUD show only empty health icons (MCPE-183157).
The chat output’s scrollbar maintains its position after the game screen regains focus.
The URL for signing in on another device has been shortened to microsoft.com/link.
A button for taking screenshots has been integrated into the game menu. Captured screenshots can be accessed in the screenshot gallery on your profile page.
The beacon title text now aligns with other containers in Pocket UI (MCPE-176186).
Fixed a bug that caused crafting category tabs to disappear in Pocket UI after hiding the recipe book in Classic UI (MCPE-183825).
The arrow visualization from the Stonecutter interface is now consistently visible, similar to other comparable screens (MCPE-160236).
Addressed an issue where item durability and storage bars were inaccurately sized and positioned on specific screens.
Added hotkeys for taking in-game screenshots on both controller and keyboard. On mouse/keyboard: F2. On controller: LB+RB, L1+R1, L Button+R Button.
The icons for effects will now vary in size according to the GUI scale (MCPE-180238).
Fixed an issue where the world seed template button might be missing in the Create New World screen.

Vanilla Parity

Snow Golems with Fire Resistance will no longer incur damage in warm biomes (MCPE-94448).
Uncarved pumpkin blocks can no longer be utilized to create Snow Golems and Iron Golems (MCPE-33801).
When items are enchanted, their rarity classification is increased based on their base rarity.
Items with a base rarity of Common or Uncommon will ascend to Rare once enchanted.
Items rated as Rare will convert to Epic when enchanted.
Epic items will remain Epic when enchanted.
Entities falling into water will now create the same splashing sound as in Java Edition (MCPE-44120).
A bug preventing a standalone Scaffolding block from being placed on a Structure Block has been rectified (MCPE-169818).
Enchantments that possess only one possible level will no longer show the level “I”in their name.

The names of numerous items and blocks have been aligned with Java Edition standards, detailed as follows (MCPE-101388):

Book & Quill -> Book and Quill
Chain Helmet -> Chainmail Helmet
Chain Chestplate -> Chainmail Chestplate
Chain Leggings -> Chainmail Leggings
Chain Boots -> Chainmail Boots
Enchanted Apple -> Enchanted Golden Apple
Cooked Beef -> Steak
Melon -> Melon Slice
Glistering Melon -> Glistering Melon Slice
Milk -> Milk Bucket
Seeds -> Wheat Seeds
Snow -> Snow Block
Top Snow -> Snow
Grass -> Short Grass
Double Tallgrass -> Tall Grass
Sugar Canes -> Sugar Cane
Clay Block -> Clay
Clay -> Clay Ball
Sea Turtle Spawn Egg -> Turtle Spawn Egg
Sea Turtle Egg -> Turtle Egg
Brick Block -> Bricks
Nether Brick Block -> Nether Bricks
Red Nether Brick -> Red Nether Bricks
Prismarine Bricks Slab -> Prismarine Brick Slab
Stone Bricks Slab -> Stone Brick Slab
Bricks Slab -> Brick Slab
Infested Stone Brick -> Infested Stone Bricks
Daylight Sensor -> Daylight Detector
Enchantment Table -> Enchanting Table
Weighted Pressure Plate (Heavy) -> Heavy Weighted Pressure Plate
Weighted Pressure Plate (Light) -> Light Weighted Pressure Plate
Slightly Damaged Anvil -> Chipped Anvil
Very Damaged Anvil -> Damaged Anvil
Head -> Player Head
Light Block -> Light
The Stone Mason villager profession has been retitled to Mason to align with Java Edition standards.
Mooshrooms will now spawn at light levels of 9 and above (MCPE-66830).
Fixed Mushroom Farms in Woodland Mansions that incorrectly generated Dirt instead of Coarse Dirt.
The following blocks have been reconciled with Java Edition regarding Redstone power:
minecraft:mangrove_roots -> now powered (MCPE-153838).
minecraft:beacon -> now unpowered.
minecraft:tnt -> now unpowered.
minecraft:sea_lantern -> no longer powered (MCPE-79271).
Mining Top Snow with a Silk Touch enchanted Shovel now yields drops corresponding to the number of block layers (MCPE-59729).
If there are eight layers, a Snow Block will be dropped instead.
Players are now capable of crafting two Cyan Dyes from one Pitcher Plant (MCPE-171061).
Foxes have been assigned a health total of 10 (MCPE-48233).
Villagers will no longer produce idle sounds during sleep.

In addition to these exciting features and fixes, numerous technical changes and enhancements were integrated within the Minecraft Bedrock 1.21.30 update. For those who are addon creators or have an interest in the technicalities of Bedrock Edition, please refer to the official patch notes on the Minecraft website.

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