Minecraft: Bedrock Edition

They at least know what it is.

Or maybe they played like Pocket Edition when they were a young kid or something like that.

But anyways, Eric's mom was informing him that, yeah, so basically, you know, just a heads up, this kid is obsessed with Minecraft and will probably refuse to have a conversation or engage in any activity that isn't at least Minecraft adjacent.

So Eric's thinking to himself, oh great, well this is going to be a really fun time for me because...

For the full details of bug fixes and technical changes, check out the Minecraft.net change log for Snapshot 5 linked in this week's show notes on Patreon.com.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition also has a preview this week for 26.70.21.

This was released concurrently with the Java snapshot on October 20th.

In blocks additions, they've introduced the packed ice bricks, as mentioned in the Java change log.

This is Bedrock.

Bedrock Edition.

Yeah.

So do we build around this? Do we still, we still wanna do it? I think-

I've heard of it.

Why the fuck do they still have Java? Isn't Bedrock like 10 years old? I don't know.

I thought the point of Bedrock, or maybe it wasn't actually.

I thought the point of Bedrock was to basically recreate Minecraft from like a more, I don't know, like a consistent code base that would be translatable to all the other platforms you could work off of one thing because Java was kind of like hell on earth to maintain or something.

I don't know.

That was my impression.

But, like, when you have Bedrock and Java, and then you're maintaining both, like, what the fuck is...

Bedrock is...

Yeah, and back then I was, like, 11 years old, so over the years I've had a lot of name changes as I've grown and everything.

But yeah, the current name, Tomo Jester, mainly the Tomo part comes from my name, which is Thomas, and also one of the "Minecraft" Pocket Edition devs is named Tommaso Checchi, and he was my favorite "Minecraft" dev.

He sadly is no longer with Mojang.

He left around the time of Caves & Cliffs, but he was very foundational for getting Bedrock up and running, and he was with the team since Pocket Edition's launch through about Caves & Cliffs on Bedrock.

Wow, that's super interesting.

I-

Yeah.

Were you playing on PC then?

In episode 153 of Realm News, I welcome Minecraft content creator Tomo Jester to chat about his incredible journey through the game and content creation.

I talk with Tomo about the origin of his unique name, his first experiences with Pocket Edition, when he was just six years old and his ambitious project to combine all of his past minecraft worlds into one ultimate forever world i dive into the evolution of minecraft creative building streaming and the challenges of documenting a massive multi-version playthrough i also share behind the scenes insights into tomo's star wars realm project and discuss the tools he uses to edit and produce his videos With that said, let's hear a short clip of this conversation.

I love this clip, folks, because Tomo discusses the freedom Minecraft gives players, especially on Java and how the game preserves previous versions so players can return to older updates whenever they want.

Unlike games that move on from past versions, Minecraft keeps those experiences accessible, offering freedom both within the game and in how players choose to experience it.

And I know we'll joke about it a few times, but In an unironic way, we kind of relate in a fair few ways.

For instance, with the Minecraft stuff, right? I was on and off of Minecraft throughout my entire career, and I was mainly Bedrock content creation.

Minecraft Bedrock, sorry.

But I played the Xbox 360 edition with my neighbors and all that kind of jazz.

But I didn't really get into Minecraft content until about 2020, and it was Bedrock content.

Then I didn't actually get into Java content or start playing Java until about 2023.

So although I've been around for a long time and I played Minecraft near the start and stuff like that, I've never really been like, you know, you talk to some, I told some people on the podcast, you watch some content creators like, yeah, I've been playing Minecraft like 10 years.

Those have been fixed but there are plenty more bug fixes to check out in the changelog.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition Preview 26.60.29 was published on Wednesday, September 30th, and this was actually the first preview of Ice Caves, arriving roughly a week before Java.

The changelog features some of the same features we've just covered in the Java Edition news, but also has a few fixes, tweaks, and quality of life improvements, such as fixing a rendering issue with redstone dust going up and down two sides of a block, cushions in unloaded chunks no longer disappear when the chunk reloads, Players can no longer duplicate items by holding an item and walking into a dropped stack of the same item while their inventory is full.

The size of the end flash in fancy graphics mode now more closely matches Java Edition.

The changelog says that more main menu updates are on the way.

These updates are being rolled out incrementally, so they might not be available to everybody right away.

Once again, to check out the full changelog for Minecraft Bedrock Edition Preview, head to the show notes or find it on minecraft.net. One last thing to cover as a little fun community thing.

Former NFL head coach Mike Tomlin shared his Minecraft city online last week.

Hold on.

The brand new UI, yeah, the brand new UI on the vanilla game that's going to come to Bedrock Edition with all of that.

Because they are

kind of...

Yeah,

it's brand new UI that the UI team has been working on for the past decade or so for Bedrock Edition.

Because we're moving over from one, switching completely over to or UI.

And I've been seeing no one but negative feedback about it.

Bedrock.

True or false? Strongholds spawn like crazy in Bedrock Edition.

No. No.

I actually don't know this one, so I want to say...