Minecraft Adds New Painting With Neat Reference in Latest Preview

Highlights

Minecraft Bedrock Edition’s preview 1.21.0.21 adds five paintings, including a clever reference to American Gothic.
New features like Mace weapon and mob effects are rolled out for Bedrock players alongside Java snapshots.
Updates include Trial Chamber tweaks, Raid Omen effect, and adjustments to gameplay mechanics and user interface.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition has added five new paintings as part of preview 1.21.0.21, and one of them has a clever reference to a famous real-life painting. Minecraft often releases snapshots for Java players to test upcoming features. But Bedrock players aren’t left behind, and Mojang’s sandbox rolls out the same features via previews.

Minecraft players tested features such as the new Ominous Event and Ominous Trial Key, four new mob effects, and adjustments to Breeze in preview 1.21.0.20. Preview 1.20.80.22 added the Mace, Minecraft‘s new melee weapon, along with additional armor trims, banner patterns, and pottery shards for players to obtain. A change celebrated by the community, preview 1.20.80.21 added the eight new wolf variations that Minecraft Java players had tested in one of the snapshots. Minecraft Bedrock has now received a new preview, and it includes a neat reference.

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Minecraft has released preview 1.21.0.21 for Bedrock Edition, adding five new paintings, one referencing the famous painting American Gothic. Minecraft players were quick to notice that one of the new paintings, which shows two villagers posing side by side with the village in the background, is a reference to Grant Wood’s American Gothic painting. Created in 1930, Wood’s work depicts a man and a woman in front of a house and is one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century. The other paintings that Minecraft players can craft include one based on pack.png, an image known for being the icon of the default texture pack.

The five new Minecraft paintings are called Baroque, Humble, Meditative, Prairie Ride, and Unpacked, and were created by Sarah Boeving. Bedrock players can also finally try out the new Mace, Wind Burst, Density, and Breach enchantments, added in a recent Minecraft Java snapshot. Another new feature in preview 1.21.0.21 is the Raid Omen mob effect, which lasts 30 seconds, and after it expires causes a Raid to start in the location where the player gained the effect. Mojang has also made adjustments to the new Trial Chamber structure and the Trial Spawner block, accessibility and interface adjustments, and the Hardcore Mode death screen, which only in the preview shows the option “Spectate World.”

The new Minecraft paintings are currently available only on Bedrock, with Java players receiving the update soon. With this new round of content and tweaks, Mojang continues to prepare the path for the arrival of Minecraft update 1.21, which is much anticipated due to the wide range of features it will add to the game.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition Gets New Paintings and Tweaks in Preview 1.21.0.21

EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES

MACE

The Mace now has three brand new Enchantments available for use!
Wind Burst generates a burst of wind when successfully striking enemies, launching the wielder in the air!
Density makes the already heavy Mace EVEN HEAVIER, adding additional heft to its Smash Attack!
Breach allows the Mace to bypass a portion of an enemy’s Armor, striking fear into the hearts of even the most protected enemies!
Added a new explosive particle effect when executing a smash attack with the Mace to really show the player’s power when using it!
Known issues: Particles appear grey in water and on some leaves. Particles appear when target is hit in the air.

MOB EFFECTS

Added Raid Omen
Instead of triggering a Raid directly, Bad Omen will transform into a Raid Omen variant with a duration of 30 seconds
Once the Raid Omen expires, a Raid will start at the location the player gained the Raid Omen
Like any other effect, players can drink a Bucket of Milk to clear the Raid Omen to prevent the Raid from starting
Added activation sounds to Bad Omen, Trial Omen, and Raid Omen

PAINTINGS

Added five new paintings by artist Sarah Boeving:
Baroque
Humble
Meditative
Prairie Ride
Unpacked

TRIAL CHAMBERS

Trial Chambers are now more consistently buried by terrain when found underground

TRIAL SPAWNER

Ominous Trial Spawners now show a preview of the item that is about to be dropped

FEATURES AND BUG FIXES

BLOCKS

“coral_block” block is now split into unique instances: “tube_coral_block”, “brain_coral_block”, “bubble_coral_block”, “fire_coral_block”, “horn_coral_block”, “dead_tube_coral_block”, “dead_brain_coral_block”, “dead_bubble_coral_block”, “dead_fire_coral_block” and “dead_horn_coral_block”

EDU TOGGLE

Chemistry items now appear in the creative inventory when the Education edition toggle is on

GAMEPLAY

Fixed a crash that could occur when teleporting to a region where a Piston is pushing a Chest (MCPE-179440)
Fixed a crash that could occur when the player begins losing air

HARDCORE MODE (PREVIEW ONLY)

The death screen now shows “Spectate World” option when playing in Hardcore Mode (MCPE-180287)

MOBS

Armadillos no longer repeatedly roll and unroll when receiving damage from blocks (MCPE-180142)

REALMS

Fixed several instances of periods being narrated as ‘dot’ on the Realms Stories ‘Opt In’ screen (Preview only)

ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES

Added text-to-speech support for member search results in the Realms Stories Member tab (Preview Only)
The Realms Stories Opt In screen now enumerates its active buttons with text-to-speech on (Preview Only)

USER INTERFACE

Added slide-off persistence to new d-pad touch control scheme
Changes positioning and scale of default new touch d-pad control scheme. Also allows for moving the dpad closer to the hotbar when customizing touch controls.
Made the jump and ascend in water button overlap so now the player can stay above water more easily (MCPE-179689)
Fix a bug that prevented navigating to previously sent messages with a keyboard on Xbox (MCPE-174648)

TECHNICAL UPDATES

ADD-ONS AND SCRIPT ENGINE

Fixed some places in documentation generation where elements were accidentally overwritten. This caused a minor amount of documentation to appear or move in the Animations, Blocks, Entities, and Particles files

BLOCKS

Updated block geometry to allow uv rotations
This allows you to rotate the specified uv rect in 90 degree increments before applying it to a block face
Supported from minecraft:geometryformat version 1.21.0 and up
Added pivot for scale in the Block Transformation Component
Added pivot for rotation in the Block Transformation Component

DOCUMENTATION

Documentation for version v1.13.0 of “Decoration Features” is now up to date

EDITOR

Editor is now in v0.6 with the following new features:
New Panel Layout – panels can be toggled, resized, and support auto-hide
Widget Framework – editor extensions can now use custom entities and animations to mark information within the world
Global Block Hotbar + Picker – customize and swap between your most common blocks to build even faster
Brush Shape Framework – use our resizable brush shapes to quickly modify the world or add your own with editor extensions
Summon Tool – quickly create, move, rotate, and delete entities
Line Tool – build parkour maps, bridges, roads with our new line tool
Improved performance, bug fixes, and many more!

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNICAL UPDATES

API

get will now handle items whose names have changed so that scripts referencing old names will still work as intended
Added ItemComponentUseOnEvent for beta

Moved typeIdand Block.matches from beta to stable