The Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) 1.16.0 Nether Update, released on June 23, 2020, revamps the Nether dimension with new biomes, blocks, and mobs. Major additions include Netherite tools and armor, new enchantments, and enhanced gameplay features.
Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) 1.16 Update Overview
Update Name: Nether Update
Platform: Pocket Edition (PE)
Version Number: 1.16.0
Release Date: June 23, 2020
Revision Type: Major Release
The Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) 1.16.0 update, known as the Nether Update, was released on June 23, 2020, and brings extensive changes focused on enhancing the Nether dimension. This major update introduces a host of new features, including new tools, weapons, armor, and blocks, alongside several new mobs and biomes.
New Features and Additions
- Items and Tools:
- Netherite Tools: Added Netherite Shovel, Pickaxe, Axe, and Hoe.
- Netherite Armor: Added Netherite Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, and Boots.
- Weapons: Added Netherite Sword and a second crafting recipe for Stone Sword.
- Other Items: Added Lodestone Compass, Warped Fungus on a Stick, and a second crafting recipe for Stone tools.
- Blocks and Items:
- New Blocks: Added Nether Gold Ore, Crimson Nylium, Warped Nylium, Crimson and Warped Planks, Stems, Hyphae, Slabs, Stairs, Fences, and Fence Gates.
- Additional Blocks: Added Basalt, Polished Basalt, Block of Netherite, Ancient Debris, and various Nether-themed blocks like Crying Obsidian, Soul Torch, and Soul Lantern.
- Decorative Items: Added Crimson and Warped Signs, Doors, Pressure Plates, Trapdoors, and Buttons.
- Technical Blocks: Added Border Block, Allow Block, Deny Block, and Jigsaw Block.
- Spawn Eggs:
- Added Hoglin, Piglin, Strider, and Zoglin Spawn Eggs. The Zombie Pigman Spawn Egg was renamed to Zombified Piglin Spawn Egg.
- Mobs:
- Hostile Mobs: Added Hoglin, Piglin, and Zoglin.
- Passive Mob: Added Strider.
- Biomes:
- New Nether Biomes: Added Crimson Forest, Warped Forest, Soul Sand Valley, and Basalt Deltas.
- Enchantments:
- Added Curse of Binding, Curse of Vanishing, and Soul Speed.
- All types of hoes can now be enchanted with Efficiency, Fortune, and Silk Touch.
- Game Commands:
- Added options for bastionremnant and ruinedportal in the /locate command.
- Added new Spawn Events for various mobs, including Bee, Hoglin, Piglin, Pufferfish, Sheep, Strider, and Zoglin.
- Structures:
- Added Bastion Remnants, Nether Fossils, and Ruined Portals.
- General Changes:
- Hoglins in the Overworld now become Zoglins.
- Weeping Vines can be climbed, and Crimson Roots and Warped Roots can be placed in Flower Pots.
- Entities are pushed by flowing lava, and nether wart and warped wart blocks can be quickly cleared with a hoe.
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