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1.14.31^[2] is a major update of Education Edition that adds compatibility with Chromebooks and introduces features from Bedrock Edition versions 1.13.0 and 1.14.0, including Buzzy Bees features.^[3]

• 1Additions
• 2Changes

Additions[edit]

Blocks[edit]

Beehives

• Crafted with 6 planks and 3 honeycombs.
• Function the same as bee nests, but does not need a Silk Touch enchanted tool to be dropped.

Bee nests

• Spawn naturally in flower forests, plains, and sunflower plains biomes.
• Can house up to 3 bees.
• Fill up with honey.
  • Have a max honey level of 5.
• Can be obtained by using a Silk Touch enchanted tool.

Flowers

• Added the wither rose flower.
• Inflicts the wither effect to any players or mobs standing in it.
• Can be used as an alternative to ink sacs to make black dye.
• Drops from mobs killed by the wither.
  • If /gamerule mobgriefing is set to false, the wither rose is always dropped as an item, instead of planting it.

Honey blocks

• Crafted with 4 honey bottles.
• Drastically reduce movement speed and jump height.
• Can be climbed down, and drags anything on them when moved by a piston.
• Do not stick to slime blocks.
• Reduce fall damage by 80%.

Honeycomb blocks

• Crafted with 4 honeycombs.
• Are purely decorative.

Items[edit]

Honey bottles

• Can be drunk by using it, restoring 6 () hunger points.
  • Drinking one also removes the poison effect.
• Can be used to craft sugar and honey blocks.
• Obtained by using a bottle on full bee hives/nests.

Honeycombs

• Obtained by using shears on full bee hives/nests.
• Can be used to craft bee hives and honeycomb blocks.

Spawn eggs

• Added bee and fox spawn egg.

Suspicious stew

• Can be crafted, milked from brown mooshrooms, found in shipwreck supply chests, or bought from farmer villagers.
• When consumed, gives a status effect depending on what flower it was made from, or a random effect if found in a shipwreck or bought from a farmer villager.

Mobs[edit]

Bees

• Have 10 health.
• Live in groups near hives and nests.
  • If a bee does not have a home nest, it wanders around until it finds one.
• Can be bred using any flower.
• Adult and baby bees pollinate flowers, then go back to nests and hives and make honey.
• Bees can make plants grow faster if they pass above it after pollinating flowers.
• Attack in a swarm if provoked, have a baby or if honey is taken from nests/hives without using a campfire.
  • When they attack, they give Poison to the target and die 50-60 seconds after attacking.
• Are affected by Bane of Arthropods.

Brown mooshroom

• A variant of the mooshroom that spawns when a red mooshroom is hit by lightning.
  • Can be fed flowers then milked for a suspicious stew.

Foxes

• Spawn as red foxes in snowless taiga biomes, and as snow foxes in snowy taiga biomes
• Can be bred with sweet berries.
  • The newborn fox trusts and defends the player.
• Can pick up and carry items in their mouths.
• May eat and drop what they are carrying.
• Wolves and polar bears attack them.
• Attack chickens and rabbits.

NPCs

• Added 5 new bee-themed NPC skins.

Command format[edit]

General

• Added tab-complete for writing coordinate commands.
• Added new PersistComponent command for mob persistence.
• Improved many map-making commands.^{[more information needed]}
• Added nameTag argument to /summon, enabling summoning of entities with a name.

Game rules

• Added showtags gamerule. ^{[more information needed]}

General[edit]

• Added support for Chromebook users, available on Google Play Store.

Accessibility

• Added on-screen keyboard and mouse hints.

Library

• Windows and Chromebook users can now assign lessons and worlds from the in-game Library via Microsoft Teams or Google Classroom.
• Has new categories to learn about Digital Citizenship and Social-Emotional Learning.
• Tags are now displayed on all Library lesson and world pages.

Changes[edit]

Blocks[edit]

Dispensers

• Can now extract honey bottles from a full beehive.

Grass path

• Is now available in the creative inventory.

Item frames

• Now can be placed on the top and bottoms of blocks.

Items[edit]

Armor

• No longer turn red when a player gets hurt.

Turtle egg

• Now have a 2D texture in the inventory.

Mobs and entities[edit]

Villagers

• Cartographers now require 11 glass panes for an emerald.
• Farmers now sell suspicious stew.

Gameplay[edit]

Swimming

• Players no longer start swimming in 1-block deep water.

General[edit]

Menu screen

• Updated Mojang Studios logo.

Fixes[edit]

Minecraft Education Shaders

• MCPE-7979 – Putting bone meal on a flower gives only poppies and dandelions.
• MCPE-10853 – Breaking the piston head in creative mode causes the piston to drop as an item.
• MCPE-11115 – Snow layer collision box is glitched.

References[edit]

1. ↑'A note to our community! We have an update launching at the end of next week. If you're planning on using #MinecraftEdu on August 6 or 7, make sure all devices are updated to avoid any disruptions.' – @PlayCraftLearn, July 28, 2020
2. ↑ ^ab'A reminder to our community: We have an update scheduled for today, so make sure your classroom or student devices have the latest version of #MinecraftEdu to avoid any disruptions. This article can help you ensure you're updated to version 1.14.31: https://msft.it/6012ToqTi' – @PlayCraftLearn, August 7, 2020
3. ↑'What's New Minecraft: The Chromebook Release (version 1.14.31)' by Kyle M – Minecraft: Education Edition Support, August 7, 2020.

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