standardizes bedrock edition, functionality parity with java edition.

deprecates java edition

BIG emphasis on mods:

• adds an emulation layer that translates between the two

• pays for development of bedrock versions of popular mods, in collaboration with the community

• many features originally in mods are now part of the base game

native support for linux, bsd, and haikuOS. happy pride month xbox

save file conversion tool so players/servers can continue their worlds in bedrock

option to "publish world as NFT on the Microsoft Infinity blockchain"

game requires always-on server connection

server keylogs the game + chat for replays on their server. microsoft uses this for a famous 2028 computational intelligence paper, "minecraft as a language"

new MASONRY MODE!!!

• dude masonry mode is so cool ok

• you can chissel into blocks to create finer detail, at 16x16 px chunks, with a UI kind of like Animal Crossing's pattern designer but in 3D

• you can chisel them to a block, and record the pattern to make more of the pattern

• when placing blocks, you can also rotate it 90 degrees / flip it across axes

• most building blocks now have a VOXEL TEXTURE defined too for all the layers

• so when you chisel into a log, you cut through bark and then through the core

• or a furnace, you can see the parts inside of it

• blocks without a voxel texture just interpolate the texture inward

but Masonry Mode is only available for players 18 and up who show ID, to protect young eyes from an unbecoming statue on a multiplayer server