Bedrock Edition 1.21.93 Review (Happy 4th of July!)

Yesterday, Minecraft released Bedrock Edition 1.21.93 on July 3, 2025. It adds one new item, specifically a music disc based on the song from A Minecraft Movie that has become a meme now, "Steve's Lava Chicken".

It was composed by Hyper Potions and was first added for Java Edition 1.21.7 Release Candidate 1 on June 25, 2025. It would eventually be added to Minecraft Bedrock Preview 1.21.100.23 on July 1, 2025, and added to the full release in this update, 1.21.93.

The update fixed 6 issues overall.

Bedrock Edition 1.21.90 Review

 

Release Information:

Minecraft Bedrock Edition v1.21.90—also known as the Chase the Skies update—was officially released on June 17, 2025. This release arrives roughly two weeks after the Java Edition’s 1.21.6 update and brings Bedrock players a host of new features, graphical enhancements, and quality‑of‑life improvements.

Key Features:

Happy Ghast Flying Mount:

  Players can now raise a tameable “Happy Ghast” from a dried block found or crafted in the Nether, then soar above the Overworld alone or with friends once the ghastling is fully grown. Flying on a ghast opens up new opportunities for sky‑high base building and rapid cross‑map travel.

Vibrant Visuals Mode:

Bedrock Edition users gain access to Minecraft’s largest official visual overhaul. Vibrant Visuals introduces enhanced lighting, volumetric fog, reflections, color grading, and reworked textures for biomes, mobs, and blocks—turning everyday environments into atmospheric vistas. To enable it, select “Vibrant Visuals” under Graphics Mode; performance may vary on older consoles and Android devices.

Locator Bar:

A new HUD element replaces the Experience Bar when multiple players are nearby. It displays directional indicators toward other players (within a 120° field of view) and uses up/down arrows if they’re above or below you. Sneaking, wearing a mob head or pumpkin, or activating invisibility cloaks you from the Locator Bar.

Craftable Saddles & Leashing Improvements:

Saddles can now be crafted using 3 leather and 1 iron ingot, with a recipe popup appearing when you first pick up leather. Shears can remove saddles from mobs more easily, and leather has been added to certain loot tables in place of saddles. Leashes also attach more reliably to caravans of camels and to your new Happy Ghast.

New Music & Miscellaneous Additions:

A brand‑new music disc joins the game’s soundtrack, and the Player Locator Bar helps track wandering friends. Small tweaks—such as improved player‑tracking tools and new crafting features—round out the content.

Bug Fixes & Quality‑of‑Life:

- Various fixes for Vibrant Visuals (e.g., corrected ambient lighting in the Nether, fog settings in humid biomes, and TAAU artifacts)

- Resolved issues with water rendering on the underside of clouds and black-box glitches on End Portals

- Night Vision now behaves more consistently in Vibrant Visuals mode

- Improved stability for multiplayer Realms when mixing players with and without Vibrant Visuals enabled.

Conclusion:

v1.21.90 brings a compelling mix of gameplay and visual enhancements that reinforce Bedrock Edition’s identity. The Happy Ghast mount and Locator Bar add fresh mechanics, while Vibrant Visuals delivers the long‑awaited graphical facelift. Although performance may suffer on older devices and Java Edition players will bide their time for certain features, this update marks one of the most ambitious drops for Bedrock yet. 

Bedrock Edition Preview 1.21.90.27 review

 

Mojang just updated Minecraft Bedrock Edition Preview from 1.21.90.26 to 1.21.90.27 2 days ago on May 27, 2025, which is one of the bug updates. As you know, bugs are things that need to be fixed by developers. Bug updates only fix bugs and sometimes make just very small changes, which usually makes it a boring update. 

4 good changes were made in this update. It updates the Ghastling's speed to slow it down, it makes the Happy Ghast's player detection area reverted to a single box, it makes the Happy Ghast no longer jitter when a player is detected at the edge of it's detection area, and it temporarily reverted weather-related changes to sky color in Vibrant Visuals while some issues are sorted out. 1 technical change was made, it being that alpha_test_to_opaque, alpha_test_single_sided_to_opaque, and blend_to_opaque will not shift to opaque in the distance.

14 issues were fixed.

In summary, I think this update was alright, but no major changes were made.

Source: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Bedrock_Edition_Preview_1.21.90.27

Written by: Sawyer L. Kochenderfer

Bedrock Edition Preview/Beta 1.21.90.21

BEFORE YOU BEGIN, NOTE THAT THIS ARTICLE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.

Beta 1.21.90.21 (ChromeOS, Android) and Preview 1.21.90.20 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) are the second test builds for Bedrock Edition 1.21.90, released April 29, 2025, containing bug fixes.

Changes

Blocks

Beacon - The beacon beam can now reach up to height 2048.

Dead Bush - Dead bush ambient sounds now play slightly more often.

Dried Ghast - The dried ghast block recipe now uses a soul sand block instead of a bone block.

Sand

• Ambient sand sounds no longer require sky access to play.
• Ambient sand sounds now play slightly less often.
• Ambient sand sounds can now play in all biomes.
• Sand blocks no longer trigger ambient wind sound.

Short Dry Grass and Tall Dry Grass - Short and tall dry grass blocks now trigger ambient wind sounds when placed above two sand, red sand, or terracotta blocks.

Terracotta - Terracotta blocks no longer trigger ambient sand or wind sounds.

Items

Lead - The lead recipe now uses string instead of a slimeball.

Mobs

Blaze - Blaze attack sounds are now audible up to 32 blocks, and blaze attack range has been increased from 16 to 48 blocks to match its target detection range.

Ghastling - Ghastlings can now follow happy ghasts.

Piglin - Piglins now sometimes barter dried ghast blocks.

Zoglin - Zoglins now chase players at a slower speed to match Java Edition.

Zombified Piglin

• Baby zombified piglins can no longer equip golden swords
• Zombified piglins now chase players more slowly to match Java Edition