When will Minecraft: Education Edition get the latest Bedrock features?
As the Bedrock/Java teams roll out exciting new features in Minecraft, our team needs some time to look over and understand how we can implement these new features in Minecraft: Education Edition. Our version of the game has unique features for use in the classroom and our team works to make sure any new features will be compatible with them. As such our version of Minecraft is typically about one update cycle behind the Bedrock/Java versions. When we have information on our next update we will be posting it on our website!
Have ideas for how you might improve this or why you need this feature? Let us know below so we can share with our development team!
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Yee maybe but they still need to code due to a thing called Bugs
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As the Bedrock/Java teams roll out exciting new features in Minecraft, our team needs some time to look over and understand how we can implement these new features in Minecraft: Education Edition. Our version of the game has unique features for use in the classroom and our team works to make sure any new features will be compatible with them. As such our version of Minecraft is typically about one update cycle behind the Bedrock/Java versions. When we have information on our next update we will be posting it on our official website!
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We have no information on when the next release is. You just need to keep an eye on the website and we will announce when it is ready.
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i love that mojang is working hard on projects and on mincon live they even put up Minecraft education Edition! now i love Minecraft even more that all of us can play it free and its more loved now! and i might even downlod the money virson
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"I am confused is minecraft education getting 1.16, once actual minecraft get 1.7?"
Ahmad Mohammad adding your thought here - answer is above!Thanks Julian Krynytskyy we're glad you're glad!1 -
Please update the game, I just read that we probaly wont get 1.16 untill mid 2021.
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Atharv Dhiman thanks for adding your thoughts on having parity with Bedrock. Please see this thread where others have asked the same, and read at the top our latest response. We currently are working on this and your voice matters!
I am playing Minecraft Education Edition for 1 year and I have been playing Minecraft Java Edition for 6 months . I have noticed that there are custom skins in java but not in education . I have played the trial for bedrock and we can add custom skins in it . education edition's layout is based on the bedrock edition . so please give us an option to add custom skins and mods . I have also noticed that education edition is 2 step behind java and bedrock edition in updates . Can you add an option to change the version of education and please update the version of education as cave update is gonna come and my friends who don't have java or bedrock are crying because they don't have the nether update in education . please add the nether update in education . I hope you see my request and add the following things I said . We would be pleased if you update our version of Minecraft and add custom skins
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the education edition is 1 step behind java and bedrock edition . I mistakenly said 2 step behind1 -
I'm sorry https://educommunity.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/profiles/406000145231-Brandon-Alfaro , but sadly there is only the tool for PC and Mac because iOS does not support the opening of .mcpack files. I think there is a way, but it is a lengthy process. But, if you want to try, here is the Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/MCPE/comments/c7ueos/installing_mcpacks_in_ios_13/
If this doesn't work, then there is no way for you or other iOS users to get custom skins.
Thanks for the comment though! Bye!
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Yes please
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will do
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Programmers art resource pack in Education Edition
You should probably make it so the programmer's art textures are available in education edition as well... Like, y'know, as an extra resource pack to include in the game in case people like me prefer the old textures? It'd probably be disabled by default if added, though
-Thanks Jake for your feedback! Please read and subscribe to this thread for M:EE / Bedrock updates.
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there have been a some changes but no changes to blocks ,structures and more
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how do i find people that are online so i can join them in their minecraft education edition world
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on average, how long does it take for mc edu to update after a new release on the other versions of mc
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when is Minecraft education edition get the latest bedrock version
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I presume that the Caves and Cliffs update will be released to EDU after the full version comes out for Java and Bedrock? I cannot wait for it to arrive.
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When Will The New Caves & Cliffs Update For Minecraft:Education Edition Comes?
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we need to know when the date of the update will come out
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1.16 for edu probably gonna be rolling around sometime next year
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@jim s There has been crazy amount of spam in the last few weeks. Please be assured that between filters that automatically put comments in the moderation queue (it happens to me!) and the possibility of moderator error, we certainly know that sometimes great members with good things to say end up in the moderation queue. Sorry this happened, and we will try to keep things rolling as well as we can!
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Hi, I noticed to get the beta for 1.16 and 1.17, you have to download an app. You have to be thirteen to be able to get in. Is there any way you guys could maybe tell us the release date for it on the actual app?
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Hello Im kinda new with minecraft education edition i just wanted to know if it would be able to download mods
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Minecraft Education Update
Arun Sankar
1 month ago
I want to know when Minecraft Edu will update to the 1.16 as when we have free time at schools they usually play survival and want to play in the latest version so I suggest that there be a launcher that we can change the version similar to the java launcher.You have probably seen this already but Minecraft Education is based on the Bedrock Minecraft codebase, however we normally run about one full version behind the Bedrock production version. When we start work on our next release, we adopt the latest version of Bedrock possible based on their production cycle and how it fits into ours. Our next release will contain many of the new Bedrock features that are live today.
We do not give out release dates before the team has announced those to the public on the official website. When it is announced we will be posting it for everyone to see!
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The Minecraft Update
When will the netherite gear come out in minecraft education? and all the normal minecraft updates
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Hi there usayd12. I'm just chiming in to remind everyone that Minecraft: Education Edition does not support custom skins or third party solutions such as the app listed in the post above. Students and educators need to be very cautious when using tools as the one listed.
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Feedback based on a month of building a world
I got tasked by my university to create a world for simulating a product development process and after a month of building it I thought I would release a longish post here detailing all my hurdles and wishes for the future. I have background in Java technical Minecraft and command block creations and have been viewing the teaching experience creation through that experience.
Let's start with some positives: the game runs much smoother than the Java version ever could hope to and barrier, deny and allow blocks are awesome tools. However, I have been let down again and again by the more technical side, or the lack thereof of the version. Here is everything I would have wanted to do in the version but haven't been able to because of lack of features.
1: Display scoreboard values in a personal UI:
With the world revolving around managing budgets and interacting with rival businesses, being able to display budgets to only certain players would be a crucial feature. It is a shame, teams, scoreboard data usage in JSON and data merging into signs is removed, because those are the three main options to display this data to certain people I would have used in Java edition.
2: Organize teams
I am honestly quite baffled by the lack of /team support in the education edition. I quess with younger students the version doesn't want to encourage competition or something? I have got around most team features with tags, but this just seems like a must have and would also enable personalised UI with “/scoreboard objectives setdisplay team” functionality while also streamlining map creation.
3: Recipe management
The original idea for the world was to simulate Research and Development -work done in a business by locking all recipes and allowing businesses to invest in research to unlock them again. It's a shame /recipe is only supported in Java version as I found out recently.
4: Server hosting
The world was originally meant to be up for a week for the students to be able to engage in the product development process on their own time, but after looking into Education Edition features, apparently server hosting is not supported and we have been forced to look for alternate methods.
5: Full tellraw and execute functionality
This was the only part I knew would not function equally from the start but I never knew how much behind these features were before I was trying to use them. Frankly using more advanced commands in Education Edition feels archaic, but that was the one thing I was prepared to suffer through.
I wholeheartedly support the effort that is going into Education Edition and understand I should have done more thorough research into the capabilities of the tool I am using instead of assuming the things I do in Java would work here as well. However maybe because Microsoft/Mojang marketing has pushed the idea of Bedrock and Java having feature parity, it feels frustating that the supposed professonial version has been constricting my ability to create a functional and polished learning experience.
The deadline for this project is soon enough that I know this post will not help me personally, but I hope this post encourages bringing more detailed automation tools into the arsenal of educational map creators in the future. Maybe I get to make a version 2.0 of our map at some point and actually feel satisfied, instead of feeling like doctor Frankenstein scraping together a monster made out of compromises and would haves.
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Eetu Asikainen Thanks for this in-depth feedback! We've added it to our thread about Bedrock parity. Read above the thread to see some responses of what our team is up to in this department. Thank you for your voice!
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Needs to make updates for mac and apple
I think Minecraft education edition should be like java edition with the new nether update.Also you need to make some updates available to people on apple and mac
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Hey Luke! Thanks for sharing. Adding your question here - the team is actively working on updating the version. You can read above for some of the reasoning. Thanks for your voice!
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Education Edition Update Please
Minecraft Education Edition is a great learning tool for my students but the new 1.16.1 update has new features like trading and that would be very helpful for my classroom.
High Hopes, Jaden Dyson
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