Minecraft Dungeons 1.03 is now available, Jungle Awakens indeed – Patch Notes Included

Angel Kicevski July 1, 2020Last Updated: July 21, 2022

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Mojang’s Minecraft Dungeons has developed quite a lot in this period, and thanks to the latest 1.03 patch and the Jungle Awakens DLC, we’re ready to step onto a bigger horizon. With a captivating and profoundly entertaining gameplay experience, Minecraft Dungeons has undoubtedly placed itself among the video game titles that offer healthy joy and happiness.

Thanks to the Jungle Awakens DLC, Minecraft Dungeons is enriched with new weapons, novel artificial intelligence, gear, armor, and artifacts. It also introduces new mobs such as the Whisperer and Leapleaf alongside secret areas worthy of exploration. Other crucial changes have also arrived for which we’ve talked about in our previous article.

The Jungle Awakens DLC is available for those with the having the Hero Edition. The DLC is available on all platforms, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4. For detailed patch notes, make sure you check the section below:

New Features:

Jungle Awakens
- The first DLC pack, Jungle Awakens, is available for purchase digitally on Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation™ 4
- A source of unbelievable power has crash-landed among the twisting vines of a distant, dangerous jungle. This mysterious power has spread its influence through vile vines, and now new terrors bloom – such as the Leapleaf and Whisperer
- Trek through three new missions that will take you to the heart of the jungle where you’ll find new weapons, armor, and artifacts. This journey is meant for the bravest of heroes, for all twisted vines and paths lead to the source of corruption: The Jungle Abomination. This beast must be dealt with to restore balance to the jungle, so strike true and move swiftly
- This pack is also available for players who have already purchased Minecraft Dungeons Hero Edition or the Hero Pass Upgrade. More details on Jungle Awakens can be found at aka.ms/JungleAwakensFAQ
Lower Temple
- All players will be able to unlock this new secret mission and discover new loot!
News
- The latest news for Minecraft Dungeons is now shown in the main menu

Changes:

Obsidian Pinnacle
- Reduced minimum threat level from V to IV to make the boss less difficult to beat (letting more players unlock Adventure mode)
Soul Siphon
- Made each soul collected respect your soul gather bonus
- Reduced amount of souls per pop a little
- Reduced chance a little
Exploding
- Increased explosion radius by 50%
Fire Aspect
- +100% damage
Poison Cloud
- +50% damage
Thundering
- +25% damage
Pets
- Half HP
- 50% damage reduction
- Increased attack damage 10%
Llama
- Increased attack speed 15%
Iron Golem
- 25% more health
Wolf
- Increased movement speed 15%
Life Steal Aura
- Increased life steal 3% -> 6%
- Capped the damage on which life-steal is based to the actual health of the target
Radiance
- Reduced radiance melee range to 750 (same as ranged)
- Fixed issue causing radiance heal amount to scale twice as much as it should (effective reduction at Apocalypse -50%)
- Increased radiance ranged trigger chance to 20% -> 50%
Leeching
- Increased healing 4/6/8% -> 5/7/9%
Shockwave
- Increased damage 20 -> 35
- Increased projectile base speed by 13%
- Fixed missing notify
Snowing
- Reduced stun duration of snowball 3s -> 2s
Health/Speed Synergy
- Synergy now triggers on Lightning Rod and Corrupted Beacon when it is activated
Soul Speed
- Max stack reduced from 100 to 5
- Increased speed bonus from 1% to 5%
- Increased duration from 2,3,4, to 3,5,7 seconds
- Removed soul-amount multiplier for the speed bonus on collected soul (each visual soul == one stack)
Anima Conduit
- Removed soul amount multiplier on soul collection
- Increased effect from 1/2/3% to 2/4/6% per visual soul collected
- Now triggers on any kill source
Soul Gathering
- Reduced Soul Gathering on all gear 2->1
- Soul Gathering is now collected from all gear no matter what kind of kill it is
- All soul themed enchantments now give +1 Soul Gathering (added bullet point to UI)
- All soul themed permanent enchantments now increase the item’s natural soul gathering
- Increased soul bar max souls 50 -> 300
- Added error feedback to soul bar when you have too little souls
Soul Knife
- Increased damage 40%
Soul Scythe
- Increased range by about 20%
- Increased damage by 35%
- Increased splash multiplier 0.4 -> 0.75
Soul Bow
- Increased ammo stack from 40 -> 50
Harvester
- Increased cost 25 -> 40
- increased cooldown 1s -> 4s
- Max damage also effectively increased by 60% due to damage being DAMAGE PER SOUL
- Removed variable soul cost
Corrupted Beacon
- Increased Cost 1 -> 2
- Added cooldown 2.5s
- Increased beam radius 150 -> 200 unreal units
- Increased damage by 100%
- Fixed bug causing the armor property bonus damage to be applied twice. (E.g. reduced damage bonus from Soul Robe compared to before)
- Fixed bug in soul cost which was making it not drain correctly
Lightning Rod
- Increased cost 10 -> 15
- Added cooldown 2s
- Increased radius 300 -> 350
- Increased damage 30 damage per soul -> 60 damage per soul
- Max damage also effectively increased by 50% due to damage being DAMAGE PER SOUL
- Removed variable soul cost
Soul Healer
- Increased cost 20 -> 50
- Increased cooldown 1s -> 5s
- Increased healing allies spark start speed 100% and acceleration 150%
- Healing per soul 10 -> 4
- Removed variable soul cost
Torment Quiver
- Increased cooldown 1s -> 6s
- Increased soul cost 10 -> 30
General Soul Gathering Changes
- Your non-soul item kills still give souls
- All your pet kills give souls
- All ally player kills where either the player or the kill is within 1200 range, you get souls too
- Number now shown in the HUD next to soul bar for changes to souls
- Soul Gathering bonus from armors reduced 100% -> 50%

Fixes:

Crashes / Performance
- Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay and improved stability across all platforms
- Fixed a crash that could occur when joining an online game
- Controls are no longer unresponsive while interacting with a merchant or Camp chest and getting kicked or disconnected from an online session
- Fixed a crash that occurred while host was fighting the Heart of Ender and other players were below the arena, waiting by the jump pads
- Potential fix for crash that occurs when there’s no proper audio device connected
- Fixed a crash that occurred when docking and undocking during a loading screen on Nintendo Switch
- Fixed a crash that could occur on PC when pressing Enter on the Add Friend screen
- Fixed an infinite loading screen that could occur after joining another player’s session after reconnecting to Xbox Live while in a suspended state during single player gameplay
- Fixed an infinite loading screen that could occur when attempting to proceed past the title screen after being forcibly signed out during a loading screen

General
- Fixed some issues with Windows Store players receiving the “Unable to verify game ownership” error (MCD-1230)
- Added a notification when a player leaves the game during online multiplayer
- Fixed the game getting stuck in offline game when removing a second player from the main menu
- Starting an offline game after the host of an online game forcibly disconnects no longer launches into a mission-camp hybrid (MCD-165)
- Kicked players can no longer rejoin the session without an invitation if they were kicked during the reward screen
- Players are no longer able to send invitations or join themselves through the Xbox app

Gameplay
- Fixed camera issues that could occur when players simultaneously jumped off a cliff
- Fixed Evokers spawning too many Vex
- Fixed dying on some ledges in Obsidian Pinnacle without falling off
- Fixed some sections of Camp that caused players to get out of bounds (MCD-457)
- Fixed players getting stuck in a pit on Squid Coast
- Players can no longer fall off the edge at the start of the secret Rune Room
- Players can no longer roll onto platforms in Cacti Canyon before they’re raised
- Arrows no longer auto-target dead mobs until their bodies disintegrate
- Fixed Redstone Golems not attacking players if attacked from a far distance
- Fixed an item duplication glitch
- Fixed the Cores not animating during the Redstone Monstrosity fight during online multiplayer
- Shooting a Key Golem with Trickbow or Heavy Crossbow no longer causes arrows to loop back and forth around them

Audio
- Fixed Witch potion bottle breaking sounds
- Fixed Redstone Monstrosity and Arch-Illager sound effects not affected by master volume setting
- Fixed sound effects for some artifacts not playing when encountering large groups of mobs

User Interface
- The “Start Game” button on the main menu now defaults to the last selected mode
- Fixed missing characters in Korean localization the enchantment and brightness screens (MCD-1394)
- ‘Lobby Chest’ is now just called ‘Chest’
- Burning enchantment now has the proper description, stating that it “damages nearby enemies”
- Artifacts can no longer hover over weapon and armor slots on the Inventory screen
- Flaming Quiver/Torment Quiver/Fireworks no longer overlap with arrows on the HUD
- Fixed overlapping buttons on the main menu in non-widescreen resolutions
- Fixed corrupted Fireworks Arrow animation
- Power and level of consumable items no longer on the HUD in online multiplayer
- Fixed mob health bars get wider as the game progresses
- The friend list now updates properly after kicking a player
- Fixed the friend list automatically scrolling when clicking buttons or hovering the “Join” button
- The host of an online multiplayer game now always appears at the top of the player list

1.2.0.0 – June 22, 2020

Today we are rolling out the 1.2.0.0 update to Xbox One and Windows platforms. This update also includes the fixes from all platforms that were introduced in 1.2.0.0 on June 17.

Windows Fixes:

Fixed save data becoming corrupted after a crash that could occur when quitting the game
Saved data is now saved to the %HOMEPATH%\Saved Games\Mojang Studios\Dungeons folder. Save files will be moved to this folder after loading into Minecraft Dungeons with the latest update
Fixed a crash that could occur when using text-to-speech
Fixed button prompts on the user interface constantly switching back to keyboard while playing on gamepad
Fixed mouse hover not being recognized by any buttons first clicking on the main menu

Xbox One Fixes:

Fixed a crash which occurred when signing out of the active profile on Xbox One during the victory countdown
Fixed a crash that could occur in local co-op when Player 2 tried to join using a guest account
Fixed multiple crashes that could occur when resuming from standby mode
Fixed performance issues when using text-to-speech
Sessions of players who sign out using the Xbox dashboard now disappear from the in-game session list in a timely fashion
The game no longer freezes when accepting an invite while the game is suspended

1.2.0.0 – June 17, 2020

It’s time for another Minecraft Dungeons hotfix! This release comes with a swath of fixes for some of the top issues that players have been encountering. The update is currently only available for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 but don’t fret, players on Windows and Xbox One will be getting the update soon with even more fixes specific to those platforms.

Thanks for playing and be sure to report any bugs you encounter to bugs.mojang.com. If you’re looking to join a community of like-minded players, hit up the Minecraft Dungeons Discord server at discord.gg/MinecraftDungeons. Happy dungeon crawling!

Fixes for All Platforms:

Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
Fixed a crash that could occur when starting a game session
Fixed a crash that could occur when using fishing rods
Fixed several crashes related to picking up food items
Fixed a crash that could occur when moving away from enchanted mobs
Fixed a crash that could occur when joining a game
Fixed players crashing if the host transitioned to Camp while when players were almost finished loading
Fixed infinite loading screen issue when transitioning between levels while players are loading in online co-op
Adjusted the look of the Hero Cape (MCD-1813)
Added version number to the Settings screen
Fixed spawning and sometimes dying under the world when a mission is completed (MCD-70)
Fixed a slope in Pumpkin Pastures that could kill players just by walking into it (MCD-62)
It’s no longer possible to leave Creepy Crypt without picking up the tome (MCD-1356)
Fixed the settings menu not able to be opened more than once from the main menu
Fixed the Surprise Gift enchantment not dropping any items
Fixed players getting stuck in railing on Highblock Halls when entering from the well during local co-op
Enchanted mob groups now have a chance of dropping rewards when defeated
While the left gamepad stick is being tilted, pressing the A button now results in attacking a mob instead of picking up an item
Fixed several issues that occurred while Player 3 was joining a game session in local co-op
Fixed merchants not showing up properly in online co-op
Food spawned from enchantments and the tables in Highblock Halls now count towards the “Om Nom Nom” achievement
Fixed “Kill the Zombie” tutorial hint lingering for too long
Fixed several text strings not fitting inside buttons in several languages
Fixed the music for the stats and reward screen not playing after completing a mission
Implemented missing arrow impact sound effects
Fixed items spawned by Food Reserves and Surprise Gifts to not appear for all players in online co-op
Fixed a chance of getting stuck in the air when Ghost Cloak ran out
Fixed players sometimes getting sent back to the main menu when starting or completing mission
Spawn cage audio no longer continues to play after destruction
Fixed chests sometime looping the opening sound effect
Fixed low host FPS disconnecting players during camp/mission transition
Fixed missing textures on the reward screen in several instances
Radiance enchantment effects are now visible to all players in online co-op
Fixed runes not activating properly for clients in multiplayer sessions

Nintendo Switch Fixes:

Fixed the game becoming unresponsive when Airplane Mode has been turned on while waiting for the code to link a Microsoft Account
Fixed the quick unequip button being incorrect on single Joy-Con, as well as category shifting buttons being wrong after changing between single and dual Joy-Cons while in the inventory
Fixed incorrect button prompts on the user interface when using a single Joy-Con in local co-op
Fixed the game freezing when pressing the Back button on the code screen while linking a Microsoft Account

PlayStation 4 Fixes:

Fixed a green line that appeared at the bottom of the Mojang Studios splash screen in 1080p
Trophies are now disabled for non-PSN account local users on PS4 local co-op when not Player 1

1.1.2.0 – June 9, 2020

The team has been hard at work on improving the stability of the game. We have plenty more fixes on the way for all platforms so please keep reporting bugs to bugs.mojang.com!

Xbox One:

Improved stability
Fixed an issue that caused the Corrupted Cauldron not to spawn in the Soggy Swamp mission during online multiplayer
Fixed an infinite loading screen when accepting a game invite while the title was suspended during online gameplay
Fixed a crash that could occur when joining local multiplayer

Nintendo Switch: