Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.18.10.21 changelog

Posted: 1 December 2021

PLEASE READ before participating in the Minecraft Beta

• Joining the beta will replace your game with a work-in-progress version of Minecraft
• You will not have access to Realms and will not be able to join non-beta players while you're previewing the beta
• Any worlds played while in the beta cannot be opened in previous versions of the game, so please make copies of worlds to prevent losing them
• Beta builds can be unstable and are not representative of final version quality
• The beta is available only on Xbox One, Windows 10, and Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions.

It's time for another Bedrock Beta! As always, we really appreciate all the feedback you send to aka.ms/CavesCliffsFeedback and please search and report any bugs you may find at bugs.mojang.com.

Experimental Features

• Added new experimental toggle "The Wild Update"
  • The Sculk block features are now accessible by enabling this toggle
  • More features to come in future betas. This is only the beginning!

Non-Experimental Features and Bug Fixes

World Generation

• The bottoms of hoodoos in Eroded Badlands biomes no longer make flat ceilings in caves underneath (MCPE-146984)
• Lily Pads no longer get placed in aquifers under Swamp biomes (MCPE-125913)
• Fossils can now be generate below Y=0, with Deepslate Diamond Ore Blocks instead of Coal Ore Blocks (MCPE-144065)
• Fossils will no longer generate floating in caves or water
• Mineshafts now always generate above the Bedrock layer (MCPE-147575)
• Biome decoration features in cave biomes now have similar frequency as Java Edition

Gameplay

• Furnaces now consistently output the expected amount of items after completing a smelt (MCPE-126004)
• Light Block light intensity can now be incremented periodically while holding right-click/interact (MCPE-137647)
• Light Block light intensity can now be changed on touch-input devices
• The teleport command will no longer succeed when 'checkForBlocks' is true and the destination is obstructed
• Fixed first person off-hand Shield blocking animation (MCPE-125340)
• Fixed first person blocking animation while dual wielding Shields

Mobs

• Axolotl walk animations are now affected by speed (MCPE-131322)
• Wolves will now correctly react to being damaged
• Mobs can once again jump over blocks to pick up items
• Item data no longer gets corrupt when items are placed in mobs' hands (MCPE-145034)

User Interface

• Fixed tab order on Settings menu when navigating with gamepad bumpers
• Removed double space spelling issues on several screens, including the Feedback prompt (MCPE-104037)
• Fixed an issue with Screen Reader on the “Save purchase to a Microsoft Account” screen

Vanilla Parity

• Raid boss bar says now displays "Raid - Victory" and Fireworks are launched from the ground after a raid is defeated (MCPE-51267)

Android

• Added a warning prompt explaining potential loss of data when setting File Storage Location to External on Android devices

Technical Updates

Stability and Performance

• Improved performance when executing commands

Animation

• Fixed an issue where animation controller events defined in the default state would get skipped if the controller immediately transitioned to another state (This is a versioned change that will only be applied for animation controllers starting at format_version 1.18.10)

Commands

• Order of function calls triggered by /execute inside a function are now consistent (MCPE-111849)
• Added /loot command with spawn loot overload

JumpToBlockGoal

• JumpToBlockGoal can no longer be used when the mob is in water

Experimental Features

GameTest Framework

mojang-minecraft

• World
  • Added blockBreak and blockPlace events, which are called when a player breaks or places a block in the world
• BlockExplodeEvent
  • Renamed destroyedBlock to block
• Player
  • Added method startItemCooldown(itemCategory : string, durationTicks : int) - Starts or resets a cooldown on an item category (e.g., ender_pearl) for the given duration in ticks
  • Added method getItemCooldown(itemCategory : string) - Returns the remaining duration in ticks that this player has of the given item category. If no cooldown is present, returns 0.
• ItemCooldownComponent
  • Added ItemCooldownComponent (item.getComponent("minecraft:cooldown"))
  • Read-only property cooldownCategory : string - Represents the cooldown category of this item.
  • Read-only property cooldownTicks : int - Represents the cooldown time in ticks for this item if cooldown is enabled
  • method startCooldown(player : Player) - Starts or resets a cooldown for this item on the given player if cooldown is enabled for this item
• ItemType
  • Removed getName method and added read-only property .id

mojang-gametest

• Test
  • Added gameMode: GameModeparameter to spawnSimulatedPlayer method
• SimulatedPlayer
  • Renamed destroyBlockto breakBlock
  • Renamed stopDestroyingBlockto stopBreakingBlock
  • Removed selectSlot method
  • Added property selectedSlot : int - Gets or sets the currently selected hotbar slot for the player