Minecraft Bedrock Edition 1.18.20.23 changelog

Posted: 2 February 2022

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Here's a list of what is new in this week's Beta! As always please search and report any bugs you may find at bugs.mojang.com. Please note - the Minecraft Preview version will receive an update with a slightly different version - for more information please visit aka.ms/PreviewFAQ.

Experimental Features

Frog

• Frogs now only use jump animation when using Jump Goal
• Frogs are now tempted and bred using Slime Balls
• Tadpole health is now 6
• Adjusted Frog spawning in Swamps, weight 10, herd size 2-5
• JumpToBlockGoal now correctly has the mob jump to small blocks like Lily Pads

Frog Spawn

• Frog Spawn now breaks when pushed by a Piston
• Frog Spawn is now destroyed when the water source beneath it is removed
• Frog Spawn no longer prevented from hatching when a block is underneath it
• Frog Spawn can now be placed on waterlogged blocks
• Frog Spawn can no longer be placed above solid ground or under water with the '/fill' command
• Frog Spawn Block is now destroyed by falling blocks (MCPE-150781)

Goat Horn

• After using Goat Horn, there is now a cooldown period before it can be used again

Features and Bug Fixes

Custom Skins

• Fixed custom skins not saving when leaving the Dressing Room

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where the Mending enchantment would not always correctly consume XP Orbs to repair (MCPE-120119)

Mobs

• Drowned can no longer spawn where the block light level is above 0 (MCPE-150148) 

User Interface

• Fixed truncated label (in some languages) above 2x2 crafting grid in Pocket UI inventory screen
• Fixed the Create New World opt-in beta setting not persisting between play sessions

Vanilla Parity

• Cauldrons are now not fillable by Dripstones that are below flowing water

Items

• Custom armor can now be equipped with the "Use" button when different armor is already equipped (MCPE-125323)

Technical Updates

Blocks

• Fixed an issue where projectiles would 'bounce' off of Bells in strange ways (MCPE-47847)

Commands

• The '/tickingarea' command no longer modifies areas from entities with tick_world component

Molang

• Fixed Logical AND to evaluate before Logical OR, and for comparison operators to evaluate before equality operators
  • This is a Molang Versioned Change that only takes effect for Molang expressions in packs that use a min_engine_version of 1.18.20 or higher
  • For example A && B || Cnow evaluates as (A && B) || C and A < B == C > D now evalutes as (A < B) == (C > D)

Structure Generation and Actor Spawning

• Fixed duplicate End Crystals spawning on top of End Spikes (MCPE-147817)

Experimental

• Fixed an issue in which actor properties would not always sync from server to client

EatMobGoal

• EatMobGoal is now unable to start when the player is the target

GameTest Framework

• Vector
  • Added function length(): number- Returns the length of this vector
  • Added function normalized(): Vector- Returns this as a normalized vector
  • Added static function distance(a:Vector, b:Vector): number- Returns distance between two vectors
  • Added static function lerp(a:Vector, b:Vector, t: number): Vector- Returns the linear interpolation between a and b using t as the control
  • Added static function slerp(a:Vector, b:Vector, s: number): Vector- Returns the spherical linear interpolation between a and b using s as the control
  • Added static function cross(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector- Returns the cross product of these two vectors
  • Added static function add(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector- Returns the addition of these vectors
  • Added static function subtract(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector- Returns the subtraction of these vectors
  • Added static function multiply(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector- Returns the component-wise product of these vectors
  • Added static function divide(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector- Returns the component-wise division of these vectors
  • Added static function multiply(a:Vector, b:number): Vector- Returns the product of this vector and a scalar
  • Added static function divide(a:Vector, b:number): Vector- Returns the division of this vector and a scalar
  • Added static function min(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector- Returns a vector that is made from the smallest components of two vectors.
  • Added static function max(a:Vector, b:Vector): Vector- Returns a vector that is made from the largest components of two vectors
• World
  • Added function playSound(soundName: String, soundOptions: SoundOptions): void- plays a sound specified by the sound name, at a location, pitch, or volume as optionally specified in the SoundOptions argument
• EntityItemComponent
  • Added component EntityItemComponentthat can be used to obtain an ItemStack from an item entity - e.g., getComponent(“item”).itemStack