Minecraft Bedrock Beta 1.20.0.23 Official Changelog

Minecraft Beta & Preview - 1.20.0.23

Information on the Minecraft Preview and Beta:

  • These work-in-progress versions can be unstable and may not be representative of final version quality
  • Minecraft Preview is available on Xbox, Windows 10/11, and iOS devices. More information can be found at aka.ms/PreviewFAQ
    • The beta is available on Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions.

Its time for another Minecraft Preview, and this week we have quite a few changes and improvements to Trails & Tales features! We love to hear from you so please send us your feedback and bug reports ! Take a look at the full list of changes below!

Features and Bug Fixes:

Accessibility

  • Screen reader now properly reads description in popping window after disabling Require Encrypted Websockets
  • Screen reader now properly reads description in popping window after disabling Allow mobile data for online play

Amethyst Resonance

  • Blocks of Amethyst placed above or below Sculk Sensors or Calibrated Sculk Sensors now also resonate vibrations ( MCPE-169562 )

Audio

Blocks

  • Sculk Sensors, Calibrated Sculk Sensors, and Sculk Shriekers will no longer lose in-flight vibrations when leaving the world
  • Fixed an issue where the Calibrated Sculk Sensor tendrils were not lighting uniformly
  • Fixed custom textures that override vanilla blocks with aux metadata as a list of textures

Pitcher Plant

  • Bone Meal now cant be used on a Pitcher Plant to duplicate the flower ( MCPE-169492 )
  • Breaking Pitcher Plants with Fortune enchanted tools will now not drop more than one flower

Sniffer Egg

  • Sniffer Egg now uses a custom cracking sound instead of the one for Turtle Eggs ( MCPE-169497 )
  • Sniffer Egg no longer gets destroyed by fluid water or lava ( MCPE-169491 )
  • Sniffer Egg can now be placed in water and lava

Torchflower

  • Bone Meal now cant be used on Torchflowers to spawn other flowers
  • Using Bone Meal on a Torchflower Crop will now always make it grow one stage

Calibrated Sculk Sensor

  • Calibrated Sculk Sensor now effectively filters vibration frequencies when powered by any power-emitting redstone component ( MCPE-168885 , MCPE-169530 )

Experience Orbs

  • Experience Orbs now merge when spawned with the summon command ( MCPE-167247 )

Gameplay

  • Banner Shields now take the same Shield from the Grindstone as Java Edition ( MCPE-169540 )
  • Third-person camera no longer creates a black pane when short sneaking under a 1.5 block gap ( MCPE-166581 )

Brush

Music

  • Relic Music Disk is now included in the loot table for Trail Ruins ( MCPE-169929 )

General

  • Splitscreen players are no longer disconnected when one leaves ( MCPE-168695 )
  • Added Planting the Past achievement
  • Added Careful Restoration achievement

Graphical

  • Screen fade effect when sleeping or using camera fade command will no longer appear when a picture is taken

Sniffer

Sculk Sensor Phases

  • Sculk Sensors and Calibrated Sculk Sensors now play their power off sound at the end of the Cooldown phase instead of the Active phase

Touch Controls

  • Fixed issues with keyboard navigation on some menu screens on iOS and Android

User Interface

  • Animations in Welcome to Minecraft modals are no longer rendered upside down on Android ( MCPE-169522 )
  • Button sounds will no longer sometimes occur when clicking a disabled button ( MCPE-141124 )
  • Fixed capitalization in title of Behavior Pack message modal ( MCPE-156331 )
  • Fixed a bug where respawning in VR sometimes softlocks the player in the death screen
  • Added new Cubemap background
    • View now rotates clockwise and is tilted down unless a global resource pack replaces the cubemap background
    • Text shadowboxes now have the correct opacity on interactable block screens

Vanilla Parity

  • Distinct green particles are now emitted by the player under effect of Hero of the Village status effect

    • Technical Updates:

    Dedicated Server

    Content logs now show in dedicated server console window with a configurable log level using these new server properties:

    • content-log-level - Sets the minimum level for content logs to output. Allowed values: verbose, info, warning, error. Default: info
      • Note: This log level also affects content logs written to disk when using content-log-file-enabled=true
      • content-log-console-output-enabled - Enables or disables content log output to the console window. Default: info

    Entities

    • Custom entities with internal-only components or AI goals will fail to load in game
    • Custom entities are restricted to overriding Vanilla entities released before 1.20. Invalid entities used in the identifier or runtime_identifier field will result in content errors

    Items

    • Released the minecraft:display_name item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
    • Released the minecraft:durability item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
    • Released the minecraft:fuel item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
    • Released the minecraft:entity_placer item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
    • Released the minecraft:icon item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher

    User Interface

    • Fixed a graphical issue where a gamepad icon would display over another screen

    Accessibility

    • Added new Chat Message Duration accessibility setting to change how long chat messages remain on screen (3 seconds by default)
    • Renamed Notification Duration to Toast Notification Duration and fixed an issue were the setting had no affect on how long toasts remained on display

      • Experimental Technical Features:

      Add-Ons and Script Engine

      • Adds states minecraft:block_face and/or minecraft: vertical_half
      • minecraft:block_face is a six value string state ("down", "up", "north", "south", "east", "west") that contains info on which block face the player clicked on when the block was placed
      • minecraft:vertical_half is a 2 value string state ("bottom", "top") with info on whether the block was placed in the lower or upper half of the block position
      • Both of these states are set when the block is placed (onPlayerPlace)

    API

    • Moving getComponent(componentId: string): EntityComponent | undefined method to 1.2.0
    • Moving getComponents(): EntityComponent[] method to 1.2.0
    • Moving hasComponent(componentId: string): boolean method to 1.2.0
    • Moving EntityComponent class to 1.2.0
    • Moving EntityBaseMovementComponent class to 1.2.0:
      • Moving readonly maxTurn: number property to 1.2.0
    • Moving the following additional EntityBaseMovementComponent subclasses to 1.2.0:
      • EntityMovementAmphibiousComponent
      • EntityMovementBasicComponent
      • EntityMovementFlyComponent
      • EntityMovementGenericComponent
      • EntityMovementHoverComponent
      • EntityMovementJumpComponent
      • EntityMovementSkipComponent
      • Renamed EntityIsDyableComponent class to EntityIsDyeableComponent and moved to 1.2.0
    • Moving the following additional EntityComponent subclasses to 1.2.0:
      • EntityCanClimbComponent
      • EntityCanFlyComponent
      • EntityCanPowerJumpComponent
      • EntityColorComponent
      • EntityFireImmuneComponent
      • EntityFloatsInLiquidComponent
      • EntityFlyingSpeedComponent
      • EntityFrictionModifierComponent
      • EntityGroundOffsetComponent
      • EntityIsBabyComponent
      • EntityIsChargedComponent
      • EntityIsChestedComponent
      • EntityIsHiddenWhenInvisibleComponent
      • EntityIsIgnitedComponent
      • EntityIsIllagerCaptainComponent
      • EntityIsSaddledComponent
      • EntityIsShakingComponent
      • EntityIsShearedComponent
      • EntityIsStackableComponent
      • EntityIsStunnedComponent
      • EntityIsTamedComponent
      • EntityMarkVariantComponent
      • EntityPushThroughComponent
      • EntityScaleComponent
      • EntitySkinIdComponent
      • EntityVariantComponent
      • EntityWantsJockeyComponent
    • Added class EffectTypes
      • Added function get(identifier: string): EffectType - Returns the effect type if it exists
      • Added function getAll(): EffectType[] - Returns all of the effects
    • Updated class Effect
      • Updated duration property. Is the duration of the effect in ticks
      • Added property typeId. Returns the effects type id
    • Added interface EntityEffectOptions { amplifier?: number, showParticles?: boolean }
      • Added function removeEffect(effectType: EffectType | string): boolean - Removes an effect from an Entity. Returns false if the effect is not found or does not exist
      • Updated function getEffect(effectType: EffectType | string): Effect | undefined - Gets the effect if it exists on the entity. Otherwise returns undefined
      • Updated function addEffect(effectType: EffectType | string, duration: number, options?: EntityEffectOptions): boolean - Adds an effect to the Entity. Returns false if the effect cannot be added ( the effect does not exist, the duration is negative)
      • Items using the minimum duration for the minecraft:fuel component now work in the Blast Furnace and Smoker

    Items

    • Items with the minecraft:throwable component now trigger the throw sound effect when used

    Scripting

    • After Events
      • All non-before events have been moved from world.events to world.afterEvents
      • events has been removed from the world object
      • After events do not execute immediately, instead they are deferred until a later point in the tick when they are flushed. It is guaranteed that all events fired in a tick are flushed within a tick

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