Minecraft PE Beta 1.18.20.21
After a week of waiting, the developers have finally released a brand new beta build: Minecraft 1.18.20.21. This update brings some changes, bug fixes, and introduces a new experimental interface.
What's New
The main highlight of this update is the public testing of the new interface. For now, it’s only available in beta for the Create World screen.
Once enabled, you’ll immediately see the updated world creation UI. The developers have tried to make it easier to use by reducing the need to scroll—various options are now organized into separate categories.
Experimental features, including The Wild Update, have been moved to a separate section called Beta Features.
Changes
- Some textures have been updated
- Frogs now jump more frequently
- Frogspawn now takes longer to turn into tadpoles
- Tadpoles have a larger hitbox
- Frogs in meadow biomes now use the default variants
- Changed frog jump and tongue animations
- Removed the question mark button from inventory when using the Pocket UI
- 3x3 crafting recipes no longer appear in inventory
- CTRL + Backspace now deletes the entire word before the cursor
- CTRL + DEL now deletes the entire word after the cursor
- CTRL + Left Arrow now moves the cursor to the beginning of the word
- CTRL + Right Arrow now moves the cursor to the start of the next word
Version Parity
- You can now use 64-bit seeds (from -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807) to create worlds, and copy them between Bedrock and Java to generate identical worlds
- The player’s hand no longer twitches when drawing a bow
- Fixed the hitbox of falling blocks
- Leads now work on wild wolves
- Fixed a bug where priest villagers would offer glowstone dust instead of redstone blocks
- Non-numeric seeds now generate the same worlds as in Java
Technical Changes
- The Scripting API (advanced modding capabilities) has been removed after several years of testing
- Added the '/volumearea' command to create, delete, and list areas
- Added the mojang-minecraft-ui module with a set of APIs for creating various dialog windows
Bug Fixes
This update also includes a bunch of bug fixes. The most important ones:
- Fixed an issue where armor would be removed when using a crafting table in the Pocket UI
- Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when exiting scaling or dressing room settings
- TNT blocks now move in random X/Z directions after being activated
- Mobs can no longer pass through azalea blocks
- Fixed chunk loading after teleportation
- Witches no longer disappear during raids
- You can now interact with villagers again while holding a spawn egg
