Minecraft PE Beta 1.18.20.27

The developers released this week a new test version of Minecraft 1.18.20.27 for Android and other platforms. Many different bugs have been fixed.


Minecraft Preview

• Some Android devices may experience a crash when creating a world. This will only happen once at most, after which you can create worlds as usual.

Fixes

• Fixed actor definition identifiers not being recognized if the item or block name contains "."
  
• Damage is now calculated more accurately, we now properly calculate and store partial damage for larger damage
  
• Mobs across higher and lower difficulties have their damage adjusted slightly accordingly
  
• Armor and protection reduction calculations have been made more accurate
  
• Dragon's breath attack now properly deals damage
  
• The player's position when rejoining a world will remain the same if they quit while in lava
  
• Players can now fly down through ladders and other climbable blocks such as vines in creative without stopping
  
• Fixed a bug where shield blocking animation stops playing smoothly after blocking once
  
• Fixed a bug where "carrots_stage_3" texture filename was incorrect and did not show up in-game
  
• Bees no longer become angry when Beehives are destroyed by Silk Touch
  
• Blaze fireballs, Fang attack damage, and Shulker bullets now deal consistent damage across all difficulties
  
• Small Magma Cubes do slightly more damage, from 2 to 3 on normal
  
• Spiders deal slightly less damage, from 3 to 2 on normal (MCPE-94878)
  
• Baby Zoglins deal slightly less damage, from 1 to 0.5 on normal
  
• Skeleton melee attack does slightly less damage, from 3 to 2 on normal
  
• Wolves deal slightly more damage, from 3 to 4 on normal
  
• Baby Hoglins no longer attack players
  
• Cows, Pigs, Chickens, and Sheep no longer spawn in cold taiga biomes
  
• Buttons in touch controls no longer get stuck in pressed state when players go outside of the button area
  
• Fixed an issue where text would display incorrectly on certain Android devices in the new UI
  
• Fixed a crashing issue that could occur when hovering over the search bar in the crafting menu when playing with a controller
  
• Coin Purchase Screen now includes “Coin Starter Bundles” for purchase on some platforms
  
• Game no longer hangs/crashes when clicking "View More"
  
• Marketplace tags now fit in description section
  
• Download popup no longer flickers when closed
  
• Client now supports multiple player count tags in Marketplace pages
  
• Added warning popup on Marketplace pages when attempting to equip skin pack skin while character creator item is equipped
  
• Fixed an issue that caused some emotes to have unintended rotations when near the end of their animation

Technical Updates

• Exposed new data parameter "calculate_new_path_radius" for the Go Home Goal. This is for specifying a distance in blocks that the mob is considered close enough to the end of the current path. A new path will then be calculated to continue toward home
  
• Added Knockback Height Cap value to Knockback Roar Goal
  
• Fixed a bug where timeline events at 0.0 would sometimes not run in looping animations
  
• Fixed command block failing to summon mob in Extreme Speed Runner Marketplace map

Technical Experimental Features

• Due to engine limitations, "minecraft:geometry" data used for blocks with the Holiday Creator Features experimental toggle are now restricted to only allow geometry in the [0,0,0] to [15,15,15] space. Any blocks loaded from behavior packs that exceed this limit will render as the info_update block and show a content error in the log.