Bedrock: Beta & Preview 1.19.20.23

The latest patch notes for the latest Beta & Preview for Bedrock.  Read below to find out what's being adjusted.

Features and Bug Fixes

Accessibility Features

  • D-Pad Left can now be held down again to move the cursor left in menus (MCPE-155976)

Blocks

  • Reduced Sculk Catalyst experience drop from 20 to 5
  • Mangrove Log, Mangrove Wood, and Stripped Mangrove Wood can now be used to craft a Campfire with Charcoal (MCPE-157271)

Deep Dark

  • Ancient Cities have more frequent Sculk Patch generation (MCPE-154229)
  • Sculk Patch Features can now be placed on additional block types (MCPE-156669)

Gameplay

  • Player textures and UI elements should no longer turn pink after playing for an extended period time on highly populated servers (MCPE-105487)
  • Instantaneous effects (Potions, Tipped Arrows) can no longer be applied to dead mobs and players
  • Player no longer takes damage from entering a Nether portal if it is placed at Y=-21 or below (MCPE-154888)

General

  • So Below music track now plays in Basalt Deltas (MCPE-70890)
  • Fixed an issue where scores on scoreboards were not being ordered properly (MCPE-141427)

Items

  • Fixed a bug where fishing hooks would drop loot when killed with the /kill command (MCPE-142329)

Mobs

  • Fixed a bug causing baby mobs with the minecraft:behavior.sleep goal to have a shrunken hitbox (MCPE-46040)
  • Allays and Bees are now less likely to get stuck in non-full blocks (MCPE-155777)
  • Wardens can now detect a player sneaking on top of a Sculk Sensor (MCPE-155804)
  • Warden can now let itself fall up to 20 blocks down, instead of just 3 (MCPE-158304)
  • Allays can now pick up armor pieces with different durability than the one they are holding (MCPE-158339)

Player

  • Player’s Soul Speed is now properly activated and de-activated on Soul Sand (MCPE-157152)
  • Fixed a bug causing health_boost to display incorrect health values, causing the player to turn invisible and unable to interact with the world on dying

Stability and Performance

  • Fixed a bug that could cause mobs to not load into the world if their saved y-position was greater than or equal to 25

Audio

  • When trading, the Villager plays the correct sound based on the item in the input slot (MCPE-152555)

Vanilla Parity

  • Skulls in Ancient Cities now better match the orientation they have in Java Edition (MCPE-153547)
  • Goat Horn sound is now placed in the Jukebox/Note Blocks sound category in Settings (MCPE-154885)

Technical Updates

Add-Ons

  • Enable event filters in the root definition to be evaluated independent of sequence or randomize when a format_version of 1.19.20 or higher is specified

Stability and Performance

  • Fixed a crash when exploring multiple categories in Marketplace on Xbox and PlayStation

Experimental Technical Features

GameTest Framework

  • System Events
    • Added event beforeWatchdogTerminate- Shuts down the server when a critical scripting exception occurs (e.g. script hang). Can be canceled to prevent a shutdown
    • Added enum WatchdogTerminateReason- Specifies the reason for watchdog termination
    • Added new properties to propertiesfor watchdog configuration on Bedrock Dedicated Server
      • script-watchdog-enable-exception-handling- Enables watchdog exception handling via the events.beforeWatchdogTerminate event (default = true)
      • script-watchdog-enable-shutdown- Enables server shutdown in the case of an unhandled watchdog exception (default = true)
      • script-watchdog-hang-exception- Throws a critical exception when a hang occurs (default = true)

General

  • Removed the component minecraft:unwalkable
  • Renamed 'minecraft:explosion_resistance' to 'minecraft:destructible_by_explosion' and restructured the component to be either defined as a boolean or as an object
    • Setting the component to true will give the block the default explosion_resistance and setting it to false will make the block indestructible by an explosion
    • Setting the component as an object will let users define the resistance of the block to a base explosion