Bedrock Edition beta 1.18.0.24

beta 1.18.0.24
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Edition

Bedrock Edition

Release date

Xbox, Windows 10, Android: October 27, 2021

Internal version

Windows: 1.18.24.0
Xbox One: 1.18.24.70
Android: 1.18.0.24

Type

Beta

Beta for

1.18.0

Protocol version

475

Beta 1.18.0.24 is the fifth beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.18.0, released on October 27, 2021, which added a warning message when opening up an old world, and fixes bugs.[1]

Changes

Mobs

Magma Cubes

  • Now attacks iron golems.

Slimes

  • No longer attack snow golems.

World Generation

Biomes

  • Changed some biome IDs name:
Old name New name
BiomeSprite jagged-peaks.png: Sprite image for jagged-peaks in Minecraft lofty_peaks jagged_peaks
BiomeSprite grove.png: Sprite image for grove in Minecraft mountain_grove grove
BiomeSprite meadow.png: Sprite image for meadow in Minecraft mountain_meadow meadow
BiomeSprite frozen-peaks.png: Sprite image for frozen-peaks in Minecraft snow_capped_peaks frozen_peaks

Mineshafts

  • Wood pillars are now made of logs instead of wood.

Seeds

  • Have been reshuffled again. Worlds will not look like as they did in previous betas.[2][3]

General

World Selection

  • Added a warning when opening up and updating an old world, with a backup world option.
    • When enabled, it creates a new copy of the world.

Fixes

Blocks

  • Players can once again continuously place water, lava, and powder snow by holding down the 'Place' button (MCPE-139671).
  • Light blocks no longer support blocks that need support, e.g. beds and paintings (MCPE-144311).

Mineshaft

  • Mineshaft pillars should no longer generate in lava (MCPE-135221).
  • Mineshafts will not generate dirt floors anymore (MCPE-141583).
  • Mineshafts now use log blocks for creating support pillars (MCPE-125133).

Gameplay

  • Fixed a problem that caused certain worlds to increase in size, causing high RAM usage (MCPE-143156).
  • Fixed shallow water turning brighter when aimed while holding a small drip leaf (MCPE-123373).
  • Tall flowers will now drop only one item when broken by water placed in the upper half of the flower (MCPE-142799).
  • Fixed an issue where terrain could be seen through.
  • Education Features: NPCs no longer have idle sounds (MCPE-141856).
  • Chorus fruit now works correctly at negative Y coordinates (MCPE-135951).

Items

  • Adjusted the smoothness of movement for primed TNT, lingering potions, splash potions, and bottle o' enchanting when far from players (MCPE-101102).
  • Multiple Education Edition items no longer show the "craftingScreen.tab.none" tooltip (MCPE-102444).
  • All ground vegetation can now be placed on mycelium (MCPE-125928).

Mobs

  • Increased the chances of axolotl naturally spawning in lush caves.
  • Fish now attempt to avoid axolotls.
  • Magma cubes are now correctly aggressive towards iron golems and slimes are no longer aggressive towards snow golems (MCPE-51162).
  • Phantoms should now be able to free themselves after getting stuck when trying to pathfind into mountains (MCPE-119773).

World Generation

  • Ore generation has now been tweaked to be in parity with Java Edition.
  • Gravel can now correctly replace deepslate during world generation (MCPE-144080).
  • Gold Ore in badlands biomes are no longer generating in too large of quantities.
  • Lava sources are no longer generated in frozen ocean biomes (MCPE-144733).
  • Deepslate copper ore variant is now correctly generating in the world.
  • Updated naming for new Caves & Cliffs mountain biomes to better match between Bedrock and Java Edition.

User Interface

  • Fixes the rendering of the icons in text, making the colors not distorted.

Technical

  • Fixed mobs default summonability when not specified in JSON.
  • Improved performance in 'RangedAttackGoal' for mobs that do not move.

References

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