Bedrock Edition beta 1.18.0.22

Beta 1.18.0.22 is the third beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.18.0, released on October 21, 2021,^[1][2] which adds new sculk blocks behind experimental toggle, introduces new music and fixes bugs.

Music Disc

• Added a new music disc from Lena Raine titled "otherside".
  • Can be found on rare occasions in stronghold corridor chests, or much more rarely in dungeon chests.

Experiments

• Added new Vanilla Experiments toggle.

Music

• Added new music to the Overworld (when playing in survival mode), distributed to the new biomes, and to the main menu.
  • By Lena Raine:
    • "Stand Tall" plays in the snowy slopes, jagged peaks, frozen peaks and stony peaks biomes, as well as the menu screen.
    • "Left to Bloom" plays in the meadow and lush caves biomes, as well as the menu screen.
    • "One More Day" plays in the meadow, snowy slopes and lush caves biomes, as well as the menu screen.
    • "Wending" plays in the grove, jagged peaks, stony peaks and dripstone caves biomes, as well as the menu screen.
    • "Infinite Amethyst" plays in the grove and dripstone caves biomes, as well as the menu screen.
  • By Kumi Tanioka (谷岡 久美):
    • "Floating Dream" plays in the jagged peaks and lush caves biomes.
    • "Comforting Memories" plays in the grove biome.
    • "An Ordinary Day" plays in the snowy slopes, dripstone caves and lush caves biomes.

Goat Horn and Sculk Sensor

• Are now behind the Vanilla Experiments toggle again.

Ore distrubution

• Increased top height limit of Badlands gold generation from Y=79 to Y=256, and increased the number of blobs.

Strongholds

• Now try to generate fully encased in stone, or deepslate at low y-levels.

General

• New random number generator is used for overworld generation.

World type

• Removed old world type from the world creation screen.
  • Existing world will still be playable, but will not be updated with 1.18 features.

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Vanilla Experiments" experimental toggle.

Sculk

• Has an animated texture.
• Drops only experience when broken without Silk Touch.
• Sculk blocks grow underneath when a mob dies around a sculk catalyst.

Sculk Catalyst

• Spread Sculk blocks to wherever a nearby mob dies. The amount it spreads depends on the amount of experience the mob is meant to drop.
• Blooms when activated.
• Drops only experience when broken without Silk Touch.
• Emits light.
• Emits soul particles after a mob dies and grows sculk.

Sculk Vein

• Can be placed in a layer on top of blocks and in all directions, like glow lichen.
• Has an animated texture.
• Drops nothing when broken without Silk Touch.
• Some have parts that are transparent, allowing the player to see the block it is on top of.

Sculk Shrieker

• Has 2 soul-shaped patterns in the center.
• Has the ability to 'shriek', emitting ring-like/sonic particles.
• It is activated by the sculk sensor.

Effects

• Darkness
  • A status effect triggered by the sculk shrieker block, causing the player's camera to dim in brightness, thus limiting vision.

Blocks

• Campfires no longer drop only one Charcoal when broken by a Piston or an explosion, instead dropping two units as expected (MCPE-139467).
• Light blocks will now survive a TNT or Creeper explosion.

Feature Placement

• Glow Lichen no longer generates at the bottom of the ocean (MCPE-125198).
• Strongholds can no longer generate mid-air in large caves.
• Underwater magma features are now placed on surfaces under water to allow exploration of underwater caves and aquifers (MCPE-141376).
• Glow Lichen no longer generate above ground in Bedrock (MCPE-141412).
• Village buildings now carve less terrain around them when placed.
• Added feature placement distribution triangle", and changed all features that used "gaussian" distribution to now use "triangle".

Gameplay

• Fixed Structure Void block forcing player to spawn above ground if they left in a cave filled with those blocks.
• Fixed bug where players could create an x-ray vision effect when inside a block below y=0 (MCPE-141130).
• New random number generator used for overworld generation.
• Fire Charge is not consumed anymore when used on lit Candles, Candle Cakes, Campfires, activated Nether Portals, or on other blocks that are already on fire.

General

• Fixed issue where weather was not affecting or affected by blocks above y = 255.
• Improved the error messaging in the Play screen when Microsoft Account permissions are set to block multiplayer.
• Fixed an issue causing Paintings to break and drop when loading into worlds and Marketplace templates (MCPE-144217).

Vanilla Parity

• Raid boss bars now decrease whenever a raider takes damage.

Villagers

• Villagers will keep following their schedules in worlds that have been ticking for a very long time, and when game time is negative (MCPE-98361).

Graphical

• Fixed a visual glitch where taking a plant from a Flower Pot would result in the plant still being rendered (MCPE-143661).

Mobs

• The riding position of Llamas no longer shifts after being tamed (MCPE-143006).
• Fixed an issue preventing Tropical Fish from spawning in Lukewarm Oceans.

Performance and Stability

• Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay.
• Fixed crash when loading certain LevelChunks.
• Optimized the generation of ores in the world.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when going through portals with tamed pets (MCPE-129738).
• Fixed a soft lock that could sometimes occur when attempting to generate a world from a bad template.