Bedrock Edition Preview 1.18.30.27

This page covers a development version that has a major issue under certain conditions.

 

Chunks below Y+0 can become corrupted.^[1]

Preview 1.18.30.27

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Beta 1.18.30.26 (Windows, Android, Xbox) or Preview 1.18.30.27 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the eighth beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.18.30, released on March 16, 2022,^[2] which adds the copper horn behind experimental gameplay, and fixes bugs.

Invisible bedrock

• Block ID changed from invisiblebedrock to invisible_bedrock.

Piston heads

• Block ID of Piston Head changed from pistonarmcollision to piston_arm_collision.
• Block ID of Sticky Piston Head changed from stickypistonarmcollision to sticky_piston_arm_collision.

Moving block

• Block ID changed from movingblock to moving_block.

Gold nugget, Iron nugget and Nether brick

• Can no longer be used as fuel.

Shields

• Will now be disabled for 5 seconds if struck by a player or mob wielding an axe.

General

• Limited the number of elements in the crafting_tags field of the CraftingTableComponent to 64.

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

Copper horn

• Crafted from a goat horn and copper ingots.
• Can play three different sounds, with additional sounds if the horn is crafted from a goat horn that is dropped by a screaming goat.

Pillager outpost

• Goat horns and copper horns now spawn as loot in pillager outpost chests.

Goat horn

• Can now be crafted into copper horns.
• Is now always dropped when a goat with at least one horn rams into stone, packed ice, iron ore, copper ore, emerald ore, or any wood log in the Overworld.

Goat

• Now have a small chance of spawning with only one horn.
  • Baby goats will always grow up to have two horns, however.

GameTest Framework

• Added event leverActivate, which is activated when a lever is toggled
• Added an optional argument to showParticles: bool = trueto function addEffect.

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where the hunger bar would not deplete on some Marketplace worlds (MCPE-152533).
• Fixed Bad Omen effect not being applied after defeating a pillager captain (MCPE-152846).
• Mob hurt and death sounds no longer overlap (MCPE-152852).
• Knockback resistance now dampens the vertical lift received from the iron golem attack.
• Save structure blocks now correctly detect corner structure blocks at negative Y levels (MCPE-151511).

Vanilla parity

• Nether brick, iron nuggets, gold nuggets, mushroom blocks, chorus flowers, and chorus plant blocks can no longer be used as fuel in furnaces (MCPE-114216).
• Camera now shakes the same way it does in Java Edition when the player receives damage (MCPE-118510).
• Shields will now be disabled when being attacked by an axe.

Mobs

• Fixed an issue where some large mobs in Marketplace maps could get stuck.

User Interface

• When using the new touch controls on mobile devices, the size of the thumbstick can now be adjusted with the Button Size slider in the settings screen.
• Fixed an issue in Pocket UI where items could be dropped unintentionally in blocks with custom UIs, and resized those screens to allow for dropping items on the sides instead.
• Improved contrast on multiple UI elements.
• Enabled the Behavior Packs tab in the new Create New World screen.

Technical

• Components
  • Fixed an issue in the Knockback goal where the incorrect owner was being passed into the filter evaluate function.
• Stability and performance
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when loading entities in a chunk that contained entities pre-1.18.30.