Bedrock Edition Preview 1.19.0.27

Beta 1.19.0.26 (Windows, Android, Xbox) or Preview 1.19.0.27 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the third beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.19.0, released on April 20, 2022,^[1] which introduces new music, adds ranged attack for wardens, revamps ancient cities, and fixes bugs.

Music

• Added new music, all by Lena Raine.
  • "Ancestry" only plays in the deep dark.
  • "Aerie", "Firebugs", and "Labyrinthine" plays in the lush caves, all types of swamps, forests, and jungles, as well as the menu screen.

Mangrove roots and mangrove propagule

• Can now be composted.

Mud

• Now allows sugar cane, bamboo, and big dripleaves to be planted on top of it.

Muddy mangrove roots

• Now allows flowers, saplings and grass to be planted on top of it.

Note block

• Reverted the change made in beta 1.18.30.22 in which only wool would block sounds.

Sculk shrieker

• Changed its model and its side texture.

Boats and boats with chests

• Changed item textures of all types of boats and boats with chests.

Echo shards

• Can now generate inside Ancient City loot chests.

Warden

• Can now charge a ranged attack when the player is building high, hiding behind walls or being out of range of their melee attack.
  • Their rib cages will open up to shriek a sonically charged ranged attack that can penetrate walls.
  • The ranged attack deals 30HP × 15 damage in Normal and can hit at a horizontal distance of 15 blocks.
  • The ranged attack can only hit one target at a time.
• Can now smell players from further away.
• The vertical range wardens get angry at a target while sniffing is now 20 blocks instead of 6 blocks.
• Now get angry at all mobs that bump into it, not just players.

Ancient city

• Revamped with new structures, improvements to already existing structures and an updated loot table.
• Now generate with valuable loot that includes the "otherside" music disc, potions of Regeneration II, enchanted books, enchanted iron and diamond leggings, enchanted diamond hoes, and enchanted golden apples.
  • If the frame of reinforced deepslate generates with a chest in front, it will always contain one golden apple (a hint about how to open the secret door below).
  • Has different levels and open spaces, with several types of ruins and wall structures.
  • Some of these structures contain dark oak logs, planks, and fences; cyan, light blue, and blue wool and carpets; ladders; ice and its variants; note blocks; stone pressure plates; and iron trapdoors opened with levers.
• Hidden underneath the frame of reinforced deepslate are several rooms containing redstone mechanisms that serve to introduce new players to their function.
  • There is a silenced sculk sensor that needs a signal strength of 8 to open a redstone door. Taking the golden carrot from the chest placed near the structure and eating it will reveal the entrance.
  • Each variant of the city center has a different redstone puzzle concealing the entrance, requiring slightly different strategies to solve.
  • The mechanisms are made with redstone dust, redstone torches, redstone repeaters, redstone comparators, redstone lamps, blocks of redstone, sticky pistons, a sculk sensor, a target, and a lectern.
  • One variant includes a lever, and another includes a furnace containing 24 deepslate and a wooden shovel.

Music

• The places where the following existing music can be played are changed:
  • "Stand Tall", "Wending", and "Infinite Amethyst" can no longer be played in the main menu.
  • "Left to Bloom" and "One More Day" can no longer be played in the main menu, can be played in all types of forests, jungles, and old growth taigas.
  • "Floating Dream" and "Comforting Memories" can be played in all types of forests, jungles, and old growth taigas.

Sounds

• Added new music for The Wild Update.
• Frogs now use all hurt sounds (MCPE-152629).
• Froglights now have the correct breaking sound (MCPE-153943).

Ancient cities

• Soul lanterns no longer generate on air blocks in ancient cities (MCPE-153586).
• The city center structure now forms a complete rectangle of Reinforced Deepslate (MCPE-153567).
• Added echo shards to the ancient city loot chests.
• Updated ancient city structures to match Java Edition.

Warden

• Warden now has a sonic boom attack that deals ranged damage and knockback to the target it strikes.
• Warden no longer “sniffs” while it has a target.
• Prevent the Warden from digging down if it sniffs a target.
• Warden can now be pushed by other mobs.
• Warden now gets angry at all mobs that bump into it (MCPE-153839).
• Fixed a crash when swapping between game modes when attacking the warden.
• Warden now gives correct amount of XP (MCPE-153564).

Allay

• Allay interact tooltip now says "Give item to Allay" (MCPE-153035).

Blocks

• Wither can't destroy reinforced deepslate anymore (MCPE-153542).
• Ender dragon can't destroy reinforced deepslate anymore (MCPE-153545).
• Reinforced Deepslate has been moved to the "Nature" tab in the Creative inventory (MCPE-153543).

Mud brick blocks

• Mud brick stairs, slabs, and walls are now grouped properly (MCPE-153719).

Gameplay

• Fixed game crash when using the material reducer (Education Edition feature).
• Fixed light blocks being destroyable from within while underwater (MCPE-148393).
• Fixed issue with experience gained when taking item from incorrect slot while using furnace (MCPE-152227).
• Allow mangrove roots and propagules to be compostable (MCPE-153782, MCPE-153912).
• Allow most plants and saplings to be placeable on mud and muddy mangrove roots. This includes all flowers, saplings, bamboo, sugar canes, big dripleaf, and sweet berry bushes (MCPE-153916).
• Allow mangrove roots to generate through snow layers (MCPE-153913).
• Tadpoles can now be tempted with slimeballs.

Touch Control Settings

• Static Joystick toggle no longer gets disabled upon Move Joystick toggles getting disabled (MCPE-153201).

Graphical

• Updated boat and chest boat item icon textures to make them consistent with Java Edition (MCPE-153353).

Raids

• Illagers are now allowed to migrate to other villages and progress raids (MCPE-151310).

JSON

• Fixed an issue that caused weights to not be used for music.