Bedrock Editor 0.8.0

v0.8.0

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Bedrock Editor v0.8.0, also known as the Sculpting Update, is the first beta release^[1] for the Bedrock Editor released in Preview on November 7, 2024, and in retail on December 3, 2024, which includes new tools and support for custom blocks.^[2][3][4]

Tools

• Added a new flatten brush: drag this brush over a block to turn blocks above it into air. This brush has a customizable height and radius.
• Added a fill tool to allow creators to quickly change block groups.
• Added a smooth tool to easily smooth terrain.
• Added a quick extrude tool to allow creators to extrude block groups.
• Added a repeater tool to repeat a selection volume along X, Y, and Z.
• Added a farm tool to quickly drop in farms into a world.
• Added a 2D directional XZ compass to game viewport to aid with building.
  • Added the ability to click on the compass to snap to closest cardinal direction.
• Added a configurable fly speed multiplier.
  • Added speed settings
  • New slider in View->View Settings to configure fly speed multiplier between 1 and 10
  • Fly speed multiplier only takes effect while in Tool/Editor mode

Other

• Added friendly names in the Block Picker
• Added quick action for Selection::Delete
• Added new axis and plane restriction options in the Widget Gizmo Component creation options. Creators can restrict which axes of movement are afforded by their gizmos
• Added Block Filter Disabled state
• Added M key to toggle between mask mode and disabled
• Added R key to toggle between replace mode and disabled
• Added support for persistence in hotbar block palettes
• Added context menu to the options button next to hotbar for creating and managing new palettes.
• Added a new session.extensionContext.blockUtilities object which will present a number of high-performance common block operations. First function added is a fillVolume function to perform large scale fill operation which honors Editors different block palette types

• Updated default filters with air (when not loaded previous state).
• Updated the icon for Selection::Deselect.
• Updated block IDs in the UI to use localized names.
• Updated checkbox labels to be clickable.
• Updated property pane information tooltip icon to be more visible.
• Updated the View->Log Panel menu item to now expand the panel drawer.

• Fixed a bug that caused dropdowns to be truncated at the window edges.

• Flatten Tool
• Fill Tool
• Smooth Tool
• Quick Extrude Tool
• Repeater Tool
• Farm Tool
• Directional Compass
• Fly Speed
• Fuzzy Search