Minecraft is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios. The game constantly receives updates that increase the gameplay. A new one showed up a while ago, which brought a few changes to the game. At this point, the dev points out that this is not extensive, but it will still increase the gameplay enjoyment. The patch notes of the Minecraft Bedrock 1.20.0.23 update are below.
Minecraft Bedrock 1.20.0.23 Update Patch Notes
Features and Bug Fixes:
Accessibility
- Screen reader now properly reads description in popping window after disabling “Require Encrypted Websockets”
- Screen reader now properly reads description in popping window after disabling “Allow mobile data for online play”
Amethyst Resonance
- Blocks of Amethyst placed above or below Sculk Sensors or Calibrated Sculk Sensors now also resonate vibrations (MCPE-169562)
Audio
- Generic Brush sounds are now audible (MCPE-168805)
Blocks
- Sculk Sensors, Calibrated Sculk Sensors, and Sculk Shriekers will no longer lose in-flight vibrations when leaving the world
- Fixed an issue where the Calibrated Sculk Sensor tendrils were not lighting uniformly
- Fixed custom textures that override vanilla blocks with aux metadata as a list of textures
Pitcher Plant
- Bone Meal now can’t be used on a Pitcher Plant to duplicate the flower (MCPE-169492)
- Breaking Pitcher Plants with Fortune enchanted tools will now not drop more than one flower
Sniffer Egg
- Sniffer Egg now uses a custom cracking sound instead of the one for Turtle Eggs (MCPE-169497)
- Sniffer Egg no longer gets destroyed by fluid water or lava (MCPE-169491)
- Sniffer Egg can now be placed in water and lava
Torchflower
- Bone Meal now can’t be used on Torchflowers to spawn other flowers
- Using Bone Meal on a Torchflower Crop will now always make it grow one stage
Calibrated Sculk Sensor
- Calibrated Sculk Sensor now effectively filters vibration frequencies when powered by any power-emitting redstone component (MCPE-168885, MCPE-169530)
Experience Orbs
- Experience Orbs now merge when spawned with the summon command (MCPE-167247)
Gameplay
- Banner Shields now take the same Shield from the Grindstone as Java Edition (MCPE-169540)
- Third-person camera no longer creates a black pane when short sneaking under a 1.5 block gap (MCPE-166581)
Brush
- Brushes no longer crash the game upon breaking (MCPE-169654)
Music
- Relic Music Disk is now included in the loot table for Trail Ruins (MCPE-169929)
General
- Splitscreen players are no longer disconnected when one leaves (MCPE-168695)
- Added Planting the Past achievement
- Added Careful Restoration achievement
Graphical
- Screen fade effect when sleeping or using camera fade command will no longer appear when a picture is taken
Sniffer
- Fixed the Sniffer’s head and ears z-fighting (MCPE-169423)
Sculk Sensor Phases
- Sculk Sensors and Calibrated Sculk Sensors now play their “power off” sound at the end of the Cooldown phase instead of the Active phase
Touch Controls
- Fixed issues with keyboard navigation on some menu screens on iOS and Android
User Interface
- Animations in ‘Welcome to Minecraft’ modals are no longer rendered upside down on Android (MCPE-169522)
- Button sounds will no longer sometimes occur when clicking a disabled button (MCPE-141124)
- Fixed capitalization in title of Behavior Pack message modal (MCPE-156331)
- Fixed a bug where respawning in VR sometimes softlocks the player in the death screen
- Added new Cubemap background
- View now rotates clockwise and is tilted down unless a global resource pack replaces the cubemap background
- Text shadowboxes now have the correct opacity on interactable block screens
Vanilla Parity
- Distinct green particles are now emitted by the player under effect of Hero of the Village status effect
Technical Updates:
Dedicated Server
Content logs now show in dedicated server console window with a configurable log level using these new server properties:
- content-log-level – Sets the minimum level for content logs to output. Allowed values: “verbose”, “info”, “warning”, “error”. Default: info
- Note: This log level also affects content logs written to disk when using content-log-file-enabled=true
- content-log-console-output-enabled – Enables or disables content log output to the console window. Default: info
Entities
- Custom entities with internal-only components or AI goals will fail to load in game
- Custom entities are restricted to overriding Vanilla entities released before 1.20. Invalid entities used in the “identifier” or “runtime_identifier” field will result in content errors
Items
- Released the “minecraft:display_name” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
- Released the “minecraft:durability” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
- Released the “minecraft:fuel” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
- Released the “minecraft:entity_placer” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
- Released the “minecraft:icon” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
User Interface
- Fixed a graphical issue where a gamepad icon would display over another screen
Accessibility
- Added new “Chat Message Duration” accessibility setting to change how long chat messages remain on screen (3 seconds by default)
- Renamed “Notification Duration” to “Toast Notification Duration” and fixed an issue were the setting had no affect on how long toasts remained on display
Experimental Technical Features:
Add-Ons and Script Engine
- Added PlacementPosition (“minecraft:placement_position”) BlockTrait block trait
- Adds states “minecraft:block_face” and/or “minecraft: vertical_half”
- “minecraft:block_face” is a six value string state (“down”, “up”, “north”, “south”, “east”, “west”) that contains info on which block face the player clicked on when the block was placed
- “minecraft:vertical_half” is a 2 value string state (“bottom”, “top”) with info on whether the block was placed in the lower or upper half of the block position
- Both of these states are set when the block is placed (onPlayerPlace)
API
- Moving getComponent(componentId: string): EntityComponent | undefined method to 1.2.0
- Moving getComponents(): EntityComponent[] method to 1.2.0
- Moving hasComponent(componentId: string): boolean method to 1.2.0
- Moving EntityComponent class to 1.2.0
- Moving EntityBaseMovementComponent class to 1.2.0:
- Moving readonly maxTurn: number property to 1.2.0
- Moving the following additional EntityBaseMovementComponent subclasses to 1.2.0:
- EntityMovementAmphibiousComponent
- EntityMovementBasicComponent
- EntityMovementFlyComponent
- EntityMovementGenericComponent
- EntityMovementHoverComponent
- EntityMovementJumpComponent
- EntityMovementSkipComponent
- Renamed EntityIsDyableComponent class to EntityIsDyeableComponent and moved to 1.2.0
- Moving the following additional EntityComponent subclasses to 1.2.0:
- EntityCanClimbComponent
- EntityCanFlyComponent
- EntityCanPowerJumpComponent
- EntityColorComponent
- EntityFireImmuneComponent
- EntityFloatsInLiquidComponent
- EntityFlyingSpeedComponent
- EntityFrictionModifierComponent
- EntityGroundOffsetComponent
- EntityIsBabyComponent
- EntityIsChargedComponent
- EntityIsChestedComponent
- EntityIsHiddenWhenInvisibleComponent
- EntityIsIgnitedComponent
- EntityIsIllagerCaptainComponent
- EntityIsSaddledComponent
- EntityIsShakingComponent
- EntityIsShearedComponent
- EntityIsStackableComponent
- EntityIsStunnedComponent
- EntityIsTamedComponent
- EntityMarkVariantComponent
- EntityPushThroughComponent
- EntityScaleComponent
- EntitySkinIdComponent
- EntityVariantComponent
- EntityWantsJockeyComponent
- Added class EffectTypes
- Added function get(identifier: string): EffectType – Returns the effect type if it exists
- Added function getAll(): EffectType[] – Returns all of the effects
- Updated class Effect
- Updated duration property. Is the duration of the effect in ticks
- Added property typeId. Returns the effect’s type id
- Added interface EntityEffectOptions { amplifier?: number, showParticles?: boolean }
- Added function removeEffect(effectType: EffectType | string): boolean – Removes an effect from an Entity. Returns false if the effect is not found or does not exist
- Updated function getEffect(effectType: EffectType | string): Effect | undefined – Gets the effect if it exists on the entity. Otherwise returns undefined
- Updated function addEffect(effectType: EffectType | string, duration: number, options?: EntityEffectOptions): boolean – Adds an effect to the Entity. Returns false if the effect cannot be added ( the effect does not exist, the duration is negative)
- Items using the minimum duration for the “minecraft:fuel” component now work in the Blast Furnace and Smoker
Items
- Items with the ‘minecraft:throwable’ component now trigger the ‘throw’ sound effect when used
Scripting
- After Events
- All non-before events have been moved from world.events to world.afterEvents
- events has been removed from the world object
- After events do not execute immediately, instead they are deferred until a later point in the tick when they are flushed. It is guaranteed that all events fired in a tick are flushed within a tick
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