Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.18.10.26

Beta 1.18.10.26 is the fifth beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.18.10, released on January 5, 2022,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which adds new Template:Cmd command, more parity features from Java Edition, some of Minecraft:The Wild Update features (especially new blocks, Minecraft:froglights) behind the Minecraft:experimental gameplay and fixes bugs. This is the first beta released in 2022.

Additions

Command format

Template:Cmd

• Used for players deal damage to entities.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Glow Lichen

• Now emits with light level 7, instead of 10, to match Template:JE.

Mobs

Minecraft:Iron Golems

• Now starts cracking upon losing Minecraft:health.
  • A Minecraft:sound plays on every cracking stage.
    • There are 4 stages, from uncracked to fully cracked, before the golem dies.
• Can be healed Template:Ctrl Minecraft:iron ingots.
  • A Minecraft:sound plays each time the golem is repaired.
• One iron ingot restores Template:Hp.
  • It takes 4 iron ingots to repair an iron golem from 1 HP to full health.
• Now only attack players with a very bad standing in a village after attacking a villager. Parity with Template:El.

Minecraft:Villagers and Minecraft:Wandering Traders

• Removed the emerald icon above their head when Minecraft:trading. Parity with Template:El.

Items

Minecraft:Iron Ingots

• Can be used to repair Iron Golems. Parity with Minecraft:Java Edition.

World generation

Minecraft:Grove

• Now has more variety of trees.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Trading

• Updated trade tables for Minecraft:Butchers, Minecraft:Cartographers, Minecraft:Librarians, and Minecraft:Wandering Traders. Parity with Template:El.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Wild Update" and "Enable GameTest Framework" experimental toggle.

Blocks

Minecraft:Froglight

• Added froglights, with 3 variants: Ochre, Pearlescent and Verdant.
• Emit a light level of 15.
• Dropped when Minecraft:frogs eat small Minecraft:magma cubes.
  • When eaten by Swamp frogs, drop Ochre Froglight.
  • When eaten by Tundra frogs, drop Verdant Froglight.
  • When eaten by Tropical frogs, drop Pearlescent Froglight.

Mobs

Minecraft:Frogs

• Added their sounds.

Minecraft:Tadpoles

• Added their sounds.
• Now panic near Minecraft:Axolotls.

Technical

GameTest Framework

• Entity
  • Added function teleport(location: Location, dimension: Dimension, xRotation (optional): float, yRotation (optional): float).
  • Added function teleportFacing(location: Location, dimension: Dimension, facingLocation: Location).
• Added registerAsyncmethod to register and properly track the state of GameTests using async functions.

Blocks

• Added support for blocks having the same name as long as they belong to different namespaces.

Fixes

Experimental

• Frogs and Tadpoles now have sounds. (Template:Bug)
• Frog panic speed is now appropriate.
• Glow Lichen can no longer be placed on top of Frog Egg. (Template:Bug)

Stability and Performance

• Fixed an issue that could cause the entities in a chunk to not save when exiting a world. (Template:Bug)
• The game now loads certain seeds and worlds around Mesa biomes without crashing. (Template:Bug)

Vanilla Parity

• Iron Golems now show different degrees of cracking depending on their health. Iron Ingots can be used on damaged Iron Golems to repair them. (Template:Bug)
• Glow Lichen now has similar brightness as on Template:El. (Template:Bug)
• Foxes now aim downwards when they pounce. (Template:Bug)
• Removed the emerald icon above a Villager's head when trading.
• Updated trade tables for Butchers, Cartographers, Librarians, and Wandering Traders.
• Iron Golems now only attack players with a very bad standing in a village after attacking a villager.

Accessibility

• Text-to-speech (TTS) now correctly reads the names of experimental toggles.

Commands

• Placing Cocoa Beans with Template:Cmd or Template:Cmd commands no longer results in an error.

Feature placement

• Large Dripstone feature does not generate floating on top of lava anymore. (Template:Bug)
• Pointed Dripstone clusters no longer have a chance of spawning only stalagmites of height one. (Template:Bug)

Furnaces

• Blast Furnaces and Smokers once again give XP. (Template:Bug)

Gameplay

• Pointed Dripstone now sometimes generate on large stalactites and stalagmites. (Template:Bug)
• Lava pools now only generate in positive Y coordinates. (Template:Bug)
  • Lava pools that generate close to Y=0 will have Deepslate and Stone blocks casing.
• Coral now generates in the deeper depths of Warm Oceans. (Template:Bug)
• The Grove biome now has more variety of trees. (Template:Bug)
• Fixed Light Block's brightness not being adjustable when playing in VR.
• Fixed Light Block not being continuously placed while holding right-click and moving. (Template:Bug)
• Light Blocks can now be waterlogged. (Template:Bug)
• Fixed issue where breaking blocks, opening chests, and entering portals would be delayed/not work when there are lots of mobs nearby. (Template:Bug)
• Grass and double flowers now have proper animations when breaking. (Template:Bug)
• Flower blocks are now properly destroyed by explosions when inside snow layers. (Template:Bug)
• Skeleton Horsemen now pathfind correctly. (Template:Bug)

World Generation

• Iceberg features no longer replace Snow Blocks of Igloo structures. (Template:Bug)
• Water in open air mountain caves no longer generates unevenly. (Template:Bug)
• Aquifers no longer generate with missing water blocks. (Template:Bug)

Technical

General

• Reapplied changes to use "allowlist" instead of "whitelist". (Template:Bug)

JumpToBlockGoal

• JumpToBlockGoal now correctly searches the same distance upwards and downwards when looking for jumpblockcandidates, allowing a mobs that use the goal to jump equally high as low.

Animations

• Fixed animation controller recursion checks from falsely disallowing normal repeat usage of a controller.

User Interface

• Fixed issue where up and down arrow buttons in the Resource Pack Settings screen became bigger when highlighted. (Template:Bug)