Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.2.20.1

Beta 1.2.20.1 is the third beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.4.0, released on April 10, 2018, which adds more Minecraft:Update Aquatic features and fixes bugs.<ref>Template:Cite</ref> This update also includes the Chemistry Update features from Template:El.

Although labeled as a beta for the respective update, an update labeled 1.2.20 never came, similar to how Minecraft:Java Edition Beta 1.9 was never released. Instead, these features were later postponed to be fully implemented into the release of 1.4.0.

Additions

Blocks

Minecraft:Sea pickles

• Naturally generate in Minecraft:warm oceans, usually around Minecraft:coral reefs.
• Up to 4 can be placed on a block.
• Each one adds 3 to the light level when placed underwater.
• Can be smelted into Minecraft:lime dye.

Items

Minecraft:Heart of the Sea

• Can be found inside buried treasure chest loot.
• Currently serve no use.

Minecraft:Nautilus shells

• Currently serve no use.

Minecraft:Spawn Egg

• Minecraft:Dolphins.

Mobs

Minecraft:Dolphins

• Spawn in any ocean that is not frozen.
• Are classified neutral mobs.

World generation

Minecraft:Underwater ruins

• Generate in normal, cold, and frozen ocean biomes, as well as their deep variants.
• Come in different shapes and sizes.

File:Periodic Table of Elements.png

A periodic table of elements.

Education Edition features

Minecraft:Compound creator

• Used to create compounds from elements.

Minecraft:Colored torch

• Have 4 colors: blue, green, purple, and red.

Minecraft:Element constructor

• Used to create elements.

Minecraft:Hardened glass and Minecraft:hardened glass pane

• Have 16 different colors.

Minecraft:Heat block

• Can melt snow and ice, similar to torches.

Minecraft:Lab table

• Used to create new items or blocks by combining elements and compounds.

Minecraft:Material reducer

• Used to create chemical materials from blocks.

Minecraft:Underwater torch

• Torch that can be placed underwater.

Minecraft:Underwater TNT

• TNT that can destroy blocks underwater.

Minecraft:Balloons

• Entity which can be tied to fences and mobs, similar to leash knots.
  • Will make mobs float in the air when used on a mob.

Minecraft:Bleach

• Used as a crafting ingredient to turn Minecraft:wool, Minecraft:carpets, Minecraft:banners, and Minecraft:beds white.

Minecraft:Glow sticks

• Have 16 colors.

Minecraft:Ice bombs

• Projectile that can transform water into ice.

Minecraft:Medicine potions

• Antidote
  • Brewed by adding Minecraft:silver to an awkward potion.
  • Removes the Minecraft:Poison status effect.

• Elixir
  • Brewed by adding Minecraft:cobalt to an awkward potion.
  • Removes the Minecraft:Weakness status effect.

• Eye drop
  • Brewed by adding Minecraft:calcium to an awkward potion.
  • Removes the Minecraft:Blindness status effect.

• Tonic
  • Brewed by adding Minecraft:bismuth to an awkward potion.
  • Removes the Minecraft:Nausea status effect.

Minecraft:Sparklers

• Can be placed in the off-hand.
• Have 5 colors: orange, purple, blue, red, and green.

Minecraft:Super fertilizer

• Used to grow plants maturely in single uses.

General

Minecraft:World options

• Education Edition toggle
  • Can be toggled in Cheats
  • Activates Chemistry Update features when toggled
• Added various chemical elements and compounds.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Beds

• Trying to Minecraft:sleep in a bed during the Minecraft:daytime will now set the Minecraft:player's Minecraft:spawn point to that bed.

Minecraft:Buttons

• Buttons made from Minecraft:oak planks or Minecraft:stone are now displayed as "Oak Button" and "Stone Button", respectively.

Minecraft:Coral fans, Minecraft:dried kelp blocks, and Minecraft:stripped jungle logs

• Updated textures.

Minecraft:Cauldrons

• Can now be used underwater, but require a Minecraft:trapdoor on top.

Minecraft:Rails

• Can now be placed and used underwater.

Minecraft:Water

• Now has a completely new look for every biome and is easier to see above and underwater.

Items

Minecraft:Tridents

• Added a new animation for tridents enchanted with Riptide.

Fish spawn eggs

• Updated textures.
• Are no longer available only through Minecraft:Experimental Gameplay.

Minecraft:Kelp

• Updated texture.

Mobs

Minecraft:Cod

• Updated model.

Minecraft:Baby zombies

• Now burn in daylight.

Minecraft:Polar bears and Minecraft:strays

• Can now spawn in frozen oceans.

Minecraft:Skeletons and Minecraft:zombies

• Now burn in daylight while in boats.

World generation

Minecraft:Caves

• Can now generate underwater.

Minecraft:Structures

• Minecraft:Shipwrecks now use a variety of Minecraft:trapdoors.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Enchantments

• Minecraft:Riptide
  • Is no longer compatible with Minecraft:Channeling and Minecraft:Loyalty.
  • Now pulls the player when throwing a trident with Riptide in water or rain.

Oxygen bar

• No longer regenerates instantly when the player gets out of water.

Minecraft:Swimming

• Players can now swim through 1x1 gaps.

Fixes

• Fixed several of the top crashes that occurred during gameplay.
• Fixed a crash that occurred after rating content in the Marketplace.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when importing an add-on with an invalid manifest file.
• Skin selections will once again save after closing the game or signing out.
• Item names and descriptions will once again appear using touch controls on Classic UI.
• "Destroy Block (vibrate)" toggle once appears in Touch settings.
• Fixed villager trades becoming deactivated in certain cases when using touch controls.
• Soul sand and gravel once again generate in the Nether.
• Activated resource packs will now stay active upon downloading any other resource pack during world creation.
• Disconnecting a controller while making input no longer continues that input until the controller is reconnected.
• Lava with a block on top no longer prevents fire damage to entities and will fix chicken cookers.
• Fixed the appearance of bubbles around the guardian laser attack.
• Underwater effect is no longer applied when the player's head is above water.
• Initiating World Template screen now shows a progress bar.
• Water source blocks surrounding glass and sea lanterns no longer turn into flowing water blocks.
• Fire Resistance potions now protect snow golems from dying in warm biomes.
• Disconnected water flows no longer visually show as connected.
• Chroma Hills HD texture pack fonts now apply correctly.
• Split-Screen controls are no longer mixed up when the game is launched while using keyboard and mouse input on Xbox One.
• The default author for books are now set to "Author Unknown".
• Template:Cmd will now clear items held in hand when playing in Classic UI.
• Improvements to store load times.

Fixes for bugs introduced during Beta

• Fixed a crash that occurred for the host of a multiplayer game when pressing Save & Quit.
• Fixed a crash that occurred for multiplayer clients when a pufferfish inflated.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when opening chests from shipwrecks.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when entering size coordinates into Remix 3D exporting on Windows 10.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when pushing/pulling a chest with a sticky piston underwater.
• Increased performance in oceans.
• Swimming controls no longer override Creative flying controls.
• Adjustments to the camera view of the swimming animation.
• Water in cauldrons is no longer invisible.
• Warm oceans are now easier to find.
• Enchanted tridents no longer flash red when set on fire.
• Thrown tridents no longer have a placeholder name.
• Trident attack damage is now listed in its item tooltip.
• Fixed strange Trident behavior when it's thrown into snow.
• Players who are not the owner of a trident with Loyalty can no longer pick it up.
• Falling sand is no longer affected by tridents enchanted with Channeling.
• Tridents can now be fire from dispensers.
• Tridents thrown underwater will no longer continue to produce bubbles.
• Ocean monuments now spawn in all deep ocean variants.
• Fixed item name of tropical fish.
• Improved fish spawning and despawning.
• Trees can now be stripped with an axe when using touch controls.
• Bone drop rate from fish has been reduced to 25%.
• Removed sponges from the drowned's loot table.
• Items now float properly on the surface of water.
• Increased the spawn rate of shipwrecks.
• Removed underwater mega ravines.
• Kelp no longer spawns in frozen oceans.
• Kelp now stops growing when it reaches the surface.
• Fish are no longer invisible on some devices.
• Top kelp blocks are no longer missing transparency when viewed at certain distances.
• Redstone dust will now properly light up when powered.
• Water blocks between bookshelves and enchantment tables will no longer affect the level of enchantments available
• Buckets of fish acquired with commands will now drop fish.
• Villagers in igloos can once again be traded with.
• GUI Scale once again applies properly when launching the game.
• Drowned now spawn properly in new ocean biomes.
• Treasure maps can now be obtained through commands when Experimental Gameplay is disabled.
• Dried kelp now appears in Miscellaneous Food of the Equipment tab in the Creative inventory.
• Fixed seagrass icon appearing as regular grass.
• Fixed seagrass spawning on icebergs.
• Overworld mobs will no longer spawn underwater on kelp and seagrass.
• Blocks moved by pistons underwater are now filled with water.
• Pistons and sticky pistons are now properly displayed underwater.