Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.18.0.24

Beta 1.18.0.24 is the fifth beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.18.0, released on October 27, 2021, which added a warning message when opening up an old world, and fixes bugs.<ref>Template:Cite</ref>

Changes

Mobs

Minecraft:Magma Cubes

• Now attacks iron golems.

Minecraft:Slimes

• No longer attack snow golems.

World Generation

Minecraft:Biomes

• Changed some biome IDs name:

Old name	New name
Template:BiomeLink lofty_peaks	jagged_peaks
Template:BiomeLink mountain_grove	grove
Template:BiomeLink mountain_meadow	meadow
Template:BiomeLink snow_capped_peaks	frozen_peaks

Minecraft:Mineshafts

• Wood pillars are now made of Minecraft:logs instead of Minecraft:wood.

Seeds

• Have been reshuffled again. Worlds will not look like as they did in previous betas.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

General

World Selection

• Added a warning when opening up and updating an old world, with a backup world option.
  • When enabled, it creates a new copy of the world.

Fixes

Blocks

• Players can once again continuously place water, lava, and powder snow by holding down the 'Place' button (Template:Bug).
• Light blocks no longer support blocks that need support, e.g. beds and paintings (Template:Bug).

Mineshaft

• Mineshaft pillars should no longer generate in lava (Template:Bug).
• Mineshafts will not generate dirt floors anymore (Template:Bug).
• Mineshafts now use log blocks for creating support pillars (Template:Bug).

Gameplay

• Fixed a problem that caused certain worlds to increase in size, causing high RAM usage (Template:Bug).
• Fixed shallow water turning brighter when aimed while holding a small drip leaf (Template:Bug).
• Tall flowers will now drop only one item when broken by water placed in the upper half of the flower (Template:Bug).
• Fixed an issue where terrain could be seen through.
• Education Features: NPCs no longer have idle sounds (Template:Bug).
• Chorus fruit now works correctly at negative Y coordinates (Template:Bug).

Items

• Adjusted the smoothness of movement for primed TNT, lingering potions, splash potions, and bottle o' enchanting when far from players (Template:Bug).
• Multiple Education Edition items no longer show the "craftingScreen.tab.none" tooltip (Template:Bug).
• All ground vegetation can now be placed on mycelium (Template:Bug).

Mobs

• Increased the chances of axolotl naturally spawning in lush caves.
• Fish now attempt to avoid axolotls.
• Magma cubes are now correctly aggressive towards iron golems and slimes are no longer aggressive towards snow golems (Template:Bug).
• Phantoms should now be able to free themselves after getting stuck when trying to pathfind into mountains (Template:Bug).

World Generation

• Ore generation has now been tweaked to be in parity with Java Edition.
• Gravel can now correctly replace deepslate during world generation (Template:Bug).
• Gold Ore in badlands biomes are no longer generating in too large of quantities.
• Lava sources are no longer generated in frozen ocean biomes (Template:Bug).
• Deepslate copper ore variant is now correctly generating in the world.
• Updated naming for new Caves & Cliffs mountain biomes to better match between Bedrock and Java Edition.

User Interface

• Fixes the rendering of the icons in text, making the colors not distorted.

Technical

• Fixed mobs default summonability when not specified in JSON.
• Improved performance in 'RangedAttackGoal' for mobs that do not move.