Minecraft:Bedrock Edition Preview 1.19.70.23

Beta 1.19.70.23 (Android) or Preview 1.19.70.23 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the fourth beta/Preview version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.19.70, released on February 15 and 18, 2023,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which adds the Minecraft:Sniffer, Minecraft:Archaeology, and fixes bugs.

Additions

Command format

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• Re-added rotation arguments for the Template:Cmd Minecraft:command.
  • New syntax: Template:Cmd
  • Previous syntax: Template:Cmd

General

Minecraft:Experiments

• Added the "Sniffer" experimental toggle.
  • Enables all sniffer-related features.
    • The Minecraft:sniffer, Minecraft:torchflowers, and torchflower seeds.

Technical

JSON

• Released block properties and permutations out of experimental in JSON formats 1.19.70 and higher.
  • Added a content warning when loading world with more than 65536 custom block permutations. Custom block permutation counts are logged in debug log.

Changes

Gameplay

Minecraft:Horse breeding

• When breeding horses, the baby horse now has a chance of being better than its parents in speed, jump strength, and health.
  • This change is intended to make horse breeding a viable way of getting great horses, if a player starts with good parents and puts in enough time and Minecraft:golden carrots.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Next Major Update", "Sniffer", and "Beta APIs" experimental toggle.

Additions

Blocks

Minecraft:Decorated Pot

• Can be crafted with any 4 pottery shards or Minecraft:brick items, shaped rhombic.
  • The type of crafting material decides which picture would occur on the certain side of the crafted decorated pot.
    • The possible pictures are decided by the type of pottery shard which is used to craft.
    • The brick item will not have a picture.
• Very fragile, and very easy to break it:
  • Will break apart into its crafting materials when breaking it using any block-breaking tool.
  • Will drop itself when breaking it using empty hand.

Minecraft:Suspicious Sand

• Generates in desert temples and Minecraft:desert wells.
• Brushing the suspicious sand with a brush will extract objects.

Minecraft:Torchflower

• A new type of flower, grows from torchflower seeds.
  • Only drop itself when broken.
  • Can be crafted into a Minecraft:orange dye.
  • Can be planted in the Minecraft:flower pot.

Items

Minecraft:Brush

• An item which can be used to brush things.
• Can be crafted with 3 Minecraft:string and 2 Minecraft:sticks, like the shape of crafting Minecraft:pickaxes.

Minecraft:Pottery Shard

• They have pictures on them.
• They cannot be crafted and are only found by brushing suspicious sand.

Minecraft:Spawn Egg

• Added sniffer spawn egg.

Minecraft:Torchflower Seeds

• A new type of seed, which can be planted on Minecraft:farmland and grows into a torchflower.
• Can only be obtained if a sniffer digs up a torchflower seed.

Mobs

Minecraft:Sniffer

• A new passive friendly mob, which is the mob vote winner of Minecraft:Minecraft Live 2022, and considered as the first "ancient" mob.
• Cannot spawn naturally.
• Cannot be tempted or tamed.
• Often sniff in the air and occasionally dig for torchflower seeds.
• Can be bred with torchflower seeds.
• Drop Minecraft:moss block when killed.

Technical

API

• BlockPermutation
  • Added method matches(blockName: string, properties?: BlockProperties): boolean which is used to match a block with optional states against a BlockPermutation.
  • Added method withProperty(name: string, value: boolean | number | string): BlockPermutation; which returns a new block permutation with a given property set to a specific value. Throws if the provided data cannot be resolved as a valid block permutation.
  • Added function static resolve(blockName: string, properties?: BlockProperties): BlockPermutation which resolve a BlockPermutation from a block name and optional states. Throws if the provided data cannot be resolved as a valid block permutation.
• BlockProperties
  • Added new class to expose BlockPropertyType.
• BlockPropertyType
  • Added new class to track "definitional" data about block properties. This is how you can find which values are valid for each block property.

Changes

World generation

Minecraft:Desert Pyramid

• Now includes a new room filled with Minecraft:sand and Minecraft:suspicious sand.
• Some sands will appear exposed, and can be found at the same height as the Minecraft:blue terracotta.

Minecraft:Desert Well

• Now includes suspicious sands under its water.

Fixes

Gameplay

• Fixed a bug where an Allay holding a Lead wasn't able to be leashed unless the player held a full stack of 64 Leads in hand.

Audio

• Sounds from all Button types and Lever are now controlled by "Blocks" slider in Audio Settings. (Template:Bug)
• The sound volume of Ghasts will now fade the further they are from the player. (Template:Bug)

Blocks

• Fixed a bug where Hoppers would not pull in items after being unpowered from Redstone. (Template:Bug)

General

• The swap item animation now plays when switching hotbar items of the same type with the same durability.

Graphical

• The loading screen no longer flickers when entering the Nether in immersive VR mode.

Items

• Fixed loaded Crossbow staying loaded after shooting. (Template:Bug)

Mobs

• Villagers will now emit anger particles when hit by a player outside of a village.
• Horses cannot be pushed over Fences covered by Carpets anymore. (Template:Bug)

User Interface

• Fixed a bug where moving the player or camera with a controller while text-to-speech for UI was turned on would cause the narrator to say "X of Y".
• Fixed a bug where the Edit World screen couldn't be opened for a world if the corresponding world directory had a space in it. (Template:Bug)