Minecraft:Bedrock Edition beta 1.2.13.8

Beta 1.2.13.8 is the third beta version for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.2.13, released on March 16, 2018, which adds some of the Minecraft:Update Aquatic features through Minecraft:Experimental gameplay and fixes bugs.<ref>Template:Cite</ref>

Additions

Blocks

Minecraft:Slabs and Minecraft:stairs

• Added slabs and stairs for Minecraft:prismarine, prismarine bricks, and dark prismarine.
  • Only available through Minecraft:Experimental gameplay.

Minecraft:Stripped logs

• A barkless variant of Minecraft:logs.
• Created by using an Minecraft:axe on a log.
• Only available through Experimental gameplay.

Minecraft:Stripped wood

• A barkless variant of Minecraft:wood.
• Can only be placed with Template:Cmd.
• Only available through Experimental gameplay.

Items

Minecraft:Trident

• Obtained by killing drowned.
• Can be thrown or used as a melee weapon.
• Only available through Minecraft:Experimental gameplay.

Minecraft:Spawn Egg

• Minecraft:Drowned.

Mobs

Minecraft:Drowned

• Spawn in oceans and rivers.
• Only available through Minecraft:Experimental gameplay.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Enchantments

• Minecraft:Channeling
  • Only has one level.
  • Used on tridents to summon a lightning bolt on impact with a Minecraft:mob during Minecraft:thunderstorms.
  • Only available through Minecraft:Experimental gameplay.

• Minecraft:Impaling
  • Goes up to level V.
  • Used on tridents to deal more damage to Minecraft:players and mobs in water or rain.
  • Only available through Experimental gameplay.

• Minecraft:Loyalty
  • Goes up to level III.
  • Used on tridents to make it return to the player when thrown.
  • Only available through Experimental gameplay.

• Minecraft:Riptide
  • Goes up to level III.
  • Used on tridents to launch the player when thrown while in water or rain.
  • Only available through Experimental gameplay.

Minecraft:Swimming

• Added a new swimming animation while sprinting in water.
  • Only available through Experimental gameplay.

Fixes

• Iron golems no longer spawn when mob spawning is disabled.
• Rain, smoke particles, and shadows are no longer visible through lava.
• Disabling "Visible to LAN Players" for one world no longer disables it for all worlds.
• Buttons cloned in a "pressed" state no longer remain pressed forever.
• A warning now appears instructing not to close the game when exporting a world.
• The power output of redstone comparators is no longer lost after a world is converted from Xbox One Edition.
• Pick Block no longer replaces the item currently selected in the hotbar if other slots are empty.
• Increased stability and fixed several crashes.
• Mineshafts no longer generate above ground.
• Fixed improper mushroom block obtained from giant red mushrooms when using Pick Block.
• Tools now work properly and no longer shake in-hand.
• Sticky pistons no longer turn into regular pistons after being renamed.
• Tripwire hooks once again appear in jungle temples.
• Players can once again stand on top of ladders.
• Mob heads can no longer be duplicated by placing them in water.
• Strongholds once again generate with mossy stone brick and cracked stone brick.
• The maximum render distance on Xbox One X is once again 22 chunks.
• More than one line of text can once again be placed on signs.
• The B button no longer has to be pressed twice on the controller to deselect a skin in the Skin Picker.
• Heads and skulls that are placed on a wall no longer have incorrect hitbox positions.
• Invisible vines no longer appear on jungle trees.
• Torches can once again be placed in the same block occupied by a player.
• The player now descends more slowly in water.
• Fixed world updates occasionally not rendering.
• The player's hotbar is no longer filled with Minecraft:reserved6 in worlds last played during older versions of Pocket Edition.