Minecraft Beta - 1.20.0.21
Posted: July 11, 2023
Features and Bug Fixes
Experimental Toggle
All Trails & Tales content has now been “de-experimentified” and is available during normal gameplay
Removed the Next Major Update toggle, since it has no active experimental content
Accessibility Features
The four Creative Inventory tabs now have their names read out by text-to-speech
Blocks
Suspicious Sand and Suspicious Gravel now play their respective sounds when brushing them has completede
Decorated Pot
Decorated Pot faces now use the top rows of pixels
Pitcher Crop
The Pitcher Crop hitbox will now change in size according to its age1739
Pitcher Crop Block
Pitcher Crop block now uses bottom texture
Calibrated Sculk Sensor
Calibrated Sculk Sensors now power the block below them when active
Calibrated Sculk Sensors now have an active cooldown of 1 second instead of 2 seconds
Calibrated Sculk Sensors now detect vibrations up to 16 blocks away instead of 8 blocks
Gameplay
Fixed fall damage accumulating when player jumps on roofed Soul Sand Bubble Column
Graphical
The Decorated Pot now respects the lighting conditions when held in hand or dropped
Conduit block now respects the lighting conditions when held in hand or dropped
Signs
A sound is now played when trying to interact with a waxed Sign
It is no longer possible to use Ink Sac, Glow Ink Sac, or Dyes if the text that would be changed is empty
Interacting with a Sign while holding certain item no longer also trigger the item's specific action in addition to opening the Sign for editing
Examples of items that caused this are: Brush, Armor, Fishing Rod, Book & Quill, Goat Horn, Empty Map
When using gamepad or touch input, correct tooltips are now shown if interacting with the Sign is possible
When editing the text of a Sign the text color now matches the dye of the sign
It is now possible to attach a hanging sign to another without sneaking
Sniffer
Fixed the Sniffer's head Z-fighting with their body
Sculk Sensor
Sculk Sensors now power the block below them when active
Sculk Shrieker
Waterlogging a Sculk Shrieker will now silence its shriek sounds
User Interface
Marketplace and Dressing Room cycle buttons now show navigation chevron when using a controller and controller hints are disabled
Fixed the multiplayer toggle in the Create New World screen sometimes wasn't greyed out even though the setting would have no effect
Coordinates are now shown on the new death screen if the "Show Coordinates" setting is enabled
Vanilla Parity
Top and bottom Door textures now rotate correctly when opened and closed for worlds versioned from 1.20 onward
Vibration Frequencies
In preparation for the Calibrated Sculk Sensor, vibration frequencies have been greatly simplified to prevent unwanted interference
The following are category descriptions for each frequency and the expected events that they correspond to:
Movement in any medium (land, liquid or air)
Landing on any surface (land or liquid)
Item interactions
Gliding with an Elytra or unique mob actions (Ravager roaring, Wolf shaking, etc.)
Equipping gear
Interacting with a mob
Mobs and players getting damaged
Consuming items (drinking and eating)
Blocks 'deactivating' (Door closing, Chest closing, Button unpressing, etc.)
Blocks 'activating' (Door opening, Chest opening, Button being pressed, etc.)
Blocks changing (Cauldron water level rising, adding food to a Campfire, etc.)
Blocks being destroyed
Blocks being placed
Mobs and players spawning
Mobs and players dying or an explosion
Technical Updates
Editor
Fixed bug where Editor could be accessed during a regular gameplay session
General
Fix "get_equipped_item_name" Molang query not being able to return the old name of some flattened items, eg. red_wool to wool
Entities
Introduced new entity filters "all_slots_empty" and "any_slot_empty" to allow searching for empty item slots in a designated equipment location
Graphical
Fixed a crash when enabling ray tracing in ray tracing compatible content that was loaded into with ray tracing turned off
Items
Custom items with 'minecraft:durability' and 'minecraft:repairable' can be combined to repair them without requiring a custom item entry
Recipes
Fixed incorrect content warnings for recipes that use the same blocks but with different data
Components
Attribute "speed_multiplier" in the "minecraft:boostable" component is now being parsed correctly from json file. Old behavior is maintained for "format_version" lower than 1.20 with 1.35 value rather than what the json file specifies
Experimental Technical Features
Add-Ons
Added "minecraft:facing_direction" state to the "minecraft:placement_direction" block trait.
"minecraft:facing_direction" is a six value integer state (down, up, south, west, north, east)
Can enable and access this state on blocks through the "minecraft:placement_direction" trait
Can access the "minecraft:cardinal_direction" state on blocks that apply the "minecraft:placement_direction" trait in block_property Molang queries and set_block_property EventResponses
Pumpkin blocks use state "minecraft:cardinal_direction" instead of "direction"
API
Fixed a bug where modified equipment and container slots were not being synced to clients
@minecraft/server
Renamed BlockPropertiesto BlockStates
Renamed getAllPropertiesto BlockPermutation.getAllStates
Renamed getPropertyto BlockPermutation.getState