Minecraft Beta - 1.20.0.23
Posted: July 11, 2023
Features and Bug Fixes:
Accessibility
Screen reader now properly reads description in popping window after disabling “Require Encrypted Websockets”
Screen reader now properly reads description in popping window after disabling “Allow mobile data for online play”
Amethyst Resonance
Blocks of Amethyst placed above or below Sculk Sensors or Calibrated Sculk Sensors now also resonate vibrations
Audio
Generic Brush sounds are now audible
Blocks
Sculk Sensors, Calibrated Sculk Sensors, and Sculk Shriekers will no longer lose in-flight vibrations when leaving the world
Fixed an issue where the Calibrated Sculk Sensor tendrils were not lighting uniformly
Fixed custom textures that override vanilla blocks with aux metadata as a list of textures
Pitcher Plant
Bone Meal now can’t be used on a Pitcher Plant to duplicate the flower
Breaking Pitcher Plants with Fortune enchanted tools will now not drop more than one flower
Sniffer Egg
Sniffer Egg now uses a custom cracking sound instead of the one for Turtle Eggs
Sniffer Egg no longer gets destroyed by fluid water or lava
Sniffer Egg can now be placed in water and lava
Torchflower
Bone Meal now can’t be used on Torchflowers to spawn other flowers
Using Bone Meal on a Torchflower Crop will now always make it grow one stage
Calibrated Sculk Sensor
Calibrated Sculk Sensor now effectively filters vibration frequencies when powered by any power-emitting redstone component
Experience Orbs
Experience Orbs now merge when spawned with the summon command
Gameplay
Banner Shields now take the same Shield from the Grindstone as Java Edition
Third-person camera no longer creates a black pane when short sneaking under a 1.5 block gap
Brush
Brushes no longer crash the game upon breaking
Music
Relic Music Disk is now included in the loot table for Trail Ruins
General
Splitscreen players are no longer disconnected when one leaves
Added Planting the Past achievement
Added Careful Restoration achievement
Graphical
Screen fade effect when sleeping or using camera fade command will no longer appear when a picture is taken
Sniffer
Fixed the Sniffer’s head and ears z-fighting
Sculk Sensor Phases
Sculk Sensors and Calibrated Sculk Sensors now play their “power off” sound at the end of the Cooldown phase instead of the Active phase
Touch Controls
Fixed issues with keyboard navigation on some menu screens on iOS and Android
User Interface
Animations in ‘Welcome to Minecraft’ modals are no longer rendered upside down on Android
Button sounds will no longer sometimes occur when clicking a disabled button
Fixed capitalization in title of Behavior Pack message modal
Fixed a bug where respawning in VR sometimes softlocks the player in the death screen
Added new Cubemap background
View now rotates clockwise and is tilted down unless a global resource pack replaces the cubemap background
Text shadowboxes now have the correct opacity on interactable block screens
Vanilla Parity
Distinct green particles are now emitted by the player under effect of Hero of the Village status effect
Technical Updates:
Dedicated Server
Content logs now show in dedicated server console window with a configurable log level using these new server properties:
content-log-level - Sets the minimum level for content logs to output. Allowed values: “verbose”, “info”, “warning”, “error”. Default: info
Note: This log level also affects content logs written to disk when using content-log-file-enabled=true
content-log-console-output-enabled - Enables or disables content log output to the console window. Default: info
Entities
Custom entities with internal-only components or AI goals will fail to load in game
Custom entities are restricted to overriding Vanilla entities released before 1.20. Invalid entities used in the “identifier” or “runtime_identifier” field will result in content errors
Items
Released the “minecraft:display_name” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
Released the “minecraft:durability” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
Released the “minecraft:fuel” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
Released the “minecraft:entity_placer” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
Released the “minecraft:icon” item component out of experimental in json formats 1.20.0 and higher
User Interface
Fixed a graphical issue where a gamepad icon would display over another screen
Accessibility
Added new “Chat Message Duration” accessibility setting to change how long chat messages remain on screen (3 seconds by default)
Renamed “Notification Duration” to “Toast Notification Duration” and fixed an issue were the setting had no affect on how long toasts remained on display
Experimental Technical Features:
Add-Ons and Script Engine
Adds states “minecraft:block_face” and/or “minecraft: vertical_half”
“minecraft:block_face” is a six value string state ("down", "up", "north", "south", "east", "west") that contains info on which block face the player clicked on when the block was placed
“minecraft:vertical_half” is a 2 value string state ("bottom", "top") with info on whether the block was placed in the lower or upper half of the block position
Both of these states are set when the block is placed (onPlayerPlace)
API
Moving getComponent(componentId: string): EntityComponent | undefined method to 1.2.0
Moving getComponents(): EntityComponent[] method to 1.2.0
Moving hasComponent(componentId: string): boolean method to 1.2.0
Moving EntityComponent class to 1.2.0
Moving EntityBaseMovementComponent class to 1.2.0:
Moving readonly maxTurn: number property to 1.2.0
Moving the following additional EntityBaseMovementComponent subclasses to 1.2.0:
EntityMovementAmphibiousComponent
EntityMovementBasicComponent
EntityMovementFlyComponent
EntityMovementGenericComponent
EntityMovementHoverComponent
EntityMovementJumpComponent
EntityMovementSkipComponent
Renamed EntityIsDyableComponent class to EntityIsDyeableComponent and moved to 1.2.0
Moving the following additional EntityComponent subclasses to 1.2.0:
EntityCanClimbComponent
EntityCanFlyComponent
EntityCanPowerJumpComponent
EntityColorComponent
EntityFireImmuneComponent
EntityFloatsInLiquidComponent
EntityFlyingSpeedComponent
EntityFrictionModifierComponent
EntityGroundOffsetComponent
EntityIsBabyComponent
EntityIsChargedComponent
EntityIsChestedComponent
EntityIsHiddenWhenInvisibleComponent
EntityIsIgnitedComponent
EntityIsIllagerCaptainComponent
EntityIsSaddledComponent
EntityIsShakingComponent
EntityIsShearedComponent
EntityIsStackableComponent
EntityIsStunnedComponent
EntityIsTamedComponent
EntityMarkVariantComponent
EntityPushThroughComponent
EntityScaleComponent
EntitySkinIdComponent
EntityVariantComponent
EntityWantsJockeyComponent
Added class EffectTypes
Added function get(identifier: string): EffectType - Returns the effect type if it exists
Added function getAll(): EffectType[] - Returns all of the effects
Updated class Effect
Updated duration property. Is the duration of the effect in ticks
Added property typeId. Returns the effect’s type id
Added interface EntityEffectOptions { amplifier?: number, showParticles?: boolean }
Added function removeEffect(effectType: EffectType | string): boolean - Removes an effect from an Entity. Returns false if the effect is not found or does not exist
Updated function getEffect(effectType: EffectType | string): Effect | undefined - Gets the effect if it exists on the entity. Otherwise returns undefined
Updated function addEffect(effectType: EffectType | string, duration: number, options?: EntityEffectOptions): boolean - Adds an effect to the Entity. Returns false if the effect cannot be added ( the effect does not exist, the duration is negative)
Items using the minimum duration for the “minecraft:fuel” component now work in the Blast Furnace and Smoker
Items
Items with the ‘minecraft:throwable’ component now trigger the ‘throw’ sound effect when used
Scripting
After Events
All non-before events have been moved from world.events to world.afterEvents
events has been removed from the world object
After events do not execute immediately, instead they are deferred until a later point in the tick when they are flushed. It is guaranteed that all events fired in a tick are flushed within a tick