Minecraft PE 1.18.0.24

Features and Bug Fixes

Blocks

• Players can once again continuously place water, lava, and Powder Snow by holding down the 'Place' button
• Light blocks no longer support blocks that need support, e.g. Beds and Paintings

Mineshaft

• Mineshaft pillars should no longer generate in lava
• Mineshafts will not generate Dirt floors anymore
• Mineshafts now use Log Blocks for creating support pillars

Gameplay

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

Items

• Adjusted the smoothness of movement for Primed TNT, Lingering Potions, Splash Potions, and Bottle o' Enchanting when far from players
• Multiple Education Edition items no longer show the "craftingScreen.tab.none" tooltip
• All ground vegetation can now be placed on Mycelium

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
• Phantoms should now be able to free themselves after getting stuck when trying to pathfind into mountains

World Generation

• Ore generation has now been tweaked to be in parity with Java Edition
• Gravel can now correctly replace Deepslate during world generation
• Gold Ore in Badlands biomes are no longer generating in too large of quantities
• Lava sources are no longer generated in Frozen Ocean biomes
• 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 Updates

Mobs

• Fixed mobs default summonability when not specified in JSON

RangedAttackGoal

• Improved performance in 'RangedAttackGoal' for mobs that do not move