Minecraft PE 1.18.20.21 Changelog

Experimental Features

Frog

• Frogs now jump more frequently
• Frog Eggs renamed to Frog Spawn
• The time for Frog Spawn to hatch into Tadpoles has been increased
• Tadpole hitbox is now larger
• Frog Spawn has a new texture
• Frogs in Meadow biomes are now of the temperate variant

Animation Tweaks

• Tweaked Frog's jump and tongue animations
• Cleaned up the animation, entity and controller files
• Changed water and swim animations from linear to smooth

Non-Experimental Features and Bug Fixes

Create New World

• The Create New Worldscreen has been given a new design that is now available for some players.

Vanilla Parity

• Worlds can now be created with 64-bit seeds (-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807) and those can be copied between Bedrock and Java to produce the same world
• Non-numeric seed UI inputs now produce the same seeds as Java Edition
• Player's arm no longer twitches while charging a bow
• Falling blocks have full-block hitbox again
• Fixed an error where Journeymen Clerics would offer Glowstone Dust instead of Glowstone Blocks
• Untamed Wolves can now be leashed

Blocks

• TNT blocks now correctly move in a random X/Z direction once lit
• Fixed an issue with resource drops occasionally remaining black after breaking and placing a block quickly in its place
• Top Snow no longer clips with the block beneath when falling

Commands

• Added the "hasitem" filter for target selector of entities. This allows the player to target entities based on the items that have in their inventory or are wearing

Gameplay

• Fixed Fangs from the Illager spells not being spawnable in blocks with no bounding boxes
• Water and Lava Buckets can now be used on underwater blocks cohabitating with water, such as Light Blocks or Big Dripleaves
• Players in Visitor Mode can no longer break Paintings and Minecarts
• Teleporting vertically beyond the visibility distance now loads the terrain correctly
• Improved accuracy of damage calculations
• Fixed an issue where interacting with the Bell while holding a chargeable item would not continuously ring it
• Fixed a bug where the player could switch to gliding when riding in certain scenarios

Mobs

• Mobs are now able to path over Azalea blocks
• Mobs are now able to path over Dripleaf blocks and properly pathfind on top of them, when not fully tilted 
• Mobs are now able to path over Pointed Dripstone blocks and properly pathfind on top of them
• Mobs can now move properly on top of solid partial blocks, like Bells, Brewing Stands, and Enchanting Tables
• Mobs can now jump from high enough solid partial blocks to full ones at a higher position 
• Mobs can now jump over fences if they are standing on an adjacent slab or on another block high enough
• Mobs can now move through less than half-block tall Top Snow even when the ceiling, if any, is as tall as the mobs themselves
• Mobs can now move through Coral and Coral Fans, as they do not consider them as solid obstacles anymore
• Fixed an issue where players could not access a Villager's trades while holding a spawn egg
• Fixed an issue where Witches spawned during Village raids could despawn during the raid
• Cod, Salmon, Pufferfish, Tropical Fish, and Dolphins once again spawn in deep variants of ocean biomes

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a crash that could occur upon leaving the Zooming menu in the Dressing Room

User Interface

• Default tabs changed to "Craftable" on left side and to "Crafting" on right side of the Pocket UI inventory screen
• Removed the question mark button on the Pocket UI inventory screen
• Items requiring 3x3 recipes are no longer shown when the Crafting Table is not used
• Players can now use auto-move to take off or equip armor in Crafting Table's menu while in Pocket UI
• Updated generic controller face button icons on mobile
• Control + Backspace will now erase the whole word before the caret
• Control + Delete will now erase the whole word after the caret
• Control + Left Arrow will now move the caret to the beginning of the word before the caret
• Control + Right Arrow will now move the caret to the beginning of the next word after the caret

Villagers

• Updated Villager trade tables for Armorer, Cleric, Fisherman, Shepherd, Toolsmith, and Weaponsmith to match Java Edition
• Fixed an issue where Villagers did not hold the item they would trade when presented with Emeralds by the player
• Villagers no longer avoid Zombified Piglins
• Villagers no longer share Seeds and Beetroot Seeds

Technical Updates

• A world with "StorageVersion" 8 or lower will be increased to 9 and have its "RandomSeed" upgraded from using only the lower 32 bits of a 64-bit number to using the full 64-bit range while still representing the same number. This is only relevant for negative 32-bit seeds, which need a sign bit extension

Additional Modding Capabilities Experiment/jаvascript APIs

Important! In this release and starting with this beta, we are removing the Additional Modding Capabilities experiment.  This experiment contained experimental jаvascript APIs launched in 2018 – and with this removal, jаvascript within worlds associated with this API will no longer function.  GameTest Framework – a separate jаvascript API – should not be impacted, nor should behavior pack/resource pack type add-ons more broadly.

 Commands

• Added '/tickingarea' command preload overload
• Entities must now be loaded for an area to be considered fully loaded and ticking

Molang

• Molang expressions inside animation scripts for actor resource definition (pre_animation and initialize) that contain capital letters are properly evaluated now with format_version 1.18.20 or higher

User Interface

• The loading progress screen now shows when loading ticking areas marked for preload

Experimental Technical Updates

Commands

• Added a new '/volumearea ' command to create, remove, and list volumes in the world

GameTest Framework

New Module! We added a mojang-minecraft-ui module with API structures for creating simple dialog boxes:

• Added ActionFormData/ModalFormData/MessageFormData types in the mojang-minecraft-ui namespace.

mojang-minecraft module updates:

• World
  • Updated property directionto blockFace in world.events.beforeItemUseOn and world.events.itemUseOn
    • Added event World.event.beforeDataDrivenEntityTriggerEvent - Fires before the data driven trigger is applied
    • Added event World.event.dataDrivenEntityTriggerEvent - Fires after the data driven trigger is applied
    • For the above events, each accept an optional EntityDataDrivenTriggerEventOptions
  • (Breaking Change) property entityremoved
  • Added property entities: Entity[] - If specified, will restrict to just the specified entities
  • Changed return type of function getPlayersto PlayerIterator
    
    
• EntityDataDrivenTriggerEventOptions
  • Inherited from EntityEventOptions
  • property eventTypes: string[] - If specified, will restrict to events with the specified name (I.E minecraft:ageable_grow_up)
  • (Inherited) property entities: Entity[] - If specified, will restrict to just the specified entities
  • (Inherited) property entityTypes: string[] - If specified, will restrict to entities with the specified type (I.E minecraft:creeper)
    
    
• DefinitionModifier
  • read only property componentGroupsToAdd: string[] - List of component groups that will be added as part of this modifier
  • read only property componentGroupsToRemove: string[] - List of component groups that will be removed as part of this modifier
  • property triggers: Trigger[] - List of triggers that will fire as part of this modifier
    
    
• Trigger
  • property eventName: string - Event name of the trigger
    
    
• DataDrivenEntityTriggerEvent
  • read only property entity: Entity - Entity that the event triggered on
  • read only property id: string - name of the event
    
    
• BeforeDataDrivenEntityTriggerEvent
  • read only property entity: Entity - Entity that the event triggered on
  • read only property id: string - name of the event
  • property modifiers: DefinitionModifier[] - List of modifiers that will be applied when the event triggers
  • property cancel: bool - If true, the event will not be triggered
    
    
• EnchantmentType
  • Added EnchantmentType class
  • Read-only property id: string - The name of the enchantment type
  • Read-only property maxLevel: int - The maximum level this type of enchantment can have
    
    
• EnchantmentInstance
  • Added EnchantmentInstance class. This represents a binding of an EnchantmentType and level that can be added to an item
  • Constructor EnchantmentInstance(type: EnchantmentType, level : int)
  • Read-only property type: EnchantmentType - The enchantment type of this instance
  • Property level: int - The level of this enchantment instance
    
    
• EnchantmentSlot
  • Added EnchantmentSlot enum. This enum represents the item slot or type that an enchantment can be applied to
    
    
• EnchantmentList
  • Added EnchantmentList class. This class represents a collection of enchantments that can be applied to an item
  • Constructor EnchantmentList(slot : EnchantSlot)
  • Read-only property slot: EnchantSlot - The item slot/type that this collection is to be applied to
  • Read-only property allEnchantments: EnchantmentInstance[] - All enchantments as part of this enchantment collection
  • Method canAddEnchantment(instance : EnchantmentInstance): bool - Returns whether or not the provided EnchantmentInstance can be added to this collection
  • Method addEnchantment(instance : EnchantmentInstance): bool - Attempts to add the enchantment to this collection. Returns true if successful
  • Method removeEnchantment(type : EnchantmentType)- Removes an EnchantmentInstance with type type from this collection if present
  • Method hasEnchantment(type : EnchantmentType): int - If this collection has an EnchantmentInstance with type type, returns the level of the enchantment. Returns 0 if not present
    
    
• ItemEnchantmentComponent
  • Added ItemEnchantmentComponent Item component class.
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• ItemStack
  • Property enchantments: EnchantmentList - Gets a copy of the current set of enchantments on this ItemStack. Or allows the user to set the EnchantmentList for the ItemStack
  • Method removeAllEnchantments- Removes any enchantments that might be present on this ItemStack
  • Added function setLore(loreList: string[]): void- Sets the lore text for the item
  • Added function getLore(): string[]- Gets the lore text for the item