Minecraft Bedrock Update 1.20.0.23 Beta Patch Notes

Features and Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• Screen reader now properly reads the description in the popping window after disabling “Require Encrypted Websockets.”
• Screen reader now properly reads the 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 the 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 the ‘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 the title of Behavior Pack message modal
• Fixed a bug where respawning in VR sometimes soft locks the player on the death screen
• Added new Cubemap background
  • View now rotates clockwise and is tilted down unless a global resource pack replaces the cube map background
• Text shadowboxes now have the correct opacity on interactable block screens.

Vanilla Parity – Patch Notes of the Minecraft Bedrock Update 1.20.0.23 Beta

• 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 a 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 where the setting had no effect on how long toasts remained on display

Experimental Technical Features:

Add-Ons and Script Engine

• Added PlacementPosition (“minecraft:placement_position”) BlockTrait block trait
• 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, and 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 – Patch Notes of the Minecraft Bedrock Update 1.20.0.23 Beta

• After Events
  • All non-before events have been moved from world.events to world.afterEvents
  • events have 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.

The Minecraft Bedrock update 1.20.0.23 is available on Windows 10 and 11, Xbox One, Xbox Series S and X, PlayStation 4 and 5, Nintendo Switch, Fire OS/TV, Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, and Samsung Gear VR.