Minecraft Bedrock Edition Update 1.19.70.20 Patch Notes

Update 1.19.70.20 for Minecraft Bedrock Edition has arrived, and here are all the changes and improvements mentioned in the patch notes. If you were expecting features from the Minecraft Javascript Snapshot to be here, you’ll be disappointed. Those features apparently aren’t ready yet for release. But this update does make some notable changes to the game. Here is the complete list of patch notes for update 1.19.70.20 for Minecraft Bedrock Edition:

Minecraft Bedrock Edition Update 1.19.70.20 Patch Notes

Experimental Features

• Piglin Head Blocks rendered in the hotbar or inventory no longer have the ear overlapping the rest of the head
• Players can now receive damage when falling while riding a Camel

Features and Bug Fixes

Player Sneaking

• Player’s hitbox height now reduces to 1.5 blocks while sneaking
  • Sneaking will automatically be initiated while stuck in a gap of less than 1.8 blocks
  • Sneaking will lower the player camera height respective of these changes
  • Sneaking now requires enough space to stand in order to exit sneaking
  • Players will transition from swimming to sneaking if they are unable to stand up but would be able to sneak
• Known Issues that we hope to have addressed soon:
  • Camera may be obscured when sneaking under blocks in third person view
  • Interacting with certain blocks may not work when sneaking in a gap
  • Jumping off the edge of blocks may not work as expected when sneaking in a gap

Vanilla Parity

• Bells that are connected to multiple blocks no longer drop when one block is broken
• Breeding horses can now produce random variants
• Fixed an issue where dead players prevented other players from skipping night
• Eating and drinking animations will now always be centered, regardless of screen aspect ratio
• Note Block sound attenuation over a distance is now linear

Gameplay

• Players no longer take rapid damage when touching damaging blocks
• Fixed a crash that could occur when entering a 1.7.1.0 world in 1.8 or above
• Projectiles shot while swimming/gliding no longer spawn from above the player’s position
• Items dropped while swimming/gliding, manually or on death, no longer spawn from above the player’s position
• The player’s crosshair now properly mines/interacts with items in front of them while swimming/gliding, rather than 1 block above their position
• Written Books can now be moved in the inventory even when the player has identical Written Books
• Double-clicking on the Furnace output slot will no longer drop the item
• Fixed a bug where Observers would not detect changes due to corrupted data
• Hoppers now pull in items from above them through all blocks that have a lower height than a full block

Blocks

• Destroying Mangrove Log or Mangrove Wood now properly cause leaves to decay
• End Crystals occupying the same space as a block will no longer cause that block to disappear

Graphical

• Fixed an issue where the “Mine” tooltip was appearing when targeting a block with a Trident in Creative game mode

Mobs

• Parrots will no longer shake while on a player riding a Horse that is turning mid-jump
• Fixed a bug causing global entities (e.g. Ender Dragon and projectiles) to stop rendering when out of normal entity render distance

Touch Controls

• Updated the How to Play screen with info on new touch controls
• Changing input modes from Gamepad to Touch while an item is selected will return the selected to the inventory or drop it
• Fixed an issue on the Furnace screen where double-tapping the output window caused other slots to become unselectable
• Fixed a bug where progressive select was automatically initiated on the first slot when opening a small Chest

Mobile

• When starting a new world in Pocket UI, removed the “Press Open Chat to open chat” message for players with text-to-speech turned off

User Interface

• Ocean Explorer, Woodland Explorer, and Treasure Maps now show the proper icon in the inventory
• Fixed a bug where mouse scrolling on the Friend Options dropdown would not scroll the dropdown contents
• Resolved an issue where graphical elements of the Sign-In/Sign-Up screen could extend beyond the bounds of the dialog container

Commands

• Replaceitem and loot replace block commands no longer place items in Cauldrons
• Rotation in the teleport command is now relative to the executor of the command instead of the target. Old usage of rotations in commands will stay relative to the target mob for backward compatibility

Update 1.19.70.20 for Minecraft Bedrock Edition is available on Android, iOS, and Windows 10. For more information on future updates and patch notes, head over to the official Minecraft Bedrock Edition feedback website here.