Bedrock Edition beta 1.19.20.23

Beta 1.19.20.23 (Android) or Preview 1.19.20.23 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the third beta/Preview for Bedrock Edition 1.19.20, released on July 20, 2022, which fixed some bugs.

Accessibility Features

 * D-Pad Left can now be held down again to move the cursor left in menus

Blocks

 * Reduced Sculk Catalyst experience drop from 20 to 5
 * Mangrove Log, Mangrove Wood, and Stripped Mangrove Wood can now be used to craft a Campfire with Charcoal

Deep Dark

 * Ancient Cities have more frequent Sculk Patch generation
 * Sculk Patch Features can now be placed on additional block types

Gameplay

 * Player textures and UI elements should no longer turn pink after playing for an extended period time on highly populated servers
 * Instantaneous effects (Potions, Tipped Arrows) can no longer be applied to dead mobs and players
 * Player no longer takes damage from entering a Nether portal if it is placed at Y=-21 or below

General

 * So Below music track now plays in Basalt Deltas
 * Fixed an issue where scores on scoreboards were not being ordered properly

Items

 * Fixed a bug where fishing hooks would drop loot when killed with the /kill command

Mobs

 * Fixed a bug causing baby mobs with the minecraft:behavior.sleep goal to have a shrunken hitbox
 * Allays and Bees are now less likely to get stuck in non-full blocks
 * Wardens can now detect a player sneaking on top of a Sculk Sensor
 * Warden can now let itself fall up to 20 blocks down, instead of just 3
 * Allays can now pick up armor pieces with a different durability than the one they are holding

Player

 * Player’s Soul Speed is now properly activated and de-activated on Soul Sand
 * Fixed a bug causing health_boost to display incorrect health values, causing the player to turn invisible and unable to interact with the world on dying

Stability and Performance

 * Fixed a bug which could cause mobs to not load into the world if their saved y-position was greater than or equal to 25

Audio

 * When trading, the Villager plays the correct sound based on the item in the input slot

Vanilla Parity

 * Skulls in Ancient Cities now better match the orientation they have in Java Edition
 * Goat Horn sound is now placed in the Jukebox/Note Blocks sound category in Settings

Add-Ons

 * Enable event filters in the root definition to be evaluated independent of sequence or randomize when a format_version of 1.19.20 or higher is specified

Stability and Performance

 * Fixed a crash when exploring multiple categories in Marketplace on Xbox and PlayStation

GameTest Framework

 * System Events
 * Added event beforeWatchdogTerminate- Shuts down the server when a critical scripting exception occurs (e.g. script hang). Can be canceled to prevent shutdown
 * Added enum WatchdogTerminateReason- Specifies the reason for watchdog termination
 * Added new properties to propertiesfor watchdog configuration on Bedrock Dedicated Server
 * script-watchdog-enable-exception-handling- Enables watchdog exception handling via the events.beforeWatchdogTerminate event (default = true)
 * script-watchdog-enable-shutdown- Enables server shutdown in the case of an unhandled watchdog exception (default = true)
 * script-watchdog-hang-exception- Throws a critical exception when a hang occurs (default = true)

General

 * Removed the component minecraft:unwalkable
 * Renamed minecraft:explosion_resistance to minecraft:destructible_by_explosion' and restructured the component to be either defined as a boolean or as an object
 * Setting the component to true will give the block the default explosion_resistance and setting it to false will make the block indestructible by explosion
 * Setting the component as an object will let users define the resistance of the block to a base explosion