Bedrock Edition beta 1.18.30.28

Beta 1.18.30.28 (Xbox, Windows, Android) or Preview 1.18.30.29 (Xbox, Windows, iOS/iPadOS) is the ninth beta/preview for Bedrock Edition 1.18.30, released on March 23, 2022, which adds boat with chest and deep dark behind experimental gameplay, and fixes bugs.

Mobs

 * Hoglins
 * Baby hoglins now attack players again.

Technical

 * Data-Driven Items
 * Added an optional parameter to the Damage Event Response that specifies a unique damage amount when used by mobs.

Experimental
These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Wild Update" and "Vanilla Experiments" experimental toggle.

Items

 * Boat with Chest
 * Function similarly to minecart with chests, but in boats instead, so player can take a journey on the water and carry things.
 * Crafted by combining a chest with any boat.

World generation

 * Deep Dark
 * New biome at the "deepest depths of the world".
 * Tends to generate under continental/mountainous areas, exclusively within the deepslate layer between Y=-1 and Y=-64.
 * The floor is covered in sculk and contains all sculk-related blocks.
 * With the exception of spawners, no mobs other than wardens can spawn there, similar to mushroom fields.

Items

 * Copper Horn
 * Changed the texture.

Mobs

 * Allay
 * Now has a delay for picking new items after delivering items.
 * Now only pick up the exact same item it holds.
 * Now stay close to a note block that has been played near it.
 * Are now immune to damage from its owner.

Fixes

 * Mobile Controls
 * Fixed issue where sensitivity was too low in new touch control schemes.
 * Fixed a case where the "Highlight Always On" option was visible for the 'Touch' interaction mode.
 * Fixed issue where buttons for new mobile control schemes were too large and too high on some devices.


 * Gameplay
 * Fixed underwater lava lakes not turned into obsidian during world generation.
 * Healing no longer causes a mob to be immune to damage.
 * Fixed tick range check excluding chunks that were actually in range.
 * Breaking a layer of snow placed in the same block as a flower no longer destroys the flower.


 * Hoglins
 * Baby hoglins now attack players.


 * User Interface
 * Double tapping the crouch button will no longer toggle fly mode.
 * Fixed issue where sprint state was not resumed after hitting an obstacle when holding the key.