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This page documents a major update currently being worked on. 
Therefore, not all official feature names or items are mentioned.

1.20.0, the first release of Trails & Tales, is an upcoming major update to Bedrock Edition set to release sometime in 2023. The update was announced at Minecraft Live 2022 on October 15, 2022, and its name was revealed at Minecraft Monthly on March 2, 2023.[1]

Planned additions

Blocks

Block of Bamboo Block of Bamboo
  • New log-like block.
  • Block of bamboo can be crafted from 9 bamboo and can be stripped Block of Stripped Bamboo like other wood logs.
  • Bamboo planks crafted from block of bamboo yield only 2 planks compared to 4 for wood logs.
Bamboo Planks Bamboo Planks
Bamboo Mosaic Bamboo Mosaic
  • A variant exclusive to the bamboo plank set.
  • Crafted by arranging 2 bamboo slabs in a vertical strip.
  • Can be used to craft respective Bamboo Mosaic Stairs stairs and Bamboo Mosaic Slab slabs variant.
Chiseled Bookshelf Chiseled Bookshelf
  • Can store up to six books, enchanted books, or books and quills.
    • Books in chiseled bookshelves can be added or removed from any slot by targeting the specific slot.
    • Books are directly added and removed, so there is no interface.
  • Can be used with a redstone comparator to detect the last slot that was interacted with.
  • Can be used with a hopper and dropper.
Cherry Leaves BECherry Leaves[2]
  • Generated in cherry trees.
  • A decorative block.
  • Emits pink(
     #D193B4
    ) dripping_cherry_leaves‌ particles.
Cherry Log Cherry Log[2]
  • Generated as a part of cherry trees, which are located in cherry blossoms.
  • Can be crafted into cherry planks and wood.
  • Has a stripped variant as well Stripped Cherry Log, Cherry Wood wood and Stripped Cherry Wood striped wood.
Cherry Planks Cherry Planks[2]
Cherry Sapling Cherry Sapling[2]
  • A new type of sapling which grows into a cherry tree when planted.
  • Drops underneath cherry leaves.
  • Can break off a fully grown one and plant it to grow a cherry tree.
  • Potted Cherry Sapling Can be placed in flower pots.
Pink Petals (flower amount 1)Pink Petals (flower amount 2)Pink Petals (flower amount 3)Pink Petals (flower amount 4) Pink Petals[2]
  • A new type of block, which generates naturally in cherry groves.
  • Similar to sea pickle, can be placed up to 4 in one block.
Hanging Sign Hanging Sign
  • A more expensive version of normal signs, which can be crafted with 2 chains and 6 stripped logs, resulting 6 of them.
  • Has a total of 11 wood variants: Oak Hanging Sign oak, Spruce Hanging Sign spruce, Birch Hanging Sign birch, Jungle Hanging Sign jungle, Acacia Hanging Sign acacia, Dark Oak Hanging Sign dark oak, Mangrove Hanging Sign mangrove, Crimson Hanging Sign crimson, Warped Hanging Sign warped, Bamboo Hanging Sign bamboo, and Cherry Hanging Sign cherry.
  • Can be hung up in the following ways:
    • Underneath a block that can provide support in the center, like a full block or a fence.
      • When the hanging sign is placed underneath a full block, the chains will be on parallel sides of the sign. Signs in this configuration can be placed in 4 cardinal directions (North, South, East, West)
      • When the hanging sign is placed underneath a non-full block, such as a fence, or when placed while sneaking, the chains will take on an upside-down v-shape. Signs in this configuration can be placed in 16 different angles.
    • Attached to the solid side of a block.
    • Attached to the side or underneath another hanging sign.
  • Cannot be placed directly on the ground without support from the side or above.
    • However, hanging signs that have a horizontal bar will not pop when the supporting block is removed.
  • If it is hanging off the side of a block and that block is broken, it will remain hanging in the air. But if it is hanging underneath of a block and that block is broken, it will also break immediately.
  • Unlike regular signs, the space available for text is much smaller.
  • Text can be dyed and tinted with glow ink sacs to make text glow.
Piglin Head Piglin Head
  • Piglins will now drop their heads when killed by a charged creeper.
  • The piglin head will flap its ears when powered by redstone, or when worn by a player while walking.
Sniffer Egg[3][4][unofficial name]
  • Can be found in suspicious sand.
  • Hatches into a baby sniffer.
Torchflower Age 0Torchflower Age 1Torchflower Age 2 Torchflower
  • A new type of flower, which grows from torchflower seeds.
Decorated Pot (W) Decorated Pot
  • Can be crafted Decorated Pot (PBW) Decorated Pot (SAW) with any 4 pottery shards or Decorated Pot (S) brick items, shaped rhombic.
    • The type of crafting material decides which picture would occur on the certain side of the crafted decorated pot.
      • The possibile pictures are decided by the type of pottery shard which is used to craft.
      • The brick item will not have a picture.
  • Very fragile, and very easy to break it:
    • Will broke apart into its crafting materials when breaking it using any block-breaking tool.
    • Will drop itself when breaking it using empty hand.
Suspicious Gravel BE1'''Suspicious Gravel'''
Suspicious SandSuspicious Sand (dusted 1)Suspicious Sand (dusted 2)Suspicious Sand (dusted 3) Suspicious Sand[5]

Items

Torchflower Seeds Torchflower Seeds[3][4]
  • A new type of seed, which can be planted on farmland and grows into a torchflower.
  • Can only be obtained if a sniffer digs up a torchflower seed.
Brush Brush
  • An item which can be used to brush Suspicious Sand for loot.
  • Can be crafted with 1 stick, one copper ingot, and one feather
Archer Pottery ShardArms Up Pottery Shard BE1Prize Pottery Shard BE1Skull Pottery Shard BE1 Pottery Shards
  • An item found by using a brush on suspicious sand.
  • There are currently 4 known varieties; Archer Pottery Shard BE1 archer, Arms Up Pottery Shard BE1 arms up, Prize Pottery Shard BE1 prize, and Skull Pottery Shard BE1 skull.
Netherite Upgrade Smithing TemplateCoast Armor Trim Smithing TemplateDune Armor Trim Smithing TemplateEye Armor Trim Smithing TemplateRib Armor Trim Smithing TemplateSentry Armor Trim Smithing TemplateSnout Armor Trim Smithing TemplateSpire Armor Trim Smithing TemplateTide Armor Trim Smithing TemplateVex Armor Trim Smithing TemplateWard Armor Trim Smithing TemplateWild Armor Trim Smithing Template Smithing Templates
Spawn Eggs
  • Camel Spawn Egg Camel spawn egg
  • Sniffer Spawn Egg Sniffer spawn egg.

Mobs

Camel Camels
  • A rideable entity, which can be equipped with a saddle and ridden by two players.
  • Have 32♥ × 16 health points.
  • Spawn naturally in desert villages.
  • Can be bred with cactus, and will follow players holding a cactus on hand.
  • Mobs that are 2 blocks tall and lower cannot reach the player (except spiders) when the player is riding it, due to its height.
  • Can walk over 1.5 block tall obstacles (such as fences, walls, and blocks with a slab on top).
  • Will randomly sit down.
    • While sitting, it is difficult to convince them to move.
  • Can either walk slowly or sprint quickly.
  • Can also dash forward (if the player uses the jump key while riding it) but will lose stamina for a while.
    • When it loses stamina, it cannot sprint or dash again for a few seconds.
    • A dash can extend more than 10 blocks when executed perfectly.
Sniffer Sniffer[3][4][6]
  • A new passive friendly mob, which is the mob vote winner of Minecraft Live 2022, and considered as the first "ancient" mob.
  • Have 14♥ × 7 health points.
  • Cannot spawn naturally.
  • Cannot be tempted or tamed.
  • Often sniff in the air and occasionally dig for torchflower seeds.
  • Can be bred with torchflower seeds.
  • Drop moss block when killed.
  • Can be mounted with the /ride command.
  • Only spawnable from a player.

Non-mob entities

Bamboo Raft Raft
  • A new type of boat, crafted with bamboo planks.
  • Can be used to craft a variant Bamboo Raft with Chest with a chest.
  • Raft is higher than boat.
Cherry Boat Cherry boat
  • A new type of boat, crafted with cherry planks.
  • Can be used to craft a variant Cherry Boat with Chest with a chest.

World generation

Cherry Tree Cherry
Cherry Grove

Planned changes

Blocks

Note Block
  • When placing a mob head on a note block, that note block will now play one of the ambient sounds of that mob when played by a player or powered by redstone.
Head
  • Can now be placed on top of note blocks without sneaking.
Player Head
  • Now can contain a  note_block_sound NBT tag.
    • Must be a resource location for a valid sound event.
    • When present, this determines the sound a note block makes when the head is placed on top of it.

Items

Armors
  • Now can be visually customized with a variety of unique trims at the smithing table. Purely visual with no gameplay benefits, and can only be applied to helmets, chestplates, leggings and boots.
    • All trim patterns are visually the same on an armor's item icon, but the color will still change based on the trim material.
    • The name of the trim pattern will be displayed on the item's tooltip.
  • Armor trim has 2 properties: pattern, material.
    • Pattern: Defined by the Smithing Template used to apply the trim, and represents the visual pattern of the trim.
    • Material: Defined by what ingredient used to apply the trim, and represents the color of the trim.
      • Available ingredients:
        • Amethyst Shard
        • Copper Ingot
        • Diamond
        • Emerald
        • Gold Ingot
        • Iron Ingot
        • Lapis Lazuli
        • Nether Quartz
        • Netherite Ingot
        • Redstone Dust

World generation

Desert temple

Gameplay

Smithing Table functionality
  • Overhauled. It is now a workstation for physical equipment upgrades and modifications.
  • Added a slot used by smithing templates to the left of the old 2 slots.
  • Smithing templates define what type of upgrade that will be making to equipment.
    • It specifies both what type of items that can upgrade, and which ingredients are valid to customize the upgrade.
  • Netherite equipment crafting now also requires a netherite upgrade smithing template.
Advancements
  • The cherry grove is now required to be visited for the "Adventuring Time" advancement.
  • Camels are now required for the "Two by Two" advancement.
  • "Glow and Behold!" advancement can be obtained by using a glow ink sac on a hanging sign now.
    • The description now says "Make the text of any sign glow".

References

  1. https://youtu.be/jQ58UEXrFzs
  2. a b c d e "Cherry Blossom Biome coming to Minecraft 1.20" by Sofia Dankis. Minecraft.net, February 14, 2023
  3. a b c "Minecraft Live 2022: Vote for the Sniffer!" – Minecraft on YouTube, October 4, 2022
  4. a b c "Mob Vote 2022 Sniffer" by Sofia Dankis. Minecraft.net, October 4, 2022
  5. "Archeology coming to Minecraft 1.20" by Sofia Dankis. Minecraft.net, February 10, 2023
  6. "Sniffer coming to Minecraft 1.20" by Sofia Dankis. Minecraft.net, February 13, 2023
  7. " I would love to see (sharing this with millions of Japanese people?) cherry trees in Minecraft. @jeb_ @Dinnerbone"@pgeuder on X, July 29, 2013
  8. "You code it, we'll add it."@Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X, July 29, 2013
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