Bedrock Edition 1.20.0

v1.20.0
Edition	Bedrock Edition
Official name	Trails & Tales
Planned release date	2023
See also other instances of 1.20	Java Edition PlayStation 3 Edition PlayStation 4 Edition PlayStation Vita Edition

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.

Planned additions

Blocks

Bamboo Mosaic

• A plank variant exclusive to the bamboo wood set.
• Crafted by arranging 2 bamboo slabs in a vertical strip.
• Can be used to craft respective stairs and slabs variant.

Bamboo Planks

• Crafted using 1 block of bamboo (stripped or unstripped) to craft 2 bamboo planks.
• Can be used to craft respective buttons, doors, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, slabs, stairs, and trapdoors.
• Can be used to craft bamboo rafts and bamboo raft with chests.
• Can be used to craft wooden blocks or items, (eg. chest).

Block of Bamboo

• New log-like block.
• Block of bamboo can be crafted from 9 bamboo and can be stripped like other wood logs.
• Bamboo planks crafted from block of bamboo yield only 2 planks compared to 4 for wood logs.

Cherry Leaves

• A new type of leaves, generated in cherry trees.
• Emits cherry leaves particles falling underneath.

Cherry Log

• A new type of log, 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 , wood and striped wood.
  • The stripped variant can be used to craft cherry hanging sign.

Cherry Planks

• Crafted from cherry logs.
• Can be used to craft respective buttons, doors, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, slabs, stairs, and trapdoors.
• Can be used to craft cherry boats and cherry boat with chests.
• Can be used to craft wooden blocks or items, (eg. chest)

Cherry Sapling

• 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.
• Can be placed in flower pots.

Chiseled Bookshelf

• Can be crafted with 6 planks and 3 wooden slabs.
• Can store up to six books, enchanted books, written 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 comparators (giving a signal strength matching that of the slot that was last interacted with).
• Can be used with a hopper and dropper.
• Do not increase the power of enchanting tables.
• Require a Silk Touch axe to mine.

Decorated Pot

• Can be crafted with any 4 pottery shards or brick items, shaped rhombic.
  • The type of crafting material decides which picture would occur on each side of the crafted decorated pot.
    • The possible 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.
  • Will break apart into its crafting materials when broken using any block-breaking tool.
  • Will drop itself when broken using an empty hand or an block-breaking tool with Silk Touch, or when moved by pistons.

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, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, crimson, warped, bamboo, and 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

• 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.

Pink Petals

• A new type of block, which generates naturally in cherry groves.
• Renewable when applying a bone meal to an existing one or to the ground of cherry groves.
• Similar to sea pickle, can be placed up to 4 in one dirt-related block.
• Can be placed directional.
• Can be crafted into a pink dye.

Pitcher Plant

• A type of plant which grows from the pitcher pod after 4 stages (5 stages in total).
• If grown fully, it will only drop itself when broken, otherwise drops the pod.
• Can be crafted into a cyan dye.
• Cannot be placed in a flower pot.

File:Sniffer Egg Slighty Cracked.png Sniffer Egg

• Can be found in the suspicious sand found at warm ocean ruins.
• Dropped when two sniffers breed.
• Hatches into a baby snifflet.
  • When placed on moss block, it will hatch after approximately 10 minutes.
  • On all other blocks, it will hatch in approximately 20 minutes.

Suspicious Gravel

• Looks like gravel, but rougher.
• Affected by gravity, vanishes when landing.
• Generates naturally in ocean ruins, with different archaeological loot tables.
• Drops nothing when mined or moved, even if mining with Silk Touch.
• Brushing the suspicious gravel with a brush will extract objects.
  • Has 4 stages of extracting, will recover gradually when stop brushing.
  • Turns to regular gravel when extraction is done.
  • Only suspicious gravels with a valid archaeological loot table can extract an item.
  • Currently drops nothing when brushed.
  • Сan't give out an item if placed by a player.

Suspicious Sand

• Looks like sand, but rougher.
• Affected by gravity, vanishes when landing.
• Generates naturally in desert temples and desert wells, with different archaeological loot tables.
• Drops nothing when mined or moved, even if mining with Silk Touch.
• Brushing the suspicious sand with a brush will extract objects.
  • Has 4 stages of extracting, will recover gradually when stop brushing.
  • Turns to regular sand when extraction is done.
  • Only suspicious sands with a valid archaeological loot table can extract an item.
• Depending on the structure, there will be different items.
  • In desert temple might get caught: diamond, emerald, tnt, gunpowder, pottery shard skull, pottery shard prize, pottery shard archer.
  • In desert well might get caught: suspicious stew, stick, brick, emerald, pottery shard hands up.
  • Сan't give out an item if placed by a player.

Torchflower

• A new type of flower, grows from torchflower seeds after 2 stages (3 stages in total).
• Doesn't emit light.
• If grown fully, it will only drop itself when broken, otherwise drops the seed.
• Can be crafted into an orange dye.
• Can be planted in a flower pot.
• Can now be used to craft suspicious stew, giving the player Night Vision.
• Can be used to tempt and breed bees.

Items

Torchflower Seeds

• 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

• An item which can be used to brush Suspicious Sand and Suspicious Gravel for loot.
• Can be crafted with 1 stick, one copper ingot, and one feather

Pottery Shards

• An item found by using a brush on suspicious sand.
• There are currently 4 known varieties; archer, arms up, prize, and skull.

Smithing Templates

• Netherite Upgrade
• Armor Trim:
  • Coast Armor Trim
  • Dune Armor Trim
  • Eye Armor Trim
  • Rib Armor Trim
  • Sentry Armor Trim
  • Snout Armor Trim
  • Spire Armor Trim
  • Tide Armor Trim
  • Vex Armor Trim
  • Ward Armor Trim
  • Wild Armor Trim
• They can be obtained randomly from chests generated in structures accordingly.
  • Exceptions:
    • While they are randomly generated in all bastions, 2 Netherite Upgrades are also guaranteed to generate in every Treasure Room in Bastion Remnants.
    • Tide Armor Trim Smithing Templates are sometimes dropped by elder guardians upon death.
  • Some armor trims are rarer than others.
• Consumed when used to upgrade an item in the smithing table.
• Can not be crafted directly, but can be copied using a crafting table with the following recipe:
  • 7 diamonds, shaped as iron ingots in cauldron crafting recipe.
  • 1 block of material that the template is made out of, placed in the center slot of the crafting grid.
  • 1 smithing template, placed in the remaining slot.

Spawn Eggs

• Camel spawn egg
• Sniffer spawn egg.

Mobs

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

• 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

Raft

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

Cherry boat

• A new type of boat, crafted with cherry planks.
• Can be used to craft a variant with a chest.

World generation

Cherry

• New type of tree variant that is found in cherry groves
• The concept was proposed in 2013 by Patrick Geuder, but was ultimately not added at the time.

Cherry Grove

• A new biome which contains cherry trees.
• Located in the mountains, like meadows.
• Pigs, sheep, rabbits, and bees can spawn here.

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

• Added new room, in which suspicious sand generates.

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".