Bedrock Edition beta 1.18.10.20

beta 1.18.10.20

Edition	Bedrock Edition
Type	Beta
Release date	Xbox, Windows: November 18, 2021 Android: November 22, 2021
Beta for	1.18.10
Protocol version	476
◄◄ 1.18.2 beta 1.18.10.21 ► 1.18.11 ►►

Beta 1.18.10.20 is the first beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.18.10, released on November 18, 2021, which brought more parity from Java Edition and fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

Big Dripleaf

• Restricted big dripleaf placement to clay, coarse dirt, dirt, farmland, grass blocks, moss blocks, mycelium, podzol and rooted dirt.

Cave Vines

• Changed cave vines plant texture from to .

Redstone Comparator

• Changed the base texture of lit comparators from to .

Items

Campfire and Soul Campfire

• Changed the item textures from to .

Wooden Doors and Iron Door

• Changed the item textures of all doors except crimson and warped from to .

Item Frames and Glow Item Frames

• Changed the item textures from to .

Lodestone Compass

• The texture has been changed from to

Signs

• Changed the item textures from to .

Mobs

Wither

• Tweaked the wither skull's texture to use the new wither face from the Texture Update.

World generation

Deepslate

• Now the gradual transition from stone starts at height between Y=0 to Y=8, rather than Y=-8 to Y=0 previously.

General

Splashes

• The splash "[this splash text has been delayed until part 2]" has been changed to "[this splash text is now available]".
• Added the "Don't feed chocolate to parrots!" splash text.

Fixes

Gameplay

• Fixed the food cooldown visual not being semi-transparent on the HUD (MCPE-55206)
• Ruined Portals under Ocean and Swamp biomes are no longer waterlogged and will spawn dry
• Primed TNT will no longer explode when spawned using '/summon' and the TNT Explodes game rule is disabled (MCPE-49044)
• Capped the freezing range of the Frost Walker enchantment to 8 blocks to avoid server unresponsiveness
• Farmer Villagers now do not pick up more than 8 stacks of items (MCPE-123412)
• Offset Maps held in hand relative to the screen's aspect ratio so it always stays close to the screen's edge and remains fully visible
• Fixed Monster Spawners that sometimes stopped spawning mobs when the chunks they were placed in were reloaded (MCPE-142285)
• The 'Iron Belly' achievement can once again be unlocked (MCPE-146036)
• Fixed Structure Blocks infinitely spawning the same entities when loading a structure (MCPE-137617)
• Players can no longer be hurt by their own armor enchantments such as Thorns (MCPE-142735)
• Food once again applies effects when eaten

Blocks

• Water blocks near edges should now flow properly
• Fire can no longer be placed on top of Lightning Rods
• The width of Walls connecting to Candles is now correct (MCPE-141156)
• Improved the animation of falling blocks entities (e.g. Sand and Gravel) (MCPE-142010)
• Big Dripleaf, Amethyst Buds, and Amethyst Clusters no longer break in Structure Blocks
• Amethyst Clusters are now properly destroyed when the supporting block is destroyed (MCPE-126076)
• Copper Blocks and variants now oxidize in the Nether (MCPE-134954)
• Big Dripleaf placement has been restricted to Clay, Grass, Dirt, Farmland, Moss, Rooted Dirt, Podzol, and Mycelium (MCPE-123392)
• Pointed Dripstone can now only be placed on full faces of blocks
• Glow Lichen is now oriented the correct way when placed
• Magma Blocks no longer deal damage when FireDamage gamerule is set to false (MCPE-99718)
• Player can now use emotes on scaffolding (MCPE-147624)
• Players no longer have problems moving after respawning or getting out of bed

Mobs

• Villagers, Rabbits, and Foxes spawned in the Frozen and Jagged Peaks biomes now spawn as their respective snowy variants (MCPE-119561)
• Goats now spawn in the Jagged Peaks and Frozen Peaks biomes (MCPE-146886)

Graphical

• Fixed a camera issue when entering a Bed while still in glide mode (MCPE-117339)
• Fixed lighting bugs when removing light sources after returning to the Overworld from other dimensions (MCPE-69037, MCPE-145828)
• Updated textures for multiple blocks and items to remove bugs and achieve parity between Bedrock and Java Edition (MCPE-127539)

Marketplace

• Fixed coin purchases not updating displayed coin amount until after relaunching the game

User Interface

• Fixed the Achievements button not being accessible when scrolling up on the Pause Screen
• "Invite to game" and Crown buttons on the Pause Screen now have a white border when focused with custom resolution
• Fixed the height of the scrolling content panel on the Marketplace sidebar navigation to display the scrolling bar for varying device resolutions
• Fixed a redundant " - " beside the player's username is seen after adding them to friends (MCPE-105464)

World Generation

• Fixed Mesa and Frozen Ocean biomes having inconsistent generation on Realms
• The old Bedrock layer between y=0 and y=4 in old chunks is now replaced with Deepslate when upgrading old worlds (MCPE-147373)
• Copper Ore can now generate in Deepslate variant in Dripstone Caves (MCPE-144800)

Vanilla Parity

• Adjusted the "otherside" music disc to give off a Redstone signal of 14 to match Java Edition (MCPE-145751)
• Adjusted the "Pigstep" music disc to give off a Redstone signal of 13 to match Java Edition (MCPE-74030)
• The Bow’s shaking animation now only appears when the Bow is fully drawn

Commands

• The '/effect' command no longer has the redundant argument 'empty' (MCPE-62903)

Performance and Stability

• Added log messages to help identify the cause of the BDS crash (BDS-12751).