Bedrock Edition beta 1.19.0.20

beta 1.19.0.20

Edition	Bedrock Edition
Type	Beta
Release date	Xbox, Windows, Android, iOS/iPadOS: April 6, 2022
Beta for	1.19.0
Protocol version	512
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Beta 1.19.0.20 (Xbox, Windows, Android) or Preview 1.19.0.21 (Xbox, Windows, iOS/iPadOS) is the first beta/preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.19.0, released on April 6, 2022, which adds the mangrove swamp biome, mangrove wood, mud and its variants, and fixes bugs.

Additions

Blocks

Mangrove Leaves

• A new type of leaves.

Mangrove Log

• A new type of log, as well as a stripped variant.
• Can be used to craft mangrove woods and planks.

Mangrove Planks

• A new type of planks.
• Can be used to craft mangrove buttons, doors, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, slabs, stairs, and trapdoors.

Mangrove Propagule

• A new type of sapling.
• Can be grown by bonemealing the mangrove leaves, grows from the exposed bottom of it.
  • Propagules can also grow spontaneously from leaves, but only if they're naturally generated (not player placed leaves).
  • Have 4 stages to fully grown, can be accelerated by bonemealing.
• Can break off a fully grown one, plant it to growing a mangrove tree.
• Can be planted underwater.
• Can be placed in flower pots.

Mangrove Roots

• A see-through block just like leaves, but can be waterlogged.
• Mining faster when using axes.
• Unlike leaves, it will not break when moved by a piston.

Mangrove Wood

• A new type of wood, as well as a stripped variant.
• Can be used to craft mangrove planks.

Mud

• Can generate in the mangrove biome.
• When walking on mud, entities sink down a bit.
  • Like soul sand, but without the slowdown.
• Can be made by using a water bottle directly or through a dispenser on dirt, coarse dirt and rooted dirt.
• Enderman holdable.

Mud Bricks

• Can be crafted from 4 packed mud.
• Can be used to crafted into mud brick slabs, stairs, and walls using a crafting table or stonecutter.

Muddy Mangrove Roots

• Can be crafted from 1 mud and 1 mangrove roots.
• Unlike regular roots, they are an opaque block that can't be waterlogged.
• Mining faster when using axes.

Packed Mud

• Can be crafted from 1 mud and 1 wheat.

Items

Mangrove Boat

• A new type of boat, crafted with mangrove planks.
• Can be made into a mangrove boat with chest

World generation

Mangrove Swamp

• A new swamp located in warmer and more humid places, a place which a swamp can be found often.
• Contains Mangrove trees, a new type of tree. Currently, the logs are regular oak logs instead of mangrove logs
  • It has a chance to generate a bee nest.
  • Grows from mangrove propagules.
• The floor is coated with a thick layer of mud.

General

Options

• A new accessibility slider has been added in the options menu called “Darkness Effect Strength”.
  • It controls how dark the Darkness effect gets when a Warden or Sculk Shrieker gives it to the player.

Splashes

• Added the following splash text:
  • "Shriek like a Sculk Shrieker!"
  • "Who let the frogs out?"
  • "RIBBIT!"
  • "Croak team!"
  • "Nooooooooooooo!"
  • "Flower forest TM perfume"
  • "Hat Fridays!"

Changes

Blocks

Sculk Sensor

• Can now detect more types of vibration, including:
  • Sneaking in water
  • Containers being opened/closed
  • Candles being placed, lit or unlit
  • Players eating food or drinking potions
  • Big Dripleaves changing state
  • Goat Horns being played (not including Copper Horns).
  • Projectile landing (unless the player is sneaking whilst shooting)
  • Falling in lava
  • Players sneaking on top of them

Mobs

Allay

• Can now be leashed and nametagged if holding an item
• Now have new sound effects
• Now move slower when not attempting to follow its owner, and will only start following its owner from a further distance than before

Frog

• No longer croak whilst eating mobs

Parrot

• Can now imitate the warden

Wandering Trader

• Can no longer open or close doors
• Now randomly moves around
• Changed drinking sound to match Java Edition
• Added new sound effects for gaining and losing invisibility
• Can now be named with a name tag, but this will not stop them from despawning

Warden

• No longer gets angry at inanimate objects, such as minecarts, or other wardens
• Can now preserve anger level towards despawned entities
• Added new hurt, death and angry listening sound effects

Gameplay

Darkness effect

• Updated to have a black distance fog, similar to Java Edition

General

Experiments

• All the Wild Update features are no longer behind experimental gameplay.

Fixes

Wild Update

• Allay can now be leashed if it is already holding an item (MCPE-153068)
• Allay can now be named by a Name Tag if it is already holding an item (MCPE-153079)
• Sculk Sensors can now detect players sneaking in Water (MCPE-117244)
• Sculk Sensors can now detect containers being opened or closed (MCPE-135140)
• Sculk Sensors can now detect Candles being placed, lit, or unlit (MCPE-141453)
• Sculk Sensors can now detect players eating food or drinking potions (MCPE-135114)
• Sculk Sensors can now detect Big Dripleaves changing their state (MCPE-153115)

Mobile Touch Controls

• Block highlights will no longer stay if players lift their block breaking finger off the screen while still using a second finger to move around with non-classic touch controls
• Fixed issue where Boats were not controllable with new touch controls (MCPE-152984)
• Fixed issue where players were not able to descend while on top of Scaffolding (MCPE-152989)
• Removed inversion of movement when in front facing third-person camera (MCPE-153168)

General

• Fixed a bug causing the Parrot's head to always face the player while riding the player
• Fixed bug causing player to take fall damage after getting into a Bed while falling (MCPE-153122)
• Fixed bug causing baby Llamas to fire llama spit from above their head (MCPE-144948)
• Fixed a crash when loading a Behavior Pack with non-JSON object in entity components, component_groups, and "add"/"remove" events (MCPE-151377) (MCPE-151380)
• Fences and Walls no longer connect to Bells (MCPE-152757)

Graphical

• Fixed a texture bug in the Warden's bioluminescent texture where the right arm's bottom face didn’t have bioluminescent colors (MCPE-153664)
• Fixed a bug where the Trident, Bow, Spyglass, Crossbow, and Shield would not be visible when held by an Allay (MCPE-152965)
• Fixed a bug where the Trident, Bow, Spyglass and Crossbow would not render when picked up by a Fox (MCPE-135346)
• Mirrored the Spider's left legs (MCPE-152927)
• Mirrored the Wolf's left ear and left legs (MCPE-152931)
• Fixed a bug where the Brewing Stand's arms textures did not touch the base (MCPE-152932)
• Moved the Brewing Stand's base UVs and updated the base texture
• Fixed the Brewing Stand's arms rotation
• Created a better transition between the End Portal Frame side texture and the End Stone (MCPE-152930)
• Removed unused pixels in the End Rod texture (MCPE-152929)
• Updated the Mycelium's side texture to match other dirt-based textures (MCPE-152928)
• Fixed a bug where End Crystal beams would point far above their target blocks
• Fixed a bug causing z-fighting to occur on bottom of player’s head while wearing a Skull (MCPE-149125)

Wandering Trader

• The Wandering Trader no longer opens or closes doors (MCPE-113452)
• The Wandering Trader now randomly moves around (MCPE-45756)
• The Wandering Trader now matches Java Edition's drinking sounds (MCPE-47057)