Bedrock Edition guides/1.8 releases

1.8 releases
Edition	Bedrock Edition
Released versions
1.8 1.8.1
◄ 1.7
◄ 1.7
1.9 ►
1.9 ►

This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in Bedrock Edition 1.8 release, which assumes at least some familiarity with the Bedrock Edition 1.7 release.

Mobs

New

Name	Image	Habitat	Drops	Note
Cat		Stray cats can be found wandering in villages. A single stray black cat can be found inside witch huts.	String (0–2)	Cats can be tamed with raw fish. Phantoms will not swoop in to attack a player if a cat is nearby. Cats will seek active furnaces, beds, and chests to sit on. When waking up from a bed, there is a chance a tamed cat will give their owner one rabbits foot, rabbit hide, string, rotten flesh, feather, raw chicken, or phantom membrane.
Panda		Pandas spawn in bamboo forest biomes.	Bamboo (0–2)	Pandas can spawn with either an aggressive, lazy, playful, weak or worried personality. Pandas will eat bamboo, but can only be bred if there are at least eight bamboo blocks within five blocks of each panda. Pandas will pick up and eat cake that is thrown to them. Worried pandas will shake and cover their face during thunderstorms.

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Ocelots		Ocelots can no longer be tamed to get cats.
Phantom		Phantoms will no longer swoop to attack a player if a cat is nearby.

Blocks

New

Name	Image	Obtaining	Tool Required	Uses
Bamboo		Can be found while fishing in jungles and will appear in some loot chests. Generating naturally in the world will come in the following updates.	Bamboo can be broken with any tool as well as by hand. Bamboo will not break instantly when hit by any sword. Bamboo will break instantly when hit by a sword in JAVA edition only.	Bamboo can be used to craft scaffolding. Bamboo can be used to craft sticks. Bamboo can be feed to pandas, this can be used to speed up the growth of baby pandas. Bamboo can be planted on grass, dirt, sand, podzol, coarse dirt, or red sand. Bamboo will grow to between twelve and sixteen blocks tall.
Scaffolding		Ingredients Crafting recipe Bamboo + String 6	Scaffolding can be broken with any tool as well as by hand. When broken all connected scaffolding will break as well.	Scaffolding is designed to be used for building in survival. Standing in scaffolding and jumping will allow the player to climb, while sneaking will allow the player to descend through the scaffolding. If there is no block below the scaffolding block the player is on the player will not descend through the block.

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Command Block		Now have the default name of "!" instead of "@".
Packed Ice		Can now be crafted with ice.
Shulker Box		Added a recipe for undyed shulker boxes.

Items

New

Name	Image	Obtaining	Uses
Black Dye		Ingredients Crafting recipe Ink Sac or Wither Rose	Black dye is used in place of ink sacs as dye in all recipes.
Blue Dye		Ingredients Crafting recipe Lapis Lazuli or Cornflower	Blue dye is used in place of lapis lazuli as dye in all recipes.
Brown Dye		Ingredients Crafting recipe Cocoa Beans	Brown dye is used in place of cocoa beans as dye in all recipes.
Crossbow		Ingredients Crafting recipe Stick + Iron Ingot + String + Tripwire Hook	The crossbow is a ranged weapon that has a longer range, as well as being able to deal more damage than a bow. Crossbows can fire fireworks, as well as arrows.
White Dye		Ingredients Crafting recipe Bone Meal or Lily of the Valley	White dye is used in place of bone meal as dye in all recipes.
Spawn Egg (Cat, Panda)			Has the same function as other spawn egg.

Changed

Name	Image	Changed
Bone Meal		Bonemeal are now used to craft white dye and growth in Bamboo.
Bow		The bow in the hotbar now shows an arrow when being drawn.
Cocoa Beans		Cocoa beans are now used to craft brown dye.
Firework Rocket		Can now be placed in the off-hand slot.
Green Dye		Name changed from Cactus Green to Green Dye to remain consistent with other dyes.
Ink Sac		Ink sacs can now be used to craft black dye.
Lapis Lazuli		Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue dye.
Red Dye		Name changed from Rose Red to Red Dye to remain consistent with other dyes.
Yellow Dye		Name changed from Dandelion Yellow to Yellow Dye to remain consistent with other dyes.

Enchantments

New

Enchantment	Max Level	Applicable Items	Notes
Multishot	1	Crossbow	Fires three arrows while only consuming one. If an arrow hits, the other two vanish.
Piercing	4	Crossbow	Allows arrows to pass through as many entities as the enchantment level.
Quick Charge	4	Crossbow	Speeds up the charging of the crossbow.