This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.
The disclaimer that appears when toggling Experimental Gameplay in the world settings.
Experimental Gameplay (also known in-game as Experiments) is a game option exclusive to Bedrock Edition. When enabled, it allows players to test some unfinished or work-in-progress features that would eventually be released in future updates.
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Toggling[]
Experimental Gameplay is found in the world options when creating or editing a world. Turning the option on does not disable achievements, however it can't be disabled after the world is created. Enabling it on an already existing world adds an "Experimental" tag right next to the game mode name in the world menu. Once the experimental world is created, it cannot be turned off again.
Warnings[]
The warning message when attempting to play on an experimental world.
The point of Experimental Gameplay is for the player to look at some not-quite-finished features, which could crash, break, or stop working at any point in future updates. When the player attempts to load the experimental world, it will show a warning message before loading it. Attempting to disable experimental gameplay toggle via external tools could also crash and break the world.
Features[]
There are 6 different toggles of Experimental Gameplay. These are:
- "Caves and Cliffs"
- Used to enable unfinished Caves & Cliffs features.
- "Holiday Creator Features"
- Used to enable add-ons features added on the holiday update and some further updates that include the creation of custom blocks and items, MoLang enhancements and the
run_commandmethod.
- Used to enable add-ons features added on the holiday update and some further updates that include the creation of custom blocks and items, MoLang enhancements and the
- "Creation of Custom Biomes"
- Used to enable custom biomes by using add-ons.
- "Additional Modding Capabilities"
- Used to enable the old scripting features.
- "Upcoming Creator Features"
- Used for Volume Driven Fog and entity properties and permutations.
- "Enable GameTest Framework"
- Used to enable GameTest Framework automation tool feature.
As of beta 1.17.20.23, the following features are behind the "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in Experimental Gameplay:
- Blocks
- Items
- World Generation
- New cave generation
- Consists of the noise caves such as "spaghetti" and "cheese" caves, and water and lava aquifers.
- New ore distribution
- Mountains sub-type biomes.
- Consists of: Lofty Peaks, Snow Capped Peaks, Snowy Slopes, Mountain Grove, and Mountain Meadow.
- Increased height limit to 384 blocks, with a maximum height of Y=319 and a minimum height of Y=-64.
- Naturally generated Lush Caves and Dripstone Caves.
- New Mineshaft generation with chains and logs support.
- Mobs spawning changes to light level 0.
History[]
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
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| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.13.8 | Added the experimental gameplay option. | |||
| Turning on the experimental gameplay option gives the player access to the following features: stripped wood, prismarine stairs and slabs, tridents, drowned and new swimming animations. | |||||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | Added nautilus shells, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| release | All above features, except for drowned and nautilus shells, are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.5.0 | beta 1.5.0.0 | Drowned and nautilus shells are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| 1.7.0 | beta 1.7.0.2 | Added the scoreboard command and basic scoreboards, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| beta 1.7.0.7 | Scoreboards are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | Added crossbows and their enchantments, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Added pillagers and bamboo jungles, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| beta 1.9.0.2 | Added lanterns and many new job site blocks, which are available only through experimental gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.9.0.3 | Added Minecraft script engine, available only through experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Added composters, campfires, a new stonecutter block, sweet berries, ravagers, wandering traders, pillager outposts, new village structures, villager_v2, and zombie_villager_v2, which are available only through experimental gameplay. | |||
| Crossbows, pillagers, lanterns, and entity scripting function are no longer only available behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Added raid captains, raids, the Bad Omen status effect and the Hero of the Village status effect, which are available only through experimental gameplay. | |||
| Bamboo jungles are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| beta 1.11.0.3 | Fletching tables, smithing tables, sweet berries, ravagers, the new villagers, pillager outposts, new zombie villagers and the new villages are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Wandering traders are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| release | Raid captains, raids, the Bad Omen status effect and the Hero of the Village status effect are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.1 | Added structure voids, save and load mode for structure blocks, which are available only through experimental gameplay. | |||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Added targets, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| beta 1.16.0.57 | Targets, Structure Voids and Structure Block functionality are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| Added Lodestones, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| beta 1.16.0.63 | Lodestones functionality are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.55 | Experimental Gameplay toggle has been revamped and expanded. | |||
| Added "Custom Biome Add-Ons", "Experimental Scripting Add-Ons", "Experimental Molang Features", and "Next Gameplay Update" toggle. | |||||
| beta 1.16.100.56 | Added "Experimental Add-On Features" toggle. | ||||
| beta 1.16.100.57 | Added "Holiday Creator Features" toggle. | ||||
| "Experimental Scripting Add-Ons", "Experimental Molang Features", and "Experimental Add-On Features" toggle are merged into "Additional Modding Capabilities" toggle. | |||||
| Changed "Custom Biome Add-Ons" toggle name to "Creation of Custom Biomes". | |||||
| Removed "Next Gameplay Update" toggle in preparation for "Caves and Cliffs" toggle. | |||||
| 1.16.200 | beta 1.16.200.52 | Added "Caves and Cliffs" toggle. | |||
| Added goats, goat horns and powder snow, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| release | Removed "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release. | ||||
| Goats, goat horns and powder snow have been made inaccessible in the full release. | |||||
| 1.16.210 | beta 1.16.210.53 | Added powder snow buckets, which are only available behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| beta 1.16.210.56 | Added pointed dripstone and sculk sensor, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.16.210.57 | Added all copper block variants, copper ingot, copper ore, and lightning rod, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.16.210.59 | Added glow ink sacs, glow item frames and glow squids, which are only available behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.16.210.60 | Removed glow ink sacs, glow item frames and glow squids temporarily. | ||||
| Added GameTest framework to the experimental gameplay, by enabling "Enable GameTest Framework” toggle to test the new GameTest automation tool. | |||||
| release | Removed "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release. | ||||
| All Caves and Cliffs content was removed in the full release. | |||||
| 1.16.220 | beta 1.16.220.50 | Added the new mountain biomes: Lofty Peaks, Snow Capped Peaks, Snowy Slopes, Mountain Grove, and Mountain Meadow behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| Increased height limits to 320 blocks behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| Re-added glow ink sacs, glow item frames and glow squids. | |||||
| Added dripstone blocks, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| Changed and updated the textures of the ores behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| beta 1.16.220.52 | Added azaleas, azalea leaves, big dripleaves, cave vines, hanging roots, moss blocks, moss carpets, rooted dirt, small dripleaf and spore blossom, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| Added glow berries, which are only available behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| Extended the build limit to 64 blocks down, to a total range of 384 blocks behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| release | Removed "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release. | ||||
| All Caves and Cliffs content was removed in the full release. | |||||
| 1.17.0 | beta 1.16.230.50 | Added glow lichen, which is available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| beta 1.16.230.52 | Added axolotls and deepslate and its variants, which are only available behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| Added "Upcoming Creator Features" Toggle. | |||||
| beta 1.16.230.56 | Revamped cave generation by adding cheese caves, spaghetti caves, and flooded aquifer caves behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.17.0.50 | Added amethyst geodes, amethyst blocks, budding amethyst, amethyst clusters, amethyst shards, tinted glass, tuff, calcite, smooth basalt, spyglasses, raw metals, lush cave biomes and raw metal blocks, which are only available behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| Glow Lichen, Powder Snow and Powder Snow Buckets are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| beta 1.17.0.52 | All above features and changes, except for the revamped cave generation, new mountain biomes, sculk sensor, and goat horns, are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.17.0.56 | Added lava aquifers, which are only available behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| Added description for Experimental features in the world creation screen. | |||||
| Added a warning message when attempting to load an experimental world. | |||||
| Added "Experimental" label to indicate the world is experimental in the world menu. | |||||
| beta 1.17.0.58 | Description changes in the previous beta were removed. | ||||
| release | Removed "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release. | ||||
| All Caves and Cliffs: Part II content were removed in the full release. | |||||
| 1.17.10 | beta 1.17.10.20 | Description changes in beta 1.17.0.56 was re-added. | |||
| release | Added "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release for all platforms. | ||||
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