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Experimental Gameplay

The disclaimer that appears when toggling Experimental Gameplay in the world settings.

Experimentaltagexample

Example of a world with the experimental tag on Bedrock Edition.

Experimental Gameplay (also known in-game as Experiments) is a game option exclusive to Bedrock Edition. In Java Edition, experimental features are available behind separate data packs. When enabled, it allows players to test some unfinished or work-in-progress features that will eventually be released in future updates.

1.20WorldWithExperiments

Example of a world with the experimental tag on Java Edition.

Toggling[]

Experimental Gameplay is found in the world options when creating or editing a world. When turning the option on in an existing world, a copy of the world will be created automatically. Turning the option on disables achievements after the world is created. Once the experimental world is created, it cannot be turned off again. Worlds with the experimental on will have an "Experimental" tag right next to the game mode name in the world menu.

Warnings[]

Experimental Gameplay Load

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.

Experiments screen on Java Edition.

The experiment selection screen on Java Edition.

It is recommended to create back up copies of the world when playing on experimental, or not enabling experimental toggle on to avoid breaking the world and having issues in future updates.

Features (Bedrock Edition)[]

There are 8 different toggles of Experimental Gameplay on Bedrock Edition.[1][2] These are:

Additional content[]

  • "Holiday Creator Features"
    • Enables 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_command method. This toggle will soon be removed from Bedrock Edition entirely, thus breaking add-ons using these features, mostly block and item events.
  • "Upcoming Creator Features"
    • Used for Volume Driven Fog and entity properties and permutations.
  • "Beta APIs"
    • Enables the usage for "-beta" versions of API modules in add-on packs.
  • "Molang Features"
    • Enables experimental Molang features.
  • "Experimental Cameras"
    • Enables the /camera command and its features.
  • "Render Dragon Features for Creators"
    • Introducing new experimental cross-platform graphics features for creators

Gameplay[]

  • "Villager Trade Rebalance"
  • "Vanilla Experiments Internal (NON_LOC) (Developer Edition only)"
    • Internal (staff only) experimental features (NON_LOC)
    • Enables the experimental bundle item.

Internal Testing (Developer Edition only)[]

  • "Automated test experiment setting. ignore this please"
    • loc_description MISSING FROM EXPERIMENTS JSON!
  • "Next Update (NON_LOC)"
    • the next big update
  • "enable experimental text"
    • just a test for whether text is working
  • "Allow seed change"
    • Allow changing seed
  • "Enable Minecraft Explorer (internal) (NON_LOC)"
    • Load Blocks generated by the Minecraft Explorer (NON_LOC)

Features (Java Edition)[]

There are two data packs of experimental features on Java Edition:

  • "Bundles"
    • Enables the experimental bundle item.
    • While this data pack is selectable during world creation, it will not be found within the datapacks folder of the save.

History[]

Java Edition
1.19.322w42aAdded the "Update 1.20" and "Bundle" experimental datapacks.
Added bamboo mosaic, bamboo planks, chiseled bookshelves, hanging signs, camels, bamboo rafts, and bamboo rafts with chests behind the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.
Moved bundles behind their own experimental datapack.
22w45aAdded blocks of bamboo and stripped blocks of bamboo behind the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.
22w46aAdded piglin heads behind the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.
1.19.423w04aAdded smithing templates behind the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.
23w07aAdded cherry wood, planks, logs, leaves, and saplings, as well as decorated pots, pink petals, suspicious sand, torchflowers, brushes, pottery shards, torchflower seeds, sniffers, cherry boats, cherry boats with chests, cherry blossom trees, and cherry groves behind the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.
1.2023w12aAll features behind the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack have now been fully implemented.
Removed the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack.
1.20.223w31aAdded the "Villager Trade Rebalance" experimental datapack.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.20.3?Added a data pack for 1.21.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.13.8Added 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 1.2.20.1Added nautilus shells, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
releaseAll above features, except for drowned and nautilus shells, are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay.
1.5.0beta 1.5.0.0Drowned and nautilus shells are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay.
1.7.0beta 1.7.0.2Added the scoreboard command and basic scoreboards, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.7.0.7Scoreboards are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay.
1.8.0beta 1.8.0.10Added crossbows and their enchantments, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
1.9.0beta 1.9.0.0Added pillagers and bamboo jungles, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.9.0.2Added lanterns and many new job site blocks, which are available only through experimental gameplay.
beta 1.9.0.3Added Minecraft script engine, available only through experimental gameplay.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Added 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.
1.11.0beta 1.11.0.1Added 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 1.11.0.3Fletching 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 1.11.0.4Wandering traders are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay.
releaseRaid captains, raids, the Bad Omen status effect and the Hero of the Village status effect are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay.
1.13.0beta 1.13.0.1Added structure voids, save and load mode for structure blocks, which are available only through experimental gameplay.
1.16.0beta 1.16.0.51Added targets, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.16.0.57Targets, Structure Voids and Structure Block functionality are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay.
Added Lodestones, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.16.0.63Lodestones functionality are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay.
1.16.100beta 1.16.100.55Experimental 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 1.16.100.56Added "Experimental Add-On Features" toggle.
beta 1.16.100.57Added "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.
1.16.200beta 1.16.200.52Added "Caves and Cliffs" toggle.
Added goats, goat horns and powder snow, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
releaseRemoved "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release.
Goats, goat horns and powder snow have been made inaccessible in the full release.
1.16.210beta 1.16.210.53Added powder snow buckets, which are only available behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.16.210.56Added pointed dripstone and sculk sensor, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.16.210.57Added all copper block variants, copper ingot, copper ore, and lightning rod, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.16.210.59Added glow ink sacs, glow item frames and glow squids, which are only available behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.16.210.60Removed 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.
releaseRemoved "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release.
All Caves and Cliffs content was removed in the full release.
1.16.220beta 1.16.220.50Added 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 1.16.220.52Added 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.
releaseRemoved "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release.
All Caves and Cliffs content was removed in the full release.
1.17.0beta 1.16.230.50Added glow lichen, which is available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.16.230.52Added axolotls and deepslate and its variants, which are only available behind experimental gameplay.
Added "Upcoming Creator Features" toggle.
beta 1.16.230.56Revamped cave generation by adding cheese caves, spaghetti caves, and flooded aquifer caves behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.17.0.50Added 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 1.17.0.52All 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 1.17.0.56Added 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 1.17.0.58Description changes in the previous beta were removed.
releaseRemoved "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release.
All Caves and Cliffs: Part II content were removed in the full release.
1.17.10beta 1.17.10.20Description changes in beta 1.17.0.56 was re-added.
releaseAdded "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release for all platforms.
1.17.30beta 1.17.20.22Hostile mob spawning has been changed to only spawn at light level 0 behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.17.30.21Re-added "Experimental Molang Features" toggle.
beta 1.17.30.23Terrain now generates using the multi-noise biome source type behind experimental gameplay.
Added noodle caves behind experimental gameplay.
Added ore veins behind experimental gameplay.
1.17.40beta 1.17.40.20Deepslate now generates below Y=0, gradually replacing stone and then fully replaces it at Y=-8 behind experimental gameplay.
Added the stony peaks biome behind experimental gameplay.
Clouds now float between layers 192 and 196 behind experimental gameplay.
1.18.0beta 1.18.0.20All above features and changes related to new world generation, new mountain biomes, revamped cave generation, sculk sensors, and goat horns are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay.
Removed the "Caves & Cliffs" toggle as the result.
beta 1.18.0.22Added "Vanilla Experiments" toggle.
Goat horns and sculk sensors have been moved behind the new experimental gameplay toggle.
Added sculk blocks, sculk catalysts, sculk shriekers, and sculk veins, which are only available behind experimental gameplay.
1.18.10beta 1.18.10.21Added "Wild Update" toggle.
Sculk blocks, sculk catalysts, sculk sensors, sculk shriekers, and sculk veins have been moved behind the new Wild Update experimental toggle.
beta 1.18.10.24Added frogs, tadpoles, frog egg, and bucket of tadpole, which are only available behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.18.10.26Added froglight blocks, which are only available behind experimental gameplay.
1.18.30beta 1.18.20.21Removed the "Additional Modding Capabilities" toggle.
beta 1.18.30.22Added allays behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.18.30.26Added copper horns behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.18.30.28Added chest boats and the deep dark behind the "Wild Update" toggle.
beta 1.18.30.32Added the warden, ancient cities, and reinforced deepslate behind experimental gameplay.
1.18.31Added "Spectator Mode" toggle and moved Spectator mode behind it.
1.19.0beta 1.19.0.20All above features with the exception of goat horns, copper horns, and spectator mode are no longer behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.19.0.24Copper horns have been removed.
beta 1.19.0.28Goat horns are no longer behind experimental gameplay.
1.19.10beta 1.19.10.20Updated the /execute command syntax to closer resemble that of Java Edition, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.19.10.24Removed the "Wild Update" and "Vanilla Experiments" toggles.
1.19.40beta 1.19.40.22Renamed the "GameTest Framework" experimental toggle to "Beta APIs".
1.19.50beta 1.19.50.20Spectator mode is no longer behind experimental gameplay.
Removed the "Spectator Mode" experimental toggle.
beta 1.19.50.21Added the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
Added camels, chiseled bookshelves, bamboo planks, bamboo mosaic, rafts, and hanging signs behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.19.50.23The updated /execute command syntax, more similar to Java Edition, is no longer behind experimental gameplay.
1.19.60beta 1.19.60.20Added block of bamboo, stripped block of bamboo, and the piglin mob head behind experimental gameplay.
1.19.70beta 1.19.70.23Added the "Sniffer" experimental toggle.
Added the brush, decorated pot, pottery shards, and suspicious sand behind experimental gameplay.
Added the sniffer, sniffer spawn egg, torchflowers, and torchflower seeds behind experimental gameplay.
1.19.80beta 1.19.80.20Added the cherry grove behind experimental gameplay.
Added the "Short Sneaking" experimental toggle.
beta 1.19.80.21Added suspicious gravel and smithing templates behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.19.80.22Added calibrated sculk sensors and trail ruins behind experimental gameplay.
1.20.0beta 1.20.0.22Added the "Experimental Cameras" experimental toggle.
All 1.20 Blocks are no longer behind experimental gameplay.
1.20.10beta 1.20.10.20Added crawling behind experimental gameplay.
Renamed the "Short Sneaking" experimental toggle to "Short Sneaking and Crawling".
beta 1.20.10.21Added the "Recipe Unlocking" experimental toggle.
Added the new recipe unlocking system and /recipe behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.20.10.23Renamed the "Short Sneaking and Crawling" experimental toggle to "Crawling".
Removed the "Short Sneaking" experimental toggle.
Sneaking under 1.5 block gaps is no longer behind experimental gameplay.
1.20.30beta 1.20.20.21Removed the "Recipe Unlocking" toggle.
beta 1.20.20.22Crawling is no longer behind experimental gameplay.
Removed the "Crawling" toggle.

References[]

  1. ↑ "Experimental Features Toggle in Minecraft Bedrock Edition" – feedback.minecraft.net.
  2. ↑ "Experimental Features in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition" – docs.microsoft.com.
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