Bedrock Edition 1.19.40/Development versions

This is a list of Bedrock Edition 1.19.40 development versions.

Preview 1.19.40.20

Beta 1.19.40.20 (Android) or Preview 1.19.40.20 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the first beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.19.40, released on September 8, 2022, which updates the new touch controls and fixes bugs.

Additions

General

Options

• Added "Control Mode" menu to the touch settings.
  • This can be used to modify the selected control scheme, such as:
    • Joystick & tap to interact.
    • D-Pad & tap to interact.
    • Joystick & aim crosshair.

New Control Mode Screen.

Splashes

• Re-added "Your gender is valid!" and "Contains infinite genders!".

Changes

General

Touch Controls

• When the auto-jumping feature is enabled, the player will now automatically jump out of water when moving toward a block on land.
• In Creative Mode while using touch input with Action Buttons off, the delay for breaking the first block has been increased to 800 milliseconds. This reduces the chance of breaking a block by accident.
• Added support for dragging and dropping with touch gestures in the inventory.
• Added a more tailored user experience for stack splitting with touch, by long pressing on a stack of items.
• Double tapping 'descend' now toggles off flight in joystick touch control modes.
• Updated the positioning of status effects for Pocket UI.

Options

• Numerous text changes in the touch settings:
  • Renamed "Sprint On Movement" to "Auto Sprint".
  • Renamed "Move Joystick Visible" to "Joystick Always Visible".
  • Renamed "Move Joystick Always Visible When Not Used" to "Joystick Visible When Unused".
  • Renamed "Static Joystick" to "Lock Joystick".
  • Renamed "Toggle Crouch" to "Crouch Toggle".
• "Destroy Block (vibrate)" settings has been split into two new settings:
  • "Vibrate When Destroying Blocks".
  • "Vibrate When Splitting Items".
• Profile settings has been split into two new sections: General and Account.

Technical

Data-Driven Items

• Custom Items, tags and block tags now work correctly with minecraft:digger component. (MCPE-155786)

Actors

• Implemented new is_baby actor filter that returns true when the subject entity is a baby.

AI Goals

• Fixed an issue with Iron Golems that prevented mobs with the minecraft:take_flower AI behavior to use the goal.
• Exposed new data parameters for the minecraft:play AI behavior to specify such things as the duration the goal stays active, the chance to start the goal, the range to search for a friend, and the follow distance to stay within when playing with a friend.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Upcoming Creator Features" and "GameTest Framework" experimental toggle.

Changes

Technical

Commands

• Implemented the /execute rotated and /execute rotated as commands.

GameTest Framework

• Entity
  • Updated target property to be read-only,
  • Fixed an issue where UI forms would not mark ther canceled field correctly.
• Converted EntityQueryScoreOptions to an interface.
• Converted EntityRaycastOptions to an interface.
• Converted ExplosionOptions to an interface.
• Converted MusicOptions to an interface.
• Converted SoundOptions to an interface.

Fixes

Vanilla Parity

• Spectators no longer drop XP orbs when killed. (MCPE-160245)
• Spectators no longer reset their player level when killed.
• Getting killed by a renamed weapon now produces a death message with the item name.
• The Roofed Forest, Savanna Mutated, and Birch Forest biomes use the correct grass colors. (MCPE-34936)

Accessibility Features

• Hotbar item text background now is affected by the Text Background Opacity slider. (MCPE-79331)

Ancient Cities

• Mobs no longer spawn within the bounds of an Ancient City. (MCPE-153524)

EDU

• NPC names default to only being displayed while looking at them.

Gameplay

• Falling blocks no longer break when landing on double slabs. (MCPE-159921)
• Keyboard users can now sprint when moving diagonally. (MCPE-144702)
• Added a fix so Huge Fungus stems will no longer replace partial blocks when growing from Nylium. (MCPE-65661)
• Fixed an issue which caused Redstone to output the wrong signal strength in certain configurations. (MCPE-81981)
• Fixed several issues related to Sticky Pistons being used near world build limits. (MCPE-96088)

General

• Fixed a bug where usernames could be above max size. (MCPE-152884)

Graphical

• Water texture on some waterlogged blocks no longer renders too bright when placed under other blocks. (MCPE-76949)
• Fixed a potential issue with screen position on Android devices. (MCPE-159703)

Items

• Fixed a bug which caused the game to crash when loading an Arrow with an unrecognized data value. (MCPE-157983)

Mobs

• Baby Villagers will again accept flowers from Iron Golems.
• Guardians are no longer able to float in the air. (MCPE-33641)
• Enabled tamed mobs that follow the player to follow the player through an End Portal.
• Grove biome now classified as "Cold" and Villagers spawned there will be the snow variant. (MCPE-147834)

Profile

• Removed the “Clear Account Sign in Data” button from the Settings menu from non-Switch platforms, as it is only intended to function on Nintendo Switch. (MCPE-129704)

User Interface

• To make finding the right thing in Settings easier, the Profile screen has been split into two new sections: General and Account.
• Ensured proper text-to-speech support for the revamped death screen.
• Fixed a bug where achievements would be disabled for some world templates.
• Fixed bug causing player to move in the wrong direction after turning using VR Snap camera movement. (MCPE-152443)

World and Dimensions

• Fixed a bug which caused Boats to disappear when pushed through a portal. (MCPE-161563)

Commands

• Fixed a problem with teleports appearing to fly the target to the new location instead of being instant.
• Added the replace block overload to the /loot command.
• Added the ability to set a custom block with a specific custom block property using the /setblock command.

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a crash that could occur when an animated structure was loading from a Structure Block and the player left a dimension via portal. (MCPE-132561)

Preview 1.19.40.21

Beta 1.19.40.21 (Android) or Preview 1.19.40.21 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the second beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.19.40, released on September 14, 2022, which fixes bugs.

Changes

Command format

/summon

• Added new overload to the /summon command that adds rotation arguments.
  • New overload is /summon [spawnPos: x y z] [yRot: float] [xRot: float] [spawnEvent: string] [nametag: string].
  • Previous overload /summon [spawnPos: x y z] [spawnEvent: string] [nametag: string].

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Upcoming Creator Features" and "GameTest Framework" experimental toggle.

Changes

Technical

Commands

• Implemented the /execute facing and /execute facing entity commands.
• Implemented the /execute align command.

Data Driven Blocks

• "minecraft:direction" is no longer exposed as a data-driven blockProperty. Blocks throw a content error when the "minecraft" namespace is used.

GameTest Framework

• Removed built-in GameTest Behavior Packs.

General

• Added flag is_hidden_in_commands in menu_category to control whether or not a block can be used in commands.

Fixes

Spectator Mode (Experimental)

• Water fog is no longer removed for players in Spectator Mode (MCPE-161105)

Gameplay

• Fixed fall damage accumulating while the player is in a Trapdoor block at the top of a bubble column (MCPE-158858)

Mobs

• Fixed a bug where mobs with a long hit range could hit players through walls (MCPE-55790)

User Interface

• Fixed a bug in Pocket UI where items could be dropped in the dark-grey areas around the item grid in the Crafting Table screen
• Fixed a bug in Pocket UI where items could be dropped in the dark-grey areas around the item grid in the inventories for the Horse, Mule, Donkey, and Llama
• Fixed a bug where the death screen message was visible when the showdeathmessage gamerule was set to false

Vanilla Parity

• Sweet Berries can now be planted on Farmland (MCPE-99632)
• Changed bubble column strength to match Java Edition (MCPE-158858)

Blocks

• Dirt Path and Farmland block collisions are now one texel lower (MCPE-12109)
• Players now sink in Soul Sand and Mud blocks (MCPE-154973)
• Players swimming above Mud will not have their screen covered (MCPE-153737)
• Projectiles landing on Mud will not repeatedly shake (MCPE-153744)
• Amphibious mobs no longer have trouble pathfinding around Mud Blocks (MCPE-153961)

Mobs

• Ravager now can be hurt by Evoker Fangs
• Increased Ravager collision box size to match Java Edition (MCPE-142171, MCPE-45531)
• Increased Ravager speed to match Java (MCPE-48145)

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using the hasItem selector and specifying a negative value for the item's data (MCPE-152314)

Preview 1.19.40.22

Beta 1.19.40.22 (Android) or Preview 1.19.40.22 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the third beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.19.40, released on September 21, 2022, which added support for item tags in recipes, and fixes bugs.

Additions

General

Tags

• Added tag to support recipes instead of item names.
• Added new item tags for recipes:
  • minecraft:coals, minecraft:logs, minecraft:logs_that_burn, minecraft:planks, minecraft:soul_fire_base_blocks, minecraft:stone_crafting_materials, minecraft:stone_tool_materials, minecraft:wooden_slabs, minecraft:wool.

Changes

Blocks

Scaffolding

• When used as fuel for furnaces, they now burn equally as long as a bamboo does.

General

Crafting

• Recipes can now refer to a tag instead of an item.

Experimental

Some of this additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Upcoming Creator Features" and "Beta APIs" experimental toggle.

Additions

General

Options

• Added "Max Framerate" option to the 'Video settings' section.

Changes

Technical

Add-Ons and Script Engine

• Implemented the has_property, int_property, bool_property, float_property, and enum_property actor behavior filters.

API

• Updated the API.
  • Events
    • Removed event tick- called each tick.
  • System
    • Added run() - to queue a callback to run next tick, re-queue each tick to get behavior similar to tick event.
  • Block
    • Renamed property id to typeId.
  • BlockComponent
    • Renamed property id to typeId.
  • Entity
    • Renamed property id to typeId.
    • Added read-only property id:string - Returns a unique identifier for the entity. This identifier remains consistent across world loads.
  • EntityComponent
    • Renamed property id to typeId.
  • ItemComponent
    • Renamed property id to typeId.
  • ItemStack
    • Renamed property id to typeId.

GameTest Framework

• Fixed a bug where EntityHurtEvent would not fire on Player death.
• Renamed experiment "GameTest Framework" to "Beta APIs".
• The now-renamed "Beta APIs" experiment is still needed to access all beta APIs, including core Minecraft APIs and GameTest APIs.

Fixes

Spectator Mode (Experimental)

• Spectator players no longer play sounds when entering/exiting bubble columns. (MCPE-161536)

Blocks

• Scaffolds now burn at a more correct rate, 1/4 of an item. (MCPE-42949)
• Breaking the block below a Snow-covered Flower now makes the Flower drop instead of the Snow Layer. (MCPE-61609)

Commands

• Copying a bubble column with the /clone command no longer results in invisible water. (MCPE-153903)

Gameplay

• Reverted the change that caused Arrows and Tridents to stop moving. (MCPE-162085)
• Fixed an issue where Wither effect damage would be reduced by armor. (MCPE-159407)

Graphical

• Fixed Beacon block suddenly disappearing when seen from a distance.

Mobs

• Fixed an issue where Drowned could change held items when attacking. (MCPE-40288)

Touch Controls

• Improved the images for the three control schemes in the touch settings menu.

User Interface

• Fixed an issue where players couldn't drag/drop or select items from the equipment page.
• Changed the color of the text descriptions for the 'Darkness Effect Strength' and 'Notification Duration' accessibility options to a lighter shade to make them more readable. (MCPE-162047)
• Fixed an issue where users couldn't swap unstackable items with touch controls.

Preview 1.19.40.23

Beta 1.19.40.23 (Android) or Preview 1.19.40.23 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the fourth beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.19.40, released on September 29, 2022, which fixes bugs, and brings more parity of Java Edition.

Changes

Command format

/summon

• Temporarily disabled the rotation for the /summon command while a bug is worked on. (MCPE-162264)

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Upcoming Creator Features" and "Beta APIs" experimental toggle.

Changes

Technical

Commands

• Fixed a rotation issue when a Command Block executes /execute facing and /execute rotated. (MCPE-162256)
• Implemented the /execute in command.
• Implemented the /execute anchored command.
• Teleporting to an entity in another dimension is now allowed with the /execute and /teleport commands.

API

• Major breaking change to experimental JavaScript APIs:
  • All script modules have been renamed to follow a new convention.
    • mojang-gametest -> @minecraft/server-gametest
    • mojang-minecraft -> @minecraft/server
    • mojang-minecraft-ui -> @minecraft/server-ui
    • mojang-minecraft-server-admin -> @minecraft/server-admin
    • mojang-net -> @minecraft/server-net
  • For example, rather than using:
    • import * as mc from "mojang-minecraft";
  • Use:
    • import * as mc from "@minecraft/server";
      • Use of script eval() and Function() must be explicitly in json
      • To do this, set script_evalian capabilities
    • "capabilities":[ "script_eval"]
      • Root path for imports has changed; scripts/prefix are no longer allowed.
      • For imports, use import "./source.js" or import "source.js".
      • Deprecated use of import "scripts/source.js".

Actor Properties

• Fixed "bool_property" filters that didn't specify a "value".

General

• Release BlockGeometryComponent out of experimental in JSON formats 1.19.40 and higher.
• Release BlockMaterialInstancesComponent out of experimental in JSON formats 1.19.40 and higher.
• Renamed minecraft:block_light_filter component to minecraft:light_dampening.

Fixes

Vanilla Parity

• Getting killed by a mob with a renamed weapon now produces a death message with the item name. (MCPE-162055)
• Wither skeletons can now spawn inside of wither roses. (MCPE-110127)
• Decreased the amount of hunger used while swimming to match Java Edition. (MCPE-154452)
• Librarian villagers can now offer enchanted books with 'Curse of Vanishing' and 'Curse of Binding'. (MCPE-84906)

Spectator Mode (Experimental)

• Shulker bullets no longer follow spectators. (MCPE-162069)
• Spectators are now invisible to normal players.
• If a player is in Spectator Mode and other non-spectating players are present on the server, the spectating player will not affect mob despawning anymore.
• If there are only spectating players on the server, mob despawning is now put on hold.

User Interface

• Fixed a bug where death messages were sometimes too long to fit on screen. (MCPE-156550)
• The inventory button for touch devices is now reset to its default appearance after closing the inventory.
• Fixed the crafting screen search string not saving correctly.
• Fixed an issue with the durability bar missing on inventory screens on Xbox. (MCPE-162063)
• Fixed a bug where the sign in button on Create New World did not work on some platforms.

Mobile Touch Controls

• Fixed a bug where items could not be removed from the hotbar by moving them onto other items in Creative Inventory on mobile devices.
• Fixed an issue where the stack splitting progress bar was not aligned on touch mode.
• Adjusted layout of the touch toolbar and status effect icons based on user feedback.
• Temporarily disabled the preview of our new Touch Stack Splitting UX while we work through feedback.

Mobs

• When a mob is a passenger in a boat, neither the boat nor the mob are allowed to change dimension. (MCPE-154919)

Blocks

• The book of an enchanting table now properly faces a nearby player. (MCPE-29924)

NPC (EDU)

• NPCs can now have no name, hiding the nametag above their head.

Marketplace

• Fixed an issue with Marketplace bundle prices not showing as free after purchasing.

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a potential crash source in explosions.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving a split screen session.

Preview 1.19.40.24

Beta 1.19.40.24 (Android) or Preview 1.19.40.24 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the fifth and final beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.19.40, released on October 5, 2022, which fixes bugs.

Fixes

Gameplay

• Prevent replacing terrain on Maps with black pixels as a result of Client Side generation. (MCPE-162421)

Marketplace

• Added a Clear Cache button in Storage Settings for all platforms. This button clears contents of Marketplace folders (but not worlds) and might help alleviate issues downloading content. (MCPE-54531)

Mobs

• Sweet Berry Bushes once again deal damage to players. (MCPE-162310)

Touch Controls

• Fixed a bug that prevented scrolling through the Village trade list on mobile devices.

User Interface

• Temporarily reverted a change that linked Item Text Background with existing Text Background opacity slider in Accessibility Options.
• The copy coordinates gamepad tooltip now uses the correct icon depending on the platform. (MCPE-162654)

Blocks

• Temporarily reverted the changes to Dirt Path and Farmland collision changes, as well as Soul Sand and Mud blocks sinking while we iron out some bugs.