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* Vanilla Experiments
* Vanilla Experiments
* [[Sniffer]]
* [[Sniffer]]
* Next Major Update
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* Recipe Unlocking
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* [[Crawling]]
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* [[Drop 1 2025]]
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* Aim Assist
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* Creator Cameras: New Third-Person Preset
* Creator Cameras: New Third-Person Preset


Revision as of 14:26, 2 April 2025

File:Ore UI - Experimental Gameplay (Bedrock).png
The disclaimer that appears when activating an experiment in the world settings on Bedrock Edition.
File:Ore UI - Experimental Tag Example (Bedrock).png
Example of a world with the experimental tag on Bedrock Edition.

Experiments (also known as Experimental Gameplay or Experimental Features in Bedrock Edition) are data packs in Java Edition or game options in Bedrock Edition. When an experiment is enabled, it allows players to test some experimental, unfinished or work-in-progress features that may or may not eventually be released in future updates.

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

Toggling

Experiments are found in the world options when creating or editing‌[Bedrock Edition only] a world. When turning an experiment on an existing world, a copy of the world is created automatically. In Bedrock Edition, turning an experiment on disables achievements for the world. Once the world is created with an experiment on, the experiment cannot be turned off again. Worlds with the experiments on have an "Experimental" tag next to the game mode name in the world menu.

Warnings

File:Ore UI - Experimental Gameplay Load (Bedrock).png
The warning message when attempting to play on an experimental world on in Bedrock Edition.

The point of experiments is for the player to look at some not-quite-finished or experimental features, which could crash, break, change, or stop working at any point in future updates. When the player attempts to load the experimental world, it shows a warning message before loading it. Attempting to disable experiments toggle via external tools could also crash and break the world.

It is recommended to create back up copies of the world before enabling any experiments to avoid breaking the world and having issues in future updates.

Features

Java Edition

Experiments screen on Java Edition.
The experiment selection screen on Java Edition.

On Java Edition, experiments are built-in data packs that can be enabled when creating a world. Java Edition features the following experiments:

Removed

Bedrock Edition

On Bedrock Edition, experiments are toggles on the world options menu. Experiments are split into two categories: "Gameplay" and "Add-On Creators." [1] Bedrock Edition features the following experiments:

The experiment selection screen in Bedrock Edition.

Gameplay

Add-On Creators

  • "Custom biomes"
    • Enables custom biomes by using add-ons.
  • "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.
    • Enables an "over the shoulder" camera preset.
  • "Experimental Creator Camera Features"
    • Enables custom camera features.
  • "Render Dragon Features for Creators"
    • Enables the deferred rendering pipeline, a set of cross-platform graphics features for creators.
  • "Data-Driven Jigsaw Structures"
    • Loads Jigsaw Structures from the behavior pack worldgen folder.

Removed

History

Java Edition

[hide]Java Edition
1.19.322w42aAdded the "Update 1.20" and "Bundles" experimental data packs.
Added bamboo mosaic, bamboo planks, chiseled bookshelves, hanging signs, camels, bamboo rafts, and bamboo rafts with chests behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
Moved bundles behind their own experimental data pack.
22w45aAdded blocks of bamboo and stripped blocks of bamboo behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
22w46aAdded piglin heads behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
1.19.423w04aAdded smithing templates behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
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 data pack.
1.2023w12aAll features behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack have now been fully implemented.
Removed the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
1.20.223w31aAdded the "Villager Trade Rebalance" experimental data pack.
1.20.323w42aAdded the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
Added crafters behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
23w43aAdded chiseled copper, copper grates, bulbs, doors, and trapdoors, as well as tuff stairs, slabs, walls, and chiseled tuff, along with brick and polished variants, behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
23w45aAdded trial chambers, trial spawners, trial keys and the breeze behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
1.20.524w05aAdded vaults behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
24w07aAdded the bogged behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
24w11aAdded the mace, breeze rods, heavy cores, two banner patterns, two smithing templates, and three pottery sherds behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
24w12aAdded seven advancements behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
24w13aAdded ominous trial spawners, ominous trial keys, ominous vaults, ominous bottles, four potions, six effects, and three enchantments behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
1.20.5 Pre-Release 1Added the Revaulting advancement behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
1.2124w18aAll features behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack have now been fully implemented.
Removed the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
1.21.224w33aAdded the "Minecart Improvements" and "Redstone Experiments" experimental data packs.
24w39aBundles have now been fully implemented.
Removed the "Bundles" experimental data pack.
24w40aAdded the "Winter Drop" experimental data pack.
Added pale oak wood, planks, logs, leaves, and saplings, as well as pale moss carpet, pale moss blocks, pale hanging moss, pale oak boats, pale oak boat with chest, pale oak trees, pale gardens, the creaking heart, and the creaking behind the "Winter Drop" experimental data pack.
1.21.424w44aAll features behind the "Winter Drop" experimental data pack have now been fully implemented.
Removed the "Winter Drop" experimental data pack.
1.21.525w07aThe cartographer and wandering trader trades from the "Villager Trade Rebalance" experimental data pack have now been fully implemented.

Bedrock Edition

[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.2.13beta 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.
1.4.0beta 1.2.14.2Stripped wood, prismarine stairs and slabs, tridents, and the new swimming animation are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.2.20.1Added nautilus shells, which are 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 available only 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 1.16.0.57Target, structure void 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.
1.16.200releaseRemoved "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 available only 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 available only 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 available only 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 available only 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 available only 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 available only 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 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 and 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 available only 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 available only behind experimental gameplay.
beta 1.18.10.26Added froglight blocks, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
1.18.30Preview 1.18.20.22Removed the "Additional Modding Capabilities" toggle.
Preview 1.18.30.23Added allays behind experimental gameplay.
Preview 1.18.30.27Added copper horns behind experimental gameplay.
Preview 1.18.30.29Added boats with chests and the deep dark behind the "Wild Update" toggle.
Preview 1.18.30.33Added the warden, ancient cities, and reinforced deepslate behind experimental gameplay.
1.18.31Added "Spectator Mode" toggle and moved Spectator mode behind it.
1.19.0Preview 1.19.0.21All above features with the exception of goat horns, copper horns, and spectator mode are no longer behind experimental gameplay.
Preview 1.19.0.25Copper horns have been removed.
Preview 1.19.0.29Goat horns are no longer behind experimental gameplay.
1.19.10Preview 1.19.10.20Updated the /execute command syntax to closer resemble that of Java Edition, which are available only behind experimental gameplay.
Preview 1.19.10.24Removed the "Wild Update" and "Vanilla Experiments" toggles.
1.19.40Preview 1.19.40.22Renamed the "GameTest Framework" experimental toggle to "Beta APIs".
1.19.50Preview 1.19.50.20Spectator mode is no longer behind experimental gameplay.
Removed the "Spectator Mode" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.19.50.21Added the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
Added camels, chiseled bookshelves, bamboo planks, bamboo mosaics, rafts, and hanging signs behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.19.50.23The updated /execute command syntax, more similar to Java Edition, is no longer behind experimental gameplay.
1.19.60Preview 1.19.60.20Added block of bamboo, stripped block of bamboo, and the piglin head behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.19.70Preview 1.19.70.23Added the "Sniffer" experimental toggle.
Added the brush, decorated pot, pottery shards, and suspicious sand behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
Added the sniffer, sniffer spawn egg, torchflowers, and torchflower seeds behind the "Sniffer" experimental toggle.
1.19.80Preview 1.19.80.20Added the cherry grove behind experimental gameplay.
Added the "Short Sneaking" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.19.80.21Added suspicious gravel and smithing templates behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.19.80.22Added calibrated sculk sensors and trail ruins behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.20.0Preview 1.20.0.20All "Next Major Update" and "Sniffer" features are no longer behind experimental gameplay.
Removed the "Sniffer" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.20.0.21Removed the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.20.0.22Added the "Experimental Cameras" experimental toggle.
1.20.10Preview 1.20.10.20Added crawling behind experimental gameplay.
Renamed the "Short Sneaking" experimental toggle to "Short Sneaking and Crawling".
Preview 1.20.10.21Added the "Recipe Unlocking" experimental toggle.
Added the new recipe unlocking system and /recipe behind experimental gameplay.
Preview 1.20.10.23Renamed the "Short Sneaking and Crawling" experimental toggle to "Crawling".
Sneaking under 1.5 block gaps is no longer behind experimental gameplay.
1.20.30Preview 1.20.20.21Removed the "Recipe Unlocking" toggle.
Preview 1.20.20.22Crawling is no longer behind experimental gameplay.
Removed the "Crawling" toggle.
Preview 1.20.30.20Added the "Villager Trade Rebalancing" and "Render Dragon Features for Creators" experimental toggles.
1.20.50Preview 1.20.50.21Added the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
Added crafters behind experimental gameplay.
Preview 1.20.50.22Added chiseled copper, copper grates, bulbs, doors, and trapdoors, as well as tuff stairs, slabs, walls, and chiseled tuff, along with brick and polished variants, behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
1.20.60Preview 1.20.60.23Added the "Armadillo and Wolf Armor" experimental toggle.
Added armadillos, armadillo scutes, and wolf armor behind this toggle.
1.20.70Preview 1.20.70.21Added vaults behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
1.20.70Preview 1.20.70.22Removed the "Molang Features" experimental toggle.
1.20.70Preview 1.20.70.24Added the bogged behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
1.20.80Preview 1.20.80.20Armadillos, armadillo scutes, and wolf armor are no longer behind experimental gameplay.
Removed the "Armadillo and Wolf Armor" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.20.80.22Added the mace, breeze rods, heavy cores, two banner patterns, two smithing templates, and three pottery sherds behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.20.80.23Added trial chambers explorer maps behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
1.21.0Preview 1.21.0.20Added ominous trial spawners, ominous trial keys, ominous vaults, ominous bottles, four potions, and five effects behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.21.0.21Added Raid Omen, three enchantments for the mace, and five paintings behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.21.0.22All features behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle have now been fully implemented.
Removed the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
Removed the "Experimental Cameras" toggle.
1.21.20Preview 1.21.10.20Added the "Creator Cameras: New Third-Person Presets" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.21.20.23Added the "Creator Cameras: Focus Target Camera" experimental toggle.
Removed the "Holiday Creator Features" experimental toggle.
1.21.30Preview 1.21.30.23Added the "Bundles" experimental toggle.
1.21.40Preview 1.21.40.23Bundles have now been fully implemented.
Removed the "Bundles" experimental toggle.
1.21.50Preview 1.21.50.25Added the "Aim Assist" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.21.50.26Added the "Data-Driven Jigsaw Structures" experimental toggle.
1.21.60Preview 1.21.60.25Added the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle.
Added the pig variants, leaf particles, and the updated lodestone crafting recipe behind this toggle.
Removed the "Creator Cameras: Focus Target Camera" experimental toggle.
1.21.70Preview 1.21.70.20Added leaf litter, bushes, firefly bushes, wildflowers, cow variants, and ambient sounds for deserts and badlands behind the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.21.70.22Added cactus flowers, chicken variants, ambient sounds for firefly bushes, and short and tall dry grass behind the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle.
Preview 1.21.70.23All features behind the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle have now been fully implemented.
Removed the "Drop 1 2025" experimental toggle.
Removed the "Aim Assist" experimental toggle.
The cartographer and wandering trader trades from the "Villager Trade Rebalancing" experimental toggle have now been fully implemented.
Preview 1.21.70.24Removed the "Creator Cameras: New Third-Person Presets" experimental toggle.
Added the "Experimental Creator Camera Features" experimental toggle.
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1.21.80Preview 1.21.80.20Added the "Locator Bar" experimental toggle.

References

  1. ↑ "Experimental Features in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition" – docs.microsoft.com.

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