What you need to know
- 1.18 'Caves and Cliffs Update' Part Two is right around the corner, with Mojang Studios working on final touches.
- A new Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta is now rolling out to testers with a fresh batch of fixes and minor improvements.
- Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.18.0.24 doesn't include any major new features this time around, focusing on polishing.
- Of course, there's no sign of 'The Wild Update,' which is slated to release at some point in 2022.
As Minecraft Live 2021 fades into the past, Mojang Studios continues to work on delivering 1.18 Caves and Cliffs Update Part Two to Minecraft players all over the world before the end of 2021. To that end, Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.18.0.24 is now rolling out to all Minecraft beta testers on Xbox, Windows, and Android devices.
The new Minecraft beta doesn't include any great new features or changes, as expected this late in the game. Instead, Beta 1.18.0.24 focuses on further bug fixes, tweaks, and a general dedication to polish before the 1.18 update releases to all players on every platform. As such, this isn't a terribly exciting update, but does indicate that we're nearing ever closer to a public release in the next few weeks or months.
Of course, this beta doesn't include any mention of The Wild Update, which is the next major Minecraft feature update slated for release at some point in 2022. The Wild Update will follow 1.18 Caves and Cliffs Update Part Two with lots of new features and improvements, including the arrival of The Deep Dark, but is still months away from showing itself to Minecraft players.
Even without The Wild Update, though, Minecraft is solidly one of the best Xbox games you can play, and steadily improves with the release of betas and updates like this one. As we near Black Friday 2021, we're already seeing the beginning of Minecraft Black Friday deals, so you can start your Holidays shopping early!
The full changelog for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.18.0.24 includes:
Features & bug fixes
Blocks
- Players can once again continuously place water, lava, and Powder Snow by holding down the "Place" button
- Light blocks no longer support blocks that need support, e.g. Beds and Paintings
Mineshafts
- Mineshaft pillars should no longer generate in lava
- Mineshafts will not generate Dirt floors anymore
- Mineshafts now use Log Blocks for creating support pillars
Gameplay
- Fixed a problem that caused certain worlds to increase in size, causing high RAM usage
- Fixed shallow water turning brighter when aimed while holding a Small Drip Leaf
- Tall flowers will now drop only one item when broken by water placed in the upper half of the flower
- Fixed an issue where terrain could be seen through
- Education Features: NPCs no longer have idle sounds
- Chorus Fruit now works correctly at negative Y coordinates
Items
- Adjusted the smoothness of movement for Primed TNT, Lingering Potions, Splash Potions, and Bottle o' Enchanting when far from players
- Multiple Education Edition items no longer show the
craftingScreen.tab.nonetooltip - All ground vegetation can now be placed on Mycelium
Mobs
- Increased the chances of Axolotl naturally spawning in Lush Caves
- Fish now attempt to avoid Axolotls
- Magma Cubes are now correctly aggressive towards Iron Golems and Slimes are no longer aggressive towards Snow Golems
- Phantoms should now be able to free themselves after getting stuck when trying to pathfind into mountains
World generation
- Ore generation has now been tweaked to be in parity with Java Edition
- Gravel can now correctly replace Deepslate during world generation
- Gold Ore in Badlands biomes are no longer generating in too large of quantities
- Lava sources are no longer generated in Frozen Ocean biomes
- Deepslate Copper Ore variant is now correctly generating in the world
- Updated naming for new Caves & Cliffs mountain biomes to better match between Bedrock and Java Edition
User interface
- Fixes the rendering of the icons in text, making the colors not distorted
Technical updates
Mobs
- Fixed mobs default summonability when not specified in JSON
RangedAttackGoal
- Improved performance in
RangedAttackGoalfor mobs that do not move
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