Minecraft - 1.12.0 (Bedrock)

Technical Update

Full Changelog

Gameplay Update

Posted: July 9, 2019

Changes:

• Increased the frequency and volume of the ambient mob sounds made during raids, to make them easier to locate

• Added new Wandering Trader sounds (MCPE-41191)

• Updated the main menu splash text

• Updated the default main menu panorama from Aquatic to Village & Pillage

• The "Store" button on the main menu has been renamed to "Marketplace"

• Realm owners can now set relevant permissions for players invited to their Realm

• Default settings can be set for all new members entering a Realm

• The owner can set permissions for an invited player to either visitor, member or operator

• When resetting a world, or uploading a new world, already set permissions stay in place

Fixes:

• Crashes

  • Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when launching the game on some Windows 10 devices
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when certain interactive blocks are loading in when joining a Realm (e.g. beds, chests, furnaces)
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when switching players on Xbox One
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when engaging in a fight with an Elder Guardian in an Ocean Monument
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when loading the game
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when throwing an Egg or Snowball (MCPE-40435)
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when trading with a Villager
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when throwing a trident with Loyalty enchantment
  • Fixed a crash that could occur on Nintendo Switch when the game was saving or loading (MCPE-45862)
  • Fixed a crash on Nintendo Switch that could occur when suspending and resuming the game
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting the game
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when signing into Xbox Live
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when choosing a skin on first launch of the game
  • Fixed a Marketplace issue that could result in the game getting stuck or crashing when loading in items
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when the game was checking for previously downloaded content

• Performance

  • Made further performance improvements when opening inventory screens (MCPE-27167)
  • Made several performance improvements related to various UI screens and interactions
  • Significantly reduced bandwidth usage by allowing the client to reuse chunks it has already seen
  • Improved chunk loading performance in multiplayer
  • Improved performance around new villages and villager job sites
  • Several other performance improvements, included some related to mob AI pathfinding
  • Frosted ice blocks no longer drops performance while they’re melting (MCPE-39698)
  • Endermen teleporting particles no longer cause consistent performance drops, especially during boss fights
  • Reduced the amount of memory required to load textures
  • Cached resource packs no longer decrease performance on Nintendo Switch (MCPE-36976)

• General

• Removed an unnecessary Xbox Live sign-in notification

• Fixed an issue where consuming the last item in a stack to unlock an achievement could cause the achievement not to unlock

• The Haggler achievement once again unlocks when requirements are met

• The Zombie Doctor achievement now unlocks when curing a zombie villager (MCPE-46271)

• Marketplace resource packs are now immediately applied after downloading in the world edit menu (MCPE-33121)

• Player permissions now apply correctly when more than one operator tries to adjust them

• Made improvements to roaming skins, which should apply correctly after reloading or reinstalling the game and signing in

• Custom skins are now applied correctly without needing to restart the game to see them (On compatible platforms) (MCPE-37926, MCPE-45476)

• Skins equipped from the ‘Recent’ section are once again applied when selected

• World settings now sync correctly between different Xbox One devices

• Resource packs are now applied correctly after downloading through the world or global settings

• Newly purchased Realms are now always visible after finalizing the purchase

• Fixed an issue that would show an error message when attempting to renew a Realm subscription on Xbox One (REALMS-1686)

• Gameplay

• Fixed several related issues with End Gateway portals. These should now teleport the player to the correct safe location when used (MCPE-19699, MCPE-43176, MCPE-43177)

• Villager trading now properly takes away items from the second slot, when applicable (MCPE-45506)

• Only players who fought in a raid now receive the Hero of the Village effect in Realms

• The Bad Omen effect is now only received when killing an Illager Captain, not when dealing non-fatal damage with a bow or potion

• Players no longer see through the world when clipping into blocks after leaving a boat (MCPE-42593)

• You can now interact with blocks while holding a charged crossbow on touch devices

• Players no longer clip through walls when transitioning from swimming to standing in water

• Players that are being healed can now still be knocked back by TNT. Did I say that right?

• Arrows that are shot into blocks keep their position when reloading the world

• Area of Effect clouds no longer try to spawn excessive numbers of particles when time of day is changed (MCPE-39595)

• Mobs

  • Corrected the position of leads on Wolves
  • Tamed cats no longer slide around while sitting (MCPE-44491)
  • Fixed the missing Taiga Zombie Villager skin
  • Fixed a z-fighting texture issue on some Villager skins
  • Dyed leather horse armour colour no longer effects other horse armour (MCPE-43230)
  • Vindicators can now path correctly over carpet during raids
  • The Wither no longer plays its spawning animation when reloading a world (MCPE-32415)
  • Mobs will no longer path-find over Brewing Stands
  • Added a sound to indicate when a villager does not want to trade (Like during a raid)
  • Illager Captains now drop banners correctly even if the world is reloaded
  • Mobs will now spawn on double slabs (MCPE-30765)
  • Fixed the sitting model for cats that were previously tamed ocelots (MCPE-41929)
  • Fixed missing zombie villager sounds (MCPE-43329)
  • V2 zombie villagers now have the correct name in death messages instead of a placeholder name (MCPE-45932)
  • Mobs no longer get stuck when pathfinding on ladders (MCPE-43034)
  • Evokers no longer move too fast when moving towards villages in raids
  • Mobs no longer spawn inside leaves during raids
  • Villagers that are actively trading with players will no longer run and hide when the raid bell rings
  • Clerics now correctly pathfind to their job sites
  • Tamed tuxedo cats now use the proper texture (MCPE-43527)
  • Stray cats can no longer claim beds in villages for worlds converted from version 1.10 (MCPE-44299)
  • The ghast spinning model in monster spawners is now the correct size
  • Fixed wandering trader podzol and coral trades
  • Fletchers now trade 16 arrows instead of 5
  • Changed the cost of butcher's cooked rabbit trade
  • Leatherworker's saddle trade is lowered from 10 to 6 emeralds
  • Removed the sand trade from the wandering trader and adjusted the cost of a diamond hoe from tool smith villagers
  • Iron Golems no longer run to the world center after their village is destroyed (MCPE-45509)
  • Villagers without professions now follow regular schedules and will actually sleep, which they deeply need
  • Fixed the creeper model in some Marketplace maps
  • Converting a normal Pillager to a Captain with tag commands now displays the banner correctly

• Blocks

  • Fixed various scenarios where certain blocks couldn't be placed until the game was restarted
  • Frosted ice blocks can now be broken (MCPE-41256)
  • Fixed Sea Grass texture brightness (MCPE-34795)
  • Bamboo leaves are now lighter (MCPE-42635)
  • Flowing lava once again turns into cobblestone when hit by water (MCPE-43990)
  • Red sandstone stairs now have correct textures on all sides (MCPE-20677)
  • Players no longer lose villager job site locations if they replace a job site block that is tied to an experienced villager
  • Village job site blocks now have consistent sound volume levels when used by players
  • Scaffolding can no longer be placed on Conduit blocks
  • The Bell now swings towards a player when it is hit (MCPE-42469)
  • Note Block particles now correctly correspond to the notes played
  • The grindstone now correctly combines and repairs two damaged items
  • Farmland now has the correct side and bottom textures (MCPE-42746)
  • Smokers now have the correct bottom texture (MCPE-43944)
  • Fixed door and trapdoor textures (MCPE-43173)
  • Cocoa beans now break and drop when pushed by pistons (MCPE-41868)
  • Slabs and other non-solid blocks once again prevent grass from growing on dirt (MCPE-42975)
  • Flowing water is no longer left behind after flowing over string (MCPE-36343)
  • Bells now ring when hit with splash and lingering potions
  • Composter growth particles now appear in the correct location
  • Blocks can once again be placed on unlit Redstone Ore (MCPE-44305)
  • Fixed animated textures for flowing lava and water on several texture packs

• Items

  • Efficiency pickaxes now break packed ice at a faster rate (MCPE-23648)
  • Dropped items no longer prevent minecarts from being placed on rails
  • Empty glass bottles now stack correctly when removed from brewing stands (MCPE-42175)
  • Banner patterns can no longer be lost or duplicated when switching them in a loom with a full inventory
  • Using Pick Block on sweet berry bushes now gives the player the correct item (MCPE-41877)
  • Bone meal is now consumed correctly when used on grass
  • Cactus blocks of different growth stages can be smelted into green dye again (MCPE-42497)
  • Stripped birch wood is no longer used to craft acacia planks when playing on Realms (MCPE-44398)
  • Shields no longer appear too bright in item frames (MCPE-41222)
  • Updated the Illager Banner texture (MCPE-43233)
  • Barrels now appear in the proper place of the creative inventory (MCPE-43946)
  • Correct colors of wool are now displayed as a material required to create colored banners in the recipe book
  • The player's arm is no longer displaced in first person view after eating food (MCPE-40135)
  • Tinted spawn eggs are now properly scaled in item frames

• World Generation

  • Fixed a bug on dedicated servers and Realms which could cause the wrong block types to generate in the world
  • Tweaked the number of job sites that generate in villages

• User Interface

  • Updated the glass texture for locked maps in the Cartography Table UI (MCPE-43314)
  • Adjusted the Cartography Table screen to fit Android screens when using Classic UI
  • Pressing the Y button on controller on the Cartography output slot now only crafts the correct amount
  • Added controller tooltips for the Lectern screen
  • The villager trading screen no longer opens and closes if the player is standing too far away
  • Items that are split between slots in the villager trading screen still count as a total trade amount
  • The How to Play button on the Cartography Table now directs to the proper screen
  • Killing a wandering trader's llama can no longer display their inventory screen
  • The screen reader prompt no longer appears every time network settings are adjusted on Nintendo Switch
  • The 'Always Day' toggle now correctly animates and shows the correct setting (MCPE-43304)
  • Dates appear again next to player earned achievements in the Achievements menu
  • The 'Invite to Game' button is no longer enabled on Featured Servers
  • Going back to the Play screen (or Settings screen) will now properly select the previously selected tab when Text to Speech is enabled
  • The "Wheel Turning" button is now only shown once in the Minecraft VR settings
  • Made improvements to the patch notes to make sure the correct ones show up after an update
  • The Marketplace search screen now displays the proper pack icons
  • The 'New' tag will be properly removed from a Marketplace collection once it has been viewed
  • Fixed Marketplace sale items not showing the discount percentage

• Commands

  • Further improvements to performance when using selectors with commands
  • Removed "tile" prefix in the '/give' command (MCPE-44667)
  • Made item names more consistent by removing “tile” from the beginning of some of them
  • Blocks and entities that aren't available in the Creative inventory no longer require the "minecraft" namespace when used as parameters in commands
  • After 'fishing_hook' is killed by command, players can now cast the hook again without having to cast twice
  • Killing a rideable entity no longer respawns its rider when killed in the same tick
  • The 'testforblock' command now works reliably with items renamed in the language files

• Add-Ons and Script Engine

  • The Behavior Pack template once again contains the 'spawn_rules' folder
  • Removing a timer component and adding a new one should no longer have the new timer inherit the old timer's time value
  • Custom underwater mobs can now spawn naturally
  • Custom entities now correctly re-evaluate current target validity
  • 'getBlocks' now returns a 3D array of block objects
  • Fixed a scripting issue that could cause the player to float
  • 'ScriptAttackComponent' and ScriptCollisionBoxComponent' now correctly retrieve updated data
  • Pick Block now works correctly on non-vanilla entities that have been added using Add-Ons (MCPE-38205)
  • Functions ran on a game loop now use an origin which has Game Master permissions, not Owner permissions
    • Added a new constructor parameter to the 'ServerCommandOrigin' so that the Function Manager can create an instance with upgraded permissions
  • Player Position is now reported for the player feet like other mobs
  • Collision Box and Attack components report the correct data now

For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

• Updated templates for 1.12.0 with new resources, behaviors, documentation, and example packs can be downloaded from aka.ms/MinecraftAddons

• Created a screen to view content log errors for Behavior and Resource Packs

  • The log screen can be opened using Ctrl + H after enabling in Profile Settings

• Enabled content logging for creators on Bedrock Dedicated Server to debug pack errors

• Mob events can now be toggled using the new '/mobevent' command

• Particle emitters can now trigger slash commands, actor events, and MoLang expressions

• Added the ability to play single animations at any time, overriding an entity's current state-based animation

• Animations and particles can be spawned without being linked to entities using animation timelines

• Sound effects can now be triggered by animation events

• Added auto-complete to the Command Input field for command blocks

• Delay in Ticks for Command Blocks

  • A delay can be added to the command block using the new field, measured in Redstone ticks

• Data-Driven Crafting Recipes (Experimental)

  • Allows custom crafting recipes for shaped crafting, shapeless crafting, and furnaces using Behavior Packs
  • Recipe JSON files have been added to the Behavior Pack template

• Add New Simple Item (Experimental)

  • New "simple" items can be added to the game using Behavior Packs
  • Currently, only a subset of components has been exposed, with more being added in future updates to allow more complex behaviors
  • Some items, such as food, are now data-driven and their JSON files have been added to the Behavior Pack template

• Add New Simple Block (Experimental)

  • New "simple" blocks can be added to the game using Behavior Packs
  • Currently, only a subset of components has been exposed, with more being added in future updates to allow more complex behaviors

• New Data-Driven Particles:

  • Llama Spit
  • Large Explosions
  • Colored Flames
  • Redstone Dust
  • Falling Dust
  • Lava
  • Enchanting Table
  • Conduit

• New Data-Driven Animations:

  • Wolf
  • Fang Attack
  • Arrow
  • Shulker Bullet
  • Bow
  • Water Movement

**Script Engine Updates:

**(Currently available on Windows 10 with Experimental Gameplay enabled)

• Block API V0

  • New block events and two new APIs have been included to query for blocks:
  • APIs
    • getBlock(Ticking Area, x, y, z)
    • getBlock(Ticking Area, PositionObject)
    • getBlocks(Ticking Area, x min, y min, z min, x max, y max, z max)
    • getBlocks(Ticking Area, Minimum PositionObject, Maximum PositionObject)
  • Events
    • block_destruction_started
    • block_destruction_stopped
    • piston_moved_block
    • player_destroyed_block
    • player_placed_block

• Item API V0

  • Basic item related events have been exposed to the Script Engine. This includes:
    • actor_acquired_item
    • actor_carried_item_changed
    • actor_dropped_item
    • actor_use_item
    • actor_equipped_armor

• Inventory API V0

  • Basic inventory events have been exposed to the Script Engine. This includes:
    • inventory_container
    • armor_container
    • hand_container (note that the hand container will get you both the main hand and offhand)
    • hotbar_container

• executeCommand API

  • Allows executing commands with a callback when the command is executed without using events
  • Only usable on Server Scripts

• Event Data API

  • Data is contained in objects passed to callbacks under the data field
  • Custom events need to be registered (registerEvent) before being triggered

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