Minecraft has received another update ahead of its big 1.20 launch. Version 1.19.70 is big with the usual bug fixes and preparations for new features, but we also get a few changes and a few new features ahead of version 1.20.
Players will get a peek at Archeology and the Sniffer mob, which have been added as new experimental features. Horse breeding has also been changed — now your pet horse can give birth to foals that are potential better than statistics.
Some of the changes bring the game in line with the Java version, while many of them fix some minor bugs and errors. Let’s get to all of them then (via Minecraft.net):
Version 1.19.70, March 14, 2023
CHANGES:
Player emotions
Several improvements have come to the emote system in Bedrock!
- The use of emotes now appears in chat
- The emote wheel now has four slots with an improved interface
- Fast feelings with new shortcuts
- Easier classification of emotions
- Creating a new character now automatically applies the four default emotes
Check it out New Emote Features for Bedrock Edition article for more details.
VANILLA PARITY:
Made improvements with vanilla parity to match Java Edition, especially horse breeding, mobs and blocks.
Playing
- Fixed an issue where the night could not be skipped if one or more players were on the death screen
- Food and drink animations are now always centered, regardless of screen aspect ratio
Mobs
- Breeding horses can now produce random variants (MCPE-129071)
- When breeding a horse, the young horse now has a chance to outperform its parents in speed, jumping power and health. This change aims to make horse breeding a viable way to get great horses, if the player starts with good parents and invests enough time and Golden Carrots
- Horses can no longer be pushed over fences covered with carpets (MCPE-164717)
- Ghast’s audio volume will now decrease the further away they are from the player (MCPE-35222)
- Villagers will now emit anger particles when hit by an out-of-village player
- Fixed a bug where zombified piglins would spawn in the Nether at light levels above 11
- Minecarts can now drop mobs into liquid blocks (MCPE-120078)
- Witches will now drink a potion of fire resistance when standing on a campfire
Blocks
- Bells that are connected to multiple blocks no longer fall when one block is broken
- Note Blocked remote audio attenuation is now linear (MCPE-164935)
- The sounds of missiles hitting Amethyst blocks and clusters can now be heard
- Dead Bush will now drop clubs when broken by any tool other than scissors, even those with the Silk Touch spell. Vine will not drop anything in the same situation (MCPE-163246 )
EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES:
Sniff and Archeology are now available for testing coming to Minecraft 1.20, now known as Paths and stories! Sniffer and Archeology are two experimental features you can try out in this release.
Since these features are still unfinished, in development, and considered a work in progress, be sure to back up your worlds before enabling experimental features. Features can be enabled by turning on the “Next Major Update” toggle in the world settings.
Archaeology
- Added the Kist item
- A block of decorated vessels has been added
- Added four ceramic shards (hands up, skull, prize and archer)
- Added Suspicious Sand block
- Suspicious Sand added to Desert Temple
- Added Suspicious Sand to Desert Well
Brush
- A brush is an item you can use to brush things
Ceramic fragments and decorated vessels
- Ceramic shards have pictures on them. They cannot be crafted and must be found in the world. Tip: you’ll need a brush! By making four of them together, you can create a decorated pot with a picture on each side.
- You can also use brick items instead of pottery shards in the crafting recipe. Sides that are made of brick items will not have images.
- Smash the decorated pot with any block breaking tool to break it and bring back the pottery shards! Or punch it to pick up the pot without breaking it.
Suspicious sand
- Desert Temples and Desert Wells now contain Suspicious Sand. This fragile block is hard to spot and easy to destroy, so be careful!
- If you manage to find Suspicious Sand and brush it, you’ll unearth items that were buried long ago.
- We provide you with an early overview of these archeology features. We want to spend more time on their development. Tell us where you think we can improve or expand!
Sniffer
- Sniff is the winner of Minecraft Live 2022 mob votes and the first [HS1] extinct mob revived and added to the game
- The sniffer cannot be tempted or tamed
- They sniffed out passive friendly mobs
- The sniffer sniffs the air and occasionally digs up the seeds
Torch light
- Torchflower seeds can be planted on farmland and grow into a flower
- The seed can be used to breed two Sniffers
- An adult flower can be harvested and replanted, but it can also be made into paint
REPAIRS:
Stability and performance
- Fixed an issue where pressing the “Mine” and “Place” buttons simultaneously on any input device while targeting a structure block could cause the game to crash (MCPE-155689)
- Fixed crash on Nintendo Switch when trying to log in while set to local network mode
- Fixed a crash that could occur when entering a 1.7.1.0 world in 1.8 or later (MCPE-165564)
Playing
- The player’s crosshair now properly mines/interacts with objects in front of them while swimming/sliding, instead of 1 block above their position (MCPE-57257)
- Players no longer take quick damage when touching damaging blocks (MCPE-165347)
- Projectiles fired while swimming/gliding no longer appear above the player’s position (MCPE-31896)
- Items dropped while swimming/gliding, manually or after death no longer appear above the player’s position (MCPE-31896)
Mobs
- Fixed a bug where an Allay holding a Lead could not be tethered unless the player had a full stack of 64 Leads in hand
- Parrots will no longer shake while on a player riding a horse that spins mid-jump
- Fixed a bug that caused global entities (eg Ender Dragon and Missiles) to stop rendering when outside of the normal entity rendering distance (MCPE-161136)
Blocks
- The sounds of all button and lever types are now controlled by the “Blocks” slider in the Audio settings (MCPE-166420 )
- A redstone source can now feed one block from different sides at the same time (MCPE-163651)
- Destroying a mangrove log or mangrove wood now correctly causes the leaves to decay
- End crystals that occupy the same space as a block will no longer cause the block to disappear
- Players can now place top panels in blocks that are only partially blocked by an entity (MCPE-155016)
- Players can no longer see through partial blocks when sneaking or riding in third person (MCPE-156273)
- The composter now always consumes an item when full (MCPE-162020)
- Importing experimental blocks into a non-experimental world using Structure Block will now correctly place unknown blocks, which are not interactive
- Error messages about building outside world height limits no longer appear when simply interacting with blocks at world height limits from certain angles (MCPE-152935)
- Fixed a bug where Observers were not detecting changes due to corrupted data (MCPE-150506)
- Funnels now pull objects above them through all blocks that have a lower height than the full block (MCPE-55824)
Subjects
- Crossbows now shake when shooting arrows (MCPE-152952)
- Egg spawns for Snow Golem, Wither, and Trader Llama now appear correctly in the inventory and hot lane
- Tomes can now be moved in inventory even when a player has identical Tomes
Touch controls
- Updated the How to Play screen with information about the new touch controls
- Changing input mode from Gamepad to Touch while an item is selected will return the selected item to inventory or drop it
- Fixed an issue on the Furnace screen where double-tapping the output window caused other slots to be unselectable (MCPE-164589)
- Fixed a bug where stack splitting would automatically start on the first slot when opening a small chest
- Allowed left and right D-pad keys to hold input when the forward key is pressed (MCPE-155199)
- Added a button to leave the boat when the player falls from a height inside the boat (MCPE-158489)
- Fixed an issue that prevented players from removing equipped armor by touching an item or block in the creative inventory (MCPE-165790)
- Adjusted keyboard interaction on Android devices for text input fields
User interface
- Fixed an issue where the “Mine” tooltip would appear when targeting a trident block in creative game mode (MCPE-44846)
- Moving right with the left controller stick in the Marketplace sidebar now collapses it
- Added a new ‘Marketplace’ icon to the sidebar of the Marketplace screen
- Ocean Explorer, Woodland Explorer and treasure maps now display the corresponding icon in the inventory (MCPE-163464 )
- Fixed a bug where moving the mouse on the Friend Options dropdown did not move the contents of the dropdown
- Fixed an issue where login/login screen graphics could extend beyond the bounds of the dialog container
- When launching a new world in Pocket UI, removed the “Press Open Chat to open chat” message for players with text-to-speech turned off
- Double-clicking the furnace exit will no longer drop an item (MCPE-165079)
- Fixed a bug where moving the player or camera with a controller while text-to-speech was on for the UI would cause the narrator to say “X of Y”
- Fixed a bug where the Edit World screen could not open for a world if the corresponding world directory had a space in it (MCPE-166763)
- The loading screen no longer flickers when you enter the Nether in immersive VR mode
- The item swap animation now plays when swapping items on a hotbar of the same type with the same durability
Spectator mode
- When passing through blocks in third-person view, the camera no longer zooms in and out towards the player’s head (MCPE-160467)
- End Gateways can no longer be used in Spectator Mode (MCPE-165689)
Empires
- Added a login button to the Realms screen if the player is not logged in yet
- Fixed an issue with the “Find Friends” button and the “Close Area” button automatically focusing when the “Members” or “Subscription” tab is clicked
- Fixed a bug where players could not create a second world on Realms if the first attempt to Create World on Realms was aborted
- Fixed a bug where players could see duplicate packs applied with unknown titles the first time they entered the Realms settings screen
- Resetting the Realms world now correctly updates the world settings
- Removed the Close button in the Play on Realm popup dialog when using a controller
- Updated the reset/replace world confirmation text to make it clearer what each function does
- Fixed the world list not updating with a new Realm immediately after accepting an invitation
- In Realms Settings->Members, the ‘…’ dropdown can now be opened/closed with Enter and navigated with the arrow keys
In addition, technical updates and PC commands have been tweaked for PC gamers — read about it all at Mojang’s official Minecraft website.
Let us know what you think about these changes in the comments.
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