Minecraft PE Beta 1.19.80.21

Beta 1.19.80.21 (Android) or Preview 1.19.80.21 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox) is the second beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 1.19.80, released on March 15, 2023^[1], which adds Suspicious Gravel and Smithing Templates behind experimental gameplay, and fixes bugs.

Additions

Command format

/inputpermission

• Allows for check or setting the player’s camera or movement as enabled or disabled:
  • To check the permission(s): /inputpermission query <targets: target> <permission: permission> [state: state]
  • To change the permission(s): /inputpermission set <targets: target> <permission: permission> <state: state>

Target selectors

• Added the haspermission target selector, which allows for selection based on player permission levels.

Changes

Blocks

Fences

• The ID’s of fence have now been split up into their own ID’s.

Command format

/clone, /fill and /setblock

• The block state arguments are no longer required.

Items

Potions and Tipped Arrows

• Changed colors of following potions (all forms) and tipped arrows:
  • Fire Resistance
  • Harming
  • Invisibility
  • Leaping
  • Night Vision
  • Poison
  • Slowness
  • Strength
  • Swiftness
  • Turtle Master
  • Water Breathing
• Potions no longer have an enchantment glint due to it obscuring the color of the potion contents.

General

Options

• Increased “Glint strength” and “Glint speed” accessibility settings from 50% to 75%.

Technical

AI Goals

• Added cooldown field to target descriptors in minecraft:behavior.nearest_attackable_target goal.

Bedrock Editor

• Custom blocks are now listed in the block selector.
• Fixed z-fighting on paste preview over selection volume.

Recipes

• Removed ‘data’ key to recipe json format.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the “Next Major Update”, and “Beta APIs” experimental toggle.

Additions

Blocks

Suspicious Gravel

• Looks like gravel, but rougher.
• Affected by gravity, vanishes when landing.
• Drops nothing when mined or moved, even if mining with Silk Touch.
• Generates naturally in ocean ruins, currently with no items.
• Brushing the suspicious gravel with a brush will extract objects.
  • Has 4 stages of extracting, will recover gradually when stop brushing.
  • Turns to regular gravel when extraction is done.
  • Only suspicious gravels with a valid archaeological loot table can extract an item.

Items

Smithing Templates

• New item series for armor trimming and netherite upgrading, with twelve of them.
  •  Netherite Upgrade
  • Armor Trim:
    •  Coast Armor Trim
    •  Dune Armor Trim
    •  Eye Armor Trim
    •  Rib Armor Trim
    •  Sentry Armor Trim
    •  Snout Armor Trim
    •  Spire Armor Trim
    •  Tide Armor Trim
    •  Vex Armor Trim
    •  Ward Armor Trim
    •  Wild Armor Trim
• They can be obtained randomly from chests generated in structures accordingly.
  • Exceptions:
    • While randomly generated in other rooms, a netherite upgrade smithing template is also guaranteed in every treasure room in a bastion remnant.
    • 1 eye armor trim is guaranteed in every stronghold library chest.
    • A single tide armor trim smithing template is sometimes dropped by elder guardians upon death.
  • Some armor trims are rarer.
  • The following common armor trims always generate 2 templates in a chest when found:
    • Dune
    • Coast
    • Wild
    • Sentry
• Consumed when used to upgrade an item in the smithing table.
• Can not be crafted directly, but can make a copy of them by crafting in crafting tables as following pattern:
  • 7 diamonds, shaped as iron ingots in cauldron crafting recipe.
  • 1 block of material that the template is made out of, placed in the center slot of the crafting grid.
  • 1 smithing template, placed in the remaining slot.

Changes

Blocks

Cherry Leaves and Cherry Sign

• Their textures have been updated.

Piglin Head

• Their ears now flap when the wearer is riding a vehicle.

Stripped Cherry Wood

• Can now be crafted from Cherry Stripped Log (MCPE-168053).

Items

Armor

• Now can be visually customized with a variety of unique trims at the smithing table.
• Purely visual with no gameplay benefits, and can only be applied to helmets, chestplates, leggings and boots.
  • All trim patterns are visually the same on an armor’s item icon, but the color will still change based on the trim material.
  • The name of the trim pattern will be displayed on the item’s tooltip.
• Armor trim has 2 properties: pattern and material.
  • Pattern: Defined by the smithing template used to apply the trim, and represents the visual pattern of the trim.
  • Material: Defined by what ingredient is used to apply the trim, and represents the color of the trim.
    • Available ingredients:
      • Amethyst Shard
      • Copper Ingot
      • Diamond
      • Emerald
      • Gold Ingot
      • Iron Ingot
      • Lapis Lazuli
      • Nether Quartz
      • Netherite Ingot
      • Redstone Dust

Mobs

Frogs

• Frogs born in the Cherry Grove biome are now the temperate variant instead of the cold variant (MCPE-168083).

Gameplay

Smithing Table functionality

• Redesigned: it is now a workstation for physical equipment upgrades and modifications.
• Added a slot used by smithing templates to the left of the old 2 slots.
• Smithing templates define what type of upgrade that will be making to equipment.
  • It specifies both what type of items that can upgrade, and which ingredients are valid to customize the upgrade.
• Netherite equipment crafting now also requires a netherite upgrade smithing template.

Technical

API

• ItemStack
  • Added function getTags(): string[] – Returns all tags for the item.
  • Added function hasTag(tag: string): boolean – Returns true if the item has the specified tag.

EntityEquipmentInventoryComponent

• This component is used to manipulate the equipment of mobs and players. To use it, call getComponent('equipment_inventory')
• Added function getEquipment(equipmentSlot: EquipmentSlot): ItemStack undefined – Returns the item in the given equipment slot.
• Added function getEquipmentSlot(equipmentSlot: EquipmentSlot): ContainerSlot – Returns the container slot for the given equipment slot.
• Added function setEquipment(equipmentSlot: EquipmentSlot, itemStack?: ItemStack): void – Sets the item in the given equipment slot.

ItemDurabilityComponent

• The ItemDurabilityComponent now works with all damageable items, not just custom items.
• Removed property damageRange.
• Setting damage will now throw an exception if it is outside of the range [0, maxDurability].

GameTest Framework

• Updated specific GameTest exceptions to be thrown as GameTestError error objects.

Scripting

• Form promises are now rejected using typed errors, vs. strings as used previously.

Fixes

Gameplay

• Fixed experience orb position desync after teleport. (MCPE-59584)
• Going into lava in third person view no longer causes the camera to turn black. (MCPE-166861)
• Fixed an issue where players load incorrect data when loading a local game after connecting to a server or Realm. (MCPE-164765)
• Fixed an issue where the player camera height was incorrect with or without the sneak toggle. (MCPE-167559)

Graphical

• LevelChunks no longer flicker in The End dimension when Clientside Chunk Generation is enabled.

User Interface

• Corrected toggle navigation in Edit World menu while using gamepad or keyboard that were previously skipped.
• Updated designs for sign in and sign up screens in preview.
• Search bar in Creative inventory screen is now automatically selected while using a keyboard.

Blocks

• Sponges no longer emit water drop particles underwater. (MCPE-122138)

Mobs

• Villagers will now wake up in a valid position and will not phase though blocks. (MCPE-142544)