Minecraft Beta & Preview - 1.19.60.26

Posted: 11 January, 2023

Information on the Minecraft Preview and Beta: 

• These work-in-progress versions can be unstable and may not be representative of final version quality
• Minecraft Preview is available on Xbox, Windows 10/11, and iOS devices. More information can be found at aka.ms/PreviewFAQ
• The beta is available on Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions

Here's a list of what is new in this week's Minecraft Preview and Beta! Remember to send us all your feedback at aka.ms/MC120Feedback and report any bugs to bugs.mojang.com.

Experimental Features

Hanging Sign

• Placing a Hanging Sign under an axis-aligned Hanging Sign with V-shaped chains will now result in a Hanging Sign with double chains, if the player is not sneaking

Features and Bug Fixes

Commands

• Fixed a bug causing players to not wake up when teleported while sleeping (MCPE-162346)

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where the "Inception" achievement would not be awarded

Graphical

• The UI no longer flickers on Android when the keyboard pops up (MCPE-142356)
• Highlight selection no longer highlights entire card for transparent objects like saplings
• V-sync settings are properly configured in options (non-ARM devices) (MCPE-110006)
• Resource packs will now be applied to the worlds after navigating to another screen before creation
• Fixed an issue where some resource packs prompted the user with an error after being downloaded

Performance and Stability

• Fixed a potential crash when gliding through an End Gateway
• The game no longer crashes when killing an entity with invalid conditions, functions, or pools entries in its loot table (MCPE-164623)

Vanilla Parity

• Levers now produce the same sound effect as Stone Buttons (MCPE-163335)

Touch Controls

• Fixed the stack splitting feature in non-touch mode

Accessibility

• The new Create New World screen will now be available for text to speech users. We'd be happy to receive your feedback on it here: https://aka.ms/cnwnarration

Technical Updates

Graphical

• Fix text being slightly off-centered to the left for Furnace, Blast Furnace, and Smoker Screen UIs (MCPE-151597)

User Interface

• Resource packs will now be applied to the world after navigating to another screen before creation
• Fixed an issue where some resource packs prompted an error after being downloaded

Experimental Technical Features

API

• RawMessage
  • Changed the signature of property withfrom (string[] | RawMessage)[]?  to (string[] | RawMessage)?
    
    
• EntityHealthComponent
  • Fixed a bug where health could be modified on dead entities (MCPE-130687)
• Scoreboard
  • Added setScore(ScoreboardObjective, ScoreboardIdentity, Number)
  • Added getScore(ScoreboardObjective, ScoreboardIdentity)
• ScoreboardObjective
  • Added setScore(ScoreboardIdentity, Number)
  • Added getScore(ScoreboardIdentity)
  • Added removeParticipant(ScoreboardIdentity)
• ScoreboardIdentity
  • Added setScore(ScoreboardObjective, Number)
  • Added getScore(ScoreboardObjective)
  • Added removeFromObjective(ScoreboardObjective)

Commands

• Reverted an experimental change to animation controller command deferral within the “Upcoming Creator Features” experiment

General

• Release BlockPlacementFilterComponent outside of experimental toggle in JSON formats 1.19.60 and higher

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