Development on The Wild Update for Minecraft is now officially underway for both versions, with no indications of slowing down with Minecraft 1.19.0.24 from Mojang Studios. On Thursday, the studio began releasing a pair of new betas to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition and Minecraft Preview players, including a new item, numerous modifications and changes to current features, and even a suggestion for an upcoming feature.
What has changed in Minecraft 1.19.0.24?
The “recovery compass” item that was first introduced in a previous Java Edition snapshot is now included in this beta and will take players back to the site of their most recent death. Mojang Studios also announced that it’s developing “Spectator Mode” for Minecraft, which won’t be available until The Wild Update but will instead be part of an experimental beta.
The beta is now available to participants in the Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta or Minecraft Preview, and it’s a surprisingly good step forward toward the full release of The Wild Update later this year. When it launches, it will include new creatures such as frogs, the Warden, and allays, as well as new biomes including mangroves swamps, and Deep Dark. The Wild Update is expected to be one of the greatest Xbox games presently available, and Mojang Studios is committed to enhancing it further with The Wild Update later this year. Pre-release snapshots and betas are open to interested players.
Minecraft 1.19.0.24 update notes
Below is the list of changes that were announced.
Minecraft Preview on Xbox Series X|S
- Xbox Series X|S players may receive an error message (code 0x8b050033) when launching Minecraft Preview
- Uninstall and reinstall Minecraft Preview to complete the update and resolve the error
Minecraft 1.19.0.24 Spectator Mode
- Some of our more eagle-eyed players might have noticed that last week’s beta and preview contained early functionality supporting the spectator gamemode, which was accidentally made available in the game
- We know that this is a top feature request for the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft, and our developers have been working hard to bring you this feature
- We are currently working on developing the first iteration of spectator mode to get your feedback to plan for the next iteration. However, we still have a lot of work to do! The first iteration will not be finished in time for 1.19, so we will be moving it to an Experimental Toggle in an upcoming beta
- Until we have a more polished version for you, please consider that any content or maps built on this feature will not be supported as this feature will change and evolve
- We won’t be accepting bug reports related to spectator mode until our first iteration is released, as the feature is likely to change during development
Minecraft 1.19.0.24 Features & bug fixes
Recovery compass
- A new Recovery Compass can be crafted with Echo Shards which can only be found and are unique to Ancient City chests
- Unlike a normal Compass, the Recovery Compass will point to the last place you died
- If you are not in the dimension where you last died, or you haven’t died yet in your world, it will randomly spin
- It can be crafted with 1 Compass surrounded by 8 Echo Shards
- Echo Shards will be available as loot in Ancient Cities in a future update
Sculk shrieker
- Tweaked the Shrieking particles of the Sculk Shrieker
- Sculk Shriekers should not be triggered by Redstone activation
- Added can_summonblockstate to Sculk Shriekers that determines whether a Shrieker can trigger a Warden to spawn. Only Sculk Shriekers placed during world generation in the Deep Dark and Ancient Cities will have this state set to true
- Running away from a Sculk Shrieker during shrieking is no longer a viable way of preventing the summoning of a Warden
- The Sculk Shrieker no longer attempts to spawn the Warden in Peaceful mode
- The Sculk Shrieker now spreads the highest threat level amongst players in the vicinity, not the threat level of the closest player
Warden
- Warden now has a hurt animation when taking damage
- Fixed a bug where the Warden’s ribcage UVs were overlapping their right tendril UVs
- Warden will now prioritize players over mobs when angry
- Improved Warden suspect tracking gameplay behavior, and increased the Warden’s ‘sniff’ range
- Spawning a Warden in Creative mode no longer applies the Darkness effect to the player
Reinforced deepslate
- Reinforced Deepslate can no longer be pushed by Pistons
Frog
- Froglight and Frogspawn blocks now have new sounds
- Frog Spawn is now called Frogspawn
Goat horn (Experimental)
- Goat Horn sound is now instant
- Added Goat Horn variations to the Pillager outposts
- Removed Copper Horn
- Although community feedback was mostly positive, the Copper Horn was a fun experiment that didn’t quite live up to our design goals, so we decided to remove it
- We understand people might be sad, but to be able to try out new and interesting things we need to be able to remove experimental features sometimes. This leaves space for even better features in the future!
Touch controls
- Player can now change hotbar item slot while in a Boat
Allay
- Fixed a crash that could occur if a non-owner player takes an item from the Allay while it was chasing its owner
- The Allay now regenerates two health each second
Boat with chest
- The group of Boats with Chests now has the correct translation in inventory
- Mangrove Boat with Chest now has a crafting recipe
Mud bricks
- Crafting Mud Bricks now correctly gives four Mud Bricks from one craft
Minecraft 1.19.0.24 Gameplay changes
- Set stack limit for brewing station result slot to 1, as to avoid getting input stacks being overwritten when the brew is complete
- Fix crash in block_placer component when the block parameter is an unknown block
- Blocks affected by gravity now fall correctly on replaceable blocks
- Slabs can now be placed continuously
General
- Fixed an issue where clicking on the top row of pixels of a button in the new Create New World screen didn’t properly trigger its action
Graphical
- Fixed a bug causing the fire animation to flicker when the player is standing in a lava Cauldron while in creative mode
Items
- Fixed incorrect names for White Dye, Black Dye, Brown Dye, and Blue Dye
Minecraft 1.19.0.24 Stability & performance
- Fixed enchantment option on Pocket UI Profile not being displayed
Vanilla parity
- Several improvements to level chunk blending
Command blocks
- When a Command Block clones itself twice with the /clone command, the cloned command block will now activate on the first try
Minecraft 1.19.0.24 Technical updates
Commands
- Command selectors will now correctly identify players by name instead of their name tag
- Title commands fired before a client was done joining will now show instead of being ignored
Mobs
- The is_moving filter now returns the correct value when an actor is moving
Molang
- Avoid crashes on certain devices when parsing Molang expressions with many OR or AND operators
General
- Tied ‘consume’ animation to ‘consume’ duration
Known issues
- Interactive blocks (such as Hoppers) cannot be shift-placed continuously without opening the UI
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