1.20.40.22 - Preview

[mint gale]

Beta and Preview Changelogs

Minecraft Beta & Preview - 1.20.40.22

It's that day of the week!
A new Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Preview is out now!

Posted on · Sep 20, 2023, 3:34 PM

[fast fulcrum]

first

[mellow urchin]

Mali gpu

[sharp haven]

Hell yeah, even more stable scripts

[fast nova]

first

[drifting plaza]

the suffer is no more

[fast fulcrum]

late

[raven dock]

Unless ur device doesn't support the minimum compute thread group size

[mellow urchin]

Then the suffer is more

[fast fulcrum]

mali is mali

[drifting plaza]

lemme check rq

[bright violet]

Banana

[drifting plaza]

I have 512 compute thread group size

[fast fulcrum]

let's go with the water lava fix

[quasi cargo]

❤️

More of this please!!!

[sharp haven]

This is crazy, I can almost develop my add-on in full stable once 1.20.40 comes out without having to release an update everytime an updates releases

[haughty oriole]

Happy Preview Day!

[fast nova]

who took my sticker down I was writing a caption :(

[wide rampart]

Holy carp, everything is in 1.6.0

What’s left in beta?

[bright violet]

Thanks for the delicious banana, Kayla

[haughty oriole]

gross?

[fast fulcrum]

thanks for releasing both preveiw and stable

[bright violet]

😭 It was a way to say thank you for todays Preview

[fast nova]

@haughty oriole welcome back I hope your little vacation was wonderful

[haughty oriole]

It was! I went to Disneyland

[fast nova]

YAY! I hope you had fun!!!

also I had a question for you, will you be answering Q&A questions or will it be specific mojangsters?

[haughty oriole]

If I have an answer, I will. But it will probably be other mojangsters

[fast nova]

thank you

@haughty oriole is it possible that we could see some type of editor mode mode that acts like a traditional viewport in software like C4D, Blender etc;

[haughty oriole]

How do you figure? Tool mode already does this - but it's more like Unity or Unreal where you'd be manipulating a scene, as opposed to C4D/Blender which would be manipulating an asset. or are you looking for a multi-angle asset viewport? Regardless, ask in the editor channel or submit a ticket on the github.

[wispy wing]

Beta apis are releasing to stable so quick 😄

[fast nova]

(i forgot we had that channel tbh)

and yeah, I feel like the way selected objects are handled is very clunky, whenever I use editor mode its my biggest frustration

[sharp haven]

I don't even know what's left in beta

[drowsy saffron]

excited to hear your answers!!!

[old rain]

An enum Difficulty is available on the 1.20.40.22 ! (but unusable for now)

[leaden gazelle]

Happy preview day!

[wide rampart]

The changelogs were finally moved off of the main server page 🎉

[cloud mesa]

what?

soon?

[wide rampart]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/scriptapi/minecraft/server/minecraft-server
Blazing speed

[cloud mesa]

like that?

[leaden gazelle]

Do we have @mighty parcel to thank for this?! ❤️

[cloud mesa]

I already thank to navi since he has the script api reference pages under manage

[velvet bobcat]

Does everyone at Mojang are possesed by Disney overlords? Seems like every mojangster I spoke to went to disneyland for vacation

[mellow urchin]

No it's just Americans unwittingly rebelling against their society imposed car centric lifestyles by engaging in simulated urbanism :p

[ionic crown]

preview

[wide rampart]

||no|| Air tag

[frosty anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-there-baby-yoda-mandolorian-hello-gif-20136589

[fast fulcrum]

bye

[frosty anchor]

:(

Came back after i went out.

[ionic crown]

Mali Bug Fixed

[frosty anchor]

and what I see is a bomb from mojang for this week as

[fast fulcrum]

i need to sleep my eye is bulging out

[cloud mesa]

you sure thats all? i can generate full changelog if you want

[frosty anchor]

and yes let's go. Mali GPUs Fix :D

Time to test it on my realme 8

[cloud mesa]

but if you sure then i am not going to

[pliant hemlock]

I don't understand the Editor test thing

[ionic crown]

Me either

will check it out once update is out

[spare yoke]

lmao you cant even see players more than 60 blocks away

[fast fulcrum]

it's gonna be interesting when I troll my friends

[velvet bobcat]

Hey @limpid bear , could you explain what exactly is Editor Lite?

We heard your feedback that the current testing workflow is bulky, time-consuming, and takes away valuable time you could be building instead of restarting Minecraft to test minimal changes. Introducing the first iteration towards our v0.5: Edit/Test Lite release!
This doesn't really explain it well, is this a different instance of Minecraft Editor? How do we access it? What'ts it's purpose?

[old rain]

It is in french but BlockInventoryComponent.container is now optionnal, and we can get the weather of a Dimension

[velvet bobcat]

Im trying to write the changelog for the MC Discord and trouble figuring out how best to put this rather than just putting alink to the GH webpage

[spare yoke]

Why cant they just make a toggle option for it for gods sake every game nowadays has it😩

„Player Viewdistance“ or whatever

[fast fulcrum]

fax entity distance is in java i think

[spare yoke]

It is😔

[fast fulcrum]

i can understand for rt and deferred but base game should have it

[mint gale]

Minecraft Preview v1.20.40.22 is out now on the Microsoft Store!

[lucid sparrow]

some of you guys really thinks theres a script api update

(its me)

[wide rampart]

Just a bunch of stable stuff

Which is dope

[lucid sparrow]

but the minecraft is still not stable

which is not dope

[wide rampart]

A few weeks, probably

[round breach]

What we can use instead of minecraft:knockback_resistance in items?

[spare yoke]

yes and i dont think it would affect the other two much because its literally just entitys that get rendered, not chunks or blocks

[bright violet]

The Github doesn't say much more, but I think its a bit like developement ***packs where you can edit it more easily without restarting the whole Editor, but that is just a guess

[limpid bear]

Yes! Hexland kindly did a write-up in the channel while I'm in a meeting, hehe! #old-editor message

tl;dr - test your world in the context of the Editor instead of closing out and spinning up an exported .mcworld in non-Editor mode

[glass flax]

hmmm

[sharp haven]

Nethernet?

[haughty oriole]

just a silly name for one of our networking tech pieces. nothing new

[wide rampart]

Like skynet, but with buried internet nodes instead

[velvet bobcat]

🤪 It's not game dev if we don't have silly names for tech now wouldnt we lol

[bright violet]

OreUI be like :P

[velvet bobcat]

RenderDragon

[velvet bobcat]

Though, I much prefer RenderDragon than its other name candidates

[keen echo]

The game reported it 😮

[dusky dome]

https://tenor.com/view/bh187-spongebob-patrick-star-derp-duh-gif-21500047

this is the bug reporter rn

(joke)

[eager shale]

yes

now everyone can freely customize touch controls

[leaden gazelle]

Do packets travel 8 times as fast compared to the overworld?

[hoary granite]

I wonder why the changelog doesn't mention it?

[eager shale]

no idea why, but they did mention this

[hoary granite]

What kind of players can't use it?

Besides those without touch controls obviously

[eager shale]

by i mean "everyone" here, even players on pc can open "customize controls" screen as of now (uncontrollable and soft locked, until you press ESC)

[hoary granite]

For some reason it's still called Resizeable UI on my end

[lament vortex]

everything?

[wide rampart]

Including the kitchen sink!

[lament vortex]

what

[wide rampart]

Many events, the is* properties, level API, bug fixes, etc

[lament vortex]

yay!

[wide rampart]

Very little left that is beta exclusive

[lament vortex]

yeah

[haughty oriole]

Now is the time to mention any APIs that are still beta that are high-value to bring to stable.

[lament vortex]

Block.above(), .north, south, east, west, below

[wide rampart]

Script APIs are everything that HCF were not- speedy stable releases go brrrrrr

[vocal pond]

This preview, are most of scripting stable?

[haughty oriole]

most of what we'd call "critical APIs".

[hoary granite]

Vector class

And BeforeChat event

Ok maybe not that last one, but I just want it

[velvet bobcat]

So HCF and Scripting and Cameras

[hoary granite]

DynamicProperties though

[haughty oriole]

yeah, working on dynamic properties still

[hoary granite]

Would be good to have something similar for blocks and items too. So that we can store data on them as well

[haughty oriole]

Camera APIs went stable today

[fast fulcrum]

Someone's gonna quote Kayla on this 😂

[lament vortex]

Data driven cameras when?

we need them please

[haughty oriole]

Define data-driven cameras

[hoary granite]

They technically are

Just not enough data driven

[velvet bobcat]

😅 Yes thats what I meant, in regards to what considers HIGH VALUE

[lament vortex]

the cameras that are in the resource pack

if those become data driven, i would be happy

[spare yoke]

omg i want this

[spare yoke]

YESS

[hoary granite]

So here's the immediate list wish for scripting.

• Vector Class
• Dynamic Properties
• Rider component

[haughty oriole]

So you want to be able to create a camera via script and not have to pre-define one in JSON?

[hoary granite]

I don't think that's it. It's just having those JSONs be accessible to creators

[lament vortex]

Yeah

[haughty oriole]

I don't understand

[lament vortex]

hmm

so I basically want to be able to modify the player cameras for example the first person camera

and for that to be done we need the cameras to be data driven

[hoary granite]

custom camera_entity when

[drowsy knot]

Bringing mob functionality back to the equipable component would be great

[hoary granite]

Yeah they said they'd want to do that

[spare yoke]

It would be nice if we were able to add our own cameras similar to the third-person camera, and then use them in-game.
So imagine many different third-person cameras for different situations

• On a Horse
• While aiming with a bow
• While flying

[hoary granite]

Well we technically have data driven cameras already. It just needs to expand to third and first person cameras too

[lament vortex]

basically data driving this

[glass flax]

@lament vortex have you noticed new stuff for Ore UI?

[lament vortex]

i haven't yet, i came back home like a couple of minutes ago

[glass flax]

Fine 🙂

[swift haven]

I would love the BeforeChat event!

[soft flame]

Why can't camera files be modified in the resource pack?

Or add a new camera? :/

[pliant hemlock]

getAllStates() 😢
the only thing I'm missing to getmy script to stable

[velvet bobcat]

Im just waiting fro 1.20.40 to be stable so I can ship my add-on

[drifting sorrel]

also the ability to inherit from first/third person for camera presets would be nice, so you can make the camera match if you edit the players height

[hoary granite]

That's what I was talking about before

[drifting sorrel]

yee

it would go hard

[drifting sorrel]

this might sound like i don't know what i'm taking about (i don't, that's why) but something like permutations or smthn, letting us change how the camera works depending on molang or something on those lines could be cool

[vocal pond]

Did 1.20.40 add water ambience?

[raven dock]

If you're waiting for stable deferred, it won't be releasing any time soon

[vocal pond]

It'll be preview for at least a year

[raven dock]

A year maybe too much but 6 months definitely

[drifting sorrel]

that one guy who wants it on switch rn :

[vocal pond]

so many stable APIs

[lusty merlin]

EntityRideableComponent and EntityRidingComponent.

If I'm not mistaken, the only way to guarantee interfacing between a ride/rider currently (that is to say: not using fallible entity lookups based on position) is to create component groups and events on the rider that use minecraft:environment_sensors to watch for filter changes on itself or its ride to trigger events on either.

This is terrible and painful, and these 2 scripting component interfaces would have saved me at least 5 hours a few weeks ago.

[drifting sorrel]

Stable APIs when Unstable BPIs walk in

[vocal pond]

I am interested in these new entity components

or renames

[velvet bobcat]

Oh no, not about deferred, mostly talking about the HCF being released out of xeprimental and some of the beta 1.7.0 scripting features

[vocal pond]

I am not sure what they do

[pure remnant]

Ikr, an amazing feature

[velvet bobcat]

What does that do?

[pure remnant]

Before this was a thing, I add an interact event and used /ride. So that way I'd know some what accurately which player was riding which mob

[velvet bobcat]

Ah I see

[lusty merlin]

I guess an alternative is for /execute to get something like as ride or as riders, but I like scripting now.

[pure remnant]

Basically, you get the rider/vehicle of whichever entity you want

[velvet bobcat]

Does this mean you can make an entity ride another entity without using environment sensor and running /ride?

Currently I have a mob that uses that method to force you to ride them

[pure remnant]

I think you can also do that? Last I checked script api's to .addRider() (I have no idea if this is the right name) didn't work

[vocal pond]

I don't think I need anything for scripting

[velvet bobcat]

Huzza

I am now gonna use this knowledge and rework my entity

[slow walrus]

This is actually a Java feature BTW:
https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Commands/execute#on

[pseudo urchin]

Yes but they have to wait for the portal animation (and chunk loading) so it's arguably slower

[versed vector]

nice

💀

[velvet bobcat]

I dont get it

[drifting plaza]

the shadows are square and wasn't smooth

[velvet bobcat]

Gotcha

[versed vector]

also img quality

fps is like 5

perfect for pvp

[frosty anchor]

Alot of stuff happens overnight when i sleep lol

should I sleep again?

[versed vector]

xd

[round breach]

are u guys aware that setting "minecraft:durability": {"max_durability": 2}, in items does nothing when minig blocks? also the item wizard from blockbench lies to me.

[vocal pond]

Cuz you need an on_dig event that damages the item

For now

[round breach]

ok but that is not an event in format version 1.20.20 and well the blockbench item wizard tells me that I can make a custom pickaxe that can get damaged if I use it...

[vocal pond]

Use old format versions

Problem solved

Or use scripting

[round breach]

I'm pretty sure by the component description it should work without events or scripting... And just by testing it seems to work without them but only when hitting entities not mining blocks

And bcs of that I am not sure what the intended behaviour is like it works hitting entities Wich it didn't in older format version like 1.16.100 but not for mining blocks.

[round breach]

also it's losing twice the durability amount you set

[hoary granite]

Actually that seems to be vanilla behaviour. At least when hurting mobs 🤔

[fast fulcrum]

blue mode error is back baby

also upscaling bug is worse now

[vocal pond]

nice water

[hoary granite]

That's my normals. You're welcome

[fast fulcrum]

i think it was by siscilicon i found it in the chat:)

[fast fulcrum]

thanks

[vocal pond]

I used the site he provided to make my normal map :)

[hoary granite]

Honestly I really want someone to make better normals. I just plopped the water's regular texture in a normal map generator

[fast fulcrum]

what site?

i did not see any site

[vocal pond]

I could try

[fast fulcrum]

nvm got it it think this is it https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/

[raven dock]

Just download existing animated looping tileable water normals asset, no need to make it yourself

[fast fulcrum]

what if i upscale the sisilicon textures

[hoary granite]

Don't

[fast fulcrum]

why

[hoary granite]

That ain't gonna look good

[fast fulcrum]

textures looks weird for vanilla but

[vocal pond]

Im gonan try Veka's ide

[raven dock]

Make sure to use a larger tiling, texture that repeats every block doesn't look that nice imo

[vocal pond]

the one i downloaded has 35 frames

120*

[raven dock]

A bit of an overkill, you can remove some in-between frames, flipbook blending will take care of the smoothness

[vocal pond]

16 frames would do?

this texture file is high res

[raven dock]

Depends on looping time. You should aim for a specific FPS rather than frame count imo

[fast fulcrum]

bruh this looks horrendous

[drifting plaza]

mali-gpu fix is uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

my brother and christ what is that.

[fast fulcrum]

lmao i tripped out seeing that i thought it was one of those clones

[fast fulcrum]

may i know the soc name

[hoary granite]

Thankfully it just looks like shadowmap problems

[drifting plaza]

dimensity 700 (not overclocked atm)

well I suppose might have to stuck with community or unofficial fix for awhile

[mellow urchin]

A cool effect

[hoary granite]

L + low res texture + no bias

[raven dock]

It fixes mali issue but nothing else. Other GPUs also have broken shadows

I made a fix for a similar shadow bug, it might work here as well

[drifting plaza]

that's upscaling on by default, what could you expect

[drifting plaza]

Will give it a try for moment.

[eager shale]

now we need the worse deferred render

[drifting plaza]

nope, crashes.

[raven dock]

Yeah it's for old version, I'll update for latest

[earnest geode]

This is why we have a feedback forum on GitHub - we do appreciate any feedback and suggestions you might have

[earnest geode]

That one is used by Editor for the new Edit/Test session API

[fast nova]

i am the biggest boomer when it comes to github, i’ll need @lament vortex to help me

[old rain]

Oh okay, it would be great if we become able to use this enum to change the world difficulty

[raven dock]

Try this one. Tho it may not work, cuz I tested previous one on latest version and it was working for me so crash could be device specific. Or maybe you have somehow different shader files

[versed vector]

can someone give me best rtx pack

[velvet bobcat]

Madlads Defined PBR pack is nice

[ionic crown]

I am so glad you guys went with github for editor mode suggestion/feedback. No offense but the feedback site is terrible and should be wiped off the face of the earth.

[drifting plaza]

uhhhhhhhhh

The game doesn't crash, but it doesn't fix that shadow map issues.

Still the same.

[raven dock]

Ah well, it was worth a try

That means it's a different kind of shadow bug

[vocal pond]

I'd like a material file for godrays

Or, lightrays

[raven dock]

It's possible and YSS shader has it. Tho you can't install shaders (material.bin files) via resource packs so you won't be able to include it in yours

[orchid musk]

oh hell yeah properties out of beta if i read this correctly

[vocal pond]

Yea, but theirs is only for stable MC

I never got it to work in preview

I wanna use it with my lighting

[raven dock]

I'll be doing experiments with shaders soon. Will keep that in mind and send you the shader with volumetrics if I get it working

[vocal pond]

Alright.

Appreciate it

[marble carbon]

🥳🥳🥳

[pure remnant]

Custom behaviors are so much easier to manage, just wish they gave up more dummy components like this

[marble carbon]

no, that means the sniffer.json file is finally free for editing

[quasi cargo]

But also much better than before!

[tawny linden]

Things like disabling view bobbing for a specific view such as first person would be very helpful. I was hoping that the resource pack camera files were applicable in this update so, I could disable view bobbling. Its sad that they weren't.

[pure remnant]

I mean yeh, there's that too

But using those components does make it easier to do custom beahviors

[lament vortex]

how is Entity.getRotation() not stable yet

[haughty oriole]

I think this is still looking at 1.20.40

[lament vortex]

yippee! :D
thanks kayla! 💖

[cloud mesa]

i was having some issues with that

it was returning inversed value for arrows

[lament vortex]

:<

[hoary granite]

arrow rotations are weird straight up

[pseudo urchin]

I also had issues with that... when a mob walked, then turned its head to look somewhere else, its rotation was still the previous "walked" direction

But the same was true for the ^^^1 offset so I'm not sure if it's something deeper