Minecraft update out now (version 1.18.30), patch notes

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch

A new update for Minecraft is available, with the game getting version 1.18.30. There’s a lot here, including how worlds can now be created with 64-bit seeds. There are also a bunch of changes to improve damage and hunger calculations, new experimental features, tons of quality of life improvements and bug fixes, and more.

The full patch notes for the Minecraft version 1.18.30 update are as follows:

Realms World Storage
We are cleaning up expired Realms that have been collecting dust. Realms that have been canceled for more than 18 months will be deleted. Find out more at aka.ms/expired-realms-update
RenderDragon
The new Minecraft Bedrock rendering engine, RenderDragon, is now live on Android, iOS, Switch, and Windows 10 UWP x86 builds! Consolidating onto our new graphics engine will allow us to continue investing in future performance and stability improvements, as well as exciting new features for Minecraft!
This technical update shouldn’t impact gameplay or experience, but if you run into any new issues, please file feedback so the team can investigate
Vanilla Parity:
World Generation
Worlds can now be created with 64-bit seeds (-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807). These seeds can be used between Bedrock Edition and Java Edition to produce the same world (MCPE-144994, MCPE-148168)
Non-numeric seed UI inputs now produce the same seeds as Java Edition
Acacia Trees now grow Leaves on every branch below Y = 0 (MCPE-151386)
Gameplay
Tweaked hunger depletion rate to better match Java Edition (MCPE-56031)
Players can now properly lose hunger when sprinting or swimming
Players lose significantly less hunger when jumping
Exhaustion rates can now be tweaked in Behavior Packs
Players flying in Creative mode are no longer pushed by liquid current (MCPE-84592)
Mobs
Shulkers now have a chance to spawn another Shulker when hit by a Shulker projectile (MCPE-104826)
When a mob picks up an item, the item can now be seen slightly “pulled” towards the mob right as it picks it up. This matches the behavior of Java Edition
Drowned can no longer spawn where the block light level is above 0 (MCPE-150148)
Bees no longer become angry when Beehives are destroyed by Silk Touch (MCPE-83550)
Untamed Wolves can now be leashed (MCPE-82050)
Mobs can no longer spawn on Campfires (MCPE-152770)
The Ravager now targets and attacks the Wandering Trader (MCPE-44606)
Mobs spawned from a Dispenser are now persistent (MCPE-110521)
Blocks
Falling blocks once again have full-block hitbox
Changed block tick rates for Cactus, Chorus Flower, Crops, Grass, Pointed Dripstone, and Saplings to match Java Edition (MCPE-145612)
Cauldrons now only fill with water and lava by Dripstones that are below water and lava source blocks
TNT blocks now correctly move in a random X/Z direction once lit
Glow Lichen no longer generates hanging in the air inside Strongholds (MCPE-123448)
Glow Lichen now correctly checks for the face of the block they are attached to be a full block
Glow Lichen can now be attached to Leaves
Blocks such as Glow Lichen, Torches, and Redstone can no longer be placed on or attached to Brewing Stands
Blocks such as Glow Lichen, Torches, and Redstone can now be placed on or attached to Trapdoors, depending on their state
Azaleas and Lily Pads are now broken by flowing water (MCPE-152040)
Items
The player’s arm no longer twitches while charging a bow (MCPE-148486)
Nether Brick, Iron/Gold Nuggets, Red/Brown Mushroom Blocks, and Chorus Plant/Flower Blocks can no longer be used as fuel in Furnaces (MCPE-114216)
Water and Lava Buckets can now be used on waterlogged blocks, such as Light Blocks or Big Dripleaves (MCPE-148392)
Combat and Damage
Improved accuracy of damage calculations
Fixed some issues where damage invulnerability wasn’t being applied properly
The camera now shakes the same way it does in Java Edition when the player receives damage (MCPE-118510)
Fixed an issue where the Protection enchantments mitigated too much damage. This has been changed to match Java Edition (MCPE-113191)
Absorption Hearts no longer stay yellow while under the Wither effect (MCPE-131852)
Added armor toughness
Diamond Armor and Netherite Armor now have a toughness value of 2 and 3 respectively
Tweaked armor reduction calculation to account for toughness
Netherite Armor will now reduce more damage than Diamond Armor
Lowered the amount of knockback resistance granted by Netherite Armor (MCPE-109408)
Punching deals less damage now, to better match the Java Edition (MCPE-152713)
Damage is now calculated more accurately by properly calculating and storing partial damage for larger damage
Mobs across higher and lower difficulties had their damage adjusted slightly accordingly
Mobs with knockback resistance (e.g. Ravager or Zoglin) now receive less knockback when hit by an Iron Golem
Armor and protection reduction calculations have been made more accurate
Dragon’s Breath attack now properly deals damage (MCPE-94317)
Protection Enchantment now properly works on most damage types (MCPE-40651)
Landing on a Stalagmite is now properly considered fall damage (MCPE-151192)
Blaze Fireball will deal knockback on impact (MCPE-82421)
Blaze fireballs, Fang attack damage, and Shulker bullets now deal consistent damage across all difficulties
Small Magma Cubes do slightly more damage, from 2 to 3 on normal
Spiders deal slightly less damage, from 3 to 2 on normal (MCPE-94878)
Baby Zoglins deal slightly less damage, from 1 to 0.5 on normal
Baby Hoglins now attack players for 0.5 damage on normal (MCPE-152577)
Skeleton melee attack does slightly less damage, from 3 to 2 on normal
Wolves deal slightly more damage, from 3 to 4 on normal
Fixed an issue that was causing entities to not be protected from fire damage by the Fire Resistance effect
Fixed a desync issue that could sometimes cause health to regenerate only visually
Villagers
Updated Villager trade tables for Armorer, Cleric, Fisherman, Shepherd, Toolsmith, and Weaponsmith to match Java Edition
Fishermen Boat trades now change wood type based on Villager biome type
Clerics now offer Glowstone instead of Glowstone Dust
Weaponsmith enchanted Iron Sword trade moved to Novice
Armorer Diamond trade moved to Journeyman
Villagers no longer share Seeds and Beetroot Seeds
Cartographers now always unlock Woodland Explorer Map trade (MCPE-152725)
Fixed an error where Journeymen Clerics would offer Glowstone Dust instead of Glowstone Blocks (MCPE-57524)
Farmer Villagers can now use Bone Meal on crops and can turn excess Seeds into Bone Meal at their Composter (MCPE-74079)
Experimental Features:
Reminder: Remember to make regular backup copies of your favorite worlds before enabling experimental features!
Please keep in mind that these features are work in progress, still under in development, and subject to change. If you activate them, your world might crash, break, or not work with future updates. Experimental features cannot be turned off after world creation.
For more information, please see the article about enabling experimental features at aka.ms/MCExperimentalFeatures.
Deep Dark Biome
Dimly lit and eerie, the Deep Dark is sure to strike fear into the hearts of even the bravest players
Ancient Cities
Wander the halls of these long-abandoned structures in the Deep Dark depths to uncover relics long forgotten
Warden
The horror of the Deep Dark! A creature with no eyes, roughly resembling the Sculk that can be found throughout the Deep Dark, the Warden is an unstoppable force of nature that inhabits this biome
Sculk Blocks
A new variety of blocks that can be found in the Deep Dark
Darkness Effect
A new mob effect unique to the Warden and Sculk Shrieker, which will afflict players with the effect when nearby
Lowers the gamma down at an equivalent of “Moody” while having this effect
Allay
Allays will collect all the surrounding items that match the item they are holding
Allays will like a player who hands them an item and will bring the items they collect to their liked player
Boat with Chest
Function similarly to Minecart Chests, but in Boats instead, so you can take a journey on the water and carry your things with you
Goat Horn
Dropped when a Goat with at least one horn rams these blocks: Stone, Packed ice, Iron Ore, Copper Ore, Emerald Ore, or any kind of wood log from the Overworld
Axe Changes
Attacks with Axes towards a raised Shield will disable the Shield for 5 seconds
Spectator Mode
This update contains early functionality for Spectator Mode – a much-wanted feature we’re adding to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. This will launch after the upcoming 1.19 update has shipped, but we’ll be testing it further in upcoming Betas and Previews. We recommend not relying on this in-development feature, which was not meant to be included in the release. 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.
Known Issues:
Teleporting entities into unloaded chunks removes them from the world. This will be fixed in an upcoming update
Players are unable to invert the camera Y-axis when playing with touch controls. This will be fixed in an upcoming update
Fixes:
Performance / Stability
Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay
Fixed a crash that could occur when uploading corrupted worlds to Realms
Fixed a crash that could occur upon leaving the Zooming menu in the Dressing Room
Fixed a crash that could occur when hovering over the search bar in the crafting menu when playing with a controller
Fixed a crash that could occur when stopping a Bedrock Dedicated Server (BDS-16742)
Gameplay
Fixed an issue where the Mending enchantment would not always correctly consume XP Orbs to repair (MCPE-120119)
Players in Visitor Mode can no longer break Paintings and Minecarts (MCPE-132869)
Teleporting vertically beyond the visibility distance now loads terrain correctly (MCPE-150021)
Fixed a bug where the player could switch to gliding when riding in certain scenarios (MCPE-147904)
Crouch (sneak) state is now reset when player dies to avoid getting stuck in crouch state after respawning
The player’s position when rejoining a world will remain the same if they quit while in lava (MCPE-124219)
Players can now fly down through Ladders and other climbable blocks such as Vines in Creative mode without stopping (MCPE-82480)
Fixed a Furnace exploit where items could be duplicated if the output slot was selected (MCPE-152411)
Fire that existed before the Fire Tick game rule is enabled will continue to spread again (MCPE-140396)
Vertical field of view is no longer halved in horizontal split screen, making items such as Book & Quill easier to view when playing in split screen
Fixed tick range check excluding chunks that were actually in range
World Generation
Fixed duplicate End Crystals spawning on top of End Spikes (MCPE-147817)
Improved surrounding terrain for structures such as Villages during world generation (MCPE-145659)
Fixed underwater lava lakes not turned into Obsidian during world generation (MCPE-128022)
Mobs
Villagers no longer avoid Zombified Piglins (MCPE-94102)
Fixed an issue where Villagers did not hold the item they would trade when presented with Emeralds by the player (MCPE-150303)
Mobs are now able to path over Azalea blocks (MCPE-129373)
Mobs are now able to path over Dripleaf blocks and properly pathfind on top of them, when not fully tilted
Mobs are now able to path over Pointed Dripstone blocks and properly pathfind on top of them (MCPE-133270)
Mobs can now move properly on top of solid partial blocks, like Bells, Brewing Stands, and Enchanting Tables
Mobs can now jump from high enough solid partial blocks to full ones at a higher position
Mobs can now jump over fences if they are standing on an adjacent slab or on another block high enough
Mobs can now move through less than half-block tall Top Snow even when the ceiling, if any, is as tall as the mobs themselves (MCPE-148355)
Fixed a bug in the Glow Squid’s texture where the glow map in the alpha channel was incorrect, causing patches of non-glowing texture to be seen (MCPE-117507)
Fixed an issue where players could not access a Villager’s trades while holding a spawn egg (MCPE-76153)
Fixed an issue where Witches spawned during Village raids could despawn during the raid (MCPE-149883)
Cod, Salmon, Pufferfish, Tropical Fish, and Dolphins once again spawn in deep variants of ocean biomes (MCPE-150191)
Fixed Fangs from Evoker spells not being spawnable in blocks with no bounding boxes
Changed the spawning logic for Iron Golems and Cats to make it easier for them to spawn in roofed areas, like underground villages (MCPE-142292)
Fixed an issue where some large mobs in Marketplace maps could get stuck
Shulkers no longer like to occupy the same block as another Shulker (MCPE-43972)
Shulkers now prioritize attaching to neighboring block faces before trying to teleport away
Shulkers now stay attached to the current attached blockface if it is valid, instead of switching to upright position
Blocks
Fixed a lighting bug where light level 1 incorrectly dropped to 0 when placing blocks in light level 1 with multiple light sources (MCPE-151266)
TNT no longer disappears when ignited with the ‘TNT Explodes’ game rule disabled and the ‘Fire Spreads’ game rule enabled (MCPE-82485)
Gravity affected blocks now fall on Top Snow when placed above it instead of hovering over it (MCPE-151407)
Fixed an issue with resource drops occasionally remaining black after breaking and placing a block quickly in its place
Top Snow no longer clips with the block beneath when falling
Fixed an issue where interacting with the Bell while holding a chargeable item would not continuously ring it (MCPE-56968)
Fixed an issue where projectiles would ‘bounce’ off of Bells in strange ways (MCPE-47847)
Removed water from the extra-block when placing an Amethyst cluster (MCPE-148394)
Scaffolding can no longer be placed without support on y=0 (MCPE-150765)
Observers placed facing Double Chests no longer send out a Redstone pulse when reloading/re-entering a chunk
Save Structure Blocks now correctly detect Corner Structure Blocks at negative Y levels (MCPE-151511)
Breaking a layer of snow placed in the same block as a flower no longer destroys the flower (MCPE-151512)
Items
Custom armor can now be equipped with the “Use” button when different armor is already equipped (MCPE-125323)
Graphical
Fixed an issue that caused some emotes to have unintended rotations when near the end of their animation (MCPE-134328)
Fixed a case where ray tracing resources would be destroyed prematurely on level exit from an RTX-enabled world
Fixed the stage 3 carrot texture not showing up in-game, due to an incorrect filename (MCPE-152175)
Fixed a bug where the Shield blocking animation stopped playing smoothly after blocking once (MCPE-149838)
Fixed the crosshair disappearing when Outline Selection for blocks is disabled
Players that are on fire now render fire in front of the player on the inventory screen regardless of in-game camera perspective (MCPE-147777)
Fixed a highlight effect on Leather Armor appearing on paper dolls when using higher anti-aliasing (MCPE-75321)
User Interface
Added an option in Video Settings to toggle anti-aliasing on the Nintendo Switch (MCPE-123352)
Fixed the loading screen when suspending and resuming the game while playing split-screen on Nintendo Switch
Increased line spacing on the “Realms Plus subscription has expired” screen
Chat changes:
Control + Backspace will now erase the whole word before the caret
Control + Delete will now erase the whole word after the caret
Control + Left Arrow will now move the caret to the beginning of the word before the caret
Control + Right Arrow will now move the caret to the beginning of the next word after the caret
When first opening the inventory screen in Pocket UI, we now default to the “Craftable” tab on the left-hand side, and the crafting grid on the right-hand side
Removed the question mark button on the Pocket UI inventory screen
Accessing the recipe book from the Inventory screen now only shows items that can be crafted from that screen’s 2×2 crafting grid
Players can now use auto-move to equip or unequip armor in Crafting Table’s menu while in Pocket UI (MCPE-148970)
Updated generic controller face button icons on mobile devices
Fixed a bug where the label above the inventory screen crafting grid in Pocket UI would get truncated in some languages
Fixed an issue in Pocket UI where items could be dropped unintentionally in blocks with custom UIs, and resized those screens to allow for dropping items on the sides instead
Improved contrast on multiple UI elements
Fixed an issue with the screen reader looping on the Play screen when you had a Realms invite
Download popup no longer flickers when closed
Added warning popup on Marketplace pages when attempting to equip skin pack skin while character creator item is equipped
Fixed issue where info and buttons did not appear for downloaded skin packs (MCPE-152216)

All Switch players can download the Minecraft version 1.18.30 update now.

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