Update 1.19.40.22 beta has arrived for Minecraft Bedrock, and here is the complete list of changes and fixes added with this patch. There has been no news regarding the 1.20 update, the game has been getting small additions and minor updates that have fixed several bugs, making the game more reliable and smoother than before. The latest update on the preview build of the game is the Minecraft Bedrock 1.19.40.22 patch. While new the update does not bring many changes in terms of new gameplay additions, but it does bring a lot of bug fixes. Here are all the additions and fixes that are coming to Minecraft with the Bedrock 1.19.40.22 update:

Minecraft Bedrock Update 1.19.40.22 Patch Notes

Bug Fixes

  • Spectator Mode players will no longer make a sound when entering or exiting a bubble column. (MCPE-161536
  • Scaffolding now burns at the correct rate: ¼ of an item. (MCPE-42949)
  • Breaking the block below, a snow-covered flower will now drop the flower rather than a layer of snow. (MCPE-61609)
  • Copying a bubble column with the /clone command no longer results in invisible water. (MCPE-153903)
  • The change that caused arrows and tridents to stop moving was reverted. (MCPE-162085)
  • An issue that caused the Wither’s effect damage to be reduced by armor was fixed. (MCPE-159407)
  • Fixed an issue where beacons would suddenly vanish when viewed from a distance.
  • Drowned will no longer change their held items when attacking. (MCPE-40288)
  • The images for the three touch control schemes in the touch settings menu have been improved.
  • Fixed an issue where players could not drag, drop, or select items from the equipment page.
  • Changed the color of the text descriptions for the ‘Darkness Effect Strength’ and ‘Notification Duration’ accessibility options to a lighter shade to make them easier to read. (MCPE-162047)
  • Fixed an issue where player could not swap unstackable items with touch controls.
  • Fixed a bug where EntityHurtEvent would not fire on player death.

Technical Updates

  • Removed the markers for The Wild Update entity behaviors and components that labeled them experimental.
  • Added documentation for Minecraft:heartbeat and rephrased some preexisting documentation.
  • Added support for recipes to use item tags directly rather than item names.
  • Added new item tags.
  • Converted several recipes from code into their own recipe files.
  • Added several recipes using the new tags to override older, item-specific recipes, though these older recipes still exist for backward compatibility. These recipes include:
  • Barrel, beehive, bookshelf, bowl, brewing stand, campfire, cartography table, chest, composter, crafting table, daylight detector, fire charge, fletching table, furnace, grindstone, jukebox, lectern, loom, noteblock, painting, piston, shield, smithing table, smoker, soul campfire, soul torch, stick, stone tools, torch, tripwire hook, wooden tools

Experimental Technical Updates

  • Implemented the has_property, int_property, bool_property, float_property, and enum_property actor behavior filters
  • Updated the API in several ways:
  • Removed even tick- called each tick
  • Added run()- to queue a callback to run the next tick, re-queue each tick to get behavior similar to tick event
  • Renamed block property id to typeId
  • Renamed block component id to typeId
  • Renamed entity id to typeId
  • Added a read-only entity property id: string- which returns a unique identifier for the entity, which will remain consistent across world loads.
  • Renamed the entity component id to typeId
  • Renamed the item component id to typeId
  • Renamed the item stack property id to typeId
  • Renamed experimental GameTest Frameworks to Beta APIs, which are still needed to access all beta APIs, including core Minecraft APIs and GameTest APIs.

The update brings a lot of minor bug fixes but no big changes to the gameplay. Those are expected to come with the 1.2 update, which will probably bring significant changes to the game. The Minecraft Bedrock update 1.19.40.22 is available on Windows 10 and 11, Xbox One, Xbox Series S and X, PlayStation 4 and 5, Nintendo Switch, Fire OS/TV, Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, and Samsung Gear VR. For more information, visit the official website here.