Minecraft 2.18 Patch Notes - What's new in the Minecraft update

Released in 2011, Minecraft has been growing massively over period of time. game has a unique interface which helped it to gain a lot of love from players worldwide. And w, Mojang Studios has released a new Minecraft update 2.18 which comes with major changes on PS4. and all or platforms. You have to download and install a total of 200 MB on ors and 225 MB on PS4. If you have been wondering about Minecraft 2.18 patch tes, n do t worry, here is all you need to kw about it.

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Minecraft 2.18 patch tes

New Features

• Added a new Achievements screen design and brand new achievement artwork
• Over a dozen new Character Creator items have been added and can be unlocked with achievements

Vanilla Parity Changes and Fixes

• Sea Turtles w play a sound when y lay eggs
• Dolphins will w dry out at same rate as y do in Java Edition; 120 seconds
• Undamd Mending items will longer prevent damd Mending items from being repaired
• Basalt can longer be destroyed by Ghast fireballs
• Basalt blocks w take slightly more time to destroy
• TNT longer activates when a Redstone Torch is placed directly on it
• Experience Orbs w float in water
• Adjusted Nerite movement in lava
• Nerite armor longer take durability loss when standing on magma blocks
• Trade discounts from Hero of Vill and Curing Zombie Villrs w match Java Edition
• Phantom wings w make flapping sounds
• Pistons can longer be extended above build height limit or into void Brewing Stands can w be crafted with Blackstone
• Players can w spawn farmland with /give command and pick it with Pick Block
• Cod and Salmon killed by fire dam w drop cooked fish
• It’s w possible to place chains so that y are aligned horizontally
• Floor and ceiling surface generation w correctly match Java Edition
  • Soul Sand Valleys w have ceilings covered with Soul Soil and Soul Sand
  • Basalt Deltas w have Basalt ceilings
• Striders with passengers can w be tempted
• Piglins w drop ir inventory when zombified
• Allow Piglins and Piglin Brutes to preserve equipment when zombified
• Piglin Brutes w give 20xp instead of 10 when killed by player
• Lanterns can w be placed underwater and do t pop when a water source block is placed on m
• Piglins w offer similar bartering items as y do in Java Edition
• Soul Fire longer melts sw or ice blocks
• Zombified Piglins longer float above Striders while riding
• Warped Fungus can w grow in Crimson Forests
• Piglins w offer Ner Bricks instead of Ner Brick blocks when bartering
• Baby Zoglin and Baby Hoglin w have drops after being killed by player
• Baby Zoglins w have cute, oversized heads
• Wir Skeletons w automatically attack Piglins and Piglin Brutes
• Hoglins will w flee from Respawn Anchors
• Iron Golems w attack Hoglins
• Zoglins w take dam from Healing effect and heal from Harming effect
• If Ruined Portal chests contain Glistering Melon, y longer contain only a single melon slice
• Zombified Piglins that are jockeys on Striders w hold a Warped Fungus on a Stick
• Piglin Brutes longer have enchanted Golden Axes
• All expected Ner plants can w be composted
• Crimson and Warped Fungus can w be placed on Mycelium
• Soul Speed enchantment found in chests is w limited to Bastion Remnant chests
• Soul Campfires w drop Soul Soil instead of Charcoal when mined
• Increased Strider health from 15 to 20 (MCPE-76425)
• Piglins can w equip Shields, Elytra, Turtle Shells, and various Mob Heads
• Piglin Brutes longer become angry from specific blocks being broken, y still always attack a player on sight though
• Baby Zombified Piglins w correctly display items held in ir hands
• Quick crafting a Piston will w work with Warped Planks and Crimson Planks
• Baby Hoglins w deal appropriate dam
• Piglins w spawn naturally in Ner Wastes on Peaceful difficulty

Changes

• Added several new experimental toggles to enable previews of upcoming engine techlogy and support Add-Ons and Marketplace content
• Added new Mojang Studios logo splash screen on Android devices

Fixes

• Performance/Stability
  • Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when player opened a Shulker Box y’re standing on after rejoining a multiplayer session
  • Fixed a crash that could occur if a player joined a game in a sleeping state
  • Improved reliability of Nintendo Switch players joining or Nintendo Switch games
  • Adding tags to Ender Dragon will longer crash game when reloading world
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when a stunned entity loaded into world
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when Player 1 in a split-screen session disconnected ir controller
  • Optimized chunk loading performance
  • Various bandwidth optimizations

General

• Fixed worlds disappearing from worlds list during crash at world start on Xbox One
• “ Beaconator” achievement can w be reliably unlocked
• “Archer” can w be reliably unlocked
• Fixed ‘Super Fuel’ achievement t being awarded when using lava bucket in a furnace
• 24-bit PNGs without an alpha channel are longer accepted as valid custom skins

Gameplay

• Fishing Rod will w correctly cast when close to a mob
• Custom named boats and minecarts will w save ir name after placing and breaking. ir names will also be shown in world
• Fixed empty worlds getting generated after closing a PS4 world import midway through process
• End City loot chests once again generate correctly
• Fixed players and mobs t taking dam when walking through berry bushes
• Killing mobs that have armor equipped with ranged weapons w results in armor loot

Mobs

• Villrs longer get locked into wrong profession
• Bees w leave ir hive/nest after an allotted time in End and Ner dimensions
• Hostile mobs can w spawn in thunderstorms during day
• Foxes longer take dam when falling on berry bushes
• Fixed Vex movement along x and z directions
• Blaze w switch between melee attack and ranged attack based on distance from player
• Mob’s inactivity timer is w reset when closer than 32 blocks from nearest player
• Shearing a Sw Golem w drops a carved pumpkin
• Turtles and Dolphins on land will w successfully move towards water
• Ghasts once again spawn in all light levels
• Mobs in lava were t able to find a path out. This fix makes it so y can enter a lava block if y are already in lava
• Mobs can longer move Minecarts y stand in
• Mob spawn range w scales with simulation distance
• Villrs from older versions w level up correctly when trading
• Improved performance of farmer villrs when harvesting or sowing crops
• Fixed a bug which could prevent farmer villrs from harvesting crops
• Player-ridden Striders w jump onto magma blocks as well as n-full blocks in front of m when guided by Fungus on a Stick
• Baby animals can once again be tamed, before growing up
• Bees can w only exit Beehives and Bee Nests through air blocks
• Slimes can w spawn in slime chunks inside frozen biomes

Blocks

• Fixed issue where some walls were t correctly connected on world load
• Walls converted from Console Edition saves are w joined properly
• Water from bubble columns w flows as it should
• Hoppers with containers above m can longer collect dropped items
• Fence gates w align with Blackstone Walls
• Placing blocks on Crimson Roots and Warped Roots will w properly remove roots)
• Target blocks longer power additional blocks above m
• Beehives and Bee Nests w show correct front-facing texture
• Lava and water textures are w visible after placing Slime block or Honey block next to or above m
• End gateways will w correctly calculate distance to center block when searching for an exit position
• Plants and crops w grow more consistently when near chunk borders
• Brown and Red Mushrooms can w be grown into huge mushrooms on Nylium
• Cocoa Beans can w be placed on and survive on all jungle wood variants
• Gravity affected blocks longer break when ir supporting block is moved by a piston
• Falling blocks w break after falling for extended periods of time
• Podzol longer generates below top layer when spawning large spruce trees
• Observer block textures longer get stuck in an active state after being moved by a piston
• Fixed a bug that could cause falling blocks to duplicate near a portal
• Fixed an issue that caused rails to t be powered correctly along x-axis
• Saplings longer incorrectly transform into a bee nest when next to a tree and flowers
• Dragon Egg longer disappears if placed on pedestal and Ender Dragon is respawned
• Signs can longer be placed on End Rods

Items

• Compass items will w point correct direction when player is in a boat
• Compasses with custom names w retain ir names when linked to a Lodestone
• Compasses with Curse of Vanishing w retain ir enchantment when linked to a Lodestone
• Lodestone Compasses can w be enchanted with Curse of Vanishing using an Anvil
• Boots enchanted with Soul Speed longer become stuck on mobs or player after breaking
• Smelted items (prior to 1.13) longer contain incorrect dam values and can be stacked
• Dropped items longer float too low to ground
• Dragon Egg w always drops when it is destroyed by an explosion
• Totem of Undying w applies correct effects upon dying
• Armor longer gets stuck in hot bar after interacting with an armor stand
• Corrected map color representation for multiple blocks
• XP orbs once again igre world lighting, allowing it to always be at max brightness
• Banner patterns can w be crafted in 2×2 crafting grid
• “Thing” banner can w be crafted at Loom
• Fixed an issue that caused item durability to t be assigned until a world was reloaded
• Spawn Eggs can w be used on an underwater Monster Spawner
• Fixed dropped item stacks becoming invisible after merging with ar item stack
• Iron pickaxes can w be dropped by mobs during raids

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Realms

• Added more detailed error messs with possible solutions when a world fails to upload to a Realm
• Fixed a crash that occurred when downloading large worlds from Realms
• Selecting “Man” button for Realms subscriptions w opens appropriate Microsoft account p
• Content that is owned through a Realms Plus subscription w roams across all platforms

Graphical

• Fixed an issue with skybox background graphics t rendering correctly on some devices
• Fixed an issue with missing animation when damaging bamboo
• Fixed a graphical issue with glass blocks on City Living world that affected some devices on Windows 10
• Touchscreen input “Chat and Commands” UI element w has a darker border

Audio

• Music is longer interrupted when entering water in ocean biomes
• Reduced raid horn sound

Crafting Screen

• Various improvements to Crafting Screen experience when using a controller
• Cobblestone is w shown as default ingredient for stone tools
• Items in inventory will longer move into crafting grid when hovering over recipes
• selected recipe will longer be cleared when changing tabs, even if you don’t have all necessary ingredients for that recipe
• Picking up items while cursor is hovering over a recipe w updates to recipe’s new index
• Crimson and Warped Stems/Hyphae are w in ir correct Creative inventory groups
• Ner and Warped Wart blocks are longer in an unfolding section in creative menu

Structure Blocks

• Removed name field from structure block 3D Export screen
• Fixed incorrect chunk position calculation for block changes that occur during Structure Block preview window
• Structure loading/saving longer affects ticking blocks in nearby chunks
• Fixed Reset button t re-rendering wireframe bounding box

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User Interface

• Added to Sans font license button and pop-up dialog to Profile section of Settings screen
• Updated splash texts and loading screen tips
• Fixed system langu settings for Simplified and Traditional Chinese t houred by game
• Fixed an issue that meant block highlight/selection box was extending above blocks
• Time played w displays correctly on Achievements screen
• Beacon container interface longer shuffles items around inventory slots when trying to quick-move items from inventory while Hotbar is full
• Pressing ‘Leave Boat’ button on touch devices will longer make player hit a passenger or destroy Boat
• A button icon has been added to NPC dialog screen to show which gamepad button to press to close window (Education Feature)
• hovered slot data is w cleared properly whenever cursor is moved off an item slot. This way gamepad helpers are correct when t hovering over an item slot
• item name text that appears when player changes Hotbar selection w anchors from bottom. This way when it grows, it will t overlap with Hotbar
• Fixed ‘Profile’ button in Pause Menu t being sized correctly
• “Ride Exit” hint w clears action bar messs
• Smithing Table screen w contains hammer icon and user interface elements appear correctly when using “Pocket” UI profile setting
• Custom names w modify boss bars
• Grindstone longer shows a result unless it changes item Fixed navigation problems between Featured Items, Achievement Rewards, Emotes, and Dressing Room
• Change Gamertag and Man Account buttons on Settings screen w open xbox.com URLs on iOS and Android
• Dressing Room w shows cached items when t connected to internet

Commands

• Fixed a crash could occur when using ‘/fill ‘ command to fill huge amounts of blocks with Portal blocks
• Text and background for title command (Title, Subtitle, and Actionbar) have been adjusted and d out
• Fixed a bug where a request queued with ‘/schedule’ would t clear out when executed and would execute when re-entering a level
• Added to ‘/schedule on_area_loaded’ command with an overload that allows you to track a circular area, by specifying a centre and a radius. Also added serialization for queue of requests
• Fixed issues with ‘/schedule’ command that would consider an area loaded before it was actually loaded, and command w respects which dimension it is queued in.

Info ~ Mojang Studios/ Minecraft website

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