Bedrock Edition beta 1.2.13.8

**Beta 1.2.13.8** is the first beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.4.0, released on March 16, 2018, which adds some of the Update Aquatic features through Experimental gameplay and fixes bugs.

## Additions

### Blocks

Slabs and stairs
* Added slabs and stairs for prismarine, prismarine bricks, and dark prismarine.
	+ Only available through Experimental gameplay.

Stripped logs
* A barkless variant of logs.
* Created by using an axe on a log.
* Only available through Experimental gameplay.

Stripped wood
* A barkless variant of wood.
* Can only be placed with `/setblock ~ ~ ~ stripped_<type>_log 3`.
* Only available through Experimental gameplay.

### Items

Trident
* Obtained by killing drowned.
* Can be thrown or used as a melee weapon.
* Only available through Experimental gameplay.

Spawn Egg

* Drowned.

### Mobs

Drowned
* Spawn in oceans and rivers.
* Only available through Experimental gameplay.

### Gameplay

Enchantments
* Channeling
	+ Only has one level.
	+ Used on tridents to summon a lightning bolt on impact with a mob during thunderstorms.
	+ Only available through Experimental gameplay.

* Impaling
	+ Goes up to level V.
	+ Used on tridents to deal more damage to players and mobs in water or rain.
	+ Only available through Experimental gameplay.

* Loyalty
	+ Goes up to level III.
	+ Used on tridents to make it return to the player when thrown.
	+ Only available through Experimental gameplay.

* Riptide
	+ Goes up to level III.
	+ Used on tridents to launch the player when thrown while in water or rain.
	+ Only available through Experimental gameplay.

Swimming
* Added a new swimming animation while sprinting in water.
	+ Only available through Experimental gameplay.

## Fixes

* Iron golems no longer spawn when mob spawning is disabled.
* Rain, smoke particles, and shadows are no longer visible through lava.
* Disabling "Visible to LAN Players" for one world no longer disables it for all worlds.
* Buttons cloned in a "pressed" state no longer remain pressed forever.
* A warning now appears instructing not to close the game when exporting a world.
* The power output of redstone comparators is no longer lost after a world is converted from Xbox One Edition.
* Pick Block no longer replaces the item currently selected in the hotbar if other slots are empty.
* Increased stability and fixed several crashes.
* Abandoned mineshafts no longer generate above ground.
* Fixed improper mushroom block obtained from giant red mushrooms when using Pick Block.
* Tools now work properly and no longer shake in-hand.
* Sticky pistons no longer turn into regular pistons after being renamed.
* Tripwire hooks once again appear in jungle temples.
* Players can once again stand on top of ladders.
* Mob heads can no longer be duplicated by placing them in water.
* Strongholds once again generate with mossy stone brick and cracked stone brick.
* The maximum render distance on Xbox One X is once again 22 chunks.
* More than one line of text can once again be placed on signs.
* The B button no longer has to be pressed twice on the controller to deselect a skin in the Skin Picker.
* Heads and skulls that are placed on a wall no longer have incorrect hitbox positions.
* Invisible vines no longer appear on jungle trees.
* Torches can once again be placed in the same block occupied by a player.
* The player now descends more slowly in water.
* Fixed world updates occasionally not rendering.

## References

1. ↑ "Minecraft Beta - 1.2.13.10 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)" , March 16, 2018.