Minecraft - 1.8.0 (Bedrock)

11 December 2018

## New Features:

* Pandas now spawn in jungles where they roll, lounge, and laze around!
* Stray cats now spawn in villages
	+ Cats can be tamed using fish
	+ Ocelots are no longer tameable
	+ Players can now feed ocelots to gain their trust
* Bamboo can now be found while fishing in jungles and will appear in some chests (Spawning naturally in the world will come in a future update)
* Scaffolding - A climbable block that can be crafted using bamboo
* New Achievements
	+ Where have you been? - Receive a gift from a tamed cat in the morning (20G)
	+ Top of the World - Place scaffolding to the word limit (20G)
	+ Zoologist - Breed two pandas with bamboo (40G)
* Added randomTickSpeed game rule

## For Map Makers and Add-On Creators:

* Updated templates for 1.8.0 with new assets and behaviors can be downloaded from minecraft.net/addons
* Updates to Add-Ons that allow players to add new entities, particles, and animations. See aka.ms/MinecraftAddons for more details and enable Experimental Gameplay in your world!
* Functions have come to Bedrock! Functions allow players to write the commands their worlds use in an external file, not just Command Blocks. See the Minecraft Wiki for more information

## Experimental Gameplay:

(Only available when Experimental Gameplay is enabled in world settings)

* Crossbow weapon with new enchantments
	+ Multishot
	+ Piercing
	+ Quick Charge

## Changes:

* Phantoms are now afraid of cats and will not swoop down while cats are around
* Increased the size of Tropical fish (MCPE-35877)
* Skeleton Horse and Zombie Horse foals now have a chance of being spawned using a spawn egg
* Added a crafting recipe for Packed Ice
* Separated Bone Meal, Ink Sac, Cocoa Beans, and Lapis Lazuli into their own dyes and unified all dye names
* The splash screen now has an animated loading bar
* The following commands can now be run in-game without enabling cheats:
	+ /gamerule showcoordinates
	+ /gamerule dofiretick
	+ /gamerule tntexplodes
	+ /gamerule domobloot
	+ /gamerule naturalregeneration
	+ /gamerule dotiledrops
	+ /gamerule pvp
* A warning now appears when attempting to change settings on a world template, as it could change the creator's intended experience
* Command blocks now have the default name of ! instead of @
* More skin packs are now shown in the skin picker menu, and each pack can be opened and viewed in its own page
* The autocomplete list for player mentions now works in slash commands
* The Remix3D upload service on Windows 10 is no longer available, but creations can still be exported as .glb 3D Object files
* Text-to-Speech can now be enabled on Nintendo Switch
* Minecraft Marketplace:
	+ Content can now be sorted by 'Updates Available' in your inventory
	+ Content can now be sorted and filtered by rating when browsing the Marketplace
	+ Bundles of content can now be purchased

## Fixes:

* Crashes/Performance
	+ Fixed several crashes that occurred during gameplay
	+ Fixed a crash that would occur if the player was disconnected while loading resource packs
	+ Fixed a crash that would occur on Xbox One if the player signed out too quickly after signing in
	+ Fixed a crash that could occur during the splash loading screen on Windows 10 Mobile
	+ Fixed a crash that could occur on startup for Gear VR
	+ Fixed a crash that could occur due to a recent Windows 10 update (MCPE-36274)
	+ Fixed a crash that occurred when hovering over a renamed firework charge (MCPE-37822)
	+ Using a bucket of fish in a dispenser no longer crashes the game (MCPE-38194)
	+ Fixed a crash that would occur when using lava buckets on fish
	+ Fixed a crash that could occur when kelp grows
	+ Fixed a crash that could occur when suspending and resuming the game on the main menu (154576)
	+ Fixed a crash that could occur in worlds that contained locator maps
	+ Fixed a crash that could occur when leaving the Realms settings screen
	+ Fixed a crash that could occur when downloading or saving data on Nintendo Switch
	+ Fixed a crash that could occur on Switch when split screen players broke a large chest
	+ Fixed a crash that occurred when killing and summoning a salmon with its navigation component removed
	+ Improved performance on some devices with less available memory
	+ Fixed a bug where multiple UI screens could be opened at once, causing the game to crash
	+ Shulker boxes that contain tropical fish buckets no longer cause performance issues (MCPE-27167)
	+ Fixed a bug that caused a significant performance drop when rendering chunks (MCPE-37192)
	+ Improved the loading time of various game files
	+ Fixed delayed touch response on the bottom of the screen on iOS (MCPE-29718)
* General
	+ Fixed the bug where the player would unexpectedly turn in a random direction on touch screens (MCPE-35910)
	+ The "Body Guard" achievement can once again be unlocked after creating an Iron Golem (MCPE-33686)
	+ Fixed an issue with custom player permissions that might not apply correctly in multiplayer (MCPE-34864)
	+ Worlds larger than 1GB can now be copied and exported on Windows 10 (MCPE-37269)
	+ Fixed an error that occurred when attempting to start a split screen session with a guest on Xbox One
	+ Split screen players no longer get stuck on the loading screen when re-joining Old worlds
* Gameplay
	+ Lightning no longer strikes if the destination is in a cold biome (MCPE-19015)
	+ Players will no longer teleport when standing against a non-full block and reloading the game (MCPE-31242)
	+ Fixed rare enchantments being too hard to get at higher levels
	+ Potion of Slow Falling will now slow down Elytra descent (MCPE-34926)
	+ The player locator map marker now faces the right direction when aboard a boat
	+ Players will now face forwards when entering a boat (MCPE-36795)
	+ Explosions will now drop blocks if the default game mode is Creative and Tile Drops are enabled (MCPE-23498)
	+ Planting crops continuously will no longer skip blocks (MCPE-35857)
* Items
	+ Fixed a bug where only white firework stars could be crafted
	+ Crafting multiple cakes using the recipe book will now return the correct amount of empty buckets to the player (MCPE-37387)
	+ Dyed beds now have the correct crafting recipe
	+ Fixed an exploit where rails could be duplicated (MCPE-36917)
	+ Fixed an exploit that allowed Tridents to be duplicated (MCPE-37900)
	+ Fixed Enchanted Tridents being lost from anvils following a server disconnect (MCPE-37526)
	+ Flower pots that contain saplings will once again drop the correct type when broken (MCPE-37328)
* Mobs
	+ Large Slimes and Magma Cubes now have the correct sized hitbox based on their size (MCPE-18518)
	+ Fixed mobs not always taking fall damage when they should (MCPE-37257)
	+ Tamed wolves will now tilt their heads when the player is holding meat (MCPE-17144)
	+ Magma cubes no longer inflict damage during their death animation (MCPE-14426)
* Blocks
	+ Kelp will now only grow into water source blocks or full downward flowing water, and no longer creates a new source block (MCPE-37155)
	+ Pistons no longer drop as items when being pushed or pulled (MCPE-37492)
	+ The hitbox of piston arms now matches the size and shape correctly (MCPE-13758)
	+ Players no longer fall through Shulker Boxes as they open (MCPE-28812)
	+ Double wooden slabs can now be placed regardless of crosshair position (MCPE-13799)
	+ When the player has just moved out of a block space, they can no longer place a repeater or comparator that can't be powered (MCPE-36762)
	+ Mobs in minecarts no longer activate adjacent detector rails (MCPE-21863)
* Realms
	+ Fixed the bug where players on Realms could be instantly killed in one shot by a Blaze fireball attack (MCPE-19535)
* Graphical
	+ Fixed a bug that caused horses (and variants) to show flashing colors on certain devices (no more disco horses!) (MCPE-31726)
	+ Fixed a bug where players could see through solid blocks when swimming
	+ Water now renders correctly when surrounded by Barrier Blocks
	+ Wall signs no longer show different types of wood particles when being broken (MCPE-16141)
	+ Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause black visual glitches to appear around blocks when riding a horse
	+ The player's hands are now properly rotated and positioned when aboard a boat and holding a bow
	+ Fixed the Ghast projectile firing animation
* Audio
	+ Ghast sounds are no longer repeated when they are shooting fireballs (MCPE-19156)
* User Interface
	+ Multiple items can be collected when trading with villagers again when using touch controls (MCPE-32635)
	+ Fixed incorrect interact buttons appearing briefly for certain mobs on touch screen devices
	+ The right bumper button now correctly scrolls through the tabs in the game menu on Nintendo Switch
	+ Reassigned Page Up and Page Down keys are now labelled correctly on the Settings screen
	+ The multiplayer toggle is now accurately shown when using platform restricted content on Xbox One and Nintendo Switch
	+ The Achievements button no longer appears in the pause menu if not signed into Xbox Live
	+ Controller hints now show the correct usage of "Open" and "Use" when looking at containers
	+ Health Boost and Absorption effects no longer have the same icon
	+ Fixed the buttons used on the startup message for players using Windows Mixed Reality
	+ Removed "MCPE!" from the list of splash screen messages (MCPE-36741)
	+ Search results in the Marketplace are now more consistent when searching through all content
	+ Only templates are suggested in the "Get More Templates" menu now
	+ Fixed incorrect message when accepting an invite from a notification on Nintendo Switch with certain parental controls set
* Commands
	+ Running the 'title' and 'subtitle' commands will once again override any titles and subtitles currently on screen
	+ Relative coordinates in commands are once again consistent below 3 on the y-axis (MCPE-35130)
	+ Using Shift + Tab to reverse cycle through slash command auto-complete suggestions now properly cycles to the end of the list
	+ Lava blocks no longer appear green in the command autocomplete area (MCPE-33788)
	+ Player names that are made up of only numbers are now surrounded with quotation marks when using autocomplete for slash commands
* Add-Ons:
	+ 'minecraft:navigation.walk' can now be used in component groups without causing the game to crash
	+ Added a underscore to "frozen\_river" in the 'biomes\_client.json' file so it matches the other vanilla Resource Pack entries (MCPE-36799)