Bedrock Edition beta 1.11.0.8

**Beta 1.11.0.8** is the sixth beta version for Bedrock Edition 1.11.0, released on March 27, 2019, which fixes bugs.

## Fixes

Crashes
* Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when entities like XP orbs touch bell blocks. (MCPE-43224)
* Fixed a crash that could occur when using a crafting table in Creative mode.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when spawning a vile spider from the MINECON add-on pack.
* Sneezing pandas no longer crash the game.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when suspending the game on Gear VR.
* Fixed a bug that could cause the game to freeze when selecting Save & Quit.
* Fixed a crash that could occur on Bedrock Dedicated Server.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when viewing owned skin packs.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when the text to speech feature tried to read a special character.

Performance
* Improved the performance when opening the player inventory with the crafting recipes open. (MCPE-41772, MCPE-41166, MCPE-27167)
* General performance improvements.
* Improved performance by adjusting the 'RandomStroll' mob behavior.

General
* Text to Speech now only operates when the focus is on Minecraft.
* Text to speech no longer stops working if too many punctuation marks are used.
* Choosing the "Allow Games to Speak to Me" option on Xbox now works correctly with Minecraft.
* Updated text to speech popup text.
* Text to Speech now correctly reads the generating world dialog boxes.
* Text to speech now only auto-enables when the client is set to English.
* Text to speech for touch now uses single tap for focus and double tap for press.
* Fixed a bug where the text to speech narrator would read world names twice.
* Made further improvements to world saving, to prevent worlds becoming disappearing from the world list.
* Worlds should no longer get stuck on the 'generating world' screen when the player is in the end dimension. (MCPE-41513)
* Free preview skins now roam across devices when signed in to Xbox Live.

Gameplay
* If a player exits and re-enters a world during a raid, the boss bar no longer disappears, and the 'Hero of the Village' effect can still be obtained.
* Raids no longer fail to spawn waves while the player is flying.
* Reverted the fix for players falling through blocks around blocks 65k from spawn. (MCPE-39299)

Mobs
* Skeleton horses spawned in from earlier versions can be ridden once again. (MCPE-40857)
* Removed the distance restriction for phantom spawning, meaning they should spawn more readily now. (MCPE-43736)
* Villagers can now properly access the entire village outskirts, without showing frustrated particles because it's too far.
* Spawned villagers who are leveled up now start with the preferred profession and won't change when introduced to a new village.

Blocks
* End portal blocks can no longer drop as items. (MCPE-42991)

Items
* Crafted items once again stack correctly with partial stacks already in the player's inventory. (MCPE-42719)

Graphical
* Clouds are now three-dimensional again. (MCPE-43505)
* On screen animation no longer plays for all mob effects. (MCPE-43502)

User interface
* Ratings button for server consumables now shows "Rate this pack!" instead of the purchase button.

Add-ons / script engine
* Added component references for new villagers.
* Original villager and zombie variant spawn eggs can still be obtained and used in Marketplace content that utilized them.

## References

1. ↑ "Minecraft Beta - 1.11.0.8 (Xbox One/Windows 10/Android)" , March 27, 2019.