Minecraft Preview 1.19.40.23 brings improved vanilla parity, experimental changes, and more
A new Minecraft Preview build tests some major technical updates and other tweaks.
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What you need to know
Players invested in Minecraft’s future can participate in its development by testing out and providing feedback on Minecraft Preview builds and updates. On Thursday, Mojang Studios began rolling out Minecraft Preview 1.19.40.23, the latest such release with plenty of new bug fixes, tweaks, and technical updates to the well-known Minecraft: Bedrock Edition experience.
The update is still more modest, similar to many other recentMinecraft Previewversions, as it continues to build upon Minecraft 1.19 “The Wild Update.” There are some positive changes for vanilla parity and fixes for mobile touch controls, a major experimental change to Minecraft’s APIs, further tweaks to the steadily-improving Spectator Mode, and more. This pre-release build arrives not long after the public release of theMinecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.19.30 patch update.
Xbox has hundreds of incredible games, but there are few that are as influential and successful asMinecraft, which has continued to evolve for over a decade. While this Minecraft Preview build is modest and doesn’t include any new features, it’s likely we’ll learn about the next chapter of Minecraft’s journey, among other things, duringMinecraft Live 2022, which is airing later this year.
The full changelog forMinecraft Preview 1.19.40.23includes:
Features & bug fixes
Blocks
Mobile touch controls
Mobs
Performance & stability
User interface
Vanilla parity
Education NPCs
Marketplace
Technical updates
General
Actor properties
Commands
Experimental features
API
Spectator Mode
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition
Minecraft Preview 1.19.40.23 tests changes to make Minecraft: Bedrock Edition even better, and it’s already one of the greatest ways to play Minecraft on practically every platform imaginable.
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