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"footer": "<span style=\"display:inline-block; padding:0 .4em;\">[[bedrock Edition guides/Discovery Update|◄ Discovery Update]]</span><span style=\"display:inline-block; padding:0 .4em;\">[[bedrock Edition guides/Update Aquatic (Phase One) |Update Aquatic (Phase One) ►]]</span>"
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This guide is a simplified overview of all the changes in the Better Together Update (Bedrock Edition 1.2.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the Discovery Update (Bedrock Edition 1.1.x releases).
Mobs
New
| Name |
Image |
Habitat |
Drops |
Note
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| Parrot
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- Passive creatures can be tamed using seeds.
- Has the ability to fly and occasionally rest on the ground.
- If there is music playing from a record player nearby, they will dance accordingly.
- Will dance even if they are on the player's shoulders.
- They will die after eating a cookie.
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Changed
| Name |
Image |
Changed
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| All mobs
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- Now avoids cactus, fire and lava.
- Adjusted the color it flashes when attacked.
- Increased stride stability when moving up stairs while riding certain creatures.
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| Mooshroom
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Now only generates above mycelium.
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| Witch
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- A potion of fire resistance will be drunk when standing on top of a magma block.
- There is now an 8.5% chance of dropping the potion you are taking when killed. Before this, they always dropped potions.
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| Skeleton, stray and zombie pigman
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Now has a chance to spawn with enchanted tools and weapons.
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| Ender dragon
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Corresponding particles will now appear when stopping using dragon breath attack.
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| Sheep
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Shorn sheep no longer drop wool when killed.
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| Adult polar bear
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Panic now appears when on fire.
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| Villager
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- Peasant villagers now sell 5-7 apples for 1 emerald.
- Observe new offers from villagers more quickly after trading is unlocked.
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| Horse
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- Eating or drinking something while riding a horse no longer slows the player down.
- Updated appearance.
- No longer opens its mouth when dropping a player or taking damage.
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| Donkey
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- Updated appearance.
- No longer opens its mouth when dropping a player or taking damage.
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| Mule
|
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Updated appearance.
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| Skeleton horse
|

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Can now be saddled.
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| Snow golem
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| Ghast
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Ghast fireball activates Nether portal when it hits it.
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| Blaze and enderman
|

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Lingering water bottle now deals damage to it.
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| Cow
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Players will no longer drink the milk directly after milking the cow.
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Blocks
New
| Name |
Image |
Obtaining |
Tool Required |
Uses
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| Banner
|
              
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Can be mined with any tool, but axe is the fastest.
|
- V-shaped and reversed-V shaped magenta flags with black stripes will generate naturally in end city.
- Can be used for decoration.
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| Jukebox
|
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Can be mined with any tool, but axe is the fastest.
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- Can be used to play music discs.
- Can use a funnel to insert records.
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| Coarse dirt
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Can be mined using any tool, but shovel is the fastest.
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| Structure block
|
    
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Can only be obtained via command.
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Cannot be destroyed.
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Is only available in Windows 10 Edition and has a 3D export mode that cannot be changed.
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Changed
| Name |
Image |
Changed
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| Item frame
|

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From items to entities.
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| Brewing stand
|

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Blaze powder is now required to power brewing stands.
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| Beacon
|
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- Light beams will now change color when passing through stained glass or stained glass panes.
- The color of the light beam will only use the color of the highest layer of stained glass and will not be mixed.
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| Ice
|
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Is now transparent.
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| Stained glass and stained glass pane
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| Observer
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- Updated the texture of observer so that the observer will now flash red when outputting a redstone signal.
- Now able to detect updates to more blocks.
- Increased the strength of the redstone pulse output by the observer, and no longer has two pulses when the piston expands and retracts once.
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| Bricks, nether bricks and clay block
|
 
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Renamed to better distinguish it from other items.
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| Iron bars
|
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- Individual iron railings are now columnar.
- Changed the inventory icon of iron railings.
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| Bed
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- A message will appear when trying to sleep too far from bed.
- A dyed bed can no longer be dyed with the same dye.
- Text chat with controller and touch screen can now be opened while sleeping.
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| Trapdoor
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Trapdoors will open directly when placed next to an active signal source.
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| Sandstone stairs
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Sandstone stairs now have a cracked texture at the bottom.
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| Mycelium
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Mycelium no longer turns to dirt when a giant mushroom is on top of it.
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| Fence
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Blocks can now be placed on top of fences with leads attached to them.
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| Shulker boxes
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When crafting a shulker box, it outputs an undyed variant instead of purple, resulting in 17 colors.
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| Piston
|

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Can now push arrows.
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| Diorite, andesite and granite
|
 
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Can no longer be used to replace stone crafting recipes.
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| Monster spawner
|
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Only 4 monsters can be spawned at a time now.
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| Emerald ore
|
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Can no longer be mined with a stone pickaxe.
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| Sign
|

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No longer flammable.
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| Hay bale
|
 
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Reduced damage from falling on hay bales.
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Items
New
Changed
| Name |
Image |
Changed
|
| All items
|
|
Items can now pass upward through solid blocks, allowing for a 3×3 item lift.
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| Bucket
|
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Only one iron barrel can now be placed in the furnace at a time.
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| Map
|
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- The player's head will appear on the map.
- Locator maps now track the owner's location regardless of their dimension.
- Empty maps can now be combined with a compass in an anvil to create a locator map.
- Renaming maps and increasing map size in Anvil now only costs experience levels.
- Maps and locator maps can now be obtained via /give.
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| Leash
|
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- Right click to release the leash.
- There is now a sound when placing leashes.
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Non-mob Entities
Changed
| Name |
Image |
Changed
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| Arrow
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Arrows will vibrate when they collide with blocks.
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Gameplay
Changed
| Name |
Changed
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| Creative mode
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Pressing A in the creative mode inventory will place an item into inventory instead of a group. Pressing Y will drop the entire group; pressing X will clear the shortcut bar in creative mode.
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| Inventory
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- 3 new buttons for classic UI: "Inventory only", "Inventory and recipe book" and "Recipe book only".
- Add a switch to the recipe book to switch to full-screen creative mode inventory.
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| Spawn
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Increased the spawn rate of friendly mobs, making them easier to spot.
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See also