Bedrock Editor 0.5.11

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Bedrock Editor v0.5.11 is a minor alpha release for the Bedrock Editor released on April 3, 2024, which adds Block Hotbar and Time-of-Day Settings Panel, and makes some changes.^[1][2]

Additions

Block Hotbar

• At the top of the Editor there is now a Block Hotbar to easily swap between the blocks player's tools use.
  • Click once or hit the corresponding key shortcut to select an element from the hotbar.
  • Click again to open the block picker to customize.
• Editor extensions can leverage the hotbar using uiSession.extensionContext.blockPalette.getSelectedBlockType().

Time-of-Day Settings Panel

• Accessible from World Options => Time of Day Settings.
• Use Daylight Cycle to toggle between time being active/inactive.
• Use the Presets dropdown to snap to a time, or use None and the slider to pick a moment-in-time.

Changes

• Updated Line Tool with new functionality and widget support.
  • Added ctrl + A to select all widgets in a line.
  • Added ctrl + D to deselect all widgets in a line.
  • Added continuous ctrl + D to continually remove the last segment from the line list until it's empty.
  • Added ⇧ Shift + ctrl + D to completely clear all selected widget and lines.
  • Added ctrl + F to fill.
  • Added ctrl + ⇧ Shift + F to fill and leave the line intact.
  • Added del to fill the line with air.
  • Added ⇧ Shift + del to fill and leave the line intact.
  • Added Keyboard movement (↑, ↓, ←, →, ⇞ Page Up, and ⇟ Page Down) to manually nudge selected end points.
• Updated "Pause Actors" to "Pause Entities".
• Updated block atlas file using different rendering technique.

References

Navigation

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