Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.18.10 patch update improves vanilla parity, adds experimental frogs, and more
A new patch update includes innumerable vanilla parity improvements, quality-of-life changes, and more.
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What you need to know
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, the platform-agnostic version of Mojang Studios' legendary Minecraft survival game, regularly enjoys updates that bring fresh fixes, new features, and more. On Tuesday, Mojang began releasing Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.18.10, a patch update that encompasses weeks of previous beta tests and feedback into one sizeable release for players everywhere.
The new patch update includes well over a hundred fixes and improvements, with an impressive changelog spanning almost the entirety of Minecraft and theCaves and Cliffs Update. Highlights of the update include dozens of vanilla parity tweaks that bring the Bedrock Edition closer to its older sibling, the Java Edition, dozens more fixes and quality-of-life improvements, a long list of creator-focused changes, and more.
There are also experimental features hailing fromThe Wild Update, the next major content update for Minecraft. Starting with this update, any interested players can flip a toggle to access upcoming features like frogs, tadpoles, and sculk blocks. When The Wild Update officially arrives later in 2022, it’ll bring new mobs like frogs and The Warden, the Deep Dark biome, and more.
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.18.10 is now available anywhere Minecraft is, including Xbox, PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS, andXbox Game Pass.
It’s an easy assertion thatMinecraft is the greatest game ever made, and that’s partially because of Mojang Studios' constant deluge of updates and fixes over time. Minecraft is one of thebest Xbox gamesyou can play, and the 1.18.10 patch update makes it even better.
In case you missed it, the current Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta program will eventually be replaced by the newMinecraft Preview game, which is now available to test on Xbox.
The full changelog forMinecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.18.10includes:
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Changes
Vanilla parity
The Wild Update experimental features
Frogs & tadpoles
Froglight
Sculk
Fixes
Performance & stability
Gameplay
World Generation
Mobs
Blocks
Items
Accessibility
User interface
Technical updates
Updated Add-On templates
Performance & stability
General
Commands
Data-driven blocks
Data-driven entities
Data-driven items
Mobs
Animation
Molang
Block components (experimental)
GameTest framework (experimental)
mojang-minecraft module
mojang-gametest module
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