Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.18.10.24 tests frogs from ‘The Wild Update’
Invite these hoppy friends into your experimental Minecraft worlds.
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What you need to know
It’s a big day forMinecraftin more ways than one on Wednesday. On one hand,Minecraft is celebrating crossing one trillion views on YouTube, a massive accomplishment worthy of praise. On the other, Minecraft: Bedrock Edition’s typically mundane beta is getting an exciting addition this time around with the release ofMinecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.18.10.24. For the first time, Minecraft players get to play with frogs.
Recent Minecraft betas and snapshots still revolve around theCaves and Cliffs Update, but Mojang Studios is absolutely already looking ahead to the next major Minecraft content update,The Wild Update, which is slated to release at some point in 2022. Still, it’ll be a surprise for many players to see such a sizeable feature from the aforementioned content release being tested so early, with frogs being one of the headling features of The Wild Update.
If you want to experiment with frogs, you can start a new world in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.18.10.24 after enabling The Wild Update experimental features toggle. A lot of frog behaviors are enabled already, including croaking, jumping, swimming, and more. You can also breed frogs to hatch tadpoles, which will grow into different varieties of frogs depending on where they’re born.
Minecraft is one of the greatest games ever made, and holds on to its title as one of thebest Xbox gamesby continually evolving with new features and content. In case you missed it,Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.18.2 was recently releasedas a patch update with a variety of fixes and improvements for the game.
The full changelog for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.18.10.24 includes:
Experimental features
Frogs
Features & bug fixes
Gameplay
Villagers
Rendering
Stability & performance
User interface
Vanilla parity
Commands
Education Edition
Technical updates
Android
Commands
Data-driven mobs
Molang
RandomStrollGoal
GameTest framework
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Minecraft is an inarguable and complete success. It has sold copies in the hundreds of millions, has a huge following of dedicated players, and lets you unlock your every creative desire. It’s also available on every platform imaginable, including Xbox, Windows 10, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS. Play with anyone and play anywhere.
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Zachary Boddy (They / Them) is a Staff Writer for Windows Central, primarily focused on covering the latest news in tech and gaming, the best Xbox and PC games, and the most interesting Windows and Xbox hardware. They have been gaming and writing for most of their life starting with the original Xbox, and started out as a freelancer for Windows Central and its sister sites in 2019. Now a full-fledged Staff Writer, Zachary has expanded from only writing about all things Minecraft to covering practically everything on which Windows Central is an expert, especially when it comes to Microsoft. You can find Zachary on Twitter@BoddyZachary.
