Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.18.30.26 brings goat horns and new sounds
Now you can sound just like a goat… if you want.
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What you need to know
Exactly one week detached from the last Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta, Mojang Studios is releasing a fresh build for the Minecraft community to dissect and test. Donning the 1.18.30.26 version number for the Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta and the 1.18.30.27 version number for Minecraft Preview, the identical updates include new features and plenty of changes.
The beta follows the last release thatadded the allay mob from The Wild Update. On Wednesday, the newest build brings additional upcoming features like the goat horn, which produces a sound mimicking the goat it came from, and the copper goat horn, which can produce three different sounds depending on how players are positioned. Expected changes and quality-of-life improvements are also included in this release.
Minecraft maintains its spot on the list ofbest Xbox gamesthrough tireless iteration and improvement, and these betas are all a part of the process. While these betas are still technically contained within the current Caves and Cliffs Update, Mojang Studios is hard at work onThe Wild Update, which arrives later in 2022 with new mobs, biomes, features, and more.
Despite having different version numbers, this build is identical across the Minecraft: Bedrock Edition beta andMinecraft Preview. If you’re interested in trying Minecraft Preview, it’s now available to test on Xbox consoles, Windows PCs, and iOS devices.
The full changelog forMinecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta 1.18.30.26 / Minecraft Preview 1.18.30.27includes:
Known issues
Experimental features
Goat horn
Copper horn
Pillager outpost
Features & bug fixes
Gameplay
Vanilla parity
Mobs
User interface
Technical updates
Components
General
Stability & performance
GameTest framework
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