Minecraft PE/Bedrock 1.20 – Hanging Signs, Chiselled Bookshelf & Camels

Minecraft PE/Bedrock 1.20 update is set to launch in 2023 and was revealed at Minecraft Live 2022 on October 15, 2022. The update is considered a major one, however, its exact name has not yet been disclosed by Mojang. Further details about new features for 1.20.0 will be revealed in future beta versions or previews.

Planned additions

Blocks

Block of Bamboo

• New log-like block.
• Block of bamboo can be crafted from 9 bamboos and can be stripped like other wood logs.
• Bamboo planks crafted from blocks of bamboo yield only 2 planks compared to 4 for wood logs.

Bamboo Planks

• Crafted from a block of bamboo.
• Can be used to craft respective buttons, doors, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, slabs, stairs, and trapdoors.
• Can be used to craft bamboo rafts and bamboo rafts with chests.
• Can be used to craft wooden blocks or items, (eg. chest)

Bamboo Mosaic

• A variant is exclusive to the bamboo plank set.
• Crafted by arranging 2 bamboo slabs in a vertical strip.
• Can be used to craft respective stairs and slabs variants.

Chiseled Bookshelf

• Can store up to six books, enchanted books, or books and quills.
  • Books in chiseled bookshelves can be added or removed from any slot by targeting the specific slot.
  • Books are directly added and removed, so there is no interface.
• Can be used with a redstone comparator to detect the last slot that was interacted with.
• Can be used with a hopper and dropper.

Hanging signs

• A more expensive version of normal signs, which can be crafted with 2 chains and 6 stripped logs, resulting in 6 of them.
• Has a total of 10 wood variants: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, crimson, warped, and bamboo.
• Can be hung up in the following ways:
  • Underneath a block that can provide support in the center, like a full block or a fence.
    • When the hanging sign is placed underneath a full block, the chains will be on parallel sides of the sign. Signs in this configuration can be placed in 4 cardinal directions (North, South, East, and West)
    • When the hanging sign is placed underneath a non-full block, such as a fence, or when placed while sneaking, the chains will take on an upside-down v-shape. Signs in this configuration can be placed at 16 different angles.
  • Attached to the solid side of a block.
  • Attached to the side or underneath another hanging sign.
• Cannot be placed directly on the ground without support from the side or above.
  • However, hanging signs that have a horizontal bar will not pop when the supporting block is removed.
• If it is hanging off the side of a block and that block is broken, it will remain hanging in the air. But if it is hanging underneath a block and that block is broken, it will also break immediately.
• Unlike regular signs, the space available for text is much smaller.
• Text can be dyed and tinted with glow ink sacs to make text glow.

Piglin Head

• Piglins will now drop their heads when killed by a charged creeper.
• The piglin head will flap its ears when powered by redstone, or when worn by a player while walking.

Sniffer Egg [unofficial name]

• Can be found in suspicious sand.
• Hatches into a snifflet.

Ancient Plants [unofficial name]

• Can be grown from ancient seeds.

Items

Ancient Seeds [unofficial name]

• Can be dug out of the ground by the sniffer.
• Can be planted on the ground to grow new plants.

Smithing Templates

• New item series for armor trimming and netherite upgrading, have 12 of them.
  •  Netherite Upgrade
  • Armor Trim:

• They can be obtained randomly from chests generated in structures accordingly.
  • Exceptions:
    • With randomly generated in other rooms, 2 Netherite Upgrades are also guaranteed in every Treasure Room in Bastion Remnant.
    • Tide Armor Trim is dropped sometimes by elder guardians upon death.
  • Some armor trims are rarer.
• Consumed when used to upgrade an item in the smithing table.
• Can not be crafted directly, but can make a copy of them by crafting them in crafting tables as the following pattern:
  • 7 diamonds, shaped as iron ingots in a cauldron crafting recipe.
  • 1 block of material that the template is made out of, is placed in the center slot of the crafting grid.
  • 1 smithing template, placed in the remaining slot.

Spawn Eggs

• Camel spawn egg

Mobs

Camels

• A rideable entity, which can be equipped with a saddle and ridden by two players.
• Have 32 ( × 16) health points.
• Spawn naturally in desert villages.
• Can be bred with cactus, and will follow players holding a cactus in hand.
• Mobs that are 2 blocks tall and lower cannot reach the player (except spiders) when the player is riding it, due to their height.
• Can walk over 1.5-block tall obstacles (such as fences and blocks with a slab on top).
• Will randomly sit down.
  • While sitting, it is difficult to convince them to move.
• Can either walk slowly or sprint quickly.
• Can also dash forward (if the player uses the jump key while riding it) but will lose stamina for a while.
  • When it loses stamina, it cannot sprint or dash again for a few seconds.
  • A dash can extend more than 10 blocks when executed perfectly.

Sniffer

• Won the mob vote during Minecraft Live 2022.
• An ancient mob that is hatched from sniffer eggs, which can be found in chests in underwater ruins. Upon hatching, the sniffer can find ancient seeds, which can be used to grow new types of decorative plants.
• Can be bred unknowingly according to the Minecraft launcher mob vote descriptive section for the sniffer.

Entities

Raft

• A new type of boat, crafted with bamboo planks.
• Can be used to craft a variant with a chest.
• The raft is higher than a boat.

Planned changes

Blocks

Note Block

• When placing a mob head on a note block, that note block will now play one of the ambient sounds of that mob when played by a player or powered by redstone.

Head

• They can be placed on top of note blocks without sneaking now.

Player Head

• Now can contain a  note_block_sound NBT tag.
  • Must be a resource location for a valid sound event.
  • When present, this determines the sound a note block makes when the head is placed on top of it.

Items

Armors

• Now can be visually customized with a variety of unique trims at the smithing table, including leather armor.
• Purely visual with no gameplay benefits, and can only be applied to helmets, chest plates, leggings, and boots.
• 12,326,391 color combinations are available by combining dyed leather armor with armor trim.
  • All trim patterns are visually the same on an armor’s item icon, but the color will still change based on the trim material.
  • The name of the trim pattern will be displayed on the item’s tooltip.
• Armor trim has 2 properties: pattern, and material.
  • Pattern: Defined by the Smithing Template used to apply the trim and represents the visual pattern of the trim.
  • Material: Defined by what ingredient is used to apply the trim, and represents the color of the trim.
    • Available ingredients:
      • Amethyst Shard
      • Copper Ingot
      • Diamond
      • Emerald
      • Gold Ingot
      • Iron Ingot
      • Lapis Lazuli
      • Nether Quartz
      • Netherite Ingot
      • Redstone Dust

Gameplay

Smithing Table functionality:

• Redesigned. It is now a workstation for physical equipment upgrades and modifications.
• Added a slot used by smithing templates to the left of the old 2 slots.
• Smithing templates define what type of upgrade that will be made to equipment.
  • It specifies both what type of items can upgrade, and which ingredients are valid to customize the upgrade.
• Netherite equipment crafting now also requires a Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template.

Advancement:

• Camels are now required for the “Two by Two” advancement.
• “Glow and Behold!” advancement can be obtained by using a glow ink sac on a hanging sign now.
  • The description now says “Make the text of any sign glow”.