Hello and welcome to my first Minecraft Beta post in a long while. I decided to give back to my old Minecraft readers and make a new Beta testing post. Today I will be covering the 1.2 update/beta also known as the long-awaited "Better Together Update". In the upcoming month this update will allow cross-play across the Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Windows 10 users, Android and iOS!
Anyways the beta for this version was released early this morning and being myself, I grabbed it for today's post! Here's what we have that I didn't get to while trying it: We got the parrot spawn eggs and zombie-villager spawn egg! Starting below I will have other features featuring my own screenshots from my own game-play!
We got a new pause menu! This features the ability to finally change your skin while in a world or friend's world. You can also see a How To Play button which when pressed will also show the "What's New" section from the console editions! Also, next to my gamertag, you will see a crown. This means that I'm currently the admin or as it's called in-game "Operator". There are other status available such as "Visitor", which is when you'll be able to grant access to certain people to certain abilities. There is also the "Member" status also popularly known as a moderator. You also are given the option to set custom standards for visitors.
As you can see above we finally got Jukeboxes and Music discs! This will allow you to play your C418 favorites! I tried playing around with settings to hear it but I couldn't. You'll either have to download the music pack from the store or wait until they are added in a later beta update.
We have finally acquired stained glass and glass-panes in the game! I tried them and can confirm that the glass panes when placed down are shown only as a rod until the rest is placed down along it! Also on the left side you can see banners were added. There you can see that I have stacked two banners atop each other!
As you can see above, they have made ice transparent in-game! Tommasso Checci was tweeting about this teasing that it may be transparent ice but confirmed in a later tweet that it was stained glass! Nevertheless they still made ice transparent!
Next up, fireworks! We finally ported fireworks into MCPE! They look so amazing already! Apparently these babies will also give an extra boost to that Elytra that you have strapped to your back!
We also got armor stands finally! But wait, there's more to it! As a version exclusive you are now able to change the poses using redstone! I, personally, wasn't able to figure it out so maybe it hasn't been added to the beta yet (or I'm a complete noob).
They also added world features as well finally. You have the option to get a starting map which, believe me, helps when in survival. You can start a game with a bonus chest with starter items. You can also start a game with "Trust Players"/Host Privileges. As you can see, as I said before, we have the ranks of permission or status.
On the left we also can see that they've added the fire spreads and TNT explodes option which helps prevent against griefing better than before. You are also given the "Keep Inventory" option so that you don't lose what you owned if you die in the middle of your game.
On the left, again, you will see the option to control mob spawning if you don't want mobs getting in your way, Natural regeneration, Mob loot, Mob griefing so those creepers don't ruin your house, Tile drops, and Entities drop loot. I personally don't want to lose any items I drop or any items I may receive from a mob so I leave those on.
Finally we also have improved Multiplayer settings. They've mostly stayed the same except for Xbox Live preferences. These include invite only so that friends can only join if invited. Friends only so that you don't have random strangers waltzing in your world. You also have friends of friends which I don't recommend if you don't want your friends inviting their friends who might plan to destroy your world.
Last but not least, Main menu UI changes. They've split options again so that you have access to join your friends in one section, you can join your custom servers and default servers in another, and, of course, your own worlds.
That's all of the changes in this update. I took quite a while to get these down so I'd love some support. I even believe this is the longest post about a Minecraft beta I've done. Very possibly even the longest post I've done. Thank you all for stopping by today! I hope you enjoy and are excited! And I hope you have a #PikaPerfect day!
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