The latest Minecraft: Bedrock Edition update gives you a recipe book and lets you crawl
Some lovely quality-of-life features are now rolling out to all Minecraft players.
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It has been a very long day for Xbox and anyone who covers Xbox (confused? Check out our coverage on the recentXbox leaks), which is why it’s so easy for smaller news like this to fall through the cracks. Minecraft players, a nifty patch update is now rolling out to everyone across all Bedrock Edition platforms with a handful of great quality-of-life improvements and features.
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.20.30 is a modest release, but it does include a number of features coming out of testing and over 100 fixes for community-reported issues. It’s a good step for one of thebest Xbox gameswhile we wait for news on what comes next from Mojang Studios at Xbox.
You can find a quick overview of the biggest changes in the 1.20.30 patch update below, but you can get the full changelog from theMinecraft website.
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You can now install Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 1.20.30 on any supported device, including Xbox, Windows PC, PlayStation, Switch, Android, and iOS. It’s not the most exciting update, but hey, that’s okay.Minecraft Live 2023 is official, and we should hear a lot more about the future of Minecraft there, including what the next major Minecraft content update will be.
Of course, that also means a brand-new Mob Vote, during which the Minecraft community will vote for one of three mobs to be added to Minecraft in the next major content update.Last year’s Mob Vote winner was the Sniffer, and I can’t wait to see what our options are this year.
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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.
