Experimental Gameplay
This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.
Experimental Gameplay is a game option exclusive to Bedrock Edition. When enabled it allows players to test some unfinished or work-in-progress features.
Toggling[edit]
Experimental Gameplay is found in the world options when creating a world. Turning the option on does not disable achievements, however it can't be disabled after the world is created. Enabling it on an already existing world makes a copy called "[EX] World Name". The original world without experimental gameplay can still be played, although progress does not transfer through the two worlds.
Features[edit]
The point of Experimental Gameplay is for the player to look at some not-quite-finished features. There are 4 different toggles of Experimental Gameplay. These are:
- "Holiday Creator Features"
- "Creation of Custom Biomes"
- "Additional Modding Capabilities"
- "Caves and Cliffs"
As of Bedrock Edition beta 1.16.210.51, the following features are behind the "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in Experimental Gameplay:
History[edit]
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.13.8 | Added the experimental gameplay option. | |||
| Turning on the experimental gameplay option gives the player access to the following features: stripped wood, prismarine stairs and slabs, tridents, drowned and new swimming animations. | |||||
| beta 1.2.20.1 | Added nautilus shells, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| release | All above features, except for drowned and nautilus shells, are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.5.0 | beta 1.5.0.0 | Drowned and nautilus shells are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| 1.7.0 | beta 1.7.0.2 | Added the scoreboard command and basic scoreboards, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| beta 1.7.0.7 | Scoreboards are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | Added crossbows and their enchantments, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| 1.9.0 | beta 1.9.0.0 | Added pillagers and bamboo jungles, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| beta 1.9.0.2 | Added many new job site blocks, which are available only through experimental gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.9.0.3 | Added Minecraft script engine, available only through experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Added composters, campfires, a new stonecutter block, sweet berries, ravagers, wandering traders, pillager outposts, new village structures, villager_v2, and zombie_villager_v2, which are available only through experimental gameplay. | |||
| Crossbows, pillagers, lanterns, and entity scripting function are no longer only available behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Added raid captains, raids, the Bad Omen status effect and the Hero of the Village status effect, which are available only through experimental gameplay. | |||
| Bamboo jungles are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| beta 1.11.0.3 | Fletching tables, smithing tables, sweet berries, ravagers, the new villagers, pillager outposts, new zombie villagers and the new villages are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| beta 1.11.0.4 | Wandering traders are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| release | Raid captains, raids, the Bad Omen status effect and the Hero of the Village status effect are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.1 | Added save and load mode for structure blocks, which are available only through experimental gameplay. | |||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.51 | Added targets, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||
| beta 1.16.0.57 | Targets, Structure Voids and Structure Block functionality are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| Added Lodestones, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| beta 1.16.0.63 | Lodestones functionality are no longer available only behind experimental gameplay. | ||||
| 1.16.100 | beta 1.16.100.55 | Experimental Gameplay toggle has been revamped and expanded. | |||
| Added "Custom Biome Add-Ons", "Experimental Scripting Add-Ons", "Experimental Molang Features", and "Next Gameplay Update" toggle. | |||||
| beta 1.16.100.56 | Added "Experimental Add-On Features" toggle. | ||||
| beta 1.16.100.57 | Added "Holiday Creator Features" toggle. | ||||
| "Experimental Scripting Add-Ons", "Experimental Molang Features", and "Experimental Add-On Features" toggle are merged into "Additional Modding Capabilities" toggle. | |||||
| Changed "Custom Biome Add-Ons" toggle name to "Creation of Custom Biomes". | |||||
| Removed "Next Gameplay Update" toggle in preparation for "Caves and Cliffs" toggle. | |||||
| 1.16.200 | beta 1.16.200.52 | Added "Caves and Cliffs" toggle. | |||
| Added goats, goat horns and powder snow, which are available only behind experimental gameplay. | |||||
| release | Removed "Caves and Cliffs" toggle in the full release. | ||||
| Goats, goat horns and powder snow have been made inaccessible in the full release. | |||||
