Bedrock Editor 0.8.0

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Bedrock Editor v0.8.0, also known as the Sculpting Update, is the first beta release^[1] for the Bedrock Editor released on November 7, 2024, which includes new tools and support for custom blocks.^[2][3] It was released to stable 1.21.50 on December 3, 2024.

Additions

Tools

• Added a new flatten brush: drag this brush over a block to turn blocks above it into air. This brush has a customizable height and radius.
• Added a fill tool to allow creators to quickly change block groups.
• Added a smooth tool to easily smooth terrain.
• Added a quick extrude tool to allow creators to extrude block groups.
• Added a repeater tool to repeat a selection volume along X, Y, and Z.
• Added a farm tool to quickly drop in farms into a world.
• Added a 2D directional XZ compass to game viewport to aid with building.
  • Added the ability to click on the compass to snap to closest cardinal direction.
• Added a configurable fly speed multiplier.
  • Added speed settings
  • New slider in View->View Settings to configure fly speed multiplier between 1 and 10
  • Fly speed multiplier only takes effect while in Tool/Editor mode

Other

• Added friendly names in the Block Picker
• Added quick action for Selection::Delete
• Added new axis and plane restriction options in the Widget Gizmo Component creation options. Creators can restrict which axes of movement are afforded by their gizmos
• Added Block Filter Disabled state
• Added M key to toggle between mask mode and disabled
• Added R key to toggle between replace mode and disabled
• Added support for persistence in hotbar block palettes
• Added context menu to the options button next to hotbar for creating and managing new palettes.
• Added a new session.extensionContext.blockUtilities object which will present a number of high-performance common block operations. First function added is a fillVolume function to perform large scale fill operation which honors Editors different block palette types

Changes

• Updated default filters with air (when not loaded previous state).
• Updated the icon for Selection::Deselect.
• Updated block IDs in the UI to use localized names.
• Updated checkbox labels to be clickable.
• Updated property pane information tooltip icon to be more visible.
• Updated the View->Log Panel menu item to now expand the panel drawer.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused dropdowns to be truncated at the window edges.

References

Navigation

v t e Bedrock Editor versions
Alpha (2023–2024) Internal versions 0.1 0.2 0.3.x The Basics Update 0.3 0.3.1 0.3.2 0.3.3 0.3.4 0.3.5 0.3.6 0.3.7 0.4.x The Editor API Update 0.4.0 0.4.1 0.4.2 0.4.3 0.4.4 0.4.5 0.4.6 0.4.7 0.4.8 0.4.9 0.4.10 0.4.11 0.5.x Edit/Test Update 0.5.0 0.5.1 0.5.2 0.5.3 0.5.4 0.5.5 0.5.6 0.5.7 0.5.8 0.5.9 0.5.10 0.5.11 0.6.x Visualization Update 0.6.0 0.6.1 0.6.2 0.6.3 0.6.4 0.6.5 0.6.6 0.6.7 0.6.8 0.6.9 0.6.10 0.6.11 0.7.x Personalization Update 0.7.0 0.7.1 0.7.2 0.7.3 0.7.4 0.7.5 0.7.6 0.7.7 Beta (2024–2025) 0.8.x The Sculpting Update 0.8.0 0.8.1 0.8.2 0.8.3 0.8.4 0.8.5 0.8.6 0.8.7 0.8.8 0.8.9 0.9.x The Realms Update 0.9.0 0.9.1 0.9.2 0.9.3 0.9.4 0.9.5 0.9.6 0.9.7 0.9.8 0.9.9 0.9.9.9 Release (2025–present) 1.0.x The Exiting Beta Update 1.0.0 1.0.1 1.0.2 1.0.3 1.0.4 1.0.5 1.0.6 1.0.7 1.0.8 1.1.x 1.1.0 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.1.5 1.1.6 1.1.7 1.1.8 1.1.9 1.2.x 1.2.0 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.3 1.2.4 1.2.5 1.2.6
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