Bedrock Edition guides/1.8 releases

• Stray cats can be found wandering in villages.
• A single stray black cat can be found inside witch huts.

• String (0–2)

• Cats can be tamed with raw fish.
• Phantoms will not swoop in to attack a player if a cat is nearby.
• Cats will seek active furnaces, beds, and chests to sit on.
• When waking up from a bed, there is a chance a tamed cat will give their owner one rabbits foot, rabbit hide, string, rotten flesh, feather, raw chicken, or phantom membrane.

• Bamboo (0–2)

• Pandas can spawn with either an aggressive, lazy, playful, weak or worried personality.
• Pandas will eat bamboo, but can only be bred if there are at least eight bamboo blocks within five blocks of each panda.
• Pandas will pick up and eat cake that is thrown to them.
• Worried pandas will shake and cover their face during thunderstorms.

• Ocelots can no longer be tamed to get cats.

• Phantoms will no longer swoop to attack a player if a cat is nearby.

• Can be found while fishing in jungles and will appear in some loot chests.
• Generating naturally in the world will come in the following updates.

• Bamboo can be broken with any tool as well as by hand.
• Bamboo will not break instantly when hit by any sword. Bamboo will break instantly when hit by a sword in JAVA edition only.

• Bamboo can be used to craft scaffolding.
• Bamboo can be used to craft sticks.
• Bamboo can be feed to pandas, this can be used to speed up the growth of baby pandas.
• Bamboo can be planted on grass, dirt, sand, podzol, coarse dirt, or red sand.
• Bamboo will grow to between twelve and sixteen blocks tall.

• Scaffolding is designed to be used for building in survival.
• Standing in scaffolding and jumping will allow the player to climb, while sneaking will allow the player to descend through the scaffolding. If there is no block below the scaffolding block the player is on the player will not descend through the block.

• Now have the default name of "!" instead of "@".

• Can now be crafted with ice.

• Added a recipe for undyed shulker boxes.

• Black dye is used in place of ink sacs as dye in all recipes.

• Blue dye is used in place of lapis lazuli as dye in all recipes.

• Brown dye is used in place of cocoa beans as dye in all recipes.

• The crossbow is a ranged weapon that has a longer range, as well as being able to deal more damage than a bow.
• Crossbows can fire fireworks, as well as arrows.

• White dye is used in place of bone meal as dye in all recipes.

Spawn Egg
(Cat, Panda)

• Has the same function as other spawn egg.

• Bonemeal are now used to craft white dye and growth in Bamboo.

• The bow in the hotbar now shows an arrow when being drawn.

• Cocoa beans are now used to craft brown dye.

• Can now be placed in the off-hand slot.

• Name changed from Cactus Green to Green Dye to remain consistent with other dyes.

• Ink sacs can now be used to craft black dye.

• Lapis lazuli can now be used to craft blue dye.

• Name changed from Rose Red to Red Dye to remain consistent with other dyes.

• Name changed from Dandelion Yellow to Yellow Dye to remain consistent with other dyes.