In addition, dolphins, drowned, fish mobs, phantoms, and turtles were added, as well as new biomes, a new buffet world type (a stopgap replacement for the customized world type), and new generated structures. Also, water is more transparent than before and the color was changed to match specific biomes, while it was only dark blue before 1.13. Specifically, new blocks, such as blue ice, coral, conduits, kelp, sea pickles, stripped logs, wood, and turtle eggs were added, as well as new items such as buried treasure exploration maps, debug sticks, buckets of fish, hearts of the sea, phantom membranes, tridents, and much more.
It focused mainly on ocean content and technical features. Not to be confused with Bedrock Edition 1.13.0.ġ.13, the first release of the Update Aquatic, is a major update to Java Edition released on July 18, 2018.