# Java 26.3 Snapshot 8 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-8 ## New Features ### Explorer Maps - Renamed the following maps: - Buried Ancient City Map - Buried Mineshaft Map - Abandoned Camp Map ### Realms - Realm owners can now create and manage Invite Codes - Each Realm can have up to five Invite Codes - Invite Codes can be configured to be active / inactive and deleted - The expiration of an Invite Code can also be configured - Players can now easily join a Realm by entering an Invite Code in a new "Join Realm" screen ## Changes - Cushions are now only destroyed when fully covered by blocks that cause suffocation - New Villager trades, unlocked from a Villager leveling up their profession, will now update even if the player is in the process of trading with them ### World Options - Some further improvements have been made to the World Options screen, which is now accessible from the pause menu - The "Game Mode" button has been renamed to "Default Game Mode" - The "General" section has a new addition: - Personal Game Mode: your active game mode in the current world (equivalent to the `/gamemode` command, or F3+F4) - The "Multiplayer" section has a new addition: - Force Game Mode: controls whether other players game mode is forced to match the default game mode of the world or not ## Technical Changes - The Data Pack version is now 116.0 - The Resource Pack version is now 96.0 ## Data Pack Version 116.0 ### World Generation - Features - Removed feature types: `minecraft:desert_well` - Changed minecraft:template - Added field `processors`: Namespaced ID or inline definition of a structure processor list to apply to the template ## Resource Pack Version 96 ### Shaders & Post-process Effects - Removed Core Shaders - `core/text_background.fsh` and `core/text_background.vsh` were removed and text background in Text Display Entities is now rendered using the text shaders ### Order-independent Transparency (OIT)-related Shader Changes - `OIT_FORCE_ZERO_DEPTH` shader define was removed since the see-through text it was used for is now rendered in a separate pass outside OIT ## Bugs Fixed - Some entities' positions are not updated on the client when teleported - Camera movement stutters when turning in a boat - Increased input delay when riding an entity - The head rotations of passengers in boats are not correctly displayed for other players - The head rotations of passengers in boats are constantly forced to turn in certain directions if the rider were to dismount the boat while moving left or right - Several entities constantly deviate visually from their actual positions on the client when teleported - Breaking paintings, item frames, glow item frames cannot trigger sculk shriekers - The player's head does not rotate smoothly (with delay) in third person view while riding a vehicle - Horizontal camera rotation lags when riding - Shulker bullets always push fireballs south - Projectiles sometimes desync when thrown/shot while moving - Players desync when teleporting all users riding a happy ghast - Arrows deflecting off of entities get offset - When changing the game mode using debug hotkeys while in the World Options screen, the "Game Mode" button does not update - Poplar leaves don't use the dark_cutout mipmap strategy - Straw beds are not broken faster when using hoes - Cushions z-fight with the tops of dragon heads - Cushions can be broken in Adventure mode - Tridents thrown by drowned still visually bounce off entities - Experience orbs desync and appear to phase through blocks - The "Text Background Opacity" setting makes the text darker when the "Text Background" setting is set to Everywhere And more! Join the official feedback discord and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1537070896135544912 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback @Java Changelogs

# Beta/Preview 26.50.25 -# https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/48053406322829-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-26-50-25 ## Drop 3 2026 Fixes and Features ### Abandoned Camp - Seagrass in Abandoned Camps are now always waterlogged - Removed duplicate entries of the Cushion in two campsite structures - Barrels in the Abandoned Camp can now contain a White Cushion and Straw Bed - Firework Rockets are replaced with Gunpowder in the Abandoned Camps loot tables - Explorer maps found in abandoned camps no longer lead to camps in the same biome that they were looted from ### Cushion - Cushion can now occupy the same space as Honey Blocks and Sniffer Eggs - The Honey Block and Sniffer Egg Block no longer offer support on the sides - Chains are no longer treated as full blocks, so Cushions can now be placed in the same space as a Chain - Ladders, Vines and Twisting Vines can no longer be attached to Chains - Lanterns and Bells can no longer be hung from the underside of horizontal Chains - Breaking particles from a Cushion are now spawned at the Cushion instead of in the block below it - The hint shown while sitting on a Cushion now reads "Press SHIFT to get up", matching Java Edition - Cushions spawned without a color, such as with the /summon command, are now White instead of Black, matching Java Edition ### Explorer Maps - Poplar Leaves now show the correct color on the Explorer Maps - Changed naming on Explorer Maps Buried Ancient City, Buried Mineshaft, Desert Pyramid, Warm Ocean Ruins ### Straw Bed - Straw Beds now break faster when using a Hoe ### Blocks - Wool and Concrete Stairs, Slabs and Double Slabs no longer always drop themselves when destroyed by an explosion and the tntExplosionDropDecay game rule is enabled - Concrete Stairs and Concrete Slabs can now be crafted in the Stonecutter in all 16 colors - Wool stairs and slabs no longer produce vibrations when their item is dropped on the ground, matching full wool blocks - Wool Stairs and Wool Slabs can now be broken faster with Shears, matching Wool blocks ### Graphics - Flowing water in the Dappled Forest biome is no longer opaque ## Features and Bug Fixes ### Blocks - Cherry, Pale Oak, and Poplar Saplings are no longer flammable, matching all other Saplings - Fixed Saplings not growing when Leaves were above them ### Gameplay - Lava lakes no longer replace nearby beds or doors with stone during world generation if a lake generates in a village ### Graphical - Fixed an issue that caused the sky to render incorrectly when seen through boats in Vibrant Visuals - Changed the map color of the Red Shrub to Crimson Nylium - Changed the map color of the Shelf Mushroom to Terracotta Yellow ### Items - Fixed issues that occurred when attempting to pick up a Small Sulfur Cube or a lit TNT Sulfur Cube with a Bucket - The targeted Sulfur Cube and water or lava sources, Powder Snow, or water from waterlogged blocks at the world origin no longer disappear - Using a Bucket from a stack larger than eight no longer creates additional Buckets ### Mobs - Chains no longer prevent mobs from spawning in the space underneath them - Fixed issue where using a lava bucket on a cow produced a milk bucket. - Husks and Zombies now retain their held and equipped items when transforming into Zombies and Drowned ### Sounds - Red shrub now plays the correct sound - Correct subtitle is shown when Straw Bed is used - Cushion only produces "Cushion breaks" closed caption when broken - Multiple jukeboxes can now play the same record independently - Broadcast sounds such as jukebox records now play from the correct position for players who move into range or connect after the sound has started ...And many more! Join the official feedback discord server and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1536783162909138974 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback

# Bedrock Hotfix 26.41/42/43 -# https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/48021584755341-Minecraft-Bedrock-Edition-26-41-42-43-Hotfix-Changelog A new hotfix is rolling out to address issues found in the latest update. It will become available on each platform as it’s approved, so please allow a little time for it to reach you. ## Fixes - Fixed several crashes that could occur during gameplay - Fixes for missing assets when loading into a world that could occur if the network connection changed during boot. ## World Storage - To allow us to address some issues discovered, we have temporarily disabled cloud world storage on Windows. @Bedrock Changelogs

# Beta/Preview 26.50.24 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-preview-26-50-24 ## Drop 3 2026 Features ### Abandoned Camp - Chests in Abandoned Camps now contain Explorer Maps that lead to Ancient City, Mineshaft, Desert Pyramid, Warm Ocean Ruins, and other Biome variants of Abandoned Camps ### Blocks - Added Concrete Stairs and Concrete Slabs in all 16 colors - Poplar Leaves can now be smelted into Leaf Litter ### Cushion - Players are no longer moved into the ground when the Cushion they are sitting on is destroyed because its supporting block was removed - The Cushion now breaks when the block below is replaced with a liquid - Breaking a named Cushion no longer drops the default item - Name Tag is now displayed on the Cushion - Cushions now pop into an item when pushed by blocks - Cushions now play breaking particles and a breaking sound when the block supporting them is destroyed ### Items - All remaining Poplar items are now listed between the Mangrove and Cherry items in the Creative inventory ### Straw Bed - The sleeping camera is no longer positioned too high above the player when sleeping in a Straw Bed - Fixed the Straw Bed texture so it no longer contains floating pixels or extra pixels that are never visible in-game - Fixed the Straw Bed MERS texture so it no longer renders a single overly shiny pixel ## Features and Bug Fixes ### Blocks - Restored the growth speed of Sulfur Spikes and Pointed Dripstone after a recent change accidentally made them grow 25 times faster ### Gameplay - Player Map icon now shows rotation even while outside of the map bounds - Explorer Maps now have new item icons to better indicate where they lead - Fixed Totem activation not synchronizing health when final health equals the original value - Fixed an issue where players and mobs could load in a world at (0,0,0) and lose all their items after reloading world ### Graphical - In-game models and textures now load correctly when the network connection changes while joining a world (MCPE-234954) - Fixed bug with item in hand jittering with temporal anti-aliasing upscaling enabled ### Character Creator - Skins can now have names consisting entirely of numbers ### Mobs - Fixed a bug where Spiders and Cave Spiders would occasionally be slowed by Web blocks - Fixed an issue where mobs and players could reload with an inconsistent movement speed ### Realms - Fixed realm role actions not showing correctly for certain roles - Friend profiles now have a Realm-specific join button when the Realm is available ### Stability and Performance - Fixed a crash that could occur while retrieving network addresses on Android - Fix CPU usage increasing after idling on the pause screen or controller disconnected screen - Fixed some particles that crashed the game when ran as commands ### User Interface - Updated the Chat Settings UI to increase readability of the Chat Color and My Mentions Color dropdowns - Fixed an issue that prevented TNT and Stonecutters from being crafted using quick crafting in the Recipe Book (MCPE-240038) - Fixes 'out of space' error displaying when attempting to download large items regardless of available space - Fixed issue where setting the Cheats toggle to OFF during world creation would not reset cheats to default values - Added wishlist pagination with gamepad bumper navigation - Added dynamic wishlist grid row sizing for marketplace wishlist cards - Improved inventory item tooltips - Feedback needed [here](https://aka.ms/mc-updatedbedrocktooltips) ...And many more! Join the official feedback discord server and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1534588546843803648 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback @Bedrock Changelogs

# Bedrock 26.40 https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/articles/47787720931213 It's time for another Minecraft: Bedrock Edition update! This release brings a wide range of bug fixes, gameplay improvements, accessibility updates, and technical enhancements for creators. From boats requiring fewer hits to break, to minecarts back in order, there's plenty packed into this release. If you're keen to see what's coming next, you'll also find experimental features to try out, including the dappled forest, abandoned camps, cushions, and more. Let's dive in. ## Known Issues - Arrows shot downwards get stuck in the player's own hitbox ## Drop 3 Experimental Features - Added Abandoned Camp - Added Dappled Forest - Added Poplar Trees - Added Red Shrub - Added Shelf Mushroom - Added Wool Stairs/Slabs for all 16 colors - Added Cushions - Added Straw Beds ## Features and Bug Fixes ### Accessibility Features - Fixed text field narration restarting label and description on every keypress - Text field now narrates its content when editing is stopped via keyboard or gamepad - Fixed a bug where Sweet Berry Bush damage did not produce closed captions - Added a screen distortion option in the accessibility settings that controls how much the screen is distorted by the nausea effect and when going through Nether portals - Improved furnace screen narration of navigation tabs, toggles and smelting context of furnace slots - Hovered Items are no longer shown under search bar in recipe book - The screen no longer jitters when the Screen Distortion accessibility setting is changed - Fixed the focus indicator on the "More options" button on the start screen so it no longer relies on color alone, adding an underline when the button is focused ### Biomes - Water fog in Sulfur Caves is now more blue than green, to better match Java Edition ### General - Brown and Red Mushrooms now generate on Crimson Nylium and Warped Nylium no matter the brightness ### Items - Mobs released from a Bucket no longer carry over their state from before they were captured - Mobs no longer take fall damage accumulated before being captured - Mobs captured while on fire are no longer still burning when released - Mobs captured while suffocating no longer take leftover suffocation damage when released - Mobs captured shortly after using a Nether portal can now use one again immediately when released - Mobs no longer keep any status effects they had when captured - Mobs no longer immediately resume attacking their previous target when released - Mobs released from a Bucket no longer retain the movement they had when captured - Thrown Eggs no longer cause their targets to jump extra high in the air - Update bed item sprites to match the appearance of their corresponding blocks - Boats now require fewer hits to break, matching Java Edition - Boats now regenerate any damage accrued, matching Java Edition - Arrow damage now scales with velocity instead of being fully randomized - All arrows fired by mobs using a Crossbow now share the same damage behavior, regardless of the firing mob - Previously, arrows shot by Piglins were treated as if they were fired from a Bow - Only arrows fired by mobs using a Bow (e.g. Skeletons and their variants) scale their damage with world difficulty - Arrows fired by Players or other mobs are no longer affected by difficulty - Arrows of Harming no longer bounce off entities and are now correctly removed on hit ### World Storage - Added OREUI Storage Settings: Storage Status and Management - Added cloud backup of Windows worlds, more information can be found at aka.ms/cloudPC - Adds Cloud Sync support for World data on Windows, ensuring world data is backed up and accessible across devices on that platform. - Fix issue where banner presenting "Low Cloud Storage" was displayed briefly when duplicating worlds. - Updated old world conversion flows in the Storage Settings tab. ...And many more changes and fixes! @Bedrock Changelogs

# Java 26.3 Snapshot 7 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-7 ## New Features - Added Concrete Stairs and Concrete Slabs for all Concrete blocks - New Explorer Maps have been added to the Abandoned Camps ### Abandoned Camp Explorer Maps - Added maps showing the location of other Abandoned Camps in the following biomes: - Bamboo Jungle - Cherry Grove - Birch Forest - Dappled Forest - Flower Forest - Pale Garden - Swamp - Windswept Forest - Added maps for the following structures: - Ancient City - Trial Chambers - Mineshaft - Desert Pyramid - Jungle Pyramid - Warm Ocean Ruins - Woodland Mansion ## Changes - Cushions no longer prevent vibrations when placed, broken or interacted with - Updated loot table for the Abandoned Camp Barrel - Replaced Firework Rocket with Gunpowder in Abandoned Camp Chest loot table - The player icon on maps have been updated to always show the direction the player is facing - Added support for Realms to use additional server regions in Canada, Mexico, South Africa, and Arizona, USA if they become available in the future ### Explorer Maps - Explorer Maps are now their own items instead of renamed Filled Maps, and each has its own icon - Map and Empty Map have new icons - These items cannot be obtained from the Creative inventory - Existing Explorer Maps in old worlds are converted to the matching new item on load - Explorer Maps can still be cloned in a Crafting Table, and the copies keep their own item type - Explorer Maps and Buried Treasure Maps can no longer be zoomed out, neither in a Crafting Table nor at a Cartography Table - Buried Treasure Maps could previously be zoomed out at both - Explorer Maps could previously be zoomed out at a Cartography Table - Only maps in the #minecraft:extendable_maps tag can be zoomed out ## Technical Changes - The Data Pack version is now 115.0 - The Resource Pack version is now 95.0 - `level.dat` now contains a `version_history` list with prior data versions of the file ## Bugs Fixed - The Command (⌘) key on macOS is displayed as "Win" in the key binds screen - The Super key on macOS is displayed as "Win" in the key binds screen - Shipwrecks and ocean ruins can generate with empty buried treasure maps - Sending a swing packet to the client causes it to send one back to the server - Sniffers stop sniffing after relog - Interacting with something while holding spears plays the spear jab animation - Throwing items out of your inventory while holding spears plays the spear jab animation - Having a spear in the main hand affects the hand animation speed for items held in the off hand - Zombies, husks and drowned hold out the incorrect arm when holding spears - Spears in third person look wrong when the left hand is the main hand - Some textures of geyser plume particles still use inconsistent colors - Shelf mushrooms still use the wrong sounds - Cushions can be used to see through blocks - The straw_bed_head block model is stored in two directories - Cushions can be placed inside full blocks when the player's head intersects them - Placed cushions face inconsistent directions - The decimal point keypad key is displayed as "key.keyboard.99" in the key binds menu - The Menu key is displayed as "key.keyboard.101" in the key binds menu - The keypad plus-or-minus key is still not prefixed with "Keypad" - The keypad left and right parentheses keys are still not prefixed with "Keypad" - Using a Nether portal in Spectator mode while spectating an entity teleports the player to the incorrect location - Pressing Windows+D to minimize all windows makes the game no longer visually update with the Vulkan rendering backend ...And many more! Join the official feedback discord server and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1534200639616188456 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback @Java Changelogs

# Beta/Preview 26.50.22 -# https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/47702557761805-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-26-50-22 ## Drop 3 2026 Features - Removed the experimental toggle for Drop 3 2026 features and made them available by default ### Abandoned Camp - Modified existing Abandoned Camps and added more Campsites - Cushions in Abandoned Camps no longer generate inside other objects ### Cushion - The Cushion item group is now correctly named "Cushions" in the Creative inventory ### Items - Poplar Leaves, Poplar Shelves, Poplar Boats, and Cushions are now ordered consistently in the Creative inventory ## Features and Bug Fixes ### Gameplay - Fixed a bug where damage calculation did not apply correctly to Players falling from certain heights through one block of water - Fixed an issue that could cause players who died while inside a Nether portal to respawn in the Nether - Fixed an issue where the same world seed would generate end portals with inconsistent amounts of Eyes of Ender - Fixed entity teleporting to unexpected location when using the teleport command between dimensions ### Graphics - Fixed tears in the dithering effect when looking through models in Vibrant Visuals. ### Items - Projectiles can now only hit the entity that shot them, or entities in the same vehicle hierarchy (such as the shooter's mount), after they have spatially left that hierarchy - This prevents players from damaging themselves with lightly charged Arrows ### Mobs - Armor Stands and Drowned are now harder for hostile mobs to detect while invisible - Bats now spawn in all Overworld biomes except the Deep Dark ### Realms - Fix for when the user tries to download a copy of a Realm world after changing settings results in the download never happening - Fixed height on the members search bar - Introduced a localized loading spinner to replace the play button on the Realms tab when the client is fetching additional information from services, and a reload button that player can use to reload the tab should the fetch fails - Fixed the string Core and Plus sometimes are being translated in other languages ### Stability and Performance - Fixed a crash that could occur when opening Change Control Mode under Touch Settings after deleting a world - Fixed memory leaks when blocks are moved by a piston outside of simulation distance ...And many more! Join the official feedback discord server and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1531692031338877189 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback @Bedrock Changelogs

# Beta/Preview 26.50.20 -# https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/47534782342797-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-26-50-20 **Please note** - the Preview on iOS will be rolling out later than other platforms this week. ## Drop 3 Experimental Features ### Abandoned Camp - Cushions now generate inside Abandoned Camps with the correct position, rotation, and color - Abandoned Camps now generate the variant matching their biome instead of the generic Forest variant in specialized forest biomes - Secret Chests in Abandoned Camps can now contain their intended Diamond and Potion loot and no longer generate Oxidized Copper Chains instead ### Accessibility - Added localized closed captions for jumping and landing on Poplar Leaves ### Blocks - Poplar Saplings can now be composted - Shelf Mushrooms now burn correctly when exposed to lava - Wool Stairs and Wool Slabs no longer conduct Redstone signals - Fixed the stretched mining/cracking overlay when mining a Straw Bed - Players will no longer fall through a Shelf Mushroom when growing it whilst standing upon it - Red Shrubs can now be snowlogged - Added breaking particles to the Shelf Mushroom ### Cushion - Players can now place Cushions next to each other when aiming the crosshair close to an already placed Cushion - Players are no longer moved into the ground when a Cushion they are sitting on is destroyed by Lava - Collecting any ingredient from a Cushion recipe now unlocks it in the Recipe Book and displays the recipe unlock Toast notification - Cushion name is now correctly translated - Nudged the Cushion placement downwards slightly - Increased the sitting height on the Cushion by one texel ### Graphical - Fixed poplar sign UI texture to be in parity with Java - Fixed Hay Bale to be symmetrical - Fixed Poplar log top to have the correct color palette ### Mobs - Wolves spawned in Dappled Forests now use the Pale Wolf variant - Wandering Traders can now offer Poplar Logs ## Features and Bug Fixes ### Accessibility Features - The "Text to Speech with Device Settings" option has been removed. Text to speech can still be turned on or off through the accessibility settings, and a first time TTS discovery is still done on all devices as before. - A green vignette now appears while the nausea effect is active when screen distortion is turned all the way off via accessibility settings ### Gameplay - Fixed Hoppers unintentionally collecting items on its side at large coordinates - Fixed Droppers facing east or south inserting items into containers below them instead of ejecting items forward ### Graphical - Fixed missing Baby Fox texture - Fixed clouds rendering as bright white spots after switching to Vibrant Visuals in-game with low cloud render distance ### Items - Updated Sulfur Cube Spawn Egg icon's MERS ### Mobs - Reduced stuttering that can occur when a mob is far away - Endermen will now always attempt to teleport away before being hit by a projectile ### Pack Settings - Fixed a bug when a pack's dependency packs would not load pack settings properly. ### Realms - Fixed an issue where players would sometimes not respawn at their bed or respawn anchor after dying in a different dimension on a Realm (REALMS-14459) - Fixed in-game realms system performance regression - Disable an expired Realm's Renew button when renewal is not supported on current device - Users are warned when applying custom packs to their realm and how they will appear when profanity filter is enabled & custom pack names and descriptions are filtered when viewing in Edit World when profanity filter is enabled - Added support for realm name changed and realm description changed admin log events ...And many more! Join the official feedback discord server and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1529155526192267446 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback