# Beta/Preview 26.40.27 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-preview-26-40-27 ## Drop 3 Experimental Features ### Abandoned Camp - The Abandoned Camp structure is a new kind of structure which can be found in the following biomes: - Meadow - Cherry Grove - Forest - Birch Forest - Old Growth Birch Forest - Flower Forest - Windswept Forest - Dappled Forest - Taiga - Snowy Taiga - Old Growth Spruce Taiga - Old Growth Pine Taiga - Sparse Jungle - Bamboo Jungle - Swamp - Savanna - Wooded Badlands - Pale Garden - Each of these biomes has its own variant of the structure with design based on that biome - Certain structure pieces are generic for all biome variants of the structure - Various Chests and Barrels with loot can be found at Abandoned Camps ### Dappled Forest - The Dappled Forest is a new type of forest biome which can be found near cold biomes - Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees generate here - Shelf Mushrooms can be found here, placed on Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees - Red Shrubs generate here - The following passive and neutral mobs spawn in the Dappled Forest, using their cold variants where applicable: - Sheep - Chicken - Cow - Pig - Rabbit - Fox - A Dappled Forest variant of the new Abandoned Camp structure can be found here ### Poplar Trees - Added the Poplar Tree to the game - A new type of tree in the Dappled Forest which comes in three color variations: - Red Poplar Leaves - Orange Poplar Leaves - Yellow Poplar Leaves - Each variant of the tree has its own variant of falling leaf particles matching the color of the leaves - Poplar Leaves drop Poplar Saplings which will randomly grow into any of the three different variants - Poplar Saplings can be found in trades with Wandering Trader - Shelf Mushrooms and Leaf Litter naturally generates on and around Poplar Trees - The trunk of the trees are made of Poplar Logs - Poplar Logs can be crafted into a new set of Poplar wood blocks - Forest ambience sounds are tied to the Poplar Leaf blocks - **Known issue**: Some Vibrant Visuals settings are currently not being applied correctly to Poplar Leaf blocks ### Red Shrub - Red Shrub is a new type of decorative plant block that can be found in small patches in the Dappled Forest - Can be used in the Composter - Using Bone Meal on a Red Shrub grows a Red Shrub in a random adjacent space if possible ### Shelf Mushroom - A new type of mushroom that generates on Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees - Can be found in two sizes, small and large - A small Shelf Mushroom can be grown into a large Shelf Mushroom using Bone Meal - A large Shelf Mushroom drops two Shelf Mushroom items when broken - Can be used like other mushrooms to make Stews - Can be found in trades with Wandering Trader - Shelf Mushroom has a slight bounciness when stepped on, similar to Beds ### Blocks - Added Wool Stair blocks and Wool Slab blocks of the following colors: - Black - Blue - Brown - Cyan - Gray - Green - Light Blue - Light Gray - Lime - Magenta - Orange - Pink - Purple - Red - White - Yellow ## Features and Bug Fixes ### Accessibility - The screen no longer jitters when the Screen Distortion accessibility setting is changed ### Graphical - Frame pacing is now available in Preview on Xbox platforms. Frame pacing is disabled by default and can be enabled in Video settings ### Stability and Performance - Fixed an issue where the game would crash when opening the game from an invite notification on Android. ### Blocks - Sulfur and Cinnabar Stairs no longer prevent Chests from opening - Fixed issue where air would not be replenished by air bubbles ### Gameplay - Fixed arm animation triggering when no block is affected ...And many more! Join the official feedback discord server and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1519007975610519843 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback

# Java 26.2 - Chaos Cubed -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-java-edition-26-2 Chaos Cubed has landed in Minecraft Java Edition! Explore a striking cave biome filled with bubbling sulfur pools, build with sulfur and cinnabar, and discover the sulfur cube's curious appetite for blocks! From bouncing and sliding to explosive surprises, this unpredictable mob unlocks exciting new ways to build, compete, and survive. Play Chaos Cubed today in Minecraft! # New Features - Added the Sulfur Cube mob - Added the Sulfur Caves biome - Added the Cinnabar and Sulfur block sets - Added the Sulfur Spike and Potent Sulfur block - Added a new Music Disc with the track "Bounce" by fingerspit - Added 5 new music tracks by fingerspit - Added the Friends List - Added new settings for Friends List in Online Options - Added experimental support for rendering the game through Vulkan - Added new option "Graphics API" in Video Settings - Added Swiss French, Chuvash, Gallo, Uzbek, and Võro language support to the game ...And many more! Join the official discord server and discuss the Drop here: https://discord.com/channels/302094807046684672/1447987234023411834 https://discord.gg/minecraft

# Bedrock 26.30 - Chaos Cubed -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-30-bedrock-changelog Chaos Cubed has landed in Minecraft! Hunt for vibrant Sulfur springs in the Overworld to discover a striking cave biome hidden below. Swim in bubbling Sulfur pools if you dare, build with colorful Cinnabar and Sulfur, but best of all – uncover the Sulfur Cube’s relentless appetite for blocks! From bouncing and sliding to explosive surprises, this unpredictable mob unlocks exciting new ways to build, compete, and survive depending on what you feed it. Chaos is only a block away in our newest drop. Play today in Minecraft! ## Chaos Cubed Features ### Bucket of Sulfur Cube - Need an easy way of getting your new Sulfur Cube friend from the Sulfur caves to your base? Sure, you could experiment with blocks to make the Sulfur Cube bounce, slide, or traverse long distances – or you can just scoop it up with a bucket and tuck it safely away in your inventory. ### Sulfur Cubes - Sulfur Cubes are a new mob coming to Minecraft with a curious appetite for... blocks! Found in Sulfur caves, this curious mob transforms depending on which block the player feeds it. Experiment and discover how to send Sulfur Cubes bouncing, sliding, and more! ### Sulfur springs - Found across the Overworld, you’ll know if you’ve spotted a Sulfur pool thanks to its Sulfur and Cinnabar blocks – and the noxious gas coming from it! But dig beneath these and you’ll discover a Sulfur cave, filled with new blocks to mine and a new mob to meet! ### Potent Sulfur - The new potent Sulfur block is the reason why Sulfur springs are so bubbly – and a bit nauseating. You can also create hot bubbling pools by placing potent Sulfur beneath water! You’ll soon spy bubble columns, as well as puffs of noxious gas. Build with caution, because noxious gas will trigger nausea in players and nearby mobs! ### Sulfur caves - Discover this new cave type, with shallow pools of water and glow lichen. Sulfur caves are filled with yellow blocks of Sulfur, red blocks of Cinnabar, Sulfur spikes, and a curious mob called the Sulfur Cube! ### New block sets - You’ll find two new block sets in Sulfur caves – Cinnabar and Sulfur! These new blocks allow you to add rich reds and yellows into your builds, and each comes with its own full block set. Cobble them, craft with them, turn them into stairs or bricks – the choice is yours! ### Sulfur Spikes - Sulfur Spikes grow on Cinnabar and Sulfur blocks, giving Sulfur caves a distinctive look. Unlike Pointed Dripstone, stepping on Sulfur Spikes is harmless, but they can still fall and hurt you – it’s just a pretty rare occurrence. ### Geysers - Watch your step or you’ll go flying! Geysers form when a Magma block is generated or placed underneath a potent Sulfur block that’s submerged underneath 1 to 4 blocks of water. Use them for a vertical boost or a dramatic landscaping element! ### Special block: TNT - Why would anyone feed a TNT block to a Sulfur Cube? To see what happens, of course! Try it out for yourself, ignite it, and enjoy (or deeply regret) the explosive results. ### Special block: Magma - Play hot potato by having a Sulfur Cube absorb a Magma block. ### Music - Added new music by composer fingerspit (Paula Ruiz) to the game - Added a new music disc with the song "Bounce" that may be found inside Minecarts with Chests in abandoned mineshaft structures within Sulfur Caves - Added new music tracks Ebb, Home, Memories, Nightly, and Shores to the main Menu music, Creative Mode music, and several biomes ...And many more! Join the official discord server and discuss the Drop here: https://discord.com/channels/302094807046684672/1447987234023411834 https://discord.gg/minecraft

# Java 26.2 Release Candidate 1 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-release-candidate-1 ## Bugs Fixed - Pressing the "Friends Screen" key bind while in a world doesn't bring up the friends list ------------------------------- # Java 26.2 Release Candidate 2 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-release-candidate-2 ## Bugs Fixed - With a specific setup, a survival player can become softlocked in a hole with a sulfur cube Fixed an issue where respawning at height limit caused the respawn to take a lot longer than normal Join the official feedback discord and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1514643358364991640 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback

# Java 26.2 Pre-Release 6 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-pre-release-6 ## Changes - Respawning (as a spectator) in a hardcore world no longer turns off the `spectators_generate_chunks` game rule Join the official feedback discord and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1514269627184713890 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback

# Java 26.2 Pre-Release 5 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-pre-release-5 ## Changes - The game setting for Graphics API now changes if a crash is detected during startup - The sound for when hitting the sulfur cube of a bouncy archetype now plays the correct sound - As the host of a world, changing the game mode with F3 + F4 or with commands now changes the default game mode of the world - The "Game Mode" and "Allow Commands" buttons are no longer available in Hardcore mode worlds ### Startup and Fallback Behavior for Graphics API - If the game crashes at startup with "Prefer Vulkan" set, the setting will automatically be changed to "Default" - When set to "Default", the game will still attempt to gather systems information about Vulkan at startup - If the game crashes at startup with "Default" set, the setting will automatically be changed to "Prefer OpenGL" - With "Prefer OpenGL" set, no interaction will be made with Vulkan in case that causes crashes ## Bugs Fixed - The "bouncy" sulfur cube archetype's sounds play at a significantly higher volume - The `flower_default` and `flower_warm` features generate a single flower, instead of a flower patch - Using a spear with Lunge on a geyser launches you downwards - Players can change their game mode from the World Options menu in hardcore worlds - Pressing the key bound to the "Friends Screen" key bind in the username field in the friends screen closes it instead of typing - Custom dialog buttons break the game menu - Changing whether commands are enabled does not properly update the state of the "Game Rules" button in the World Options screen - Changing your game mode with commands doesn't update the World Options screen - The "Statistics" button in the game menu is shifted to the right when there is a "Server Links..." button - The `gui.friends.error.unauthorized` string contains a comma splice - After re-entering the save, the game mode is set to Survival mode. - Hardcore death can be bypassed by rejoining the world Join the official feedback discord and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1513543602708414505 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback

# Java 26.2 Pre-Release 4 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-pre-release-4 ## Changes - When the game is overwhelmed with particles, instead of removing existing particles in flight, it will now randomly select for particles to render or not render to stay under the particle limit - This change is especially visible with a large number of new geyser eruptions ### Sulfur Cube mob - The Sulfur Cube will now be knocked back farther as the knockback enchantment level increases ### Potent Sulfur - The Ender Dragon will no longer be affected by the Geyser ### UI - The "Multiplayer Options" screen has been renamed back to "Open to LAN" Fixed an issue where the Realms configuration screen could fail to open ### World Options screen - The host of a world now has access to the "Game Mode" and "Allow Commands" buttons in the World Options screen ### Open to LAN screen - As opposed to World Options, the host of a world can configure the "Game Mode" and "Allow Commands" values for other players in their world (separate from themselves) - These buttons are available under a "Settings for Other Players" header ## Technical Changes - The Data Pack version is now 107.1 - The `particle_render_stats` now includes the counts of different particle groups (`SQ` for `single quads`, `NR` for `no render`, `EG` for `elder guardians` and `IP` for `item pickup`), as well as the total ### Data Pack Version 107.1 - Entity Tags - Added `#not_affected_by_geysers` - entities that are not affected by the upward impulse applied by Geyser eruptions ## Bugs Fixed - Spore blossom particles gradually disappear/lessen until the world is reloaded - The game window is one pixel too tall in fullscreen mode - Screenshots taken in fullscreen mode on Windows are one pixel too tall - The client still thinks commands are enabled when enabling multiplayer with commands and disabling it - The "Server Links..." button in the game menu looks out of place - Hitboxes of item entities render from farther away than the item entities themselves - The "Friends Screen" key bind doesn't work when set to a mouse button - Visual glitches occur in the particle effects when plenty of continuous geysers erupt simultaneously - Charging a crossbow with Multishot level 32 or higher crashes the game - The block breaking animation no longer renders when breaking most mob heads - The block breaking animation z-fights with blocks with the Vulkan rendering backend (and rarely with the OpenGL backend) - Debug keybinds combinations now execute other keybinds bound to the key - Switching gamemode with F3 + F4 applies F4 keybind Join the official feedback discord and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1512092817919316182 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback

# Java 26.2 Pre-Release 3 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-pre-release-3 ## Note - With today's pre-release we're reverting a fix that patched an exploit, known as "Attribute Swapping", for unrelated reasons. Please note that this does not mean "Attribute Swapping" is a supported functionality - it will instead be fixed in a future snapshot. ## Changes ### Sulfur Cube mob - The block inside a Sulfur Cube now only aligns vertically with the block grid when the Sulfur Cube is invisible - The squish animation will no longer be played when a Sulfur Cube has a block inside ### UI - The tooltip for the "Exclusive Fullscreen" video setting now mentions that Adaptive Sync (Nvidia G-Sync, AMD FreeSync) should work when it is enabled and will not work when it is disabled ## Telemetry ### New property in World Events - The following change was missing from the changelog for 26.2 Pre-Release 2: - `server_session_id` a unique identifier for a multiplayer session, shared across all players in that session ## Bugs Fixed - Players' sneaking state can sometimes desync - Menu music starts for a brief moment during the creation of a new world - The `noxious_gas_08` particle texture has a resolution of 16x15 - Sulfur cubes with absorbed primed TNT cannot be hit with spears - Geysers are less effective on players riding other entities - The animation of the dark overlay in the advancements screen is slower on lower framerates - Characters in the Unicode font have uneven gaps between them - Adding large animated textures to atlases causes the Vulkan rendering backend to run out of memory - Explosions caused by sulfur cubes with absorbed TNT do not drop every destroyed block - Log spam when attempting to render a monster spawner in Peaceful difficulty - Attempting to send a friend request to yourself silently fails with no user feedback - CTRL+NUM within the friends menu requires the buttons to be focused in order to function, unlike other menus - When placing a bed, the head part takes an extra frame to appear - Disconnecting from the network on the friends screen and exiting the game causes the JVM to crash - The border around the text under the listed friends in the friends menu disappears when pressing Enter and exiting the link confirmation screen - Geysers take away boats' horizontal momentum - Hitting sulfur cubes that are hanging in mid air near the top now causes them to gain a lot more height - Partially transparent flower textures produce ghosting artifacts when mipmapped - Setting a movement key bind and the "Debug Modifier" key bind to the same key lets you move while an inventory is open - Blocks absorbed by small sulfur cubes are displayed incorrectly - The block outline on banners is white - The depth clear value is ignored in `GlCommandEncoder.createRenderPass()` - The timeout passed into `glClientWaitSync` is in milliseconds instead of nanoseconds - The vertex buffer slot is hardcoded to 0 in `VulkanRenderPass.drawMultipleIndexed()` - `VulkanRenderPass:` scissor is never set when `renderArea` is null - JVM crash when two shaders fail to compile when using Vulkan - The game can crash due to certain race conditions in multiplayer - You can still swap the blocks inside of a sulfur cube whilst their TNT is about to explode Join the official feedback discord and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1511369671151063111 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback