Features and Bug Fixes

New Version Numbering System

• Going forward, we’ll be numbering our versions based on the year. So, for both Bedrock and Java Edition, version numbers in the year 2026 will begin with ‘26’

Accessibility

• Added a setting to show gameplay subtitles

  Known issue: This feature is currently not working as expected and we aim to have it fixed in an upcoming preview release.

Blocks

• Fixed the End gateway portal that teleported the player to the void area

Creator

• Added command macro support
  • Adds toggle to the Creator Settings screen, which when enabled adds 10 new key mappings to the keyboard/mouse controls settings screen which each have a text input for what command to run when the input is pressed
  • Commands can only be run while in game
  • All re-mappable keys are chords of Alt plus the chosen key
• Added guard to prevent mapping a command macro key to Alt, as Alt is the chord key already

Gameplay

• Vindicator now correctly attacks all non-illager mobs when the nametag “Johnny” is applied

General

• The Adventuring Time achievement no longer unlocks after visiting fewer than 17 biomes on PC
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the window reset to a smaller size on reopening, even when a single monitor had sufficient space

Graphical

• Fixed a bug where screenshots taken with Ray Traced graphics mode selected did not render accurately
• Fixed an issue where block highlight was not visible when the Outline Selection toggle was turned off in Vibrant Visuals
• Fixed an issue where the graphics mode options were changing after game updates
• Fixed water extinction being drawn over fog when the chunk behind it is missing in Vibrant Visuals
• Fixed an issue that caused darker colors in some skins to appear washed out in Vibrant Visuals
• Fixed a bug with the ‘Hide Sky Flashes’ option causing The End entrance sound to loop
• Fixed note effects on Note Blocks not displaying the correct color in darkness
• Fixed an issue that caused lighting on End Portals to render incorrectly if a resource pack defined a Portal block as a point light in Vibrant Visuals
• Made the fire effect on burning mobs and players dither when the player-camera is nearby
• Fixed the Snow Golem’s pumpkin head not being dithered when the toggle is enabled
• Fixed dithered objects flickering when resolution is set to 50% in Vibrant Visuals

Input

• Fixed an issue where pressing the Alt key would cause the game to freeze display
• The on-screen keyboard will now close when typing with a physical keyboard
• Fixed not being able to type into a text box when hovered
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the camera would shift slightly after closing the pause menu

Items

• Spears now rotate in the same direction when charging in first and third person view
• Fixed an issue where adding items to a Bundle in a Chest would sometimes not save after leaving the game
• Diamond and Netherite Horse Armor now provide toughness values of 2 and 3, respectively
• Diamond and Netherite Nautilus Armor now provide toughness values of 2 and 3, respectively
• Horse Armor, Nautilus Armor, and Wolf Armor now display their toughness, armor, and knockback resistance values when greater than 0
• Piglin Spawn Egg and Piglin Brute Spawn Egg are now correctly sorted in alphabetical order
• Fixed an issue where the map marker was stuck when a Locator Map in an Item Frame was deleted

Mobs

• Wolf shadow and model are now centered
• The baby variants of Zombies, Zombie Villagers, Drowned, and Husks now drop items when killed
• The baby variants of Squid and Glow Squid no longer drop items when killed
• Baby Polar Bears now attacks Foxes
• Baby Polar Bears no longer becomes hostile towards the player
• Fixed an issue where Polar Bears recalculated their path to the target twice as often during the stomp attack
• Improved movement logic for Nautili and other underwater mobs
  • They are now less likely to get stuck on block edges
  • When tempted, they navigate around obstacles instead of moving in a straight line toward the player
  • They no longer spin while moving vertically
  • They no longer move excessively slowly when moving vertically
• Mob effect particles can now appear slightly outside of the mob’s bounding box
• Tweaked the chance of Zombie Riders spawning with Copper Armor to more closely match Java
• Tweaked the chance of Husk Riders spawning with Copper Armor to more closely match Java
• Players and baby Drowned no longer float on Nautili when riding them
• Attachable items no longer render when equipped to a Zombie Nautilus via commands
• Drowned, Skeleton, Stray, Bogged and Parched can no longer pick up spears
• Zombies that spawn riding Zombie Horses now have a loot table with an armor chance matching that of regular Zombies
• Baby Horses, Donkeys, and Mules no longer gradually grow in size as they age, matching Java Edition
• Fixed a bug where baby Zombie Horses would shrink in size when they grew into adult Zombie Horses
  • They cannot now grow into adult Zombie Horses at all, matching Java Edition
• Nautilus and baby Nautilus now have swim sounds
• Zombie Nautilus now has swim sounds
• Nautilus now has alternative ambient, hurt, and death sounds when on land
• Baby Nautilus now has unique swim sounds, including alternative ambient, hurt, and death sounds when on land
• Zombie Nautilus now has alternative ambient, hurt, and death sounds when on land
• Baby Drowned can now spawn with Tridents
• Adjusted the ratio at which Drowned spawn with Tridents and Fishing Rods, matching Java Edition

Projectiles

• Lingering and Splash Potions now deflect Ghast Fireballs and other deflectable projectiles on hit

Realms

• Fixed “Realm couldn’t load” error from occurring after joining a Realm via invite
• Fixed input legends for Realms purchase reconciliation modal
• Fixed issue where narration was not always reading the description for the “Free up space” popup dialog when using a mouse

User Interface

• Cancelling during transfer between servers will no longer softlock players
• You can now change the world name in a new template world without unlocking settings
• Ambient mob effects in the Mob Effects screen now have a blue outline
• Fixed various interactions not swinging the player’s hand
  • Leash interactions
  • Bucketing a mob
  • Feeding a mob its taming item
  • Feeding a mob its aging item
  • Feeding a mob its trusting item
  • Feeding a mob its breeding item
  • Feeding a mob its healing item
  • Feeding a mob its bribing item
  • Attaching/removing a Balloon
  • Using a Name Tag on a mob
  • Starting to ride a mob
  • Make a mob sit
  • Giving a mob an item
  • Starting to trade with a mob
  • Opening a mob’s inventory
  • Applying dye to a mob
  • Interacting with an Armor Stand
  • Interacting with a Redstone Ore block
  • Interacting with a Beehive or Bee Nest block
  • Curing a Zombie Villager
  • Shearing a mob
  • Milking a Cow or Mooshroom
• Fixed a bug where the Escape key would not open the game menu when on the death screen

Technical Updates

AI Goals

• Spawning an entity with behavior.nearest_attackable_target no longer shows a content log error
• Made schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.0 and newer
  • minecraft:behavior.defend_village_target
  • minecraft:behavior.nearest_attackable_target
• Float range field attack_interval in minecraft:behavior.nearest_attackable_target now only accepts an object with min and max values. Other formats will fail to parse
• Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.guardian_attack stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.0 and newer
• Made schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.0 and newer
  • minecraft:behavior.timer_flag_1
  • minecraft:behavior.timer_flag_2
  • minecraft:behavior.timer_flag_3
  • minecraft:behavior.move_towards_dwelling_restriction
  • minecraft:behavior.move_towards_home_restriction
• Float Range fields cooldown_range and duration_range in
  minecraft:behavior.timer_flag_1,
  minecraft:behavior.timer_flag_2,
  and minecraft:behavior.timer_flag_3
  now only accepts an object with min and max values. Other formats will fail to parse

API

• Released @minecraft/server version 2.5.0
• Fixed a issue where getComponents on ItemStack could return an undefined in the array, when used in older scripting versions
• Added missing BlockComponentTypes enum values into 2.5.0:
  • PrecipitationInteractions = 'minecraft:precipitation_interactions'
  • RedstoneProducer = 'minecraft:redstone_producer'
  • MapColor = 'minecraft:map_color'
  • Movable = 'minecraft:movable'
• Changed EntityHurtAfterEvent to send when damage amount is zero
• Released PlayerSwingStartAfterEvent from beta to v2.5.0
• Released PlayerSwingEventOptions from beta to v2.5.0
• Released HeldItemOption from beta to v2.5.0
• Released EntitySwingSource from beta to v2.5.0
• Released BlockComponentRedstoneUpdateEvent from beta to v2.0.0
• Released BlockCustomComponent.onRedstoneUpdate from beta to v2.0.0

Biomes

• Biomes without a namespace in biomes_client.json will be applied to worlds below base_game_version 1.21.40 with the default namespace

Blocks

• Updated minecraft:redstone_consumer renamed field propogates_power to propagates_power
• The option alpha_masked_tint in minecraft:material_instances no longer requires “Upcoming Creator Features”
• Released minecraft:redstone_consumer from experimental for format_version >= 1.26.0
• Added use_liquid_clipping field to the detection_rules in minecraft:liquid_detection
  • “true” means the block will use the “collision_box” to visually clip the water
  • “false” ignores liquid clipping, which will render water across the whole block
  • Defaults to true prior to format_version 1.26.0
  • Defaults to false for format_version 1.26.0 and after

Components

• Fixed bug with minecraft:behavior.fire_at_target where the max_head_rotation_x and max_head_rotation_y were applied inversely

Editor

• Added Edit Tags menu item in the structure panel, so tags for one or more checked structures can be edited
• Added modal popup ‘Edit Tags’ to add new or remove existing tags from the selected structures
• Added isActive property to IModalTool to check for the active state
• Added onSelectedToolChanged property to IModalToolContainer to listen for global modal tool change events
• Added settings persistence for the scripted extensions
• Updated Elevation icons for Terrain Tool
• Updated selected modal tool to toggle off when changing out of Tool mode, then toggle on after returning back
• Fixed a bug where enabling “restrict smart fill to selection” in Smart Fill caused the project to crash and exit for large selection areas
• Fixed a bug where cursor bound widgets triggered state change events while hidden
• Fixed a bug where the game would freeze when using the Terrain Tool’s Elevation mode to Lower the terrain near the bottom of the world
• Fixed the cursor distance limit to match the spherical view distance setting

Entity Components

• Changed the swing field to default to true in the minecraft:interact component

General

• minecraft://connect?localLevelId=<level id> launch protocol requires the level id to be a url encoded value

Graphical

• Introduced new parameter biome_water_color_contribution to the Vibrant Visuals water effects configuration file. This new parameter controls the contribution of per-biome water colors provided by *.client_biome.json files.
  • Range: [0.0, 1.0]
  • Default value: 0.0

Items

• The item component minecraft:damage now supports values between 0 and 32767

JSON Schema

• Fixed an issue where generated JSON Schemas included superfluous _array fields (e.g. on_bred_array, on_death_array) for certain components such as experience_reward

Molang

• The pre_animation and initialize fields in minecraft:client_entity and minecraft:attachable\ now properly support {} brace scope delimiters across multiple lines
  • This change applies only when using format version 1.26.0 or higher

Experimental Technical Updates

API

• Added @minecraft/server version 2.6.0-beta
• Added localizationKey property to BlockType and BlockPermutation
• Added the /packstack command to the command window that allows users to see what packs they have installed and their world template data if one is in use
• Added localizationKey property to EntityType
• Added localizationKey property to ItemType
• Added class EntityHurtBeforeEvent to beta
• Added class EntityHurtBeforeEventSignal to beta
• Added interface EntityHurtAfterEventOptions to beta
• Added interface EntityHurtBeforeEventOptions to beta
• Added WorldBeforeEvents.entityHurt to beta
• Changed EntityHurtAfterEventSignal to use EntityHurtAfterEventOptions in beta
• Added enum EntityHealCause to beta
• Added class EntityHealSource to beta
• Added class EntityHealAfterEvent to beta
• Added class EntityHealBeforeEvent to beta
• Added class EntityHealBeforeEventSignal to beta
• Added class EntityHealAfterEventSignal to beta
• Added property WorldAfterEvents.entityHeal to beta
• Added property WorldBeforeEvents.entityHeal to beta
• Added interface EntityHealEventOptions to beta
• Added enum EntityAttachPoint to beta
• Added interface CameraAttachOptions to beta
  • Added method attachToEntity(attachCameraOptions?: CameraAttachOptions): void to beta. This can be used to attach third-person camera to an entity
• Added getTags() to BiomeType in beta
• Added hasTags(tags: string[]) to BiomeType in beta
• Added containsBiomes(volume: BlockVolumeBase, biomeFilter: BiomeFilter) to Dimension in beta
• Added BiomeFilter interface to beta
• Added the easing type parameter to camera splines API for rotation and position

Graphical

• The colors of block lights in the RenderDragon Features for Creators experiment have been slightly adjusted; local_lighting.json colors are expected to be in sRGB space