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Minecraft Preview 26.70.20 | Minecraft

October 14, 2026 · cpstestersofficial@gmail.com

Extra options from the upcoming recreation drop are prepared for testing! Create your individual Minecraft music combine with the brand new jukebox playlists. Place a single chest over a jukebox block, fill it with discs, and your DJ set is nice to go! However watch the place you’re dancing, the brittle ice blocks are fragile and crack while you step on them. For those who don’t transfer off them in time, they break. They will cowl crevasse openings, so that you threat falling down a winding, slim ravine which will or could not have water on the backside. Higher carry a bucket!

And as at all times, we’re eager to get your suggestions on these new options at feedback.minecraft.net, and you’ll report any bugs you discover at bugs.mojang.com.

Experimental Options

Nether Spawning Rebalancing

Added a Nether Spawning Rebalancing experiment that reduces mob density and adjusts fortress spawning to extra carefully resemble Java Version (MCPE-65762)

Drop 4 of 2026 Options

Biomes

Crevasses generate all through the Ice Cave biome, with Brittle Ice on the floor and water swimming pools at their base

Blocks

Icicles’ base sides now render brighter
Ice Crystals are actually rendered with the precise measurement
Added Brittle Ice
- Launched Brittle Ice, a fragile ice block that cracks when gamers or mobs stand on it
- Breaks after 3 cracks, and doesn’t soften
- Generates naturally or by water flowing subsequent to a Blue Ice block
- Launch small ice particles throughout its first cracking stage and when it breaks
- Emits Block Change vibration when it will increase crack degree
- Emits Block Destroy vibration when it’s damaged from most crack degree
Added Jukebox playlists
- Place a single Chest, Trapped Chest, or any Copper Chest variant straight above a Jukebox to make use of its Music Discs as a playlist
- Discs play in slot order, skipping empty slots and different gadgets and looping again to the beginning
- When a disc finishes, the Jukebox swaps it with the subsequent disc within the chest
- If the chest has no Music Discs, the disc within the Jukebox performs once more
- Ejecting the present disc skips to the subsequent out there disc
Fastened the bottom of an Icicle visually flickering (z-fighting) with the block beneath it when considered from a distance

Freezing Mob Impact

Fastened tooltip error the place Freezing displayed a rank
Fastened tooltip error the place Freezing was listed as optimistic

Frostbite

It may choose up spears, however won’t use the cost assault
It may stand on Brittle Ice with out breaking it
Frostbites can now choose up Spears

Sounds

Added sound occasions:
- convert_to_frostbite for when a Zombie converts to a Frostbite
- convert_to_zombie for when a Frostbite converts to a Zombie

Textures

Up to date the freezing tipped arrow to match the opposite tipped arrow icons

Options and Bug Fixes

Accessibility

Fastened “Chat directions on be part of” to indicate supported be part of directions even in single-player worlds and with gameplay ideas enabled; turning the setting off nonetheless permits contextual multiplayer ideas
Added retailer row names to text-to-speech.
Display narration now reads slider values the way in which they’re displayed

Accessibility Characteristic

Fastened text-to-speech not outputting time accurately when targeted on realm participant periods on Realms Timeline tab

Blocks

Fastened a difficulty the place Snow Layers wouldn’t at all times fall onto snowloggable blocks (MCPE-237495)
Gamers can now gentle candles with ignition gadgets in the primary hand whereas sneaking
Frosted Ice now emits Block Change vibration when it will increase crack degree
Frosted Ice now emits Block Destroy vibration when it’s damaged from most crack degree
Tripwire Hooks once more play sounds when triggered (MCPE-243329)
Empty Dispensers and Droppers once more play sounds when failing to eject an merchandise (MCPE-243328)
Added a Maintain Construction Void choice to Construction Blocks that masses empty non-Air blocks as Construction Voids throughout guide construction loading

Realms

Realms FAQ scrollbars now replace when sections are expanded

Options

Added help for buying Market content material as presents for pals

Graphical

Fastened a bug that brought on all seen chunks to reload when resizing the sport window on Home windows
Objects with out PBR maps are not excessively reflective in Ray Traced graphics mode (MCPE-242595)
Fastened script TextPrimitive icons being rendered behind the textual content background and in addition being impacted by lighting

Gadgets

Fastened a difficulty the place customized named Sea Pickle and Candle merchandise stacks would not protect their person knowledge (equivalent to a customized identify) after being positioned (MCPE-117741)

Mobs

Zombies, Husks, and Zombie Villagers will not try to put on Wolf Armor, Horse Armor, or Nautilus Armor (MCPE-233468)
Unarmed Piglins and Piglin Brutes now stay unarmed when reworking into Zombified Piglins
Skeletons not achieve new gear when reworking into Strays (MCPE-137149)

Character Creator

Focus pores and skin or supply by default when getting into character edit display screen

Realms

Fixing a difficulty with Realms World Downloads the place the participant permission degree was decrease than anticipated (MCPE-163495)
Fastened bug the place Realm admin log would stay on loading spinner if a participant’s profile didn’t fetch succesfully.
The brand new Realms data display screen’s “Study Extra” button disappears for a participant as soon as they’ve clicked it the primary time.
Realms Hub’s”Study Extra” part now comprises a button linking to an internet site with Realms tutorials, or comprises a QR code for the participant to entry the tutorials.

Sound

Including generic closed captions to leap and land sounds

Stability and Efficiency

Fixes a crash that may typically occur on PlayStation 5 when the sport makes use of a lot of textures without delay
Additional decreased the lag when opening an Deserted Camp chest for the primary time (MCPE-241358)
Fastened a crash that might happen when the useful resource pack record refreshes whereas a pack is highlighted
Fastened a crash attributable to a race situation when teleporting and eradicating entities on the identical tick
Added elective devoted server efficiency warnings with configurable tick-time thresholds and notification cooldowns
Pack downloads on Home windows will likely be saved as blobs to mitigate partial deletion of cached pack content material by Home windows Disk Administration
Fastened a difficulty the place the display screen would freeze momentarily when recording video (MCPE-227725)

Person Interface

Activating a file related to Minecraft, equivalent to an .mcworld or .mcaddon file, now imports it when the sport is already working (MCPE-227874)
Bopomofo and Bopomofo Prolonged characters now use constant full-width spacing alongside Chinese language textual content
Fastened terminal instructions localizing its parameters when instructions fail (MCPE-238783)
Up to date the Inbox Suggestions tab on consoles to direct gamers to suggestions.minecraft.internet
Fastened the alignment of textual content area focus outlines
Fastened the Social button on the primary menu requiring two presses to open the Social Drawer after launching the sport
Japanese and Chinese language textual content now shows accurately on the Market’s “My Library” button on cell
Profile photographs now replace accurately when the chosen character look modifications
Fastened Customized Pores and skin button often not rendering and never displaying the chosen pores and skin
New Participant Path mode and issue card illustrations not flicker or resize when the display screen first seems
Fastened the Minecraft brand being displayed at incorrect dimensions on startup (MCPE-243354)
Hearts on the HUD now flash 3 times when the participant takes harm and twice when the participant regains well being (MCPE-50732)
Standing impact icons now resize accurately for current gamers when getting into split-screen periods (MCPE-160900)
Makes the Social Drawer closable with Y on the keyboard when it’s open, as acknowledged by the narration for the Y keyboard shortcut to open it (MCPE-228282)
Modified Block Mild High quality choices to Low, Medium, Excessive and Extremely
Added lacking and glued incorrect closed captions
- Cod, Pufferfish, Salmon, and Tropical Fish have the proper closed caption when killed
- Pufferfish, Salmon, Tropical Fish, and Elder Guardians have the proper closed caption when damage
- Pufferfish, Salmon, Tropical Fish, Tadpole, and Elder Guardian have the proper closed caption when flopping
- Elder Guardian has the proper closed caption when flopping on land
- Comparators, Tripwires, and Dispensers now have the proper closed captions when emitting their clicking sounds
- Dispensers now have the proper closed captions when failing to dispense an merchandise
- Slime mobs now have the proper closed caption when killed and summoned
- Eggs, Eyes of Ender, Ender Pearls, Fishing hooks, potions, Snowballs, and different throwables now have the proper closed captions when thrown
- creeper now has the proper closed caption when primed
Added responsive Market retailer rows for searching content material playing cards
Market affords which might be incompatible with the participant’s machine now stay seen with buy buttons disabled

Technical Updates

Blocks

Added the minecraft:jukebox_playlist_source block part
- Marks a block as a supply of Music Discs for a Jukebox straight under it
- Requires a suitable single container

API

Fastened Container.setItem and ContainerSlot.setItem to clamp merchandise stack sizes to the merchandise’s most stack measurement
Fixing some situations had been the textual content size was incorrectly calculated for RawText utilized by PrimitiveText.
Script API string arguments now protect embedded NUL () characters as an alternative of being truncated
Added extra error context data when an exception is thrown within an occasion callback.
Added Newline and whitespace modifications to the formatting of the stack error context for exceptions.
Launched @minecraft/server model 2.12.0
Added @minecraft/server model 2.13.0-beta
Added topCloseButtonVisible property to CustomFormOptions in @minecraft/server-ui beta.

Block Parts

Doorways

The higher half of a door now reviews the identical open_bit block state because the decrease half, relatively than at all times reporting the door as closed. This covers doorways positioned by gamers, doorways generated as a part of a construction, and doorways in current worlds, that are corrected the primary time their chunk masses

Repeater

Repeater blocks now expose a locked block state that’s true whereas a powered repeater or comparator is feeding one of many repeater’s aspect inputs
For brand new worlds (base recreation model 1.26.60 and later), repeater locked state modifications now set off neighbor block updates for parity with Java Version; current worlds hold the prior client-only replace conduct

Scaffolding

Scaffolding blocks now expose a backside block state that’s true when the block under offers no help and isn’t one other scaffolding
For brand new worlds (base recreation model 1.26.60 and later), scaffolding backside state modifications now set off neighbor block updates for parity with Java Version; current worlds hold the prior client-only replace conduct

Blocks

Fastened challenge the place destruction_particles and precipitation_interactions part overrides on block permutations can be ignored (MCPE-237074)

Editor

Added help for filter icon tooltip on the Editor Record View management.
Added group sorting, dynamic top configuration and noMargins type for IListPanePropertyItem API
Fastened a bug the place the chosen Chunks are usually not reflecting the biome modifications in Biome Information Project Instrument
Fastened an assert that occurred when interacting with Occasion invite toast utilizing its hotkey in Editor mode
Fastened a bug the place the Customized Time UI component would stay invisible if the Presets dropdown was modified by altering the Daylight Cycle dropdown
Fastened challenge that was permitting to create a number of empty layouts
Fastened a bug the place the tooltip on the motion merchandise for Layouts Administration was inconsistent

Entity Parts

The minecraft:transformation part now preserves empty gear slots when preserve_equipment is about to true
Made schema for the minecraft:annotation.break_door part stricter when parsing and can fail to load an entity json that has invalid knowledge in variations 1.26.60 and newer.
Made schema for the minecraft:assault part stricter when parsing and can fail to load an entity json that has invalid knowledge in variations 1.26.60 and newer.
- harm now solely accepts a scalar or an object with min and max values. Array values are not legitimate.
Made schema for the minecraft:stock part stricter when parsing and can fail to load an entity json that has invalid knowledge in variations 1.26.60 and newer.
Made schema for the minecraft:spell_effects part stricter when parsing and can fail to load an entity json that has invalid knowledge in variations 1.26.60 and newer.
The minecraft:can_stand_on_brittle_ice part allows any mob to face on Brittle Ice with out breaking it
- Utilized by defining the part as follows: “minecraft:can_stand_on_brittle_ice”: {}

Options

Added the internal-only minecraft:crevasse_feature world technology function, which carves a winding, tapered crevasse into uncovered terrain
- This function is just not at the moment out there to be used in creator content material
- The crevasse follows the terrain floor, extends in reverse instructions from its placement place, and requires a minimal linked footprint earlier than carving
  - The next fields configure technology:
    - max_length: Most end-to-end size in blocks, from 4 to 16; defaults to 16
    - max_width: Most cross-section width in blocks, from 2 to eight; defaults to 4
    - min_footprint: Minimal linked horizontal footprint required earlier than carving, from 1 to 32 blocks; defaults to 10
    - twistiness: Quantity of horizontal curvature, from 0.0 to 16.0; defaults to 4.0
    - carve_depth: Vary used to pick out the carve depth under the origin terrain floor, from 4 to 32 blocks; defaults to [6, 10]
    - fill_depth: Vary used to pick out the fill depth under the origin terrain floor, from 0 to 32 blocks; defaults to [4, 6]
    - surface_block: Non-compulsory block positioned over the crevasse opening; omitted by default
    - fill_block: Non-compulsory block positioned at or under the chosen fill depth; omitted by default
- Instance code:
```

"format_version": "1.26.50",
"minecraft:crevasse_feature": {
    "identifier": "instance:ice_crevasse_feature"
  "max_length": 16,
  "max_width": 4,
  "min_footprint": 10,
  "twistiness": 4.0,
  "carve_depth": {
    "range_min": 6,
    "range_max": 10
  "fill_depth": {
    "range_max": 6
  "surface_block": "minecraft:ice",
  "fill_block": "minecraft:water"

```

Merchandise Parts

Gadgets with the minecraft:damage_absorption part now soak up harm when the Unbreaking enchantment prevents sturdiness loss (MCPE-237532)

Packs

System packs can not be overridden by growth packs with the identical id.

Factors of Curiosity

Launched help for outlining point-of-interest varieties with hierarchical tags in conduct packs
Launched /find poi for finding registered factors by kind or tag

Stability and Efficiency

Efficiency enhancements for reminiscence allocation on Android

Person Interface

Downloading Market content material not deletes growth useful resource, conduct, or pores and skin packs with matching UUIDs
Malformed JSON UI in useful resource packs (unresolved management names, invalid anchors, unknown management varieties, unsolvable layouts, malformed binding expressions, and look at binding loops) is now reported as a content material log error
Route transitions are actually constructed from animation selectors with createRouteTransition, so an animation is knowledge that may rely upon the from/to navigation pair relatively than a bespoke transition part
Route transitions now dwell within the standalone @mojang/react-route-transition bundle, with the display screen animation setting in @mojang/react-screen-animation, so each will be consumed with out relying on @mojang/ui

Experimental Technical Updates

Entity

Added beta Script API help for positioning entities as passengers of blocks
- Entity.startPassengerOfBlock(blockPosition, offset, rotation, rotationLimit, emote) positions an entity as a passenger of a block, with a place offset, rotation, rotation restrict, and PassengerOfBlockEmoteType (Standing, Using, or Laying)
- Entity.stopPassengerOfBlock() stops an entity from being a passenger of a block
- The read-only Entity.isPassengerOfBlock property reviews whether or not an entity is a passenger of a block
- Destroying or altering a block doesn’t mechanically cease an entity from being its passenger; scripts should name Entity.stopPassengerOfBlock() as a result of blocks are agnostic of their passengers
- The prevailing question.is_riding returns true when an entity is using a car or is a passenger of a block within the Using pose; the brand new question.is_laying returns true when an entity is a passenger of a block within the Laying pose. When isPassengerOfBlock is true and each queries are false, the entity is within the Standing pose for animation

API

Up to date the ScriptPlayer.playMusic methodology in beta for taking part in music tracks for a person participant
- Now returns a SoundInstance when the MusicOptions.fade worth is zero or not given
- Returns undefined when the MusicOptions.fade worth is larger than zero
- Can now go a SoundDefinition into the trackId area
Up to date the ScriptWorld.playMusic methodology in beta for taking part in music tracks for all gamers on the planet
- Now returns a SoundInstance when the MusicOptions.fade worth is zero or not given
- Returns undefined when the MusicOptions.fade worth is larger than zero
- Can now go a SoundDefinition into the trackId area
Added help for the minecraft:chiseled_bookshelf block to BlockInventoryComponent in beta
Added ItemBlockEntityStorageComponent merchandise part behind beta
- It might be accessed on any item-stack
- It has the next strategies, retailer, launch, switch, getEntities and measurement which work like their BlockEntityStorageComponent counterparts
  - launch nevertheless takes an additional place parameter to resolve the place the entity is being launched
- The part will likely be pre-populated if the item-stack outcomes from a profitable carry_over_block_entity_data loot operate
- Saved entities will likely be carried over the corresponding positioned block if it helps entity-storage

CarryOverBlockEntityDataFunction

Added the read-only beta property entityStorage to show whether or not the loot operate carries saved entities from the block entity to the dropped merchandise

Blocks

Added the elective Boolean area entity_storage to the carry_over_block_entity_data loot operate, defaulting to false and requiring the Upcoming Creator Options experiment
When entity_storage is true, saved entities are copied from the block entity to the dropped merchandise with out being launched, independently of the dynamic_properties possibility
Putting the dropped merchandise restores its saved entities when the positioned block helps entity storage, with out releasing them
Cut up BlockComponentNamedTickEvent‘s isName into identify and isMine
- identify is a string property matching the identify used when ScriptBlock.scheduleNamedTick was used
- isMine is a technique that returns true if the occasion was scheduled by your pack
Added two new strategies to the Block API and renamed one
- getScheduledNamedTickCount which returns the quantity of named occasions scheduled at a place, agnostic of pack origin
- getAllScheduledNamedTicks which returns the vector of named occasions scheduled at a place by that pack
- removeScheduledNamedTick renamed to removeScheduledNamedTicks

minecraft:block_entity

Added the elective show_ui_on_interaction boolean to container for block format variations 1.26.20 and later with Upcoming Creator Options enabled; it defaults to true
Setting show_ui_on_interaction to false disables the built-in container UI and permits regular block interplay occasions, together with registered onPlayerInteract callbacks, to run as an alternative; omitting the sphere or setting it to true preserves container opening with out these callbacks
Customized containers now observe chest interplay permissions, stopping container opening and interplay callbacks for gamers with out permission to open containers, even when the UI is disabled
Customized containers are actually acknowledged as interactive container blocks, stopping duplicate client-side use of held gadgets throughout interplay
The HUD now reveals the “Open” interplay trace for customized containers solely when their UI is enabled

Entity Parts

Added a brand new experimental minecraft:time_marker_sensor entity part, out there to entity definitions utilizing the beta format model, which runs an entity occasion each time a named time marker fires on a named world clock

Options

POI kind definitions now respect conduct pack stacking order, permitting higher-priority packs to override definitions from lower-priority packs

Graphical

Beneath the RenderDragon Options for Creators Experiment
- Ice crystals now emit a light-weight blue gentle colour

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Minecraft Preview 26.70.20 | Minecraft

Experimental Options

Nether Spawning Rebalancing

Drop 4 of 2026 Options

Biomes

Blocks

Freezing Mob Impact

Frostbite

Sounds

Textures

Options and Bug Fixes

Accessibility

Accessibility Characteristic

Blocks

Realms

Options

Graphical

Gadgets

Mobs

Character Creator

Realms

Sound

Stability and Efficiency

Person Interface

Technical Updates

Blocks

API

Block Parts

Doorways

Repeater

Scaffolding

Blocks

Editor

Entity Parts

Options

Merchandise Parts

Packs

Factors of Curiosity

Stability and Efficiency

Person Interface

Experimental Technical Updates

Entity

API

CarryOverBlockEntityDataFunction

Blocks

minecraft:block_entity

Entity Parts

Options

Graphical

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