Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 7 Server Hosting

New Features

• Added a new Music Disc with the track “Bounce” by fingerspit
• Added 5 new music tracks by fingerspit
• Added the Friends List
• Added the ability to easily play with your friends through peer-to-peer, even when you’re not on the same local network

Music

• Added a new music disc:
  • “Bounce” by fingerspit
  • Has a chance of being found in Mineshaft Chest Minecarts that are located in a Sulfur Cave biome
  • Has a comparator output of 8 when played in a Jukebox
• Added 5 new background music tracks by fingerspit:
  • “Shores”
  • “Memories”
  • “Nightly”
  • “Home”
  • “Ebb”

Friends List

• Added a Friends List, accessible from a new Friends button on the Title Screen and the Pause Menu
• The Friends list can be opened with a new key bind (default: “O”)
• The Friends button shows a notification badge with the number of incoming friend requests, up to 5 (a “more” indicator is shown beyond that)
• The Friends List is presented as an overlay with two tabs:
  • Friends: shows your current friends, lets you remove them, and lets you send a new friend request by Profile Name
  • Pending: shows incoming friend requests (which can be accepted or declined) and outgoing friend requests (which can be canceled)
• The presence of your friends is shown under their name in the Friends List as one of the following:
  • “Offline”
  • “Online”
  • “In a world”
  • “In a joinable world”
• Sending, accepting, declining, cancelling, and removing actions are confirmed in the UI and show a clear error message when the service is unreachable, rate limited, or the requested Profile Name does not exist
• Friend changes that happen while the game is running are shown through toast notifications:
  • When a friend request is sent
  • When a friend request is received
  • When an outgoing friend request is accepted by the other player
• Toasts show the other player’s face when the skin is available
• The Friends List checks for updates once per minute while the Friends List is open, or every 5 minutes otherwise
• The first time the Friends button is shown on the Title Screen, a confirmation dialog is presented to opt in to the Friends List
• The Friends List, friend request privacy, and the Microsoft account safety settings link are managed from the new “Friends List” section in Online Options
• Players that have their chat settings set to “Friends Only” on their XBox profile will only see chat messages from other players if they are friends

Known Issues

Developer’s Note: This is the first version of this system, released with a few known issues. It will be improved over the coming snapshots.

• Cancelling a friend request before the receiver has accepted it can leave the receivers incoming list in a desynced state
  • The receiver will still see it as incoming, but when they accept it, it’ll turn into an outgoing friend request for them
• Rejecting a friend request can leave the sender’s outgoing list in a desynced state
  • The sender also needs to cancel their friend request to get back to a properly synced state
• If a player has the friend list turned on, but the “Allow Requests” setting turned off, other players can’t accept outgoing friend requests from them
• If your Xbox profile chat setting is set to “Friends Only”, you cannot see your own chat messages

Peer-to-Peer

• Added the ability to open singleplayer worlds to online multiplayer from the new Multiplayer Options screen
• There are two paths to play with your friends
  • Invite to world: the host can invite friends to their world, and the invited players can accept or deny the invitation
  • Request to join world: players can request to join a friend’s world (if it’s open to online multiplayer), and the friend can accept or deny the request
• Added new p2p_connection opt-in telemetry event

Changes

• The Slow Bouncy Sulfur Cube archetype is no longer buoyant
• The grass color is now less green in Sulfur Caves
• Updated the Main Menu background panorama

Potent Sulfur

• Eruption and cooldown times of Geysers are now randomized based on the position of the block and do not change if the block is replaced
• Potent sulfur can now erupt when a Lava block is placed underneath
• With Lava underneath, the Geyser eruption is continuous, but with slightly muted sounds compared to the eruption from a Magma block
• Noxious Gas from Potent Sulfur can now rise through non-collidable waterlogged blocks and spread through other non-collidable blocks
• Erupting Potent Sulfur can now emit its plume and boost entities through non-collidable blocks
  • This includes Scaffolding, which can be used as an alternative to Copper Grates to stand above erupting Potent Sulfur without being affected by Noxious Gas

UI

• Added a Friends button to the Title Screen and the Pause Menu
• Replaced the Open to LAN screen with the new Multiplayer Options screen

Multiplayer Options

• This screen allows you to configure the multiplayer settings of the world you’re currently in
• The mutliplayer scope can be set to one of the following:
  • Off: (default) Nobody can join your world
  • Local: only players in your local network can join your world, as the Open to LAN screen used to work
  • Online: you can invite your friends to join your world from anywhere
• The game mode and allow cheats options are also available in this screen

Settings

• Added a setting to control the availability of the Friends List and its features in Online Options
• Added an “In-game Notification” toggle in Online Options to control whether Friends List toasts appear while in a world
• Added an “Allow Requests” toggle in Online Options to control whether other players can send you friend requests
• Added an “Xbox Settings…” button in Online Options that opens the Microsoft account privacy and online safety settings
• Added a Presence option in Online Options screen to control how much activity is shared with friends (default: “All”)
  • “All”: shares activity, and allows friends to request to join your world if opened up to online multiplayer
  • “Limited”: activity sharing limited to “Online” & “Offline”
  • “None”: no activity shared. Appearing as “Offline” to friends

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 105.1
• The Resource Pack version is now 87.0

Data Pack version 105.1

Block Tags

• Added #causes_periodic_geyser_eruptions – all blocks that cause periodic eruptions of Potent Sulfur blocks
• Added #causes_continuous_geyser_eruptions – all blocks that cause continuous eruptions of Potent Sulfur blocks

Resource Pack Version 87.0

• Signs and Hanging Signs now use block models instead of built-in entity models
  • The text on Signs and Hanging Signs cannot be configured yet
• The minecraft:signs atlas has been removed

Block Sprites

• Signs and Hanging Signs now use block models and textures, replacing <wood_type> with the sign’s wood type (e.g. mangrove)
  • block/<wood_type>_sign.png
  • block/<wood_type>_hanging_sign.png
• The process of upgrading your pack’s Bed, Sign, and Hanging Sign textures can be assisted by using this automated Slicer tool

Item Sprites

Added new Item sprites:

• item/music_disc_bounce.png

UI Sprites

• Added new textures for the Sign edit screen background, replacing <wood_type> with the sign’s wood type (e.g. mangrove):
  • gui/sign/<wood_type>.png
• Added new UI sprites:
  • gui/sprites/friends/multiplayer/invite.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/multiplayer/join_request.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/accept.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/accept_highlighted.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/cancel.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/friends.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/illustrations_00.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/list_separator_top.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/loading.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/reject.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/reject_highlighted.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/remove.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/background.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/button.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/button_disabled.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/button_highlighted.png
  • gui/sprites/friends/toast_background.png
  • gui/sprites/pause_menu/player_reporting.png
  • gui/sprites/pause_menu/bug.png
  • gui/sprites/pause_menu/social_interactions.png

Sounds

• Added sounds for Geyser eruptions:
  • block.potent_sulfur.geyser_continuous_eruption
  • block.potent_sulfur.geyser_continuous_eruption_active
• Added biome music for Sulfur Caves:
  • music.overworld.sulfur_caves

Item Models

• The following special model types have been removed:
  • minecraft:standing_sign
  • minecraft:hanging_sign

Telemetry

New opt-in events

• p2p_connection
  • This event is sent after a peer-to-peer connection attempt
  • Added new property: p2p_connection_successful
    • Whether the peer-to-peer connection was established successfully
  • Added new property: p2p_connection_failure_stage
    • The stage where an unsuccessful connection attempt failed, such as SIGNALING, ICE_CONNECT, or TIMEOUT
  • Added new property: p2p_connection_ice_path
    • The type of network path used for the connection, such as LOCAL, DIRECT, RELAY, or UNKNOWN
  • Added new properties: p2p_connection_local_candidate_type and p2p_connection_remote_candidate_type
    • The ICE candidate types used by each side of the connection, such as HOST, SRFLX, PRFLX, or RELAY
  • Added new properties: p2p_connection_total_time_ms, p2p_connection_signaling_time_ms, and p2p_connection_ice_connect_time_ms
    • Timing information for each stage of the peer-to-peer connection flow

Fixed bugs in 26.2 Snapshot 7

• MC-297491 – Glyphs from TTF files are no longer rendered correctly on glow signs
• MC-306401 – Shulkers’ name tags display inside them when they’re open
• MC-306972 – Wardens repeatedly roar in place when detecting ghasts
• MC-307144 – The game reads world generation data from data packs or world_gen_settings.dat inconsistently, preventing updating large biome sources
• MC-307221 – The missing texture is no longer used for blocks with no model or an invalid model
• MC-307272 – Servers can no longer detect left clicks from players in Spectator mode
• MC-307336 – Colors are less saturated with the Vulkan rendering backend on some Mac systems
• MC-307339 – The player’s vertical motion is reset when moving on the ground
• MC-307387 – When using Vulkan, the Globals uniform is not available in multiple core shaders unless explicitly defined
• MC-307418 – The game crashes when trying to upgrade a legacy world
• MC-307421 – Vulkan does not trigger an error when a resource pack that cannot be loaded is loaded
• MC-307442 – The game crashes upon startup on Mac systems with Intel graphics of Gen8 architecture
• MC-307455 – The game crashes when minimized on some Intel graphics
• MC-307498 – The standing_sign special model renderer uses a field misspelled as “attachement”
• MC-307499 – The game crashes upon detecting invalid shader files during loading
• MC-307585 – The fall_after_explosion advancement trigger does not work with TNT anymore
• MC-307605 – The “Exclusive Fullscreen” and “Graphics API” options prompt the user to restart the game differently
• MC-307817 – Target selectors no longer allow specifying type multiple times when using tags
• MC-307877 – Bone meal cannot be used on dry grass with a block directly above it
• MC-307905 – Crash report generation can crash when StackTraceElement.getFileName() is null
• MC-307912 – Sulfur spikes in sulfur springs are not waterlogged
• MC-307919 – Geysers’ force goes through some transparent blocks
• MC-307920 – Bucketed sulfur cubes can despawn
• MC-307929 – Dispensers can equip armor on sulfur cubes
• MC-307952 – The enchantment glint does not render on top of banner patterns applied on a shield