New Features

Sulfur Caves biome

  • If exposed to the surface, the biome will generate with all the features of the underground Sulfur Caves biome

Sulfur Cube mob

  • Sulfur Cubes containing a block inside are now immune to damage from Magma Blocks, as well as from other Sulfur Cubes that contain a Magma Block

Changes

  • The game will now use OpenGL graphics API by default
  • Beds are now slightly more bouncy to match Bedrock

Changed “Graphics API” Video Setting

  • “Vulkan” is now marked as “Experimental”
    • You can still use it if you want, it works well on most common systems, but may reduce performance or cause instability on some other systems
  • “Default” option will now use OpenGL behind the scenes
  • The setting will be reset to “Default” for all players

UI Sprites

  • Added friends/background_dark — a darker variant of the friends/background panel sprite, used as the background for confirmation dialogs in the Friends UI

Technical Changes

  • The Data Pack version is now 106.0

Damage Types

  • Added a new minecraft:sulfur_cube_hot damage type

Data Pack Version 106.0

Commands

Publish

  • The publish command now takes an additional boolean as it’s first argument to specify whether the server should be opened to online multiplayer or just local multiplayer
    • Default: true (online multiplayer)

Unpublish

  • Added unpublish command that unpublishes your integrated server if there is one present

Fixed bugs in 26.2 Snapshot 8

  • MC-306673 – The color of sleeping baby snow foxes’ eyes is inconsistent with their adult variant
  • MC-306738 – Blocks sometimes remain visible after breaking
  • MC-306750 – The texture of snifflets contains unused pixels
  • MC-306962 – The “Take Screenshot” key bind doesn’t work when set to a mouse button
  • MC-307212 – The texture of the back of gurgles’ right arm has a line of miscolored pixels
  • MC-307363 – Baby hoglins’ mane no longer appears on both sides of the body texture
  • MC-307833 – The world freezes when villagers with specific trade sets level up
  • MC-307911 – The death message for dying to a sulfur cube with an absorbed magma block is ” discovered the floor was lava”
  • MC-308035 – Standing signs next to blocks now have an extra dark looking face
  • MC-308047 – Friends service forbidden (403) — user may lack an active profile
  • MC-308048 – The “options.inGameNotification” string is improperly capitalized
  • MC-308058 – Sulfur cubes touching cacti spam the hurting sound
  • MC-308061 – Games published with /publish are shown as offline in the multiplayer options screen
  • MC-308073 – Text in the friends list warning screen can extend outside the window when reducing the resolution
  • MC-308102 – Non-friends can join a friends-only world if they are using the same network
  • MC-308103 – The sign editing screen no longer distinguishes between standing signs and wall signs
  • MC-308104 – The side faces of wall signs do not get culled against blocks
  • MC-308114 – The name of the debug property that simulates friend-only chat repeats the word “DEBUG_”
  • MC-308145 – Cannot see own chat messages when chat is restricted to friends only by Xbox options
  • MC-308163 – Entities pushed upward by geysers take fall damage proportional to the time they have been hovering for when landing
  • MC-308168 – The skin preview in the skin reporting screen can no longer be rotated vertically
  • MC-308181 – When the Villager Trade Rebalance experiment is on, the “Bounce” music disc does not generate