New Features

Explorer Maps

  • Renamed the following maps:
    • Buried Ancient City Map
    • Buried Mineshaft Map
    • Abandoned Camp Map

Realms

  • Realm owners can now create and manage Invite Codes
    • Each Realm can have up to five Invite Codes
    • Invite Codes can be configured to be active / inactive and deleted
    • The expiration of an Invite Code can also be configured
  • Players can now easily join a Realm by entering an Invite Code in a new “Join Realm” screen

Changes

  • Cushions are now only destroyed when fully covered by blocks that cause suffocation
  • New Villager trades, unlocked from a Villager leveling up their profession, will now update even if the player is in the process of trading with them

UI

World Options

  • Some further improvements have been made to the World Options screen, which is now accessible from the pause menu
    • The “Game Mode” button has been renamed to “Default Game Mode”
    • The “General” section has a new addition:
      • Personal Game Mode: your active game mode in the current world (equivalent to the /gamemode command, or F3+F4)
    • The “Multiplayer” section has a new addition:
      • Force Game Mode: controls whether other players game mode is forced to match the default game mode of the world or not

Technical Changes

  • The Data Pack version is now 116.0
  • The Resource Pack version is now 96.0

Data Pack Version 116.0

World Generation

Features

  • Removed feature types:
    • minecraft:desert_well
Changed minecraft:template
  • Added field processors: Namespaced ID or inline definition of a structure processor list to apply to the template

Placement Modifiers

Added minecraft:randomly_selected

Randoly selects a Placement Modifier from a list and delegates placement to it.

Format:

  • placements: Non-empty list of Placement Modifiers to pick from

Block Predicates

Added minecraft:volume_match

Checks that every block in a volume matches a given Block Predicate.

Format:

  • min: List of 3 integers in range -16 to 16 specifying the lower corner of the volume as an offset from the test position
  • max: List of 3 integers in range -16 to 16 specifying the upper corner of the volume as an offset from the test position
  • match: Block Predicate to test on each position

Resource Pack Version 96

Shaders & Post-process Effects

Removed Core Shaders

  • core/text_background.fsh and core/text_background.vsh were removed and text background in Text Display Entities is now rendered using the text shaders

Order-independent Transparency (OIT)-related Shader Changes

  • OIT_FORCE_ZERO_DEPTH shader define was removed since the see-through text it was used for is now rendered in a separate pass outside OIT

Fixed bugs in 26.3 Snapshot 8

  • MC-44654 – Some entities’ positions are not updated on the client when teleported
  • MC-122731 – Camera movement stutters when turning in a boat
  • MC-206540 – Increased input delay when riding an entity
  • MC-236497 – The head rotations of passengers in boats are not correctly displayed for other players
  • MC-237679 – The head rotations of passengers in boats are constantly forced to turn in certain directions if the rider were to dismount the boat while moving left or right
  • MC-249200 – Several entities constantly deviate visually from their actual positions on the client when teleported
  • MC-253023 – Breaking paintings, item frames, glow item frames cannot trigger sculk shriekers
  • MC-258579 – The player’s head does not rotate smoothly (with delay) in third person view while riding a vehicle
  • MC-259512 – Horizontal camera rotation lags when riding
  • MC-260780 – Shulker bullets always push fireballs south
  • MC-280250 – Projectiles sometimes desync when thrown/shot while moving
  • MC-300000 – Players desync when teleporting all users riding a happy ghast
  • MC-305214 – Arrows deflecting off of entities get offset
  • MC-308961 – When changing the game mode using debug hotkeys while in the World Options screen, the “Game Mode” button does not update
  • MC-309284 – Poplar leaves don’t use the dark_cutout mipmap strategy
  • MC-309668 – Straw beds are not broken faster when using hoes
  • MC-309670 – Cushions z-fight with the tops of dragon heads
  • MC-309716 – Cushions can be broken in Adventure mode
  • MC-310066 – Tridents thrown by drowned still visually bounce off entities
  • MC-310097 – Experience orbs desync and appear to phase through blocks
  • MC-310103 – The “Text Background Opacity” setting makes the text darker when the “Text Background” setting is set to Everywhere
  • MC-310166 – The straw bed is not placed immediately after regular beds in the Creative mode inventory
  • MC-310175 – Missing resource warning when loading up the game
  • MC-310200 – The player’s model flickers while falling into the void when viewed from certain angles
  • MC-310393 – Certain projectiles thrown at the world border rubberband repeatedly
  • MC-310476 – Projectiles only collide outright with the world border when underwater
  • MC-310530 – Changing the game mode in the World Options screen no longer changes the player’s game mode
  • MC-310540 – A noise definition with base_amplitude set to 0.0 crashes the game during world load
  • MC-310543 – The JVM crashes with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in atio6axx.dll on Boot Camp (AMD Radeon Pro 555X)
  • MC-310549 – invulnerable_time never decreases for some entities
  • MC-310632 – Farmer villagers no longer throw excess wheat to other villagers
  • MC-310642 – Landing on farmland deals no fall damage when the block is prevented from being trampled
  • MC-310687 – Languages other than “English (US)” fail to load
  • MC-310691 – Stonecutter recipes for concrete stairs and slabs are missing
  • MC-310692 – The error message when the game is unable to load translations can extend outside the screen
  • MC-310705 – The difficulty lock warning screen shows the wrong difficulty after changing the difficulty
  • MC-310718 – Unused color attachments are unusable with the OpenGL rendering backend
  • MC-310726 – The mansion icon in the texture of woodland explorer maps doesn’t match the respective icon on the map
  • MC-310728 – Cushions can still be used to see through blocks in third person mode
  • MC-310729 – Explorer maps from previous versions prevent saved hotbars from loading
  • MC-310743 – The category headers in the Debug Options screen are still different than the other options screens
  • MC-310757 – In OIT shaders, coefficients[0] is accumulated using depth but subtracted using originalDepth
  • MC-310771 – The common abandoned camp map is named “Abandoned Campsite Map” instead of “Abandoned Camp Map”
  • MC-310783 – Resource packs with custom namespaces cause the “English (US)” language to fail to load
  • MC-310787 – Villagers do not level up until the trading window is closed for several seconds
  • MC-310789 – Chunks sometimes don’t fade in correctly
  • MC-310812 – Placing and breaking cushions does not trigger sculk shriekers
  • MC-310917 – Chunk generation can corrupt on worlds upgraded from previous versions