Everything new in Minecraft Bedrock 26.30.25/26 beta and preview
Mojang has released the latest beta and preview build for Minecraft Bedrock, and it is one of the most content-rich experimental drops in recent memory. The build is available across various platforms, and you can download it to try out all the upcoming content.
Essentially, the beta and preview take a look at some of the major content that will be arriving with the Chaos Cubed game drop in the coming months. The section below takes a deeper look at everything new in the Minecraft 26.30.25/26 beta and preview.
Listed below are some of the key features from the Minecraft 26.30.25/26 beta and preview:
Essentially, they end up launching players skyward on contact. In the beta and preview, Mojang has flagged two known issues: Geysers currently have no sounds, and the particle animations may appear jerky.
The Sulfur Cube also gets a significant new interaction, and it can now absorb TNT blocks. Once absorbed, the TNT can be primed via Redstone, fire, or nearby explosions. Fire and Redstone triggering gives a six-second fuse, while an explosion triggers a randomised fuse between 0.75 and three seconds.
Keep in mind that a Sulfur Cube with primed TNT cannot be bucketed, damaged, or sheared. Additionally, on explosion, no Small Sulfur Cubes are spawned. The beta and preview also bring several Sulfur Cave fixes.
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All new features from Minecraft 26.30.25/26 beta and preview
Listed below are some of the key features from the Minecraft 26.30.25/26 beta and preview:
Geysers and TNT Sulfur Cubes
The two headline features this week come directly from the upcoming Chaos Cubed game drop. Geysers are now testable in the beta, and they form when a Magma block is placed underneath a Sulfur block submerged under one to four blocks of water.The Sulfur Cube also gets a significant new interaction, and it can now absorb TNT blocks. Once absorbed, the TNT can be primed via Redstone, fire, or nearby explosions. Fire and Redstone triggering gives a six-second fuse, while an explosion triggers a randomised fuse between 0.75 and three seconds.
Keep in mind that a Sulfur Cube with primed TNT cannot be bucketed, damaged, or sheared. Additionally, on explosion, no Small Sulfur Cubes are spawned. The beta and preview also bring several Sulfur Cave fixes.
Features and big fixes
The following are some of the new features and major fixes from the Minecraft 26.30.25/26 beta and preview:- Iron doors and stone buttons now correctly generate in strongholds
- Four Sulfur Spikes can now be crafted into one Sulfur block
- A Panorama Scroll Speed slider has been added to Video settings.
- Several long-standing gameplay bugs have been fixed, including bees failing to pollinate Spore Blossoms, Strider loot not being affected by the Looting Enchantment, and entities on the edge of shallow liquid being incorrectly affected by it.
- Graphical fixes include snow golem heads disappearing in Ray Tracing mode, z-fighting on scaffolding, and certain animations not working on Android devices.
- UI improvements have also been made, with better text field controls on Windows, improved crafting preview wood variant display, and profile picture loading fixes.
Technical updates
Here are a few technical updates from the beta and preview:- On the technical side, four entity components, including minecraft:bounciness and minecraft:apply_knockback_rules, have graduated out of beta and are available in the 1.26.30 format version.
- Furthermore, Voxel shapes have been added for 46 vanilla blocks, including Dripleaf, Fence, and Fence Gate variants.
- A new SoundInstance API class has also been introduced in experimental beta, allowing scripts to stop playing sounds programmatically.
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