Today we are shipping the first pre-release for Java version 26.1, the Tiny Takeover game drop! From now on, you should mostly see bugs being fixed. In addition to that, pre-releases don’t follow the regular snapshot cadence of releasing on Tuesdays, so keep your eyes peeled for the next pre-release.
Changes
Updated the Main Menu background panorama
Technical Changes
The Data Pack version is now 101
The Resource Pack version is now 84
Changes to the minecraft:nbt text component format
Changes to the minecraft:selector, minecraft:nbt and minecraft:object text component formats
Data Pack Version 101
The “Default Components” report generator no longer outputs files for entries without any components
Commands
Changes to time
Syntax:
time [of ] rate – sets the rate multiplier at which the clock should advance
Note: this only changes the rate at which the World Clock and any Timelines dependent on it advance their internal timers
For example, in the case of the minecraft:overworld clock, the day/night cycle will pass quicker with a larger value, but actual game simulation will not speed up (as would happen with /tick rate)
A rate of 1 corresponds to normal speed
rate is a float between 0 (exclusive) and 1000 (inclusive)
Data Components
Modified minecraft:provides_banner_patterns
The component now also accepts an ID or a list of IDs in addition to a tag
Modified minecraft:blocks_attacks
The field bypassed_by now also accepts an ID or a list of IDs in addition to a tag
Modified minecraft:damage_resistant
The field types now also accepts an ID or a list of IDs in addition to a tag
Loot Functions
Changed minecraft:set_instrument
The options field now also accepts an ID and a list of IDs in addition to a tag
Predicates
Added minecraft:environment_attribute_check Loot Predicate
Exactly matches the value of an Environment Attribute at a given position. Note: this predicate requires a context with an origin position set as long as the Environment Attribute can vary positionally.
Format: object with fields:
attribute – Environment Attribute ID to test
value – Exact value of the Environment Attribute to match
e.g. {condition: ‘environment_attribute_check’, attribute: ‘gameplay/piglins_zombify’, value: true}
Number Providers
Added minecraft:environment_attribute
Fetches and provides the value of an Environment Attribute (that can be represented as a number). Note: this provider requires a context with an origin position set as long as the Environment Attribute can vary positionally.
Format: object with fields:
attribute – Environment Attribute ID to fetch
e.g. {type: ‘environment_attribute’, attribute: ‘gameplay/sky_light_level’}
World Generation
Flower Features
Features spawned from Bone Meal are no longer restricted to the flower feature type, and instead controlled by the #can_spawn_from_bone_meal Configured Feature Tag
The flower, flower_no_bonemeal, and random_patch feature types have been removed
Instead, patches can be expressed as a sequence of count and random_offset placement modifiers
Int Providers
Added trapezoid Int Provider
Select a random value with a trapezoid distribution, similar to the trapezoid Float Provider.
Format: object with fields:
min: integer, the minimum value to generate
max: integer, the maximum value to generate
plateau: integer, the width of the “plateau” of the distribution in which all values are equally likely to occur
A value of 0 is equivalent to a triangle distribution
A value of max-min is equivalent to a uniform distribution
Tags
Configured Feature Tags
Added #can_spawn_from_bone_meal – features that, when added in a biome, can be spawned when using Bone Meal in that biome
Text components
`minecraft:object
Added a new optional field named fallback that contains a text component to be used when object component itself can’t be displayed (for example when printing messages in server logs or during narration)
Objects of type player (player heads) no longer can be used in server status messages (MotD)
All components of that type will be replaced by a fallback text
Resource Pack Version 84
Updated textures for Pup to fix issues with overlapping textures
Item Models
minecraft:end_cube Special Model Type
New special model type that renders a cube with the same texture effects as the End Portal and the End Gateway blocks
Fields:
effect – texture effect to apply, one of: portal, gateway
Block State Rendering
End Gateway and End Portal should now look the same when rendered on a Block Display as they look when placed in world
Shaders & Post-process Effects
The core/rendertype_translucent_moving_block shaders have been removed in favor of core/block
Fixed bugs in 26.1 Pre-Release 1
MC-195237 – End portals and end gateways held by endermen or as block display entities are not rendered, but nether portals are
MC-230746 – Pointed dripstone does not grow with a waterlogged block 2 blocks above it but does fill cauldrons
MC-305518 – Baby wolves’ tail uses an incorrect UV map
MC-305702 – Zombies and their variants have lost their special animation when holding spears
MC-305914 – /swing does not swing players’ arms on their perspective
MC-306056 – The selected difficulty does not visually update when going into and out of the game rules menu
MC-306232 – The block breaking animation on banners is now amplified
MC-306315 – The left side of wolf pups’ heads is misaligned, causing a gap and texture error
MC-306338 – Baby zombified piglins’ snout texture was made for a 4×3×1 cube model, even though the snout model is actually a 3×3×1 cube
MC-306341 – Helmets on baby humanoids shift off-center when their heads rotate
MC-306427 – Certain mobs holding items with empty “kinetic_weapon” components crash the game whenever target acquisition succeeds
MC-306532 – The error that occurred when a resource pack used textures that were too large is now incomprehensible
MC-306571 – CommandEncoder#copyTextureToBuffer has incorrect parameter validation statements
MC-306612 – Baby zombies, baby husks, and gurgles now hold items like players do
MC-306624 – Various translucent geometry is now invisible behind name plates
MC-306631 – Baby zombies, husks, drowned, and zombified piglins spawned by using spawn eggs on normal ones can’t pick up items
MC-306633 – The “Toggle GUI” key bind doesn’t work when set to a mouse button
MC-306653 – Name plates are no longer visible through opaque blocks
MC-306705 – Copper golem statues with a pose now appear upside down as items
MC-306706 – The game hangs/freezes upon losing focus
MC-306708 – Block state rendering of chests for the left and right block states uses the single chest texture
MC-306713 – The most transparent pixels of the gradient banner patterns are no longer visible
MC-306742 – Rendering an empty item model with oversized_in_gui causes a crash
MC-306748 – Profiler tick ended before path was fully popped (remainder: ‘root’). Mismatched push/pop?
MC-306796 – Text displays with see_through set to 1 now z-fight with themselves
Get the Pre-Release
Pre-Releases are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Pre-Release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the “Installations” tab.
Testing versions can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.
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