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Packed Ice Bricks Are the Blue Building Set Minecraft Never Had
Snapshot 5 gives builders the first ice block that does not melt, is not slippery and needs no Silk Touch, with the full variant set on day one. Serve...
Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 4: Jukebox Playlists, Brittle Ice, and a Quietly Big Networking Fix
Snapshot 4 adds jukebox playlists and a new crack-under-your-feet ice block, but the real story for server owners is buried in the networking and data...
Big House, Small Outpost: Two Minecraft Servers Worth Your Time
One server has thousands of players grinding prison ranks and skyblock islands. The other is a quiet Russian survival outpost with room for exactly yo...
Minecraft Snapshot 26.3-10 Rewrites How Blocks Transform Into Other Blocks
Snapshot 26.3-10 quietly ships one of the biggest datapack systems in years: a generalized block transformer registry that controls every axe strip, h...
Minecraft Update: Minecraft 26.3 Pre-Release 1
26.3 Pre-Release 1 is out, meaning Mojang considers the update feature-complete and is now just squashing bugs before a full release. The big te...
Minecraft 26.3 Pre-Release 2: The Multiplayer Particle Bugs Nobody Noticed (But Everyone Felt)
Mojang dropped a second pre-release for 26.3 in the same week, and buried in the bug fixes is a cluster of multiplayer sync fixes that actually change...
Minecraft 26.3 Pre-Release 3: Villager Trade Exploit Finally Gets Squashed
Mojang's third pre-release for 26.3 closes out a nasty villager trading exploit, fixes a pile of fullscreen bugs across platforms, and cleans up some ...
Minecraft 26.3 Release Candidate 1: Wilderness Bound Is Almost Here
Mojang dropped RC1 for 26.3, the Wilderness Bound game drop, with four fixes that mostly clean up the new combat item component system. Here's what se...
Minecraft 26.3 RC2: One Bug Fix Closer to Wilderness Bound's Full Release
Mojang dropped a second release candidate for 26.3 with exactly one bug fix. Here's why that's actually good news if you're running a server and waiti...
This Week on Minecraft Server Hub: Oct 2 - Oct 9, 2026
A record-breaking vote count, three fresh servers, and a look at what's actually moving the needle on Minecraft Server Hub this week.
This Week in Minecraft: Oct 2 - Oct 9, 2026
Minecraft LIVE drops a frosty new snapshot, Switch 2 pre-orders go live, Xbox shuffles its leadership deck, and a former NFL coach's twelve-year Minec...
Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 3: Ice Caves, a Frozen Zombie, and a Friends List Overhaul
Mojang's latest snapshot cracks open a brand new cave biome and a projectile-throwing zombie variant, plus a long-overdue redesign of the Friends list...