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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...
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...
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...
Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 2: Mojang Fixes the Sky and Squashes a Nasty Chunk Generation Crash
Snapshot 2 for 26.4 reworks how fog and sky rendering interact, redesigns the F3 debug screen, and quietly fixes a crash bug tied to chunk generation....
Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 1: Vulkan Takes Over and Servers Get Real Connection Controls
The first snapshot of 26.4 quietly ships some of the biggest server-side networking changes in years, plus Vulkan becomes the default renderer and a p...
Minecraft 26.3 Release Candidate 3: The Sprint-Attack Fix Server Owners Actually Wanted
Mojang's third release candidate for 26.3 fixes a sneaky VSync bug and a combat exploit that's been bugging PvP players for weeks. Here's what actuall...