Posted: 27 January 2026

Information on Minecraft Preview and Beta:

These work-in-progress versions can be unstable and may not be representative of final version quality
Minecraft Preview is available on Xbox, PlayStation, Windows, and iOS devices. More information can be found at aka.ms/PreviewFAQ
The beta is available on Android (Google Play). To join or leave the beta, see aka.ms/JoinMCBeta for detailed instructions
This update will be rolling out to the various platforms as they become available, so please allow time for the update to reach you.

Making big waves this week for looking adorably tiny are new baby versions of the axolotl, dolphin, turtle, squid, and glow squid. Baby mounts are also getting an adorable makeover! Donkeys. Mules. Every single horse variant. All of these tiny cuties are galloping into the Overworld looking tinier and cuter than ever! The only question remains: can you handle the cuteness?

And as always, we're keen to get your feedback on these new features at feedback.minecraft.net, and you can report any bugs you find at bugs.mojang.com.

Features and Bug Fixes

Drop 1 2026

Mobs

Updated the models and textures of the following Baby Mobs:
- Axolotl
  - Added new baby-specific animations for the Axolotl
- Dolphin
- Donkey
- Horse
- Mule
- Skeleton Horse
- Zombie Horse
- Glow Squid
- Squid
- Turtle

Baby Mobs

Applied pack versioning to the new baby mobs. (MCPE-234734, MCPE-234744, MCPE-234784, MCPE-234785)
- This fixes issues related to custom resource packs interacting with the baby mobs.
Updated MERS of the baby tamed Wolf

Achievements

Fixed the issue preventing some item related achievements from being obtained.

Sounds

Baby horse and baby Chicken now have custom sounds

Gameplay

Cooldowns on custom items now visualize correctly

Input

Fixed an issue on Windows where the mouse highlight appeared in game when "Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key" option was enabled in Windows settings. (MCPE-168787)
Fixed an issue on Windows where the system's ClickLock mouse setting was not recognized. (MCPE-231488)

Items

Combining an Enchanted Shield with an Illager Banner now correctly transfers the enchantments to the crafted Illager Banner Shield (MCPE-174103)

Mobs

Baby Polar Bear no longer becomes hostile towards the player (MCPE-173833)
The movement of Boats, Horses, Donkeys, and Mules is now as responsive as it used to be before the release of the Mounts of Mayhem game drop (MCPE-231719)
Boats' paddle animation no longer glitches when paddling backwards
Zombie Horses can no longer catch fire while in water (MCPE-229542)
Added missing texture for the tamed woods version of the new baby Wolf
Ghast's no longer display old face textures while shooting fireballs (MCPE-218741)
Fixed incorrect allele range syntax for the Panda and Goat

Character Creator

Selected appearance should no longer reset to 3rd appearance at times upon starting up the client

Realms

Added message and logic for error joining realm whose owner is banned.

Saves

Ensure worlds created after signing out are saved to the new Users\Shared directory on Windows.

Sound

Baby wolves now correctly play baby variant sounds

Stability and Performance

Fixed an issue where marketplace textures would be cached when re-entering worlds and could potentially degrade performance on some platforms

Switch

Reduce audio delays when entering a world (MCPE-177148)

User Interface

Fixed screen narration reading previously typed chat messages letter by letter when context changed
Added button enumeration narration to the death screen when text to speech is enabled
Text input fields now support arrow key navigation between lines and keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl+V on Android
Text input fields in Ore UI now support mouse caret positioning and selection on Android
Improved chat auto scroll behavior to allow reading older messages during high frequency chat
Player is now able to change time using the "Time" button in the chat/command window when "Always Day" option is enabled (MCPE-226307)
Added new registry keys so the Preview and Retail games don't share each other's previous window size and position (MCPE-233168)
Fixed the Bed and Death screens fading animations (MCPE-235024)

Technical Updates

AI Goals

Migrated "minecraft:behavior.ocelotattack" ('_' misname is legacy and cannot safely be changed).
We will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.0 and newer.
Made schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.10 and newer. Also unified and updated documentation for the following goals
- minecraft:behavior.drop_item_for
- minecraft:behavior.fertilize_farm_block
- minecraft:behavior.harvest_farm_block
- minecraft:behavior.inspect_bookshelf
- minecraft:behavior.lay_egg
Float Range field time_of_day_range in minecraft:behavior.drop_item_for now only accepts an object with min and max values. Other formats will fail to parse
Field lay_seconds in minecraft:behavior.lay_egg now only accepts numbers greater than or equal to 0

API

Generate JSON metadata for molang queries available in the game
Released @minecraft/server version 2.6.0
Added @minecraft/server version 2.7.0-beta
Released Block.getComponents and Block.hasComponent into 2.6.0.
Released EntityHealBeforeEvent from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHealAfterEvent from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHealCause from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHealSource from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHealEventOptions from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHealBeforeEventSignal from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHealAfterEventSignal from beta to v2.6.0
Released WorldBeforeEvents.entityHeal from beta to v2.6.0
Released WorldAfterEvents.entityHeal from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHurtBeforeEvent from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHurtBeforeEventOptions from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHurtBeforeEventSignal from beta to v2.6.0
Released WorldBeforeEvents.entityHurt from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityHurtAfterEventOptions from beta to v2.6.0
Released change of EntityHurtAfterEventSignal to use EntityHurtAfterEventOptions from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityItemPickupAfterEvent from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityItemPickupBeforeEvent from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityItemPickupEventOptions from beta to v2.6.0
Released ItemFilter from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityItemPickupAfterEventSignal from beta to v2.6.0
Released EntityItemPickupBeforeEventSignal from beta to v2.6.0
Released WorldAfterEvents.entityItemPickup from beta to v2.6.0
Released WorldBeforeEvents.entityItemPickup from beta to v2.6.0
Moving world.getSeed to stable
Moving query.get_level_seed_based_fraction out from behind the Upcoming Creator Features toggle

`@minecraft/server-net`

Added addional error types for HTTP requests:

HttpRequestBodyTooLargeError - Request body exceeds configured limit
HttpRequestLimitExceededError - Concurrent request limit reached
HttpRequestNotAllowedError - Request targets a URI not in the allow list
HttpsOnlyError - HTTPS required but non-HTTPS URI provided

Blocks

Blocks using the minecraft:corner_and_cardinal_direction value of minecraft:placement_direction now will correctly form inner corners when there are other stairs next to them (MCPE-232019)
Fixed rotation issue for blocks in item frames that use "minecraft:geometry.full_block" for Json "format_version" >= 1.26.0 (MCPE-234715)

Commands

Fixed an issue where the "/reload all" command would not reload packs outside of the development folders. (MCPE-234722)

Components

Replaced the "simulate_waves" field of the "minecraft:buoyant" component with the new "movement_type" field
- The "movement_type" field accepts one of three values:
  - "waves", makes the entity move up and down based on its speed (default value)
  - "bobbing", makes the entity move up and down at a constant pace
  - "none", doesn't do anything
- The "big_wave_probability" and "big_wave_speed" fields are only used when "movement_type" is set to "waves"
Added a "can_auto_step_from_liquid" field to the "minecraft:buoyant" component
- Defines whether the entity can move out of a liquid block to a neighboring solid block if pushed against it

Dedicated Server

Added HTTP configuration capabilities for the @minecraft/server-net scripting module on dedicated servers. Server operators can now configure HTTP request limits and restrictions via the permissions.json file. All of the configurable options are optional. If not specified, limits for the particular setting will not be enforced. Example config: .\config\<module_id>\permissions.json

{
  "allowed_modules": [
    ...
    "@minecraft/server-net"
  ],
  "module_permissions": {
    "@minecraft/server-net": {
      "allowed_uris": [
        "https://example.com/",
      ],
      "force_https": true,
      "max_body_bytes": 1048576,
      "max_concurrent_requests": 1,
      "session_headers": {
        "session-data": "abc123"
      }
    }
  }
}

Editor

Added variant and layout section support for IListPanePropertyItem API
Added IStringPropertyItem API will now support multiline string if multilineHeight optional property is defined
Added hasClearButton optional API property to IStringPropertyItemOptions for modifying clear button visibility
Added a feature to keep player data on export for any player that had previously played in that world.
Added an option to creator options to enable or disable editor metrics collection. Those metrics can be viewed in the VSCode live diagnostics view.
Added an option to the Bedrock Dedicated Server configuration to enable or disable editor metrics collection when running an Editor server
Updated Selection Tool to displays toast notifications when Quick Actions (Fill, Delete) or Trim Actions (Trim Selection, Remove Air, Hollow) cannot be performed due to no selection or when they result in no changes
Updated jigsaw tool to save registry when the editor is closed or tool is changed.
Updated API type ListPaneSlotLayout to ListPaneSlotConfiguration, and updated IListPanePropertyItemOptions property layout to slotConfig
Fixed bug that player cannot select any volumes using Enter key while in Line Tool
Fixed bug that "New from Clipboard" button is inactive outside of Paste Preview tool
Fixed a bug causing the tutorial dimmer to render misaligned relative to the viewport
Fixed a bug where the flood tool would not close the modal dialog when block change limit was exceeded.
Fixed a bug with the Apply Flood keybinding.
Fixed changing between Crosshair and Tool modes to no longer cause world geometry to get re-created
Improved performance of Editor in Vibrant Visuals mode by preventing extra deferred rendering call.

Features

Fixed feature loading to allow for sub-directories and any filename, will now only use identifier in JSON.

General

Fixed an issue where 'minecraft://?addExternalServer' and other similar URIs might not work when containing URL-encodable characters. (MCPE-232900)

Graphical

The colored block lighting feature is no longer restricted to the Render Dragon Features for Creator Experiment
- To enable this feature, PBR resource packs must include a local_lighting.json with static_light entries. Blocks that do not have a static_light and light_color specified via a provided resource pack will be treated as non-colored lighting and use the standard uniform light color.
- See Local Lights documentation for more information
Static colored lighting on flowing lava and other blocks no longer appears too dark in Vibrant Visuals.
Adding static_light shading to data driven entities in Vibrant Visuals.
Added static_light shading to more entities and items in Vibrant Visuals.
Static colored lighting no longer leaks through corners in Vibrant Visuals.
Adjusted the light attenuation of static colored block lighting to be less intense
Fixed issue with z-fighting on the Brewing Stand and Stonecutter on PlayStation in certain lighting conditions.
Custom blocks with ambient occlusion disabled do not have the occasional black vertex issue anymore
Improve ambient occlusion for blocks using a custom geometry
Items being quickly moved between inventory slots now have the back of their faces rendered too (MCPE-229843)
Fixed issue that caused the spyglass full screen effect to brighten the scene in Vibrant Visuals.
Fixed an issue that caused the End Portal to have invisible panels in Vibrant Visuals.
Removed ESSL_300 shader language support

Movement

Fixed desync in player position when toggling input permissions (MCPE-232109)

Music

Fixed long running sounds such as jukebox music from playing in the menu when leaving a multiplayer world

User Interface

Fixed bug that made buttons at the top of the Marketplace screen difficult to select with controller

Experimental Technical Updates

Add-Ons and Script Engine

Added experimental toggle "Voxel Shapes" which enables the use of voxel shapes on Vanilla and custom blocks
- Voxel shapes are currently only used for occlusion/culling.
- Currently, only unit cube Vanilla blocks have a voxel shape associated. With this experiment enabled, custom blocks with a voxel shape will only cull against Vanilla unit cube blocks or other custom blocks with a voxel shape.

API

Added minimum, maximum, or both bounds to several APIs.
Fixed EntityHurtBeforeEvent.cancel to not allow some sources of knockback (sprint bonus, enchantment, mace smash, projectiles) when set to true
API metadata now list any bounds, minimum value, or maximum value if applicable on interfaces and class methods and properties.
Moved localizationKey property on ItemType, EntityType, BlockType, and BlockPermutation from beta to stable.

Blocks

Added culling_shape field to minecraft:geometry component behind the VoxelShapes toggle.
- The value should be an identifier of a voxel shape and can refer to either a custom voxel shape file, minecraft:unit_cube, or minecraft:empty.
- If the VoxelShapes experiment is enabled and a shape is not specified, minecraft:empty will be used by default if the block does not use minecraft:geometry.full_block.
Blocks can handle the following entity events in scripting through the "onEntity" handler:
- Custom named events:
  - "on_home" from "minecraft:behavior.go_home"
  - “on_escape” from "minecraft:behavior.avoid_block"
  - "on_reach" from "minecraft:behavior.move_to_block"
  - "on_place" from "minecraft:behavior.place_block"
  - "on_take" from "minecraft:behavior.take_block"
- Unlike the current vanilla blocks that handle those events, custom blocks may receive those events up to one tick after they were emitted, depending on how late in the tick the event was emitted.

Mobs

Updated baby chicken textures, previously they were missing the texture underneath the wings
Updated the bone hierarchy of Baby Mule and Baby Donkey to match the Baby Horse and Adult Horse hierarchy
Renamed the bones of Baby Donkey and Baby Mule to match Baby Horse
Updated the UVs for the rear legs of both Baby Donkey and Baby Mule
The new Rabbit models and textures are now version sliced
- Textures are prefixed with rabbit_

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Minecraft Beta & Preview - 26.10.20

Information on Minecraft Preview and Beta:

Features and Bug Fixes

Drop 1 2026

Mobs

Baby Mobs

Achievements

Sounds

Gameplay

Input

Items

Mobs

Character Creator

Realms

Saves

Sound

Stability and Performance

Switch

User Interface

Technical Updates

AI Goals

API

`@minecraft/server-net`

Blocks

Commands

Components

Dedicated Server

Editor

Features

General

Graphical

Movement

Music

User Interface

Experimental Technical Updates

Add-Ons and Script Engine

API

Blocks

Mobs