New features for 26.4 drop

New Blocks and Items 

• Polished packed ice 
• Packed ice bricks 
• Chiseled packed ice 
• Polished packed ice stairs and slabs snd walls
• Polished packed ice bricks, stairs and slabs and walls
• Packed snow
• Packed Snow bricks 
• Packed Snow bricks stairs and slabs and walls 
• Chiseled Packed snow.
• Polished calcite 
• Polished calcite stairs and slabs and walls
• Chiseled calcite
• Polished calcite bricks 
• Polished calcite bricks, stairs and slabs and walls
• New glass type: Arctic glass heavily textured with an icy pattern. (Has stained versions of them.)
• New light sources: Ice Crystal torch and Ice crystal lanterns: these both will not cause the icicles to fall in ice caves

- Ice Crystal torches are crafted with one stick and one ice Crystal. Ice 

-Crystal lanterns are crafted the same way. Normal lanterns are, but instead of a torch it's an ice crystal torch.

New weather type

•  blizzard: with heavy snow and low visibility

• Northern lights: Rare event that can happen at night in cold biomes

New structure 

• Abandoned snowy cabin 

- spawns in snowy planes and ice ice spikes biome.

- inhabitants: Iceolager: a new mob from Minecraft dungeons that can drop ice attacks on you.

New mobs 

• Iceolager 
• Penguin

- typically spawn on the shores of very cold biomes and on icebergs.

- they have a unique mechanic which allows you to ride them and use them as a sled to allow you to get quickly across the cold biomes.

• Biome changes 

  • Icicles can now hang off the ice spikes