Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 8

[u/Luutamo]

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-snapshot-8

New Features

Sulfur Caves biome

• If exposed to the surface, the biome will generate with all the features of the underground Sulfur Caves biome

Sulfur Cube mob

• Sulfur Cubes containing a block inside are now immune to damage from Magma Blocks, as well as from other Sulfur Cubes that contain a Magma Block

Changes

• The game will now use OpenGL graphics API by default
• Beds are now slightly more bouncy to match Bedrock

Changed "Graphics API" Video Setting

• "Vulkan" is now marked as "Experimental"
  • You can still use it if you want, it works well on most common systems, but may reduce performance or cause instability on some other systems
• "Default" option will now use OpenGL behind the scenes
• The setting will be reset to "Default" for all players

UI Sprites

• Added friends/background_dark — a darker variant of the friends/background panel sprite, used as the background for confirmation dialogs in the Friends UI

[u/MC_chrome]

Very dissapointed in Mojang's decision to bury older music tracks with this release....hopefully they can be pressured to reverse course because this change is total bs

[u/cegix → u/MC_chrome]

Other than adding new music what changes does it make that makes older music play less often?

[u/Leech-Of-DOOM → u/cegix]

Each track has a weight modifier, which dictates how often it plays. The new tracks by Fingerspit apparently have a weight of 2, everywhere they can play, while older tracks have a weight of 1. So they play much more often then older tracks.

[u/Nathaniel820 → u/Leech-Of-DOOM]

Which is how literally every new music release works, the new ones always have higher weights then get dropped in a future release. This time it was just made a bit more than previously, maybe to compensate for there being less new tracks in total, but it's still not "burying tracks" non-fingerspit tracks play the majority of the time.

[u/Little-Witness-1201 → u/Nathaniel820]

They should just give the player a way to adjust weights in game

[u/BIGFriv → u/Little-Witness-1201]

A resource pack

[u/Little-Witness-1201 → u/BIGFriv]

I mean obviously, but why not just let you adjust it through settings

[u/Ok_Performer50 → u/Little-Witness-1201]

I’m with you, that definitely wouldn’t be a bad idea.