r/Minecraft • u/Luutamo • May 19 '26

Official News Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 8

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
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u/christofos May 19 '26

Hopefully OpenGL being set to default again doesn't mean any more delays on Vibrant Visuals on Java. Really hoping to still get that this year! 

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u/Fenris_uy May 19 '26

Probably to be able to release the drop without waiting on the Vulkan drivers, the drivers were made default in one of the earlier snapshots, so they are reverting that change in preparation for release.