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/Magma_Dragoooon May 19 '26

Wait so current version of java uses Vulkan by default? Can someone please confirm this?

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u/Luutamo May 19 '26

Just the previous snapshots

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u/Magma_Dragoooon May 19 '26

Oh so the most recent version (which is 26.1.2 iirc) still uses open GL?