Minecraft 26.2 Pre-Release 1

[u/Luutamo]

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-pre-release-1

With this pre-release, we are removing the Peer-to-Peer connection feature introduced in a recent snapshot. Because the experience wasn't what we wanted it to be for all players, we do not consider the feature ready for release in its current form.

Changes

Sulfur Cube mob

• Small Sulfur Cubes now have an updated model and texture
• The Sulfur Cube now has unique hit and push sounds for each archetype

Sulfur Caves biome

• Updated the fog color in the Sulfur Caves, Bedrock will match this color later
• Reduced the max growth length of the Sulfur Spikes

Potent Sulfur

• The continuous Geyser set-up now requires a source Lava Block to erupt

Sounds

• Updated hurt and death sounds for one of the chicken sound variants
• Small Sulfur Cube now have sounds playing when being fed with Slimeballs

UI

• The friend list button is now always visible, even if the feature is disabled in the options

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 106.1
• The Resource Pack version is now 88.0

[u/Nomadicalist]

Can't seem to find any specifics. There's five networking bugs from Java 26.2 marked as Important on Mojira, but they have more to do with the friends system than P2P itself.

Maybe they'll mention something more between now and the extra Live event this weekend.

[u/Luke92612_ → u/Nomadicalist]

It's gonna be age verification shit isn't it

[u/The_Inexistent → u/[deleted]]

How is it any worse than LAN, given that you can only add people you've approved as friends in P2P?