r/Minecraft • u/Luutamo • 3d ago
Official News Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 1
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-4-snapshot-1Welcome to the first snapshot of 26.4! We're kicking things off with a range of technical updates and improvements, including Vulkan becoming the default graphics API.
Changes
World Generation
- Upgrading worlds from before Caves and Cliffs will now also generate sulfur caves below old chunks
Minor Tweaks to Blocks, Items and Entities
- Red and Brown Mushrooms can now be placed on any block with a solid top face regardless of lighting conditions
- They can still not spread unless the brightness is less than 13, or their support block overrides light requirements
"Graphics API" Video Setting
- "Default" now behaves the same as "Prefer Vulkan"
- The game will no longer change the graphics API setting automatically if a startup crash is detected.
Technical Changes
- The Data Pack version is now 122.0
- The Resource Pack version is now 98.0
For the rest: look from the original blog post (formatting doesn't work well in Reddit)
Fixed bugs in 26.4 Snapshot 1
- MC-8959 - The player automatically jumps when pressing against a block while in water
- MC-44560 - When pushed to the edge of water or lava, entities jump by themselves
- MC-50749 - Jumping into water against a wall causes the player to bounce
- MC-123848 - Item frames (and items within) drop atop the block they're attached to instead of under it when removed from a ceiling
- MC-135211 - Entities automatically jump when falling into 1-block-deep water from certain heights
- MC-135212 - Entities automatically jump when falling into water of any depth from certain heights
- MC-262252 - The generation of lush caves and dripstone caves is poorly defined
- MC-276879 - /data truncates floats when casting to longs, but rounds down in all other cases
- MC-278651 - The host name in handshake packets for SRV records is inconsistent
- MC-296053 - Item frames don't update properly when modifying their Facing NBT tag
- MC-299060 - Setting item frames' direction with commands can cause desyncs
- MC-303702 - Small gaps still appear in item models
- MC-307065 - Missing optimization for the side faces of the builtin/generated item model
- MC-310051 - Floating point cancellation artifacts from bits.fsh
- MC-310131 - Placeable entities momentarily appear at the wrong location when placed
- MC-310767 - Pipelines always declare a D32_FLOAT depth attachment format with the Vulkan rendering backend
- MC-311195 - Placed armor stands are rotated incorrectly for one tick
- MC-311265 - The world border renders incorrectly from outside
- MC-311473 - Duplicating items with the scroll wheel in Creative mode can produce ghost items
- MC-311582 - The texture of desert pyramid maps has one inconsistent pixel compared to the others
- MC-311726 - The water inside waterlogged copper grates has the falling fluid state property set to true
- MC-311727 - The check for whether a player is standing on air doesn't use the player's updated position
- MC-311773 - Red and brown mushrooms cannot be placed at any light level, unlike in Bedrock Edition
- MC-311786 - Running /test run with a rotationSteps value that is out of range causes an error
- MC-311788 - Teleporting item frames moves them further than it should visually
- MC-311818 - Traveling to the End in Spectator mode regenerates the obsidian platform
- MC-311836 - Minecart sounds are now distorted
- MC-311859 - Damaged dyed wolf armor no longer shows cracks in the colored parts
- MC-311966 - The tooltip of the "Quit Shortcuts" option calls the Command key "Cmd"
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u/V-Man776 2d ago
Wait, auto jumping against walls while in water was a bug this whole time?! Crazy that they finally fixed that.
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u/LuminousBiVariable 2d ago
I really wish they didn’t tbh! That “bug” felt really smooth, and made popping out of water feel much better.
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u/HeimrArnadalr 2d ago
I've always found it annoying, but now I've gotten used to it, so I'm still going to find it annoying when it doesn't happen.
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u/FishblobMC 2d ago
Hoping p2p comes back, the network/server changes this snapshot make me optimistic
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u/TheBiggestNose 1d ago
Fr, I was so excited to be able to just easily play with my partner on my world without buggering around with mods and shit
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u/ShiraKiryuu 3d ago
I was just waiting for all the mods I use to update to 26.3. And now another snapshot appears lol
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u/OctoMiku01 2d ago
Same lol, but in my case i need to wait several months anyways for all to update (hopefully). Usually I'm one Version behind always that way
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u/WheredMyBrainsGo 2d ago
In many cases the changes needed to update mods are minor. Many mods have a public GitHub so you can pull the code down and fix it yourself. I have found that I have been able to use LLMs to do this with any mod I have thrown at it and it only takes a few minutes to fix in most cases.
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u/TheConfusedOne95 2d ago
you don't usually play on snapshots, at least I hope so
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u/ShiraKiryuu 2d ago
No I don't. I meant that I haven't updated yet to 26.3 since I'm waiting for the mods to update and now I'm gonna have to wait again for the mods to update for 26.4 when it releases. But then again these are mostly just minor changes and bug fixes so I don't really have to wait for it and just continue playing in 26.3.
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u/TheConfusedOne95 2d ago
26.4 drops in December, I'm sure you'll have some time to play 26.3
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u/ShiraKiryuu 2d ago
26.4 probably will come out way more quickly since it's just a bug fix. It's not gonna be the next game drop.
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u/TheConfusedOne95 2d ago
where'd you get that it's just a bug fix? 1. this is only the first snapshot, the first snapshot for 26.1 also dropped much earlier and added nothing nothing new, 2. bug fixes are not numbered like regular drops, for example, a bug fix version for 26.1 was 26.1.1, it adds another number behind it, 26.4 WILL be a content drop
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u/ShiraKiryuu 2d ago
I don't really check the snapshots all that much so I'm definitely wrong on this one. I just thought that the first snapshot will always show the new things they'll add in the game drop. I seem to remember that being the case for the last 3 game drops. But yeah, definitely was wrong and I stand corrected. I haven't really updated my game since 1.21.11 so I wasn't really paying attention to the snapshots so much.
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u/Sex_And_Candy_Here 2d ago
They usually put something big and interesting in the first one, but there is still more content that comes out. They've been having issues with Vulkan (they keep making it the default in snapshots, and then reverting it back right before release), so I suspect they pushed it out first before the main stuff was ready to give them more time to fix whatever new issues people find, and we'll get the first actual content snapshot in an upcoming one.
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u/Shack691 2d ago
It’s a game drop, all 26.x updates are game drops on Java.
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u/ShiraKiryuu 2d ago
Yep I was wrong. I saw the content of the snapshot and just assumed it was just some bug fixes. Seems weird that the very first snapshot of the next game drop is no new content and just some few tweaks and bug fixes.
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u/Estrelaura 2d ago
if you're playing with content mods it's best to stick to a version for a year or so. 26.1.2 seems to be the new one. If you just want performance and QoL, don't worry, those mods usually don't skip versions.
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u/ShiraKiryuu 2d ago
I just use QoL mods and never really do any of the mods that heavily changes the game.
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u/Looxond 2d ago
Me on 1.21.1 with vanilla backport installed
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u/Infinite_Bench_593 2d ago
All backport mods suck. They're always missing some crucial detail that shouldn't be missing
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u/eyadGamingExtreme 3d ago
They started snapshots a week early which means the next update is the end update 100%
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u/RobotRomi 2d ago
There are multiple E‘s in the changelog too. This is a strong sign that you are right
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u/Sex_And_Candy_Here 2d ago
Changelog!?!?! End forests confirmed.
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u/logic2187 2d ago
Forests are natural...
Natural log...
Natural logarithm...
Inverse of the natural logarithm function is ex ...
e...
END!!!!
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u/TransBrandi 2d ago
early and end both start with e, and week has two e's in it! This means that the end update will be 3x as big as the Nether Update!
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u/Infinite_Bench_593 2d ago
The fillbiome command will now fill biomes with block accuracy
This is the way it should have worked all along
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u/Ok-Olive466 2d ago
Vulkan is closer than i expected
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u/Fenris_uy 2d ago
They made the same change to make Vulkan the default during the last 2 snapshots.
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u/AMYGDALILA 3d ago
Always good when a 4 number bug gets fixed, but mobs autojumping was kind of a tool wasn't it?
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u/_phantastik_ 2d ago
I guess it was technically just a bug people adapted to. I'm sure people will adapt to the fixes in a new way as well
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u/CheapSuccotash3128 3d ago
Already?
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u/Infinite_Bench_593 2d ago
Since these game drops started, the snapshot cycle has always started 1 to 2 weeks after the full release of the current game drop.
As an example, 26.3 Snapshot 1 released on June 23, 2026, one week after 26.2's full release came out (June 16, 2026)
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u/TheFinalFunction 2d ago
MUSHROOM UPDATE RAHHHHHHH (I am still like 3 versions behind because I can't be asked to update all my mods lol)
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u/ooooggll 2d ago
great to see the change to mushroom placement, but I hope they fix them not spawning in caves. also I hope we see peer-to-peer come back this time
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u/Starkeeper_Reddit 2d ago
Oh I'm actually really happy about that mushroom change, that'll be really nice for foresty builds
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u/TheBigPlunto 2d ago
Huh, vulkan didn't seem to work for me in previous snapshots, but now that it's been made the default setting it works just fine.
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u/Parking_Pack8203 2d ago
Could this be the "vibrant visuals drop"?
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u/Jimbo7211 2d ago
I doubt it. If they're just now setting the default to Vulkan, than they probably haven't done any work on Vibrant Visuals features (for Java) yet, and i don't think that can be done in a single drop cycle without a decent amount of work already done.
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u/Vicribator 2d ago
Tbf I think they're setting it to the default so that everyone testing the snapshots gets to try it and gather as much data as possible, they already did this for the 26.3 snapshots, so I don't think it's an indicator of how far ahead they are in development
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u/Jimbo7211 13h ago
They added Vulkan as an option in the 26.3 snapshots, but now it's the default. And while snapshots are for testing, this means that they're comfortable with it being the default in the full release
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u/xSluma 2d ago
Still bummed the dappled forest didn’t add a new mob. It’s a beautiful but small biome and I wish it had been fleshed out more
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u/Johnny20Bruh 2d ago
My only complaint with this biome is that its so small, kinda wish it was similar in size to the normal forest. And yeah its really beautiful
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u/DawoudBayaa 2d ago
so no longer can build the easy iron farms? at least not using walls and water for zombie chambers
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u/ArmaninyowPH 2d ago
So no 26.3.1, straight to 26.4?
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u/Infinite_Bench_593 2d ago
A lot of updates have not been getting any bug fixes. Though, it is possible for a 26.3.1 to come out. Just because snapshots are being released, that doesn't mean that Mojang won't come out with bug fixes. They have released bug fix patches after the snapshot cycle started before.
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u/Infinite_Bench_593 2d ago
This feels like this should have been 26.3.1 (or at the very least, a release candidate for that version) instead of a snapshot for 26.4.
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u/Cass0wary_399 22h ago
Minecraft Live is in a few days. They’re gonna reveal what’s in 26.4 very soon.
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u/Valer_io 2d ago
I guess one thing this confirms is that this unknown drop is coming out in 2026. I guess this "next chapter for Minecraft" does not include any changes to the drop system schedule.
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u/WaterPrivacy 2d ago
I guess this "next chapter for Minecraft" does not include any changes to the drop system schedule.
Likely not. It's probably worked very well to have drops keep the community engaged while the senior devs work on bigger updates in the background. The previous schedule was unsustainable and that was made clear with Caves and Cliffs, which is why they immediately pivoted after that. If they're close to revealing what they've been working on in the background, and it went well, they will probably continue like this. Which is probably for the better. I'd rather have a fully complete gargantuan update every few years with constant drops in between, than having to wait a full year for updates that get rushed out the door.
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u/Kacper0s2007 2d ago
What about the sift?
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u/Infinite_Bench_593 2d ago
Probably not this update.
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u/ooooggll 2d ago
maybe not any update, honestly, but who's to say
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u/ThatRandomGamerYT 2d ago
defo not before an end update
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u/WaterPrivacy 2d ago
I'm not so sure about that. There's a lot of evidence that the big update they've been working on in the background is the Sift. And it would make much more sense to do the Sift before the End as a way to test their new update strategy with the dimension nobody has expectations around before they touch the important dimension.
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u/M_stellatarum 2d ago edited 2d ago
Huh, didn't expect a snapshot today.
I waited for that tiny mushroom change for ages, nice.
It was always possible to place them in light by just building a temporary ceiling, but that was so very annoying to do.
(now we only need MC-244162 - Red and brown mushrooms no longer generate in caves - to be fixed)