Minecraft:Bedrock Edition Preview 26.10.24

Beta 26.10.24 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 26.10.24 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the fourth beta/Preview for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 26.10, released on February 17, 2026,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which adds new textures and models for the remaining baby mobs: the hoglin, panda, sniffer, strider, and zoglin. It also adds new sound variants, adds the furnace Minecraft:recipe book as an experiment, and fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

File:Dead Bush JE6 BE4.png Minecraft:Dead bush

• Can now be placed on Minecraft:farmland.

File:Golden Dandelion JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Golden dandelion

• Now displays green particles when used on a baby mob.
  • Particles moving downwards indicate that aging is paused.
  • Particles moving upwards indicate that age has been reset and is now resumed.
• Now plays pause growth and reset growth sounds on use.

File:Stonecutter JE2 BE1.png Minecraft:Stonecutter

• Minecraft:Deepslate can now be directly crafted into its cobbled, polished, brick, and tile variants in the stonecutter.
• Minecraft:Stone can now be directly crafted into its Minecraft:cobblestone variants in the stonecutter.
  • Due to a bug (Template:Bug), the Minecraft:granite, Minecraft:polished granite, Minecraft:diorite, Minecraft:polished diorite, Minecraft:andesite and Minecraft:polished andesite can also be used to make cobblestone.
    • This was fixed in the next Preview.

Mobs

Minecraft:Baby mobs

• Changed the textures and models of the following baby mobs:
  • File:Baby Hoglin JE5 BE4.png Minecraft:Hoglin
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  • File:Snifflet JE3 BE2.png Minecraft:Sniffer
  • File:Baby Strider JE3 BE3.png Minecraft:Strider
  • File:Baby Zoglin JE2 BE3.png Minecraft:Zoglin
• Adjusted the hitbox of baby Minecraft:zombies and variants, Minecraft:piglins, and Minecraft:villagers to fit in 1 block high and 0.5 block wide spaces.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Cat, Minecraft:Chicken, Minecraft:Cow, and Minecraft:Pig

• Added distinct sound variants similar to Minecraft:wolves, in addition to the original "classic" variant:
  • Cats have a new "royal" variant.
  • Pigs have new "mini" and "big" variants.
  • Cows have a new "moody" variant.
  • Chickens have a new "picky" variant.

File:Husk JE4 BE2.png Minecraft:Husk

• Fixed a Minecraft:family typo preventing babies from forming jockeys.

General

Minecraft:How to Play

• The main How to Play button has been moved from the Minecraft:settings to the Minecraft:game menu.

Minecraft:Play screen

• Custom Minecraft:servers are now always available on the "Servers" tab even when no Minecraft:featured servers could be found.

Minecraft:Realms

• The "world_replica_based_backup" flag and the old Realms backup system have been removed, and now the new backups system, Realms Saves, is now enabled at all times.

Technical

AI Goals

• Made schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 26.10 and newer:
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• Made the schema for Template:Cd stricter when parsing, it will now fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 26.10 and newer. Int Range field Template:Cd now only accepts an object with Template:Cd and Template:Cd values.

Minecraft:API

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Client Entities

• Added Template:Cd field to entity.json schema.
  • Allows items held by mobs to be scaled by a factor greater than zero.
  • Defaults to 1.0.

Entity components

• A content warning will now throw if the amount of experience orbs requested to be spawned in a single tick exceeds the recommended max of 512.

General

• Upgraded actor JSON resources to Cereal slice 26.0 and re-serialized to align with the updated schema.Template:More info

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", "Experimental Voxel Shape Features", and "Furnace Recipe Book" Minecraft:experimental toggles.

Additions

Minecraft:Experiments

• Added experimental toggle to enable the new furnace Minecraft:recipe book.

File:UI - Furnace recipe book Menu (Bedrock Preview 26.10.24).png

The new furnace recipe book screen.

Changes

Technical

Minecraft:API

• Game Test:
  • When running Template:Cmd on game tests with invalid structures, the game tests are no longer spawned at the world ceiling.
• Added Template:Cd optional global to beta of server-admin for accessing dedicated server only APIs.
• Added Template:Cd to beta of Template:Cd with dedicated server only APIs.
• Added Template:Cd to beta of Template:Cd with dedicated server save state management APIs.
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• Added Template:Cd to beta of Template:Cd with dedicated server allow list management APIs.
• Added the function Template:Cd for directly giving items to a mob or player.
• Added Template:Cd method behind Template:Cd. Returns an array of Block parts if the block has the Template:Cd trait.

Server-UI DDUI

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Fixes

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• Fixed tamed baby British shorthair Minecraft:cat variant texture.
• Fixed a bug where baby mobs would be incorrectly scaled when using classic texture packs.
• Fixed a regression where Minecraft:striders and Minecraft:piglins over enthusiastically scream.
• Fixed an issue where baby Minecraft:armadillos would not peek out while rolled up.
• Fixed narration for elements outside a scroller.
• Fixed characters rotating incorrectly in UI when riding a mob.
• Fixed localization string for tile.sticky_piston_arm_collision.name to Minecraft:Sticky Piston Arm Collision.
• Fixed Template:Cmd and Template:Cmd commands from placing partial double blocks, like the upper part of a Minecraft:door.
• Fixed Minecraft:sky light calculations being applied multiple times per chunk, causing excessive memory usage.

Trivia

• All Template:Cd Minecraft:JSON files in the vanilla behavior pack (except for the Minecraft:enderman, Minecraft:happy ghast, Minecraft:nautilus, Minecraft:ravager, and the Minecraft:tadpole) were changed/re-organized.
  • Most of the entities behavior files were re-organized to have the base Template:Cd list to be first and to be in alphabetical order.