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=== Changed ===
=== Changed ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|Changed Mobs}}
{|{{Simple Guide table|Changed Mobs}}
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| [[Minecraft:Drowned]]
| [[File:Drowned.png|128px]]
|
* Immune to freezing in powder snow and can no longer take damage from the [[Minecraft:freezing]] effect.
* Converts into a [[Minecraft:zombie]] when in [[Minecraft:powder snow]] before converting into a [[Minecraft:frostbite]].
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||[[Minecraft:Husk]]
||[[Minecraft:Husk]]
|[[File:Husk.png|128px]]
|[[File:Husk.png|128px]]
| rowspan="2" |* Converts into a [[Minecraft:frostbite]] when in powder snow for 30 seconds.
| rowspan="2" |
* Immune to freezing in powder snow and can no longer take damage from the [[Minecraft:freezing]] effect.
* Converts into a [[Minecraft:frostbite]] when in [[Minecraft:powder snow]].
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|[[Minecraft:Zombie]]
|[[Minecraft:Zombie]]
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=== New ===
=== New ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|New Blocks}}
{|{{Simple Guide table|New Blocks}}
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| [[Minecraft:Brittle ice]]
| {{Animate|Brittle Ice (age 0) JE1.png;Brittle Ice (age 1) JE1.png;Brittle Ice (age 2) JE1.png;Brittle Ice (age 3) JE1.png|84px}}
| Can be mined with Silk Touch, generates inside of the ice caves and can be created by water flowing onto a blue ice block.
| Any tool
| Once a player or mob steps on it, it will start to crack and eventually break.
|-
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| [[Minecraft:Ice crystal]]
| [[Minecraft:Ice crystal]]
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* Icicle blocks melt and break when a strong enough light source is nearby, or in the Nether.
* Icicle blocks melt and break when a strong enough light source is nearby, or in the Nether.
* Falling icicles deal damage to entities.
* Falling icicles deal damage to entities.
|-
|}
|}
=== Changed ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|Changed Blocks}}
|-
| [[Minecraft:Blue Ice]]
| [[File:Blue Ice JE1.png|84px]]
| When water touches blue ice, it creates [[Minecraft:brittle ice]].
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| [[Minecraft:Jukebox]]
| [[File:Jukebox JE3.png|84px]]
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* Changed texture.
* Place any [[Minecraft:Chest (disambiguation)|chest]] (except ender chest) directly above a Jukebox to use its [[Minecraft:music disc]]s as a playlist.
** Discs play in slot order, skipping empty slots and other non-music-disc items and looping back to the start.
*** When a disc finishes, the jukebox swaps it with the next disc in the chest.
** If the chest has no music discs, the disc in the jukebox plays again
** Ejecting the current disc skips to the next available disc.
|}


== Items ==
== Items ==
=== New ===
=== New ===
{|{{Simple Guide table|New Items}}
{|{{Simple Guide table|New Items}}
|-
| [[Minecraft:Arrow of Freezing]]
| [[File:Arrow of Freezing JE1.png|84px]]
|
{{Crafting
|A1 = Arrow
|A2 = Arrow
|A3 = Arrow
|B1 = Arrow
|B2 = Lingering Potion of Freezing
|B3 = Arrow
|C1 = Arrow
|C2 = Arrow
|C3 = Arrow
|Output = Arrow of Infestation,8
}}
| Gives the [[Minecraft:Freezing]] effect.
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| [[Minecraft:Frostbite spawn egg]]  
| [[Minecraft:Frostbite spawn egg]]  
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* Can be thrown as projectiles to damage entities.
* Can be thrown as projectiles to damage entities.
* Use to make [[Minecraft:Freezing]] [[Minecraft:potion]]s or [[Minecraft:arrow]]s.
* Use to make [[Minecraft:Freezing]] [[Minecraft:potion]]s or [[Minecraft:arrow]]s.
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| [[Minecraft:Potion of Freezing]]
| [[File:Potion of Freezing JE1.png|84px]]
|
{{Brewing
|Iceball
|Potion of Freezing
|Potion of Freezing
|Potion of Freezing
}}
| Gives the [[Minecraft:Freezing]] effect when drunk.
|}
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{|{{Simple Guide table|New Biomes}}
{|{{Simple Guide table|New Biomes}}
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|[[Minecraft:Ice Caves]]
| [[Minecraft:Ice Caves]]
|[[File:Ice Caves.png|184px|center]]
| [[File:Ice Caves.png|184px|center]]
|A cave biome that generates at lower temperatures, typically below snowy biomes such as snowy plains, snowy taigas, and frozen oceans. Frostbite naturally spawn here.
| A type of [[Minecraft:cave]] biome at lower temperatures, typically below snowy biomes such as [[Minecraft:snowy plains]], [[Minecraft:snowy taiga]]s, and [[Minecraft:frozen ocean]]s.
|TBA
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|}
|}


== Navigation ==
== Navigation ==
{{Navbox guides|java}}
{{Navbox guides|java}}

Revision as of 11:16, 14 October 2026

Template:Update Template:Infobox guide This guide is a simplified overview of all non-experimental changes in Minecraft:Fourth Drop 2026 (Template:JE 26.4), which assumes at least some familiarity with Minecraft:Wilderness Bound (Java Edition 26.3), excluding experimental features in these versions.

Mobs

New

Minecraft:Frostbite File:Frostbite.png Minecraft:Cold biomes

Changed

Minecraft:Drowned File:Drowned.png
Minecraft:Husk File:Husk.png
Minecraft:Zombie File:Zombie.png

Blocks

New

Minecraft:Brittle ice Template:Animate Can be mined with Silk Touch, generates inside of the ice caves and can be created by water flowing onto a blue ice block. Any tool Once a player or mob steps on it, it will start to crack and eventually break.
Minecraft:Ice crystal File:Ice Crystal (U) JE1.png A crystal block which generates on the ground in Minecraft:ice caves. Any tool Provides a small amount of light.
Minecraft:Icicle File:Icicle Tip (D) JE1.png A spike block that generates as stalactites on the ceiling in ice caves. Any tool
  • Icicle blocks melt and break when a strong enough light source is nearby, or in the Nether.
  • Falling icicles deal damage to entities.

Changed

Minecraft:Blue Ice File:Blue Ice JE1.png When water touches blue ice, it creates Minecraft:brittle ice.
Minecraft:Jukebox File:Jukebox JE3.png
  • Changed texture.
  • Place any chest (except ender chest) directly above a Jukebox to use its Minecraft:music discs as a playlist.
    • Discs play in slot order, skipping empty slots and other non-music-disc items and looping back to the start.
      • When a disc finishes, the jukebox swaps it with the next disc in the chest.
    • If the chest has no music discs, the disc in the jukebox plays again
    • Ejecting the current disc skips to the next available disc.


Items

New

Minecraft:Arrow of Freezing File:Arrow of Freezing JE1.png

Template:Crafting

Gives the Minecraft:Freezing effect.
Minecraft:Frostbite spawn egg File:Frostbite Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Obtained from the creative inventory. Spawns a Minecraft:frostbite.
Minecraft:Ice Ball File:Ice Ball JE1 BE1.png Can be pick up after defeating Minecraft:Frostbites.
Minecraft:Potion of Freezing File:Potion of Freezing JE1.png

Template:Brewing

Gives the Minecraft:Freezing effect when drunk.

Changed

Minecraft:Red mushroom and Minecraft:brown mushroom File:Red Mushroom JE9.png
File:Brown Mushroom JE9.png
Can now be placed at any light level.

Biomes

New

Minecraft:Ice Caves
File:Ice Caves.png
A type of Minecraft:cave biome at lower temperatures, typically below snowy biomes such as Minecraft:snowy plains, Minecraft:snowy taigas, and Minecraft:frozen oceans.

Navigation

Template:Navbox guides

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