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 recipe book as an experiment, and fixes bugs.

Changes

Blocks

File:Dead Bush JE6 BE4.png Dead bush

• Can now be placed on Minecraft:farmland.

File:Golden Dandelion JE1 BE1.png 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, polished granite, Minecraft:diorite, polished diorite, Minecraft:andesite and polished andesite can also be used to make cobblestone.
    • This was fixed in the next Preview.

Mobs

Baby mobs

• Changed the textures and models of the following baby mobs:
  • File:Baby Hoglin JE5 BE4.png Hoglin
  • Template:Animate Panda
  • File:Snifflet JE3 BE2.png Sniffer
  • File:Baby Strider JE3 BE3.png Strider
  • File:Baby Zoglin JE2 BE3.png 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.

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• Added distinct sound variants similar to 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.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 game menu.

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.

API

• Released Template:Cd from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
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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.

Experimental

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

Additions

Experiments

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

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

The new furnace recipe book screen.

Changes

Technical

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.
• Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd of Template:Cd.
• 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.

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• Changed Class Template:Cd:
  • Changed return of method Template:Cd to Template:Cd where returning true means it was shown and false means it was not shown.
  • Added Template:Cd method.
• Changed Class Template:Cd:
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• Changed interface Template:Cd:
  • Added the property Template:Cd which is set to true if the message box was shown to the player.

Fixes

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• Fixed tamed baby British shorthair cat variant texture.
• Fixed a bug where baby mobs would be incorrectly scaled when using classic texture packs.
• Fixed a regression where striders and Minecraft:piglins over enthusiastically scream.
• Fixed an issue where baby 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 sky light calculations being applied multiple times per chunk, causing excessive memory usage.

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