Minecraft:Java Edition 26.4 Snapshot 3
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26.4 Snapshot 3 (known as 26.4-snapshot-3 in the Minecraft:launcher) is the third Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 26.4, released on October 6, 2026,<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref> which adds the Minecraft:ice caves including Minecraft:ice crystals, Minecraft:icicles, Minecraft:ice balls, the Minecraft:frostbite and the freezing effect and fixes bugs.
Additions
Blocks
File:Ice Crystal (U) JE1.png Minecraft:Ice crystal
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- A new crystal-like block similar to Minecraft:amethyst clusters, which generates on the ground in Minecraft:ice caves.
- Provides a small amount of Minecraft:light.
- Can be placed on all sides of a block.
- Breaks if the support block is removed.
File:Icicle.png Minecraft:Icicle
- A new speleothem-like block similar to Minecraft:pointed dripstone and Minecraft:sulfur spikes.
- Naturally generates as stalactites on the ceiling in Minecraft:ice caves, but can also be placed on the ground as stalagmites.
- Can naturally grow up to 5 blocks long when pointing downward.
- Only grows in areas without nearby light sources and outside Minecraft:the Nether.
- Minecraft:Icicle blocks melt and break when a strong enough light source is nearby, or in the Nether.
- Falling Minecraft:icicles deal damage to entities.
- Falling on an Minecraft:icicle stalagmite multiplies the fall damage.
- It can be placed in any direction and has a base, middle and tip variant.
Items
Template:InvSprite Minecraft:Arrow of Freezing
- A Minecraft:tipped arrow which applies the Freezing effect.
Template:InvSprite Minecraft:Frostbite spawn egg
- Used to spawn a Minecraft:frostbite.
Template:InvSprite Minecraft:Ice ball
- A throwable projectile that deals damage.
- It does more damage based on its projectile speed.
- They deal a small amount of damage and also deal knockback.
- Deals 4 damage to entities it hits, scaling down with velocity.
- Breaks on impact with blocks or entities, creating a particle effect and sound.
- Can be used to brew potions of Freezing.
- Obtained from Minecraft:frostbites, which have a chance to drop them when killed.
Template:AnimateSpriteMinecraft:Potion of Freezing
- Obtained by brewing an Minecraft:awkward potion with an Minecraft:ice ball.
- Applies the Minecraft:Freezing effect when consumed.
Mobs
width=55x55 File:Baby Frostbite JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Frostbite
- A Minecraft:zombie variant that can be found in snowy biomes.
- Zombies convert into frostbites when they stay in Minecraft:powder snow too long.
- Minecraft:Husks now also convert into zombies when they stay in Minecraft:powder snow too long.
- Immune to Minecraft:Freezing effect.
- Does not sink in Minecraft:powder snow.
- Burns in sunlight.
- It has two modes of attacking: a melee attack and a ranged attack.
- Switches between melee and ranged combat based on target distance and whether they have Minecraft:ice balls.
- Most frostbites use a standard melee attack, which gives the Freezing effect.
- Some frostbites spawn holding ice balls, which they throw as a ranged attack.
- Drops ice balls and Minecraft:rotten flesh when killed.
- Converts into a zombie when underwater for too long.
World generation
Template:BiomeSprite Minecraft:Ice caves
- A cave biome that generates underneath frozen biomes.
- It consists mainly of Minecraft:packed ice and Minecraft:calcite.
- Large Minecraft:icicles made of Packed Ice generate on the ground and hanging from the ceiling.
- Minecraft:Ice crystals occasionally generate on the ground.
- Sometimes patches of Minecraft:snow can generate here.
- Does not generate Minecraft:glow lichen, unlike other cave biomes.
- Ores generate inside blobs of Minecraft:stone and Minecraft:deepslate.
- Common cave monsters along with Minecraft:strays and Minecraft:frostbites can spawn here.
Gameplay
- File:Freezing JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Freezing
- An effect that causes an entity to Minecraft:freeze, dealing damage over time and slowing their movement.
- The Freezing effect will cause players to shake and eventually deal damage.
- Causes those affected to slowly become frozen as if in Powder Snow for its duration.
- Wearing a piece of Minecraft:leather armor prevents the entity from freezing, just like with Minecraft:powder snow, but will not keep the effect from being applied and will not remove the effect.
- Mobs will take additional damage from Freezing while they are affected by this effect.
- Mobs that are vulnerable to Freezing have a five times multiplier to the damage taken.
- A lingering potion, splash potion, and Minecraft:potion of Freezing can be brewed using ice balls.
- Minecraft:Arrows of Freezing can be crafted by placing a lingering potion of Freezing in the middle of the crafting table surrounded by eight Arrows.
- An effect that causes an entity to Minecraft:freeze, dealing damage over time and slowing their movement.
General
- Added Template:Cd registry containing definitions for sounds produced by different categories of blocks.
- Format: object with fields:
- Template:Cd – a float between Template:Cd and Template:Cd, the relative volume at which all sounds will be played.
- If not present, defaults to Template:Cd
- Template:Cd – a float between Template:Cd and Template:Cd, the relative pitch at which all sounds will be played.
- If not present, defaults to Template:Cd
- Template:Cd – Sound event, the sound that will be played when the block gets broken.
- Template:Cd – Sound event, the sound that will be played when an entity walks on top of the block.
- Template:Cd – Sound event, the sound that will be played when the block gets placed.
- Template:Cd – Sound event, the sound that will be played while the block is being destroyed.
- Template:Cd – Sound event, the sound that will be played when an entity falls onto the block.
- All sound fields are optional.
- Template:Cd – a float between Template:Cd and Template:Cd, the relative volume at which all sounds will be played.
- Format: object with fields:
Other Players
- A new menu which has been added to replace Social Interactions.
- Only available when playing on a world open to multiplayer.
- This includes:
- Playing in singleplayer worlds open to LAN
- Playing on dedicated servers
- Playing on Realms
- Can be opened by pressing the "Other Players" icon button in the pause menu
- Can also be opened from in-game using the "Other Players" key (Template:Key by default)
- This includes:
- Lists the players currently online in the world you are in
- Lists players who are not online anymore, but may still be of interest:
- Players who were just online but left
- Players who recently sent messages in the chat
- Clicking on a player's icon in the list opens their Player Options.
- Added Template:Cd.
- Emitted by entities which are affected by the Minecraft:freezing mob effect.
- Has no fields.
Player Options
- Player Options is a new screen accessible through both the Friends list and Other Players.
- It contains per-player social actions previously spread across the Friends list and Social Interactions.
- These actions are:
- Sending or canceling a friend request
- Accepting or declining a friend request
- Muting a player
- Reporting a player
- Muting a player hides their chat messages until the next time you start the game
- Blocking players is managed through Other Players.
- Block Tags
- Added the block tag Template:Cd to describe all blocks which are allowed to be replaced by ores within ice caves (in addition to Template:Cd, Template:Cd and Template:Cd)
- Added the block tag Template:Cd to describe all blocks causing icicles directly above to melt.
- Added the block tag Template:Cd to describe all blocks which are allowed to be replaced by large icicles within the ice caves biome.
- Added several block tags to affect how mobs pathfind:
- Template:Cd - blocks to be avoided while flying, either due to danger or potential to get stuck.
- Template:Cd - blocks that will damage entities that walk through them, but are not considered dangerous enough to avoid entirely.
- Template:Cd - blocks that will damage entities that walk through them.
- Template:Cd - blocks that can be dropped down through.
- Template:Cd - blocks that are considered leaves.
- Template:Cd - blocks that are considered completely open to walk through.
- Template:Cd - blocks that are considered powder snow.
- Template:Cd - blocks that are considered rails.
- Template:Cd - blocks that are considered sticky, causing slowed movement and inability to jump.
- Item Tags
- Added Template:Cd for items picked up and used by the frostbite.
- Added Template:Cd for items which shall apply knockback even if they do 0 damage.
- Added Template:Cd - items that can be used to dye a sheep's wool.
- The color will be taken from the Template:Cd component of the used item stack.
- Biome Tags
- Added Template:Cd to describe all biomes which allow the spawning of strays without requiring powder snow on the surface above them.
- Block Sound Set Tags
- Added Template:Cd - block sound sets which when stepped on cause Horses to produce a galloping sound.
Changes
Blocks
- Added unique sounds.
- Can now be placed on Minecraft:packed ice.
Items
- Now applies knockback to players.
Mobs
- Can now sell Minecraft:ice crystals and Minecraft:icicles.
General
- The Minecraft:pack format version is now Template:Cd.
- A new Template:Cd shows the rendering status of chunks around the player. This will impact performance at high view distances.
- The chunk load overlay has been split off from Template:Cd and into a new Template:Cd.
- Updated the design of the Friends list.
- Added searching.
- In the Friends tab, the profile name text box used for sending requests also functions as a search box.
- In the requests tab, a search box appears at the top if the player has 15 or more requests.
- Added sorting.
- Sort modes can be cycled through by pressing the new sort button.
- The current sort modes are:
- Sort by who's online - friends who are listed as online appear at the top of the list.
- Sort by alphabetical order - friends are sorted according to the alphabetical order of their names.
- Clicking on a player's icon in the Friends list now opens their Player Options.
- Removed "Remove Friend" button.
- This functionality is now accessible through Player Options instead.
- Removed particle type Template:Cd
Player Reporting
- Redesigned the save/discard draft confirmation screen.
- Player reports saved as drafts no longer prompt you to discard them upon exiting a world if they can be continued later.
- Chat reports can never be continued.
- Name reports can be continued if the reported player is in your Friends list.
- Skin reports can be continued if the reported player is in your Friends list.
- Pressing "Quit Game" in the main menu will now give a warning if you have an unsent draft report that would be lost.
- The version is now Template:Cd.
- Added new sound events:
- Biome Tags
- Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd tags.
- Block Tags
- Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd tag.
- Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd tag.
- Removed Template:Cd to Template:Cd tag.
- Entity Type Tags
- Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd tags.
- Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd tag.
- Potion Tags
- Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd tag.
- Block Models
- Added new block models:
- Block Textures
- Added new block textures:
- Entity Textures
- Added new entity textures:
- Item Models
- Added new item models:
- Item Textures
- Added new item textures:
- Particles
- Added new particle textures:
- UI Sprites
- Added new UI textures:
- The following textures have been renamed:
- The following textures have been removed:
- Lightmap visualization is now configurable as Template:Cd in debug options and appears in the Light group.
- Its visibility setting is saved with the debug profile.
- It can now be displayed alongside the FPS and network charts.
- The Social Interactions screen has been replaced with the new Other Players screen.
- The "Social Interactions" keybind has been renamed to "Other Players".
- The Friends button has received a new icon.
- The "Visibility" option has been moved from Online Options into the Friends list.
- The icon buttons in the pause menu have been reordered to match the main menu.
- Features
- Changed Template:Cd
- Added Template:Cd - a field that contains various settings for the placement of the speleothem cluster:
- Template:Cd - represented by an enum that is one of Template:Cd, Template:Cd, Template:Cd
- Template:Cd - sets a state on the base block of the speleothem block.
- Template:Cd - the regular base block state used in sulfur spikes and dripstone spikes.
- Template:Cd - the state of the base block of the Icicle when it is attached to a surface.
- Template:Cd - boolean indicating whether the speleothem can be placed in water or not.
- Added Template:Cd - a field that contains various settings for the placement of the speleothem cluster:
- Changed Template:Cd (renamed from Template:Cd)
- Added the field Template:Cd - Block State Provider, the block to build the large dripstone out of
- Changed Template:Cd
- Feature placements
- Added the following ore placements:
- These are all identical to their non-ice-cave counterparts, only that they place a patch of stone or deepslate (depending on y-level) before placing the ore itself.
- They can replace ice and calcite as well.
- Noise Settings
- Added new noises:
Fixes
Videos
References
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