Minecraft:Bedrock Edition Preview 26.70.24

Beta 26.70.24 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 26.70.24 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the fifth beta/Preview for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 26.70, released on November 8, 2026, for iOS and iPadOS, and on November 10, 2026, for all remaining devices,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which fixes bugs.

Additions

General

Minecraft:Controls

• Added support for Joy-Con Mouse Mode on Nintendo Switch 2.
• Added a new Joy-Con Mouse Mode setting page to support customization.

Minecraft:Game rules

• Added an Invisible Armor (Template:Gmr) world setting, available without cheats.
  • Once enabled, players need to use the eye button in the inventory to show or hide equipped armor for all players.
  • Hidden armor will temporarily become visible for 5 seconds after taking damage.
  • Minecraft:Elytra, mob Minecraft:heads, and Minecraft:carved pumpkins always remain visible.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Calcite

• Calcite building blocks are now located after the Minecraft:sulfur blocks in the Minecraft:Creative inventory.
• Calcite and its variants now drop fewer items when blown up by non-Minecraft:TNT explosions.

Minecraft:Chiseled soulshale

• No longer requires a Minecraft:pickaxe to drop.

Minecraft:Cinnabar and Minecraft:sulfur

• These blocks and their variants are now correctly located with the other Minecraft:stone blocks in the Creative inventory.

Minecraft:Packed ice bricks

• Packed ice bricks building blocks are now located after Minecraft:mud bricks in the Creative inventory.
• Packed ice bricks and its variants now drop fewer items when blown up by non-TNT explosions.

Minecraft:Red shrub, Minecraft:shelf mushroom, Minecraft:snow bricks

• These blocks and their variants now drop fewer items when blown up by non-TNT explosions.

Minecraft:Resin bricks

• Resin brick stairs and resin brick slabs are now located after their snow bricks counterparts in the Creative inventory.

Items

Minecraft:Ice ball

• Ice balls thrown by players no longer deal critical damage.

Minecraft:Map

• Maps held in the main hand now use one hand in first person when the offhand is occupied, keeping the offhand item visible.

Minecraft:Music disc

• The "flurry" music disc title is now capitalized in its tooltip.

Mobs

Minecraft:Undead mobs

• All undead mobs are now immune to freezing from both Minecraft:powder snow and the Minecraft:Freezing status effect.

General

Graphical

• Changed the rotation of Freezing particles to match Java Edition.

Minecraft:Marketplace

• Minecoin balances now refresh after purchasing a Marketplace gift without delaying the purchase confirmation.
• Long translated gift button labels in the Marketplace now display an ellipsis instead of being cut off mid-letter.
• The gifting friends screen now displays the correct number of daily gifts remaining, with a minimum of zero.

Minecraft:Panorama

• Updated the panorama to reflect the fourth drop of 2026.

Minecraft:Sounds

• Music discs and tracked broadcast sounds now continue playing for splitscreen players who remain in range when another local player leaves range, disconnects, or changes dimension.

UI

• Changed the screen narration on the search input boxes on the Marketplace and owned template screens so that they'd match other text input boxes.
• Persona item thumbnails now retain their square proportions on the gift purchase confirmation and completion screens.
• The gift button for classic skin packs in the Dressing Room is now shown only when gifting is enabled and supported for the selected offer.
• Players now see a disconnect error instead of remaining on the loading screen when incoming network data is corrupt or exceeds the decompression limit.
• Cheats are no longer reset to defaults when disabling the cheats toggle, preventing issue of resetting cheat settings when duplicating a world.
• Updated the default world preview image, with a new seed and new coordinates. The image is shown with or without Minecraft:Vibrant Visuals, reflecting the video settings.
  • There is a rare chance for a Minecraft:chicken or Minecraft:donkey to appear on the image, as easter egg.
• Renamed the Music Features Add-On to Minecraft:Music on the Move Add-On and updated its pack description.
• Updated the Create From Marketplace Pass screen.

• Default world thumbnail on Fancy graphics
  Default world thumbnail on Fancy graphics
• With a donkey
  With a donkey
• Default world thumbnail with Vibrant Visuals
  Default world thumbnail with Vibrant Visuals
• With a chicken
  With a chicken

Technical

AI goals

• Timer Actor Flag Goals:
  • Added Template:Cd to timer actor flag goals which determines whether the Template:Cd events run when another goal interrupts this goal before its duration elapses.

Minecraft:API

• Improved various scripting error messages to include better context such as function name, argument name, etc.
• Released class PlayerCursorItemGrabAfterEvent from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Released class PlayerCursorItemGrabAfterEventSignal from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Released class PlayerCursorItemReleaseAfterEvent from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Released class PlayerCursorItemReleaseAfterEventSignal from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Released property WorldAfterEvents.playerCursorItemGrab from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Released property WorldAfterEvents.playerCursorItemRelease from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Released class BlockRecipeProcessingComponent from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Released class BlockRecipeCraftingComponent from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Released class RecipeCraftingContext from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Released class InvalidRecipeError from Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Moved the recipe crafting event APIs from Template:Cd to Template:Cd:
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd

Entities

• Added the modifiable beta-only field to an entity's description field Template:Cd to opt into clearing a mob's existing AI components when any component changes occur; it defaults to false for beta documents.
  • For mobs using the beta documents, AI goals no longer rebuild all goals after detecting a mob has had component changes and instead only remove affected goals that are replaced or added, preserving existing goals.

Minecraft:Item components

• Template:Cd:
  • Template:Cd now defaults to Template:Cd for item format versions 1.26.70 and later.
    • Negative values disable critical hits.
    • Items using earlier format versions keep the previous default of Template:Cd.

Minecraft:Molang

• Starting with version 1.26.70, holding a Minecraft:trident with a target no longer sets Template:Cd for non-player mobs other than drowned.
• Starting with version 1.26.70, the trident's third-person throwing pose follows the holder's Template:Cd instead of whether the holder has a target.
  • The holder's client entity must declare Template:Cd as public for the trident to read it.

UI

• Changing tabs in dressing room now resets the scene stack.
• Updated the activation button label for Resource Packs to be more generic.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs" and "Upcoming Creator Features" Minecraft:experimental toggles.

Changes

Technical

Actor

• Passenger of block will stop being passenger when the behavior pack is removed from the world.

Minecraft:API

• Added beta script API access to the Template:Cd block component, which has the following properties:
  • Template:Cd returns whether a block can be climbed.
  • Template:Cd returns if a player can hold their position on this block when sneaking.
• Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd, a container that only exists in memory and can be shown to players as a chest style screen.
• Added Template:Cd and Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Added Template:Cd and Template:Cd to Template:Cd for showing a virtual container to a player and closing it again.
• Added Template:Cd and Template:Cd to Template:Cd, thrown by Template:Cd when the screen request can't be sent to a player.
• Added Template:Cd and Template:Cd to Template:Cd for creating virtual containers.
• Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Added Template:Cd, Template:Cd, and Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Added Template:Cd, Template:Cd, Template:Cd, and Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
• Added Template:Cd to beta for subscribing to virtual container events of specific containers only.
• Added Minecraft:shulker box support to Template:Cd in Template:Cd.
• In beta, Template:Cd now attaches sounds to an entity when the entity is passed as the location, making playback follow the entity; entity-attached sounds cannot currently be broadcast.
• Added the beta method Template:Cd/Template:Cd in Template:Cd, which sets a named Sentry context of string, number, and boolean values that is attached to captured events.

Blocks

• Added the experimental Template:Cd block component, which defines the climbable properties of a block. It has two boolean fields.
  • Template:Cd when set to true, allows an entity to climb this block when its feet share the same position as the block.
  • Template:Cd when set to Template:Cd, allows a player to hold their position on this block if sneaking when their feet share the same position as the block. In the case of Template:Cd set to Template:Cd and Template:Cd set to Template:Cd, the block may not be climbed or descended, but a player can stop their fall by sneaking while their feet occupy the same position as the block.
  • Requires format version beta and Upcoming Creator Features experiment.

Fixes

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• Activating the Music Features Add-On no longer incorrectly displays the achievements-disabled warning.
• Fixed crashes when completing data migration from Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch 2.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading resource packs with invalid lighting keyframes.
• Fixed a rare crash during world generation in Minecraft:the Nether of Minecraft:bastion remnants.
• Fixed Minecraft:trees not generating in some of the Minecraft:abandoned camps.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Dressing Room paper doll to never render when the selected skin was not yet valid on the first update.
• Fixed a server crash when a command run through Template:Cd or Template:Cd.
• Fixed behavior packs with an explicit Template:Cd or Template:Cd dependency being rejected on Realms and dedicated servers with default configurations.
• Fixed a crash when loading 2-dimensional biome chunk data with invalid values.
• Fixed custom block items not being horizontally centered in larger inventory slots, such as the Pocket UI Creative menu and inventory hotbar, when they are not resized to fit the slot.
• Minecraft:Leaves will now correctly occlude the face facing Minecraft:chiseled packed ice, Minecraft:packed ice bricks, and Minecraft:snow bricks.