Minecraft:Java Edition 26.4 Snapshot 8

26.4 Snapshot 8 (known as 26.4-snapshot-8 in the Minecraft:launcher) is the eighth Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 26.4, released on November 10, 2026,<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref> which adds two new languages, makes minor and technical changes, updates ender dragon fight behavior, and fixes bugs.

Additions

General

Block tags

• Added Template:Cd – all blocks that trigger ice to play its ambient sound.
• Added Template:Cd – all blocks that trigger ice crystals to play their ambient sound.

Minecraft:Languages

• Added support for Template:W and Template:W languages.

Changes

Items

Minecraft:Ice ball

• The damage dealt by ice balls has been slightly reduced from 1.395 ⋅ speed to 1.3 ⋅ speed.

Music disc "Flurry"

• The letter "F" on the name of this music disc has been capitalized.

Mobs

Minecraft:Ender dragon

• The ender dragon no longer has slower vertical velocity than intended, fixing several issues with its AI that were introduced in Minecraft:19w08b and restoring previously broken behavior:
  • The dragon now properly reaches its flying and attacking points, no longer getting stuck flying back and forth between two points.
  • The dragon now properly dives at the player periodically, when it shoots a fireball, and after it has finished perching.
  • The dragon now properly descends to the portal, rather than flying back and forth while slowly descending.

Minecraft:Sulfur cube

• The cold sulfur cube archetype no longer floats to match the behavior of other archetypes of similar properties.

Minecraft:Undead mobs

• All undead mobs are now immune to the Minecraft:Freezing effect.

General

Minecraft:Data pack

• The Minecraft:pack format version is now Template:Cd.

Network protocol

• The entity position synchronization packet now includes full-precision head rotation.

Minecraft:Resource pack

• The version is now Template:Cd.

Minecraft:Shaders

• terrain.vsh is refactored to decode new vertex data packing.

• Order-Independent Transparency
  • OIT shaders were converted to rely on subpasses.
    • Changed core/oit_composite.fsh, core/oit_depth_bounds_cull.fsh, include/oit_depth_sample.glsl, include/oit_sample.glsl
    • Added core/blit_depth_bounds.fsh shader to blit depth bounds in a subpass context.
• Boat water mask whaders
  • The way water mask is handled was changed to support subpasses in OIT.
    • It is now rendered to a separate target that is sampled during terrain rendering instead of being rendered to the terrain depth buffer.
    • Changed core/rendertype_water_mask.fsh and core/terrain.fsh
    • Removed core/blit_depth.fsh
    • This approach is used both when OIT is on and off.

Minecraft:Sounds

• Added a new sound events:
  • Template:Cd

Validation

• Most validation issues in following registries no longer prevent elements from being loaded:
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd fields in Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd fields on Template:Cd instances.
• The following issues are now considered errors that can prevent pack loading or cause command compilation failure:
  • The validated element makes recursive calls to itself, either through tags or namespaced IDs.
  • Any context values required by the validated element are missing from the context provided during execution.
    • For example, the modifier type Template:Cd (which uses the Template:Cd context value) cannot be used in an Template:Cmd command which provides the Template:Cd context (which lacks the Template:Cd context value).
• Elements will only be validated if they do not have conditions or condition has all required context values.
  • That means conditional elements can be used to avoid validation errors in loot elements used in multiple context.
  • Conditional elements:
    • Template:Cd field for cases in Template:Cd (both Template:Cd and Template:Cd kinds).
    • Template:Cd condition field in Template:Cd
    • Template:Cd field in loot pools, loot pool entries and loot functions
• Validation errors will now prevent command compilation, both in functions and from the console
  • For example, Template:Cmd will now fail to compile due to use of Template:Cd in a Template:Cd context that does not provide required information (Template:Cd).
• The Template:Cd context has been split into Template:Cd (used for predicates in commands, like Template:Cmd) and Template:Cd (used for item modifiers, for example in Template:Cmd functions).
• To simplify the discovery of validation rules, a new report has been added Template:Cd
  • Values given as Template:Cd for some context can be used by validated elements when run in this context.
  • The context used by command arguments can be found in the commands.json report in the Template:Cd field of the following argument types:
    • Template:Cd
    • Template:Cd
    • Template:Cd
    • Template:Cd
    • Template:Cd
    • Template:Cd