Minecraft:Bedrock Edition Preview 26.20.26/Upstream

Template:Infobox version Beta 26.20.26 (ChromeOS, Android), or Preview 26.20.26 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation), is the fifth beta/Preview for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 26.20, released on April 8, 2026,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which fixes bugs, and adds custom dimensions to the Minecraft:Beta APIs experiment.

Changes

General

Minecraft:Realms

• Added the Admin log feature to the Minecraft:Realms Hub.
  • Logs changes performed by Realm administrators, such as settings changes, add-ons, and world management.

Technical

Accounts

• Added platform subscription checks as part of multiplayer allowance check and return new platform-subscription-specific permission deny reasons if the check failed.

AI Goals

• Made the schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.20 and newer:
  • Template:Cd
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  • Template:Cd
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• The Template:Cd field in Template:Cd now only accepts an object with min and max values.

Minecraft:Block components

• Released the component Template:Cd from experimental for block format versions 1.26.20 or higher.

Blocks

• Added content warning for component Template:Cd trying to use texture variations.
  • Variation textures are not supported for this component.
• The Template:Cd component will correctly give an error again when the y is over the 16 limit.

Entity components

• The component Template:Cd now takes an array of presets.
  • Template:Cd is an array of elements with the same parameters as Template:Cd had previously.
• The preset elements have the following new field:
  • Template:Cd is an actor filter with the default syntax.
• Added the Template:Cd parameter to Template:Cd.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", "Render Dragon Features for Creators", "Experimental Voxel Shape Features", and "Drop 2 of 2026" Minecraft:experimental toggles.

Changes

Mobs

Minecraft:Sulfur cube

• When hit by a player, its knockback is now affected by the attacker's hit angle, position and damage.

Technical

Minecraft:API

• Changed the maximum length of the text param of Template:Cd on Template:Cd, to be 128 lines and 128 characters per line.
• Class Template:Cd:
  • Added the method Template:Cd to allow registrations of new custom Minecraft:dimensions in Template:Cd.
• Startup event:
  • Added the ability to register custom dimensions during the before startup event.

DDUI

• Added support for multiline texts for Template:Cd, Template:Cd, and Template:Cd using Template:Cd.

Entities

• Added a new Template:Cd description field to entity behavior definitions that enables per-entity versioning and upgrade handling.
  • The Template:Cd field is a JSON object containing an upgrades array, where each entry specifies an integer Template:Cd version and a name string referencing an upgrade handler defined in a new top-level upgrades section of the entity definition.
  • Upgrade versions must start at Template:Cd and be contiguous. Gaps or duplicates are rejected with a content error.
  • Version Template:Cd is reserved for entities that have no version set ("versionless"), which is the default for all existing entities.
  • When an entity is loaded with a version older than the current definition version, all upgrade handlers between the entity's saved version and the current version are executed sequentially
  • Newly spawned entities are set directly to the latest version without running any upgrade handlers.
  • Upgrade handlers reuse the existing event system but are defined in a separate upgrades section, keeping them distinct from regular events.
  • The entity's version is persisted and loaded/saved automatically.

Entity components

• The following fields have been added to the preset element exclusively in the beta version of Template:Cd:
  • Template:Cd scales the previous velocity of the target when hit.
  • Template:Cd scales the horizontal angle response of the target when hit based on the attacker's aim direction.
  • Template:Cd scales the vertical angle response of the target when hit based on the attacker's aim direction.
  • Template:Cd scales the vertical angle response of the target when hit based on the attacker's relative feet position.
  • Template:Cd enables scaling the magnitude of knocback based on the inverse square of the damage.

Graphical

• Added static light shading to Minecraft:weather.

Voxel Shapes

• Added non-unit-cube voxel shapes for 19 blocks when the Voxel Shapes experiment is enabled:
  • Minecraft:Cake shapes (1 block): 7 bite-counter shapes for each slice of cake.
    • Candle cake shape (17 blocks).
  • Minecraft:Composter shapes (1 block): 8 fill-level shapes for each stage of composting.

Fixes

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• Fixed a crash in Realms Stories for high member count Realms.
• Fixed an issue in Realms Stories where the Members tab did not load in correctly.
• Fixed a bug where emojis were not rendering at the small text tooltip when selecting an item in the HUD's hotbar.
• Fixed content warning regarding texture variations for block components Template:Cd and Template:Cd.
• Fixed legacy Template:Cd entries in block permutations being silently dropped when upgrading to format version 1.26.20, which could cause scripts relying on permutation-specific tags to fail.
• Fixed player friction not resetting for older content.
• Fixed a bug where in-flight http requests could freeze the game when the http client is destroyed in scripting.
• Fixed an issue that caused websockets to not complete their connection with the server.
• Fixing a bug with Debug Drawing and Primitive Shapes where they could get into a bad state when used with Simulated Players.
• Fixed Template:Cd to work with all parts of a multi-block. The component can no longer be defined in the permutations array, only allowed in the base components object.

Videos

Updates for Creators