Minecraft:Java Edition 26.3

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26.3, the release of the third game drop of 2026, is an upcoming Minecraft:game drop for Template:JE set to release in the third quarter of 2026, which adds the Minecraft:dappled forest biome, including Minecraft:red shrubs, Minecraft:shelf mushrooms, Minecraft:wool stairs and slabs, and a new Minecraft:abandoned camp structure.

Additions

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Blocks

Poplar wood set:

File:Poplar Sapling.png Minecraft:Poplar sapling
- Grows into any one of red, orange or yellow poplar trees.
- Can be traded for by a Minecraft:wandering trader.
Template:Animate Minecraft:Poplar leaves
- Comes in red, orange, and yellow varieties.
File:Poplar Log.pngFile:Stripped Poplar Log.png Minecraft:Poplar log and Minecraft:stripped poplar log
File:Poplar Wood.pngFile:Stripped Poplar Wood.png Minecraft:Poplar wood and Minecraft:stripped poplar wood
File:Poplar Planks.png Minecraft:Poplar planks

File:Red Shrub.png Minecraft:Red shrub

A Minecraft:bush-like plant block found in small patches in the Dappled Forest.
Using bone meal on a red shrub attempts to grow another shrub on a neighboring block.
Can be used in the Minecraft:composter.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Shelf mushroom

A mushroom variant found on poplar trees and fallen Poplar Trees.
Comes in two sizes.
- A small shelf mushroom can be grown into a large shelf mushroom with bone meal.
- A large shelf mushroom drops two shelf mushroom items when broken.
Is bouncy when fallen on by entities, similar to a Minecraft:bed.
- Shelf Mushroom makes a bouncing sound when a living entity bounces on it.
Can be used to make Minecraft:mushroom stew and Minecraft:suspicious stew.
Can be traded for by a Minecraft:wandering trader.

Template:Animate Template:Animate Minecraft:Wool stairs and slabs

Comes in sixteen colors.
Can be used to dampen sounds, like Minecraft:wool and Minecraft:carpets.

Non-mob entities

Template:InvSpriteFile:Poplar Boat.png Minecraft:Poplar boat

A boat that is crafted using poplar planks.
Template:InvSpriteFile:Poplar Boat with Chest.png Minecraft:Poplar boat with chest

World generation

Biomes

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An autumn-themed forest biome which can be found near cold biomes that consists of Minecraft:poplar trees, Minecraft:red shrubs, Minecraft:leaf litter, Minecraft:brown mushrooms, Minecraft:shelf mushrooms, and rarely Minecraft:spruce trees.
- Fallen Poplar Trees generate here, they generate more frequently than other fallen trees.
- Shelf Mushrooms can be found here, placed on Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees.
The following passive and neutral mobs spawn in the Dappled Forest, using their cold variants where applicable:

Features

Template:Animate Minecraft:Poplar tree

A Minecraft:tree that generates in dappled forests.
Comes in three different colors of leaves, orange, red, and yellow, randomly chosen at generation.
Each variant of the tree has its own variant of falling leaf particles matching the color of the leaves.
Poplar Leaves drop Poplar Saplings which will randomly grow into any of the three different variants.
Generate with Minecraft:leaf litter around or shelf mushrooms on them.
File:Poplar Fallen Log.png Fallen poplar trees have shelf mushrooms on them.
The trunk of the trees are made of Poplar Logs.
- Poplar Logs can be crafted into a new set of Poplar wood blocks.

Structures

File:Abandoned Camp.png Minecraft:Abandoned camp

A structure that generates in the following biomes:
Abandoned camps of each biome have their own different variants, consisting of Minecraft:wool stairs of various colors, or having Minecraft:leaves, Minecraft:cobwebs, a Minecraft:tree or a Minecraft:crop farm.
In these structures can be found Minecraft:chests and Minecraft:barrels with ramdomly generated loot.
- The barrels contain an asortment of common items, and perhaps most notably a chance for Minecraft:cobweb.
- The common chests can contain loot such as Minecraft:copper weapons and armor, Minecraft:buckets, Minecraft:compasses, Minecraft:maps and Minecraft:firework rockets.
- The secret chests can contain loot such as Minecraft:iron weapons and armor, Minecraft:diamonds, Minecraft:gold and Minecraft:potions.

General

Minecraft:Data component format

Template:Cd
- Describes the pottery pattern stored on a stack.
- Format:
  - namespaced ID pointing to an element of Template:Cd registry.

Minecraft:Particles

Added Template:Cd
- Falls from Red Poplar Leaves blocks.
- Has no fields.

Added Template:Cd
- Falls from Orange Poplar Leaves blocks.
- Has no fields.

Added Template:Cd
- Falls from Yellow Poplar Leaves blocks.
- Has no fields.

Tags

Biome Tags
- Added tags for biomes which will generate the respective abandoned camp variant:

Block Tags
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all poplar log blocks.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all wool stairs blocks.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all wool slabs blocks.
- Added Template:Cd and Template:Cd to Template:Cd.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Collection tag containing all types of ores.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Collection tag containing all head and skull blocks.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Collection tag containing all blocks that are considered to block motion in some way.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Collection tag containing all blocks that are considered to block motion in some way, but excluding leaf blocks.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all blocks that entities are allowed to teleport to.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all blocks that Minecraft:dolphins cannot move through when jumping out of water.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all blocks that causes ice to melt into water if the ice is destroyed when placed above them.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all blocks that are taken into account for the Template:Cd heightmap.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all blocks that are taken into account for the Template:Cd heightmap.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all blocks that block the creation of fire by lava.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all blocks that block fluid flow.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all blocks that break when a fluid flows through them.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains the blocks which can satisfy requirement for Poplar leaves to make ambient sound.

Entity Tags
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all entities which cannot be dismounted by items.
- Added Template:Cd for all damage types that should not cause tamed wolves to attack their source in order to defend their owner.

Item Tags
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all poplar log items.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all wool stairs items.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all wool slabs items.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Contains all mushroom items.
- Added Template:Cd
  - Collection tag containing all types of ores.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Carpets

Can no longer be crafted.

Items

Minecraft:Pottery sherds

Pottery sherds are now data-driven.
Pottery sherds dropped from breaking a Minecraft:decorated pot will now preserve data.

Minecraft:Suspicious stew and Minecraft:mushroom stew

Can now be crafted with 2 of any mushroom.

Mobs

Minecraft:Sulfur cubes

Changed the sounds of the "regular" sulfur cube archetype.

Minecraft:Wandering trader

Can now sell Minecraft:poplar saplings and Minecraft:shelf mushrooms.

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:Paintings

Paintings with custom names now also show those names when the player looks at them in the world.

Command format

General

Commands like Template:Cmd, Template:Cmd, and Template:Cmd should now properly signal errors.

Template:Cmd

Added new Template:Cd condition sub-command.
- Counts the number of slots from the slot source that are present on the targeted block or entity.
- The slot source will be evaluated with the Template:Cd loot type.
- Syntax:
  - Template:Cmd
  - Template:Cmd
The items condition sub-command now takes a slot source as argument instead of a slot.
- The slot source will be evaluated with the Template:Cd loot type.
- Syntax:
  - Template:Cmd
  - Template:Cmd

Template:Cmd

When the amount of items passed to the give command is above limit, the command will now signal an error instead of just printing an error message and returning Template:Cd.

Template:Cmd

Now takes a slot source as argument in place of anywhere a slot was previously used.
- It will be evaluated with the Template:Cd loot type.
- Can be a slot source in either inline or reference form.
- Can be a slot source targeting multiple slots.
- The Template:Cd sub-command has new semantics:
  - One by one in the order they are provided by the slot source, the contents of each destination slot are replaced with the corresponding source item.
  - When there are more destination slots than there are source items, the remaining slots are ignored.
    - Example: Template:Cd
  - When there are fewer destination slots than there are source items, the remaining items are ignored.
    - Example: Template:Cd
- String notation slot ranges in the form Template:Cd or Template:Cd are still permitted.
  - Can be a single slot, such as Template:Cd
  - Can be multiple slots, such as Template:Cd
  - Acts as shorthand for a minecraft:slot_range slot source using that slot range.
    - Example: Template:Cd is the same as Template:Cd}
The entity argument in the Template:Cd item source can now be a selector targeting multiple entities.
- When more than a single entity is targeted, the slots sourced from each are concatenated.
Added new Template:Cd and Template:Cd sub-commands, each with syntax identical to Template:Cmd.
- Template:Cmd
  - Fills each destination slot with a source item.
  - When there are more destination slots than there are source items, the items repeat until every slot is filled.
    - Example: Template:Cd
- Template:Cmd
  - Overrides the contents of each destination slot with the corresponding source item.
  - When there are more destination slots than there are source items, the remaining slots are cleared.
    - Example: Template:Cd (where Template:Cd represents an empty slot).

Template:Cmd

The result of Template:Cmd and Template:Cmd subcommands now reflects the exact count of entities that have joined or left (i.e. excluding entities for which teams have not changed).

Template:Cmd

The Template:Cd component in a raw chat message will only be resolved up to 64k times.

Template:Cmd

The following subcommands will now signal an error instead of just printing an error message and returning Template:Cd:

Gameplay

Minecraft:Advancements

Visiting the dappled forest is now required for the "Adventuring Time" advancement.

General

Minecraft:Block entity

Template:Cd
- Field Template:Cd no longer stores a list of 4 item IDs. Instead, the new format is an object with 4 optional item stack fields named:

Minecraft:Data component format

Template:Cd
- Instead of taking a list of 4 item IDs, this component now takes an object with 4 optional item stack fields named:
Template:Cd
- The format of inline material definitions has been updated
- Trim Materials
  - The format of elements in the Template:Cd registry has been updated:
    - Template:Cd has been replaced with palette - Palette Texture ID to be used for this material.
    - Template:Cd has been removed, overrides are now defined in the Resource Pack Equipment Asset.

Minecraft:Data pack

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

Minecraft:Instrument definition

The format of elements in the instrument registry have been updated:
- Added the Template:Cd field - optional non-negative integer, amount of durability to consume on each use.
- Updated the Template:Cd field - can now be Template:Cd for no cooldown.

Minecraft:Loot functions

Added Template:Cd loot table type.
- Currently used to evaluate slot sources with the Template:Cmd and Template:Cmd commands.
- It takes the following parameters:
  - Template:Cd, the container or inventory being evaluated.
  - Template:Cd, the position at which the command was executed.
  - Template:Cd, the @s entity of the command being executed (optional).

Minecraft:Minecraft Server Management Protocol 3.1.0

Added notifications indicating when the server performs a full world upgrade on startup.

Minecraft:Particles

Fallen leaves particles no longer appear under Minecraft:spruce leaves.

Minecraft:Resource pack

The version is now Template:Cd.

Minecraft:Servers

Some log lines that server software might look out for have been removed.
- The Minecraft Server Management Protocol can be used instead.

Minecraft:Slot sources

Slot sources can now be defined as files inside a datapack, within the Template:Cd folder.
- Can be used in commands which take slot sources as arguments.
- Can be used in inline slot sources using the Template:Cd type.
Template:Cd is no longer restricted to only selecting non-empty slots.
Added Template:Cd
- Uses the referenced slot source.
- Fields:
  - Template:Cd - the namespaced id of the slot source.
Changed Template:Cd
- The Template:Cd field has a new valid type container, which sources slots from a container or inventory provided through loot context.
- The Template:Cd field is now optional.
  - Defaults to the container source type when absent.

Minecraft:Sounds

Added new sound events:

Minecraft:Textures

Palette Textures
- All armor trim palette textures have been moved from Template:Cd to Template:Cd
  - The base armor trim palette texture has instead been moved to Template:Cd
- Entity armor trim material textures are no longer generated into the Template:Cd atlas with Template:Cd, but rather generated on-demand
  - The base palette id is now specified in a new Template:Cd mcmeta section field
  - This section has a single field: Template:Cd - the base Palette Texture ID to remap from
- Item armor trim material textures are still generated with Template:Cd as before
- Palette Texture locations in the Template:Cd and Template:Cd fields have been replaced by Palette Texture IDs - i.e. Template:Cd now resolves to Template:Cd

Equipment Assets
- A new optional Template:Cd field controls which trim material palettes should be replaced for this equipment asset (formerly controlled by Template:Cd in the trim material)
  - Format: map from original Palette ID to a replacement Palette ID

Block Sprites
- Added new Block textures:

Item Sprites
- Added new Item textures:

UI Sprites
- Added new UI textures:
  - Template:Cd
  - Template:Cd

Entity Textures
- Added new Entity textures:
  - Template:Cd
  - Template:Cd

Particles
- Added new Particle textures:

Minecraft:World generation

Features
- The Template:Cd registry has moved to Template:Cd and configuration is now done inline in the root object rather than separated into a config field.
- Added Template:Cd feature type
  - Places the Minecraft:end podium.
  - Two feature instances are now used to place the podium from in-game events:
    - Template:Cd
    - Template:Cd
  - Fields:
    - Template:Cd: boolean field controlling if the portal is active.
- Template:Cd feature type
  - Added Template:Cd tree decorator type.
    - Places Minecraft:shelf mushrooms on logs with the specified probability.
    - Format: object with fields:
      - Template:Cd - float (between Template:Cd and Template:Cd), the probability that any Shelf Mushrooms will be placed for a given feature.
  - Added Template:Cd foliage placer type
    - Places leaves blocks for Minecraft:poplar trees in a rhombus shape in one of two possible directions
    - Format: object with fields:
      - Template:Cd - int provider (between Template:Cd and Template:Cd), the height of the foliage.
      - Template:Cd - float (between Template:Cd and Template:Cd), the chance for blocks to be randomly removed at the edge of the foliage.
  - Added Template:Cd trunk placer type
    - Places log blocks for poplar trees in a straight shape with branches by the start of the foliage.
    - Format:
      - Template:Cd - int provider (between Template:Cd and Template:Cd), the height of the trunk above the branches.
      - Template:Cd - int provider (between Template:Cd and Template:Cd), the amount of branches to create by the foliage.

Minecraft:Noise settings
- The Template:Cd field has been renamed to Template:Cd
  - Format: inline Material Rule or Material Rule ID reference.

Material Rule Registry
- A new data-driven registry has been introduced, loaded from data/<namespace>/worldgen/material_rule/<id>.json.
- Elements in this registry define a pipeline for selecting what base block to place in the world at a given position.
- The format is identical to that which was formerly written in the Template:Cd field within noise settings files, with the following extensions:
  - Material rules can now be specified either inline (as previously), or as an ID reference to an element in the Template:Cd registry.
  - Material conditions can also now be specified as an ID reference to an element in the Template:Cd registry.

Material Condition Registry
- A new data-driven registry has been introduced, loaded from data/<namespace>/worldgen/material_condition/<id>.json.
- Elements in this registry define a condition that can be referenced within a Material Rule pipeline (e.g. testing biome or surface depth).
- The format is identical to that which was formerly written within the condition Material Rule type, with the following extension:
  - Material Conditions can also now be specified as an ID reference to an element in the Template:Cd registry.

Structure Placements
- Added Template:Cd
- New structure placement that places a single instance of the structure at the dimension origin.
  - The dimension origin is defined as the Template:Cd for noise settings based dimensions, otherwise Chunk (0, 0).
- No additional fields.

Rule Tests
- These are the predicates used by ore Features (Template:Cd), and rule Structure Processors (Template:Cd and Template:Cd).
- Added test type minecraft:height_match
- This checks the y-level of a block, returning true only if it's higher than or equal to Template:Cd and lower than or equal to .Template:Cd
- Format: object with fields:
  - - Template:Cd - int, the minimum y value of allowed blocks (inclusive)
    - Template:Cd - int, the maximum y value of allowed blocks (inclusive)
- Added rule test type Template:Cd
  - This checks a list of Rule Tests for whether all of them return true for the same block.
  - Format: object with fields:
    - Template:Cd - list of Rule Tests, the rules to test the block against.

Fixes

Template:Fixes

Quotes

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Drop 3 of 2026 - Explore a new surface biome and find the wandering trader's hidden stashes spread throughout the world

References

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