Minecraft:Java Edition 26.3 Snapshot 7

26.3 Snapshot 7 (known as 26.3-snapshot-7 in the Minecraft:launcher) is the seventh Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 26.3, released on August 4, 2026.<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref> It adds Minecraft:concrete stairs and slabs in all 16 colors and Minecraft:explorer maps for ancient cities, Minecraft:abandoned camps, Minecraft:mineshafts, Minecraft:desert pyramids, and Minecraft:warm ocean ruins. It also makes changes to Minecraft:maps, locator maps, and existing explorer maps.

Additions

Blocks

Template:AnimateTemplate:Animate Minecraft:Concrete stairs and slabs

• Comes in 16 different color variations.
• Crafted using Minecraft:concrete.

General

Minecraft:Data component format

• Added Template:Cd
  • The animation to play when the item is being used to attack something.
  • Format: object with fields:
    • Template:Cd – swing animation type, one of Template:Cd or Template:Cd.
    • Template:Cd – positive integer, the length of the animation in ticks.

• Added Template:Cd
  • The animation to play when the item is being used to interact with something.
  • Format: same as Template:Cd

Tags

• Block tags
  • Added Template:Cd
    • Contains all concrete stair blocks.
  • Added Template:Cd
    • Contains all concrete slab blocks.

• Item tags
  • Added Template:Cd
    • Contains all concrete stair items.
  • Added Template:Cd
    • Contains all concrete slab items.
  • Added Template:Cd
    • Contains filled maps plus all explorer maps items and buried treasure maps, used as the input to the Template:Cd recipe.
  • Added Template:Cd
    • Contains maps that can be zoomed out with paper, either in a crafting table or at a cartography table.

Changes

Items

Minecraft:Explorer maps

• Added abandoned campsite maps showing the location of other Minecraft:abandoned camps in the following biomes:
  • Minecraft:Bamboo Jungle
  • Minecraft:Cherry Grove
  • Minecraft:Birch Forest
  • Minecraft:Dappled Forest
  • Minecraft:Flower Forest
  • Minecraft:Pale Garden
  • Minecraft:Swamp
  • Minecraft:Windswept Forest
• Added explorer maps for the following structures:
  • Minecraft:Ancient City
  • Minecraft:Mineshaft
  • Minecraft:Desert Pyramid
  • Minecraft:Warm Ocean Ruins
• The player icon on maps have been updated to always show the direction the player is facing.
• These items cannot be obtained from the Creative inventory.
• Existing explorer maps in old worlds are converted to the matching new item on load.
• Explorer maps can still be cloned in a Minecraft:crafting table, and the copies keep their own item type.
• Explorer maps and buried treasure maps can no longer be zoomed out, neither in a Minecraft:crafting table nor at a Minecraft:cartography table
  • Buried Treasure Maps could previously be zoomed out at both.
  • Explorer Maps could previously be zoomed out at a cartography table.
  • Only maps in the Template:Cd tag can be zoomed out.

Minecraft:Map and Empty Map

• Updated inventory icons texture.

Non-mob entities

Minecraft:Cushion

• No longer prevent vibrations when placed, broken or interacted with.

Command format

Template:Cmd

• When used on a player, the player's attack strength will no longer be reset.
• Added a new optional argument to set the swing animation to play.
  • Allowed values: Template:Cd, Template:Cd
  • If omitted, defaults to Template:Cd
• Added a new argument to set the duration of the swing animation, if provided.
  • Format: positive time value (by default in ticks).
  • If omitted, defaults to Template:Cd.

General

Minecraft:Block states

• The following block state fields have been renamed.
  • Template:Cd is now Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd is now Template:Cd
• The default block state of a block can now be referred to in a compact form directly by the block ID.

Minecraft:GUI

• The sub-headings in different tabs of options now use a bold and underlined format, this format was first seen in the new “world options…” screen.

Minecraft:Data component format

• Removed Template:Cd
  • This has been replaced by Template:Cd and Template:Cd.
    • The Template:Cd swing animation type has been removed.
    • Existing items in the world will be migrated to using the default Template:Cd.
    • Setting both of these new components to the same value will be functionally identical to the old component, except for:
      • The Template:Cmd command – animation type now specified by the command.
      • Items being dropped by entities.

• Removed Template:Cd
  • Maps are no longer drawn as a tinted overlay, so there is nothing left for the color to apply to.
  • Existing maps have the component stripped on load.

Minecraft:Data pack

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

Minecraft:Density functions

• Density function and noises are no longer evaluated with double-precision floating point values, but instead with single-precision.
  • This affects all intermediate steps, not just the final result.

Minecraft:Item models

• Tint source
  • Removed Template:Cd
    • The Template:Cd component it read no longer exists.

Minecraft:Loot functions

• Changed Template:Cd
• The Template:Cd field has now been removed.
• The function no longer changes the type of the item it is applied to – it now only adds map data to the existing item.
  • Previously it required a Template:Cd and produced a Template:Cd
  • The item to produce is now chosen by the loot entry or villager trade itself, so a data pack that produced exploration maps has to change its item from Template:Cd to Template:Cd (or one of the explorer map items)
  • If no matching structure is found, the item is left without a Template:Cd – use Template:Cd with Template:Cd to drop those, as the vanilla loot tables and villager trades now do.

Order-independent Transparency (OIT)-related shader

• Renamed defines:
  • Template:Cd – was previously Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd – was previously Template:Cd
  • Template:Cd – was previously Template:Cd

Minecraft:Resource pack

• The version is now Template:Cd.

Minecraft:Textures

• Item sprites
  • Removed item/filled_map_markings.png

• Map sprites
  • Added new map textures:
    • abandoned_camp.png
    • ancient_city.png
    • desert_pyramid.png
    • mineshaft.png
    • warm_ocean_ruins.png
  • The following icons have been updated in order to show player rotation on the map:
    • /player.png
    • /player_off_limits.png
    • /player_off_map.png