Minecraft:Java Edition guides/Fourth Drop 2026

Template:Update Template:Infobox guide This guide is a simplified overview of all non-experimental changes in Minecraft:Fourth Drop 2026 (Template:JE 26.4), which assumes at least some familiarity with Minecraft:Wilderness Bound (Java Edition 26.3), excluding experimental features in these versions.

Mobs

New

Minecraft:Frostbite

File:Frostbite.png

Minecraft:Cold biomes

Template:Drop Template:Drop Template:Xp (when killed by a Minecraft:player)

Apply the Minecraft:Freezing effect for 3 seconds per target. Throw Minecraft:ice balls.

Changed

Minecraft:Drowned	File:Drowned.png	Immune to freezing in powder snow and can no longer take damage from the Minecraft:freezing effect. Converts into a Minecraft:zombie when in Minecraft:powder snow before converting into a Minecraft:frostbite.
Minecraft:Husk	File:Husk.png	Immune to freezing in powder snow and can no longer take damage from the Minecraft:freezing effect. Converts into a Minecraft:frostbite when in Minecraft:powder snow.
Minecraft:Zombie	File:Zombie.png

Blocks

New

Minecraft:Brittle ice	Template:Animate	Can be mined with Silk Touch, generates inside of the ice caves and can be created by water flowing onto a blue ice block.	Any tool	Once a player or mob steps on it, it will start to crack and eventually break.
Minecraft:Ice crystal	File:Ice Crystal (U) JE1.png	A crystal block which generates on the ground in Minecraft:ice caves.	Any tool	Provides a small amount of light.
Minecraft:Icicle	File:Icicle Tip (D) JE1.png	A spike block that generates as stalactites on the ceiling in ice caves.	Any tool	Icicle blocks melt and break when a strong enough light source is nearby, or in the Nether. Falling icicles deal damage to entities.

Changed

Minecraft:Blue Ice	File:Blue Ice JE1.png	When water touches blue ice, it creates Minecraft:brittle ice.
Minecraft:Jukebox	File:Jukebox JE3.png	Changed texture. Place any chest (except ender chest) directly above a Jukebox to use its Minecraft:music discs as a playlist. Discs play in slot order, skipping empty slots and other non-music-disc items and looping back to the start. When a disc finishes, the jukebox swaps it with the next disc in the chest. If the chest has no music discs, the disc in the jukebox plays again Ejecting the current disc skips to the next available disc.

Items

New

Minecraft:Arrow of Freezing	File:Arrow of Freezing JE1.png		Gives the Minecraft:Freezing effect.
Minecraft:Frostbite spawn egg	File:Frostbite Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png	Obtained from the creative inventory.	Spawns a Minecraft:frostbite.
Minecraft:Ice Ball	File:Ice Ball JE1 BE1.png	Can be pick up after defeating Minecraft:Frostbites.	Can be thrown as projectiles to damage entities. Use to make Minecraft:Freezing Minecraft:potions or Minecraft:arrows.
Minecraft:Potion of Freezing	File:Potion of Freezing JE1.png		Gives the Minecraft:Freezing effect when drunk.

Changed

Minecraft:Red mushroom and Minecraft:brown mushroom

File:Red Mushroom JE9.png File:Brown Mushroom JE9.png

Can now be placed at any light level.

Biomes

New

Minecraft:Ice Caves

File:Ice Caves.png

A type of Minecraft:cave biome at lower temperatures, typically below snowy biomes such as Minecraft:snowy plains, Minecraft:snowy taigas, and Minecraft:frozen oceans.