Minecraft:Fourth Drop 2026
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The fourth drop of 2026 is an upcoming Minecraft:game drop that will release as Minecraft:Java Edition 26.4 and Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 26.70 in the fourth quarter of 2026. It introduces Minecraft:ice caves, a new Minecraft:cave Minecraft:biome featuring Minecraft:icicles, Minecraft:ice crystals, and Minecraft:brittle ice, as well as the Minecraft:frostbites, Minecraft:ice balls, the Minecraft:Freezing effect, brick variants of packed ice and snow blocks, and updated Minecraft:jukeboxes. It was announced at Minecraft:Minecraft LIVE – September 2026.
Experimental features for the update were released prior to the finalized release as part of Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 26.60.
Additions
Blocks
Template:Animate Minecraft:Brittle ice
- A fragile Minecraft:ice block that generates naturally in Minecraft:ice caves as part of Minecraft:crevasses.
- Begins to crack when stood on by players or mobs, eventually breaking.
- Minecraft:Frostbites and Minecraft:strays can stand on brittle ice without breaking it.
- Does not melt.
- Is created when Minecraft:water touches Minecraft:blue ice.
- Any water block that borders the blue ice block horizontally will turn into brittle ice.
- Can only be obtained using Minecraft:Silk Touch.
File:Ice Crystal.png Minecraft:Ice crystal
- A crystal block which generates on the ground in ice caves.
- Emits a Minecraft:light level of 4.
- Can be placed on all full sides of a block, and breaks if the support block is removed.
- Emits ambient sounds when placed above Minecraft:packed ice.
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Template:AnimateTemplate:Animate Minecraft:Icicle
- A spike block that generates as stalactites on the ceiling in ice caves.
- Can also be placed on the ground as stalagmites.
- Can naturally grow up to 5 blocks long when pointing downward.
- Only grows under Minecraft:packed ice in areas without nearby light sources and outside Minecraft:the Nether.
- The column part falls or breaks (depending on the placement) at a Minecraft:light level of 5 or above or in Minecraft:the Nether.
- Falling icicles deal damage to entities they collide with, just like other spike blocks.
- Landing onto an icicle stalagmite multiples the fall damage taken.
- Like other spike blocks, icicles can be broken by a thrown Minecraft:trident.
File:Packed Ice Bricks JE1.png Minecraft:Packed ice bricks
- A brick block made from Minecraft:packed ice.
- Unlike regular packed ice, it is not slippery.
- Can be mine with a pickaxe without Silk Touch.
File:Snow Bricks JE1.png Minecraft:Snow bricks
- A brick block made from Minecraft:snow blocks.
- Cannot be crafted using a Minecraft:stonecutter.
- Must be obtained by a Minecraft:shovel, unlike the regular snow block.
- File:Snow Brick Stairs JE1.png Minecraft:Snow brick stairs
- File:Snow Brick Slab JE1.png Minecraft:Snow brick slab
- File:Snow Brick Wall.png Minecraft:Snow brick wall
Items
Template:InvSprite Minecraft:Frostbite spawn egg
- Used to spawn a Minecraft:frostbite.
Template:InvSprite Minecraft:Ice ball
- A throwable Minecraft:projectile that deals damage and knockback.
- Deals a maximum of 4 damage to entities it hits, with the damage scaling down based on its projectile speed.
- Have a sharp deacceleration, like Minecraft:snowballs.
- Can be used to brew potions of Freezing.
- Obtained from Minecraft:frostbites, which have a chance to drop them when killed.
Template:AnimateSprite Minecraft:Potion of Freezing
- Minecraft:Brewed using an Minecraft:ice ball.
- Applies the Minecraft:Freezing effect.
- A Minecraft:tipped arrow which applies the Freezing effect.
Effects
File:Freezing JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Freezing
- An effect version of Minecraft:powder snow freezing that causes an entity to Minecraft:freeze, dealing damage over time and slowing their movement.
- Since it had the same effect as powder snow freezing, it can be prevented when an entity wears a piece of Minecraft:leather armor, but will not keep the effect from being applied and will not remove the effect.
- Minecraft:Frostbites are completely immune to Freezing, while Minecraft:snow golems, Minecraft:polar bears, and Minecraft:strays can be inflicted with it but are unaffected.
- Mobs that are vulnerable to Freezing (Minecraft:blazes, Minecraft:magma cubes, and Minecraft:striders) have a five times multiplier to the damage taken.
Mobs
width=55x55 File:Baby Frostbite.png Minecraft:Frostbite
- A Minecraft:zombie variant that can be found in snowy biomes.
- Zombies convert into frostbites when they stay in Minecraft:powder snow too long.
- Immune to Minecraft:Freezing.
- Does not sink in Minecraft:powder snow nor make Minecraft:brittle ice crack.
- Burns in Minecraft:sunlight.
- It has two modes of attacking: a melee attack and a ranged attack.
- Most frostbites use a standard melee attack, which gives the Minecraft:Freezing effect.
- Some frostbites spawn holding Minecraft:ice balls, which they throw as a ranged attack.
- Drops Minecraft:rotten flesh and ice balls when killed, regardless if holding one or not.
- Converts into a Minecraft:zombie when underwater for 30 seconds.
World generation
Biomes
- A Minecraft:cave biome that generates underneath frozen, cold, or semi-cold surface biomes, similar to Minecraft:sulfur caves.
- On very rare occasions, they generate on the surface.
- Minecraft:Calcite, Minecraft:packed ice, Minecraft:icicles, Minecraft:ice crystals and sometimes patches of Minecraft:snow can generate here.
- Giant speleothems made of packed ice can generate here.
- Minecraft:Crevasses can generate here.
- Does not generate Minecraft:glow lichen.
- Higher chances of Minecraft:ores generating inside blobs of Minecraft:stone and Minecraft:deepslate.
- Common cave monsters along with Minecraft:strays and Minecraft:frostbites can spawn here.
Features
File:Crevasse.png Minecraft:Crevasse
- Small cracks in the terrain which generate in ice caves.
- Covered with Minecraft:brittle ice and filled with Minecraft:water below.
Sounds
Ice and its variants
- Added unique sounds for Minecraft:ice, Minecraft:packed ice, Minecraft:blue ice, and Minecraft:frosted ice.
- When a regular ice block is surrounded by at least 8 ice blocks in all horizontal directions (east, west, north, and south), with one air block above and one water block below, it has a chance to emit Minecraft:ambient sounds.
Changes
Blocks
- When water touches blue ice, it creates Minecraft:brittle ice.
File:Jukebox JE3.png Minecraft:Jukebox
- Changed its texture.
- Placing a Minecraft:chest, Minecraft:trapped chest, or any variant of Minecraft:copper chest directly above a jukebox causes it to play Minecraft:music discs as a playlist.
- When there is no disc currently playing in it, the jukebox takes the first available music disc in the above chest and begins playing it.
- When the disc is finished playing, the jukebox swaps it with the next available disc in the chest and begins playing that one.
- Discs are taken and played in slot order, skipping empty slots and other non-music-disc items and looping back to the start when it reaches the last music disc in the chest.
- Ejecting the current disc from the jukebox while it is still playing immediately plays the next available disc.
- If the chest has no music discs, the disc in the jukebox plays again.
- The tooltip of the next music disc includes the text “Playing next”.
Mobs
Minecraft:Drowned, Minecraft:husk, and Minecraft:zombie
- Now are immune to freezing.
- Zombie converts into a Minecraft:frostbite when in Minecraft:powder snow for 30 seconds.
- Drowned and husk converts into a zombie when in powder snow for 30 seconds.
File:Sulfur Cube Blue Ice JE2 BE2.png Minecraft:Sulfur Cube
- Added the cold archetype, obtained when a sulfur cube absorbs Minecraft:blue ice.
- Same properties as hockey puck, but floats and can slide on frosted ice created by freezing water underneath them, like the Minecraft:Frost Walker echantment.
Videos
Gallery
Mojang images
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A view of some ice pillars and icicles from the ground in an Minecraft:ice cave
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A view of the ice caves with a Minecraft:stray and Minecraft:frostbites
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A frostbite in an ice cave
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A frostbite attacking a player
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Lava flowing into an ice cave
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A cluster of Minecraft:icicles hanging from the top of an ice cave
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Adult and baby frostbites inside an ice cave
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An ice cave illuminated by ice crystals and the eyes of a stray
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A Minecraft:jukebox in an ice cave
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A Minecraft:crevasse inside the ice cave biome
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Minecraft:Makena relaxing on a Minecraft:brown cushion in an igloo, next to a jukebox
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Minecraft:Ari walking on brittle ice
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A brittle ice crevasse
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Ari throwing snowballs at Noor
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Zuri throwing ice balls at a frostbite in their ice house made from Minecraft:packed ice bricks
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An ice castle
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Ari experiencing ice sounds in a Minecraft:frozen ocean
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Kai ice fishing next to a Minecraft:snow brick base
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A build made using packed ice and snow bricks
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Statues made from snow bricks
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Several ice crystals
Official artwork
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Minecraft:Steve freezing in some ice, with item and block content from the game drop announced in the Minecraft Live visible above them
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