Minecraft:Bedrock Edition Preview 26.70.22

Beta 26.70.22 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 26.70.22 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation), is the third beta/Preview for Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 26.70, released on October 28, 2026,<ref>Template:Cite</ref> which adds the Minecraft:snow bricks block set and fixes bugs.

Additions

Blocks

File:Snow Bricks JE1.png Minecraft:Snow bricks

• A new type of brick made of Minecraft:snow.
• Crafted using a 2×2 square of snow blocks.
• Can be crafted into snow brick File:Snow Brick Slab JE1.png slabs, File:Snow Brick Stairs (N) JE1.png stairs, and File:Snow Brick Wall (ewU) JE1.png walls.
• The correct tool to mine snow bricks is a Minecraft:shovel, and will only drop themselves if mined with one.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Brittle ice

• No longer cracks when a Minecraft:stray is standing on top of it.

Minecraft:Ice crystal

• Added Minecraft:ambient sounds that may play if there is a block of Minecraft:packed ice below the block.
• Minecraft:Wandering traders now sell one ice crystal for two emeralds.

Minecraft:Packed ice bricks

• Packed ice bricks and variants are now correctly located in the Minecraft:Creative inventory, behind sulfur bricks.
• Packed ice bricks and variants now cause Minecraft:note blocks to play the "Chime" instrument.
• Packed ice bricks stairs and slabs now submerge correctly in lava and water.
• Renamed the packed ice brick slabs, stairs, and walls for consistency with other brick block variants.

Items

Minecraft:Pocket jukebox

• No longer impacts player movement.

Mobs

Minecraft:Frog

• Frogs in deep water now reliably swim up and climb out onto nearby land.

Minecraft:Sulfur cube

• Added the "Cold" archetype, with similar properties to "Fast Sliding" except it is buoyant.
  • Used when the sulfur cube absorbs a Minecraft:blue ice block.
  • Floats and replaces water below it with a disk of Minecraft:frosted ice when it moves, similar to the Minecraft:Frost Walker enchantment.
    • Will only place frosted ice if the sulfur cube starts its movement while it is on ground.
    • Air blocks above the water block are required for frosted ice placement.

Minecraft:Turtle

• Adult turtles in water now climb out onto nearby land instead of staying in the water.

World generation

Minecraft:Ice caves

• Minecraft:Villagers and Minecraft:zombie villagers now spawn as their snowy variants in ice caves.

General

Graphical

• Block cracking textures on icicles, ice crystals, straw beds, and other single-sided custom geometry blocks are no longer darker than intended.
• Equipped platform-exclusive skins, such as Mario Mash-up skins, now appear in local and platform-only worlds on Nintendo Switch.

Minecraft:Marketplace

• Added responsive Marketplace hero rows that feature one highlighted item alongside supporting items.
• Updated Marketplace content cards to size artwork and item details to their layouts.
• Limited responsive Marketplace grids to six columns by default.
• The gifting error dialog now displays "Unable to Gift" when the sender is ineligible to send a gift.
• The gift purchase confirmation button now shows the Minecoin icon (or the PlayStation token on PlayStation) next to the price instead of the word "Minecoins".

Minecraft:Realms

• Realms FAQ pages now hint to navigate down when expanded.
• Closed saves screen context menu at the start of Realm download.
• Updated Realms menu engine integration.

UI

• Added new item descriptions for various items.Template:Info needed
• Updated item descriptions for smithing tables, workstations, tools, and enchantments.Template:Info needed
• The Marketplace Pass in Subscriptions settings now shows the number of days remaining on the subscription.
• When reordering packs with a keyboard or controller, focus now stays on the pack being moved, and pressing back (Template:Key on a controller, Template:Key on a keyboard) cancels the move.

Technical

AI goals

• Template:Cd:
  • Now only targets land the mob has a full path to, so mobs no longer swim against a wall trying to reach land on the other side.
  • No longer gives up as soon as it starts when Template:Cd is smaller than the 2 blocks the mob moves past the land.
  • When Template:Cd is above Template:Cd, sampled positions are now snapped to the ground, so mobs in deep water find nearby land much more reliably.

Minecraft:API

• Template:Cd and Template:Cd are no longer hidden by the "In Game Player Names" option being disabled.

Biome components

• Template:Cd:
  • Added the Template:Cd tag to the ice caves biome.

Blocks

• Box arrays in Template:Cd have been updated as follows from version 1.26.70 and onwards:
  • Template:Cd and Template:Cd have been deprecated in favor of Template:Cd and Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd and Template:Cd were removed from version 1.26.60. Their minimum version is now 1.26.70 and they no longer require the "Upcoming Creator Features" experiment to use.
  • The maximum box count limit for min and max arrays is now Template:Cd.
  • The component will not accept empty values.

Dedicated server

• Added pack optimization support to Linux dedicated server.

Entity components

• Added the following fields to the Template:Cd component.
  • Template:Cd: The minimum and maximum distance the entity can teleport towards its target.
    • Defaults to Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd: The maximum random offset, on each axis (x, y, z) and in either direction, added to the teleport direction.
    • Defaults to Template:Cd.
    • Template:Cd: Level sound event played after a successful teleport.
      • Falls back to the default teleport sound if none is bound; use "undefined" for a silent teleport.
      • Defaults to Template:Cd.
  • Template:Cd: If set to Template:Cd, the entity can teleport into blocks that contain liquids, such as water.
    • Defaults to Template:Cd.
• Template:Cd:
  • Updated the Template:Cd schema for format version 1.26.70.
    • Template:Cd defines the trail block to place.
    • Template:Cd defines the horizontal placement pattern as Template:Cd, Template:Cd, or Template:Cd
    • Template:Cd defines the maximum horizontal distance from the center at which blocks can be placed.
    • Template:Cd defines the trail block placement positions relative to the entity.
    • Template:Cd defines the entity conditions required before processing placement positions.
    • Template:Cd accepts Template:Cd, Template:Cd, or Template:Cd to control validation at each placement position.
    • Template:Cd defines block requirements at vertical Template:Cd values from each placement position.
      • When omitted, Template:Cd defaults to Template:Cd.
    • Template:Cd limits placement to ticks where the entity moves into a different block or lands, and defaults to Template:Cd.
• Template:Cd:
  • Template:Cd now respects entity-specific sound mappings in Template:Cd.

Entity event responses

• Added the Template:Cd entity event response, allowing features to be placed at the entity's position.
  • The Template:Cd field allows to specify the type of feature to place.
  • The Template:Cd field allows to specify which target entity's position to place the feature at.
  • This feature is currently only for internal use and will be made public in the future.

Item tag

• Added new tag for sulfur cubes to make use of for physics determination and absorbing:
  • Template:Cd

UI

• Core engine query hooks, except Template:Cd, are no longer exported from Template:Cd, so screens read engine data through React context hooks and tests provide it with mock providers instead of faking raw queries.
• Screen reader state and user options now live in the standalone Template:Cd and Template:Cd packages.
• Split screen context values in Template:Cd are now facets and include Template:Cd
• Template:Cd, visual regression examples and playground Template:Cd now accept Template:Cd, Template:Cd, and Template:Cd props for mocking that data.
• Added "Close Creator Screens" keybinding to force close custom DDUI screens.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs" Minecraft:experimental toggle.

Changes

Technical

Minecraft:API

• Added Template:Cd to Template:Cd for inspecting, setting, replacing, and clearing the item displayed by item frames, with an option to drop the item when clearing.
• Added Template:Cd and Template:Cd methods to Template:Cd in Template:Cd for inspecting and setting item frame rotation in 45-degree increments, from Template:Cd through Template:Cd.

Fixes

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• Fixed the map color of lightning rods.
• Fixed an issue where teleporting into the side of a block could trigger effects meant for standing on it.
• Fixed an issue on the first connection to experiences that could prevent certain multiplayer features from working correctly.
• Fixed an issue where certain animations would play too fast in split screen play.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a rendering error when multiple items were placed on a campfire with ray tracing enabled.
• Fixed duplicate music disc playback when a split-screen player joins.
• Fixed a bug where offers in the Content section of the Marketplace Pass page loaded forever when the page was opened from a web deeplink.
• Fixed a bug where the grayscale attribute on icons and image atlas elements was not working in JSON based UIs.
• Fixed 'Activate Texture' button from opening a broken version of the settings menu.
• Fixed the wither entity becoming invalid before scripts could access it in Template:Cd.