Minecraft 1.21.8

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 1.21.7 with 1.21.8 — not copied from patch notes.

Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft: Java Edition 1.21.8, published 2025-07-17. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

8 issues fixed, read from Mojang’s own patch notes. Each entry keeps its original bug ID.

Fixed bugs in 1.21.8 8

• MC-295947 The game screen occasionally freezes while the game keeps running on Intel graphics of Gen11 architecture
• MC-296107 Entity and block entity textures become corrupted over time on Intel graphics of Gen11 architecture
• MC-296585 Flickering and other graphical corruption appears after summoning one or multiple text_display entities on some Intel devices
• MC-296908 Texture atlases, most notably those of text, become corrupted over time on Intel graphics of Gen11 architecture
• MC-297784 Entities and block entities are lit incorrectly after a while on Intel graphics of Gen11 architecture
• MC-298903 Items in the inventory and text are rendered in a solid color after a while, and the items sometimes become invisible, on Intel graphics of Gen11 architecture
• MC-298908 Items in the inventory are lit incorrectly after a while on Intel graphics of Gen11 architecture
• MC-299144 The game crashes when loading a resource pack with an invalid shader on some AMD graphics

Every build Mojang published on the way to 1.21.8, in order.

1. Release candidate

   1

   The build Mojang intends to ship unless a blocking bug turns up.

   1.21.8-rc1

2. Release

   1.21.8

   The build that shipped. Everything above led here.