Minecraft 26.1-pre-1

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 26.1-snapshot-11 with 26.1-pre-1 — not copied from patch notes.

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Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft 26.1 Pre-Release 1, published 2026-03-10. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

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

Fixed bugs in 26.1 Pre-Release 1 25

• MC-195237 End portals and end gateways held by endermen or as block display entities are not rendered, but nether portals are
• MC-230746 Pointed dripstone does not grow with a waterlogged block 2 blocks above it but does fill cauldrons
• MC-305518 Baby wolves' tail uses an incorrect UV map
• MC-305702 Zombies and their variants have lost their special animation when holding spears
• MC-305914 /swing does not swing players' arms on their perspective
• MC-306056 The selected difficulty does not visually update when going into and out of the game rules menu
• MC-306232 The block breaking animation on banners is now amplified
• MC-306315 The left side of wolf pups' heads is misaligned, causing a gap and texture error
• MC-306338 Baby zombified piglins' snout texture was made for a 4×3×1 cube model, even though the snout model is actually a 3×3×1 cube
• MC-306341 Helmets on baby humanoids shift off-center when their heads rotate
• MC-306427 Certain mobs holding items with empty "kinetic_weapon" components crash the game whenever target acquisition succeeds
• MC-306532 The error that occurred when a resource pack used textures that were too large is now incomprehensible
• MC-306571 CommandEncoder#copyTextureToBuffer has incorrect parameter validation statements
• MC-306612 Baby zombies, baby husks, and gurgles now hold items like players do
• MC-306624 Various translucent geometry is now invisible behind name plates
• MC-306631 Baby zombies, husks, drowned, and zombified piglins spawned by using spawn eggs on normal ones can't pick up items
• MC-306633 The "Toggle GUI" key bind doesn't work when set to a mouse button
• MC-306653 Name plates are no longer visible through opaque blocks
• MC-306705 Copper golem statues with a pose now appear upside down as items
• MC-306706 The game hangs/freezes upon losing focus
• MC-306708 Block state rendering of chests for the left and right block states uses the single chest texture
• MC-306713 The most transparent pixels of the gradient banner patterns are no longer visible
• MC-306742 Rendering an empty item model with oversized_in_gui causes a crash
• MC-306748 Profiler tick ended before path was fully popped (remainder: 'root'). Mismatched push/pop?
• MC-306796 Text displays with see_through set to 1 now z-fight with themselves

This build was part of the run-up to 26.1. Everything tested here landed in that release.