Minecraft 26.1

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 1.21.11 with 26.1 — not copied from patch notes.

26.1 block and item additions

2 new blocks and items. Hover a slot for the name; click to open its page.

Blocks +2

Golden DandelionPotted Golden Dandelion

Items +1

Golden Dandelion

Particles +2

How to make the new things 1

Hover a slot to see what goes in it.

Result	Made in	Recipe
Golden Dandelion	Crafting

Sound events +64

Block states changed

New in-game text 119

Showing the first 80 of 119 new strings.

Reworded text 1

Wording Mojang changed in this version.

Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft: Java Edition 26.1, published 2026-03-24. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

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

Fixed bugs in 26.1 93

• MC-13187 Water in water cauldrons is not transparent
• MC-64087 Revengeful zombies / Zombie reinforcements try to attack players in Creative mode
• MC-91132 No cross-platform CJK IME support
• MC-98631 The heights of shields in first person are different depending on what hand you have them held in
• MC-99647 The "below_name" scoreboard display slot doesn't work with non-player entities
• MC-102774 You can respawn the ender dragon with only two end crystals
• MC-129886 Trying to place a block below the bottom of the world does not give an error message
• MC-131745 Shipwrecks sometimes generate split into different variants at chunk boundaries
• MC-134573 The game freezes while doing a world backup
• MC-153831 Trader llamas spawned from breeding can despawn
• MC-163978 Mobs can spawn on moving blocks
• MC-178713 Bone meal can be used on certain plants at build height, but they don't grow
• MC-179949 You cannot edit the inventories of piglins by using '/item replace'
• MC-181169 Skeleton trapped horses with PersistenceRequired still despawn
• MC-184432 There is no warning when using bone meal on plants that try to grow above or below the world height limits
• MC-184433 When applying bone meal to grass / ferns / nether fungi at the upper build limit, there is no warning, and the taller part of the plant is cut off
• MC-195237 End portals and end gateways held by endermen or as block display entities are not rendered, but nether portals are
• MC-197497 The block light transition from level 1 to 0 is not smooth when there is no sky light and Smooth Lighting is enabled
• MC-199559 Light appears darker and orange when Night Vision is active
• MC-199975 Endermen holding bells or bell block display entities only render the bell frame
• MC-219981 Leader zombie-type mobs spawn with 20 health despite having an increased maximum health
• MC-221510 Dolphin would rather drown than get air when chasing items
• MC-222949 You can use tridents enchanted with Riptide while riding entities
• MC-230139 Typos in stonecutter recipe names
• MC-230746 Pointed dripstone does not grow with a waterlogged block 2 blocks above it but does fill cauldrons
• MC-231663 Dragon eggs do not check whether there is a block under their destination when teleporting
• MC-233911 Sleeping in a bed and waking up no longer instantly sets the daytime sky
• MC-248092 Untamed cats on lead despawn when attached to fence post
• MC-254785 Bone meal is consumed when used on a bamboo stalk with a block above it
• MC-257362 Particles from breaking frogspawn are transparent
• MC-259032 /data produces a positive result for low negative numbers
• MC-260148 show_notification only works for shaped crafting recipes
• MC-263488 The item texture of pink petals has a misplaced transparent pixel
• MC-264155 Bone meal doesn't work on grass blocks beneath cave air or void air
• MC-264187 Spawners with their light limits set to ranges that don't include 15 don't spawn mobs under the night sky
• MC-273228 Crash when generating water lakes using a custom worldgen datapack
• MC-274238 Persistent trader llamas can despawn when leashed to wandering traders
• MC-275014 Weathered and oxidized copper bulbs cast stronger shadows on themselves when lit with smooth lighting enabled
• MC-279187 The "selectWorld.backupWarning.snapshot" string incorrectly pluralizes the word "corruption"
• MC-297536 Z-fighting occurs on the debug crosshair
• MC-298136 The aura of beacon beams now always renders behind block entities
• MC-298745 Unlocking new recipes or changing dimensions replaces the locator bar with the experience bar temporarily
• MC-299730 Dumping textures while using a TTF font crashes the game
• MC-299992 Unexpected behavior when giving or testing for an item with certain components manually specified as their default values
• MC-300380 Copper golems do not pathfind down blocks that are in between half a block and a block tall to a chest
• MC-300465 Maps with the maximum number of markers cannot be placed in item frames
• MC-301003 The bell part of bells worn on copper golems' "saddle" slot is not visible
• MC-301245 Copper golem statues are displayed upside down in block displays
• MC-302186 Ambient lighting in the Nether appears discolored compared to previous versions
• MC-302408 Inconsistent underwater lighting with the Conduit Power effect applied
• MC-302528 Low sky & block light look outright broken when cast on the same area
• MC-302635 Semi-transparent blocks render in front of solid blocks when viewed through semi-transparent blocks being pushed by a piston
• MC-302734 Zombie horses constantly move in and out of water and burn to death
• MC-303119 Feeding a cat or wolf in Survival mode with only one item in the selected item slot does not restore as much health as it should
• MC-303125 Creepers can blow up after the player dies
• MC-303344 Tooltips for selected items in dialogs are displayed even when the item isn't being hovered over
• MC-303389 The ender dragon's velocity can be affected by attacks while perched
• MC-303403 Hanging sign block displays render dark and above other blocks and mobs
• MC-303684 Hoglins can despawn when attached to leads
• MC-303685 Zoglins can despawn when attached to leads
• MC-303692 The debug overlay text has an indent when "Improved Transparency" is disabled
• MC-303749 Dolphins can despawn when attached to leads
• MC-303750 Squids & glow squids can despawn when attached to leads
• MC-304023 Redundant level data fixer files are saved in worlds' "data" folder
• MC-304217 Lunge's hunger requirement applies to post_piercing_attack effects of custom enchantments
• MC-304361 The heads of zombie nautiluses have a massive empty gap on the back
• MC-304446 Activating a stasis chamber with a sponge deletes the ender pearl
• MC-304599 Dolphins don't follow players riding nautiluses like in Bedrock Edition
• MC-304631 Anisotropic filtering set to 8x causes opaque translucent textures to become transparent in the distance when there are odd-sized block textures
• MC-304683 Wandering traders don't spawn in single biome snowy plains worlds
• MC-304705 The E value in entity_render_stats in the debug overlay doesn't work
• MC-304725 Zombie villagers summoned with default spawn eggs always spawn as their plains variant
• MC-304761 Spears' charge animation takes too long to rotate sideways for slower spears
• MC-304796 Hovering over a disabled slider shows the pointing hand cursor instead of the forbidden cursor
• MC-304991 Clicking on a chest with loot that hasn't been generated in Spectator mode makes the "block.chest.locked" sound
• MC-305012 The description of the "Universal anger" game rule still uses the old ID of the "Forgive dead players" game rule
• MC-305040 Nautili spawned as a result of a player breeding two other nautili can despawn
• MC-305123 Curse of Vanishing doesn't work when the item is equipped on an armor stand
• MC-305196 Witches always miss their shots when close to their target
• MC-305292 Copper chests use the Christmas present texture
• MC-305369 Trying to attach a leash to a fence outside its reach places a ghost leash knot and plays a sound
• MC-305388 Bees never cease to be angry
• MC-305451 Tripwire is invisible through translucent blocks if "Improved Transparency" is disabled
• MC-305471 Cacti appear with seams on the edges and corners when using higher resolution texture packs with mipmaps enabled
• MC-305580 Baby zombie horses and baby skeleton horses grow into adults, unlike other baby undead mobs
• MC-305699 Piglins in groups fail to initiate hoglin hunting behavior
• MC-305857 Entity hitboxes now move jaggedly when the game is frozen
• MC-305888 Turtle eggs no longer hatch in the Nether or the End
• MC-306123 Wolves still try to attack players even in Peaceful difficulty
• MC-306427 Certain mobs holding items with empty "kinetic_weapon" components crash the game whenever target acquisition succeeds
• MC-306566 The totem of undying screen effect now jitters while the game is frozen
• MC-306658 Dolphins let themselves drown even with ample access to air
• MC-306798 Ender dragons with a DragonDeathTime of 200 or greater never disappear

Every build Mojang published on the way to 26.1, in order.

1. Snapshot

   11

   Weekly work-in-progress build. Things break and get removed again.

   26.1-snapshot-126.1-snapshot-226.1-snapshot-326.1-snapshot-426.1-snapshot-526.1-snapshot-626.1-snapshot-726.1-snapshot-826.1-snapshot-926.1-snapshot-1026.1-snapshot-11

2. Pre-release

   3

   Feature-complete; only bug fixes land between here and release.

   26.1-pre-126.1-pre-226.1-pre-3

3. Release candidate

   3

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

   26.1-rc-126.1-rc-226.1-rc-3

4. Release

   26.1

   The build that shipped. Everything above led here.