Minecraft 26.3-pre-2

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 26.3-pre-1 with 26.3-pre-2 — not copied from patch notes.

Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft 26.3 Pre-Release 2, published 2026-09-04. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

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

Fixed bugs in 26.3 Pre-Release 2 37

• MC-210117 Sculk sensors don't detect ice/snow melting
• MC-211708 Client spawns crit particles when attacking another player that cannot be harmed
• MC-228273 Goats do not move correctly after they are tempted during a long jump
• MC-237053 Block breaking particles cannot be seen by other players
• MC-237165 Block breaking sounds cannot be heard by other players
• MC-247034 Particles produced from entities growing cannot be seen by other players
• MC-248600 Particles produced from moving in powder snow cannot be seen by other players
• MC-263100 Cave biomes interfere with relief on exploration maps
• MC-299460 Saddled pigs in boats carried by happy ghasts can cause a desync when unequipping a carrot on a stick
• MC-304719 InhabitedTime for some chunks can be set to impossibly high values when a world is opened
• MC-307449 Spawners with their light limits set no longer spawn mobs underground at night time
• MC-310088 The taskbar icon displays the Java logo instead of the game's logo
• MC-310169 The IME candidate box sometimes twitches while typing
• MC-310300 Other windows cannot be displayed on top of the game window even with the "Exclusive Fullscreen" option disabled
• MC-310592 Severe rendering errors occur on Windows devices with a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 CPU
• MC-310756 The mouse cursor is invisible in fullscreen mode with the OpenGL rendering backend
• MC-310939 Interacting with camels with two passengers is preferred over using items
• MC-311186 The water overlay and fog does not render when the player's head is inside a block underwater
• MC-311219 Pressing a mouse button after unmaximizing the game window while in a world can cause odd behavior
• MC-311245 Ruined portals can generate replacing end portal frames
• MC-311271 Some loot context parameters are missing from "generic" loot context
• MC-311272 Some LootContextUser can crash when referenced parameter is not provided
• MC-311285 Unnamed key binds from previous versions cause several options to be reset
• MC-311345 Reloading resource packs with the OpenGL rendering backend when in a world causes visual glitches and crashes
• MC-311430 The name of the #on_abandoned_camp_windswept structure tag does not contain the full name of the biome it generates in
• MC-311445 In the 26.3 snapshots, game input freezes after triggering emoji panel with Win + .
• MC-311453 Particles from feeding flowers to brown mooshrooms cannot be seen by other players
• MC-311454 Particles from water evaporating in the Nether are not properly displayed
• MC-311482 Kelp and seagrass can generate floating on submerged beached shipwrecks
• MC-311485 The fog color when the weather is rain or thunder is much bluer compared to previous versions
• MC-311488 Some IME software still cannot be used in fullscreen even with borderless mode.
• MC-311583 Riding saddled pigs with carrot on a stick in boats carried by happy ghasts causes severe desync
• MC-311592 Cursor containment does not update
• MC-311593 Spear animation jitters when swapping into spear slot and charging it in the same tick
• MC-311594 Some number providers produce an unexpected error when used in /compute
• MC-311610 Clicking on an unopened double loot chest in Spectator mode plays the locked chest sound
• MC-311652 Player-caused damage while trading allows villager trades to be completed without payment

This build was part of the run-up to 26.3. Everything tested here landed in that release.