Bedrock Edition 26.20

v26.20
Edition	Bedrock Edition
Planned release date	Q2 2026
Development versions	Previews (7) ; Betas (7) ; (View all)
	◄ 26.13

26.20 is an upcoming minor update for Bedrock Edition with no set release date, which adds experimental features for Chaos Cubed and fixes bugs.

Additions

The following additions may remain exclusive to Minecraft Preview and not release with this update.

Parties

Players can now create and join "parties", which are groups of people found in the social drawer where all members automatically join any world, Realm, or server the leader is in.
- Party members will only follow the party leader to a Realm if they are a member of the Realm.
- The social drawer is now also available on the main menu, and split in sections for friends, party, and world.
Members don't need to be in the leader's world and can still be in the menus or a different world while in a party.
Parties can contain up to 15 members.
- The leader can choose what type of privacy setting the party has: "Invited only" requires the leader to send an invite to in-game friends to join, or "Open" makes the party accessible for any friends.
The leader can promote other members to leader.
A new settings tab allows the player to change which invites are shown, whether members can also send invites, and the default party privacy setting.
Added text chat for parties within the social drawer.
- It functions identically to the gameplay chat but allows chatting outside of worlds or between worlds.
- The current party chat is opened by default, left from the social drawer, with an input box.
- The chat can be opened/closed for any joined party with a button bar.
The social drawer is now available again from the Create new world, Edit world, and Profile screens, and the Friends list has been removed from the Profile screen.

Realms

Added the Realms Hub, which is a central place for the Realm. It replaces Realms Stories and all old settings menus.
- The "Realms" tab in the Play screen has been updated, and there is now one button to open the Hub.
- Realms Stories is merged with the Hub. The "Story Feed" tab is available under "Community". The "Timeline" tab is directly under the Realms Hub.
  - Players can notify administrators about story posts. This will add the story to the new "Feed Moderation" screen, where administrators can dismiss it, view notifiers, or delete the post.
  - A new "Admin log" tab is under Story Feed, currently empty. It will log community, settings, and world changes for administrators.
- The "Members" tab is also available under Community and has been updated.
  - It now also shows invited members.
  - The list can now be sorted for administrator roles, player permissions, invite status, and a search box.
  - The owner can now remove and block players from this tab.
    - Inviting players is currently still in the old UI.
- Some screens are still JSON as there is an ongoing migration of UI screens to Ore UI in this area.
- The new "Worlds" tab allows to select active worlds and open their edit screens. Saves, currently in the old UI, can also be accessed here.
- The new "Settings" tab allows to manage the Realm name and description, all previous Realms Stories settings, server region and server closing, and the subscription. Members also have the option to leave the Realm here.
- In the game menu, players can currently still access the old Realms Stories as well as the old settings UI.
Added functionality for the "Resource packs" and "Behavior packs" tabs in the new edit world screen.
Added a Realms Admin role. Owners can grant several administrator permissions to members in the Realms Hub in the "Members" tab.
- Setting a member to Administrator allows them to:
  - Fully manage worlds.
  - Fully manage Realm settings.
  - Add and remove Realm members.
  - Set player permissions.
  - Manage Hub settings.
  - Manage stories and comments.
- Setting a member to Administrator does not grant them operator gameplay permissions and disable achievements. Changing member roles and managing the subscription remains exclusive to the owner.

Settings

Added a setting for closed captions. These were previously only available in options.txt.
Added several settings for customizing closed captions:
- "Hide your sounds", which hides sounds caused by the player.
- "Hide weather and ambient sounds", hides sounds in the ambient/environment category.
- "Location of closed captions", select to display in the top-right or bottom-right.
- "Closed caption duration", adjust the time closed captions are shown between 1 and 4 seconds.

Changes

Blocks

Grass block

Can now create tall grass when fertilized with bone meal.

General

Graphical

Improved how scrollable screen content is displayed in Ore UI menu screens on devices with notches, rounded corners, or safe zones applied. Content now smoothly scrolls beneath the safe area instead of being cut off.
The End flash is now visible on all graphics modes.
Added MERS textures for all shelf blocks and nautilus armor variants.
Added/fixed MERS textures for the following blocks and items:
- Shelf
- Nautilus armor
- Ropes texture of happy ghasts
- Music Disc Lava Chicken
- Music Disc Tears

World generation

It is now possible to generate single biome worlds with dripstone caves.
- It is unknown what this means, since they are still not available in-game and function exactly the same as before when enabled in level.dat.
minecraft:atmosphere_settings and minecraft:atmosphere_settings/description are now required in the 1.26.20 version of the atmospherics config file.
Accessing atmospherics graphics overrides through scripting is now done from getBiomeAtmospherics.

Items

Torch

Recipe can now be unlocked by acquiring either a stick, coal, charcoal, or any pickaxe.

Mobs

Baby mobs

No longer show green growth particles when being fed if their growth is currently paused (due to using a golden dandelion).
Baby spawn sounds now play with the correct pitch for pigs, cats, chickens, horses, and wolves.
Adjusted hitbox size for the following baby mobs:
- Fox
- Glow squid
- Gurgle
- Hoglin
- Husk
- Piglin
- Squid
- Villager
- Zoglin
- Zombie
- Zombie villager
- Zombified piglin

Chicken

Adjusted the hitbox size.

Rabbit

Idle animation is now disabled while they are leashed.

Technical

Accounts

Added platform subscription checks as part of multiplayer allowance check and return new platform-subscription-specific permission deny reasons if the check failed.

AI Goals

Made the schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.20 and newer:
- minecraft:behavior.admire_item
- minecraft:behavior.barter
- minecraft:behavior.eat_carried_item
- minecraft:behavior.equip_item
- minecraft:behavior.find_cover
- minecraft:behavior.find_mount
- minecraft:behavior.find_underwater_treasure
- minecraft:behavior.flee_sun
- minecraft:behavior.float
- minecraft:behavior.follow_owner
- minecraft:behavior.follow_parent
- minecraft:behavior.go_and_give_items_to_noteblock
- minecraft:behavior.go_and_give_items_to_owner
- minecraft:behavior.go_home
- minecraft:behavior.hide
- minecraft:behavior.hold_ground
- minecraft:behavior.hover
- minecraft:behavior.lay_down
- minecraft:behavior.mingle
- minecraft:behavior.mount_pathing
- minecraft:behavior.move_indoors
- minecraft:behavior.move_outdoors
- minecraft:behavior.move_through_village
- minecraft:behavior.move_to_poi
- minecraft:behavior.move_to_random_block
- minecraft:behavior.move_to_village
- minecraft:behavior.move_towards_target
- minecraft:behavior.pet_sleep_with_owner
- minecraft:behavior.pickup_items
- minecraft:behavior.player_ride_tamed
- minecraft:behavior.random_hover
- minecraft:behavior.random_sitting
- minecraft:behavior.random_stroll
- minecraft:behavior.sleep
- minecraft:behavior.stroll_towards_village
The sound_interval float range field in minecraft:behavior.admire_item now only accepts an object with min and max values. Other formats will fail to parse.
Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.jump_around_target stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.20 and newer. Float Range fields valid_distance_to_target and landing_distance_from_target now only accepts an object with min and max values. Other formats will fail to parse.
Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.jump_to_block stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.20 and newer. Float Range field cooldown_range now only accepts an object with min and max values. Other formats will fail to parse.
Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.move_around_target stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 1.26.20 and newer. Float Range field destination_position_range now only accepts an object with min and max values. Other formats will fail to parse.
Added on_pickup_item_start and on_pickup_item_end to minecraft:behavior.pickup_items.
The hover_height field in minecraft:behavior.random_hover now only accepts an object with min and max values.

API

Released @minecraft/server version 2.7.0.
Added @minecraft/server version 2.8.0-beta.
Released AimAssistCategory from beta to v2.6.0.
Released AimAssistCategorySettings from beta to v2.6.0.
Released AimAssistPreset from beta to v2.6.0.
Released AimAssistPresetSettings from beta to v2.6.0.
Released AimAssistRegistry from beta to v2.6.0.
Released PlayerAimAssist from beta to v2.6.0.
Released PlayerAimAssistSettings from beta to v2.6.0.
Released AimAssistTargetMode from beta to v2.6.0.
Released World.getAimAssist from beta to v2.6.0.
Released Player.getAimAssist from beta to v2.6.0.
A new field, embed_in_surface, has been added to the schema of snap_to_surface_feature, which allows specifying whether the snapped feature should be embedded in the located surface.
Added the maximumRenderDistance property to DebugShape.
Added the maximumRenderDistance property to PrimitiveShape.
The default render distance used by DebugShape and PrimitiveShape are now the client's render distance instead of infinity.
Added InvalidType and UnsupportedValue to the InvalidArgumentErrorType enum in @minecraft/common v1.3.0.
Added Observable.toJSON to @minecraft/server beta so that observables can be easily be stringified with JSON.stringify.
Added the pack name to Error content log lines.
Added the locale property to ClientSystemInfo that provides the player's selected language.
Added beta read-only property partyInfo to Player that returns a PartyInfo object { partyId: string, isLeader: boolean } or undefined if the player is not in a party.
Added settings under "Creator" section to configure text filtering debug delay.
Added BlockComponentBlockStateChangeEvent to beta.
Added BETA Boolean property firstUpdate to BlockComponentRedstoneUpdateEvent.
Moved function Entity.addItem from beta to v2.7.0.
Moved class InvalidEntityComponentError from beta to v2.7.0.

Biomes

Added minecraft:subsurface_builder field to Biome Json API.
- Sub Surface Builders allow specifying a minecraft:surface_builder to be applied to biomes located underneath the Overworld's terrain surface.
Added minecraft:noise_gradient sub surface builder type, which places continuous bands of blocks according to a noise distribution.
- This surface builder has the following parameters:
  - non_replaceable_blocks: a list of blocks that the surface builder is not allowed to replace.
    - Leaving this list empty or unspecified will allow the replacement of any block type.
  - gradient_blocks: a list of block names that will be sampled according to a Perlin noise distribution.
    - Specifying minecraft:air-blocks is permitted, and will result in the original block not being replaced, meaning it is possible to adjust the density/intensity of block replacement in the biome using this surface builder type.

Block components

Released the component minecraft:chest_obstruction from experimental for block format versions 1.26.20 or higher.

Blocks

The custom block json API has the following changes that will affect loading of block json with format version 1.26.20 and up:
- General:
  - Namespace constraints have been tweaked but everything permitted before should still be valid.
    - This can affect the identifiers used for the block, states and menu category groups.
- Block Traits:
  - placement_direction trait, validation change: The rotation offset does not accept a 0.5 tolerance anymore.
    - Input value must be a multiple of 90.0.
    - The value must be in the range 0.0 to 360.0 inclusive.
  - blocks_to_corner_with now requires minecraft:corner_and_cardinal_direction to be one of the enabled_states for the placement_direction trait.
- Category:
  - menu_category, validation change: An empty group value is not allowed.
    - The group field can either exist with a non-empty value or not exist at all.
  - category is now a required field, when using menu_category.
- Components:
  - minecraft:flower_pottable, validation change: It is restricted outside of root components object.
  - minecraft:geometry, validation change: The constraint on the culling_shape identifier is strictly enforced now.
    - When using the minecraft namespace, the only currently available culling shape identifiers are: minecraft:empty or minecraft:unit_cube.
    - When using no namespaces or a custom one, the names must start and end with an alpha-numeric character.
  - minecraft:light_dampening and minecraft:light_emission, validation change: They now strictly enforce the value to be between 0 and 15 inclusive.
  - There is a breaking change to how tags are defined.
    - As of version 1.26.20, tags cannot freely live as top level entities in the components array.
      - They must live inside the minecraft:tags component, which accepts an array of tags of the format:
        minecraft:tags: ["minecraft:crop", "custom:custom_tag"].
    - The values must have the format <namespace>:<tag_name>.
      - They no longer need to be prefixed with tag:.
Added content warning for component minecraft:item_visual trying to use texture variations.
- Variation textures are not supported for this component.
The minecraft:selection_box component will correctly give an error again when the y is over the 16 limit.

Components

The minecraft:damage_sensor component deals_damage field now supports an additional value:
- no_but_entity_effects_apply:
  - Damage is not applied to the entity.
  - Knockback and enchantments are applied.
  - The attacker's weapon is used as normal.
  - The entity does not flash red.

DDUI

Made close buttons client authoritative so that forms close more quickly.
Added DataDrivenScreenClosedReason to @minecraft/server-ui beta.
Replaced MessageBoxResult.wasShown with MessageBoxResult.closeReason, which is a DataDrivenScreenClosedReason.
Changed return type of CustomForm.show(): Promise<boolean> to Promise<DataDrivenScreenClosedReason>.
Added FormCloseError, PlayerLeftError, and ServerShutdownError to @minecraft/server-ui beta for use with CustomForm and MessageBox.

Entity components

The behavior of the minecraft:friction_modifier component now matches its description.
- The higher its value, the more friction affects an entity:
  - 0.0 means no friction.
  - 1.0 means regular friction.
  - 2.0 means double friction.
- The component now affects ground friction only, and no longer partially affects air or liquid drag.
- The legacy incorrect behavior can be re-enabled by adding the minecraft:uses_legacy_friction component.
  - This component is automatically added to all entities with a format version lower than 1.26.20, to ensure their behavior stays unaltered.
- The component now properly works on players, and on other client-predicted entities.
Added the minecraft:uses_uniform_air_drag component.
- When present, air drag is applied uniformly on both the vertical and horizontal axes, instead of being biased toward horizontal movement.
Added the minecraft:on_equipment_changed component, which allows executing entitiy events when items are equipped or unequipped in specific equipment slots.
- Contains a slots field with a list of entries, each with:
  - slot, the equipment slot to monitor.
  - on_equip, event to fire when a non-empty item is placed in the slot.
  - on_unequip, event to fire when the slot is cleared.
- When equipment changes, the first matching slot entry is used.
Added the minecraft:spawn_on_death component for spawning entities when an entity perishes.
- entity_to_spawn: What entity to spawn, defaults to owning entity when not set.
- spawn_method: Spawn method. born, spawned, or summoned, defaults to spawned when not set.
- spawn_amount: How many entities to spawn, defaults to 1 when not set.
- inherit_parent_name: If true, the entity will inherit the name of the parent entity, defaults to true when not set.
- additional_spawn_range: Additional random range of entities to spawn, defaults to 0 when not set.
Added the minecraft:bounciness component, which controls how an entity bounces when colliding with surfaces.
- Contains a single field, value, defining the bounce strength:
  - 0 results in no bounce.
  - 1 results in a perfectly elastic collision with full energy preservation.
- If the component is not present, bounciness defaults to 0.
- Only available if the entity's format_version is set to beta.
Added the minecraft:apply_knockback_rules component, which controls how an entity applies knockback to a target.
- horizontal_power defines how much the target is hit backwards.
  - Defaults to 1.0 if not defined.
- vertical_power defines how much the target is hit upwards.
  - Defaults to 0.4 if not defined.
- vertical_velocity_cap defines the target's maximum vertical upwards velocity after the target's knockback rules have been evaluated.
  - Defaults to 0.4 if not defined.
- check_if_target_is_immersed_in_water defines whether the target should be fully immersed in water for the knockback rules to apply.
  - Defaults to false if not defined.
Added the minecraft:air_drag_modifier component.
- The higher its value, the more air drag affects an entity:
  - 0.0 means no air drag.
  - 1.0 means regular air drag.
  - 2.0 means double air drag.
- Only available if the entity's format_version is set to beta.
The minecraft:knockback_resistance component now accepts negative values down to a minimum of -2, resulting in knockback being increased instead of being diminished.
The component minecraft:apply_knockback_rules now takes an array of presets.
- presets is an array of elements with the same parameters as minecraft:apply_knockback_rules had previously.
The preset elements have the following new field:
- filter is an actor filter with the default syntax.
Added the filters parameter to minecraft:spawn_on_death.

Entity filters

Added the has_same_equipment_in_slot_as entity filter.

Features

Added a boolean rotate_around_center field to the minecraft:structure_template_feature feature.
- When set to true, it rotates the structure around its center when placing it in the world.
- Defaults to false if omitted.
Refactored minecraft:behavior.follow_target_captain to minecraft:behavior.follow_target_leader. The following fields have been added to the behavior:
- always_look_for_leader: If true, the mob will always search for a valid leader to follow if none is found or current leader is not valid anymore.
- leader_filters: The filters to use when determining if a mob is a suitable leader or not.
- search_cooldown: (default: 20) Number of ticks that must pass before a new search is initiated after a target is not found, lost, or becomes invalid.

General

Upgraded particles, trading, and cameras JSON resources to Cereal slice 1.26.10 and re-serialized to align with the updated schema.

Graphical

Added new version for the water configuration JSON file:
- New format version is 1.26.20.
- The fields minecraft:water_settings and minecraft:water_settings/description are now required.

Items

New 1.26.10 attachables now use a new controller.render.armor.v2 render_controller rather than using an updated controller.render.armor.

Network Protocol

Modified the binary format of PlayerEnchantOptionsPacket.
Added the bool Filter Profanity Change to the Packet UpdateClientOptionsPacket.

Scripting

Added the CustomTexture type to beta.
- textureBoundsList in the WaypointTextureSelector now has the option of passing in a CustomTexture with a specified path, height, and width.

Stability and Performance

Improved sign-in speed on most platforms by triggering authentication earlier during game startup.

World generation

Can now use minecraft:feature_pool_element in jigsaw structure template pools in order to place features.
features can now connect to a Jigsaw block with any target name, rather than only minecraft:bottom.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", "Render Dragon Features for Creators", "Experimental Voxel Shape Features", the new "Drop 2 of 2026", and "Experimental Custom Projectile Features" experimental toggles.

Additions

26.20 experimental block and item additions