Chaos Cubed

Chaos Cubed

Release date	Q2 2026
Version(s)	Java Edition 26.2 Bedrock Edition 26.30
Preliminary name(s)	Drop 2 of 2026
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Chaos Cubed is an upcoming game drop that will release as Java Edition 26.2 and Bedrock Edition 26.30 during the second quarter of 2026. It focuses on the sulfur caves, a cave biome that is home to sulfur cubes, and the new sulfur and cinnabar blocks with their respective variants. It was announced at Minecraft LIVE – March 2026.

Some features of this drop will be released earlier as an experiment in Bedrock Edition 26.20.

Cinnabar block set:

• Red-colored rocks that are found in the sulfur caves.
• Cinnabar
  • Cinnabar stairs
  • Cinnabar slab
  • Cinnabar wall
• Polished cinnabar
  • Polished cinnabar stairs
  • Polished cinnabar slab
  • Polished cinnabar wall
• Cinnabar bricks
  • Cinnabar brick stairs
  • Cinnabar brick slab
  • Cinnabar brick wall
• Chiseled cinnabar

Sulfur block set:

• Yellow-colored crystalline blocks that are found in the sulfur caves.
• Sulfur
  • Sulfur stairs
  • Sulfur slab
  • Sulfur wall
• Polished sulfur
  • Polished sulfur stairs
  • Polished sulfur slab
  • Polished sulfur wall
• Sulfur bricks
  • Sulfur brick stairs
  • Sulfur brick slab
  • Sulfur brick wall
• Chiseled sulfur
• Potent sulfur
  • A version of sulfur that generates underwater in sulfur pools and springs.
  • Can be crafted using 9 sulfur blocks.
  • When placed underwater, it will emit bubbles and a cloud of noxious gas at the surface.
    • Players and mobs get Nausea when they enter water that is near or touching the noxious gas.
    • When above a magma block, it creates a geyser.

      

      • The geyser will erupt at random intervals, shooting a plume of water particles upwards and applying an upward impulse to entities above it.
        • The size of the water plume is dependent on the amount of water blocks above the potent sulfur.
• Sulfur spike
  • A block that generates as stalactites and stalagmites in the sulfur caves.
  • Grows when hanging to a sulfur block.
  • Functions similarly to pointed dripstone, except it doesn't increase fall damage when fallen on.
    • Unlike pointed dripstone, when water or lava is placed on the block above where the spike is hanging from, it does not drip the liquid from its point.
  • Can be used to craft a sulfur block.

Bucket of sulfur cube

• Obtained by picking a sulfur cube using an empty bucket.
• Can be used to transport the sulfur cube to a new location.
• Includes what block is in the sulfur cube, if any.

Sulfur cube spawn egg

• Used to spawn a sulfur cube.

Sulfur cube

• A passive slime-like mob that spawns in sulfur caves.
• When killed, it will split into 2 small cubes, like other slime-like mobs.
  • Unlike the slime and magma cube, the small versions can grow up into the large version, like how a baby mob works.
    • Because of this, they can be tempted and fed with slimeballs or fed a golden dandelion.
• It is attracted to the dropped item form of most full blocks. The cube can pick up a block, or a player can use a full block on the cube, causing the cube to absorb it into its body.
  • In this state, they become stuck in place and cannot be damaged by most sources. Instead, they are knocked back when attacked. They still take damage from environmental sources such as poisoning and burning for example.
    • The knockback also depends on the damage that would have been dealt, with stronger attacks sending the cube further.
  • Can be leashed in that state.
  • Blocks can be swapped by feeding it.
  • Shearing it removes and drops the block, reverting back to normal.
  • Depending on the block, they will behave differently when punched while in its immobile state, the following properties are:
    • Football/Regular: Medium speed, medium bounciness, medium ground friction and low air drag. (block example: stone)
    • Rubber ball/Bouncy: Fast speed, high bounciness, medium ground friction and low air drag. (block example: oak log)
    • Golf ball/Fast flat: Fast speed, low bounciness, medium ground friction and low air drag. (block example: moss block)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Hockey puck/Fast sliding: Fast speed, no bounciness, low ground friction and low air drag. (block example: ice)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • High resistance: Very slow, low drag with low bounce with high friction. (block example: soul sand)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Beach ball/Light: Slow speed, high bounciness, medium ground friction and high air drag. (block example: white wool)
    • Medicine ball/Slow flat: Slow speed, low bounciness, medium ground friction and medium air drag. (block example: block of iron)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Curling stone/Slow sliding: Slow speed, no bounciness, low ground friction and low air drag. (block example: red mushroom block)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Sticky: Medium speed and low air drag like a golf ball, but sticks with extremely high ground friction and no bounce to simulate stickiness, only affects the honeycomb block.
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Explosive: Medium speed, medium bounciness, medium ground and friction like a football, but with high air drag, only affects the TNT.
      • Can be ignited the same way as the TNT block and fireworks, in which it primed for 6 seconds until it explodes.
        • In that state, it cannot be sheared, picked up in a bucket, or damaged.

Sulfur caves

• A cave biome composed of sulfur, cinnabar and sulfur spikes.
• Tuff and granite can also generate as strips or blobs.
• Sulfur cubes and cave spiders spawn here.
• Sulfur pools also generate here.

Sulfur pool

• Greenish pools that generate in sulfur caves.
• Consists of a body of water surrounded by sulfur blocks and cinnabar with potent sulfur generating at the bottom.

Sulfur spring

• Small mound pools of sulfur with magma blocks underneath the potent sulfur and roots of sulfur underneath.
• Generates on the Overworld’s surface as a visual indicator to a sulfur cave below.
• Generates in various sizes, from small to extra large.
• Occasionally emits geysers.

Sulfur spike

• Generates as clusters of sulfur spikes.

Dispenser

• Can now dispense a block into a sulfur cube.
  • It can also remove a block from a sulfur cube using shears.

Cave spider

• Can now spawn within the sulfur caves biome, marking the first time cave spiders are able to spawn naturally (outside of monster spawners and trial spawners).

Wandering trader

• Can now sell two sulfur spikes for an emerald.

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  A sulfur cave
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  Sunny and Zuri entering a sulfur cave
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  The front of a sulfur and cinnabar block house
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  The back of a sulfur and cinnabar block house
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  A waterfall in a sulfur cave
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  Small sulfur pools in a sulfur cave
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  Zuri and Sunny in a sulfur pool
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  A sulfur cube in a sulfur cave
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  A sulfur cube near a sulfur cave entrance
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  Two sulfur cubes in a cave
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  Kai next to a sulfur cube absorbing an oak log
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  Zuri punching a crimson hyphae sulfur cube
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  A bunch of sulfur cubes with blocks inside in a desert
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  A pink wool sulfur cube next to a regular sulfur cube
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  A pumpkin sulfur cube ends up in a giant golf hole
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  A packed ice sulfur cube triggering wooden pressure plates and a tripwire to shoot fireworks
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  Wart sulfur cubes being used to play curling
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  An oak log sulfur cube being used to play archery
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  Sulfur cubes being used to navigate a maze
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  Stone sulfur cubes being used to play an ambiguous minigame
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  Sulfur cubes being used to play piñata
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  Wart sulfur cubes being used to play shuffleboard
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  A pumpkin sulfur cube being used to play golf
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  A pumpkin sulfur cube ends up in a golf hole
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  A packed ice sulfur cube being used to play hockey
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  Sunny holding a netherite sword with a bunch of wooden log sulfur cubes in a giant cherry fence cage
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  Ditto but with a first-person view
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  Various sulfur cubes in a sulfur cave
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  Ditto
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  Ari feeding sulfur cubes
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  Zuri leashing a verdant froglight sulfur cube while Noor tempts a sulfur cube using a block of copper
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  Some sulfur cubes
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  Sulfur cube golf
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  A sulfur spring
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  Makena, glow squids and sulfur cubes in an aquifer
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  A sulfur cave with sulfur spikes
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  Ari in a sulfur cave looking up and observing a sulfur spike hanging from the ceiling. A sulfur cube to the right eagerly watches
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  Sunny wearing a diamond helmet holding a bucket of sulfur cube in a sulfur cave mineshaft, while the small mangrove plank sulfur cube is looking at them
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  A TNT sulfur cube in a sulfur cave
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  Kai, Sunny and Makena having a bunch of TNT sulfur cubes next to a geyser
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  TNT sulfur cubes being used to a target minigame
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  A fox being lifted by a geyser
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  Sunny and Alex griefing a sulfur house using TNT sulfur cubes
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  Zuri and a TNT sulfur cube
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  A sulfur cube being lifted by a geyser
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  A TNT sulfur cube next to a pile of TNT
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  Zuri, Ari, Efe, and Noor watching a sulfur cube bouncing in a geyser as other sulfur cubes surround them.

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