Friday, March 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Minecraft 26.1 Pre-Release 2
Today we're shipping another pre-release for 26.1 that includes tech changes and fixes to features included in the Tiny Takeover game drop.
Happy Friday mining!
Changes#
- Updated the dismount speed thresholds for Spears to match Bedrock
- Fixed issue with Baby Axolotl's right hind leg not moving correctly when swimming
- Baby Cat is now scaled up to be the same size as baby Ocelot
- Baby Horse model is no longer scaled up slightly
UI#
- Added a new display option called "Exclusive Fullscreen" which controls if fullscreen mode should take full control of a monitor
- Defaults to
false(i.e. non-exclusive mode) - Any change will be applied only after the game restarts
- Warning: exclusive fullscreen mode might prevent use of input methods (IME)
- Defaults to
Trades#
- The Master Librarian will now have three available trades to ensure that an enchanted book trade is always offered when using the Rebalance experiment
Technical Changes#
Text components#
- Components in server status messages (MotD) nested more than 16 times will now be discarded and replaced with an ellipsis
Fixed bugs in 26.1 Pre-Release 2#
- MC-153831 Trader llamas spawned from breeding can despawn
- MC-181169 Skeleton trapped horses with PersistenceRequired still despawn
- MC-248092 Untamed cats on lead despawn when attached to fence post
- MC-274238 Persistent trader llamas will still despawn when leashed to wandering traders
- MC-303684 Hoglins despawn when attached to a lead
- MC-303685 Zoglins despawn when attached to leads
- MC-303749 Dolphins can despawn when attached to leads
- MC-303750 Squids & glow squids can despawn when attached to leads
- MC-304446 Activating a stasis chamber with a sponge deletes the ender pearl
- 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-306064 Mobs can be forced to look like they're dying while they aren't by using commands
- MC-306327 The chat restriction warning ignores the Chat Width option
- MC-306328 Using golden dandelions to unlock aging forcibly removes persistence of baby animals
- MC-306351 Line spacing between the chat restriction warning and messages does not have a background
- MC-306502 Uploading a world to a snapshot Realm wipes it
- MC-306516 G-Sync cannot be enabled in the new borderless window mode
- MC-306564 Item entities' health does not decrease uniformly when on cacti
- MC-306601 The IME pre-edit window appears in the unfocused text box of the anvil UI when no items are placed in the anvil slots
- MC-306626 Adult horses' old black dots markings aren't included in the "Programmer Art" resource pack
- MC-306632 Baby undead horses age again
- MC-306657 The models for baby horses and baby cats have a different scale compared to Bedrock Edition
- MC-306658 Dolphins will let themselves drown even with ample access to air
- MC-306709 Librarians' master level book trade is no longer guaranteed when Villager Trade Rebalance is enabled
- MC-306741 Opening the chat forces a CJK input method when one is enabled in the system
- MC-306798 Ender dragons with a
DragonDeathTimeof 200 or greater never disappear - MC-306812 Inventories with no text fields cause key binds to conflict with IME input methods
- MC-306814
environment_attributevalue providers give incorrect results on subsequent accesses within a tick - MC-306830 The mouse cursor now changes to the "not allowed" shape when hovering over part of the Creative mode inventory's Survival Inventory tab