Minecraft 26.3 Pre-Release 2

Two pre-releases in one week!? That's right! Now that we're in the pre-release phase, we're no longer following our regular snapshot schedule. This also means we're spending more time hunting bugs as we get things ready for release, and this pre-release is no exception. Hope you brought your bug spray!

Happy Mining!

Changes

UI

• Removed the custom rendering of IME candidates

Technical Changes

• The Data Pack version is now 120.0

Data Pack Version 120.0

Tags

Structure Tags

• Renamed on_abandoned_camp_windswept to on_abandoned_camp_windswept_forest

Fixed bugs in 26.3 Pre-Release 2

• 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

Get the Pre-Release

Pre-Releases are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Pre-Release, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar:

• Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:

• Minecraft issue tracker!

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