Bedrock Edition Preview 26.0.25

Beta 26.0.25 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 26.0.25 (iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation, Windows) is the second beta/Preview version for Bedrock Edition 26.0, released on December 10, 2025,^[1] which adds parties and fixes bugs. This is the final beta released in 2025.

Party system^{[note 1]}

• Players can now create and join "parties", which are groups of people found in the social drawer where all members automatically join any world the leader is in.
• 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.

Bamboo

• Bamboo stalks will now have no transparency from a distance (except on simple graphics).

Camel Husk

• No longer panic when hit.

Skeleton Horses

• No longer panic when hit.
• Can now be ridden by mobs in the zombie family, instead of mobs in the baby_husk and baby_zombie families.
  • This means that baby zombie villager jockeys can now mount skeleton horses, but only them and no other mob.
  • This change was not mentioned in the changelog.

Zombie Horse

• Babies can no longer be ridden or equipped with a saddle or horse armor.
• No longer panic when hit.

• Changed updating logic for mob effects to match Java Edition.
• The description and storage bar labels under the "Free up space" popup dialog are now treated as two separate objects for narration instead of one.
• The description of the Reset and Replace confirmation modals have been updated in the Realms Edit World screen.

Pause menu

• Changed settings button on the game menu back to being a text button.

Settings Screen

• Updated the Keyboard & Mouse and Account settings tab with Ore UI.

API

• Added getComponents to Block into beta.
• Added hasComponent to Block into beta.

Biomes

• Enabled the Biome Replacement feature in the Nether.
  • Biome Replacement in the Nether can only be used with minecraft:surface_builder of types:
    • minecraft:overworld
    • minecraft:frozen_ocean
    • minecraft:capped
    • minecraft:the_end

Block components

• Released the component minecraft:connection_rule from experimental for block format versions 26.0 or higher.
• Released the component minecraft:support from experimental for block format versions 26.0 or higher.
• The block component minecraft:leashable can be used with format_version 26.0 and higher without the "Upcoming Creator Features" toggle.

General

• Added minecraft:village_type biome component that determines the type of the village in the biome.

Network Protocol

• ActorDamageCause modified: deprecated ActorDamageCause::Dehydration.

UI

• Added default_size_scales_to_ratio Boolean to image controls so that a size of "default" will resize to maintain the texture's aspect ratio.

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs" and "Upcoming Creator Features" experimental toggles.

API

• Added the privilege with which a closure will be called to API metadata.
  • Added World.seed as a property to expose the world seed to beta.
• Added before & after script events for when an entity picks up an item in the world.
  • Added class EntityItemPickupAfterEvent to beta.
  • Added class EntityItemPickupBeforeEvent to beta.
  • Added class EntityItemPickupAfterEventSignal to beta.
  • Added class EntityItemPickupBeforeEventSignal to beta.
  • Added interface EntityItemPickupEventOptions to beta.
  • Added interface ItemFilter to beta.
  • Added property WorldAfterEvents.entityItemPickup to beta.
  • Added property WorldBeforeEvents.entityItemPickup to beta.

Blocks

• Blocks can handle the entity execute_event_on_home_block event via custom components in scripting, being beta features.

18 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.0

• MCPE-165899 – Breeding horses gives empty health hearts that can’t be filled.
• MCPE-184973 – Beds tell you that you can sleep during a thunderstorm at night.
• MCPE-187288 – Creaking walking and attacking animation differs between Bedrock and Java.
• MCPE-227680 – Typo in Minecoins page in the encyclopedia.
• MCPE-228203 – Navigation section of Minecraft Encyclopedia refers to Cartographer villager as "He" instead of "They".
• MCPE-229652 – Multiple typos on the Worlds page in the encyclopedia.
• MCPE-230229 – Non-Marketplace Resource Packs, Behavior Packs, and Skin Packs were not migrated to the new directory location.
• MCPE-230918 – Ambient mob effect does not update according to the source.
• MCPE-230921 – Moving your mouse, then scrolling to a different hotbar slot, snaps the camera to a random direction.
• MCPE-232054 – /reload all no longer reloads the content of resource packs
• MCPE-232061 – Water breathing fails to stop nautiluses from suffocating.
• MCPE-232370 – Drowned riders cannot control the movement of their zombie nautilus.

From the 26.0 development versions

• MCPE-232633 – Minecraft and Minecraft Preview now use the same local cache folder.
• MCPE-232700 – Golden horse armor was incorrectly given 2 armor toughness instead of diamond horse armor.

Other

• Gameplay closed captions should now function as expected.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes allow sunlight to shine through walls, e.g. near cave entrances, in Vibrant Visuals.
• Fixed a bug where some low memory Android devices would crash at startup.
• Fixed a bug that was causing crashes when using the NPC component.