Bedrock Edition Preview 26.10.21

Beta 26.10.21 (ChromeOS, Android), Preview 26.10.21 (Windows, Xbox, PlayStation), or Preview 26.10.22 (iOS, iPadOS) is the second beta/Preview for Bedrock Edition 26.10, released on February 3, 2026,^[1] which adds golden dandelions, retextures several baby mobs, and fixes bugs.

Golden Dandelion

• Crafted with a dandelion and 8 gold nuggets:

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Gold Nugget + Dandelion

• When used on a baby mob, it will stop aging. This sets NBT attribute GrowthPaused to 1.
  • When used again, it will continue to age again. This sets NBT attribute GrowthPaused to 0.
• Cannot be used on monsters (including undead mounts) and villagers.
• Can be placed and potted like other flowers.

Settings

• Added a setting for texture streaming on some devices to the Video settings, which will reduce the GPU memory for some textures, especially with more add-ons.
• Added an option on Windows to disable pausing when the application loses focus.

Controls

• Added a keybind, F4 by default, to open the social drawer in-game.

Baby mobs

• Changed the textures of the following baby mobs:
  • Armadillo
  • Bee
  • Camel
  • Fox
  • Goat
  • Llama
  • Polar Bear
  • Trader Llama
• Added unique animations for baby foxes, camels, and armadillos.

UI

• Updated the inventory and SDL screens to properly reflect purchases made when navigating back to it from a related page.
• Updated the interact button design for touch controls.

AI Goals

• Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.ram_attack stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 26.10 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.celebrate stricter when parsing, now will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 26.10 and newer.
• Float Range fields sound_interval and jump_interval now only accepts an object with min and max values.
  • Other formats will fail to parse.

API

• Added isSuperset parameter to world.containsBiomes.
• Moved world.containsBiomes to stable.
• Removed superset property from BiomeFilter.
• Moved ScriptBiomeFilter to stable.
• Released BlockComponentRedstoneUpdateEvent.previousPowerLevel from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released property ItemDurabilityComponent.unbreakable from beta to v2.6.0.

Character Creator

• Added check for usage of banned skin in persona delegate and added case to display default appearance and inform user when banned skin is detected.
• Exiting the game after changing your appearance will immediately cache all changes.

Entity components

• Added the ability to pause and reset growth of entities in minecraft:ageable using specified items.
  • Introduced fields pause_growth_items and reset_growth_items, which are a list of items that can be fed to the entity to pause or reset growth for baby entities.
  • Introduced ActorDefinitionTrigger fields pause_growth and reset_growth to trigger an event when aging is paused or reset for baby entities.

Scripting

• Added new widget render primitive types to the @minecraft/server-editor module:
  • WidgetComponentRenderPrimitiveTypeCylinder - Cylinder primitive with elliptical cross-section (radiusX, radiusZ, height)
  • WidgetComponentRenderPrimitiveTypeCone - Cone primitive with elliptical base (radiusX, radiusZ, height)
  • WidgetComponentRenderPrimitiveTypeCuboid - Cuboid primitive with independent dimensions (lengthX, lengthY, lengthZ)
  • WidgetComponentRenderPrimitiveTypePyramid - Pyramid primitive with rectangular base (xWidth, zWidth, height)
  • WidgetComponentRenderPrimitiveTypeEllipsoid - Ellipsoid primitive with Vector3 radii
• Added corresponding PrimitiveType enum values: Cone, Cuboid, Cylinder, Ellipsoid, and Pyramid.

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs" experimental toggle.

API

• Introduced new UI capabilities called Data-Driven UI (DDUI).^[2]
  • These APIs introduce a new way to create modal forms with new capabilities and an all new look.
• Reload command now closes all the Data Driven UI screens as part of the execution.
• ScriptSetBannerDetailsFunction now includes base color and pattern data.

14 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.10

• MCPE-158584 – Chat command completion on new iOS keyboard does not work when cursor at end of partial parameter.
• MCPE-183866 – Villager names appear in a different font when the language is set to English (United Kingdom).
• MCPE-191027 – Pick Block button opacity cannot be adjusted when customizing. controls.
• MCPE-225207 – Wolf Armor & Undyed Bundle render incorrectly in Shelves and Item Frames if their textures are higher than 16x.
• MCPE-234684 – Adult mooshroom's head mushroom floating.
• MCPE-234733 – Baby skeleton horses grow up, unlike baby zombie horses.
• MCPE-235095 – Party icon doesn't match the old UI style in the new settings screen.
• MCPE-235400 – “Go to Settings” button opens JSON Settings menu instead of Ore UI.
• MCPE-235419 – Game Crashes When Writing High-Data-Volume Text (e.g., Chinese/Japanese) on Single Book Page Due to New Character Limit in Beta 26.0.29.

Other

• Fixed a crash that sometimes happened when players were climbing.
• Fixed a crash when opening Realms tab with 150+ joined realms.
• Fixed client crash on world load from out of bounds minecraft:geometry in the minecraft:item_visual component.
• Fixed an issue with DebugBox where the position was being used as the bottom-left corner, instead of the centre.
• Fixed an issue with DebugShape.attachedTo where the attachment position was unintentionally using the height offset of the entity.