Bedrock Edition Preview 26.10.23

Beta 26.10.23 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 26.10.23 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the third beta/Preview for Bedrock Edition 26.10, released on February 11, 2026,^[1] which adds new textures and models for baby zombies, their variants, piglins, and villagers. It also adds the trumpet note block sound, adds the "Describe" keybind, and fixes bugs.

Controls

• Added a key binding for Describe, a feature that displays with text or text to speech which block or mob is in front of the player.

Note block

• Added the trumpet instrument.
  • It can be heard when a note block is placed on top of a block of copper.
    • The sound is different based on the oxidation level of the copper block.

Golden dandelion

• Can now be crafted into yellow dye.
• Can now be used to craft suspicious stew.
• Can now be used to distract piglins.
• Can now be picked up by endermen and mobs who can pick up items.
• Can now be sold by the wandering trader.
• Now produces particles and sounds on use.
• Bone meal can no longer be used on it to spawn more flowers around it.

Baby mobs

• Changed the textures and models of the following baby mobs:
  • Drowned
  • Husk
  • Piglin
  • Villager
  • Zombie
  • Zombie Villager
  • Zombified Piglin

Horse

• Updated adult horse's blackdot markings to match the new baby horse markings.

Game Menu

• Added a Beta Feedback button in Preview and betas, which opens the feedback site.
  • This replaces the Browse Add-ons! button, which has been moved to the small buttons below.
• The small buttons now show a tooltip similar to hotbar tooltips on hover.

Play screen

• Hardcore worlds now show the amount of days played if the game rule showdaysplayed is enabled.

Settings

• Updated the Controller and Touch settings tabs with Ore UI.

AI Goals

• Made the schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 26.10 and newer:
  • minecraft:behavior.celebrate_survive
  • minecraft:behavior.random_search_and_dig
  • minecraft:behavior.swim_with_entity
  • minecraft:behavior.take_flower
  • minecraft:behavior.trade_with_player
  • minecraft:behavior.teleport_to_owner
  • minecraft:behavior.work
  • minecraft:behavior.work_composter
• The following float range fields now only accepts an object with min and max values.
  • fireworks_interval in minecraft:behavior.celebrate_survive.
  • cooldown_range and digging_duration_range in minecraft:behavior.random_search_and_dig.

API

• Included the built in math functions in generated metadata for molang.
• Changed resultItem on EntityDefinitionFeedItem and FeedItem to be of type string undefined.
• Released resultItem on EntityDefinitionFeedItem and FeedItem from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released EntityItemDropAfterEvent from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released EntityItemDropAfterEventSignal from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released EntityItemDropEventOptions from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released WorldAfterEvents.entityItemDrop from beta to v2.6.0.

Item components

• The minecraft:block_placer item component has a new boolean field, aligned_placement.
  • When true, block placement through this item will be aligned while holding the interaction button down.
  • Defaulted to false.

JSON Schema

• Updated the canopy_decoratorschema to support placing several blocks in a row as a decorator.
• New schema includes decoration_blocks_sequence as a list of blocks and a count per block to be placed.

Rendering

• Armor attachables for players now use a new render controller called controller.render.armor.player.

UI

• Changed screen narration to not read the Marketplace Pass banner.

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

API

• Added the Observable class that fires change events when the data it is wrapping changes.
  • CustomForm and MessageBox use these to sync data between the client and the server and you can use observables to get notifications if data changes.
  • Localizable messages can be provided by using the interface UIRawMessage.

Blocks

• Added block trait minecraft:multi_block behind the "Upcoming Creator Features" experiment.

Graphical

• Removed the legacy format for specifying light colors in the "Render Dragon for Creators" experiment.
  • point_lights/global.json will no longer be loaded.

Server-UI DDUI

• Renamed the interface LabelOptions to TextOptions.
• Class CustomForm:
  • Added the method label(text: Observable<string> string UIRawMessage, options?: TextOptions): CustomForm.
• Class MessageBox:
  • Removed the method title(text: Observable<string> string UIRawMessage): MessageBox.
  • Added the parameter title to static method create:
    • static create(player: Player, title: Observable<string> string UIRawMessage): MessageBox.

16 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.10

• MCPE-119736 – Villagers sleep on the floor.
• MCPE-232736 – All Back navigation options stop functioning in the Profile page after viewing another player’s Profile page through the friends list.
• MCPE-234686 – “Fast bridging” disabled when replacing a custom block’s item
• MCPE-234762 – Icons inside the Ore UI screen become invisible when the UI scale is set to small.
• MCPE-235009 – Villager trading items overlap with arrow and lock icon when using Pocket UI.
• MCPE-235141 – Marketplace content (add-ons, mash-ups, skin packs, etc.) is unable to be downloaded.

From the 26.10 development versions

• MCPE-235767 – Baby Sea Turtle mers mapping is incorrect.

Other

• Fixed warm baby chicken texture not being symmetrical.
• Fixed incorrect baby brown rabbit texture.
• Corrected baby turtle texture colors.
• Fixed incorrect baby British shorthair cat texture.
• Corrected baby pig texture colors.
• Fixed a bug where some light source blocks held in hand would appear unlit when near other light source blocks in Vibrant Visuals.
• Fixed a bug where isValid could return false for a valid SimulatedPlayer after it had been spawned.
• Fixed an issue with images for the Marketplace Pass and Realms FAQs pages being excessively large.
• Fixed gamma encoding of the sun, moon, weather, and end sky in Vibrant Visuals.