Bedrock Edition Preview 26.10.24

Beta 26.10.24 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 26.10.24 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the fourth beta/Preview for Bedrock Edition 26.10, released on February 17, 2026,^[1] which adds new textures and models for the remaining baby mobs: the hoglin, panda, sniffer, strider, and zoglin. It also adds new sound variants, adds the furnace recipe book as an experiment, and fixes bugs.

Dead bush

• Can now be placed on farmland.

Golden dandelion

• Now displays green particles when used on a baby mob.
  • Particles moving downwards indicate that aging is paused.
  • Particles moving upwards indicate that age has been reset and is now resumed.
• Now plays pause growth and reset growth sounds on use.

Stonecutter

• Deepslate can now be directly crafted into its cobbled, polished, brick, and tile variants in the stonecutter.
• Stone can now be directly crafted into its cobblestone variants in the stonecutter.
  • Due to a bug (MCPE-236401), the granite, polished granite, diorite, polished diorite, andesite and polished andesite can also be used to make cobblestone.
    • This was fixed in the next Preview.

Baby mobs

• Changed the textures and models of the following baby mobs:
  • Hoglin
  • Panda
  • Sniffer
  • Strider
  • Zoglin
• Adjusted the hitbox of baby zombies and variants, piglins, and villagers to fit in 1 block high and 0.5 block wide spaces.

Cat, Chicken, Cow, and Pig

• Added distinct sound variants similar to wolves, in addition to the original "classic" variant:
  • Cats have a new "royal" variant.
  • Pigs have new "mini" and "big" variants.
  • Cows have a new "moody" variant.
  • Chickens have a new "picky" variant.

How to Play

• The main How to Play button has been moved from the settings to the game menu.

Play screen

• Custom servers are now always available on the "Servers" tab even when no featured servers could be found.

Realms

• The "world_replica_based_backup" flag and the old Realms backup system have been removed, and now the new backups system, Realms Saves, is now enabled at all times.

AI Goals

• Made 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.move_to_land
  • minecraft:behavior.move_to_water
  • minecraft:behavior.ocelot_sit_on_block
  • minecraft:behavior.raid_garden
  • minecraft:behavior.stomp_turtle_egg
  • minecraft:behavior.offer_flower
  • minecraft:behavior.play
• Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.play_dead stricter when parsing, it will now fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 26.10 and newer. Int Range field random_damage_range now only accepts an object with min and max values.

API

• Released AimAssistCategory from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistCategorySettings from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistPreset from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistPresetSettings from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistRegistry from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released PlayerAimAssist from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released PlayerAimAssistSettings from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistTargetMode from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released World.getAimAssist from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released Player.getAimAssist from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released BlockComponentEntityEvent from beta to v2.6.0.

Client Entities

• Added held_item_scale field to entity.json schema.
  • Allows items held by mobs to be scaled by a factor greater than zero.
  • Defaults to 1.0.

Entity components

• A content warning will now throw if the amount of experience orbs requested to be spawned in a single tick exceeds the recommended max of 512.

General

• Upgraded actor JSON resources to Cereal slice 26.0 and re-serialized to align with the updated schema.​^{[more information needed]}

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", "Experimental Voxel Shape Features", and "Furnace Recipe Book" experimental toggles.

Experiments

• Added experimental toggle to enable the new furnace recipe book.

API

• Game Test:
  • When running /gametest run <test> on game tests with invalid structures, the game tests are no longer spawned at the world ceiling.
• Added dedicatedServer optional global to beta of server-admin for accessing dedicated server only APIs.
• Added DedicatedServerUtils to beta of server-admin with dedicated server only APIs.
• Added LevelStorage to beta of server-admin with dedicated server save state management APIs.
• Added LevelStorageQuerySnapshotFile to beta of server-admin.
• Added AllowList to beta of server-admin with dedicated server allow list management APIs.
• Added the function Entity.addItem for directly giving items to a mob or player.
• Added Block.getParts method behind beta. Returns an array of Block parts if the block has the minecraft:multi_block trait.

Server-UI DDUI

• Changed Class CustomForm:
  • Changed return of method show(): Promise<void> to Promise<boolean> where returning true means it was shown and false means it was not shown.
  • Added isShowing(): boolean method.
• Changed Class MessageBox:
  • Added isShowing(): boolean method.
• Changed interface MessageBoxResult:
  • Added the property wasShown which is set to true if the message box was shown to the player.

21 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.10

• MCPE-173775 – Clocks, Compasses, and Recovery Compasses have a corrupted appearance after turning HD texture packs on/off.
• MCPE-174365 – Can't reposition caret by clicking or tapping on some screens.
• MCPE-224638 – Certain area in the Nether causes extreme lag or a game/server crash when entered.
• MCPE-232634 – Scrolling Direction setting in Windows no longer applies in-game when using an external mouse.
• MCPE-234672 – Baby cats, ocelots and wolves spawned by using spawn eggs on untamed mobs come in a broken state.
• MCPE-234763 – Featured server profile picture turns into small dot when UI scale is set to small.
• MCPE-235481 – Game crash when using liquid detection block component with an empty detection rules array.
• MCPE-235655 – Picking up arrows dropped by Skeletons while holding arrows in off-hand causes slot errors.

From the 26.10 development versions

• MCPE-235690 – "Full keyboard mode" and "Invert camera Y-axis" options do not take effect until the world is reloaded.
• MCPE-235741 – Baby skeleton horses spawned by using minecraft:entity_born spawn event are rideable
• MCPE-235789 – Voxel shape box validation incorrect.

Other

• Fixed tamed baby British shorthair cat variant texture.
• Fixed a bug where baby mobs would be incorrectly scaled when using classic texture packs.
• Fixed a regression where striders and piglins over enthusiastically scream.
• Fixed an issue where baby armadillos would not peek out while rolled up.
• Fixed narration for elements outside a scroller.
• Fixed characters rotating incorrectly in UI when riding a mob.
• Fixed localization string for tile.sticky_piston_arm_collision.name to Sticky Piston Arm Collision.
• Fixed /setblock and /fill commands from placing partial double blocks, like the upper part of a door.
• Fixed sky light calculations being applied multiple times per chunk, causing excessive memory usage.
• Fixed baby husk jockeys not being able to mount mobs due to a typo in a parameter in minecraft:type_family in the minecraft:zombie_husk_baby component group in husk.json (baby_undead → baby_undead).
  • This fix was not mentioned in the changelog.

• All minecraft:entity JSON files in the vanilla behavior pack (except for the enderman, happy ghast, nautilus, ravager, and the tadpole) were changed/re-organized.
  • Most of the entities behavior files were re-organized to have the base components list to be first and to be in alphabetical order.