Bedrock Edition Preview 26.20.22

Beta 26.20.22 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 26.20.22 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the third beta/Preview for Bedrock Edition 26.20, released on March 25, 2026,^[1] which adds the Realms Hub, text chat for parties, and fixes bugs.

Graphical

• Added/fixed MERS textures for the following blocks and items:
  • Shelf
  • Nautilus armor
  • Ropes texture of happy ghasts
  • Music Disc Lava Chicken
  • Music Disc Tears

Parties

• Added text chat for parties within the social drawer.
  • It functions identically to the gameplay chat but allows chatting outside of worlds or between worlds.
  • The current party chat is opened by default, left from the social drawer, with an input box.
  • The chat can be opened/closed for any joined party with a button bar.
• Party members will now only follow the party leader to a Realm if they are a member of the Realm.
• The social drawer is now available again from the Create new world, Edit world, and Profile screens, and the Friends list has been removed from the Profile screen.

Realms

• Added the Realms Hub, which is a central place for the Realm. It replaces Realms Stories and all old settings menus.
  • The "Realms" tab in the Play screen has been updated, and there is now one button to open the Hub.
  • Realms Stories is merged with the Hub. The "Story Feed" tab is available under "Community". The "Timeline" tab is directly under the Realms Hub.
    • Players can notify administrators about story posts. This will add the story to the new "Feed Moderation" screen, where administrators can dismiss it, view notifiers, or delete the post.
    • A new "Admin log" tab is under Story Feed, currently empty.
  • The "Members" tab is also available under Community and has been updated.
    • It now also shows invited members.
    • The list can now be sorted for administrator roles, player permissions, invite status, and a search box.
    • The owner can now remove and block players from this tab.
      • Inviting players is currently still in the old UI.
  • Some screens are still JSON as there is an ongoing migration of UI screens to Ore UI in this area.
  • The new "Worlds" tab allows to select active worlds and open their edit screens. Saves, currently in the old UI, can also be accessed here.
  • The new "Settings" tab allows to manage the Realm name and description, all previous Realms Stories settings, server region and server closing, and the subscription. Members also have the option to leave the Realm here.
  • In the game menu, players can currently still access the old Realms Stories as well as the old settings UI.
• Realms are now supported for parties.
• Added a Realms Admin role. Owners can grant several administrator permissions to members in the Realms Hub in the "Members" tab.
  • Setting a member to Administrator allows them to:
    • Fully manage worlds.
    • Fully manage Realm settings.
    • Add and remove Realm members.
    • Set player permissions.
    • Manage Hub settings.
    • Manage stories and comments.
  • Setting a member to Administrator does not grant them operator gameplay permissions and disable achievements. Changing member roles and managing the subscription remains exclusive to the owner.

Settings

• Added several settings for customizing closed captions:
  • "Hide your sounds", which hides sounds caused by the player.
  • "Hide weather and ambient sounds", hides sounds in the ambient/environment category.
  • "Location of closed captions", select to display in the top-right or bottom-right.
  • "Closed caption duration", adjust the time closed captions are shown between 1 and 4 seconds.

World generation

• It is now possible to generate single biome worlds with dripstone caves.
  • It is unknown what this means, since they are still not available in-game and function exactly the same as before when enabled in level.dat.

Baby mobs

• Adjusted hitbox size for the following baby mobs:
  • Fox
  • Glow squid
  • Gurgle
  • Hoglin
  • Husk
  • Piglin
  • Squid
  • Villager
  • Zoglin
  • Zombie
  • Zombie villager
  • Zombified piglin

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 1.26.20 and newer:
  • minecraft:behavior.hover
  • minecraft:behavior.lay_down
  • minecraft:behavior.mount_pathing
  • minecraft:behavior.move_through_village
  • minecraft:behavior.move_to_random_block
  • minecraft:behavior.move_towards_target
• Added on_pickup_item_start and on_pickup_item_end to minecraft:behavior.pickup_items.

API

• Added the pack name to Error content log lines.
• Added the locale property to ClientSystemInfo that provides the player's selected language.

Entity components

• Exposed the minecraft:spawn_on_death component for spawning entities when an entity perishes.
  • entity_to_spawn: What entity to spawn, defaults to owning entity when not set.
  • spawn_method: Spawn method. born, spawned, or summoned, defaults to spawned when not set.
  • spawn_amount: How many entities to spawn, defaults to 1 when not set.
  • inherit_parent_name: If true, the entity will inherit the name of the parent entity, defaults to true when not set.
  • additional_spawn_range: Additional random range of entities to spawn, defaults to 0 when not set.
  • This component functions like how slimes and magma cubes split into 2-4 smaller mobs.

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", and "Render Dragon Features for Creators" experimental toggles.

API

• Added Observable.toJSON to @minecraft/server beta so that observables can be easily be stringified with JSON.stringify.
• Added two functions to DedicatedServerUtils of @minecraft/server-admin in beta.
  • Added reloadScriptingConfig() to reload scripting configuration files from disk.
  • Added reloadPermissions() to reload the sever permissions file from disk.
  • Added reloadCDNConfig() to reload cdn configuration files from disk.
• Added the backfaceVisible property to DebugText in the @minecraft/debug-utilities module.
• Added the backfaceVisible property to TextPrimitive in the @minecraft/server module.
• Added the textBackfaceVisible property to DebugText in the @minecraft/debug-utilities module.
• Added the textBackfaceVisible property to TextPrimitive in the @minecraft/server module.
• Added the new property maxShapes to PrimitiveShapesManager.
• Changed the maximum number of PrimitiveShape objects to 1000.
• Changed the maximum length of the text param of setText on TextPrimitive to 128.
• Changed the min and max scale value of PrimitiveShape objects to -1000 and 1000 respectively.

Blocks

• Added snow_log_no_collision behavior to precipitation_behavior in the minecraft:precipitation_interactions component with Upcoming Creator Features experiment.
  • Allows for specifying whether snowlogged their custom block or not.
  • The block cannot have a collision box that is, the component minecraft:collision_box must be false.

DDUI

• Added DataDrivenScreenClosedReason to @minecraft/server-ui beta.
• Replaced MessageBoxResult.wasShown with MessageBoxResult.closeReason, which is a DataDrivenScreenClosedReason.
• Changed return type of CustomForm.show(): Promise<boolean> to Promise<DataDrivenScreenClosedReason>.
• Added FormCloseError, PlayerLeftError, and ServerShutdownError to @minecraft/server-ui beta for use with CustomForm and MessageBox.

Graphical

• Migrated colored block light storage to the GPU.
• Colored block lights now influence volumetric fog.

Scripting

• Added the CustomTexture type to beta.
  • textureBoundsList in the WaypointTextureSelector now has the option of passing in a CustomTexture with a specified path, height, and width.

22 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.20

• MCPE-173418 – Offline multiplayer not working on 1.20.10 onwards.
• MCPE-185186 – "Distance traveled" stat breaks after traveling more than 2,147,483,648 blocks.
• MCPE-225482 – Mooshroom mushrooms glow on the dark when the player (not the mob) is near a light source.
• MCPE-229437 – Player hands and items in first person are not affected by Damage Tilt slider in video settings.
• MCPE-234599 – Custom blocks using client-based rendering are invisible in flower pots.
• MCPE-236077 – Mobs' Collision Box Not match with Java Edition.
• MCPE-236304 – Certain Vanilla blocks cast too much ambient occlusion onto custom blocks.
• MCPE-236444 – Custom blocks with item overrides appear in Items furnace recipe book category.
• MCPE-236782 – The duration of Closed Captions cannot be changed.
• MCPE-236812 – Panda Lazy Baby MERS is different from any other baby Baby Panda MERS.

Other

• Fixed fall damage audio effects not triggering when entities hit the ground.
• Fixed an issue that prevented per-biome directional light orbital offset provided by resource packs from being applied in Vibrant Visuals.
• Fixed an issue where free trials were incorrectly being advertised for Marketplace Pass and Realms Plus on Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 platforms.
• Fixed an issue where players can be soft-locked trying to join a realm they're not a member of.
• Fixed realms region bindings crash when indexing out of bounds region data.
• Fixed a crash that can occur when prompted about extra Joy-Con controllers that are connected.
• Fixed incorrect UI scales when changing resolution.
• Fixed an issue where content packs that override entity sound events without defining variants could incorrectly clear the variant key from the base sounds.json, causing content warnings during loading.
• Fixed a crash that may occur when suspending title while "Syncing user data" UI is displayed.
• Fixed trait minecraft:multi_block not loading properly with modern block definition loader.
• Fixed an issue where the RenderDragon Features for the Creators Experimental resource pack would override other resource packs on the stack.
• Fixed an issue where point lights were overexposed at their center.