Bedrock Edition Preview 26.30.29

Beta 26.30.29 (ChromeOS, Android), Preview 26.30.29 (Windows, Xbox, PlayStation), or Preview 26.30.30 (iOS, iPadOS) is the fifth beta/Preview for Bedrock Edition 26.30, released on May 17, 2026, for iOS and iPadOS, and on May 19, 2026, for all remaining devices,^[1] which fixes bugs.

Splashes

• Added "Music by fingerspit!".

Potent sulfur

• Entities propelled by erupting potent sulfur now travel slightly higher.
• Erupting potent sulfur particles now travel slightly higher.
• Erupting potent sulfur particles no longer get blocked as easily by surrounding blocks.
• Potent sulfur can no longer be moved by pistons or sticky pistons.
• Geysers now have unique sounds when continuously erupting.

General

• Updated the following block textures to match Java Edition:
  • Cinnabar Bricks
    • Slab
    • Stairs
    • Wall
  • Polished Cinnabar
    • Slab
    • Stairs
    • Wall
  • Chiseled Cinnabar
  • Sulfur Bricks
    • Slab
    • Stairs
    • Wall
  • Polished Sulfur
    • Slab
    • Stairs
    • Wall
  • Chiseled Sulfur

Sulfur cube

• Can no longer pick up more than one item at a time by themselves.
• Improved server-side performance with lots of sulfur cubes in an area.
• Sulfur cubes with an absorbed block are now immune to the Poison effect.
• TNT sulfur cubes can now be ignited when in contact with either a magma block or a sulfur cube with a magma block inside of it.
• Sulfur cubes with an absorbed block no longer push player-controlled mounts.
• Sulfur cubes using the fast_flat archetype are no longer buoyant.
• Sulfur cubes using the hot archetype now have the same physics properties as the regular archetype.
• Regular sulfur cubes once again play a landing sound after a jump.

Sulfur caves

• Added a unique grass color override.
• Now generate more sulfur pools.
• Sulfur caves exposed to the surface now generate with all the features.
• Adjusted spawn ratios for the following mobs within sulfur caves:
  • Creeper: spawns less frequently and always in groups of two.
  • Skeleton: spawns less frequently and always in groups of two.
  • Sulfur Cube: spawns in groups of two to four.
  • Witch: spawns less frequently.
  • Zombie: spawns less frequently and always in groups of two.
  • Cave Spider: replaces all spider spawns.

Experiments

• Removed the "Custom Projectile Features" experimental toggle and implemented all features into vanilla gameplay.

Realms

• Added a Hardcore heart and border in the Realms Hub slots section for Hardcore worlds.

UI

• Replaced the Locator Bar toggle in the Multiplayer tab of the Create New World and Edit World screens with a Player Waypoints setting, allowing players to choose between "Off" and "Everyone".
• Added support for new Marketplace Content Cards.
• Updated skin info panel in the Dressing Room to remove duplicate author label.
• Added support for responding to Xbox friend requests from the social drawer.

API

• Released EntityUpgradeAfterEvent and EntityUpgradeAfterEventSignal from beta to stable.
• Released LocatorBarErrorReason from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released WaypointTexture from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released EntityWaypoint from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released LocationWaypoint from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released LocatorBar from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released PlayerWaypoint from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released Waypoint from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released WaypointTextureBounds from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released WaypointTextureSelector from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released InvalidWaypointError from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released InvalidWaypointTextureSelectorError from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released LocatorBarError from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released CustomTexture from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released EntityVisibilityRules from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released PlayerVisibilityRules from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released DimensionRegistry from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released StartupBeforeEvent.dimensionRegistry from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released CustomDimensionAlreadyRegisteredError from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released CustomDimensionInvalidRegistryError from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released CustomDimensionNameError from beta to v2.8.0.
• Released CustomDimensionReloadNewDimensionError from beta to v2.8.0.
• Added new @minecraft/server-ui 2.1.0 release.

Biome Components

• The minecraft:noise_gradient surface builder type has been updated. The API is the same as before, but the noise ranges provided are now clamped to the range [-1, 1] instead of [0, 1].

Blocks

• The lava_flammable field of the minecraft:flammable component is now usable without the Upcoming Creator Features experimental toggle.

Components

• Added the field stop_if_holding_item to minecraft:behavior.pickup_items:
  • Defaults to false.
  • If true, the mob will not pick up another item if the item's preferred slot matches.

DDUI

• Released MessageBox, CustomForm, and all supporting APIs out of beta and into @minecraft/server-ui 2.1.0.

Entity Components

• Added the field extra_knockback_approach to minecraft:apply_knockback_rules preset settings for handling extra knockback from enchantments, sprinting and swimming:
  • reapply_default preserves the current behaviour where knockback is reapplied with the new power and a default preset.
  • multiply instead combines it into the original knockback calculation by multiplying the power value in the preset provided by minecraft:apply_knockback_rules.
• Made several changes to minecraft:pushable_by_entity presets:
  • The min_distance field now controls the minimum range at which push interactions can occur for all push_mode values.
    • Distance is measured as the horizontal distance between the centers of the two entities.
  • Renamed the kick_distance_threshold field to max_distance, which now controls the maximum range at which push interactions can occur for all push_mode values.
    • Distance is measured as the horizontal distance between the center of the pushed entity and the edge of the pushing entity's collision box.
  • Added a play_sound field to control whether the pushed_by_player sound is played.
  • Added a new none value to the push_mode field, which disables pushing behavior entirely.

Renderer

• Entity held_item_scale now accepts a Molang expression for state-driven scaling, and consistently applies to the main hand only in both first and third person.

World generation

• The bedrock floor and ceiling will now be placed regardless of minecraft:surface_builder and minecraft:subsurface_builder presence in the biome.json file.

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

API

• Added EntityFogComponent to @minecraft/server (beta) for manipulating a player's fog settings, with push, pop, remove, getStack, getTags, and applyStack methods.
• Added EntityFogComponentError to @minecraft/server (beta).
• Added class PlayerCancelBreakingBlockAfterEvent to beta.
• Added class PlayerCancelBreakingBlockAfterEventSignal to beta.
• Added property WorldAfterEvents.playerCancelBreakingBlock to beta.

Blocks

• Added the minecraft:instrument_sound block component behind the Upcoming Creator Features experiment.
  • It can be used to assign an instrument to "up" and "down" faces of a block and its permutations.
    • All current instruments can be used to define a sound.
    • Newly added note.none can be used to specify no sound for a face.
    • If a face is not defined it will use its default value; up: note.harp and down: note.none
    • At least one face must be defined for the component to be valid.

45 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.30

• MCPE-228331 – When the "minecraft:shooter" component is applied to an item and there is no ammunition available, the use animation/movement modifiers will still occur.
• MCPE-231262 – Valid skins can't be imported on Android.
• MCPE-233039 – Not all items are present when chests generate loot.
• MCPE-234004 – Cave spiders do not spawn in Sulfur Caves on Bedrock Edition
• MCPE-237758 – Sulfur cubes incorrectly use creeper's space detection range (1.8 blocks tall) instead of their actual height.
• MCPE-237914 – Sulfur cubes stick to the bottom of ceilings.
• MCPE-238017 – Client-side placement is incorrectly enabled for blocks that apply custom components using the "permutations" array.
• MCPE-238266 – Command suggestions after /execute ... run now stop after the top-level command name.
• MCPE-238284 – Sulfur cubes do not properly calculate knockback direction when hit by swimming players.
• MCPE-238484 – Noxious gas particle is emissive in simple and fancy graphics modes.
• MCPE-238488 – Lit TNT smoke particles missing.

From the 26.30 development versions

• MCPE-238420 – Cinnabar & sulfur set textures are inconsistent with Java.
• MCPE-238470 – Chiseled sulfur and cinnabar can be stonecut from their respective polished and brick variants.
• MCPE-238482 – Naturally generated sulfur springs do not create noxious gas or geysers.
• MCPE-238496 – Sulfur spikes cannot grow.
• MCPE-238663 – The death message for dying to a sulfur cube with an absorbed magma block is "<player> was slain by Unknown".
• MCPE-238664 – Shields block the damage from magma block sulfur cubes.
• MCPE-238665 – Netherite armor is damaged by magma block sulfur cubes.
• MCPE-238666 – Damage sound from getting hurt by a sulfur cube with magma block is wrong.
• MCPE-238669 – Fire immune entities are damaged in the area of sulfur cubes containing magma blocks.
• MCPE-238685 – Hot Sulfur Cubes do not ignite explosive Sulfur Cubes
• MCPE-238689 – Knockback enchantment overrides hit direction on Sulfur Cubes
• MCPE-238784 – “By (creator)” text overlaps skin pack skin count in the Dressing Room
• MCPE-238930 – New Chaos Cubed sound_definitions.json refers to nonexistent music file "clark.ogg".
• MCPE-238949 – Sulfur caves have increased glow lichen generation
• MCPE-238952 – Fast flat Sulfur Cube archetype does not match Java Edition
• MCPE-238953 – Hot Sulfur Cube archetype does not match the regular archetype

Other

• Fixed a bug where sulfur cubes would look for blocks and be tempted at a longer distance than intended.
• Fixed a bug where sulfur cubes would inconsistently stay floating after absorbing a block that would make it sink.
• Fixed a bug that caused custom Nether biomes to generate with a repeating tiling pattern across chunk boundaries.
• Fixed an issue where accepting a game invite while the game was loading could fail due to skins not yet being loaded.
• Fixed the placement of lakes where they would not break above the surface.
• Fixed a scenario where the game would send excessive web requests.
• Fixed Vibrant Visuals shadows and reflections not rendering on PlayStation 4.
• Fixed a crash that could occur on Windows when resizing the game window during initial loading.
• Fixed an issue causing the Marketplace screen to throw an assert.
• Fixed an issue where clearing Realm members via "Clear All Members" resulted in a crash.
• Fixed an issue where pack content would not visually reset until leaving the screen when resetting the world.
• Fixed a freeze when opening a furnace without recipes.
• Fixed a bug where the @minecraft/debug-utilities package did not have a peer dependency on the beta version of @minecraft/server.
• Fixed block traits not respecting experimental requirements for format_version >= 1.26.20.
• Fixed an issue where every /camerashake add changed the shake types of previously added shake events.
• Fixed a bug where the coin icon may not appear on certain Marketplace offers.
• Fixed a race condition when connecting script websocket clients to a server which caused the socket to fail to connect.
• Fixed player spawn position when rejoining a world after their previously saved custom dimension becomes inactive.