Chaos Cubed

Chaos Cubed

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There are guides for this update!

 

See Java Edition guides/Chaos Cubed and Bedrock Edition guides/Chaos Cubed for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Chaos Cubed.

Chaos Cubed is a game drop released on June 16, 2026 as Java Edition 26.2 and Bedrock Edition 26.30. It focuses on the sulfur caves, a cave biome that is home to sulfur cubes, along with the new sulfur and cinnabar blocks with their respective variants. It was announced along with its name at Minecraft Live – March 2026.

Experimental features for the update were released prior to the finalized release as part of Bedrock Edition 26.20.

Cinnabar block set:

• Red-colored rocks that are found in the sulfur caves.
• Cinnabar
  • Cinnabar stairs
  • Cinnabar slab
  • Cinnabar wall
• Polished cinnabar
  • Polished cinnabar stairs
  • Polished cinnabar slab
  • Polished cinnabar wall
• Cinnabar bricks
  • Cinnabar brick stairs
  • Cinnabar brick slab
  • Cinnabar brick wall
• Chiseled cinnabar

Sulfur block set:

• Yellow-colored crystalline blocks that are found in the sulfur caves.
• Sulfur
  • Sulfur stairs
  • Sulfur slab
  • Sulfur wall
• Polished sulfur
  • Polished sulfur stairs
  • Polished sulfur slab
  • Polished sulfur wall
• Sulfur bricks
  • Sulfur brick stairs
  • Sulfur brick slab
  • Sulfur brick wall
• Chiseled sulfur
• Potent sulfur
  • A version of sulfur that generates underwater in sulfur pools and springs.
  • Can be crafted using 9 sulfur blocks.
  • When placed underwater, it will emit bubbles and a cloud of noxious gas at the surface.
    • Players and mobs get Nausea when they enter water that is near or touching the noxious gas.
    • When above a magma block, it creates a geyser.

      

      • The geyser erupts at roughly 50-second intervals, shooting a plume of water particles upwards and applying an upward impulse to entities above it for 4–5 seconds.
        • Eruption and cooldown timings are derived from the block's position and do not change if the block is replaced.
        • The size of the water plume is dependent on the amount of water blocks above the potent sulfur.
      • Can trigger continuously when a lava source is placed underneath.
        • Does not give nausea in that state.
• Sulfur spike
  • A block that generates as stalactites and stalagmites in the sulfur caves.
  • Grows when hanging to a sulfur block.
  • Functions similarly to pointed dripstone, except it does not increase fall damage when fallen on.
    • Unlike pointed dripstone, when water or lava is placed on the block above where the spike is hanging from, it does not drip the liquid from its point.
  • Can be used to craft a sulfur block.

"Bounce" music disc

• Obtained from minecarts with chests in mineshafts that are located in sulfur caves.
• The music was composed by fingerspit.

Bucket of sulfur cube

• Obtained by picking a sulfur cube using an empty bucket.
• Can be used to transport the sulfur cube to a new location.
• Includes what block is in the sulfur cube, if any.

Sulfur cube spawn egg

• Used to spawn a sulfur cube.

Sulfur cube

• A passive slime-like mob that spawns in sulfur caves.
• When killed, it will split into 2 small cubes, like other slime-like mobs.
  • Unlike the slime and magma cube, the small versions can grow up into the large version, like how a baby mob works, and the small cubes' growth can be sped up with slimeballs.
    • Because of this, they can be tempted with slimeballs or fed a golden dandelion.
• It is attracted to the dropped item form of most full blocks. The cube can pick up a block, or a player can use a full block on the cube, causing the cube to absorb it into its body.
  • In this state, they cannot move on their own and cannot be damaged by most sources. Instead, they are knocked back when attacked. They still take damage from some other sources, such as cramming‌^{[Java Edition only]}, suffocating, and burning from fire or lava.
    • The knockback also depends on the damage that would have been dealt, with stronger attacks sending the cube further.
  • Can be leashed in that state.
  • Blocks can be swapped by feeding it.
  • Shearing it removes and drops the block, reverting back to normal.
  • Depending on the block, they will behave differently when punched while in its immobile state, the following properties are:
    • Football/Regular: Medium speed, medium bounciness, medium ground friction and low air drag. (block example: grass block)
    • Rubber ball/Bouncy: Fast speed, high bounciness, medium ground friction and low air drag. (block example: oak log)
    • Golf ball/Fast flat: Fast speed, low bounciness, medium ground friction and low air drag. (block example: moss block)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Hockey puck/Fast sliding: Fast speed, no bounciness, low ground friction and low air drag. (block example: blue ice)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • High resistance: Very slow, low drag with low bounce with high friction, only affects soul sand and soul soil.
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Beach ball/Light: Slow speed, high bounciness, medium ground friction and high air drag, only affects wools.
    • Medicine ball/Slow flat: Slow speed, low bounciness, medium ground friction and medium air drag. (block example: block of iron)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Curling stone/Slow sliding: Slow speed, no bounciness, low ground friction and low air drag. (block example: red mushroom block)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Sticky: Fast speed and low air drag like a golf ball, but sticks with extremely high ground friction and no bounce to simulate stickiness, only affects the honeycomb block.
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Explosive: Medium speed, medium bounciness, and medium ground friction like a football, but with high air drag, only affects TNT.
      • Can be ignited in all manners a TNT block can be ignited, and can also be ignited by magma blocks and firework explosions.
        • Is primed for 6 seconds until it explodes, unlike the TNT block which takes 4 seconds to explode.
          • In that state, it cannot be sheared, picked up in a bucket, or damaged in any way.
    • Slow bouncy: Slow speed, high bounciness, medium friction and medium air drag. (block example: stone)
      • Sinks underwater.
    • Hot: Same properties as a football, but damages entities on contact, only affects the magma block.
      • Can ignite an explosive sulfur cube on touch.
      • Frost Walker grants immunity to its damage.

Sulfur caves

• A cave biome composed of sulfur, cinnabar and sulfur spikes.
• Sulfur cubes spawn here.
• Cave spiders spawn here in place of regular spiders.
  • This makes the first time cave spiders are able to spawn naturally (outside of monster spawners and trial spawners).
• Sulfur pools also generate here.
• On rare occasions it can generate on the surface, forming sulfur "lands".^[1]

Sulfur pool

• Greenish pools that generate in sulfur caves.
• Consists of a body of water surrounded by sulfur blocks and cinnabar with potent sulfur generating at the bottom.

Sulfur spike

• Generates as clusters of sulfur spikes.

Sulfur spring

• A rare pool that contains sulfur, sulfur spikes, magma blocks underneath the potent sulfur, surrounded with cinnabar, granite and tuff.
• Generates on the Overworld’s surface as a visual indicator to a sulfur cave below.
• Generates in various sizes, from small to extra large.
• Occasionally forms a geyser every ~45 seconds

Added 5 new music tracks and a new music disc, composed by fingerspit:

• "Memories"
• "Ebb"
• "Home"
• "Shores"
• "Nightly"
• Music Disc "Bounce"

Dispenser

• Can now dispense a block into a sulfur cube.
  • It can also remove a block from a sulfur cube using shears.

Sculk sensor and calibrated sculk sensor

• Can now detect geysers.

Wandering trader

• Can now sell two sulfur spikes for an emerald.

• 26.31 was released to fix bugs related to 26.30.
• 26.32 was released to fix bugs related to 26.30.
• 26.33 was released to fix a bug related to 26.30.
• 26.34 was released for PlayStation and Nintendo Switch only to fix bugs related to 26.30.
• 26.35 was released for Nintendo Switch only with no changelog.
• 26.40 was a minor update which fixed bugs and added experimental features for the third drop of 2026.

To promote the release of the game drop, players in Bedrock Edition will get three Character Creator items for free available on the Marketplace.^{[note 1]} For players in Java Edition, they will immediately receive a skin pack that will contain three skins.^[2]

Name	Image		Type	Rarity
	Icon	Render
Brawler Jersey			Tops	Epic
Builder Jersey				Rare
Rancher Jersey				Epic

Two community challenges were announced on June 17, 2026, to promote the release of the game drop. The first challenge began on June 19 and ended on June 24. The second challenge began on June 26 and ended on July 7, 2026. Players in Bedrock Edition get rewarded Character Creator items, add-on, and a world download.

Character Creators Rewards

Name	Image		Type	Rarity	Obtaining
	Icon	Render
Brawler Helmet			Headwear	Rare	Require players to feed 10 million sulfur cubes with TNT.
Builder Helmet				Epic	Require players to place down 20 million sulfur blocks.
Sulfur Cube Head				Uncommon	Require players to spawn 50 million sulfur cubes.

Additional Rewards

Name	Image	Type	Obtaining
Chaos Cubed: Cursed Cube		Add-On	Require players to completing either of the challenges shown above.
Chaos Cubed: The Game Show		World	Require 250,000 players to use the Chaos Cubed: Cursed Cubes add-on.

Chaos Cubed: Pixel Party is an official free add-on available on the Marketplace.

• In the key art, the hoe that Alex is holding is facing the wrong way.

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  Key art
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  Expanded key art
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  Release date banner
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  Chaos Cubed playstyles
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  A magma block sulfur cube
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  A stripped cherry wood sulfur cube
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  A TNT sulfur cube

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  In-game notification listing new features in Chaos Cubed. Note that parties actually got introduced in 26.20.
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  A small pop-up
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  An in-game feedback poll about the game drop in Bedrock Edition
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  Toast notification about the drop

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  Ari feeding sulfur cubes
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  Zuri and Noor around sulfur cubes
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  Sulfur cubes in a sulfur cave
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  Kai, Sunny and Makena next to a geyser
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  Noor playing with a TNT sulfur cube
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  A fox being lifted by a geyser
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  Magma sulfur cubes in a sulfur cave
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  Magma sulfur cubes near a bursting spring
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  A bursting spring