Java Edition 26.1 Snapshot 8

This page covers a development version that has a major issue under certain conditions.

 

The game crashes if any entity goes outside the world height limits; the world cannot be loaded again once this occurs.^[1]

Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 8

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26.1 Snapshot 8 (known as 26.1-snapshot-8 in the launcher) is the eighth snapshot for Java Edition 26.1, released on February 17, 2026,^[2] which adds new textures and models for the remaining baby mobs: the hoglin, panda, sniffer, strider, and zoglin. It also adds new stonecutter recipes for existing blocks, and fixes bugs.

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.

Baby mobs

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

All Model and Texture Changes

Mob	Before	After
Baby Hoglin
Baby Panda
Baby Panda (lazy)
Baby Panda (aggressive)
Baby Panda (worried)
Baby Panda (playful)
Baby Panda (weak)
Baby Panda (brown)
Snifflet
Baby Strider
Baby Strider (shivering)
Baby Zoglin

Horse

• Adult horse's blackdot markings have been updated to be visually closer to the new baby horse markings.

/fetchprofile

• Added a new entity subcommand that will print profile information from entity in world.
  • Syntax: /fetchprofile entity <single entity selector>
  • If targeted entity does not have profile (currently only Players and Mannequins do) this command will fail.

General

• Tweaked default JVM options.
  • Decreased the initial heap size to 2GB.

Creative Mode

• Using Ctrl + Pick input as an operator on players and mannequins will now show the same results as executing the /fetchprofile.

Data pack

• The pack format version is now 99.2.

Debug screen

• Added a new entry called detailed_memory with additional information about used memory.

Resource pack

• The version is now 81.1.

Text component format

• minecraft:nbt
  • Tags resolved with the minecraft:nbt text component when the interpret field is set to false are now pretty-printed instead of being flattened into a single text component.
  • Contents of the nbt and block fields are no longer silently rejected when parsing fails.
  • The field entity no longer accepts trailing data after a selector.
  • A new option called plain has been added to remove styling from pretty-printed text.
    • The plain and interpret options can't both be enabled at the same time.

• minecraft:selector
  • The field selector no longer accepts trailing data after a selector.

Textures

• Added new entity textures:
  • entity/hoglin/hoglin_baby.png
  • entity/hoglin/zoglin_baby.png
  • entity/strider/strider_baby.png
  • entity/strider/strider_cold_baby.png
  • entity/sniffer/snifflet.png
  • entity/panda/aggresive_panda_baby.png
  • entity/panda/brown_panda_baby.png
  • entity/panda/lazy_panda_baby.png
  • entity/panda/playful_panda_baby.png
  • entity/panda/weak_panda_baby.png
  • entity/panda/worried_panda_baby.png
  • entity/panda/panda_baby.png

UI Sprites

• Added new UI sprites: gui/sprites/widget/preedit.png for IME preedit overlay background.

User interface

• Input Method Editors (IME) candidates will now be shown in-game (on supported platforms, currently Windows and macOS) above currently edited text field.
• Fullscreen no longer uses exclusive mode.

21 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.1

• MC-98631 – The heights of shields in first person are different depending on what hand you have them held in.
• MC-99647 – The "below_name" scoreboard display slot doesn't work with non-player entities.
• MC-129886 – Trying to place a block underneath min_y does not give an error message.
• MC-178713 – Bone meal can be used on certain plants at build height, but they don't grow.
• MC-184432 – There is no warning when plants are bonemealed, but cannot grow above or below world height limits.
• MC-184433 – When applying bone meal to grass / ferns / nether fungi at the upper build limit, there is no warning, and the taller part of the plant is cut off.
• MC-254785 – Bone meal is used when clicked on a bamboo stalk with a block above it.
• MC-264155 – Bone meal doesn't work on grass blocks beneath cave air or void air.

From the 26.1 development versions

• MC-305103 – The panorama sometimes spins too fast when saving or loading a world.
• MC-305714 – /time set is unable to decrease time.
• MC-305989 – Golden dandelions do not stop baby brown mooshrooms from aging.
• MC-306019 – Items added to #cauldron_can_remove_dye by datapacks can't be undyed.
• MC-306196 – Age-locked baby bees age while in the hive.

From the previous development version

• MC-306314 – The glowing effect is no longer visible.
• MC-306319 – The content of the chat restrictions screen can shift off-center and overflow the edge of the game window when the game window is shrunken horizontally while the chat restrictions screen is open.
• MC-306321 – The chat and chat restrictions screen don't update when changing the client chat option from that screen.
• MC-306326 – Various block animations and particles in motion now jitter while the game is frozen.
• MC-306333 – Grass blocks in dark forests no longer have a side overlay if Biome Blend is disabled.
• MC-306342 – Stray adult cats play incorrect sounds.
• MC-306345 – Baby zombies, gurgles, baby husks, and baby zombie villagers can no longer traverse one-block-high passages.
• MC-306364 – Blocks rendered as block entities are now invisible in sections without regularly rendered blocks.

Other

• Fix a bug where Cat variant sounds stray_ambient and purreow weren't played