Java Edition 26.2 Snapshot 7

26.2 Snapshot 7 (known as 26.2-snapshot-7 in the launcher) is the seventh snapshot for Java Edition 26.2, released on May 12, 2026,^[1] which adds new soundtracks, a new music disc, peer-to-peer connectivity, the friends list, and a new menu panorama.

Music disc

• Added the "Bounce" music disc by fingerspit.
  • Has a chance of being found in mineshaft chest minecarts that are located in a sulfur cave biome.
  • Has a comparator output of 8 when played in a jukebox.

Music

• Added 5 new background music tracks by fingerspit:
  • "Memories"
  • "Ebb"
  • "Home"
  • "Shores"
  • "Nightly"

Friends list

• Accessible from a new Friends button on the title screen and the pause menu.
• Can be opened via the keybind O.
• The "Friends" button shows a notification badge with the number of incoming friend requests, up to 5 (a "more" indicator is shown beyond that).
• Is presented as an overlay with two tabs:
  • Friends: shows current friends, lets the player remove friends, and lets the player send new friend requests by Profile Name.
  • Requests: shows incoming friend requests (which can be accepted or declined) and outgoing friend requests (which can be canceled).
• The presence of the player's friends is shown under their name in the Friends List as one of "Offline", "Online", "In a world" and "In a joinable world".
• Sending, accepting, declining, canceling, and removing actions are confirmed in the UI and show a clear error message when the service is unreachable, rate limited, or the requested profile name does not exist.
• Friend changes that happen while the game is running are shown through toast notifications:
  • When a friend request is sent.
  • When a friend request is received.
  • When an outgoing friend request is accepted by the other player.
• Toasts show the other player's face when the skin is available.
• Checks for updates once per minute while the Friends List is open, or every 5 minutes otherwise.
• The first time the Friends button is shown on the Title Screen, a confirmation dialog is presented to opt in to the Friends List.
• The friends list, friend request privacy, and the Microsoft account safety settings link are managed from the new "Friends List" section in Online Options.
• Players that have their chat settings set to "Friends Only" on their Xbox profile will only see chat messages from other players if they are friends.

Multiplayer Options

• Allows the player to configure the multiplayer settings of the world the player is currently in.
• The multiplayer scope can be set to one of the following:
  • Off: (default) Nobody can join the world.
  • Local: only players in the local network can join the world, as the Open to LAN screen used to work.
  • Online: friends can be invited to join the world from anywhere.
• The game mode and allow cheats options are also available in this screen.

Peer-to-Peer

• Added the ability to open singleplayer worlds to online multiplayer from the new Multiplayer Options screen.
• There are two paths to play with the player's friends.
  • Invite to world: the host can invite friends to their world, and the invited players can accept or deny the invitation.
  • Request to join world: players can request to join a friend's world (if it's open to online multiplayer), and the friend can accept or deny the request.
• Added new p2p_connection opt-in telemetry event.

Splashes

• Added "Music by fingerspit!".

Tags

• Added the #causes_periodic_geyser_eruptions block tag.
  • Contains all blocks that cause periodic eruptions of potent sulfur blocks.
• Added the #causes_continuous_geyser_eruptions block tag.
  • Contains blocks that cause continuous eruptions of potent sulfur blocks.

Potent sulfur

• Eruption and cooldown times of geysers are now randomized based on the position of the block and do not change if the block is replaced.
• Potent sulfur can now erupt when lava is placed underneath.
• With lava underneath, the geysers eruption is continuous, but with slightly muted sounds compared to the eruption from a magma block.
• Noxious gas from potent sulfur can now rise through non-collidable waterlogged blocks and spread through other non-collidable blocks.
• Erupting potent sulfur can now emit its plume and boost entities through non-collidable blocks.
  • This includes scaffolding, which can be used as an alternative to copper grates to stand above erupting potent sulfur without being affected by noxious gas.

Signs and hanging signs

• Now use block models instead of built-in entity models.
  • Text placement cannot be configured yet.

Sulfur cube

• The slow bouncy archetype is no longer buoyant.

Grass color

• Now appears less green in sulfur caves.

Data pack

• The pack format version is now 105.1.

Item models

• The following special model types have been removed:
  • minecraft:standing_sign
  • minecraft:hanging_sign

Options

• Added a setting to control the availability of the Friends List and its features in Online Options.
• Added an "In-game Notification" toggle in Online Options to control whether Friends List toasts appear while in a world.
• Added an "Allow Requests" toggle in Online Options to control whether other players can send friend requests.
• Added an "Xbox Settings..." button in Online Options that opens the Microsoft account privacy and online safety settings.
• Added a Presence option in Online Options screen to control how much activity is shared with friends (default: "All").
  • "All": shares activity, and allows friends to request to join the player's world if opened up to online multiplayer.
  • "Limited": activity sharing limited to "Online" & "Offline".
  • "None": no activity shared. Appearing as "Offline" to friends.

Panorama

• Updated the panorama to reflect Chaos Cubed.

Resource pack

• The version is now 87.0.

Sounds

• Added sounds for geyser eruptions:
  • block.potent_sulfur.geyser_continuous_eruption
  • block.potent_sulfur.geyser_continuous_eruption_active
• Added biome music for sulfur caves:
  • music.overworld.sulfur_caves

Telemetry

• New opt-in events
  • p2p_connection
    • This event is sent after a peer-to-peer connection attempt.
    • Added new property: p2p_connection_successful
      • Whether the peer-to-peer connection was established successfully.
    • Added new property: p2p_connection_failure_stage
      • The stage where an unsuccessful connection attempt failed, such as SIGNALING, ICE_CONNECT, or TIMEOUT
    • Added new property: p2p_connection_ice_path
      • The type of network path used for the connection, such as LOCAL, DIRECT, RELAY, or UNKNOWN
    • Added new properties: p2p_connection_local_candidate_type and p2p_connection_remote_candidate_type
      • The ICE candidate types used by each side of the connection, such as HOST, SRFLX, PRFLX, or RELAY
    • Added new properties: p2p_connection_total_time_ms, p2p_connection_signaling_time_ms, and p2p_connection_ice_connect_time_ms
      • Timing information for each stage of the peer-to-peer connection flow.

Textures

• Block sprites
  • Signs and hanging signs now use block models and textures, replacing <wood_type> with the sign's wood type (e.g. mangrove)
    • block/<wood_type>_sign.png
    • block/<wood_type>_hanging_sign.png
  • The process of upgrading a pack's bed, sign, and hanging sign textures can be assisted by using [this] automated Slicer tool.
• Item Sprites
  • Added new item sprites:
    • item/music_disc_bounce.png
• UI Sprites
  • Added new textures for the Sign edit screen background, replacing <wood_type> with the sign's wood type (e.g. mangrove):
    • gui/sign/<wood_type>.png
  • Added new UI sprites:
    • gui/sprites/friends/multiplayer/invite.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/multiplayer/join_request.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/accept.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/accept_highlighted.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/cancel.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/friends.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/illustrations_00.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/list_separator_top.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/loading.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/reject.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/reject_highlighted.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/remove.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/background.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/button.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/button_disabled.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/button_highlighted.png
    • gui/sprites/friends/toast_background.png
    • gui/sprites/pause_menu/player_reporting.png
    • gui/sprites/pause_menu/bug.png
    • gui/sprites/pause_menu/social_interactions.png

Texture atlas

• The minecraft:signs atlas has been removed.

UI

• Replaced the Open to LAN screen with the new Multiplayer Options screen.

• signs.png-atlas
  • Superseded by blocks.png-atlas.

25 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.2

• MC-297491 – Glyphs from TTF files are no longer rendered correctly on glow signs.
• MC-306401 – Shulkers' name tags display inside them when they're open.
• MC-306972 – Wardens repeatedly roar in place when detecting ghasts.
• MC-307144 – The game reads world generation data from data packs or world_gen_settings.dat inconsistently, preventing updating large biome sources.
• MC-307221 – The missing texture is no longer used for blocks with no model or an invalid model.
• MC-307272 – Servers can no longer detect left clicks from players in Spectator mode.
• MC-307418 – The game crashes when trying to upgrade a legacy world.
• MC-307498 – The standing_sign special model renderer uses a field misspelled as "attachement".
• MC-307585 – The fall_after_explosion advancement trigger does not work with TNT anymore.
• MC-307877 – Bone meal cannot be used on dry grass with a block directly above it.
• MC-307905 – Crash report generation can crash when StackTraceElement.getFileName() is null.

From the 26.2 development versions

• MC-307336 – Colors are less saturated with the Vulkan rendering backend on some Mac systems.
• MC-307339 – The player's vertical motion is reset when moving on the ground.
• MC-307387 – When using Vulkan, the Globals uniform is not available in multiple core shaders unless explicitly defined.
• MC-307421 – Vulkan does not trigger an error when a resource pack that cannot be loaded is loaded.
• MC-307442 – The game crashes upon startup on Mac systems with Intel graphics of Gen8 architecture.
• MC-307455 – The game crashes when minimized on some Intel graphics.
• MC-307499 – The game crashes upon detecting invalid shader files during loading.
• MC-307605 – The "Exclusive Fullscreen" and "Graphics API" options prompt the user to restart the game differently.
• MC-307817 – Target selectors no longer allow specifying type multiple times when using tags.

From the previous development version

• MC-307912 – Sulfur spikes in sulfur springs are not waterlogged.
• MC-307919 – Geysers' force goes through some transparent blocks.
• MC-307920 – Bucketed sulfur cubes can despawn.
• MC-307929 – Dispensers can equip armor on sulfur cubes.
• MC-307952 – The enchantment glint does not render on top of banner patterns applied on a shield.