Tiny Takeover

Tiny Takeover

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There are guides for this update!

 

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

Tiny Takeover is a game drop released on March 24, 2026^[3] as Java Edition 26.1 and Bedrock Edition 26.10. Its theme is "cuteness" and "emotional attachment with mobs".^[4] It visually overhauls baby mobs and rabbits, giving them distinct models rather than scaled-down adult versions. The update also makes name tags craftable, and adds the golden dandelion, which when fed to baby mobs, stops them from aging until fed another one.

During development, the update was referred to as Drop 1 of 2026. The final name of the update was revealed on Minecraft.net and Minecraft Monthly on March 3, 2026.^[5][6]

Experimental features for the update were released prior to the finalized release as part of Bedrock Edition 26.0.

Golden dandelion

• A new golden variant of the regular dandelion.
• Does not generate naturally.
• Can be crafted using a single dandelion surrounded with eight gold nuggets.
• Prevents baby mobs from aging when fed, showing downward green particles.
  • When fed again, the mob will continue to age again, showing upward green particles.
  • Cannot be used on baby undead mobs, piglins, and villagers.
• Can be used to make suspicious stew of the Saturation effect.
• Cannot be composted or used to attract bees.
• Attracts piglins.

Note block

• Added the trumpet instrument.
  • It can be heard when a note block is placed on top of any of the following copper blocks:
    • Block of Copper and its waxed variants.
    • Cut Copper and its slab, stair, and waxed variants.
    • Chiseled Copper and its waxed variants.
  • The sound is different based on the oxidation level of the copper blocks.

Mobs

• Added sound variants for the following animals:
  • Cat: Royal
  • Chicken: Picky
  • Cow: Moody
  • Pig: Mini and Big
  • The mob sounds which existed prior to this update are now part of the Classic sound variant.

• Added eating sounds for pigs.

Armor

• Helmets, chestplates, leggings, and boots now have unique textures and models when worn by the baby variants of zombies, husks, drowned, zombie villagers, piglins, and zombified piglins.
  • Does not display trims in that form.
  • Small-type armor stands still use scaled-down adult armor models.

Name tag

• Can now be crafted using a single nugget of any kind and a paper.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any Nugget + Paper

• No longer sold by librarians.
• No longer found in chests in woodland mansions and ancient cities.
• Can now be sold by wandering traders as a common trade for 1 emerald with a 7% chance, and 5 trades in stock.

Updated the models and textures of the following baby mobs:

• Carpets, chests, horse armor, saddles, and wolf armor no longer render on baby variants of the mobs stated above, when applicable.
• Changed sounds for kittens, chicks, foals, baby pigs, and puppies. Now uses its own sounds instead of high pitched adult sounds.

Horse

• The black-dot pattern of the adult horse has been changed to better match with the new foal.

Librarian

• No longer offers name tags as a trade.
• Now offers red candles and yellow candles for the price of three emeralds (per candle) at the Master level.

Rabbit

• The models, animations, and textures have been updated.
• Now has an idle animation.

Stonecutter

• Can now directly turn stone and deepslate into their respective cobbled variants.

Throughout the development of Tiny Takeover, it was described as the "cutest" game drop.^[8][9][10]

On March 24, a skin pack entitled Tiny Takeover: Mob Caretakers was released, consisting of three characters themed after the mobs added in the update. An add-on, Tiny Takeover: Mini Mania, was announced the next day.^[11]

Beginning with the announcement of the title in Minecraft Monthly, the update was marketed with the gimmick of baby or otherwise small mobs "taking over" the Minecraft franchise. Within the announcement, there is a running gag of Tiny Agnes and Tiny Vu trying to hack the show and host it instead. On the same day, Minecraft.net was updated with several baby mobs infesting design elements, peeking out of a link to Spring to Life - Official Minecraft Trailer, hovering the Mounts of Mayhem site header, and appearing on the icons for various social media platforms.^[12] In the article about the name, Linn Viberg's Mojavatar became covered in chicks, and several previously released promotional images were altered to show chicks interacting with the borders.^[5]

This extended even after Minecraft LIVE – March 2026 was announced, with both a trailer and promotional video featuring a takeover of chicks.^[13] Within the show itself, the sets were even decorated to be overflowing with baby mobs, giving the appearance of a taken over space. Another trailer was also released, once again centering around babies invading Minecraft. Once the update released, changelogs used images of this same scenario; one in a field full of them,^[14] the others seemingly chasing Efe.^[15]

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  Social media icon for Tiny Takeover
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  Linn Viberg's Mojavatar for Tiny Takeover
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  Chicks taking over an Instagram post
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  Tiny Takeover-themed Xbox logo

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The specific instructions are: Render of animations needed.

Three special reward drops are available to promote the release of the game drop. One is available through TikTok,^[16] and the other two are available through Twitch.^[17]

Name	Image	Type	Rarity	Obtaining	Date
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Baby Chick Bucket Hat		Headwear	Rare	Watch 3 minutes of any Minecraft livestream on TikTok with the Game Reward enabled.	March 21 - April 21, 2026
Baby Chick Slippers		Footwear		Watch 5 minutes of any Minecraft livestream on Twitch.
Chasing Chickens		Emote		Subscribe to or gift a subscription to any Minecraft creator livestream on Twitch.
Bunny Beanie		Headwear		Watch 5 minutes of any Minecraft livestream on Twitch.	April 6 - May 6, 2026
Hatchling Hat
Turtle Tunes

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  Baby Chick Slippers redeem page icon
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  Baby Chick Slippers redeem page
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  Baby Chick Slippers redeem page redeemed
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  Bunnie Beanie redeem page icon
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  Hatchling Hat redeem page icon
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  Bunnie Beanie redeem page
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  Bunnie Beanie redeem page redeemed
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  Hatchling Hat redeem page
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  Hatchling Hat redeem page redeemed
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  Turtle Tunes redeem page
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  Turtle Tunes redeem page redeemed

This section would benefit from the addition of isometric renders.

 

Please remove this notice once you have added suitable isometric renders to the article.
The specific instructions are: Community Challenge items

Two community challenges were announced on March 25, 2026,^[18] to promote the release of the game drop. The first challenge began on March 27 and ended on March 30.^[19] The second challenge began on April 3 and ended on April 6.^[20] Players in Bedrock Edition get rewarded Character Creator items and players in Java Edition get rewarded a skin pack that will also be released to reward progress.

Name	Image	Type	Rarity	Obtaining
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Baby Axolotl Top		Tops	Rare	Require players to use the name tag to name as many baby mobs as possible.​[more information needed]
Baby Bee Top
Baby Axolotl Hat		Headwear		Require players to feed as many baby mobs as possible with golden dandelions.​[more information needed]
Baby Bee Hat

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  One of two wallpapers released alongside the community challenges.
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  The second of the two wallpapers.
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A special promotion on Gleam.io where fans submit Minecraft fan art. Players in Bedrock Edition get rewarded with a Character Creator item and players in Java Edition get rewarded with a skin pack.^[21]

Name	Image	Type	Rarity	Obtaining
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Dandelion Onesie		Outerwear	Rare	Submit a Minecraft fan art on the Tiny Takeover Community Giveaway! on Gleam.

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  Tiny Takeover community giveaway header

Tiny Takeover: Mini Mania is an official free add-on available on the Marketplace, described as an "add-on where you get to prove your skills in adorable challenges for equally adorable rewards".^[22]

• 26.1.1 was released to fix critical bugs related to 26.1.
• 26.1.2 was released to fix critical bugs related to 26.1.

• 26.11 was released to fix bugs related to 26.10.
• 26.12 was released to fix bugs related to 26.10.
• 26.13 was released to fix bugs related to 26.10.
• 26.20 was a minor update which added closed captions, parties, the Realms Hub, experimental features for Chaos Cubed and other improvements.
• 26.21 was released to fix bugs related to 26.20.
• 26.22 was released on Android only to fix bugs related to 26.20.
• 26.23 was released directly after 26.22 with unknown changes.

• In one of the release change log, it mentions "Removed baby Herobrine".^[23]

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  A toast that appeared in Bedrock Edition promoting the update
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  A toast promoting the golden dandelion community challenge. Opening the toast with N opens the minecraft.net article about the challenge

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  Key art
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  Banner used for the name reveal article
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  Key art variant used for Minecraft Monthly
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  Art featuring axolotls
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  Art featuring bees
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  A flowchart on how to find baby mobs
• Animations for the takeover campaign
• Animations for the takeover campaign
• Animations for the takeover campaign
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  Key art for Tiny Takeover: Mob Caretakers
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  Tiny Takeover community giveaway header

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  Baby farm animals
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  Sunny feeding baby farm animals next to a barn
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  Kai feeding baby farm animals in a cherry grove with Efe
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  Puppies, baby pigs, and calico kittens
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  Ari watches a group of chicks while several wood puppies sit nearby in a grassy forest clearing
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  Baby ocelots near a creeper scaring it away from a jungle base in the background.
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  Chicks near a horse
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  Chicks near their parent
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  A baby pig in a village watching two other pigs being ridden by Sunny and Makena
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  Various baby animals in a cherry grove
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  Chicks in a forest near their parent
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  A baby cow in a plains biome near its parent
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  Puppies in a taiga near sweet berry bushes and their parent
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  Efe looking at baby animals
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  Efe renaming a baby pig and a happy ghast
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  Two puppies looking at the sunset
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  Super close-up of a baby pig
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  A group of various baby farm animals
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  Chick in the Nether being hunted by various hostile mobs
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  Equine foals line up
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  Closeup of a baby mule, foal, and baby donkey standing in front of hay bales
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  Ari and Makena at a stable surrounded by foals and an adult horse
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  A cream foal and a cream adult horse face each other in a grassy field at sunset
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  Zuri and Sunny travelling across a river. Sunny rides a horse while Zuri rides a boat with a foal
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  A gray foal with white spots, a baby mule, and a baby donkey stand together in a cherry grove
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  A baby donkey near some hay bales at night as a Jellie kitten sits atop the hay
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  A baby donkey and its parent
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  A white foal and its parent
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  A baby mule and its parent
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  A baby zombie horse and its parent
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  A baby skeleton horse and its parent
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  A foal's muzzle
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  A baby axolotl and a baby turtle
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  Efe and Kai looking at baby axolotls in an aquarium
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  Baby turtles crawling on a beach
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  Makena giving a golden dandelion to a baby turtle
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  A bunch of baby aquatic animals
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  Baby axolotls and their parent
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  A baby dolphin and its parent
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  Baby squids and baby glow squids
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  Baby turtles and their parent
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  Kai feeding golden dandelions to baby turtles
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  Efe feeding golden dandelions to a bunch of baby aquatic animals
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  Various baby wild animals
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  Noor leashed a baby llama, next to a baby fox and a baby bee
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  Kai and Zuri being ice fishing next to a baby polar bear and baby snow foxes
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  Baby fox and baby bee looking at each other
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  A camel stable with baby camels, an adult camel, and baby armadillos nearby
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  Sunny with a caravan consisting of a baby trader llama, baby llama, and baby goat
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  A baby taiga villager and a baby zombie wearing a golden chestplate using its old head model
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  A trio of baby zombie-types in a desert village with several baby villagers and adult villagers using their old head models
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  Baby savanna villagers watched over by an iron golem
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  A husk warm chicken jockey surrounded by chicks using its old head model
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  Makena mining for diamonds near some baby zombies using their old head model
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  A gurgle and its parent using its old head model
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  A baby piglin and a baby zombified piglin in basalt deltas
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  All baby humanoids in their corresponding biomes using their old head models
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  Baby mobs near a restored Nether portal during a sunset
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  Baby mobs near a restored Nether portal, looking at the camera
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  Hoglin jockey tower and baby zoglins
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  Baby striders and their parent
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  Snifflet surronded by sniffer eggs
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  Baby pandas in a player-made treehouse base
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  Parody image highlighting a baby chick with text stating "Who is that?"
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  Tiny takeover recap
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  A stampede of babies in a village
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  Two baby bees and their parent
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  Makena having 2 puppies and a kitten with gurgle and zombies next to them
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  A jungle playground of baby animals
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  A stable with mules and baby mules
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  Baby piglins, a hoglin jockey, and striders with a baby
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  Almost all baby Overworld animals and a baby villager
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  A baby polar bear and its parent
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  Steve naming various baby mobs after themself
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  Zuri and Sunny swimming next to baby dolphins and baby glow squids
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  An underwater view of a school of cod and a few dolphins swimming around
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  A dolphin jumping out of the water in front of a sunset
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  A pen of many chicks and two adult chickens in a plains village, with a cherry grove in the background
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  Toast rabbits and brown rabbits in a cherry grove
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  A baby fox standing amongst a field of golden dandelions
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  An underwater view of a few baby squid which are swimming in a river
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  A stack of baby mobs. A warm chick on top of a tuxedo kitten on top of a woods puppy on top of a donkey