Java Edition 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

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  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