Bedrock Edition Preview 26.10.24

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Beta 26.10.24 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 26.10.24 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation) is the fourth beta/Preview for Bedrock Edition 26.10, released on February 17, 2026,^[1] which adds new textures and models for the remaining baby mobs: the hoglin, panda, sniffer, strider, and zoglin. It also adds new sound variants, adds the furnace recipe book as an experiment, and fixes bugs.

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Dead bush

• Can now be placed on farmland.

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Golden dandelion

• Now displays green particles when used on a baby mob.
  • Particles moving downwards indicate that aging is paused.
  • Particles moving upwards indicate that age has been reset and is now resumed.
• Now plays pause growth and reset growth sounds on use.

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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.
  • Due to a bug (MCPE-236401), the granite, polished granite, diorite, polished diorite, andesite and polished andesite can also be used to make cobblestone.
    • This was fixed in the next Preview.

Baby mobs

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

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Cat, Chicken, Cow, and Pig

• Added distinct sound variants similar to wolves, in addition to the original "classic" variant:
  • Cats have a new "royal" variant.
  • Pigs have new "mini" and "big" variants.
  • Cows have a new "moody" variant.
  • Chickens have a new "picky" variant.

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Husk

• Fixed a family typo preventing babies from forming jockeys.

How to Play

• The main How to Play button has been moved from the settings to the game menu.

Play screen

• Custom servers are now always available on the "Servers" tab even when no featured servers could be found.

Realms

• The "world_replica_based_backup" flag and the old Realms backup system have been removed, and now the new backups system, Realms Saves, is now enabled at all times.

AI Goals

• Made schemas for the following goals stricter when parsing and will fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 26.10 and newer:
  • minecraft:behavior.move_to_land
  • minecraft:behavior.move_to_water
  • minecraft:behavior.ocelot_sit_on_block
  • minecraft:behavior.raid_garden
  • minecraft:behavior.stomp_turtle_egg
  • minecraft:behavior.offer_flower
  • minecraft:behavior.play
• Made the schema for minecraft:behavior.play_dead stricter when parsing, it will now fail to load an entity json that has invalid data in versions 26.10 and newer. Int Range field random_damage_range now only accepts an object with min and max values.

API

• Released AimAssistCategory from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistCategorySettings from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistPreset from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistPresetSettings from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistRegistry from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released PlayerAimAssist from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released PlayerAimAssistSettings from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released AimAssistTargetMode from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released World.getAimAssist from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released Player.getAimAssist from beta to v2.6.0.
• Released BlockComponentEntityEvent from beta to v2.6.0.

Client Entities

• Added held_item_scale field to entity.json schema.
  • Allows items held by mobs to be scaled by a factor greater than zero.
  • Defaults to 1.0.

Entity components

• A content warning will now throw if the amount of experience orbs requested to be spawned in a single tick exceeds the recommended max of 512.

General

• Upgraded actor JSON resources to Cereal slice 26.0 and re-serialized to align with the updated schema.

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", "Experimental Voxel Shape Features", and "Furnace Recipe Book" experimental toggles.

Experiments

• Added experimental toggle to enable the new furnace recipe book.

API

• Game Test:
  • When running /gametest run <test> on game tests with invalid structures, the game tests are no longer spawned at the world ceiling.
• Added dedicatedServer optional global to beta of server-admin for accessing dedicated server only APIs.
• Added DedicatedServerUtils to beta of server-admin with dedicated server only APIs.
• Added LevelStorage to beta of server-admin with dedicated server save state management APIs.
• Added LevelStorageQuerySnapshotFile to beta of server-admin.
• Added AllowList to beta of server-admin with dedicated server allow list management APIs.
• Added the function Entity.addItem for directly giving items to a mob or player.
• Added Block.getParts method behind beta. Returns an array of Block parts if the block has the minecraft:multi_block trait.

Server-UI DDUI

• Changed Class CustomForm:
  • Changed return of method show(): Promise<void> to Promise<boolean> where returning true means it was shown and false means it was not shown.
  • Added isShowing(): boolean method.
• Changed Class MessageBox:
  • Added isShowing(): boolean method.
• Changed interface MessageBoxResult:
  • Added the property wasShown which is set to true if the message box was shown to the player.

20 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.10

• MCPE-173775 – Clocks, Compasses, and Recovery Compasses have a corrupted appearance after turning HD texture packs on/off.
• MCPE-174365 – Can't reposition caret by clicking or tapping on some screens.
• MCPE-224638 – Certain area in the Nether causes extreme lag or a game/server crash when entered.
• MCPE-232634 – Scrolling Direction setting in Windows no longer applies in-game when using an external mouse.
• MCPE-234672 – Baby cats, ocelots and wolves spawned by using spawn eggs on untamed mobs come in a broken state.
• MCPE-234763 – Featured server profile picture turns into small dot when UI scale is set to small.
• MCPE-235481 – Game crash when using liquid detection block component with an empty detection rules array.
• MCPE-235655 – Picking up arrows dropped by Skeletons while holding arrows in off-hand causes slot errors.

From the 26.10 development versions

• MCPE-235690 – "Full keyboard mode" and "Invert camera Y-axis" options do not take effect until the world is reloaded.
• MCPE-235741 – Baby skeleton horses spawned by using minecraft:entity_born spawn event are rideable
• MCPE-235789 – Voxel shape box validation incorrect.

Other

• Fixed tamed baby British shorthair cat variant texture.
• Fixed a bug where baby mobs would be incorrectly scaled when using classic texture packs.
• Fixed a regression where striders and piglins over enthusiastically scream.
• Fixed an issue where baby armadillos would not peek out while rolled up.
• Fixed narration for elements outside a scroller.
• Fixed characters rotating incorrectly in UI when riding a mob.
• Fixed localization string for tile.sticky_piston_arm_collision.name to Sticky Piston Arm Collision.
• Fixed /setblock and /fill commands from placing partial double blocks, like the upper part of a door.
• Fixed sky light calculations being applied multiple times per chunk, causing excessive memory usage.