Java Edition 26.1 Snapshot 7

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26.1 Snapshot 7 (known as 26.1-snapshot-7 in the launcher) is the seventh snapshot for Java Edition 26.1,^[1] released on February 11, 2026.^[2] It adds new textures and modules for baby hostile mobs and villagers, adds trumpet instrument sounds that can be heard by placing a note block on any copper block.

Note block

• Added the trumpet instrument.
  • It can be heard when a note block is placed on top of a block of copper.
  • The sound is different based on the oxidation level of the copper block.

Golden dandelion

• Can now be used on baby hoglins.

Baby mobs

• Changed the textures and models of the following baby mobs, increasing their bounding boxes to better fit the new models:
  • Zombie
  • Husk
  • Drowned
  • Piglin
  • Zombified piglin
  • Villager
  • Zombie villager

Baby villager and zombie villagers

• Now made up of a base model with overlays for each type.

Skeleton horses and zombie horses

• Baby variant no longer grows up.

General

• Changed the internals of how chunk geometry data is stored in GPU memory and how they are rendered.

Block model

• Any block model can now support cutout or translucent (partially transparent pixels) textures.
  • Whether a quad is rendered in the cutout or translucent render pass is determined by the contents of its assigned sprite.
    • Any sprite with translucent (partially transparent) pixels will be assigned to the "translucent" pass.
    • Any sprite with fully transparent pixels will be assigned to the "cutout" pass.
    • All other sprites are assigned to the "solid" pass.
• The format of the textures map has been updated:
  • Non-string entries will now be rejected, instead of interpreted as strings.
  • Alongside the previous inline sprite ID form, entries can now be defined as an object with fields:
    • sprite - the sprite ID
    • force_translucent - optional boolean, true if any geometry with this texture should be forced into the "translucent" pass.
      • This is useful for example for blocks that don't have any translucent pixels, but use the mean mipmap strategy.
      • Default: false

Chat

• The chat screen can now always be opened, even when chatting is restricted by settings.
  • When the chat screen is open, specific actions and message types may still be restricted.
  • Information about the restrictions (if there are any) is displayed on top of the chat box and above the chat input when the chat screen is open.
  • The same information can also be accessed in World Settings screen.
• Chat entries from client actions like taking screenshots will now be displayed even when messages from players and servers are restricted.
• Changing chat settings will now hide all messages of restricted types and discard any new ones.
• The handling of chat messages on a published local server is now more consistent with dedicated servers in regard to chat settings.

Data pack

• The pack format version is now 99.1.

Mob sound variant

• Added adult sound variants for the following animals:
  • Cats have a new variant called royal.
  • Pigs have new variants called mini and big.
  • Cows have a new variant called moody.
  • Chickens have a new variant called picky.
  • The original sounds of each animal are used for the variant called classic.
  • Every one of these animals will have a random sound variant assigned to it from the new variants and the original one.
• Cat sound variants
  • Cat sound variants can be data-driven by adding entries to data//cat_sound_variant/.json
  • The file contains two sound sets defining adult_sounds and baby_sounds
  • Each sound set contains the following fields which correspond to sound events to use for the specific behavior:
    • ambient_sound
    • stray_ambient_sound
    • hiss_sound
    • hurt_sound
    • death_sound
    • eat_sound
    • beg_for_food_sound
    • purr_sound
    • purreow_sound
• Pig sound variants
  • Pig sound variants can be data-driven by adding entries to data//pig_sound_variant/.json
  • The file contains two sound sets defining adult_sounds and baby_sounds.
  • Each sound set contains the following fields which correspond to sound events to use for the specific behavior:
    • ambient_sound
    • hurt_sound
    • death_sound
    • step_sound
• Cow sound variants
  • Cow sound variants can be data-driven by adding entries to data//cow_sound_variant/.json
  • Each sound variant contains the following fields which correspond to sound events to use for the specific behavior:
    • ambient_sound
    • hurt_sound
    • death_sound
    • step_sound
• Chicken sound variants
  • Chicken sound variants can be data-driven by adding entries to data//chicken_sound_variant/.json
  • The file contains two sound sets defining adult_sounds and baby_sounds.
  • Each sound set contains the following fields which correspond to sound events to use for the specific behavior:
    • ambient_sound
    • hurt_sound
    • death_sound
    • step_sound

Resource pack

• The version is now 81.0.
• Updated mule_baby.png and donkey_baby.png to fit the model properly.

Shaders

• The block.vsh and terrain.vsh no longer receive the Normal vertex attribute.
• Some small changes were to how various shaders sample the lightmap texture. This includes core/entity.vsh, core/item.vsh, core/rendertype_leash.vsh, core/rendertype_text.vsh, core/rendertype_text_background.vsh, core/rendertype_text_intensity.vsh, and core/rendertype_translucent_moving_block.vsh.

Sounds

• Added new sound events for the cat:
  • entity.cat_royal.ambient
  • entity.cat_royal.hiss
  • entity.cat_royal.hurt
  • entity.cat_royal.death
  • entity.cat_royal.eat
  • entity.cat_royal.beg_for_food
  • entity.cat_royal.purr
  • entity.cat_royal.purreow
  • entity.cat_royal.stray_ambient
• Added new sound events for the pig:
  • entity.pig_mini.ambient
  • entity.pig_mini.hurt
  • entity.pig_mini.death
  • entity.pig_big.ambient
  • entity.pig_big.hurt
  • entity.pig_big.death
• Added new sound events for the chicken:
  • entity.chicken_picky.ambient
  • entity.chicken_picky.death
  • entity.chicken_picky.hurt
  • entity.chicken_picky.step
• Added new sound events for the cow:
  • entity.cow_moody.ambient
  • entity.cow_moody.death
  • entity.cow_moody.hurt
  • entity.cow_moody.step
• Added new sound events for the note block trumpet instrument:
  • block.note_block.trumpet
  • block.note_block.trumpet_exposed
  • block.note_block.trumpet_oxidized
  • block.note_block.trumpet_weathered

Tags

• Removed camel_husk, and hoglin from #cannot_be_age_locked entity type tag.

Textures

• Added new entity textures:
  • entity/villager/villager_baby.png
  • entity/villager/baby/desert.png
  • entity/villager/baby/jungle.png
  • entity/villager/baby/plains.png
  • entity/villager/baby/savanna.png
  • entity/villager/baby/snow.png
  • entity/villager/baby/swamp.png
  • entity/villager/baby/taiga.png
  • entity/zombie/drowned_baby.png
  • entity/zombie/drowned_outer_layer_baby.png
  • entity/zombie/husk_baby.png
  • entity/zombie/zombie_baby.png
  • entity/zombie_villager/zombie_villager_baby.png
  • entity/zombie_villager/baby/desert.png
  • entity/zombie_villager/baby/jungle.png
  • entity/zombie_villager/baby/plains.png
  • entity/zombie_villager/baby/savanna.png
  • entity/zombie_villager/baby/snow.png
  • entity/zombie_villager/baby/swamp.png
  • entity/zombie_villager/baby/taiga.png
  • entity/piglin/piglin_baby.png
  • entity/piglin/zombiefied_piglin_baby.png
  • entity/equipment/humanoid_baby/chainmail.png
  • entity/equipment/humanoid_baby/copper.png
  • entity/equipment/humanoid_baby/diamond.png
  • entity/equipment/humanoid_baby/gold.png
  • entity/equipment/humanoid_baby/iron.png
  • entity/equipment/humanoid_baby/leather_overlay.png
  • entity/equipment/humanoid_baby/leather.png
  • entity/equipment/humanoid_baby/netherite.png
  • entity/equipment/humanoid_baby/turtle_scute.png

29 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.1

• MC-13187 – Water in water cauldrons is not transparent.
• MC-257362 – Particles from breaking frogspawn are transparent.
• MC-263488 – The item texture of pink petals has a misplaced transparent pixel.
• MC-299730 – Dumping textures while using a TTF font crashes the game.
• MC-305580 – Baby zombie horses and baby skeleton horses grow into adults, unlike other baby undead mobs.

From the 26.1 development versions

• MC-305492 – Baby wolves have visible z-fighting.
• MC-305501 – Baby wolves render their collar incorrectly all over their body.
• MC-305515 – Rabbits float when panicking.
• MC-305545 – The "wolf_baby" and "wolf_tame_baby" textures are identical.
• MC-305583 – The right side of the texture of British shorthair kittens overlaps the back of the head.
• MC-305591 – The texture of temperate piglets uses the wrong color for a part of their body.
• MC-305644 – Piglet heads are off-center.
• MC-305984 – The legs of baby donkeys and baby mules extend into the ground by one pixel, mapped to an irregular texture area.
• MC-305986 – “subtitles.entity.baby_chicken.hurt” displays as a raw translation key.
• MC-305999 – Entities in any light level besides 0 render fully bright.
• MC-306008 – Baby horse legs are not connected to the body correctly when it rears up.
• MC-306034 – "subtitles.entity.baby_horse.land" displays as a raw translation key.
• MC-306097 – Golden dandelions don't make mobs persistent.
• MC-306136 – Baby pandas float in the air when fed bamboo after being fed golden dandelions.
• MC-306137 – Players can feed baby pandas after feeding them golden dandelions.
• MC-306157 – Getting the average water color of blocks takes up about half of the chunk render compile times.
• MC-306161 – The color of baby turtles' front legs is inconsistent with the back legs.
• MC-306172 – Golden dandelions don't work on baby hoglins.

From the previous development version

• MC-306185 – The podzol patches in the Old Growth Pine Taiga and Old Growth Spruce Taiga biomes are now generated incorrectly.
• MC-306195 – Camel husks with the "Age" tag set below -24000 use their removed baby variant's hitbox size and animation speed.
• MC-306201 – Baby turtles' legs now z-fight.
• MC-306207 – The world upgrade tooltips in the world selection screen appear with any world after selecting a world that needs to be upgraded.
• MC-306222 – Some strings introduced in 26.1 Snapshot 6 are grammatically incorrect.

Other

• Fixed issue where baby axolotl animations were being disrupted by walking animation.

• Unlike most first-of-the-week snapshots, 26.1 Snapshot 7 was released on Wednesday instead of Tuesday, similar to the snapshots before 25w15a.