We are back again with a third snapshot for 26.2, today we are bringing you sulfur spikes to test out! These sharp blocks grow in sulfur caves, adding a colorful, pointy touch to your builds! But watch out - falling sulfur spikes sure pack a puncture!

Happy Mining!

New Features

Sulfur Spike

  • Is a new block that generates naturally on Sulfur blocks inside the sulfur caves biome
  • Forms a stalactite if placed on the ceiling or a stalagmite if placed on the floor
  • Can be combined to form longer stalactites & stalagmites
  • Stalactites and stalagmites merge if the tips are next to each other, unless you press shift while placing
  • Stalagmites will break if they're not attached to something below
  • Stalactites fall down if not attached to something above
  • Being hit by a falling stalactite hurts, and they are sharp!
  • Thrown Tridents break Sulfur Spike

Changes

  • The Potent Sulfur block no longer crafts back into Sulfur blocks
  • Updated the textures for the following blocks:
    • Chiseled Cinnabar
    • Chiseled Sulfur
    • Cinnabar
    • Cinnabar Bricks
    • Polished Cinnabar
    • Polished Sulfur
    • Sulfur Bricks

Sulfur Cube mob

  • Can no longer be picked up by Boats

Sounds

  • Updated sounds for Nautilus jets and Nautilus recovers

Technical Changes

  • The Data Pack version is now 102.0
  • The Resource Pack version is now 86.0

Data Pack Version 102.0

Block Entity Data

  • The minecraft:bed block entity has been removed

Predicates

Entity Predicates

Entity predicate format has changed from a structure with multiple optional fields to one similar to data component maps.

For example, previously effects was an optional field:

{
    "effects": {...}
}

In this version it has become a component-like sub-predicate entry:

{
    "minecraft:effects": {...}
}

The main functional changes are:

  • All keys in entity predicates are now identifiers
    • Since identifiers can be written without namespace (default to minecraft namespace), existing field names are still valid
    • Exception: field type has been renamed to minecraft:entity_type
  • Unrecognized sub-predicate components are now rejected (previously unknown fields were ignored)

Existing type-specific sub-predicates have been renamed and moved to top-level.

  • minecraft:lightning to minecraft:type_specific/lightning
  • minecraft:fishing_hook to minecraft:type_specific/fishing_hook
  • minecraft:player to minecraft:type_specific/player
  • minecraft:raider to minecraft:type_specific/raider
  • minecraft:sheep to minecraft:type_specific/sheep
  • minecraft:slime to minecraft:cube_mob as it now includes Sulfur Cubes in addition to Slimes and Magma Cubes

For example:

{
  "type_specific": {
    "type": "minecraft:player",
    "looking_at": {
      "type": "minecraft:ender_dragon"
    }
  }
}

becomes

{
  "minecraft:type_specific/player": {
    "looking_at": {
      "minecraft:type": "minecraft:ender_dragon"
    }
  }
}

Added minecraft:entity_tags entity sub-predicate

This predicate matches entity tags (i.e. ones set with the /tag command).

Fields:

  • any_of - optional list of strings, if present the matched entity must have at least one of the listed tags
  • all_of - optional list of strings, if present the matched entity must have all the listed tags
  • none_of - optional list of strings, if present the matched entity must have none of the listed tags

World Generation

Overworld Features

  • Adjusted Feature Type lake
    • Added field can_place_feature - Block Predicate, describes which blocks this feature can be placed on
    • Added field can_replace_with_air_or_fluid - Block Predicate, describes which blocks this feature can replace with air or the provided fluid block
    • Added field can_replace_with_barrier - Block Predicate, describes which blocks this feature can replace with the provided barrier block

Tags

Block Tags

  • Added #speleothems for blocks which are speleothems like Pointed Dripstone and Sulfur Spike

Resource Pack Version 86.0

Block Sprites

  • Added new Block textures:
    • block/sulfur_spike_down_base.png
    • block/sulfur_spike_down_frustum.png
    • block/sulfur_spike_down_middle.png
    • block/sulfur_spike_down_tip.png
    • block/sulfur_spike_down_tip_merge.png
    • block/sulfur_spike_up_base.png
    • block/sulfur_spike_up_frustum.png
    • block/sulfur_spike_up_middle.png
    • block/sulfur_spike_up_tip.png
    • block/sulfur_spike_up_tip_merge.png
  • Beds now use block models and textures, replacing <color> with the respective bed's color's name
    • block/bed_down.png
    • block/bed_head_north.png
    • block/<color>_bed_foot_east.png
    • block/<color>_bed_foot_south.png
    • block/<color>_bed_foot_up.png
    • block/<color>_bed_foot_west.png
    • block/<color>_bed_head_east.png
    • block/<color>_bed_head_up.png
    • block/<color>_bed_head_west.png

Item Sprites

  • Added new Item sprites:
    • item/sulfur_spike.png

Item Models

  • The minecraft:bed special model type has been removed

Fixed bugs in 26.2 Snapshot 3

  • MC-229057 Picking up an axolotl with a lead attached destroys the lead
  • MC-277744 Blocks with emissive textures don't emit much light when held by endermen
  • MC-302496 Glowing dragon fireballs no longer show the glowing outline
  • MC-307177 Enabling JFR profiling causes the client to crash on startup
  • MC-307227 Using an empty Offers NBT tag to disable trades doesn't work after a relog/data merge
  • MC-307289 Polished sulfur is named "Polished Sulfur Block", which is inconsistent with all other polished stone blocks
  • MC-307291 The game crashes when an entity with the friction_modifier attribute set to 2.5 moves
  • MC-307298 Sulfur cubes with blocks inside them produce footstep sounds when moving across the ground
  • MC-307300 Magma blocks held by sulfur cubes are not emissive
  • MC-307315 Frogs try to eat large magma cubes now
  • MC-307316 Magma cubes no longer drop magma cream
  • MC-307340 The bottom face of slimes' outer layer z-fights with the ground
  • MC-307347 Releasing a sulfur cube from a bucket and killing it does not cause it to drop its held block
  • MC-307357 Sulfur cubes don't emit light when holding a glowing block
  • MC-307371 The #sulfur_cube_archetype/fast_flat item tag contains pumpkin twice
  • MC-307405 When picking up a leashed sulfur cube with a bucket, the lead disappears
  • MC-307420 The game now renders fluid faces that should not be rendered
  • MC-307473 The block breaking texture on bamboo stalks is now always displayed centered
  • MC-307483 Emptying a sulfur cube bucket underwater doesn't place the sulfur cube at the targeted block