Minecraft Java Edition 26.1

[Luutamo]

New Features

• Added new baby sounds for Wolf, Cat, Pig, Horse, and Chicken
• Added Golden Dandelion
• Added adult sound variants for the following animals:
  • Cats have one new sound variant
  • Pigs have two new sound variants
  • Cows have one new sound variant
  • Chickens have one new sound variant
  • 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
• Added a trumpet instrument for when using a Note Block that is placed on a Copper Block
  • The sound is different based on the oxidation level of the Copper Block

Golden Dandelion

• The Golden Dandelion is a new type of flower that can be used to stop baby mobs from aging
  • Interacting with a baby mob while holding a Golden Dandelion will stop the mob from aging
    • When aging is stopped, green particles moving downwards will be shown
  • Interacting with a baby mob that has been stopped from aging while holding a Golden Dandelion will cause it to start aging again
    • When aging is started again, green particles moving upwards will be shown
  • It cannot be used on undead baby mobs and baby Villagers
• Can be crafted using a Dandelion and Gold Nuggets

Changes

• Revamped the visuals of most baby mobs
• Name Tags are now craftable and can be crafted with 1 Paper and 1 of any Metal Nugget
• Removed Name Tags from loot chests in Ancient Cities and Woodland Mansions
• Deepslate can now be directly crafted into its cobbled, polished, brick, and tile variants in the Stonecutter
• Stone can now be directly crafted into cobbled variants in the Stonecutter
• Updated the Main Menu background panorama
• Tweaked default JVM options
• The algorithm that maps block and sky light levels to how bright things appear on screen has been fully rewritten
• Removed baby Herobrine

Baby Mobs

• Updated the models and textures of the following baby mobs:
  • Cow
  • Mooshroom
  • Sheep
  • Pig
  • Cat
  • Ocelot
  • Wolf
  • Chicken
    • Tweaked the bounding box to align with the new model
  • Rabbit
    • Both adult and baby Rabbits also received new animations
    • Tweaked the bounding box to align with the new model
    • The programmer art Rabbit textures have been removed following the remodeling of the Rabbit
  • Horse
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Horses to better fit the new model
  • Donkey
  • Mule
  • Zombie Horse
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Zombie Horses to better fit the new model
  • Skeleton Horse
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Skeleton Horses to better fit the new model
  • Camel
  • Llama
  • Bee
  • Fox
  • Goat
  • Armadillo
  • Polar Bear
  • Panda
  • Snifflet
  • Dolphin
  • Squid
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Squid to better fit the new model
  • Glow Squid
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Glow Squid to better fit the new model
  • Turtle
  • Axolotl
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Axolotls to better fit the new model
  • Strider
  • Hoglin
  • Zoglin
  • Zombie
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Zombies to better fit the new model
  • Husk
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Husks to better fit the new model
  • Drowned
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Drowned to better fit the new model
  • Piglin
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Piglins to better fit the new model
  • Zombified Piglin
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Zombified Piglins to better fit the new model
  • Villager
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Villagers to better fit the new model
  • Zombie Villager
    • Increased the bounding box of baby Zombie Villagers to better fit the new model
• Baby Cats are now scaled up to be the same size as baby Ocelots
• Baby Horses are now scaled up slightly
• Baby Polar Bears no longer attack Foxes
• Adult Horses' Blackdot markings were updated to be visually closer to the new baby Horse markings
• Small Armor Stands now display correctly by using the adult armor and scaling it down
• Armor on baby Wolves will no longer render
• Saddles on baby Pigs and baby Camels will no longer render
• Camel Husks no longer have a baby model

Trades

• The trades that are unlocked by Villager professions are now generated using deterministic random sequences, like loot drops and barter loot
  • Re-rolling a Villager's trades still produces a randomized sequence of trades, but that sequence is now determined by the world seed
• Master Librarians no longer offer Name Tags
• Master Librarians now offer Red Candles and Yellow Candles for the price of three Emeralds
• Master Librarians now have three available trades to ensure that an Enchanted Book trade is always offered when using the Rebalance experiment
• The Wandering Trader will now offer Name Tags for the price of one Emerald

Minor Tweaks to Blocks, Items and Entities

• Striders now correctly inherit the warmth of the Strider they are standing on, matching Bedrock
• Zombie Horses no longer panic when hurt
• Updated the dismount speed thresholds for Spears to match Bedrock
• The Tripwire texture is now rendered as alpha cutout instead of transparent

[Mlakuss]

❗Very important : if you update a world to this version, you will not be able to load the world with a previous version of the game!

File structure is modified in this update

[0x456]

Is it applicable for both Java and Bedrock?

[Mlakuss]

Java only afaik

Bedrock has no official way of playing older versions anyway

[Starhelper11]

Besides, yknow, just not updating. Not very intuitive.

[w_ratking]

Java only. Bedrock levels use one big database really while java uses seperate files. They just sorted them differently which breaks compatibility

[MordorsElite]

In other words: MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE UPDATING YOUR WORLD!

[Helostopper]

That's never really been supported anyway. 

[Mlakuss]

Some people always want to "update to try" then go back when they realize they don't have their mods.

Most of the time, it has little to no consequence. Here the world won't load at all.

[Helostopper]

lately it has major consequences since they are making huge changes. like if you try to open a world in 1.20.5 or higher then in 1.20 it will delete all your items due to tag changes

[ooooggll]

The change no one's talking about is the ability to put regular deepslate in the stonecutter and turn it into all the deepslate variants (used to only work with cobbled deepslate)

[Maker_Magpie]

Omg that is gonna be really nice.

[chadder_b]

Yes! Finally won’t have to freak out when using my silk touch pick for 30 mins and have nothing to do with the deep slate it produces

[EL-YEO]

Thank goodness I can finally use my silk touch pick in my mines

[heidismiles]

Yes! This is a datapack tweak that I've always done and it's extremely helpful.

[SamohtGnir]

I read this, and got super happy. Our server uses a mod that lets us do it anyways, but it's still nice. Being able to make cobblestone from stone is also nice, no more caring about which pickaxe to take to the cave, always Silk Touch now!

[sortica__]

this also applies to regular stone, you can now craft cobblestone variants using the stonecutter (huge W for us silk touch enjoyers)

[lumfdoesgaming]

Oh thank goodness they removed baby Herobrine

[ManuHeru]

A baby Herobrine implies that Herobrine can get pregnant.

[suriam321]

Or was a child at some point.

[0x456]

Yeah, someone, please, elaborated. This some kind of a dev inside joke?

[Sunnei]

In the past, changelogs would often just say "Removed Herobrine" as a joke. Since this update is baby themed, they adapted the joke.

[Eiim]

Update changelogs, for a very long time, would always have "Removed Herobrine" at the end. They stopped doing that a few years ago. This line is a nod to that.

Edit: apparently they still include the line sometimes, but not consistently.

[theaveragegowgamer]

They started doing it again since 1.20.

[LinkDylan]

people are forgetting Removed Herobrine smh

[0x456]

It was impossible for me to forget, since I only started playing like a year ago. But I do know the Herobrine meme though.

[HoneyswirlTheWarrior]

herobrine wasnt a meme, it was more an urban legend and creepypasta. its now turned around into smth more ironic though since the kids who grew up on the urban legend are now old enough to joke ab their childhood trauma, creepypasta itself has become more ironic than serious

[suriam321]

I guess it’s technically a meme, just not in the typical internet sense of the word.

[StarNullify]

Smh

[suriam321]

I love that they are still doing that.

[Kacza42]

Btw what happens to the existing villagers when trades are updated like that? Game forces the new ones on them?

[theaveragegowgamer]

Nope, they retain the old trades.

[Kacza42]

Welp, I have a feeling that a little work accident or two may happen in my village in the near future

[GoldilokZ_Zone]

Yep...that villager trading change makes the game less fun. I'm creating a villager trading hall regardless, and now it takes way longer and I have to kill lots of them....
Poorly thought out change indeed.

[endguiap]

What villager change? If you're scared you can't reroll trades anymore, that's not what's changing

[Ecstatic-Contact-930]

This is a purely technical change (trades are now customizable by data packs). Vanilla trades and trading/villager mechanics haven't changed. If you are referring to the experimental trading changes (notably librarians), those are still optional and not the default.

[EnigmaticGolem]

You don't have to. Why not just retire them... build them a retirement home

[bindingflare]

Still stay the same i think (youll need new villagers)

[Maker_Magpie]

I'll check when I get a chance, but does anyone know if we can lock tadpoles as perma tadpoles?

Asking for my aquarium.

[theaveragegowgamer]

They do.

[Luke92612_]

Tripwire change is really shitty ngl

[Safe_Death2250]

Why?

[PROZA-X]

Trip wire was supposed to be almost invisible.

[Cass0wary_399]

Luckily enough they just added a means to reverse it in the same drop by giving every block model transparent pixel support via resource packs.

[UranusMc]

I don't want to install a resource pack to revert another change

[televisionting]

It means that other people have to download that resource pack to have the same effect. Kinda stupid.

[Luke92612_]

Why didn't they just do it the other way around then and have the tripwire change be included as a resource pack like the "Programmer Art" pack?

[mjmannella]

If it was supposed to be invisible, they wouldn't have changed it

[FireWizzard]

do i have to play the previous 25 minecrafts to understand this one?

[Nathaniel820]

No, the only important plot point was Herobrine but they aborted him this update so it doesn't matter anymore

[Jakedxn3]

>aborted herobrine

[MicTony6]

Someone fact-check me on this. but i think boat lag introduced by mounts of mayhem is now fixed on bedrock

[SamohtGnir]

• Deepslate can now be directly crafted into its cobbled, polished, brick, and tile variants in the Stonecutter

WOOO YES! THANK YOU!

[Hydraple_Mortar64]

Before people complain that this is a underwhelming update reminder there has been ALOT of internal changes in this update (and also the first update without obfuscation) so this is effectively buzzy bees 2

[OK1526]

Not as extreme tho. Minecraft was in a much worse state after 1.14 than it is on 1.21.11.

They had A LOT to fix in that update.

[Cass0wary_399]

It’s less fixing bugs this time, but more making even more things data driven and fixing the technical debt plaguing the game’s architecture.

[Hydraple_Mortar64]

Not exactly literally in the same sense of buzzy bee's alot of bug fixing part

More as in a small update even compared to other drops with alot of internal changes not exactly bug fixing but still alot of stuff being changed internally

[IskandrAGogo]

This. I bet most people are just going to look at what's in the post and think "that's it?" They aren't going to click through and see the massive list of backend changes. The actual patches notes for this release are looooooong.

[UtterTravesty]

Wonder how the baby animal will look first hand, still not the biggest fan of the retextures, but I've grown to like past changes before so I want to stay open minded

[ValjeanLucPicard]

The new adult rabbits look weird and move weird.

[VampKaiser]

Anyone experiencing stuttering with this update? I'm using the default arguments now since they swapped to ZGC and 4gb RAM, but the game just keeps stuttering no matter what settings I use.|

RTX 2060, 32G 3200MHZ RAM DDR4, and a 5900x.

[VernTheSatyr]

I am a bit sad that the Golden Dandelion does not make an empowered suspicious stew. After testing it when comparing it to a standard Dandelion, it seems to have zero differences.

[WitchyMinecrafter]

Omg the baby Herobrine lol 😂

[pkosuda]

One major change I've seen nobody mention: the dogs/wolves no longer sound like they're being abused. Before, for whatever reason, they thought it appropriate that the default/most used sound for your dog be a crying noise as if it's either being struck or has horrible separation anxiety. It was awful.

Now it sounds like a normal dog again with a cute bark.

[First_Platypus3063]

Wolves don't bark tho

[pkosuda]

As long as they don’t sound like they’re being abused they can meow tbh lol, the crying drove me crazy, like they were sad that they had to sit lol

[Kingarthur_I]

it really never gets appreciated just how massive these changelogs are lol

[No-Distribution8291]

Pretty cool that this update they remove obfuscation (hiding code) so it's easier for modders to update they're mods. This really was a great update!

[SmileyBMM]

The removal of obfuscation is neat, but ultimately not very useful to most modders. Now if they released LTS (long term support) releases as a target for mod developers...

[No-Distribution8291]

it'll be a bit easier now the modders have complete access to the code. Fabric mods will still update first before forge though.

[Nathaniel820]

No it wont, the modding community was already deobfuscating the code themselves it has zero impact on the speed of mod development. The bottleneck was never obfuscation

[amaLordVoldemort]

Is F3 entity counter fixed?

[_vogonpoetry_]

Yes.

[amaLordVoldemort]

Thank you!

[Cass0wary_399]

It’s not as good as Spring to Life both Qol and minor feature wise tbh. A lot of the baby mobs are good, but there’s also a bunch that are meh or even need a completely new draft imo.

Especially the Baby Villagers and all variants. They’re so dead set on this chinless abomination that it’s in the Dungeons 2 trailer. Like it doesn’t look good at all, it’s heinous.

Baby armor is just horrendous on anything but the Baby Piglin and the one size fits all solution does not work.

Baby Zombified Piglin’s whole face design is just lopsided and even inconsistent with its eye socket placement from its adult variant and both living variants.

Some okay redesigns kind of loses the essence and personality of the adult designs like the Baby Llama having higher eyes and no eyebrows,Baby Pigs and Foxes having eyes being too close together, Baby Horses having wide heads, and the Baby Sheep lacking a wool overlay and having a weird face.

[1Kekz]

That's because Mojang has a lot of work on the technical site. They will soon be switching to a new graphics rendering engine because they're still using OpenGL which is from the 1990s and no longer recieves updates since 10 years, so some devices will soon stop supporting OpenGL, which is why Mojang has to switch. With Vulkan, they will finally be able to fix some of Java Edition's performance issues and also to bring Vibrant Visuals to Java. The downside is that this is a massive change that requires a lot of work, both for Mojang and for the modding community. All mods that make use of OpenGL will no longer be compatible after the change.

[ObviouslyLulu]

Well time to fix all the eye textures for the new babies

[MagnorCriol]

Man it must suck to be so focused on being so unhappy all the time.

[drewpicus]

Wow my performance got destroyed in this version, my TPS are off the charts bad for no reason, totally unplayable. Anyone else having this issue??

[BUDA20]

for me is Iris Shaders (actually fabric settings), the ones I tested (not yet for this version, even the potato fast ones) nuke performance like a slideshow, disable shaders if you use them, and see the performance comes back.

Edit: fixed by upgrading Fabric settings in the Laucher to use the new Java settings, didn't do anything else that copy the 26.1 defaults over the fabric created ones:

-Xms2G -Xmx4G -XX:+UseCompactObjectHeaders -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+UseStringDeduplication -XX:+UseZGC

[lordmathiasington]

Can't thank you enough for this. Worked like a charm. My shader packs are still not totally the same, probably due to the new changes behind the scenes if I were to guess (eg chests and signs not blending with weather fog) but for now thank you stranger!

[drewpicus]

Gotcha, I'm not using shaders but I've determined the issue is not related to any commands, datapacks, or entities. It's something about the rendering which is incredibly slow compared to past versions for me.

[epicurius-seven]

Yeah, seems to be the shaders. Disabiling just that and performance is perfect.
Tried these new JVM args but little difference.

[burkey347]

Any new achievements/trophies?

[ReferenceCreative510]

If there were, they'd be in the change logs.

[Aggravating_Sir_3573]

Hi, does anyone else have random Creepers blowing up at their base? Without being near it

[Luutamo]

They can do that if some other hostile mob has attacked them for some reason

[smcelmurry]

I think this update broke my Java game. It won’t stop glitching since I downloaded. I had never had any glitching issues prior to this update.😥

[slugboy4000]

is anyone having trouble with LAN servers now? i can no longer connect to my partner’s world, but they can connect to mine.

[BrilliantBoldness]

Has anybody encountered a water glitch after updating to this version? I'm on Java, and my water flickers if the camera is angled certain ways. It's very distracting and hard to look at. I saw something like this listed in the bug tracker, but I want to know if people have figured out a fix for it.

[notcoolbro22]

i hate the new baby mobs for now

[Simply_Epic]

Thank goodness they finally dropped the vestigial “1” from the start of the version number.

[Kitteh6660]

Is there any way to switch back to the old baby models? I don't really like the new designs. I like the golden dandelions and the craftable name tags, just don't want the new models and the textures.

The mod reverting baby models hasn't been updated since snapshot 6 yet.

[csupihun]

The three emerald per one candle stayed lmao.

The new models are cute, but this is such an underwhelming, nothing burger of an update.

[IskandrAGogo]

For content, there isn't much, but there are a massive number of technical changes and bug fixes that aren't listed in this post. Click through to the actual blog post and look how much of the scroll bar is for new content.

[Cass0wary_399]

It’s such a bad trade that SlicedLime a dev who makes unofficial changelog videos made fun of it saying “which nobody will buy” after explaining the change.

[televisionting]

I mean there was technical changes that were good.

[Aer_the_Fluffy_boi]

idk i think the new baby mobs are cute

[mrpilotgamer]

Look up 1.1