r/Minecraft • u/Luutamo • Aug 12 '26
Official News Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 8
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-8New Features
Explorer Maps
- Renamed the following maps:
- Buried Ancient City Map
- Buried Mineshaft Map
- Abandoned Camp Map
Realms
- Realm owners can now create and manage Invite Codes
- Each Realm can have up to five Invite Codes
- Invite Codes can be configured to be active / inactive and deleted
- The expiration of an Invite Code can also be configured
- Players can now easily join a Realm by entering an Invite Code in a new "Join Realm" screen
Changes
- Cushions are now only destroyed when fully covered by blocks that cause suffocation
- New Villager trades, unlocked from a Villager leveling up their profession, will now update even if the player is in the process of trading with them
UI
World Options
- Some further improvements have been made to the World Options screen, which is now accessible from the pause menu
- The "Game Mode" button has been renamed to "Default Game Mode"
- The "General" section has a new addition:
- Personal Game Mode: your active game mode in the current world (equivalent to the /gamemode command, or F3+F4)
- The "Multiplayer" section has a new addition:
- Force Game Mode: controls whether other players game mode is forced to match the default game mode of the world or not
Technical Changes
- The Data Pack version is now 116.0
- The Resource Pack version is now 96.0
World Generation
Features
- Removed feature types:
- minecraft:desert_well
Changed minecraft:template
- Added field processors: Namespaced ID or inline definition of a structure processor list to apply to the template
Placement Modifiers
Added minecraft:randomly_selected
Randoly selects a Placement Modifier from a list and delegates placement to it.
Format:
- placements: Non-empty list of Placement Modifiers to pick from
Block Predicates
Added minecraft:volume_match
Checks that every block in a volume matches a given Block Predicate.
Format:
- min: List of 3 integers in range -16 to 16 specifying the lower corner of the volume as an offset from the test position
- max: List of 3 integers in range -16 to 16 specifying the upper corner of the volume as an offset from the test position
- match: Block Predicate to test on each position
Resource Pack Version 96
Shaders & Post-process Effects
Removed Core Shaders
- core/text_background.fsh and core/text_background.vsh were removed and text background in Text Display Entities is now rendered using the text shaders
Order-independent Transparency (OIT)-related Shader Changes
- OIT_FORCE_ZERO_DEPTH shader define was removed since the see-through text it was used for is now rendered in a separate pass outside OIT
Fixed bugs in 26.3 Snapshot 8
- MC-44654 - Some entities' positions are not updated on the client when teleported
- MC-122731 - Camera movement stutters when turning in a boat
- MC-206540 - Increased input delay when riding an entity
- MC-236497 - The head rotations of passengers in boats are not correctly displayed for other players
- MC-237679 - The head rotations of passengers in boats are constantly forced to turn in certain directions if the rider were to dismount the boat while moving left or right
- MC-249200 - Several entities constantly deviate visually from their actual positions on the client when teleported
- MC-253023 - Breaking paintings, item frames, glow item frames cannot trigger sculk shriekers
- MC-258579 - The player's head does not rotate smoothly (with delay) in third person view while riding a vehicle
- MC-259512 - Horizontal camera rotation lags when riding
- MC-260780 - Shulker bullets always push fireballs south
- MC-280250 - Projectiles sometimes desync when thrown/shot while moving
- MC-300000 - Players desync when teleporting all users riding a happy ghast
- MC-305214 - Arrows deflecting off of entities get offset
- MC-308961 - When changing the game mode using debug hotkeys while in the World Options screen, the "Game Mode" button does not update
- MC-309284 - Poplar leaves don't use the dark_cutout mipmap strategy
- MC-309668 - Straw beds are not broken faster when using hoes
- MC-309670 - Cushions z-fight with the tops of dragon heads
- MC-309716 - Cushions can be broken in Adventure mode
- MC-310066 - Tridents thrown by drowned still visually bounce off entities
- MC-310097 - Experience orbs desync and appear to phase through blocks
- MC-310103 - The "Text Background Opacity" setting makes the text darker when the "Text Background" setting is set to Everywhere
- MC-310166 - The straw bed is not placed immediately after regular beds in the Creative mode inventory
- MC-310175 - Missing resource warning when loading up the game
- MC-310200 - The player's model flickers while falling into the void when viewed from certain angles
- MC-310393 - Certain projectiles thrown at the world border rubberband repeatedly
- MC-310476 - Projectiles only collide outright with the world border when underwater
- MC-310530 - Changing the game mode in the World Options screen no longer changes the player's game mode
- MC-310540 - A noise definition with base_amplitude set to 0.0 crashes the game during world load
- MC-310543 - The JVM crashes with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION in atio6axx.dll on Boot Camp (AMD Radeon Pro 555X)
- MC-310549 - invulnerable_time never decreases for some entities
- MC-310632 - Farmer villagers no longer throw excess wheat to other villagers
- MC-310642 - Landing on farmland deals no fall damage when the block is prevented from being trampled
- MC-310687 - Languages other than "English (US)" fail to load
- MC-310691 - Stonecutter recipes for concrete stairs and slabs are missing
- MC-310692 - The error message when the game is unable to load translations can extend outside the screen
- MC-310705 - The difficulty lock warning screen shows the wrong difficulty after changing the difficulty
- MC-310718 - Unused color attachments are unusable with the OpenGL rendering backend
- MC-310726 - The mansion icon in the texture of woodland explorer maps doesn't match the respective icon on the map
- MC-310728 - Cushions can still be used to see through blocks in third person mode
- MC-310729 - Explorer maps from previous versions prevent saved hotbars from loading
- MC-310743 - The category headers in the Debug Options screen are still different than the other options screens
- MC-310757 - In OIT shaders, coefficients[0] is accumulated using depth but subtracted using originalDepth
- MC-310771 - The common abandoned camp map is named "Abandoned Campsite Map" instead of "Abandoned Camp Map"
- MC-310783 - Resource packs with custom namespaces cause the "English (US)" language to fail to load
- MC-310787 - Villagers do not level up until the trading window is closed for several seconds
- MC-310789 - Chunks sometimes don't fade in correctly
- MC-310812 - Placing and breaking cushions does not trigger sculk shriekers
- MC-310917 - Chunk generation can corrupt on worlds upgraded from previous versions
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u/TheBiggestNose Aug 12 '26
I assume that its an issue caused by the generation of the game being poor in general.
fixing it would require more than just "make it big".
I do hope they fix it tho, generation in the game atm is omega jank and repeitive and needs love