A Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Preview
Written by Jay Wells
Published: 3 Feb 2026 (Minecraft.net)

Beware! Seven floofy and feral baby mobs with deceivingly snuggly new looks are on the loose in testing. From the icy tundra to the sandy deserts – few biomes are safe from their cuteness! Plus, test the golden dandelion, too!

As always, we’re keen to get your feedback on these new features at feedback.minecraft.net, and you can report any bugs you find at bugs.mojang.com. (Minecraft.net)

Features and Bug Fixes

Drop 1 2026

Golden Dandelion

• Introduced Golden Dandelion as a new type of flower that can be used to stop baby mobs from aging

  • Can be crafted using a Dandelion and Gold Nuggets

Golden Dandelion works on:

• Baby Armadillo

• Baby Axolotl

• Baby Bee

• Baby Camel

• Baby Cat

• Baby Chicken

• Baby Cow

• Baby Dolphin

• Baby Donkey

• Baby Fox

• Ghastling

• Baby Hoglin

• Baby Goat

• Baby Horse

• Baby Llama

• Baby Mooshroom

• Baby Mule

• Baby Nautilus

• Baby Ocelot

• Baby Panda

• Baby Pig

• Baby Polar Bear

• Baby Rabbit

• Baby Sheep

• Baby Sniffer

• Baby Strider

• Baby Trader Llama

• Baby Turtle

• Baby Wolf

• Tadpole

Known issues:

• No particles or sounds yet

• Cannot craft Suspicious Stew

• Cannot craft Yellow Dye

• Mobs cannot pick it up

• Piglins cannot be distracted by it (Minecraft.net)

Baby Mobs

Updated baby mobs:

• Polar Bear

• Goat

• Fox

  • New baby animations

• Camel

  • New baby animations

• Armadillo

  • New baby animations

• Llama

• Trader Llama

• Bee (Minecraft.net)

Accessibility

• Fixed text-to-speech not enabling automatically (Minecraft.net)

Crash

• Fixed crash while climbing (Minecraft.net)

Graphics

• Fixed player flickering at high speed

• Added texture streaming feature (Preview only)

Texture streaming:

• Reduces GPU memory usage

• Useful with many addons

• Disabled by default

• Found in Video Settings (Minecraft.net)

Items

• Bundle and Wolf Armor scale fixed with HD textures (Minecraft.net)

Mobs

• Mooshroom mushroom position fixed

• Zombie Horses no longer flee sunlight

• Baby Skeleton Horses no longer grow up

Zombie Horse behavior:

• Avoid water

• Avoid dangerous blocks

• Do not avoid rails (Minecraft.net)

Realms

• Fixed crash with 150+ Realms (Minecraft.net)

User Interface

• Added missing font characters

• Fixed crash from large books

• Added option:

  • Disable pause when game loses focus (desktop)

Other fixes:

• Pick-block opacity fixed

• Settings button fixed

• Store purchases refresh correctly

• Updated touch interact button (Minecraft.net)

Technical Updates

API

Changes:

• Added isSuperset parameter

• world.containsBiomes → stable

• Removed superset property

• ScriptBiomeFilter → stable

• Redstone update API released

• ItemDurabilityComponent.unbreakable released (Minecraft.net)

Commands

• iOS autocomplete fixed (Minecraft.net)

Character Creator

• Banned skins now detected

• Default skin shown if banned

• Appearance saves immediately (Minecraft.net)

AI Goals

Stricter entity JSON parsing:

minecraft:behavior.ram_attack

Float ranges must use:

min
max

Same change for:

minecraft:behavior.celebrate (Minecraft.net)

Blocks

• Fixed crash from invalid geometry (Minecraft.net)

Editor

Fixes:

• Enter key works again

• Folder tree API added

• Vector3 timeline added

Timeline:

• Drag nodes by time

• Edit values by double click

• Slider shows time

Other:

• Better text colors

• Lights update properly

• Jigsaw dropdown names

• Alphabetical sorting

• Improved layout (Minecraft.net)

Scripting

New primitives:

• Cylinder

• Cone

• Cuboid

• Pyramid

• Ellipsoid

All support:

• Rotation

• Transparency (Minecraft.net)

Entity Components

New aging system:

• pause_growth_items

• reset_growth_items

Triggers:

• pause_growth

• reset_growth (Minecraft.net)

Experimental Updates

API

New system:

Data-Driven UI (DDUI)

Features:

• New modal forms

• New UI system

Known issues:

1. Must wait one tick between forms

2. UI queues instead of failing

3. Forms update only after showing (Minecraft.net)

User Interface

• Party settings icon fixed (Minecraft.net)

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