Dappled Forest

The dappled forest is a new biome that generates near cold biomes. It has a distinct autumn feel with poplar trees in three leaf color variants: red, orange, and yellow. Each tree drops leaf particles matching its color, and fallen poplar logs also generate on the ground with shelf mushrooms growing on them. Red shrubs dot the forest floor in small patches. Standard woodland mobs spawn here using their cold variants where applicable.

Poplar Trees and Wood Set

Poplar logs can be crafted into a full new wood set. Poplar saplings drop from any poplar leaves and grow randomly into one of the three color variants. Wandering traders also sell them. Leaf litter and shelf mushrooms generate naturally around the trees.

New Plants

• Red Shrub: a decorative plant found in the dappled forest, can be composted and spreads to adjacent blocks with bone meal
• Shelf Mushroom: grows on poplar trees and fallen logs, comes in small and large sizes, can be grown with bone meal, and used in mushroom stew. Has a slight bounce effect when stepped on, similar to beds. Available from wandering traders.

Abandoned Camps

Abandoned camps are a new structure type that generates across 18 different biomes, from meadows and cherry groves to swamps, savannas, and pale gardens. Each biome gets its own visual variant of the structure. Chests and barrels with loot are scattered throughout. The mystery of who built them and why they left remains unanswered for now.

Wool Stairs and Slabs

All 16 wool colors now have stair and slab variants. That's a long-awaited addition for builders who work with soft blocks and want more shaping options without switching materials.

Boats and Projectiles

Boats now take fewer hits to break and regenerate damage over time, matching Java Edition behavior. Projectile deflection got a broader update too: the Ender Dragon now deflects projectiles while perching, creative mode players deflect them, and sulfur cubes with an absorbed block also deflect incoming shots. Blocked projectiles no longer bounce off targets prematurely.

Sulfur Cube Tweaks

Observer blocks and Redstone Lamps have been removed from the slow bouncy archetype, so sulfur cubes can no longer absorb them. Sulfur spikes now have a maximum growth height and won't keep extending indefinitely.

Visual and Graphical Fixes

• Thrown projectiles no longer render as solid colors with Texture Streaming enabled
• Green outline on distant blocks in Vibrant Visuals on some Android devices is fixed
• Transparent blocks like water and ice no longer incorrectly render in front of clouds
• Bed item sprites updated to match the actual appearance of their corresponding bed blocks
• Bundle pickup animation in the hotbar now plays reliably

Fences and Structures

Fences in pre-generated structures including villages, woodland mansions, and ancient cities now correctly connect to adjacent fence blocks. This has been a long-standing visual inconsistency in generated builds.

Sounds

Critical hit sounds and some jumping and landing sounds now correctly respond to the Player volume slider. Music now plays in Lush Caves, Meadow, Stony Peaks, Snowy Slopes, Frozen Peaks, and Swamps.

What's New in Chaos Cubed

• Sulfur Cube — a passive mob found in sulfur caves that absorbs blocks fed by the player, changing its physics and behavior depending on the block type. Can be captured and carried in a bucket.
• Sulfur Caves — a new underground cave biome with shallow water pools, glow lichen, sulfur spikes, and naturally spawning sulfur cubes
• Sulfur Springs — surface-level formations of sulfur and cinnabar blocks with noxious gas rising from bubbling pools, marking the entrance to sulfur caves below
• Potent Sulfur — a new block that creates bubble columns and noxious gas when placed under water; the source of the springs' bubbling effect; causes nausea to nearby players and mobs
• Geysers — created by placing a magma block under a submerged potent sulfur block; launches players and entities into the air
• Sulfur Spikes — grow naturally on sulfur and cinnabar blocks; harmless to walk on but can fall and deal damage
• Cinnabar block set — full set of blocks in deep red tones including stairs, slabs, bricks, polished and chiseled variants
• Sulfur block set — full set of blocks in bright yellow tones with the same range of variants
• TNT and Magma archetypes — feed a sulfur cube TNT to create an ignitable explosive mob; feed it magma for a hot cube that deals contact damage

New Music by fingerspit

Composer Paula Ruiz (fingerspit) wrote the Chaos Cubed soundtrack, which is now live in the game across menus, Creative Mode, and a wide range of biomes.

• Bounce — a music disc found in minecart chests inside mineshafts within sulfur caves
• Ebb, Home, Memories, Nightly, Shores — five ambient tracks added to the main menu, Creative Mode, and over 20 biomes including sulfur caves, cherry grove, jungle, lush caves, desert, forest, swamp, meadow, and frozen peaks

Chaos Cubed is available now for all players on Bedrock Edition 26.30, across Xbox, PlayStation, Windows, iOS, and Android.

Sulfur Cube Changes

The biggest behavioral shift this build is that sulfur cubes are no longer classified as hostile mobs. They won't prevent sleep, won't trigger the Monster Hunter achievement, and conduits will no longer attack them. They can now spawn on the surface in sulfur cave biomes and spawn regardless of light level, which opens up encounters above ground for the first time.

On the fix side: magma sulfur cubes no longer deal contact damage to players wearing Frost Walker boots, sulfur cubes correctly take damage from hot sulfur cubes if they don't have a block absorbed, and they no longer destroy snow layers when spawned from a bucket.

Accessibility and UI

A new screen distortion option has been added to accessibility settings, letting you control how much the nausea effect and Nether portal transitions distort the screen. Useful for players who find the effect disorienting or want to reduce it entirely.

The fire overlay has been updated to match Java Edition: it's been rotated 45 degrees and shifted down to improve center-frame visibility. Furnace tabs have been reordered, and pressing E over the recipe search bar now inputs the letter instead of closing the screen.

Vibrant Visuals

Clouds, sun, moon, and stars now render correctly when the camera is underwater in Vibrant Visuals mode. A corrupted mob visuals bug with PBR resource packs containing heightmap textures has also been resolved.

Bucket Mob Overhaul

Mobs released from buckets now start completely fresh. They no longer carry over movement speed, status effects, fire, suffocation damage, or aggression from before they were captured. Mobs that were near a Nether portal when captured can also use one immediately on release. It's a significant cleanup of what was previously some pretty unpredictable behavior.

Graphical Fixes

Several texture streaming bugs that have been around for a while got resolved in this build:

• Guardian and Elder Guardian beams now animate correctly with texture streaming enabled
• End Crystal beams no longer appear as white cylinders
• Enchantment glint no longer disappears from items over time
• High-resolution texture pack textures no longer appear blurred
• Anti-aliasing now applies correctly when launching in fullscreen
• Vibrant Visuals cloud reflections in water no longer flash bright at midnight

Sound Fixes

A batch of audio issues were fixed: Shulker hurt sounds, Pillager celebrate sounds, and Panda idle and worried sounds were all broken due to typos or missing file references and are now working again. Sulfur spikes got dedicated block sounds. Background music now pauses when a player is near a playing Jukebox, and main menu music starts after the initial loading screen to prevent audio stuttering on launch.

Sulfur Cube Changes

The sulfur cube can no longer absorb a block from more than 8 blocks away. Adjacent sulfur cubes no longer push each other when placed on neighboring blocks. Named sulfur cubes now show their absorbed block in the bucket item label. Sulfur cubes with an absorbed block can no longer be frozen.

Other Fixes

Minecart entity separation behavior is restored to how it worked before 1.21.0. Players in a party now show with blue names. The ghost block bug when simultaneously crouching and placing on interactive blocks like chests and item frames has been fixed.

Chaos Cubed

The show opened with a closer look at Chaos Cubed, the second drop of 2026. The development team showed early prototypes and talked through the sulfur cube's block-absorbing mechanics. The highlight was TNT sulfur cubes, which apparently nobody on the team can resist detonating. Chaos Cubed launches with sulfur caves, the sulfur cube mob, potent sulfur, and two new block sets.

Drop 3: Dappled Forest

The third game drop of 2026 gets its first reveal. The centerpiece is the dappled forest, a new woodland biome with a warm, autumnal feel and a distinct visual identity. Here's what we know so far:

• Poplar trees are the defining feature of the biome, growing tall with warm gray wood that has a natural, weathered look different from any existing wood type
• Persistently red shrubs dot the ground, adding splashes of color that stay red regardless of the season or biome temperature
• Herringbone wood patterns appear in the biome's generated structures, suggesting a distinct architectural style
• Abandoned camps are scattered throughout the dappled forest, hinting at a mystery or story element tied to the drop

The warm gray poplar wood looks like a strong addition for builders looking for neutral tones with natural texture. The biome has a cozy, slightly eerie atmosphere that sets it apart from existing forest types. Full details on the fall drop are coming later in the year.

Minecraft Dungeons II

The show introduced the Twisted Warden, a new enemy coming to Minecraft Dungeons II. Described as slow but extremely powerful, it's tied to the deep dark and appears through an ominous portal. Dungeons II is coming later this year to Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Steam, Xbox on PC, and Game Pass.

LEGO and the Minecraft Arena

TwitchCon featured a life-size Minecraft Arena built with real biome recreations and a giant Twisted Warden display. LEGO revealed an upcoming Dungeons II set and unveiled the LEGO Minecraft Chicken Mounts add-on, a Marketplace download focused entirely on rideable and customizable chickens.

Sulfur Cube and Potent Sulfur

Several sulfur cube movement issues have been addressed. Cubes no longer sink or freeze after ejecting a block, and placing one from a bucket no longer carries over the momentum it had when captured. The slow bouncy archetype now responds to knockback correctly based on damage dealt, and the hot archetype matches the regular archetype's throw distance. TNT sulfur cubes can also now be primed by redstone dust pointing directly at them.

Erupting potent sulfur got a fun addition: it can now launch boats and falling blocks into the air, opening up new possibilities for contraptions and mini-games.

Other Fixes

Sulfur caves now blend properly with neighboring chunks that were generated before the update. A Vibrant Visuals rendering bug that corrupted mob visuals when using PBR resource packs with heightmap textures has been fixed. Music playback in Mega Taiga and Redwood Taiga Mutated biomes is working again, and a crash affecting local multiplayer on Xbox has been resolved.

Sulfur Caves and Springs

Sulfur caves now spawn more pools and have an updated mob spawn table. Creepers, skeletons, and zombies spawn less often and always appear in pairs. Witches are also less common. Sulfur cubes now spawn in groups of two to four, and cave spiders replace regular spiders in the biome. Glow lichen has been reduced to match other cave types, and sulfur caves that break through to the surface now generate with all their features intact.

Sulfur spikes now grow over time, similar to how pointed dripstone works. Block textures for sulfur and cinnabar have been updated to match Java Edition. Sulfur caves also got a custom grass color override.

Sulfur Cube Fixes

This build addresses a lot of sulfur cube issues:

• Magma sulfur cubes no longer damage Netherite armor
• Fire Resistance now properly protects against magma sulfur cube contact damage
• Shields no longer block magma sulfur cube damage (intended behavior)
• TNT sulfur cubes can now be ignited by touching a magma block or another magma sulfur cube
• Sulfur cubes with absorbed blocks are now immune to Poison
• Hot archetype now shares physics properties with the regular archetype
• Fixed floating behavior after absorbing blocks that should cause sinking
• Improved server performance when many sulfur cubes are loaded in one area
• Added a death message for being killed by a magma sulfur cube

Potent Sulfur and Geysers

Geyser eruptions now launch entities and particles slightly higher to match Java Edition. Noxious gas particles darken based on surrounding light levels, and eruption particles no longer get blocked as easily by nearby blocks. Potent sulfur can no longer be moved by pistons, and a bug where naturally generated sulfur springs occasionally failed to produce a geyser has been fixed. Geysers also got their own unique sounds for continuous eruptions.

Closed Captions

The headline addition in this release is closed captions, one of the most requested accessibility features for Bedrock Edition. You can customize their position on screen, adjust how long they stay visible, and choose which sounds trigger them. It's a big step for players who are deaf or hard of hearing, or anyone who plays without audio.

Tiny Takeover Fixes

Several baby mobs from the Tiny Takeover drop got sound tweaks, texture corrections, and geometry fixes. If you noticed anything off with the redesigned babies after the 26.10 update, this build addresses a number of those issues.

Chaos Cubed in Testing

All the core Chaos Cubed features are now available behind the experimental toggle. Sulfur caves generate underground with cinnabar and sulfur block sets, potent sulfur creates bubbling pools with noxious gas, and sulfur springs appear on the surface above the caves.

The sulfur cube's physics got a notable upgrade in this build. Knockback is now directional based on where you hit it: strike the left side and it flies right, hit from above and it rolls along the ground, hit from below and it launches upward. Harder hits produce more knockback, and your position relative to the cube also affects the trajectory. The system is still being refined, but it already makes interacting with sulfur cubes feel more like a physics puzzle than a simple combat encounter.

The show will feature previews of upcoming game drops, developer insights, and news from across the Minecraft universe. It comes just a couple of months after the main Minecraft LIVE event that revealed Chaos Cubed and covered the Tiny Takeover drop.

No specific announcements have been confirmed yet, but Mojang is promising sneak peeks at both current and future content. If you want to catch it live, tune in on May 30 through Twitch.