# Minecraft: Java Edition 26.3-pre-2 — Minecraft 26.3 Pre-Release 2 - Product: Minecraft: Java Edition (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/minecraft-java) - Vendor: Mojang Studios - Date: 2026-09-04 - Version: 26.3-pre-2 - Original notes: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/updates - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/minecraft-java/releases/26.3-pre-2 - Labels: Pre-release What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- Two pre-releases in one week!? That's right! Now that we're in the pre-release phase, we're no longer following our regular snapshot schedule. This also means we're spending more time hunting bugs as we get things ready for release, and this pre-release is - **removed** — Removed the custom rendering of IME candidates - **changed** — Data Pack version is now 120.0 - **changed** — Renamed on_abandoned_camp_windswept structure tag to on_abandoned_camp_windswept_forest - **fixed** — Sculk sensors now detect ice and snow melting - **fixed** — Client no longer spawns crit particles when attacking another player that cannot be harmed - **fixed** — Goats now move correctly after they are tempted during a long jump - **fixed** — Block breaking particles are now visible to other players - **fixed** — Block breaking sounds are now audible to other players - **fixed** — Particles produced from entities growing are now visible to other players - **fixed** — Particles produced from moving in powder snow are now visible to other players - **fixed** — Cave biomes no longer interfere with relief on exploration maps - **fixed** — Saddled pigs in boats carried by happy ghasts no longer cause a desync when unequipping a carrot on a stick - **fixed** — InhabitedTime for chunks is no longer set to impossibly high values when a world is opened - **fixed** — Spawners with their light limits set now spawn mobs underground at night time - **fixed** — The taskbar icon now displays the game's logo instead of the Java logo - **fixed** — The IME candidate box no longer twitches while typing - **fixed** — Other windows can now be displayed on top of the game window even with the Exclusive Fullscreen option disabled - **fixed** — Severe rendering errors no longer occur on Windows devices with a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 CPU - **fixed** — The mouse cursor is now visible in fullscreen mode with the OpenGL rendering backend - **fixed** — Interacting with camels with two passengers is no longer preferred over using items Two pre-releases in one week!? That's right! Now that we're in the pre-release phase, we're no longer following our regular snapshot schedule. This also means we're spending more time hunting bugs as we get things ready for release, and this pre-release is no exception. Hope you brought your bug spray! Happy Mining! ##### Changes ##### UI - Removed the custom rendering of IME candidates ##### Technical Changes - The Data Pack version is now 120.0 ##### Data Pack Version 120.0 ##### Tags ###### Structure Tags - Renamed on_abandoned_camp_windswept to on_abandoned_camp_windswept_forest ##### Fixed bugs in 26.3 Pre-Release 2 - MC-210117 - Sculk sensors don't detect ice/snow melting - MC-211708 - Client spawns crit particles when attacking another player that cannot be harmed - MC-228273 - Goats do not move correctly after they are tempted during a long jump - MC-237053 - Block breaking particles cannot be seen by other players - MC-237165 - Block breaking sounds cannot be heard by other players - MC-247034 - Particles produced from entities growing cannot be seen by other players - MC-248600 - Particles produced from moving in powder snow cannot be seen by other players - MC-263100 - Cave biomes interfere with relief on exploration maps - MC-299460 - Saddled pigs in boats carried by happy ghasts can cause a desync when unequipping a carrot on a stick - MC-304719 - InhabitedTime for some chunks can be set to impossibly high values when a world is opened - MC-307449 - Spawners with their light limits set no longer spawn mobs underground at night time - MC-310088 - The taskbar icon displays the Java logo instead of the game's logo - MC-310169 - The IME candidate box sometimes twitches while typing - MC-310300 - Other windows cannot be displayed on top of the game window even with the "Exclusive Fullscreen" option disabled - MC-310592 - Severe rendering errors occur on Windows devices with a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 CPU - MC-310756 - The mouse cursor is invisible in fullscreen mode with the OpenGL rendering backend - MC-310939 - Interacting with camels with two passengers is preferred over using items - MC-311186 - The water overlay and fog does not render when the player's head is inside a block underwater - MC-311219 - Pressing a mouse button after unmaximizing the game window while in a world can cause odd behavior - MC-311245 - Ruined portals can generate replacing end portal frames - MC-311271 - Some loot context parameters are missing from "generic" loot context - MC-311272 - Some LootContextUser can crash when referenced parameter is not provided - MC-311285 - Unnamed key binds from previous versions cause several options to be reset - MC-311345 - Reloading resource packs with the OpenGL rendering backend when in a world causes visual glitches and crashes - MC-311430 - The name of the #on_abandoned_camp_windswept structure tag does not contain the full name of the biome it generates in - MC-311445 - In the 26.3 snapshots, game input freezes after triggering emoji panel with Win + . - MC-311453 - Particles from feeding flowers to brown mooshrooms cannot be seen by other players - MC-311454 - Particles from water evaporating in the Nether are not properly displayed - MC-311482 - Kelp and seagrass can generate floating on submerged beached shipwrecks - MC-311485 - The fog color when the weather is rain or thunder is much bluer compared to previous versions - MC-311488 - Some IME software still cannot be used in fullscreen even with borderless mode. - MC-311583 - Riding saddled pigs with carrot on a stick in boats carried by happy ghasts causes severe desync - MC-311592 - Cursor containment does not update - MC-311593 - Spear animation jitters when swapping into spear slot and charging it in the same tick - MC-311594 - Some number providers produce an unexpected error when used in /compute - MC-311610 - Clicking on an unopened double loot chest in Spectator mode plays the locked chest soun _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/updates]_