Minecraft 26.4 Snashot 6 Java Edition Download (Overview)
26.4 Snapshot 6 became available on October 27, 2026, continuing the development of the Minecraft Java Edition 26.4 update. The sixth preview build expanded the range of building materials with snow bricks, while the sulfur cube received a new archetype that expands its abilities.
Contents:
1 New Features
2 Changes
3 Bug Fixes
4 Installation
5 Download Links
New Features
Snow Bricks. A new building material has appeared in Minecraft — snow bricks, which are crafted from four snow blocks arranged in a 2×2 square. All the new blocks can be mined with a shovel, and the variety of shapes allows snow bricks to be used not only for walls but also for more complex architectural details. They are suitable for decorating winter-themed buildings and come in several variants:
- Snow Brick Slabs — half-blocks for creating various structures.
- Snow Brick Stairs — allow players to build staircases and create transitions.
- Snow Brick Walls — used to create barriers and decorative elements.
Changes
- Ice Crystals — can now randomly produce ambient sounds if packed ice is located beneath them.
- Packed Ice Bricks — the bricks themselves, slabs, stairs, walls, and chiseled packed ice now only drop when mined with a pickaxe.
- Fragile Ice — no longer cracks beneath the feet of winterghasts, allowing them to move safely across its surface.
- Fall Damage — mobs falling through lava now take less damage upon landing in certain cases.
- New Sulfur Cube Archetype — the "Cold" archetype has been added, which appears after absorbing blue ice. It has the properties of "Fast Sliding" but does not provide buoyancy. When moving from land onto water, the sulfur cube can turn the water's surface into frosted ice if there is air above the water.
Bug Fixes
In this snapshot, the developers fixed 41 bugs. Some of the notable fixes include:
- Crashes When Opening the Inventory — fixed issues that could cause the game to crash when spectating a mob or using an active scoreboard objective displayed below the player's name.
- Fragile Ice Breaking — fixed issues that allowed creatures to break fragile ice when the mob_griefing game rule was disabled and players to destroy it in the protected spawn area.
- Ice Cave Generation — fixed an issue that caused gravel, diorite, and andesite deposits to generate twice in the new biome.
- Disappearing Sulfur Cubes — small sulfur cubes that spawned after a creature released from a bucket split should no longer disappear on their own.
- Incorrect Block Mining — fixed issues that could cause block breaking to finish too early or be delayed, and sometimes cause a block to briefly reappear when jumping before mining it.
Installation
Step 1. Open TLauncher and go to the Settings tab by clicking the gear icon in the lower right corner.
Step 2. Select the Display Snapshots checkbox, and do not forget to save the changes by clicking the appropriate button at the bottom.
Step 3. On the main screen of TLauncher, open the version selection tab, select the desired snapshot, and click 'Install' or 'Launch the Game' if the snapshot is already installed.
Download Links
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