16.06.2026

Minecraft 26.2 Java Edition Download

Minecraft 26.2: Chaos Cubed — an update for Java Edition, released on June 16, 2026. Sulfur caves with new resources, including sulfur and cinnabar, as well as a new mob, have appeared in the game. In addition, the version brought technical changes: support for Vulkan and the long-awaited friends list.

1. Cave Biome

2 Blocks

3 New Creature

4 Changes

5 Main Fixed Bugs

Cave Biome

A new cave biome has appeared — sulfur caves. They generate underground and can also be found inside hills and mountains. These places are easy to recognize by the characteristic strips of sulfur and cinnabar that cover the walls and make the biome stand out from ordinary caves. Sulfur cubes and cave spiders live here, and the floor is covered with pools of active sulfur. If the biome reaches the surface under the open sky, it keeps its features and is not replaced by regular grass blocks.

A new natural decoration can appear above sulfur caves in the Overworld — a sulfur spring. It consists of regular sulfur, active sulfur, and magma blocks, so it immediately points to a dangerous underground area nearby. Sulfur springs come in different sizes: small, medium, large, and huge.

Blocks

Cinnabar. A red decorative block that generates in sulfur caves. It can be used to create different building variants: stairs, slabs, walls, polished cinnabar, cinnabar bricks, and chiseled cinnabar.

Sulfur. A yellow block that is also found in sulfur caves. Like cinnabar, it has several decorative forms: regular stairs, slabs, and walls, as well as polished sulfur, sulfur bricks, and chiseled sulfur. Both materials can be processed on a crafting table or in a stonecutter.

Active sulfur. It appears at the bottom of pools in sulfur caves and creates bubbles in water. If there are several water blocks above it, a cloud of poisonous gas may form on the surface, causing nausea. The gas spreads nearby and can pass through non-solid blocks.
When a magma block or lava is placed under active sulfur, a geyser appears. It periodically shoots a stream of water particles upward and lifts entities located above it. The eruption itself does not deal damage, but the launch height depends on the amount of water above the block. The beginning and end of the geyser’s activity can be detected by a sculk sensor. Active sulfur can also be crafted from 9 sulfur blocks.

Sulfur spike. It generates on sulfur and can form stalactites on the ceiling or stalagmites on the floor. Spikes can be extended, combined into columns, and when their support is broken, stalactites fall down. They can deal damage when falling, and stalagmites are dangerous when landing on them. A thrown trident breaks sulfur spikes, and four such spikes can be used to craft a sulfur block.

New Creature

Sulfur cube is a new friendly mob that appears in sulfur caves. It moves by jumping, like a slime or magma cube. It has 8 health points. Although the mob is friendly, it uses hostile creature spawn conditions and takes up their mob cap. If there is no player nearby, a sulfur cube may despawn.

The mob’s main mechanic is connected to absorbing blocks. If a suitable block is used on a sulfur cube, it will absorb it and temporarily stop moving. The block can be removed with shears, after which the cube will become mobile again.

A sulfur cube follows the player if they are holding a block that the mob can absorb; it can also search for blocks lying on the ground on its own.
With a block inside it, the sulfur cube becomes a physical object. It can be pushed and hit, and the mob itself starts reacting to collisions. In this state, it does not take damage from falling, creature attacks, or explosions, while lava still damages it.

A large sulfur cube can be placed into an empty bucket. Dispensers can interact with a sulfur cube and can also release a sulfur cube from a bucket, but they cannot place it back inside.
The absorbed block changes the sulfur cube’s properties. Depending on the material, the cube can become fast, heavy, sticky, slippery, light, or more bouncy.
Wooden blocks make it bouncy, while ice gives it fast sliding. Metal blocks make its movement slow and flat. Wool turns the cube into a light variant. A honeycomb block makes it sticky.

A magma block creates a hot variant that deals damage on contact. A special variant appears when absorbing TNT; such a sulfur cube becomes explosive. The TNT inside can be activated with redstone, fire, or a nearby explosion. After detonation, the cube disappears and does not split into smaller versions.
When killed, a regular large sulfur cube splits into two small ones. Small sulfur cubes do not drop items.

Changes

Bed. Entities now bounce more strongly from beds when falling. The bounce speed is 75% of the falling speed instead of the previous 66%.
World settings. In worlds with Hardcore mode, the Game Mode and Allow Commands buttons can no longer be used.

Mobs

Various mobs had their hitboxes, eye height, and rider positions adjusted.
The hitboxes of baby hoglins, striders, and zoglins have been brought closer to Bedrock Edition.
The rider position on baby hoglins was changed so that the legs of small piglins no longer pass through the hoglin model.
The height of baby zombies, zombified piglins, zombie villagers, husks, drowned, villagers, and piglins has been reduced from 0.99 to 0.98 blocks.
The rider position on chickens has been fixed so that the legs no longer go inside the chicken’s head.
The damage and death sounds for the “fussy” chicken sound variant have been updated.
Zombie horses, ocelots, and piglins can now appear on Peaceful difficulty.
The textures of baby hoglins and zoglins have been fixed. The left ear now displays correctly.

Main Fixed Bugs

Fixed the game freezing when creating a new world if the saves folder was not available for writing.
Fixed a game crash when trying to update an old world.
Fixed a serious frame rate drop in newer versions of the game.
Fixed additional FPS drops that appeared in versions 26.1 and above.
Fixed the world freezing when using the structure search command in a world without structures enabled.
Fixed an issue that could cause the server to freeze during igloo generation.
Fixed a client crash when launching with JFR profiling enabled.
Fixed a game crash when an evoker dealt a retaliatory hit to a vex.
Fixed an issue where players could respawn in the lower layers of bedrock if the spawn point was set in the Nether.
Fixed an issue where items could enter the player’s inventory after death and disappear when the keep inventory rule was disabled.
Fixed an issue with invisible blocks or blocks remaining in place after being destroyed.