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The F3 debug screen gets a redesign in Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 22 Oct 2026
Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 2 blends the sky into the fog and hides the sun behind the horizon1 Oct 2026
Sound Physics Remastered reaches 26.3, and caves stop sounding flat30 Sep 2026
VoxelMap-Updated fixes blurry minimaps on Retina and high-DPI displays30 Sep 2026
AppleSkin 3.0.10 lands on 26.3, and the hunger bar makes sense again29 Sep 2026
Geophilic 3.7 reaches 26.3 with a bone meal fix28 Sep 2026
Traveler’s Backpack 11.4.0 ports to 26.3 and starts generating in chests28 Sep 2026
Zoomify 2.16.3 fixes a launch crash for anyone running Controlify27 Sep 2026
Simple Voice Chat 2.6.24 lands on 26.3, with a 26.4 snapshot alpha three days later26 Sep 2026
Carpet 26.3 is out, and scarpet loses three noise-sampling options26 Sep 2026
Distant Horizons 3.3.2 improves Iris support on 26.3 and drops older SSRD versions25 Sep 2026
Litematica 0.29.0 brings the schematic mod to Minecraft 26.3 with a Sodium fix24 Sep 2026
Repurposed Structures reaches 26.3, with shelf mushrooms on the mansions23 Sep 2026
26.4 adds a server property that makes your server invisible without the right link23 Sep 2026
26.4 Snapshot 1: Vulkan is now what Default means23 Sep 2026
Five mods, one library, one changelog line that explains the wait21 Sep 2026
WorldEdit reaches 26.3, on every platform at once21 Sep 2026
TerraBlender and GlitchCore hit 26.3, unblocking the biome mods20 Sep 2026
Sodium 0.9.3-alpha fixes the Intel integrated graphics glitches20 Sep 2026
ViaVersion and ViaBackwards reach 26.3, five days after the drop20 Sep 2026
Entity Culling reaches 26.3, then hotfixes the invisible mobs20 Sep 2026
Bedrock 26.60 brings a native Switch 2 build and 28-chunk render distance19 Sep 2026
ScalableLux reaches 26.3, completing the server performance stack19 Sep 2026
Fusion lands on 26.3, and on NeoForge it is currently the only option19 Sep 2026
Continuity 3.0.1 ports to 26.3, and this drop needed it18 Sep 2026
C2ME builds for 26.3, and its benchmark numbers deserve a second look17 Sep 2026
Jade 26.3.1 lands with a fix for 26.3 mouse button renumbering17 Sep 2026
Minecraft 26.3 turns the server whitelist on by default17 Sep 2026
Minecraft 26.3 swapped GLFW for SDL3 – and the mods are finding out17 Sep 2026
Freecam ships an experimental 26.3 build on release day16 Sep 2026
Fabric API shipped six releases in nine days around the 26.3 launch16 Sep 2026
Xaero’s Minimap and JourneyMap both reach 26.316 Sep 2026
JEI reaches 26.3 while still shipping for 1.21 and older16 Sep 2026
Sodium Extra 0.9.4 reworks macOS resolution scaling for 26.316 Sep 2026
Sodium, Iris and Fabric API are already on 26.3 – what to check before you update16 Sep 2026
Lithium 0.26.1 fixes two critical issues one day into 26.316 Sep 2026
Cushions, wool stairs and concrete slabs: the builder’s half of Wilderness Bound16 Sep 2026
Explorer maps now cover eight biomes and four structures16 Sep 2026
The dappled forest explained: poplar colours, shelf mushrooms and red shrubs15 Sep 2026
Wilderness Bound is out: poplar trees, abandoned camps and a new forest biome15 Sep 2026
MCC Season 6: format, teams and how the Minecraft Championship works15 Sep 2026
Iris Shaders: the mod that finally made Minecraft shaders painless14 Sep 2026
Sodium 0.9.2 released, with beta builds already tracking Minecraft 26.312 Sep 2026
Tectonic 3.0.28 fixes a crash in the config presets screen11 Sep 2026
Supplementaries 3.9.9 fixes pulley animation and cannon range11 Sep 2026
MoreCulling 1.0.10 fixes Farmer’s Delight baskets rendering wrong8 Sep 2026
MCC Fall Stars: past winners return and Minecraft’s next drop gets its name5 Sep 2026
Minecraft speedrunning in 2026: a record that will not fall, and a ladder that keeps growing2 Sep 2026
Exclusive fullscreen returns on macOS in the first 26.3 pre-release1 Sep 2026
LambDynamicLights 4.12.4 fixes a keybind bug that corrupted options.txt31 Aug 2026
Nvidium 0.4.4-beta5 fixes chunks vanishing in glass-heavy builds30 Aug 2026
ImmediatelyFast 1.16.4 batches animated item rendering for a 15 percent gain28 Aug 2026
The main menu gets a dappled forest panorama25 Aug 2026
Making the Happy Ghast: how Mojang designed a flying mount without breaking the elytra22 Aug 2026
No Chat Reports 2.20.2 fixes a server list crash19 Aug 2026
Realms render distance goes to 25 chunks – and simulation distance is now separate17 Aug 2026
Chat Heads 0.15.7 fixes head positioning with TalkArea14 Aug 2026
spinnaker_rl takes Minecraft’s pre-1.8 record with 16:02 after three years13 Aug 2026
Realms owners can create invite codes from Snapshot 812 Aug 2026
Concrete stairs and slabs land in Snapshot 7, with maps hidden in the camps4 Aug 2026
MoreCulling 1.8.1 drops cloud culling because vanilla caught up3 Aug 2026
Minecraft’s 2025, drop by drop: Spring to Life, Chase the Skies, The Copper Age and Mounts of Mayhem31 Jul 2026
Lithium 0.25.3 ships for 26.2, with a backup warning worth reading30 Jul 2026
Keima’s 14:54 All Advancements run rewrites Minecraft’s longest category29 Jul 2026
Abandoned camps get tweaked, and the World Options screen is rebuilt28 Jul 2026
skycrab1 breaks the Minecraft world record with a 6:39 random seed run27 Jul 2026
Mod Menu ships an alpha on a 26.3 snapshot, seven weeks before release24 Jul 2026
Snapshot 5 moves the pack formats again – what data pack and resource pack authors need to know21 Jul 2026
Nvidium 0.4.4-beta3 fixes invalid shader program caching18 Jul 2026
Spectators can interact, and exclusive fullscreen is causing crashes16 Jul 2026
Krypton 0.3.1 brings its networking optimisations to 26.215 Jul 2026
Pixel Drift: the Eurobeat remix album that turns Minecraft’s calmest music inside out14 Jul 2026
BetterF3 19.0.0 renames OpenGL Version to Graphics API10 Jul 2026
Terralith 2.6.4 fixes a silent worldgen failure with Lithostitched9 Jul 2026
Distant Horizons 3.2.0-b adds textures to distant terrain8 Jul 2026
Cushions and straw beds arrive in Snapshot 37 Jul 2026
No Chat Reports 2.20.1 fixes a Vulkan crash, and why a chat mod had one5 Jul 2026
Terralith 2.6.3 adds geysers and folds Chaos Cubed materials into its biomes3 Jul 2026
Snapshot 2 adds a transparency rendering option and quietly optimises mobs30 Jun 2026
YUNG’s Better Dungeons ports to 26.1.2 with version 6.1.025 Jun 2026
Snapshot 1 for 26.3: the dappled forest enters testing23 Jun 2026
EntityCulling 1.10.5 fixes a NeoForge startup crash21 Jun 2026
Sulfur and cinnabar: two complete block families, and what they are good for20 Jun 2026
Cloth Config and REI reach 26.2, unblocking the rest of the mod list19 Jun 2026
The sulfur cube is not a pet – it is a physics object you feed18 Jun 2026
Continuity, BadOptimizations and Dynamic FPS ported to 26.2 on release day17 Jun 2026
Chaos Cubed has landed: sulfur caves, cinnabar and a cube that eats blocks16 Jun 2026
AppleSkin and REI ship for 26.1.2 the day before Chaos Cubed15 Jun 2026
Hardcore mode gets a settings change, and the drop date is locked to 16 June8 Jun 2026
Minecraft speedrun categories explained: RSG, SSG, pre-1.8 and Any%3 Jun 2026
Mojang reverted an exploit fix in Pre-Release 3 – and explained why2 Jun 2026
The pre-release phase, explained through 26.226 May 2026
OpenGL stays default, Vulkan moves to experimental – and beds got bouncier19 May 2026
What Mojang actually optimises for when it builds a Minecraft world18 May 2026
Farmer’s Delight 1.3.2 nerfs its two easiest meals13 May 2026
A friends list in Java Edition: what Snapshot 7 actually added12 May 2026
Tiny Takeover: every baby mob redesign, the golden dandelion, and the trumpet note block6 May 2026
KurtJMac reached Minecraft’s Far Lands after 14 years and 12.5 million blocks6 May 2026
Snapshot 6 puts the last Chaos Cubed features into testing5 May 2026
MCSR Ranked Season 10 in review: FuzzKing’s 5:56 and a ladder that got faster30 Apr 2026
MCC 63 Spell Bound: the ten teams, the format, and TommyInnit’s return21 Mar 2026
MCC Double Date opens Season 6 with a duos-themed Minecraft Championship14 Feb 2026
Jay12310 runs 6:56 and becomes the second-fastest Minecraft runner ever6 Feb 2026
MCSR Ranked Season 10 begins: how the Minecraft speedrun ladder works8 Jan 2026

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