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Minecraft 26.1 - The Tiny Takeover

Ready or not, here comes the Tiny Takeover drop! New versions of baby mobs have stormed Minecraft, causing cuteness overload across biomes and builds. Listen out for heart-melting sounds, craft name tags for your pets, and keep babies forever young with the golden dandelion.

CHANGELOG:
New Features:
* Added new baby sounds for Wolfs, Cats, Pigs, Horses and Chickens
* Added Golden Dandelion
* Added adult sound variants for Cats, Pigs, Cows, and Chickens
* Added a trumpet instrument for when using a Note Block that is placed on a Copper Block

Changes:
* Revamped the visuals of most baby mobs
* Name Tags are now craftable and can be crafted with 1 Paper and 1 of any Metal Nugget
* Removed Name Tags from loot chests in Ancient Cities and Woodland Mansions
* Deepslate can now be directly crafted into its cobbled, polished, brick, and tile variants in the Stonecutter
* Stone can now be directly crafted into cobbled variants in the Stonecutter
* Updated the Main Menu background panorama
* The algorithm that maps block and sky light levels to how bright things appear on screen has been fully rewritten
* Removed baby Herobrine

Technical Changes:
* The Data Pack version is now 101.1
* The Resource Pack version is now 84
* Game executables are no longer obfuscated
* If a server’s disk space is low, a toast will now be shown to server operators
* The game now requires Java 25
* The included Java distribution is now the Microsoft build of OpenJDK 25
* The report generator for item components has been renamed to “Default Components” and now outputs one file per any element that has default components
* The file structure of how worlds and their data are stored has been changed
* The internals of how chunk geometry data is stored in GPU memory and how they are rendered has been changed
* The game will now save all data once after the world has finished loading/the server has started up

Developer’s Notes:
* We’ve fixed 89 bugs in this release
* View the full changelog on Minecraft.net

GET THE RELEASE:
Cross-platform server jar:
* Minecraft server jar

Report bugs here:
* Minecraft issue tracker!

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