Another nice free upgrade for Minecraft Java Edition has arrived with version 26.2 ‘Chaos Cubed’ bringing new features and new creatures.
Unfortunately, the peer to peer hosting system did not actually make it into this release.
It was removed in pre-release 1 as they said “With this pre-release, we are removing the Peer-to-Peer connection feature introduced in a recent snapshot.
Because the experience wasn’t what we wanted it to be for all players, we do not consider the feature ready for release in its current form.”.
Hopefully it can return soon as it will be a nice boost for the game.
Still, lots to be excited about.
There is still the new fancy friends list system that’s finally in the game officially! Along with some other highlights like Vulkan API support:
This new mob is going to be a fun one, to see what people end up doing with it because it absorbs different types of blocks.
When it has a block inside, the AI is disabled and it turns into different archetypes that make it react differently when hit.
These special types include:
And some special types:
There’s a lot more to the update, it really is quite a big one on a technical level.
See more in the release announcement.
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