Bedrock Edition 26.70

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See Bedrock Edition guides/Fourth Drop 2026 for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Fourth Drop 2026.

26.70, also known as 1.26.70, the release of the fourth drop of 2026, is an upcoming game drop for Bedrock Edition set to release in the fourth quarter of 2026, which adds the ice caves biome, including frostbites.

It also adds the built-in Music Features Add-On, featuring the disc press, craftable blank discs to make track discs, and the pocket jukebox, and fixes bugs.

Additions

26.70 block and item additions

A fragile ice block that generates naturally in ice caves.
Can be created when water touches blue ice.
Breaks when standing for too long or jumping on them. Its crack level stages do not reset.
- Frostbites standing on brittle ice do not break it.
Produces particles during its first stage or when it breaks.
Emits vibrations when its crack level changes.
Can only be obtained with Silk Touch.

A crystal block which generates on the ground in ice caves, and can be placed on all sides of a block.
Provides a small amount of light.

A spike block that generates on the ceiling in ice caves, and can also be placed on the ground.
Grows naturally up to 5 blocks long when hanging downward. Does not grow when there is light or in the Nether.
Breaks when exposed to nearby light sources or while in the Nether, except for its base block.
Damages entities when it falls and deals extra damage to entities that land on it.

Can be crafted from 4 packed ice.
Have a slab, stairs, wall, and chiseled variant.
- These blocks are not slippery and can be obtained without using Silk Touch.
Slabs, stairs, walls, and chiseled packed ice can also be crafted using a stonecutter.

A zombie variant that can be found in snowy biomes.
It has two modes of attacking: a melee attack and a ranged attack, similar to drowned.
- Most frostbites use a standard melee attack, which gives the Freezing effect.
- Some frostbites spawn holding ice balls, which they throw as a ranged attack. When the target is close, they switch to melee.
Drops rotten flesh and ice balls.
Transforms into a zombie when underwater for long enough.
It can stand on top of powder snow.
It is immune to Freezing and does not get slowed by the Freezing effect or powder snow.

Freezing
- An effect that causes an entity to freeze, dealing damage over time, slowing their movement, and lowering their jump height.
- Equipping a piece of leather armor prevents freezing damage but not the slowness.
- Effect technically already existed as powder snow causes the same result.
- Mobs will take additional damage from freezing while they are affected by the mob effect.
  - Mobs that are vulnerable to freezing have a five times multiplier to the damage taken.

A cave biome that generates underneath frozen biomes. They occasionally generate on the surface.
The terrain is composed of packed ice and calcite. Icicles hang from the ceiling; ice crystals and patches of snow generate on the ground.
Large icicles made of packed ice generate on the ground and hanging from the ceiling.
Ores generate inside blobs of stone and deepslate.
Glow lichen, dirt, and granite do not generate.
Common cave monsters, strays, and frostbites can spawn here.

Generated cracks that generate in ice caves.
Covered with brittle ice and a few blocks of calcite, and are filled with water below its surface.

Music Features Add-On block and item additions