Bedrock Edition Preview 26.70.21

Preview 26.70.21

Edition	Bedrock Edition
Release date	iOS, iPadOS: October 18, 2026 Windows, Xbox, PlayStation, ChromeOS, Android: October 20, 2026
Server version	1.26.70.21
Editor version	26.70.21
Build version	Windows: 52706783 Android: 52706778 (armeabi-v7a) 52706788 (arm64-v8a) iOS, iPadOS: 52706786
Internal version	Windows, Xbox: 1.26.7021.0 Android: 1.26.70.21
Version code	Android: 952607021 (armeabi-v7a, 36) 962607021 (x86, 36) 972607021 (arm64-v8a, 36) 982607021 (x86_64, 36)
Type	Preview
Preview for	26.70
Downloads	Server Windows Linux
Protocol version	Pending
◄◄  26.60 26.70 ◄  Preview 26.70.20 Preview 26.70.21

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Beta 26.70.21 (ChromeOS, Android) or Preview 26.70.21 (Windows, iOS, iPadOS, Xbox, PlayStation), also known as 1.26.70.21 Beta/Preview, is the second beta/Preview for Bedrock Edition 26.70, released on October 18, 2026, for iOS and iPadOS, and on October 20, 2026, for all remaining devices, which adds the packed ice bricks block set and fixes bugs.

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.

Additions

Blocks

Packed Ice Bricks

• Can be crafted from 4 packed ice.
• It has 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.

Music Features Add-On

Blocks

Disc press

• A craftable block that can be used to create track discs.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Copper Ingot + Blank Disc + Crafting Table + Cobblestone

• A player can open its GUI by using it. Here, players can input a blank disc and a dye, then select a music track, to create a music disc with that music track.
  • Dyes are not required, they add color to the track disc.
  • Available music tracks are menu screen tracks from C418 and fingerspit.

Items

Blank disc

• A craftable item, used in a disc press to make track discs, and to craft disc presses and pocket jukeboxes. Has no use on its own.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Glass Pane + Paper

Pocket jukebox

• A craftable item that can play music from track discs in the player's inventory.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Copper Nugget + Blank Disc + Matching Bundle

• The color of the item matches with the bundle; there are 16 color variants plus one undyed.
• Its GUI functions similarly to a bundle. It can hold 20 track discs at once.
• When the player uses it, it will start playing the first track. When the player uses it again, it pauses, after which it can be resumed.
  • Music played from a pocket jukebox will be played client-side, muting background music.
  • Multiple tracks are played subsequently as a playlist.
  • The music finishes when the pocket jukebox is no longer in the player's inventory, or the playing track disc is taken out of the pocket jukebox.
• Can be held in the offhand, but not used when doing so.

Track disc

• A track disc item is produced upon using a blank disc in a disc press. It can hold one music track, and can be played in a jukebox or pocket jukebox.
• There are 16 color variants plus one undyed.

Changes

Blocks

Blue ice, frosted ice, and packed ice

• Added unique block sounds.

Ice

• Added ambient sounds for ice.
  • When an ice block is surrounded by at least 8 ice blocks in all horizontal directions (east, west, north, and south), with one air block above and one water block below, it has a chance to emit a sound.

Enchantments

Frost Walker

• Water now freezes in a circular area around the wearer, removing directional bias from the ice trail.
• Water now freezes only while the wearer is on the ground, preventing fatal fall damage caused by frosted ice forming beneath them while diving into water.

Items

Ice ball

• Increased ice ball base damage to 2, with damage decreasing as it loses velocity.
• Wither skeletons can now pick up ice balls.

Mobs

Elder guardian and guardian

• Increased guardian base attack damage from 5 to 6 and elder guardian base attack damage from 5 to 8, matching Java Edition.

Evoker

• Damage dealt to players by evoker fangs now scales with difficulty, matching Java Edition.

Frostbite

• Now hold shields in the same position as zombies.
• No longer spawn naturally underground outside the ice caves biome.
• Added closed captions for when frostbites convert to zombies and vice versa.

Polar bear

• Can no longer spawn on brittle ice.

World generation

Ice caves

• Players can now fall into ice caves beneath crevasses when brittle ice breaks.
• Crevasses now generate at a more consistent density in ice caves with different ceiling heights.
• Animals now spawn as their cold variants when using spawn eggs in ice caves.

Gameplay

Breaking

• Mining Fatigue now reduces mining speed by the same amount as in Java Edition.
• Haste and Conduit Power now increase mining speed by the same amount as in Java Edition.

General

Graphical

• Skulls and chests now face the player in first person and away from the player in third person view.
• Shields, crossbows, spears, and spyglasses animate correctly in first person view when selected.
• Disabled block light quality options "High" and "Ultra" if they are unsupported, and added a notice explaining why.

Music

• Ambient music is now muted when players return within range of a playing jukebox after leaving its broadcast range.

UI

• Improved loading time of player profile overview tab.
• The freezing screen overlay no longer lingers after respawning when a player dies with the Freezing effect.
• The health bar now updates correctly when a totem of undying activates.
• Splash potions, lingering potions, and XP bottles now display the correct captions when breaking.
• Wind charges now display the correct captions when thrown.
• Deferred and limited background server status requests to reduce delays during sign-in and menu loading.
• External link buttons in settings now properly animate before opening in the browser on all platforms.

Technical

API

• Added the BlockSearchOptions interface for Dimension.getBlockAbove and Dimension.getBlockBelow, replacing BlockRaycastOptions. Existing fields and whole-block search behavior are unchanged; existing option objects still work.
• Raycast maxDistance values outside -2147483648 to 2147483647 now throw PropertyOutOfBoundsError before truncation.
• Released PrimitiveShape properties hiddenFrom and defaultVisibleToAll from beta to V2.12.0.
• Released block point-of-interest APIs from beta to v2.12.0.
• Added GamePadAndMouse as a member of InputMode.
• ItemBlockDynamicPropertiesComponent and ItemBlockEntityStorageComponent may no longer be accessed on Vanilla items.
• Renamed the item component minecraft:block_actor_dynamic_properties to minecraft:block_dynamic_properties.
• @minecraft/server-ui:
  • Released MessageBoxOptions and the optional MessageBox constructor options parameter to stable version 2.4.0, including showHorizontalButtons for horizontal button layouts.
  • Released CustomForm.multiButtonRow, ButtonData, and MultiButtonRowOptions to stable version 2.4.0.
  • Released version 2.4.0 of @minecraft/server-ui.
  • Added 2.5.0 beta of @minecraft/server-ui.

Block components

• Modified minecraft:destructible_by_mining component renamed seconds_to_destroy field to base_time_to_destroy.

Entity components

• minecraft:projectile:
  • Added scale_damage_with_difficulty to on_hit.impact_damage for entity format versions 1.26.70 and later, controlling whether impact damage dealt to players by mob-fired projectiles scales with world difficulty.
  • scale_damage_with_difficulty defaults to true; set it to false to disable difficulty scaling. Entities using earlier format versions retain their previous behavior with difficulty scaling disabled.

Mobs

• Internal only Vex goals are no longer listed in legacy goal documentation.

Experimental

These additions and changes are accessible by enabling the "Beta APIs", "Upcoming Creator Features", and "Render Dragon Features for Creators" experimental toggles.

Changes

Technical

API

• Added the beta usePreciseRaycast option to BlockRaycastOptions and EntityRaycastOptions to preserve fractional distances and check the full ray. It defaults to false, preserving legacy behavior, and does not apply to BlockSearchOptions.
• Entity raycasts with usePreciseRaycast enabled throw InvalidArgumentError for negative maxDistance values.

Entity filters

• Added the speed entity filter for comparing an entity's speed in meters per second.
• Added the horizontal_speed entity filter for comparing an entity's horizontal speed in meters per second.
• Added the vertical_speed entity filter for comparing an entity's signed vertical speed in meters per second.

/gametest

• Added new version for the /runset command for /gametest which may run multiple tags in a single command. Ex. the command, /gametest runset SetA SetB, will now run all tests tagged as SetA or SetB.
• /runset now allows for a withoutTags flag to be added which ignores any tests with the specified tags. Ex. the command, /gametest runset SetA withoutTags SetB, will run all tests from SetA that do not also have the tag SetB.
• Adjusted the parameter rotationSteps in /runset to be explicit rather than implicit. Ex. Previously, a command such as /gametest runset SetA 2 would read the rotationSteps, 2, after the specified tag, SetA. Now the rotationSteps flag must be declared before its value as such, /gametest runset SetA rotationSteps 2.

Network protocol

• Added enum value gametestRunSetMultiTag to CurrentCmdVersion.

Fixes

25 issues fixed

From released versions before 26.70

• MCPE-34914 – An invite sent to the Nintendo Switch disappears after a couple of seconds, and you cannot retrieve it to accept it if you miss the initial popup.
• MCPE-220815 – If I eat or drink while entering a Nether portal, I continue eating or drinking automatically after exiting it.
• MCPE-235491 – The game process creates folders that cannot be accessed.
• MCPE-235981 – [Critical UX/Accessibility] Missing RTL support and text shaping for Arabic and Persian scripts in the Bedrock Engine.
• MCPE-237012 – End flashes disappear too quickly.
• MCPE-241209 – Transformed custom full blocks do not cull adjacent voxel shapes correctly.
• MCPE-242222 – Honey blocks no longer provide side support.
• MCPE-243311 – The Ice Crystal item texture does not have a MERS texture.
• MCPE-243320 – Throwing a Wind Charge no longer produces sounds or subtitles.
• MCPE-243322 – Mobs that are immune to freezing are not immune to the Freezing mob effect.
• MCPE-243361 – Extended Potions of Freezing cannot be brewed using Redstone Dust.
• MCPE-243530 – Breaking an armor stand or cushion near a Sculk Catalyst consumes the player's experience.
• MCPE-243539 – Rotating a structure does not rotate minecraft:sixteen_way_rotation.

From the 26.70 development versions

• MCPE-243624 – The jukebox top MERS texture is inconsistent with its regular PNG texture.
• MCPE-243638 – The icicle item MERS texture uses the icicle tip merge MERS texture instead.

Other

• Fixed the illumination of transparent particles in Vibrant Visuals.
• Fixed difficulty scaling for damage dealt to players by mob-fired projectiles to match Java Edition.
• Fixed an issue on Android where searching from the Marketplace search results page could send players back to the Marketplace front page or the main menu.
• Fixed an issue where an upload could fail during processing due to an unexpected block error.
• Fixed the simulation distance setting description to reflect the correct range.
• Fixed issues with worlds not saving correctly when the game was suspended or closed.
• Fixed a crash that could occur after spending a long time in the menus.
• Fixed entities with minecraft:item_hopper to fire EntityItemPickupAfterEvent when consuming an entire item stack and to report only the transferred amount for partial pickups, without emitting events for unsuccessful pickups.
• Fixed createFromClipboardItem saving the primary clipboard instead of the supplied clipboard item.
• Fixed light leaking in Vibrant Visuals when Block Light Quality is set to Medium.