Minecraft 26.4 is shaping up to bring a chilly new place to explore: Ice Caves, an underground biome planned for cold Overworld regions. The Game Drop is still in development, so details may change before release.
The caves are described as featuring glowing ice crystals, calcite, icicles that can fall, and brittle ice that breaks underfoot. They’ll also be home to Strays and the Frostbite, a zombie variant that can throw ice balls from a distance. Its attacks build up a freezing effect, while leather armor helps protect you. Ice balls also have uses as projectiles and in freezing-effect potions and arrows.
Builders get new ice, snow, and calcite block variants. There’s also a new Flurry music disc, plus a jukebox playlist feature that uses discs stored in a chest above it. Java Edition is getting a refreshed friends list and player-management screen, too.
The changes are appearing in Java snapshots and Bedrock previews. Mojang has not announced a final release date yet.
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