
Suppression Glitch, Dappled Forest, Desync Fix and MORE! | 26.3 snapshot 1 Minecraft update
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A new Minecraft snapshot introduces the dappled forest biome, featuring new trees with orange, red, and yellow variants, and their corresponding logs and saplings. These saplings can be obtained from wandering traders or grown from leaves. The biome also contains red shrubs that maintain their color and can be bone-mealed to spread. Shelf mushrooms, which attach to fallen logs or trees and grow sideways, are another new addition. These mushrooms have a unique collision box, allowing players to stand and bounce on them, similar to beds. They can be grown with bone meal and drop two items upon breaking. Suspicious stews can now be crafted with any two of the same mushroom type.
Abandoned camps are now generated across various biomes, featuring broken tents, loot chests, and biome-specific building materials. These camps include copper statues that hint at cleaning them to restore them to life, serving as a form of in-game tutorial. New wool stair and slab blocks are also introduced, available in all 16 colors. These blocks have the functional property of dampening vibrations, preventing sculk sensors and wardens from detecting them.
A new "update suppression" glitch allows players to create floating grass, ferns, seagrass, lily pads, and frog spawn by strategically placing beds. These glitched blocks are temporary and will break if they receive a block update. This glitch is exploitable in the current release but will be fixed in future versions.
Several bugs have been addressed. Rune portals now better clear vegetation when generating. The bone-meal usage for dark oak and petal oak saplings has been optimized to only consume bone meal when a 2x2 area is present for tree growth. A long-standing desync issue causing arrows to appear to hit mobs but not deal damage has been fixed, along with other desync bugs related to armor stands and boats. An extremely old bug, dating back to 2012, where items on block edges would inconsistently fall or stay put, has also been resolved. Additionally, players can now destroy blocks within the spawn protection area on servers.
Bedrock Edition received a hotfix (26.31) addressing bugs, and its preview version now includes experimental features. A concerning exploit in the report system, which allowed for the banning of players, including content creators, even when they were offline, is being investigated by Mojang, with unbanning efforts underway.
Finally, three promotional outfits have been unlocked through community achievements related to the Chaos Cubed update, with Java skins also available for Java players.