Minecraft Bedrock 26.0.25 beta and preview patch notes: Party System, gameplay subtitles, and more 

Mojang has now released the final beta and preview for Minecraft Bedrock Edition. Version 26.0.25 introduces a new social feature called Party System, closed-caption subtitles, and various bug fixes.

The addition of the Party System in Minecraft Bedrock is a rare event, as the game rarely sees new features related to multiplayer. Through the new Party System, players can form a party and designate a player as the group's leader. The party will follow the leader from one world to another.

Other than the Party System, Minecraft Bedrock 26.0.25 now has properly functioning gameplay subtitles, along with tons of bug fixes and some improvements. The update also adds the settings button back to its old position. Read the complete Minecraft Bedrock 26.0.25 patch notes below.

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Minecraft Bedrock 26.0.25 patch notes

Features and Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• Gameplay subtitles (closed captions) should now function as expected

Blocks

• Bamboo Stalks no longer pop in as obviously, from a distance they have no transparency instead (like Sugar Cane and Cactus) unless on Simple graphics

Editor

• Fixed a bug that caused Selection/quick-move mode to get into a bad state if you tried to use "enter" to make a selection while in Quick Move mode
• Fixed an issue where opening the Vibrant Visuals pane and selecting a setting would not display the selected setting
• Fixed an issue when Quick Move was used on a large brush selection, the client would freeze and crash
• Fixed Vibrant Visual mode in the Editor not rendering water correctly

Graphical

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes allow sunlight to shine through walls, e.g. near cave entrances, in Vibrant Visuals mode

Input

• Fixed a bug on Windows where scrolling could cause the camera to move (MCPE-230921)

Items

• Diamond Horse Armor now provides 2 points of toughness, while Golden Horse Armor provides none (MCPE-232700)

Mobs

• Creaking attack animation is no longer cut short (MCPE-187288)
• The Water Breathing effect now prevents the Nautilus from suffocating outside of water, consistent with its behavior for other aquatic mobs (MCPE-232061)
• Drowned can now control the Zombie Nautilus they ride, allowing them to actively chase their target (MCPE-232370)
• The Baby Zombie Horse can no longer be ridden
• The Baby Zombie Horse can no longer be equipped with a Saddle or Horse Armor
• The following undead mobs will no longer panic when hit
• Camel Husks
• Skeleton Horses
• Zombie Horses

Party System

• The new Party System is available in the social drawer for Preview! Create a party with your friends and follow the party leader from world to world
• The Party System is currently only on some devices and will be coming to more over time

Realms

• The description and storage bar labels under the "Free up space" popup dialog are now treated as two separate objects for narration instead of one
• For the Realms Edit World screen, the description of the Reset and Replace confirmation modals have been updated

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a bug where some low memory Android devices would crash at startup

Storage

• Fixed an issue on Windows where the resource_packs and behavior_packs folders weren't migrated to the new file directory (MCPE-230229)
• Temporary files on Windows will now write to %LocalAppData%\\Temp\\Minecraft Bedrock Preview and %LocalAppData%\\Temp\\Minecraft Bedrock respectively (MCPE-232633)

User Interface

• Changed Settings button on the Game Menu back to being a text button
• Newly bred and mounted baby Horses, Mules, and Donkeys now show the correct number of hearts when fully grown (MCPE-165899)
• Fixed a misleading message shown when trying to sleep in a Bed (MCPE-184973)
• Fixed a typo in the Minecoins section of Encyclopedia (MCPE-227680)
• Fixed text inconsistency in the Navigation section of Encyclopedia (MCPE-228203)
• Fixed typos in the Worlds section in Encyclopedia (MCPE-229652)

Vanilla Parity

• The outline color of an active effect now changes if an ambient effect is replaced by an identical non-ambient effect, or vice versa (MCPE-230918)
• Changed the updating logic for Mob Effects to be more aligned with Java Edition

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Technical Updates

API

• Added getComponents to Block into beta
• Added hasComponent to Block into beta

Biomes

• Enabled the Biome Replacement feature in the Nether
• Using Biome Replacement for Overworld and Nether for the same Biome is discouraged but not prohibited
• Biome Replacement in Nether can only be used with minecraft:surface_builder of types: minecraft:overworld, minecraft:frozen_ocean, minecraft:capped, minecraft:the_end

Blocks

• Released the component minecraft:connection_rule from experimental for block format versions 26.0 or higher
• Released the component minecraft:support from experimental for block format versions 26.0 or higher
• The block component minecraft:leashable can be used with format_version 26.0 and higher without the "Upcoming Creator Features" toggle

General

• Fixed an issue where development resource packs enabled globally would not reload when leaving and re-entering a world or using the /reload all command (MCPE-232054)
• Added minecraft:village_type biome component that determines the type of the village in the biome

Network Protocol

• ActorDamageCause modified: deprecated ActorDamageCause::Dehydration

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a bug that was causing crashes when using the NPC component

User Interface

• Added default_size_scales_to_ratio Boolean to image controls so that a size of "default" will resize to maintain the texture's aspect ratio

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Experimental Technical Updates

API

• Added the privilege with which a closure will be called to API metadata
• Adding World.seed as a property to expose the world seed to beta
• Added before & after script events for when an entity picks up an item in the world
• Added class EntityItemPickupAfterEvent to beta
• Added class EntityItemPickupBeforeEvent to beta
• Added class EntityItemPickupAfterEventSignal to beta
• Added class EntityItemPickupBeforeEventSignal to beta
• Added interface EntityItemPickupEventOptions to beta
• Added interface ItemFilter to beta
• Added property WorldAfterEvents.entityItemPickup to beta
• Added property WorldBeforeEvents.entityItemPickup to beta

Blocks

• Blocks can handle the entity execute_event_on_home_block event via custom components in scripting, being beta features

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Minecraft Bedrock Edition is the first to start using the new version naming structure, and Java Edition will begin using it in January 2026. As Minecraft Bedrock 26.0.25 is the final beta and preview for 2025, players will have to wait until next year to get a new release.