Minecraft Bedrock Beta 26.30.29: Cave Mob Rework
Minecraft Bedrock Preview 26.30.29 continues polishing the Chaos Cubed drop with parity fixes, sulfur cave tweaks, and a long list of sulfur cube behavior corrections.
Sulfur Caves and Springs
Sulfur caves now spawn more pools and have an updated mob spawn table. Creepers, skeletons, and zombies spawn less often and always appear in pairs. Witches are also less common. Sulfur cubes now spawn in groups of two to four, and cave spiders replace regular spiders in the biome. Glow lichen has been reduced to match other cave types, and sulfur caves that break through to the surface now generate with all their features intact.
Sulfur spikes now grow over time, similar to how pointed dripstone works. Block textures for sulfur and cinnabar have been updated to match Java Edition. Sulfur caves also got a custom grass color override.
Sulfur Cube Fixes
This build addresses a lot of sulfur cube issues:
- Magma sulfur cubes no longer damage Netherite armor
- Fire Resistance now properly protects against magma sulfur cube contact damage
- Shields no longer block magma sulfur cube damage (intended behavior)
- TNT sulfur cubes can now be ignited by touching a magma block or another magma sulfur cube
- Sulfur cubes with absorbed blocks are now immune to Poison
- Hot archetype now shares physics properties with the regular archetype
- Fixed floating behavior after absorbing blocks that should cause sinking
- Improved server performance when many sulfur cubes are loaded in one area
- Added a death message for being killed by a magma sulfur cube
Potent Sulfur and Geysers
Geyser eruptions now launch entities and particles slightly higher to match Java Edition. Noxious gas particles darken based on surrounding light levels, and eruption particles no longer get blocked as easily by nearby blocks. Potent sulfur can no longer be moved by pistons, and a bug where naturally generated sulfur springs occasionally failed to produce a geyser has been fixed. Geysers also got their own unique sounds for continuous eruptions.
