Minecraft Beta 26.40.20: Bucket Mob Fixes and More
Minecraft Bedrock Beta 26.40.20 is a broad quality-of-life patch covering bucket mob behavior, graphical fixes, sounds, and a handful of sulfur cube tweaks.
Bucket Mob Overhaul
Mobs released from buckets now start completely fresh. They no longer carry over movement speed, status effects, fire, suffocation damage, or aggression from before they were captured. Mobs that were near a Nether portal when captured can also use one immediately on release. It's a significant cleanup of what was previously some pretty unpredictable behavior.
Graphical Fixes
Several texture streaming bugs that have been around for a while got resolved in this build:
- Guardian and Elder Guardian beams now animate correctly with texture streaming enabled
- End Crystal beams no longer appear as white cylinders
- Enchantment glint no longer disappears from items over time
- High-resolution texture pack textures no longer appear blurred
- Anti-aliasing now applies correctly when launching in fullscreen
- Vibrant Visuals cloud reflections in water no longer flash bright at midnight
Sound Fixes
A batch of audio issues were fixed: Shulker hurt sounds, Pillager celebrate sounds, and Panda idle and worried sounds were all broken due to typos or missing file references and are now working again. Sulfur spikes got dedicated block sounds. Background music now pauses when a player is near a playing Jukebox, and main menu music starts after the initial loading screen to prevent audio stuttering on launch.
Sulfur Cube Changes
The sulfur cube can no longer absorb a block from more than 8 blocks away. Adjacent sulfur cubes no longer push each other when placed on neighboring blocks. Named sulfur cubes now show their absorbed block in the bucket item label. Sulfur cubes with an absorbed block can no longer be frozen.
Other Fixes
Minecart entity separation behavior is restored to how it worked before 1.21.0. Players in a party now show with blue names. The ghost block bug when simultaneously crouching and placing on interactive blocks like chests and item frames has been fixed.
