Minecraft Bedrock Beta and Preview 26.70.24 Released

Minecraft Bedrock Beta and Preview 26.70.24 is a small update for the fourth game drop of 2026. It does not add new content but fixes several issues with the new ice blocks, mobs, and items.

Block Changes

• Sitting in a boat no longer cracks Brittle Ice
• Calcite blocks now come after their sulfur counterparts in the Creative inventory
• Packed Ice Bricks blocks now come after their mud brick counterparts in the Creative inventory
• Blocks from the Calcite, Packed Ice Bricks, and Snow Bricks sets now drop fewer items when blown up by non-TNT explosions, like other blocks

Combat and Mobs

• Ice balls thrown by players no longer deal critical damage
• Fixed an unnatural attack animation when Frostbites hold a trident
• Freezing particles now rotate the same way as in Java Edition

Items

• The in-world holding position of icicles now matches pointed dripstone and sulfur spikes
• The "Flurry" music disc title is now capitalized in its tooltip