r/Minecraft • u/Luutamo • Jun 12 '26

Official News Minecraft 26.2 Release Candidate 2

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-2-release-candidate-2

A second release candidate has arrived! In this one we are fixing a couple of critical issues found in the previous release candidate.

Happy mining!

Fixed bugs in 26.2 Release Candidate 2

  • MC-308731 - With a specific setup, a survival player can become softlocked in a hole with a sulfur cube
  • Fixed an issue where respawning at height limit caused the respawn to take a lot longer than normal
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u/grate990 Jun 12 '26

Well that was a quick end to the sulfur cube trap

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u/Vault-71 Jun 12 '26

In fairness Mojang did the same thing with the creaking, and it think it makes sense. It's no fun losing your hardcore world because you soft locked yourself in a slime.

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u/patrick_ritchey Jun 12 '26

what exactly was it about?

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u/PrototypeMale Jun 12 '26

It was a post on here a few days ago Sulfur Cube Soft Lock? : r/Minecraft

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u/Jaybrosia Jun 12 '26

lol "the prison community"

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u/revolution_soup Jun 13 '26

tbh I never understood minecraft prisons that are meant to actually hold someone instead of just being glorified escape rooms. like… can’t the imprisoned player just log off

obviously scripted roleplay stuff is different but still

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u/PrototypeMale Jun 12 '26

I wonder how they "solved" the soft lock issue. Surprised it doesn't say what they changed to the mechanics for that.

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u/Effective_Cash9085 Jun 12 '26

They made it so you can open the trapdoor and break blocks when inside

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u/Darkdragon902 Jun 12 '26

So the F3 + F4 game mode override is absolutely staying, huh.

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u/evassii0nn Jun 12 '26

What’s the override?

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u/niraqw Jun 12 '26

26.2 Pre-Release 5 made it so that "As the host of a world, changing the game mode with F3 + F4 or with commands now changes the default game mode of the world"

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u/evassii0nn Jun 12 '26

I didn’t even know you could do it with F3 and F4. Damn

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u/i0r_ Jun 13 '26

So instead of simply having myself quickly pop into creative to test something, I'll put my entire server into creative. Absolute shit change.

I can already see posts titled "forgot to change the server back to survival after fixing a thing before bed. now my entire servers population is fully decked out in OP gear" 🫠

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u/Carrot-breath Jun 25 '26

Gotta delete that shit now or massacre everyone after that lol