Minecraft Live - Third Drop 2026 Features (so far)
Full video (YouTube | Invidious)
New Biome: Dappled Forest (seasonal forest variant)
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Cold biome (contains cold mob variants)
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New Poplar trees with their own wood variant (light gray, similar to but slightly different from pale oak) and 3 leaf colors (yellow/orange/red)
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Shelf fungus that spawns on fallen logs
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Red bush variants that remain red when placed in other biomes
Abandoned Camp structures
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Found randomly in the overworld (including but not limited to the new biome)
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Has a tent made from new wool stair and slab blocks
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Wool stairs are craftable and can be any of the existing wool colors
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Third_Drop_2026Open linkView original on lemmy.world
With wool stairs/slabs coming, would be nice if they could also finally include terracotta, concrete, and glass stairs/slabs.
but then what are they gonna put in the next
dribbledropLove the dappled forest vibe.
New woods look epic
I am not excited for wool stairs
Just out of curiosity, why no on the wool stairs? A tent is probably not the way I'd use them, but it will be nice to finally have a way to make carpeted stairs. Feels like one of those things that they've had no reason not to add ages ago.
I don't know, on the list of things I'd like to see wool stairs are pretty low.
I'd have preferred a way to apply a carpet to a stair over slicing a wool apart
Fair enough! There are definitely a lot of more impactful things I'd like to see them add as well, but wool stairs seemed like one of those no-brainer, low effort additions that I know a lot of folks have been requesting for a while.
Seconded though that it would have been nice to also just place carpet on existing stairs. Still think there is a good case for that when you want the sides of stairs to be exposed and match the material qualities of other blocks around them.