A new Minecraft update has just brought the third game drop of 2026 into its final stretch. The first pre-release build of Minecraft patch 26.3 has just landed on Java edition, and while there are a few technical changes from its previous testing snapshots, Mojang says it is almost done polishing the Dappled Forest biome [...]

Minecraft is so much better with friends, but if none of your buddies want to play, fear not - you can make some by joining a server! There are hundreds - if not thousands - of public servers to choose from in Mojang's survival game. We've jumped into a whole host of Minecraft servers to [...]

Way back in Snapshot 2, the Minecraft team started making changes to Drowned behaviour, most notably their use of tridents. From then on, any Drowned that got within three blocks of a player would use their tridents as melee weapons rather than throw them. There have also been changes in subsequent Snapshots, improving animations and [...]