Minecraft 26.2 snapshot 3

15 Apr 2026

This snapshot adds the Sulfur Spike block and some technical changes.

These writeups assume you have read the Official Changelog before continuing.

Table of Contents

• Sulfur Spike
• Tags
• Predicates
• Edits
  • August 30, 2026

Sulfur Spike

Sulfur Spikes have 1.5 hardness and 3 blast resistance, like Pointed Dripstone.

Sulfur Spikes do not deal extra damage to mobs that land on them.

Tags

Added the #sulfur_spike_replaceable_blocks block tag.

Predicates

Entity predicates now process their entity sub-predicates in the following order:

• minecraft:entity_type
• All other entity sub-predicates in an arbitrary order
• The following entity sub-predicates in an arbitrary order:
  • minecraft:vehicle
  • minecraft:passenger
  • minecraft:targeted_entity
  • minecraft:type_specific/lightning
  • minecraft:type_specific/player
• minecraft:nbt

Edits

August 30, 2026

• Documented entity sub-predicate evaluation order (thanks to Merak for bringing this to my attention).