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Minecraft Marketplace launches Bluey’s House DLC, inviting players into Bluey’s cozy Brisbane home to complete tasks, hunt for keys, and unlock an ice-cream adventure through a variety of mini-games and dress-up activities; a free Chattermax Mask is available in the Dressing Room until March 6, 2026, with Bedrock Edition required.
Mojang Studios announces the Minecraft Safety Council, a group of internal and external safety experts who will discuss player-safety best practices, communicate safety topics to parents, and guide game design to foster positive behavior and safer multiplayer in Minecraft.
Minecraft Bedrock Edition Preview 26.10.21 adds seven new baby mobs with fresh animations across biomes and introduces the Golden Dandelion, a flower that can pause baby aging, while unveiling a wide range of bug fixes, accessibility tweaks, UI/API updates, and performance improvements; players are invited to test features and share feedback, with noted caveats that the Golden Dandelion cannot be used for Suspicious Stew or Yellow Dye and some on‑use interactions are not yet implemented.
Seven baby mobs (foxes, polar bears, bees, llamas, armadillos, camels, goats) get refreshed visuals in this snapshot, while a sweeping overhaul of world data formats and a new world-upgrading screen requiring a backup on first load accompany updated data/resource pack versions and storage reorganizations across dimensions.
Nadja announces she is taking over this month’s Java Realms map release, sharing her top map picks (Anaglyph, Xaleem’s Battle of the Bands, Beast Fortress, Sky Brawl, Starlight Nexus, Ice Outpost) and explaining how to load the maps in Realms. She also highlights updates to current maps (Beaconators, Be-Boxed, Desolate Desert, Destroy, Void Chains) with new features and bug fixes, thanks Mojang and Oskar for the support, and invites players to try Realms and learn how to load content.
Minecraft is testing a batch of new baby mobs—baby axolotls, baby squid and glow squid, baby dolphins, and baby turtles—with redesigned looks and a growth mechanic where feeding a baby mob a golden dandelion makes it grow into an adult. The features are available in Java snapshots and Bedrock previews/betas, and Mojang is asking players to provide feedback as testing continues.
Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5 adds new baby mob models (axolotl, dolphin, turtle, squid, glow squid) and a Golden Dandelion that can halt aging for baby mobs, along with UI tweaks, data/pack updates, and numerous recipe and tag changes.
Minecraft lead dev Jens 'Jeb' Bergensten says Hytale is polished but would rather play Minecraft, a sentiment echoed by Hypixel’s Simon Collins-Laflamme who notes Hytale still has a long way to go. The piece highlights Hytale’s ongoing Early Access, its modding potential, and planned features like bosses, dungeons, and expanded fantasy worlds as it differentiates itself from Minecraft.
A Hytale modder demonstrates Minecraft running inside Hytale’s world map using pure CPU-based pixel data manipulation (no GPU/OpenGL), rendering a 320×240, ~35 FPS build server-side. The feat, based on an old Minecraft version (0.30), highlights a thriving modding scene and positions Hytale as a potential Minecraft competitor.
Circana’s 2025 PS Store data shows sports games dominating downloads in both North America/Canada and Europe, with NBA 2K26 top in NA/CA and EA Sports FC 26 leading Europe; Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 falls to #7 in both regions, while Battlefield 6 performs well (No.2 NA, No.5 Europe). Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto V remain strong, and new arrivals like Arc Raiders, Ghost of Yotei, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 crack into NA lists. For PS4, Red Dead Redemption 2 leads in both territories with GTA V and other evergreen titles also ranking highly. Beat Saber dominates PSVR2, Fortnite remains the top free-to-play title, and the data cover PS Store downloads through November 2025, excluding other platforms.
Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 3 adds a World Options screen to access Game Rules from the pause menu, introduces World Clocks and Timelines in data packs (clocks that can be paused/resumed and tied to Timelines), updates the time command to work with clocks, expands block/fluid and tag definitions, and includes multiple bug fixes. Data pack version is 97 and resource pack version 78. The snapshot is released for Java Edition with the usual testing notes and links for feedback.
Minecraft Bedrock Realms experienced a significant outage starting around noon EDT, affecting thousands of users' ability to connect and play, with no official response or estimated restoration time from Minecraft as of now.
Minecraft remains a global phenomenon in 2025, with significant community engagement, new updates like Mounts of Mayhem, record-breaking stats such as nearly a billion copper golems spawned, and major events including the release of the Minecraft movie and collaborations, ensuring its continued popularity into 2026.
The Minecraft Movie became 2025's most important film due to its massive box office success and cultural impact, exemplifying how cinema-going has evolved post-Covid-19, with audiences engaging interactively and embracing video game adaptations as major entertainment phenomena.
Microsoft's Azure cloud service is recovering from an outage that disrupted services like Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft, with full recovery expected by 6:20PM ET after initial issues around noon, caused by problems with Azure Front Door.