Minecraft Java 26.4 Snapshot 8 fixes the Ender Dragon’s flight, makes every undead mob immune to Freezing and lowers ice ball damage, with the game’s figures.
Minecraft Java Edition 26.4 Snapshot 8 came out on November 10, 2026. It fixes how the Ender Dragon flies, makes every undead mob immune to Freezing and lowers the damage of ice balls, and the game gets two new languages. To play it, turn on snapshots in the Minecraft Launcher, and back up your world first: snapshots are test builds that can damage it.
The Ender Dragon flies right again
Mojang says the dragon "has forgotten a thing or two about flying", and Snapshot 8 fixes four bugs of the fight from its bug tracker:
the dragon dives toward the player again;
it no longer dives to the exit portal the wrong way;
it no longer gets stuck flying back and forth between two points;
its vertical speed in flight is right again, which made it move erratically.
Freezing and ice balls
Every undead mob is now immune to Freezing. In the game files, the list of mobs immune to freezing now holds the undead, the Polar Bear and the Snow Golem, where Snapshot 7 named eight mobs one by one. Skeletons, Wither Skeletons, Bogged, Parched, Zombie Villagers, Zombified Piglins, Zoglins, Phantoms and the skeleton and zombie horses join the Stray, the Wither, the Zombie, the Husk, the Drowned and the Frostbite already on it.
Ice balls hit softer. In the game's code, an ice ball deals its speed times 1.3, rounded up, where Snapshot 7 used 1.395. A Frostbite throws them at 1.6 blocks per tick and a player at 1.5: at that speed, a player's ice ball now deals 2 damage instead of 3, while a Frostbite's still deals 3, and both deal less as they slow down.
The Cold Sulfur Cube no longer floats, like the other archetypes of similar properties, and it now turns only still water into Frosted Ice, no longer flowing water.
Frostbites get their own sound and subtitle when they throw, and Snow Golems a subtitle too.
Names, languages and the Creative inventory
The game now names the Calcite set in every language, and Chiseled Soulshale in every one but Italian: Snapshot 7 left them in English. In English, the disc now reads "Hyper Potions - Flurry", with a capital F.
Javanese and Chavacano (Zamboanga) join the game's languages.
Snow Layers and Snow Blocks now sit next to the Snow Brick set in the Creative inventory.
For pack makers
The data pack version is now 127.0 and the resource pack version 103.0. Validation errors in loot tables, predicates and item modifiers now stop a command from compiling, and the terrain shader now reads its vertex data from a texel buffer, so resource packs that change it need updating. Mojang also fixed 43 bugs.
On Bedrock
Bedrock's Preview and Beta 26.70.24, out the same day, bring the same changes to the drop: every undead mob becomes immune to Freezing, from Powder Snow as from the effect; ice balls thrown by players no longer deal critical hits; sitting in a boat no longer cracks Brittle Ice; and the "Flurry" disc's title takes its capital F. The Preview also adds an Invisible Armor world setting that hides the armor you wear: see our Invisible Armor article.
How to try it
Open the Minecraft Launcher and go to Installations.
Tick Snapshots, then play the Latest snapshot installation.
Use a copy of your world, or a new one: a world opened in a snapshot may not load in the release afterwards.
The rest of the drop, from the Frostbite to Brittle Ice, is in our ice caves guide, and the previous snapshot's Calcite set and "Flurry" disc in our Snapshot 7 article. Mojang's full notes are in our Minecraft changelogs.
Released on November 10, 2026, Snapshot 8 fixes four bugs in how the Ender Dragon flies, makes every undead mob immune to Freezing, lowers the damage of ice balls, stops the Cold Sulfur Cube from floating, and adds Javanese and Chavacano to the game’s languages.
02How much damage does an ice ball deal in Minecraft?
In Java’s 26.4 Snapshot 8, an ice ball deals its speed times 1.3, rounded up (1.395 before). Thrown by a player at 1.5 blocks per tick, it deals 2 damage, one heart; thrown by a Frostbite at 1.6, it deals 3 when it hits at full speed. Both deal less as they slow down.
03Which mobs are immune to Freezing in Minecraft?
Since 26.4 Snapshot 8, every undead mob, plus the Polar Bear and the Snow Golem, in the game files: Skeletons, Strays, Wither Skeletons, Bogged, Parched, Zombies, Husks, Drowned, Frostbites, Zombie Villagers, Zombified Piglins, Zoglins, Phantoms, the Wither and the skeleton and zombie horses.
04How do you play Minecraft 26.4 Snapshot 8?
Open the Minecraft Launcher, go to Installations, tick Snapshots and play the Latest snapshot installation. Back up your world first, or use a new one: a world opened in a snapshot may not load in the release afterwards.
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