Java’s 26.4 Snapshot 7 is the last gameplay-feature stop before the winter drop locks the toys. Calcite finally gets a full stone kit, Hyper Potions drops a new disc called Flurry, and somewhere in the world a mystery decorative block is hiding for the curious. Soft lab profile. Spare world. Happy building — carefully.
Calcite everywhere
- Calcite pillars, slabs, stairs, walls — stonecutter friendly
- Polished Calcite from 2×2 calcite, plus its own slab/stair/wall set
- Polished Calcite Bricks from 2×2 polished calcite, same cut variants
- All three sit on the Slow Bouncy Sulfur Cube archetype
Flurry and frost tweaks
- Music disc “Flurry” by Hyper Potions — igloo basement chest luck, comparator output 7
- Being on fire counters Freezing the way leather does
- Any leather piece blocks Zombie→Frostbite and Skeleton→Stray conversions
- Strays expand into more frozen-ocean / peak / river biomes
Accessibility and rendering notes
- Crafting-table-style screens gain keyboard nav + narration (recipe book / creative inventory still pending)
- Graphics API “Default” temporarily randomizes OpenGL vs Vulkan each launch for testing
- Data pack 126.0 / resource pack 102.0
- Throwaway snapshot profile — note which graphics backend you rolled
- Build a calcite moodboard, then hunt one igloo for Flurry
- Try leather vs fire vs Freezing once so the counter rules click
- Send feedback before the next freeze
Snapshot 7 is a white-stone encore with a new song — mine the calcite, pocket the disc, leave the cathedral on stable.
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