Minecraft 26.70.21 for Android

Developers have released a test version of Minecraft 26.70.21 for Android. The winter drop adds a full set of blue Packed Ice Bricks and eerie singing ice over frozen waters, while a free built-in Music Features Add-On lets you press your own discs and carry music in your pocket. Several combat and mining values were also brought in line with Java Edition.

Drop 4 of 2026

More features for the winter drop. What's new:

• Packed Ice Bricks
• Ambient sounds for ice
• Improvements to Ice Caves, Frostbites, and Ice Balls

Packed Ice Bricks

A new building block set. Properties:

• Bricks with a cool blue tint
• Comes as a full set with slabs, stairs, walls, and chiseled blocks
• Made from Packed Ice
• Never melts, so your icy base stays intact
• A Pickaxe mines it fastest
• Known issue: the name, instrument sounds, Creative inventory position, and waterlogging are still being worked on

Singing Ice

New ambient sounds. How it works:

• Ice over frozen rivers and oceans can now make haunting singing sounds
• The block needs at least 8 ice blocks on every side horizontally, air above, and water below
• Packed, Blue, and Frosted Ice now have their own ice sounds instead of borrowing the glass ones

Drop Improvements

Polished existing features. Main points:

• Breaking Brittle Ice can now drop you into the caves below a Crevasse
• Crevasses appear more evenly in Ice Caves with different ceiling heights
• Ice Balls now deal 2 base damage, hitting softer as they slow down
• Potions of Freezing can be extended with Redstone Dust
• Frostbites hold Shields like other Zombies and no longer spawn underground outside Ice Caves
• Polar Bears, Snow Golems, and Strays are immune to Freezing
• Polar Bears can no longer spawn on Brittle Ice
• Wither Skeletons can pick up Ice Balls
• Cows, Pigs, Chickens, and Frogs from Spawn Eggs appear in cold variants inside Ice Caves
• Closed captions were added for Frostbite and Zombie transformations
• Updated textures for the Jukebox, Icicle tips, and the Ice Crystal item

Music Features Add-On

A free add-on built right into the game. Main features:

• No need to download it from the Marketplace - just enable the "Music Features Add-On" resource pack in your world
• Blank Disc - a craftable disc that serves as the base for your own records
• Disc Press - a block that records music onto Blank Discs and turns them into Track Discs; it already includes the main menu songs
• Track Disc - a finished record you can play in a Jukebox or a Pocket Jukebox
• Pocket Jukebox - holds up to 20 discs and plays music that only you can hear
• The Pocket Jukebox takes the color of the Bundle used to craft it and can be dyed later
• Doesn't work in Realms yet
• If the Disc Press looks empty, restarting the game should help

Changes

Made 10 changes. Main ones:

• Mining Fatigue, Haste, and Conduit Power now affect mining speed the same way as in Java Edition
• Frost Walker freezes water in an even circle and only while you're on the ground, so diving into water is safe again
• Guardians now hit for 6 damage and Elder Guardians for 8, as in Java Edition
• Evoker Fangs and projectiles fired by mobs now deal damage based on difficulty, matching Java Edition
• The End flash now lasts as long as in Java Edition
• Skulls and Chests face the right way in first and third person
• Arabic and Persian text is now joined correctly and written right to left, including chat and signs
• Xbox invites received during gameplay now show up in the Social Drawer
• The player profile overview loads faster
• Ambient music stays muted when you come back within range of a playing Jukebox

Bug Fixes

Fixed 18 bugs. Details:

• Honey Blocks once again support blocks on every side
• Breaking a Cushion or Armor Stand near a Sculk Catalyst no longer spreads Sculk
• Importing add-ons no longer creates broken folders that Windows can't open
• The freezing overlay disappears after respawning
• The health bar updates properly when a Totem of Undying kicks in
• Transparent particles are lit correctly in Vibrant Visuals
• Shield, Crossbow, Spears, and Spyglass animate correctly in first person
• The Spyglass no longer keeps being used after going through a portal
• Many items are held in first and third person more like in Java Edition
• Splash potions, lingering potions, and XP bottles have correct captions when they break
• Wind Charges play the right sound and caption when thrown
• Searching the Marketplace on Android no longer kicks you back to the front page or main menu
• Realms uploads no longer fail because of an unexpected block error
• The simulation distance description in Realms shows the correct range
• Worlds save properly when the game is suspended or closed
• The game no longer crashes after staying in menus for a long time
• Sign-in and menus load faster thanks to fewer background server requests
• High and Ultra Block Light Quality options are disabled on devices that don't support them

Technical Changes

Added 30 technical changes for addon development and testing. Among them, the /gametest runset command can now run several tags at once and skip tests with the new withoutTags option.