Some guy choking from excitement for this update
Minecraft 1.26, The Temple Update, is an update released on September 10, 2026. It adds a bit of magic, revamps
temples, and continues the Minecraft Storyline.
Changes[]
- Bugs fixed.
- Customizable textures and blocks in Builder Pro Survival are now a lot more customizable.
- Boss fight revamp- the Ender Dragon is now stronger and has an extra obsidian tower each time you respawn it.
Things Removed[]
Adventure Pro Survival was removed because:
- It was basically doing what the Temple update did, but in 1.21, and the temples tended to generate a little broken.
- The random structures that were programmed to generate were also a little broken.
Temples Changed[]
Desert Temples
- Made a lot more unpredictable
- The TNT Trap doesn’t always spawn
- A Cobra always spawns in the main room
Jungle Temples
- Made more unpredictable with many different traps
- A new room that always spawns; the treasure room
- In the treasure room gold or emerald blocks can spawn
Ascension Temples
- Added traps
- The bedrock ceiling of the treasure room is now hidden
- (See Minecraft 1.22)
- Made more unpredictable
- Added hidden chests (Remember, the Soul Inferno won’t spawn until you’ve looted all the chests, so...)
Little Ocean Temples
- Added traps
- The skeleton head is now hidden
- (See Minecraft 1.24)
Undead Temple
- Made more unpredictable.
Changes to Other Structures[]
Dungeons
- Generate better, with more blocks and with traps
- Generate differently based on the spawner, with zombie spawners the dungeon is a large pit with some obsidian, with skeleton spawner’s it’s sort of a prison, and spider spawners have a lot of cobwebs.
Mineshafts
- Generate with the new rail types
- Have new rooms: Storage room, miner house room.
Fortresses
- Look different- some parts are a bit like castles
Monuments
- Made bigger
- There are now five elder guardians
- The elder guardians drop some good loot, like diamonds, gold, iron, and emeralds.
Additions[]
Mobs[]
- Drowned Keeper- A drowned keeper is a type of drowned found guarding Little Ocean Temples. They always have tridents, and look a bit more slimy than normal drowned.
- Cobra- Cobras are neutral mobs that spawn rarely in deserts and jungles. A variant of cobras, King Cobras, spawn in Desert Temples in the main room. They can be tamed with a flute and picked up with a basket.
- Fire Guardian- The mob that won the Minecraft Live 2026 Mob Vote. It is a hostile mob that patrols the lava seas of the Nether, attacking players and the striders they are riding on.
- Skeletal Frost- The Skeletal Frost is a miniboss that spawns in the new temple, Frosted Pyramids. They have the same magic as the Iceologer, and drop an Ice Wand.
- Flaming Mage- Another miniboss. This one spawns in the other new structure, Flaming Towers, in the Nether. They use fire magic and drop fire wands.
- Skeleton Miner- A Skeletal mob that spawns wearing a Mining Helmet in Mineshafts. They are neutral.
Items[]
- Flute- Crafted with three sticks in a diagonal line and the rest stone buttons. It is used to make music and tame Cobras.
- Rose Quartz- Dropped by Rose Quartz Ore.
- Venomous Fang- Dropped by King Cobras. It can be used to make a Venom Staff.
- Venom Staff- Crafted with Copper Ingots and a Venomous Fang. It can give things the venom effect for a few seconds, but needs to be charged and has a cooldown.
- Ice Wand- Dropped by the Skeletal Frost. It gives you the power of the Iceologer, but needs to be charged and has a cooldown.
- Fire Staff- Dropped by a Flaming Mags. It gives you fire magic, but needs to be charged and has a cooldown.
- Redstone Lantern- Crafted like a lantern but with a Redstone torch.
- Fire Heart- A glowing thing dropped by Fire Guardians that is used to craft Glowing Quartz.
- Basket- Crafted with leather and string. Snakes can be picked up in them.
- Basket of Cobra
- Sculk Rail- A new type of rail crafted with a sculk sensor that can pick up Redstone signals and movement to power it.
- Sculk Activator Rail- A new type of rail that sends a signal to Redstone devices nearby when it detects movement or a block being broken or placed.
- Effect Rail- A new rail crafted with a potion of any kind that will give you that effect when you ride over it. It can only give the effect three times, and then you will have to refuel it with a potion.
- Colored Rail- Crafted with dye and a rail
- Glow Rail- Colored rail that glows
- Disco Rail- Another aesthetic rail that plays music and is very colorful.
Structures[]
- Frosted Pyramid- A huge new structure that spawns in snow biomes built out of Frosted Cobblestone. A Skeletal Frost spawns there.
- Flaming Tower- A tower of Rose Quartz and Glowing Quartz. A Flaming Mage spawns there.
- Dark Mineshaft- A new mineshaft that generates in the Deep Dark with the new types of rail.
Blocks[]
- Rose Quartz Ore- Can be found in the Nether.
- Rose Quartz Block, Slab, and Stair variants
- Polished Rose Quartz
- Rose Quartz Pillar
- Gray Marble- Can be found in the Overworld and made into slabs, stairs and walls. It can also be polished and turned into a pillar.
- Black Marble- The Nether equivalent of Gray Marble. Does not have a Corrupted variant.
- White Marble- Found in the End.
- Frosted Cobblestone- Only found in Frosted Pyramids.
- Glowing Quartz- Crafted with a Fire Heart surrounded by Quartz or Rose Quartz.
Enchantments[]
- Nether’s Bane- An enchantment for axes that does more damage to Nether creatures.
- Fire Aspect III- An extremely rare enchantment found only in Ascension Temples that burns some of a mob or player’s items after they die. This can be useful in multiplayer.
Advancements[]
- Snake Charmer- Tame a snake.
- Into Ice- Pick up an Ice Wand.
- Into Fire II- Pick up a Fire Wand.
- Temple Master- Explore every kind of temple.
Biomes[]
- Tropical Mountain- A mountain with grass and some Jungle and Palm trees.
- Cloud Forest- A Jungle on top of a Tropical Mountain.
Effects[]
- Frostbite- Frostbite is an effect given by the Skeletal Frost. It slows you down and makes you weaker.
Gallery of Changed Structures[]
A Skeleton Dungeon
The outside
Minecraft Storyline Summary[]
(This is not part of Badowie’s Withering Heights canon)
After trying to figure out what his world really was, he learned that it was both a game to play, and a world to live in, to fight, to explore, and to build. He also learns from the two voices in the End Poem and Far Poem that an evil force is coming to try to destroy his world, and the only way to stop that is to get to the next level, when the world will become a lot more than a game.