Minecraft Update 26.2 - Sulfur & Slimes

Mojang recently revealed the second update of 2026 in Minecraft Live, that being the “Sulfur and Slimes” update, which introduces many new blocks, a new mob and multiple new block types. Keep reading to find out everything we know so far!

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New Biome

The new biome, named the “Sulfur Caves” is where everything from this update can be found, it’s a randomly generating subterranean biome which contains all of the new blocks, the new mobs and water pools filled with sulfur.

The water pools, as shown above, are full of “Potent Sulfur”, shown by the unique “acid-green” colour. Potent sulfur can only be found in the bottom of these pools, creating noxious gas with bubble particles in and on top of the water. Nausea is inflicted to players when they come in contact with this noxious gas. The gas can be removed by destroying the potent sulfur under the water. Within this biome are the two new block types, we’ll talk about them next!

New Blocks

The Sulfur and Slimes update will introduce two new block types with a full palette, these being the Sulfur Block and the Cinnabar Block, each of their full palettes can be seen below.

These block palettes are likely to change as they are still in the preview mode.

New Mob

Finally, the new mob that is being introduced in this update, and the main feature of the update is the Sulfur Cube.

The Sulfur Cube is described as a “bucketable jumping passive mob”, it can be picked up with a bucket, it has the properties of a slime and it is passive.

The main feature of the Sulfur Cube is the ability to absorb some blocks, mostly full-sized ones. It can absorb blocks dropped onto the ground and can also be fed a block by interacting with it. Sulfur cubes move towards absorbable blocks dropped on the ground and follow players holding an applicable block.

There are 9 Archetypes that the Sulfur Cube can take depending on the block it takes, you can see them all in the table below.

Archetype	Block	Description	Attribute Values
Rubber Ball/ Bouncy	Planks, Logs, Wood, Resin(BE Only)	Makes it very bouncy.	Knockback Resistance: -2.0 Bounciness: 0.9 Friction Modifier: 0.3 Air Drag Modifier: 0.01
Golf Ball/ Fast Flat	Coral, Sponge, Dried Kelp, Moss, Resin (JE Only), Pumpkin, Melon, Hay Bale, Froglights, Slime, Honey	Makes it bounce less and slime more.	Knockback Resistance: -2.0 Bounciness: 0.2 Friction Modifier: 0.1 Air Drag Modifier: 0.01
Hockey Puck/ Fast Sliding	Blue Ice, Packed Ice, Snow Block, Ice	Makes it able to slide but unable to bounce.	Knockback Resistance: 0.5 Bounciness: 0.1 Friction Modifier: 0.05 Air Drag Modifier: 0.01
High Resistance	Soul Sand, Soul Soil	Makes it very hard to push and unable to bounce.	Knockback Resistance: 0.7 Bounciness: 0.2 Friction Modifier: 1 Air Drag Modifier: 0.01
Beach Ball/ Light	Wool	Gives it lower gravity, making it floaty.	Knockback Resistance: -1.0 Bounciness: 1.0 Friction Modifier: 0.3 Air Drag Modifier: 1.8
Medicine Ball/ Slow Flat	Iron Block, Gold Block, Netherite Block, Copper Block, Copper Bulb, Metal Ores.	Gives it higher gravity, making it heavy.	Knockback Resistance: 0.7 Bounciness: 0.2 Friction Modifier: 0.3 Air Drag Modifier: 0.1
Curling Stone/ Slow Sliding	Mushroom Blocks, Mycelium, Nether Wart Block, Warped Wart Block, Shroomlight	Makes it slide slow and unable to bounce.	Knockback Resistance: 0.8 Bounciness: 0.1 Friction Modifier: 0.05 Air Drag Modifier: 0.01
Sticky	Honeycomb Block	Makes it unable to slide or bounce.	Knockback Resistance: -2.0 Bounciness: 0.0 Friction Modifier: 2.0 Air Drag Modifier: 0.01
Football/ Regular	All other accepted blocks.	Makes it slide and bounce often.	Knockback Resistance: -1.0 Bounciness: 0.5 Friction Modifier: 0.3 Air Drag Modifier: 0.1

What’s Next?

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