Released on January 7, these pint-sized farm friends now sport revamped models and textures that make them look like fluffy stuffed animals come to life.
A Fresh Look for Baby Farm Animals
The star of the show is the updated visuals for eight baby mobs: cow, sheep, pig, cat, ocelot, mooshroom, wolf, and chicken. These babies are now chunkier and floofier, complete with oversized heads and adorable single-pixel eyes for that extra dose of charm. Climate-specific variants add variety, like fluffy cold piglets or sandy warm calves.
Rabbits get love too, with new animations for both adults and babies, puffier tails, and adjusted bounding boxes to match their fresh models. No more awkward clipping or outdated looks, these hoppers are ready for 2026.
Mojang recorded real-life animal sounds for authenticity: squeaky piglet oinks, yappy wolf pup whines, and purrfect kitten meows. These join new audio events exclusively for baby cats, pigs, and wolves.
Practical tweaks ensure they play nice: bounding boxes align properly, baby wolf armor and pig saddles no longer render, and rabbits (like zombie horses) stop panicking when hurt.
More Than Just Cute Overhauls
This snapshot kicks off Mojang's "cutest drop," teasing more heart-melting features ahead. Other highlights include:
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Craftable Name Tags | Craft with 1 paper + any metal nugget (copper, iron, gold). Perfect for labeling your new fluffy friends. |
| JVM Tweaks | Default RAM bumped to 4GB (from 2GB); switches to ZGC garbage collection for smoother performance. |
| Bug Fixes | 13 fixes, including zombie horse water antics, villager trades, and nautilus head gaps. |
Data and resource pack versions updated to 96 and 77, respectively, with new entity textures galore.
Bedrock Players Rejoice: Parity Incoming
Bedrock Edition's Preview 26.0.27 mirrors these changes, with updated models for the same baby mobs plus rabbits. Spawn eggs on adults now produce babies, and unique sounds are in place (though some wolf audio needs polishing). Bounding boxes match Java for cross-play bliss.
How to Dive In
Java Edition: Fire up the Minecraft Launcher, head to Installations, create a new one, and select the latest snapshot. Backup your worlds, snapshots can be unstable!
Bedrock: Join the beta/preview program via the Minecraft site or store.
Server jar available for multiplayer testing.