Minecraft Chaos Cubed Update Details and Patch Notes

The Chaos Cubed update for Minecraft has arrived, and brings with it the Sulfur Cube mob to the game along with the Sulfur Cave biome, new block sets, the Parties feature for Bedrock and more!

This page acts as a comprehensive breakdown of everything in the Chaos Cubed update for Minecraft, including a link to the full Patch Notes.

Chaos Cubed Details

Sulfur Cubes

Sulfur Cubes are the newest mob to be added to the game, and can be found in sulfur caves underground. The unique part of Sulfur Cubes is that you can feed them a block. After doing so, the Sulfur Cube will be affected in different ways depending on which block you feed it - changing its physical properties and appearance. As an example, when giving an organic block (like wood) to a sulfur cube, it will become incredibly bouncy!

This enables an incredible amount of experimentation and can even open up new avenues for complex mechanisms, automations and triggers incorporating Sulfur Cubes absorbing specific blocks for a specific outcome.

If you want to bring Sulfur Cubes with you (or just back to your home from the Sulfur Cave), you can scoop them up in a bucket and they'll immediately go into your inventory.

Sulfur Caves

As mentioned above, Sulfur Caves are the newest underground biome added to the game, and serve as the home of Sulfur Cubes. You'll also find a variety of new blocks and mechanics within Sulfur Caves that make them a unique experience to explore, including:

• Sulfur Springs
  • Inviting pools of water that actually are coated with toxic gases that will give both you and mobs Nausea
• Geysers
  • Shoot water upward at high pressures
• Potent Sulfur
  • These blocks create the volatility found within Sulfur Caves
  • Placed directly underneath water, potent sulfur will create bubbles and puffs of gas
  • When it generates (or is placed) underneath a magma block that’s submerged in water, a geyser will form
• Sulfur Spikes
  • Pointed blocks that (unlike pointed Dripstone) won't harm you

Sulfur and Cinnabar Blocks

Red Cinnabar and yellow sulfur blocks enter the game, each with their own block set to allow further creativity in your builds!

Music Disc

A brand new music disc has been added with Chaos Cubed - Bounce! You'll have a chance of finding this music disc inside chests located in mineshafts that intersect with sulfur caves.

Parties Feature

A new Parties feature has been added to the Bedrock Edition, allowing you to create a group of players that can seamlessly move between different worlds and realms. Create a party from the Social Drawer in the game’s menu, and you can invite up to 14 friends with either Invite Only or Open settings.

Patch Notes

Sulfur Cube

• Added the Sulfur Cube mob
• Spawns in the new Sulfur Caves biome
• When a Player interacts with it while holding a block:
  • The Sulfur Cube absorbs the block
  • Its AI is disabled
  • While a block is absorbed:
    • The Sulfur Cube becomes a physical object:
      • It does not take fall or Player damage
      • Players can punch and push it
    • It assumes one of the archetypes (listed below), changing its physical properties to match the absorbed block
    • The Player can interact with it using Shears:
      • This removes the absorbed block
      • The Sulfur Cube's AI is re-enabled
• The Sulfur Cube will follow a Player holding a block it can absorb
• The Sulfur Cube can look for nearby block items and move towards them to absorb them
• When killed, the Sulfur Cube splits into two smaller Sulfur Cubes
• Small Sulfur Cubes can be fed Slime Balls to grow into large Sulfur Cubes
• A large Sulfur Cube can be picked up using an empty Bucket
• Sulfur Cubes cannot enter Boats, but can ride Minecarts
• Dispensers can:
  • Insert and swap blocks inside a Sulfur Cube
  • Use Shears to remove the held block
  • Spawn a Sulfur Cube from a Bucket of Sulfur Cube
• Pufferfish are not scared by Sulfur Cubes

Sulfur Cube Archetypes

• Each archetype is characterized by the speed of the Sulfur Cube when hit, how bouncy it is when colliding with blocks and collidable entities, as well as its ground friction, air drag, and if it floats in liquids
• There are the following archetypes:
  • Regular: medium speed, medium bounciness, medium ground friction, and low air drag
    • It is buoyant
    • Used when absorbing loose mineral and soil blocks
  • Bouncy: fast speed, high bounciness, medium ground friction, and low air drag
    • It is buoyant
    • Used when absorbing wooden blocks
  • Slow Bouncy: slow speed, high bounciness, medium friction, and medium air drag
    • Used when absorbing stone-like blocks
  • Slow Flat: slow speed, low bounciness, medium ground friction, and medium air drag
    • Used when absorbing metal blocks
  • Fast Flat: fast speed, low bounciness, medium ground friction, and low air drag
    • Used when absorbing organic blocks
  • Light: slow speed, high bounciness, medium ground friction, and high air drag
    • It is buoyant
    • Used when absorbing wool blocks
  • Fast Sliding: fast speed, no bounciness, low ground friction, and low air drag
    • Used when absorbing icy blocks
  • Slow Sliding: slow speed, no bounciness, low ground friction, and low air drag
    • Used when absorbing shroom blocks
• There are also the following special archetypes:
  • High Resistance: very slow, low drag with low bounce with high friction
    • Used when absorbing Soul Sand and Soul Soil
  • Sticky: same properties as the Fast Flat archetype, but sticks with extremely high ground friction and no bounce to simulate stickiness
    • Used when absorbing a Honeycomb Block
  • Explosive: similar properties to the Regular archetype with a slightly higher air drag
    • Used when absorbing a TNT block
    • Absorbed TNT can be primed by Redstone, fire sources (including a Dispenser with a Flint and Steel), or nearby explosions
    • When primed by fire or Redstone, absorbed TNT uses a fuse time of 6 seconds
    • When primed by an explosion, absorbed TNT uses a randomized fuse time between 0.75 and 3 seconds
    • Sulfur Cubes with an absorbed, primed TNT block cannot be picked up with a Bucket
    • Absorbed, primed TNT blocks cannot be sheared out
    • On explosion, no small Sulfur Cubes are spawned
  • Hot: same properties as the Regular archetype, but damages entities on contact
    • Used when absorbing a Magma Block

Sulfur Caves Biome

• Added Sulfur Caves biome
• Generates naturally underground
• The Sulfur Caves biome has bands of Sulfur and Cinnabar
• Spawns the new Sulfur Cube mob as well as Cave Spiders
• Generates with Sulfur Pools which contain Potent Sulfur

Sulfur Spring

• Is a new feature which generates naturally above the Sulfur Caves biome
• Consists of Sulfur, Potent Sulfur, and Magma Blocks
• Sulfur Springs come in 4 different size variants:
  • Small
  • Medium
  • Large
  • Extra Large

Cinnabar and Sulfur Block Sets

• Added Cinnabar and Sulfur stone block sets
• Each of them has Polished and Bricks variants
• Each variant has its Slabs, Stairs and Walls blocks
• Added Chiseled Cinnabar and Chiseled Sulfur blocks

Potent Sulfur

• Is a new block that generates naturally in Water Pools inside the Sulfur Caves biome
• Produces bubbles which rise up to 4 Water source blocks above it
• When placed underneath up to 4 Water source blocks, it generates a cloud of nausea-causing gas on the water surface
  • This cloud spreads across adjacent water with a maximum radius of 3 blocks
• Can be crafted from 9 Sulfur blocks
• When placed above a Magma Block or a Lava Block, and under 1-4 Water source blocks, it creates a geyser
• With Magma underneath, the geyser will erupt at random intervals, shooting a plume of water particles upwards and applying an upward impulse to entities above it
• With Lava underneath, the geyser eruption is continuous, but with slightly muted sounds compared to the eruption from a Magma Block
• Geyser eruptions emit game events at the beginning and at the end of the eruption that can be detected by Sculk Sensors

Sulfur Spike

• Is a new block that generates naturally on Sulfur blocks inside the Sulfur Caves biome
• Forms a stalactite if placed on the ceiling or a stalagmite if placed on the floor
• Can be combined to form longer stalactites & stalagmites
• Stalactites and stalagmites merge if the tips are next to each other, unless you sneak while placing
• Sulfur Spike stalactites can grow when placed under a Sulfur block
• Stalagmites will break if they're not attached to something below
• Stalactites fall down if not attached to something above
• Being hit by a falling stalactite hurts because they are sharp!
• Stalagmites are not sharp and do not hurt more to land on
• Thrown Tridents break Sulfur Spikes
• Four Sulfur Spikes can be crafted into one Sulfur

Music and Sound

• Added a new music disc:
  • "Bounce" by fingerspit
    • Has a chance of being found in Mineshaft Chest Minecarts that are located in a Sulfur Caves biome
    • Has a comparator output of 8 when played in a Jukebox
• Added 5 new background music tracks by fingerspit:
  • "Shores"
  • "Memories"
  • "Nightly"
  • "Home"
  • "Ebb"
• Added block sounds for Sulfur, Potent Sulfur, and Cinnabar
• Added mob sounds for Sulfur Cube and small Sulfur Cube
• Added sounds for when using a bucket on a Sulfur Cube
• Added sounds for geyser eruptions

Advancements

• Added new "Uh Oh" Husbandry advancement for having a Sulfur Cube absorb a TNT block

Friends List

• Added a Friends List, accessible from a new Friends button on the Title Screen and the Pause Menu
• The Friends List can be opened with a new key bind (default: "O")
• The Friends button shows a notification badge with the number of incoming friend requests, up to 5 (a "more" indicator is shown beyond that)
• The Friends List is presented as an overlay with two tabs:
  • Friends: shows your current friends, lets you remove them, and lets you send a new friend request by Profile Name
  • Pending: shows incoming friend requests (which can be accepted or declined) and outgoing friend requests (which can be canceled)
• The presence of your friends is shown under their name in the Friends List as one of the following:
  • "Offline"
  • "Online"
  • "Online (LAN)"
  • "Online (World)"
  • "Online (Realm)"
  • "Online (Server)"
• Sending, accepting, declining, cancelling, and removing actions are confirmed in the UI and show a clear error message when the service is unreachable, rate limited, or the requested Profile Name does not exist
• Friend changes that happen while the game is running are shown through toast notifications:
  • When a friend request is sent
  • When a friend request is received
  • When an outgoing friend request is accepted by the other player
• Toasts show the other player's face when the skin is available
• The Friends List checks for updates once per minute while the Friends List is open, or every 5 minutes otherwise
• The first time the Friends button is shown on the Title Screen, a confirmation dialog is presented to opt in to the Friends List
• The Friends List, friend request privacy, and the Microsoft account safety settings link are managed from the new "Friends List" section in Online Options
• Players that have their chat settings set to "Friends Only" on their Xbox profile will only see chat messages from other players if they are friends

Full Patch Notes

If you wish to read the Patch Notes in full, including numerous fixes, changes and data pack updates, you can do so via the official Minecraft websites Chaos Cubed 26.2 Patch Notes post.

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