Mojang’s third 26.3 snapshot for Java Edition leans into cozy survival. The headline additions are the Cushion, a piece of seating you can place and sit on, and the Straw Bed, a single-use bed that skips the night without touching your spawn point. Gothic joins the game’s list of supported languages, and a stack of technical changes brings data-driven brewing recipes and a new command for post-processing shaders.
Quick answer: Craft a Cushion from 3 Wool Slabs of one color to sit down anywhere, and craft Straw Beds from 3 Hay Bales (yielding 4) to sleep through a night once without resetting your respawn location.
Cushions: sit-down seating in 16 colors
The Cushion is a placeable item you interact with to sit on. It comes in all 16 dye colors, and each one is crafted from 3 Wool Slabs of the same color. That finally gives you a reason to gather around a campfire without hopping into a boat or a minecart.
Placement follows a few strict rules. A Cushion can go on any flat surface, always snapping to the grid horizontally while resting on top of the block below it. It has no collision, so it can overlap with other objects, though not with another Cushion. Cushions cannot be pushed or moved, and they break the moment the block supporting them is removed.
| Property | Detail |
|---|---|
| Crafting cost | 3 Wool Slabs of the same color |
| Color variants | 16 |
| Placement | Any flat surface, aligned to the grid |
| Collision | None; overlaps objects but not other Cushions |
| Breaks when | The supporting block is removed |
Straw Beds: skip the night without moving your spawn
The Straw Bed is a new bed type built for travel. You sleep on it to pass the night, but it does not set your spawn point, so your saved respawn location stays exactly where you left it. That makes it useful on long expeditions where you want to avoid phantoms without committing to a new base.
Crafting one batch takes 3 Hay Bales and produces 4 Straw Beds at once. Each bed works only a single time and is destroyed after you use it, so treat it as a consumable rather than permanent furniture. A new entry in the Statistics window tracks how many times you have slept in a Straw Bed.
There is one important limitation. A Straw Bed cannot be used in the Nether or the End. If you try to sleep on it in either dimension, it is destroyed instead.
| Cushion | Straw Bed |
|---|---|
| Sit-down seating | One-time sleep |
| 3 Wool Slabs, one color | 3 Hay Bales makes 4 beds |
| Stays placed until support breaks | Destroyed after use |
| Works anywhere flat | Destroyed in the Nether and the End |
| No spawn interaction | Does not change your spawn point |
Gothic language support
Gothic is now selectable in the game’s language options. It changes only the interface text and has no effect on gameplay mechanics, continuing Minecraft’s practice of adding historical and cultural languages to the list of supported options.
Technical changes for pack creators
The snapshot bumps the Data Pack version to 110.0 and the Resource Pack version to 91.0. Two changes stand out for anyone building packs or command systems.
Potion brewing is now data-driven. Recipes use the minecraft:brewing type, so data packs can add new brews and modify vanilla ones. Each recipe defines an input, a reagent, and an output, and any items can be placed in the three slots, not just potions and traditional ingredients.
{
"type": "minecraft:brewing",
"input": {
"item": "minecraft:potion",
"potion_contents": { "potion": "minecraft:water" }
},
"output": {
"components": {
"minecraft:potion_contents": { "potion": "minecraft:awkward" }
},
"id": "minecraft:potion"
},
"reagent": { "item": "minecraft:nether_wart" }
}A new posteffect command lets you add or remove post-processing shaders on a player’s screen after normal rendering finishes. The four subcommands are add, clear, list, and remove. Post effects live on the client inside resource packs, so the server cannot know whether one will actually apply. Mojang notes that shaders and the command may still change in future updates.
Note: The bed rule format was also reworked. The old explodes field on minecraft:gameplay/bed_rule is now destroy_on_use, an optional destroy_on_leave boolean was added, and a matching minecraft:gameplay/straw_bed_rule handles the new bed.
All of this sits inside the wider 26.3 update, the third game drop of 2026, which is planned for the third quarter of the year and centers on the new dappled forest biome. Snapshot 3 is a testing build on Java Edition, so the Cushion, Straw Bed, and technical formats remain subject to change before the full release arrives.
