26.3 Content and Dimension Shift

Our new Dimension Shift challenge takes your group on a journey through the dimensions. Your group switches between the Overworld and Nether every five minutes of active run time. You get a warning 30 seconds beforehand and five seconds of damage protection after arriving. Pausing the run stops the clock.

Find a stronghold and anchor your shared return point by placing an Eye of Ender in an empty End Portal Frame. When someone enters the actual End Portal, the shifts pause for the group. Players still in the Nether return near the shared End Portal in the Overworld and can follow through.

The ready-made preset is at the Challenge NPC in the lobby, with the Ender Dragon as its goal. Choose other goals and compatible challenge combinations in the configurator.

Explore new forests with colourful poplar trees and abandoned camps. Poplar wood, plus new wool and concrete stairs and slabs, give you more ways to build. Look for new landscapes in areas you have not explored yet.

You could already play on Sparkane using Minecraft 26.3. Now its new game content is available on your personal servers too. The next time you start your personal server, it will run Minecraft 26.3. Your world and run progress stay with you.

In Only Go Down, your path takes you deeper and deeper. Normal jumps were still possible before. We have fixed that bug: while the run is active, pressing the jump key no longer makes you jump.

Keep more of your runs: you can now own two Personal Servers without a rank or with Pro, three with Elite and five with Legend. Everyone gets one extra server slot.

Your server no longer expires a fixed time after creation. Starting it again resets the time for that server: 3 days without a rank, 7 with Pro, 14 with Elite and 30 with Legend. It is not deleted for inactivity while you are playing on it. When everyone leaves, it stops and saves your progress as before.

Took a long break? Without a rank, with Pro and with Elite, you first lose the ability to start the server. You then have another 2, 3 or 5 days to save it with a higher rank. With Legend, the server is deleted after 30 days without a start. Check the lobby to see when you need to start or save your server. Deleted worlds cannot return.

This also applies to your existing servers. A rank upgrade gives you more time since your last server start; it does not reset the clock.

Your personal servers now start faster, so you spend less time waiting for your next run.