Brr. If you fired up Bedrock Preview in the last 24 hours you already know the temperature just dropped. Minecraft Preview 26.60.29 dropped yesterday and the star attraction is the Ice Caves now available under the Drop 4 of 2026 experimental feature.
What the Ice Caves Actually Look Like
They generate beneath cold Overworld biomes and are built almost entirely from packed ice and calcite with snow patches on the floor. No dirt no granite and no glow lichen. Instead you get icicles growing up to five blocks long from the ceiling and ice crystals that give off a soft glow as the main light source.
- Icicles detach when a torch is placed underneath them
- Ice crystals grow on the floor emit light and can be harvested or placed by players
- Ore pockets are plentiful in the stone and deepslate around the biome
- Strays and the new Frostbite zombies are the main hostile spawns
Meet the Frostbite
This is not just a reskinned zombie. The Frostbite throws ice balls that deal damage and knockback. Up close it switches to melee that applies a stacking Freezing effect. You start shaking jump height drops and eventually it deals damage over time. Leather armor helps the same way it does against powder snow but the effect still applies.
Zombies and husks exposed to powder snow in these experimental worlds can convert into Frostbites. The freezing arrow is also craftable using a cauldron and potion of freezing. Everything ties together into a cohesive frozen combat loop.
The preview also includes a refreshed main menu UI some technical fixes for item duplication and faster Realms downloads. But nobody is talking about those. Everyone is building bases in the ice or speedrunning how fast the Frostbite can freeze them.
Feedback window is open at the usual Mojang link. The final drop lands in December so what you report now actually matters. If you have Bedrock Preview installed flip on the experimental toggle and go see how cold it really gets.
