Simon@Simon_Hypixel
Pre-Release Patch Notes (Mar 12, 2026)
Update 4 (Part 4 of 5)
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Remember to report bugs and give feedback via the in-game feature! The final and bigger part of Update 4 is next week, lots of new blocks coming!
𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗦 & 𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗣𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧
- Projectiles launched by the LaunchProjectile interactions now use the FlyIdle animation instead of the Idle animation.
- New sword impact visual effects.
- New Harvest Trophy visual effects.
𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 & 𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦
- Adjusted the dirt fragment spawner color to match neutral soil.
- Reduced allocation in various areas for spawn positions.
- Improved performance of various world-gen features.
- Added new conditions and a filter to allow NPCs to act or use attacks based on being buffed or debuffed.
- Goat and Goat Kid animation updates.
- Added a new separation mode to NPCs, which is less random and easier to control.
- Backwards compatibility with existing NPC configurations.
𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢
- Push To Talk adjustment:
- PTT will now be blocked while the player is typing in chat.
- Headphones (Stereo) setting adjustment:
- Introduced spatial blending.
- Sound will blend between both ears rather than being either left or right, which can cause disorientation, especially with voice.
- Improved voice chat audio quality on the capture side, as well as added resilience against packet loss on the playback side.
- Updated reverb functionality for Caves, Forest, Mountain & Savanna.
- Updated proximity voice chat to correctly bind the dry filter.
- Increased the max number of sound event layers from 4 to 8.
- Added a new "Toggle Voice Chat" keybind, which is unbound by default. It allows the player to enable/disable voice chat via the keybind once set.
- Added a new "Push to Talk (Toggle)" input mode. Rather than holding in the PTT keybind, players can now toggle between emitting voice or not.
𝗨𝗜 & 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘
- Emote wheel displays an icon indicating looping emotes.
- Updated the default styling to use a design system for select controls.
- Tooltips now use explicit text styling.
- Added the ability to write complex strings in commands.
- Examples being "/say", or "/ban " commands with potentially multiple apostrophes.
- Increased font quality for Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
- Added Ukrainian language option.
- Added the ability to replace characters typed with other characters.
- For example, various languages use different apostrophes; They will now be replaced with a unified one to allow players seamless item searching regardless of the apostrophe used.
- Instance teleportation is now added to the teleport undo history.
- Added client & server log shortcuts to Creative Tools Help Menu.
- Updated the audio debug window to match the F7 profiling window. It now adds:
- Data about currently playing music.
- Upcoming music playlist.
- Filtering to only show certain panels at a given time.
- Option to show less detailed info about individual sounds.
- Reverted the behaviours of the "C" camera.
- Holding down C will once again allow 360-degree rotation.
- Removed the head rotation looking at the camera.
- Added a warning tooltip in the Processing Bench when world time is stopped.
- Reorganised Creative Mode quick settings.
- Reorganized the settings into more appropriate categories and removed redundant settings.
- Simplified wording for complex-looking quick settings.
- Added a new Quick Replace setting.
- New HUD voice icons in the bottom left:
- Speaker Icon
- Shows unmuted when voice chat is enabled.
- Shows muted when voice chat is disabled.
- Microphone Icon
- Shows unmuted when voice input is enabled.
- Shows muted when voice input is disabled by settings, PTT or TTT.
- Local players no longer appear in the speaking player list.
- Speaker UI portrait within the speaking player list has had a polish pass.
- Bumped portrait resolution from 32x32 to 96x96 for sharper head portraits.
- Child accounts will not be able to use the Voice Chat feature.
- Voice Chat is disabled by default in singleplayer mode.
𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 & 𝗧𝗢𝗢𝗟𝗦
- Builder tool inputs (arguments) have been made optional and non-alphabetically sorted.
- Builder tools can now have their inputs sorted based on how they are placed in the item's JSON.
- Removed check-boxes for enabling the "Empty" filter in mask settings.
- Validation for duplicate property keys while editing JSON source in Asset Editor to prevent a crash.
- Improved the /rotate and /flip command reliability.
- Added shape and size inputs back to builder tools that had them missing.
- Added a legend to the Tint brush.
- Players can now blend colours and pick colour existing tints using Shift + LMB.
- Migration from polling to events within builder tools and machinima.
- Prefabs loaded from asset packs now override internal ones.
- Significant improvements for preview rendering of the paste tool and selection tool.
- Added commands for server admins to bootstrap the auto-update layout from a bare JAR file.
- Implemented the ability to trigger sounds in a Noesis UI.
- Implemented CommandInteraction.
- It adds the ability to run a command from an interaction.
- Undo shortcut can now be used when not holding any creative tools in Creative mode.
𝗕𝗨𝗚 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦
𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗕𝗔𝗧, 𝗡𝗣𝗖 & 𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗠 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦
- Projectiles, such as Trork Hatchets, have been adjusted to use movement states to prevent them from spinning forever.
- Fix client-predicted arrows getting stuck in ladders.
- Added new interaction hints for the Harvest Trophy.
- Fixed an issue where mount movement settings were reverted as soon as they were applied.
𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 & 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦
- Performance improvements for chunk reference storage.
- Fixed Zone 4 tree masks and city mask edge cases.
- Sewer dungeon spawns are now 100% guaranteed in every city.
- Trees should no longer spawn on top of monument areas, such as encounters, cities, temples or dungeons.
- Fixed some trees being able to break blocks around them when growing.
- Fixed SeedOverride for Spawn Positions.
- Fixed the wrong music or ambience playing for a few seconds upon entering a world.
- Fixed an issue where background music could resume from the middle of the track when returning to an area.
- Fixed NPE in WorldSpawningSystem caused by wrongly asserted chunk components.
- Fixed V2 Worldgen from using too much memory when loading many prefabs.
- Also increases the asset reload speed which results in faster viewport refresh & world creation.
𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗢𝗟, 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 & 𝗣𝗟𝗨𝗚𝗜𝗡 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦
- Fixed mask blocks in brush settings being removed upon re-opening the mask setting UI.
- Fixed log spam during voice chat usage.
- Fixed the Replace command ignoring empty blocks.
- Fixed logger warnings for missing animation keys.
- Fixed crash when scrolling quickly between brushes with large previews.
- Fixed multiple tool bugs with entities, liquids, offsets, rotation, duplication and previews.
- The Node Editor now handles renaming node types better.
- Fixed Line Brush notifications, it no longer includes unnecessary decimal places for diagonal lines.
𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗙𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗦
- Fixed voice transmission stopping when menus are open.
- Added detection on game start if the user needs to load an extra font (CJK) when they use "Use System Language" as a setting.
- Fixed low mouse sensitivity from charged mace swings getting stuck sometimes.
- Fixed mouse sensitivity changes from status effects getting cancelled out by charging attacks.
- Fixed eating food resetting your mouse sensitivity.
- Cleaned up a number of minor issues within the audio module.
- Fixed filters not being bound to sound effects early enough.
- While underwater, players would hear sounds without the underwater filter.
- Fixed an issue where the mouse input is sometimes locked/stuck.
- Fixed "Reset To Defaults" button losing events.
- Fixed PTT issues with voice chat, now handling mouse buttons.
- Fixed a delayed doubling effect when using spatial blending in headphones stereo mode.
