Minecraft’s latest 26.1 Snapshot 5 brings new life to oceans with tiny aquatic baby mobs and introduces the mysterious Golden Dandelion, a rare bloom that might be more powerful than it looks.
There’s also a new flower. If you’re thinking Mojang is going to miss out on that for the Spring-themed update, well, you’re wrong. Here’s everything new in the Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5.
Aquatic Baby Mobs and Golden Dandelions Introduced in Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5
Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5 brings aquatic baby mobs that spawn in ocean biomes, featuring smaller versions of fish, squid, and dolphins with unique behaviors like schooling in groups or hiding in coral. Players can breed them using kelp or prismarine shards, yielding experience orbs and rare drops such as baby glow ink sacs. The golden dandelion appears in flower forests and plains, a luminous variant that glows at night and crafts into yellow dye or potions granting water breathing. These additions expand underwater exploration and flora variety for builders and collectors.
The Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5 is about making the oceans cuter with the refreshed baby aquatic mobs. These babies have unique proportions of head to body that don’t feel odd like before. The following baby mobs have been remodeled:
- Dolphins
- Squids & Glow Squids
- Turtles
- Axolotls
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The above mobs now look noticeably different from their adult counterparts. These are now rounder and look more playful. Moreover, to match their new designs, the bounding boxes have been slightly increased to match their movement and collisions.
The next exciting feature is a magical flower, the Golden Dandelion. It is a rare, craftable flower that allows players to control whether a mob grows up or stays young forever.
Crafting a golden dandelion requires the regular dandelion flower and 8 gold nuggets. Put down a crafting table, place the dandelion at the center, and the eight nuggets surrounding it. This gives a golden dandelion that you can feed to your favorite baby mobs. It will stop their aging process completely, and they will stay as a baby forever.
However, you can’t use Golden Dandelions on hostile baby mobs nor on villagers. Apart from these, the baby chickens now have new sounds instead of reusing the adult audio. Even these small sound changes have a huge impact on making Minecraft realistic.
How to craft Golden Dandelion in Snapshot 5
In Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 5, the Golden Dandelion is crafted like this:
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Open a crafting table (3×3 grid).
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Put 1 dandelion in the exact center slot.
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Surround it with 8 gold nuggets in all remaining slots (a full ring around the dandelion).
This recipe gives you 1 Golden Dandelion.
How to use Golden Dandelion on baby mobs
To use a Golden Dandelion on baby mobs in Snapshot 5, do this:
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Hold the Golden Dandelion in your hand (hotbar selected).
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Look directly at the baby mob you want to affect (crosshair on the mob).
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Press your use/interact button (default: right-click on mouse, left trigger on controller, or the “use” key you’ve set).
What happens:
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First use: The baby’s aging is frozen, so it will stay a baby forever.
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Second use on the same baby (with another Golden Dandelion): Its aging is re-enabled, so it can grow into an adult normally.
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You’ll get a small sound/particle feedback when the effect toggles.
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It only works on passive/neutral baby mobs that naturally grow (like baby cows, horses, turtles, axolotls, dolphins, squids, etc.), not on hostile baby mobs or villagers.
