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Tiny Takeover

Release date	March 24, 2026
Version(s)	Java Edition 26.1 Bedrock Edition 26.10
Preliminary name(s)	Drop 1 of 2026[1] Drop 1 2026[2]
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There are guides for this update!

 

See Java Edition guides/Tiny Takeover and Bedrock Edition guides/Tiny Takeover for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Tiny Takeover.

Tiny Takeover is a game drop that was released on March 24, 2026^[3] as Java Edition 26.1 and Bedrock Edition 26.10. Its theme is "cuteness" and "emotional attachment with mobs".^[4] It visually overhauls baby mobs and rabbits, makes name tags craftable, and adds the golden dandelion, which when fed to baby animals, stops them from aging.

During development, the update was referred to as Drop 1 of 2026. The final name of the update was revealed on Minc⁠eraft.net and Minc⁠eraft Monthly on March 3, 2026.^[5][6]

Some features of this drop were released as part of an experiment in Bedrock Edition 26.0.

Golden dandelion

• A new golden variant of the regular dandelion.
• Does not generate naturally.
• Can be crafted using a single dandelion surrounded with eight gold nuggets.
• Prevents baby animals from aging when used, showing downward green particles.
  • When used again, the animal will continue to age again, showing upward green particles.
  • Cannot be used on baby undead mobs, piglins, and villagers.
• Can be used to make suspicious stew of the Saturation effect.
• Cannot be composted or used to attract bees.
• Attracts piglins.

Note block

• Added the trumpet instrument.
  • It can be heard when a note block is placed on top of any of the following copper blocks:
    • Block of Copper and its variants.
    • Cut Copper and its variants.
    • Chiseled Copper and its variants.
  • The sound is different based on the oxidation level of the copper block by how old the trumpet is.

Mobs

• Added sound variants for the following animals:
  • Cat: Royal
  • Chicken: Picky
  • Cow: Moody
  • Pig: Mini and Big
  • The already existing mob sounds are now part of the Classic sound variant.

• Added eating sounds for pigs.

Armor

• Helmets, chestplates, leggings, and boots now have unique textures and models when worn by the baby variants of zombies, husks, drowned, zombie villagers, piglins, and zombified piglins.
  • Does not display trims in that form.

Name tag

• Can now be crafted using a single nugget of any kind and a paper.

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Any Nugget + Paper

• No longer sold by librarians.
• No longer found in chests in woodland mansions and ancient cities.
• Can now be sold by wandering traders as a common trade for 1 emerald with a 7% chance, and 5 trades in stock.

Updated the models and textures of the following baby mobs:

• Carpets, chests, horse armor, saddles, and wolf armor no longer render on baby variants of the mobs stated above, when applicable.
• Changed sounds for kittens, chicks, foals, baby pigs, and puppies. Now uses its own sounds instead of high pitched adult sounds.

Horse

• The black-dot pattern of the adult horse has been changed to better match with the new foal.

Librarian

• No longer offers name tags as a trade.
• Now offers red candles and yellow candles for the price of three emeralds (per candle) at the Master level.

Rabbit

• The models, animations, and textures have been updated.
• Now has an idle animation.

Stonecutter

• Can now directly turn stone and deepslate into their respective cobbled variants.

Throughout the development of Tiny Takeover, it was described as the "cutest" game drop.^[8][9][10]

On March 24, a skin pack entitled Tiny Takeover: Mob Caretakers was released, consisting of three characters themed after raising the mobs added in the update. An add-on, Tiny Takeover: Mini Mania, was announced the next day.^[11]

Beginning with the announcement of the title in Minc⁠eraft Monthly, the update was marketed with the gimmick of baby or otherwise small mobs "taking over" the Minc⁠eraft franchise. Within the announcement, there is a running gag of Tiny Agnes and Tiny Vu trying to hack the show and host it instead. On the same day, Minc⁠eraft.net was updated with several baby mobs infesting design elements, peeking out of a link to Spring to Life - Official Minc⁠eraft Trailer, hovering the Mounts of Mayhem site header, and appearing on the icons for various social media platforms.^[12] In the article about the name, Linn Viberg's Mojavatar became covered in chicks, and several previously released promotional images were altered to show chicks interacting with the borders.^[5]

This extended even after Minc⁠eraft LIVE – March 2026 was announced, with both a trailer and promotional video featuring a takeover of chicks.^[13] Within the show itself, the sets were even decorated to be overflowing with baby mobs, giving the appearance of a taken over space. Another trailer was also released, once again centering around babies invading Minc⁠eraft. Once the update released, changelogs used images of this same scenario; one in a field full of them,^[14] the others seemingly chasing Efe.^[15]

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  Social media icon for Tiny Takeover
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  Linn Viberg's mojavatar for Tiny Takeover
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  Chicks taking over an Instagram post
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  Tiny Takeover-themed Xbox logo

Three special reward drops are available to promote the release of the game drop. One is available through TikTok^[16], and the other two are available through Twitch.^[17]

Name	Image		Type	Rarity	Obtaining	Date
	Icon	Render
Baby Chick Bucket Hat		File:Baby Chick Bucket Hat Render.png	Headwear	Rare	Watch 3 minutes of any Minc⁠eraft livestream on TikTok with the Game Reward enabled.	March 21 - April 21, 2026
Baby Chick Slippers		File:Baby Chick Slippers Render.png	Footwear		Watch 5 minutes of any Minc⁠eraft livestream on Twitch.	March 21 - April 4, 2026
Chasing Chickens		File:Chasing Chickens Render.gif	Emote		Subscribe to or gift a subscription to any Minc⁠eraft creator livestream on Twitch.

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  Baby Chick Slippers redeem page icon
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  Baby Chick Slippers redeem page
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  Baby Chick Slippers redeem page redeemed

Two community challenges were announced on March 25, 2026,^[18] to promote the release of the game drop. The first challenge began on March 27 and ended on March 30.^[19] The second challenge will begin on April 3. Players in Bedrock Edition get rewarded Character Creator items and players in Java Edition get rewarded a skin pack that will also be released to reward progress.

Name	Image		Type	Rarity	Obtaining
	Icon	Render
Baby Axolotl Top		File:Baby Axolotl Top Render.png	Tops	Rare	Require players to use the name tag to name as many baby mobs as possible.​[more information needed]
Baby Bee Top		File:Baby Bee Top Render.png

• In one of the release change log, it mentions "Removed baby Herobrine".^[20]

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  A toast that appeared in Bedrock Edition promoting the update

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  Key artwork
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  Banner used for the name reveal article
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  Key art variant used for Minc⁠eraft Monthly
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  A flowchart on how to find baby mobs
• Animations for the takeover campaign
• Animations for the takeover campaign
• Animations for the takeover campaign
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  Key art for Tiny Takeover: Mob Caretakers
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  Baby farm animals
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  Sunny feeding baby farm animals next to a barn
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  Kai feeding baby farm animals in a cherry grove with Efe
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  Puppies, baby pigs, and calico kittens
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  Ari watches a group of chicks while several wood puppies sit nearby in a grassy forest clearing
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  Baby ocelots near a creeper moving it away from a jungle base in the background.
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  Chicks near a horse
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  Chicks near their parent
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  A baby pig in a village watching two other pigs being ridden by Sunny and Makena
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  Various baby animals in a cherry grove
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  Chicks in a forest near their parent
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  A baby cow in a plains biome near its parent
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  Puppies in a taiga near sweet berry bushes and their parent
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  Efe looking at baby animals
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  Efe renaming a baby pig and a happy ghast
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  Two puppies looking at the sunset
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  Super close-up of a baby pig
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  A group of various baby farm animals
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  Chick in the Nether being hunted by various hostile mobs
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  Equine foals line up
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  Closeup of a baby mule, foal, and baby donkey standing in front of hay bales
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  Ari and Makena at a stable surrounded by foals and an adult horse
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  A cream foal and a cream adult horse face each other in a grassy field at sunset
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  Zuri and Sunny travelling across a river. Sunny rides a horse while Zuri rides a boat with a foal
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  A gray foal with white spots, a baby mule, and a baby donkey stand together in a cherry grove
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  A baby donkey near some hay bales at night as a jellie kitten sits atop the hay
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  A baby donkey and its parent
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  A white foal and its parent
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  A baby mule and its parent
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  A baby zombie horse and its parent
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  A baby skeleton horse and its parent
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  A foal's muzzle
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  A baby axolotl and a baby turtle
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  Efe and Kai looking at baby axolotls in an aquarium
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  Baby turtles crawling on a beach
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  Makena giving a golden dandelion to a baby turtle
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  A bunch of baby aquatic animals
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  Baby axolotls and their parent
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  A baby dolphin and its parent
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  Baby squids and baby glow squids
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  Baby turtles and their parent
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  Kai feeding golden dandelions to baby turtles
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  Efe feeding golden dandelions to a bunch of baby aquatic animals
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  Various baby wild animals
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  Noor leashed a baby llama, next to a baby fox and a baby bee
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  Kai and Zuri being ice fishing next to a baby polar bear and baby snow foxes
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  Baby fox and baby bee looking at each other
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  A camel stable with baby camels, an adult camel, and baby armadillos nearby
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  Sunny with a caravan consisting of a baby trader llama, baby llama, and baby goat
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  A baby taiga villager and a baby zombie wearing a golden chestplate using its old head model
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  A trio of baby zombie-types in a desert village with several baby villagers and adult villagers using its old head model
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  Baby savanna villagers watched over by a iron golem
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  A husk warm chicken jockey surrounded by chicks using its old head model
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  Makena mining for diamonds near some baby zombies using its old head model
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  A gurgle and its parent using its old head model
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  A baby piglin and a baby zombified piglin in basalt deltas
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  All baby humanoids in their corresponding biomes using its old head model
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  Baby mobs near a restored Nether portal during a sunset
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  Baby mobs near a restored Nether portal, looking at the camera
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  Hoglin jockey tower and baby zoglins
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  Baby striders and its parent
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  Snifflet surronded by sniffer eggs
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  Baby pandas in a player-made treehouse base
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  Parody image highlighting a baby chick with text stating "Who is that?"
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  Tiny takeover recap
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  A stampede of babies in a village
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  Two baby bees and their parent
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  Makena having 2 puppies and a kitten with baby drowned and zombies next to them
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  A jungle playground of baby animals
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  A stable with mules and baby mules
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  Baby piglins, a hoglin jockey, and striders with a baby.
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  Almost all baby Overworld animals and a baby villager
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  A baby polar bear and it's parent
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  Steve naming various baby mobs after themself.
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  Zuri and Sunny swimming next to baby dolphins and baby glow squids
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  An underwater view of a school of cod and a few dolphins swimming around
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  A dolphin jumping out of the water in front of a sunset.
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  A pen of many chicks and two adult chickens in a Plains Village, with a cherry grove in the background.
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  Toast rabbits and brown rabbits in a cherry grove.
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  A baby fox standing amongst a field of golden dandelions.
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  An underwater view of a few baby squid which are swimming in a river.
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  A stack of baby mobs. A warm chick on top of a tuxedo kitten on top of a woods puppy on top of a donkey.

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