Horizon 2026.10.14.1: controllers, copy and paste, crash reports, Nether portals, 30 fixes — release notes

Controllers, copy and paste, logs and crash reports, preparing without Python, Nether portals in survival, and about 30 fixes for the bugs you reported.

New

• Controllers (first part): play with an Xbox or PlayStation pad on Bedrock's layout: move, look, jump, attack, use, hotbar, inventory, sneak and sprint. Menus with the pad come next. Settings in horizon-controller.txt.
• Copy and paste (Ctrl/Cmd + C, X, V, A) in chat, signs, books, the anvil, search boxes, world and server fields.
• F3 key combinations as in 26.3: chunk borders (F3+G), hitboxes (F3+B), copy location (F3+C) and block or entity data (F3+I), reload chunks (F3+A), spectator (F3+N), pause without the menu (F3+Esc) and the others. Holding F3+C crashes on purpose after a countdown.
• Logs and crash reports: logs/latest.log like vanilla, and a crash report with your system details when the game crashes. The launcher shows a notice with buttons to open, copy or report it on Discord.
• Preparing without Python: resources are now prepared by Horizon's own horizon-prepare. This fixes preparing on Macs, which failed with the system Python since early October.
• Agents turn like a player: horizon-ctl mouse-move and turn/look-at --over go through the real mouse path.

Fixed

• Nether portals in survival: the wait no longer restarts when you shuffle in the portal, trips back find your old portal instead of building new ones, and items and mobs go through.
• Sweet berries can be planted (carrots and potatoes too while hungry or in creative), picked, and grown with bone meal.
• Powder snow works: you sink, freeze and take damage, leather boots let you walk on it, buckets pick it up.
• Cobwebs and sweet berry bushes slow you down, and grown bushes hurt.
• Composters take items by hand, from hoppers and from droppers.
• Furnaces kept resetting their progress when you clicked in the inventory.
• Hurt mobs were too red, especially in the dark: the red tint now follows vanilla's lighting.
• Rain streaks were five times too long; clouds stopped at your render distance instead of following Cloud Distance.
• Texture packs: switching packs now reloads everything, high-resolution packs keep their resolution, and pack language, sound and font files add to vanilla's instead of replacing them.
• Game rules sometimes went back to their old values after leaving a world.
• Taming a wolf gave The Whole Pack and A Complete Catalogue too.
• Feeding animals played the generic eating sound; each animal now makes its own sound, or none, as in vanilla.
• Hand sway: your hands now lag behind when you turn.
• Particles: 29 missing particle types added, hitting a villager shows five angry particles, and many particles moved and coloured differently from vanilla.
• Shift-click didn't work with the left Shift key when toggle-sneak was on, and clicking outside an inventory didn't drop the item you held.
• Fullscreen dropped when you clicked menu buttons on Wayland (Hyprland).
• The world spawn now matches vanilla's for every seed we tested.
• The launcher said "No such file or directory" after updating itself.
• Smaller things: the fire charge's sound pitch, block place sounds played twice, and the hitbox shape of entity models.

Thanks to everyone who reported these on Discord and GitHub.

Before you play

The launcher asks you to prepare resources once more for this version, because Horizon now prepares them itself. Older launchers still work for this version (they use Python one last time); a launcher update with the crash notice and preparing without Python follows shortly.

Known

• Controllers have not been tried with real pads yet: tell us in #horizon-bugs how they feel.
• Arrows, minecarts, boats and falling blocks don't go through Nether portals yet.
• Mobs don't freeze in powder snow and aren't slowed by cobwebs or berry bushes yet.
• The first-person fire overlay looks flat orange.

Install and update Horizon with the Horizon launcher. Website: https://playhorizon.dev

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