Horizon 2026.10.14: villager trading, vanilla worldgen order, agent control, many fixes — release notes

Villager trading, worlds generated like vanilla's, the Creative inventory fixed, no more footstep loop, and Horizon can now be played by AI agents and scripts.

New

• Villager trading, as in vanilla: every profession, level and biome, wandering traders, restocks, reputation and Hero of the Village discounts. Works in single player, on dedicated servers and over LAN.
• Agent control: horizon-ctl, shipped with the game, lets scripts and AI agents play: read the game's state (position, inventory, what you're looking at, nearby mobs, the open screen, chat), move with pathfinding, look, break, place, attack, use items, click menus and type. horizon-ctl mcp serves the same commands to AI agents over MCP. See the README's "Agent control" section.
• A way back from the classic menus: Options → Video Settings → Menu Style.

Fixed

• A constant rustling sound while standing still: the footstep sound played 20 times a second.
• Creative inventory: the Functional Blocks tab was empty (anvils, crafting and smithing tables, looms, beds, signs…), and search now finds exactly what vanilla's does. The scrollbar can be dragged.
• Trees, strongholds and other features differed from vanilla in worlds you explore: chunks are now decorated in vanilla's order.
• The view flipped when looking straight up or down.
• Clouds showed a grid pattern.
• Breaking cracks glowed grey and floated around slabs; mining particles on partial blocks were misplaced.
• The block outline was thinner than vanilla's.
• Mobs and players had flat lighting; items in the inventory and hotbar were lit wrongly; the player preview had seams at some window sizes; text glyphs bled into each other.

Thanks to Cosmic for the camera, cloud, crack, outline and lighting fixes, and for the reports.

Before you play

The launcher asks you to prepare resources once more for this version: the Creative inventory and block outlines come from new data.

Known

• Your world spawn point can differ from vanilla's on some seeds.
• Sprint-jumping has been reported as broken, but we couldn't reproduce it. If it happens to you, describe it in #horizon-bugs on Discord.
• On Hyprland, clicking menu buttons can leave fullscreen and copy/paste doesn't work yet: fixed in the next update.

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

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