1.10

Minecraft 1.10, the Frostburn Update, added contrasting hot and cold content, including polar bears, husks, strays, and magma blocks. It was released on June 8, 2016 as one of the game's numbered feature updates.

At its heart, 1.10 is cold peaks and hot depths. The standout addition is polar bears in icy biomes, plus husks, strays, and magma blocks. A smaller themed update bridging the Combat Update and the Exploration Update.

This page breaks 1.10 down into 9 headline features, 2 notable gameplay or technical changes and 2 documented fixes, and a plain-language summary of why the update matters. Java Edition is the original PC version of Minecraft, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The most talked-about part of the Frostburn Update update is polar bears in icy biomes, plus husks, strays, and magma blocks.

In full, 1.10 adds Polar Bears, husks (desert zombie variant), strays (cold skeleton variant), Magma Blocks, Nether Wart Block and Red Nether Bricks, Bone Blocks, Structure Blocks for survival use, and fossils in desert and swamp biomes, with several further additions listed on the right. Together these are what make Frostburn Update worth updating to, and each appears in the Major Features list on this page.

Beyond new content, 1.10 reworks how parts of the game behave. The notable changes include endermen can now spawn in the Nether and nether portals can send players to alternate coordinates. Adjustments of this kind reshape day-to-day play for existing worlds as much as new ones.

On the bug-fixing side, 1.10 resolves fixed various entity interaction bugs and performance improvements. Several of these are performance-focused, so the update can feel smoother even where nothing visible changed.

To play Minecraft 1.10 on Java Edition, open the official Minecraft Launcher, select the Java Edition tab, and use the version dropdown beside the Play button to choose 1.10. As a full release it appears in the standard release list by default.

Before updating an existing world to 1.10, it is good practice to copy the save folder first. Worlds from 1.9 upgrade in place, but newly generated chunks will use 1.10's world generation while older chunks keep their original terrain.