Minecraft Bedrock 26.70.24 - Invisible Armor & Off-hand Swap

Here's Minecraft Bedrock 26.70.24 bringing several long-awaited changes to the game. This update introduces improvements to equipment mechanics, controls, and graphics. Here's a look at the main additions, with the full changelog linked at the bottom of the post.

How to hide armor in your inventory:

One of the biggest additions in MCPE 26.70.24 is the ability to hide equipped armor without using third-party mods or resource packs. A new armor visibility toggle is available in the world creation menu under Advanced Settings, as well as in the settings of existing worlds. You can also control it using the /gamerule invisibleArmor command.

Once enabled, an eye icon appears next to your armor slots in the inventory. Click it to hide your armor and show only your character's skin. Carved pumpkins, mob heads, and elytra remain visible. Your armor will also become visible again for 5 seconds whenever you take damage.

Off-hand in Minecraft 26.70.24:

Bedrock players can finally use the off-hand swap keybind properly. You can now quickly switch shields, arrows, fireworks, and maps between your hands using the keyboard. Swords, blocks, and food still can't be placed directly in the off-hand, but Bedrock is slowly getting closer to Java Edition in this area.

There's another small change worth mentioning. When you hold a map in your main hand while carrying something in your off-hand, your character now holds the map with one hand, so it doesn't block as much of your screen.

Hardware, Consoles and Graphics:

• Improved Vibrant Visuals mode is now supported on phones with Mali Ultra GPUs.

• Added mouse mode support for Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons, along with a dedicated settings menu.

• Fixed an issue that caused the game to get stuck at 73% during startup on PC

• Fixed transparent textures on redstone torches that weren't rendering correctly in dark caves with ray tracing enabled.