# Beta/Preview 26.50.20 -# https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/47534782342797-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-26-50-20 **Please note** - the Preview on iOS will be rolling out later than other platforms this week. ## Drop 3 Experimental Features ### Abandoned Camp - Cushions now generate inside Abandoned Camps with the correct position, rotation, and color - Abandoned Camps now generate the variant matching their biome instead of the generic Forest variant in specialized forest biomes - Secret Chests in Abandoned Camps can now contain their intended Diamond and Potion loot and no longer generate Oxidized Copper Chains instead ### Accessibility - Added localized closed captions for jumping and landing on Poplar Leaves ### Blocks - Poplar Saplings can now be composted - Shelf Mushrooms now burn correctly when exposed to lava - Wool Stairs and Wool Slabs no longer conduct Redstone signals - Fixed the stretched mining/cracking overlay when mining a Straw Bed - Players will no longer fall through a Shelf Mushroom when growing it whilst standing upon it - Red Shrubs can now be snowlogged - Added breaking particles to the Shelf Mushroom ### Cushion - Players can now place Cushions next to each other when aiming the crosshair close to an already placed Cushion - Players are no longer moved into the ground when a Cushion they are sitting on is destroyed by Lava - Collecting any ingredient from a Cushion recipe now unlocks it in the Recipe Book and displays the recipe unlock Toast notification - Cushion name is now correctly translated - Nudged the Cushion placement downwards slightly - Increased the sitting height on the Cushion by one texel ### Graphical - Fixed poplar sign UI texture to be in parity with Java - Fixed Hay Bale to be symmetrical - Fixed Poplar log top to have the correct color palette ### Mobs - Wolves spawned in Dappled Forests now use the Pale Wolf variant - Wandering Traders can now offer Poplar Logs ## Features and Bug Fixes ### Accessibility Features - The "Text to Speech with Device Settings" option has been removed. Text to speech can still be turned on or off through the accessibility settings, and a first time TTS discovery is still done on all devices as before. - A green vignette now appears while the nausea effect is active when screen distortion is turned all the way off via accessibility settings ### Gameplay - Fixed Hoppers unintentionally collecting items on its side at large coordinates - Fixed Droppers facing east or south inserting items into containers below them instead of ejecting items forward ### Graphical - Fixed missing Baby Fox texture - Fixed clouds rendering as bright white spots after switching to Vibrant Visuals in-game with low cloud render distance ### Items - Updated Sulfur Cube Spawn Egg icon's MERS ### Mobs - Reduced stuttering that can occur when a mob is far away - Endermen will now always attempt to teleport away before being hit by a projectile ### Pack Settings - Fixed a bug when a pack's dependency packs would not load pack settings properly. ### Realms - Fixed an issue where players would sometimes not respawn at their bed or respawn anchor after dying in a different dimension on a Realm (REALMS-14459) - Fixed in-game realms system performance regression - Disable an expired Realm's Renew button when renewal is not supported on current device - Users are warned when applying custom packs to their realm and how they will appear when profanity filter is enabled & custom pack names and descriptions are filtered when viewing in Edit World when profanity filter is enabled - Added support for realm name changed and realm description changed admin log events ...And many more! Join the official feedback discord server and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1529155526192267446 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback

# Beta/Preview 26.40.30 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-preview-26-40-30 ## Drop 3 Experimental Features ### Cushion - The Cushion is an item that the player can place in the world and interact with to sit on - Can be crafted in 16 colored variants - Cushions are crafted using 3 Wool Slabs of the same color - Known Issue: Cushions aren't currently generating in the Abandoned Camps, but can be found in the creative inventory ### Cushion Placement Rules - A cushion can be placed on any flat surface - Cushions always align horizontally to the grid, but vertically sit on top of the supporting surface - Cushions cannot move - Cushions break if the supporting block is removed - Cushions do not have collision and can overlap with other objects (except other cushions) ### Straw Bed - Straw Bed is a new type of bed which can be used to sleep through the night without setting your spawn point - It can only be used once and will be destroyed after use - It can not be used in the Nether or The End and will be destroyed if you try to sleep on it there - It is crafted using 3 Hay Bales and will give you 4 Straw Beds ### Abandoned Camp - Abandoned camp now generates in Pale Garden and Flower Forest biomes - Straw Beds can now be found in Abandoned Camps - Updated Abandoned Camps to place procedural trees - Fixed wrong potion names in the loot tables for the Abandoned Camp ### Dappled Forest - Changed biome fog settings to match other forest biomes - Updated Orange, Red & Yellow Poplar Leaves MERS textures ### Sounds - Updated ambient sounds for Poplar leaf blocks - Added custom sound events for Red Shrubs and Poplar leaf blocks ### Graphical - Added opaque versions to the Poplar leaves to fix black background issue (MCPE-240020) - Added hinges to Poplar door icon. Also removed 3 pixels from top door texture that didn't match the palette - Fixed Poplar sign texture to follow other sign assets ### Gameplay - Added missing recipes for Wool Stairs and Wool Slabs ## Features and Bug Fixes ### Accessibility - Fixed the focus indicator on the "More options" button on the start screen so it no longer relies on color alone, adding an underline when the button is focused ### Blocks - Azalea and Flowering Azalea are no longer see-through when viewed from below - Brown and Red Mushrooms can no longer be placed under the sky when it is dark - In Education Edition, it is possible to place charcoal again in Lab Table - Fixed a miscolored pixel in one of the Sulfur Spike textures ### Gameplay - Fixed an issue where structure loot would differ on the same seed (MCPE-239951) ### General - Brown and Red Mushrooms now generate on Crimson Nylium and Warped Nylium no matter the brightness ### Graphical - Fixed a rendering issue with Vibrant Visuals where some items and text could be invisible on certain Android GPUs ### Items - Fixed issue where book and quill from pre-26.30 worlds freezes the game - Arrows of Harming no longer bounce off entities and are now correctly removed on hit ### Character Creator - Exiting the dressing room no longer automatically saves your character if you have an unequipped color change. ### Stability and Performance - Fixed a crash that could occur when spawning more than one Iron Golem - Game servers now attempt to self-repair some player connection issues - Fixed a crash that could occur during world generation when placing structures containing double chests - Fixed a potential crash issue related to Concrete Powder blocks converting into Concrete. ### Storage - Updated old world conversion flows in the Storage Settings tab. - Updated supported devices for Vibrant Visuals on Android ...And many more! Join the official feedback discord server and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1524059125665890334 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback

# Beta/Preview 26.40.27 -# https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-preview-26-40-27 ## Drop 3 Experimental Features ### Abandoned Camp - The Abandoned Camp structure is a new kind of structure which can be found in the following biomes: - Meadow - Cherry Grove - Forest - Birch Forest - Old Growth Birch Forest - Flower Forest - Windswept Forest - Dappled Forest - Taiga - Snowy Taiga - Old Growth Spruce Taiga - Old Growth Pine Taiga - Sparse Jungle - Bamboo Jungle - Swamp - Savanna - Wooded Badlands - Pale Garden - Each of these biomes has its own variant of the structure with design based on that biome - Certain structure pieces are generic for all biome variants of the structure - Various Chests and Barrels with loot can be found at Abandoned Camps ### Dappled Forest - The Dappled Forest is a new type of forest biome which can be found near cold biomes - Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees generate here - Shelf Mushrooms can be found here, placed on Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees - Red Shrubs generate here - The following passive and neutral mobs spawn in the Dappled Forest, using their cold variants where applicable: - Sheep - Chicken - Cow - Pig - Rabbit - Fox - A Dappled Forest variant of the new Abandoned Camp structure can be found here ### Poplar Trees - Added the Poplar Tree to the game - A new type of tree in the Dappled Forest which comes in three color variations: - Red Poplar Leaves - Orange Poplar Leaves - Yellow Poplar Leaves - Each variant of the tree has its own variant of falling leaf particles matching the color of the leaves - Poplar Leaves drop Poplar Saplings which will randomly grow into any of the three different variants - Poplar Saplings can be found in trades with Wandering Trader - Shelf Mushrooms and Leaf Litter naturally generates on and around Poplar Trees - The trunk of the trees are made of Poplar Logs - Poplar Logs can be crafted into a new set of Poplar wood blocks - Forest ambience sounds are tied to the Poplar Leaf blocks - **Known issue**: Some Vibrant Visuals settings are currently not being applied correctly to Poplar Leaf blocks ### Red Shrub - Red Shrub is a new type of decorative plant block that can be found in small patches in the Dappled Forest - Can be used in the Composter - Using Bone Meal on a Red Shrub grows a Red Shrub in a random adjacent space if possible ### Shelf Mushroom - A new type of mushroom that generates on Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees - Can be found in two sizes, small and large - A small Shelf Mushroom can be grown into a large Shelf Mushroom using Bone Meal - A large Shelf Mushroom drops two Shelf Mushroom items when broken - Can be used like other mushrooms to make Stews - Can be found in trades with Wandering Trader - Shelf Mushroom has a slight bounciness when stepped on, similar to Beds ### Blocks - Added Wool Stair blocks and Wool Slab blocks of the following colors: - Black - Blue - Brown - Cyan - Gray - Green - Light Blue - Light Gray - Lime - Magenta - Orange - Pink - Purple - Red - White - Yellow ## Features and Bug Fixes ### Accessibility - The screen no longer jitters when the Screen Distortion accessibility setting is changed ### Graphical - Frame pacing is now available in Preview on Xbox platforms. Frame pacing is disabled by default and can be enabled in Video settings ### Stability and Performance - Fixed an issue where the game would crash when opening the game from an invite notification on Android. ### Blocks - Sulfur and Cinnabar Stairs no longer prevent Chests from opening - Fixed issue where air would not be replenished by air bubbles ### Gameplay - Fixed arm animation triggering when no block is affected ...And many more! Join the official feedback discord server and discuss these changes here: https://discord.com/channels/1138536747932864532/1519007975610519843 https://discord.gg/minecraftfeedback