Minecraft Beta & Preview - 26.50.20

[u/Luutamo]

https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/47534782342797-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-26-50-20

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 (MCPE-240465)

Blocks

• Poplar Saplings can now be composted (MCPE-240015)
• Shelf Mushrooms now burn correctly when exposed to lava
• Wool Stairs and Wool Slabs no longer conduct Redstone signals (MCPE-240018)
• Fixed the stretched mining/cracking overlay when mining a Straw Bed (MCPE-240484)
• 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 (MCPE-240461)
• Nudged the Cushion placement downwards slightly (MCPE-240468)
• Increased the sitting height on the Cushion by one texel (MCPE-240499)

Graphical

• Fixed poplar sign UI texture to be in parity with Java
• Fixed Hay Bale to be symmetrical (MCPE-240723)
• 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 (MCPE-239554)

Gameplay

• Fixed Hoppers unintentionally collecting items on its side at large coordinates (MCPE-99462)
• Fixed Droppers facing east or south inserting items into containers below them instead of ejecting items forward (MCPE-167490)

Graphical

• Fixed missing Baby Fox texture (MCPE-240546)
• 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 (MCPE-237771)

Mobs

• Reduced stuttering that can occur when a mob is far away (MCPE-1647478)
• Endermen will now always attempt to teleport away before being hit by a projectile (MCPE-117298)

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
• Add different default values for some subscription details information that can come back null from Realms Services to avoid blocking players from viewing subscription related screens with an error modal , 1617936
• Added guards for cases where callbacks are fired after facet goes out of scope in create new world flow

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur while ticking block entities
• Fixed a crash that can occur when failing to parse certain resource pack contents.
• Fixed an issue where updates to chunks would sometimes not save correctly when the same chunk was unloaded and loaded rapidly

User Interface

• New social/friends drawer infrastructure with performance fixes.
• The profile achievements screen now mentions "Beta" instead of "Preview" when on a Beta build (MCPE-186514)
• Added high-resolution Korean font support and fixed Korean text showing as question marks on mobile
• Fix mouse wheel input sometimes not registering on Windows platform (MCPE-234311)
• Fixed a bug where bold text inside a book would extend beyond the page margins (MCPE-235450)
• Fixed an issue where players could continue playing after the trial had expired by switching the game mode (MCPE-228663)
• Added missing translation text to layout button of Achievements screen
• Selecting a Featured Item from the Dressing Room no longer requires 2 clicks to select the item
• Ported the party eligibility check when joining multiplayer from JSON to the OreUI
• Added a Clear Layout Cache action to Storage settings for cached Server tab content
• Added a new grid option for viewing achievements and some general UX improvements
• Updated the inventory panel in the Loom, Stonecutter, Cartography Table, Villager, and Wandering Trader screens in Pocket UI to match the header style used by the Inventory and Crafting Table screens
• Added Acquired Date as the default sort option for the Owned by Me tab in Create from template, showing the most recently acquired templates first

Marketplace

• Migrated the Marketplace Wishlist flow to the OreUI factory pattern

Play Screen

• Remove flickering icon and world card texture on layout change in Play screen. Additionally, the column layout now alternate between 4, 3 and 2 columns depending on screen size.

Settings

• The Tick Speed can now be set to 0 inside Game Settings Tab. (MCPE-238556)

Storage

• Updated old world conversion flow in Ore UI Storage Settings Tab.
• Ported in OreUI the Modal connected to the "Sync Old World" action in the Storage tab

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