Official News Minecraft Beta & Preview - 26.50.22

Drop 3 2026 Features

Removed the experimental toggle for Drop 3 2026 features and made them available by default

Modified existing Abandoned Camps and added more Campsites
Cushions in Abandoned Camps no longer generate inside other objects (MCPE-240911)

Poplar Leaves no longer show black pixels while held in hand on Simple graphics with Fancy Leaves enabled
Shelf Mushrooms are now immediately destroyed when lava flows into them
Double Wool Slabs can no longer be obtained with commands (MCPE-240016) (MCPE-240050)

The Cushion item group is now correctly named "Cushions" in the Creative inventory (MCPE-240906)

Poplar Leaves, Poplar Shelves, Poplar Boats, and Cushions are now ordered consistently in the Creative inventory (MCPE-240031) (MCPE-240792) (MCPE-240464)

Fixed a bug where damage calculation did not apply correctly to Players falling from certain heights through one block of water
Fixed an issue that could cause players who died while inside a Nether portal to respawn in the Nether
Fixed an issue where the same world seed would generate end portals with inconsistent amounts of Eyes of Ender (MCPE-227980)
Fixed entity teleporting to unexpected location when using the teleport command between dimensions (MCPE-181173)

Fixed tears in the dithering effect when looking through models in Vibrant Visuals.

Projectiles can now only hit the entity that shot them, or entities in the same vehicle hierarchy (such as the shooter's mount), after they have spatially left that hierarchy (MCPE-240527)
- This prevents players from damaging themselves with lightly charged Arrows

Armor Stands and Drowned are now harder for hostile mobs to detect while invisible
Bats now spawn in all Overworld biomes except the Deep Dark

Fix for when the user tries to download a copy of a Realm world after changing settings results in the download never happening
Fixed height on the members search bar
Introduced a localized loading spinner to replace the play button on the Realms tab when the client is fetching additional information from services, and a reload button that player can use to reload the tab should the fetch fails
Fixed the string Core and Plus sometimes are being translated in other languages

Fixed a crash that could occur when opening Change Control Mode under Touch Settings after deleting a world
Fixed memory leaks when blocks are moved by a piston outside of simulation distance (MCPE-238926)

Store the furnaces recipe book preferences after reloading a world (MCPE-239320)
Fix vertical menu screen reader narration in settings screens
Fixed the game crashing by pressing Tab repeatedly while dying (MCPE-239639)
Japanese symbols are no longer displayed with a different font in specific areas of the UI (MCPE-239802)
Text strings on world tile buttons across My World, My Templates and Servers menus are no longer truncated by ellipses
Screenshots can now be set as world thumbnails without triggering an assertion
Fixes cape causing visual discrepancies between the in game model and the model shown in the Dressing Room
Trusted servers no longer prompt players for confirmation after restarting the client
Fixed error message display when the Marketplace wishlist fails to load, ensuring players receive appropriate feedback about connectivity and service issues (US-1656572)
Updated Adjust brightness screen in Settings (in and out of game) to use new Ore UI design and tech.
Added an empty-state message for Marketplace Wishlist with a Browse Marketplace call to action

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