Minecraft 26.40.27 [Beta]

The developers have released the Minecraft 26.40.27 beta for Android. The headline is the arrival of Drop 3 content: a new forest biome, abandoned camps, and a poplar wood set. Along with the new content, this update brings 7 changes and 25 bug fixes.

On PlayStation, the Preview version will be slightly higher and will roll out later than the other platforms.

Drop 3

To try out the new content, enable experimental features when creating a world. Here's what was added:

Dappled Forest

• A new type of forest biome found near cold biomes.
• Poplar Trees and fallen Poplar Trees generate here, with Shelf Mushrooms growing on them.
• Red Shrubs are scattered across the ground.
• Passive and neutral mobs spawn here:
  • Sheep, Chicken, Cow, Pig, Rabbit, and Fox, in their cold variants where applicable.
• A local variant of the Abandoned Camp also generates here.

Abandoned Camp

• A new type of structure that generates across many biomes:
  • Meadow
  • Cherry Grove
  • Forest, Birch Forest, Flower Forest, and Windswept Forest
  • Taiga
  • Swamp
  • Savanna
  • Pale Garden
  • ...and more.
• Each biome has its own camp variant designed to match its surroundings, while some pieces are shared across all variants.
• Loot can be found in the camp's Chests and Barrels.

Wool Slabs and Stairs

We've been asking the developers for this for years and they finally did it!

• Wool Stairs in 16 colors.
• Wool Slabs in 16 colors.

New Blocks

• Poplar wood set:
  • Poplar Sapling. Randomly grows into any of the three tree variants; sold by the Wandering Trader.
  • Poplar Leaves (red, orange, and yellow). Each color has its own falling-leaf particles matching the canopy, and forest ambience sounds are tied to them.
  • Poplar Log and Stripped Poplar Log.
  • Poplar Wood and Stripped Poplar Wood.
  • Poplar Planks.
  • Stairs, slabs, signs, hanging signs.
  • Buttons, pressure plates, doors, fences, fence gates, trapdoors.
  • Poplar Shelf.
• Plants:
  • Red Shrub. Can be placed in the Composter, and using Bone Meal grows another shrub in a random adjacent space.
  • Shelf Mushroom. Grows on poplar trees and fallen poplars, and comes in small and large sizes. A small one grows into a large one with Bone Meal, and a large one drops two mushrooms when broken. It can be used in Stews, is sold by the Wandering Trader, and is slightly bouncy when stepped on, like Beds.
• Poplar Boat and Poplar Boat with Chest.

Changes

7 changes made. Here's the rundown:

• Frame Pacing is now available in Preview on Xbox. It's off by default and can be enabled in Video settings.
• Arrow damage now scales with velocity instead of being fully randomized.
• All arrows fired by mobs using a Crossbow now deal damage the same way, regardless of which mob fired them. Previously, Piglin arrows were treated as if fired from a Bow.
• Damage scales with world difficulty only for arrows fired by mobs using a Bow (such as Skeletons and their variants). Difficulty no longer affects arrows fired by Players or other mobs.
• Blocks absorbed by a Sulfur Cube now render with the same facing direction as in Java Edition.
• High levels of the Strength effect now correctly increase the knockback distance of a Sulfur Cube with an absorbed block.
• Added a "Delete" button on the Subscriptions tab for expired Realms, and updated the terms on the Realms purchase screen.

Bug Fixes

25 bugs fixed. The highlights:

• Fixed a crash when interacting with items in the UI.
• The screen no longer jitters when the "Screen Distortion" accessibility setting is changed.
• Fixed a crash when launching the game from an invite notification on Android.
• Sulfur and Cinnabar Stairs no longer prevent Chests from opening.
• Air bubbles once again replenish your air supply.
• The arm animation no longer triggers when no block is affected.
• Clouds no longer render in front of transparent blocks such as Glass when Vibrant Visuals is enabled.
• Colored light-emitting blocks once again emit light in worlds using the official RTX texture pack.
• Atlas-composited block textures now render correctly.
• The screen no longer flickers when drinking a Milk Bucket while the Nausea effect is active.
• A Sulfur Cube with an absorbed block now emits landing particles when it hits the ground.
• Players no longer get soft-locked inside a Sulfur Cube's or Creaking's bounding box.
• Sheep once again eat grass after being sheared.
• Content from the Marketplace now appears immediately in available items while editing a Realm.
• Downloading a world from the Realms Hub and from the edit-world screen no longer produces different names.
• Owners can no longer modify admins' gameplay permissions.
• Fixed a crash when backing out of an NPC's Advanced Settings.
• Added an error modal when a cloud upload fails due to full cloud storage.
• Tooltips are no longer hidden when any behavior pack is downloaded.
• Improved scrolling performance in the Crafting Recipe Book.
• Fixed a softlock where canceling a resource pack download during a server transfer left the player stuck on the "Connecting to Server" screen.
• Fixed a flickering crosshair in split screen.
• Fixed the banner message for the graphics mode setting.
• Fullscreen mode now remembers which screen it was last on.
• The "Remove" button once again removes blocks from the Creative inventory in the Pocket UI.