Minecraft 26.50.24 [Beta]

The developers have released the Minecraft 26.50.24 beta build. It adds the final features of the fall 2026 drop: Abandoned Camps can now contain upgraded maps that lead to other structures in the Overworld, and building just got easier with Concrete Stairs and Slabs in all 16 colors. Along with that, this update brings 6 changes and 24 bug fixes.

Drop 3 2026

What was added and refined in the fall drop content:

• Abandoned Camp:
  • Camp Chests can now contain treasure maps that lead to an Ancient City, a Mineshaft, a Desert Pyramid, Warm Ocean Ruins, and to Abandoned Camp variants from other biomes.
• Blocks:
  • Added Concrete Stairs and Slabs in all 16 colors.
  • Poplar Leaves can now be smelted into leaf litter.
• Cushion:
  • Players are no longer pulled into the ground when a Cushion beneath them is destroyed by removing the supporting block.
  • It now breaks if the block beneath it is replaced with a liquid.
  • Breaking a named Cushion no longer drops a regular item.
  • It now displays a name from a name tag.
  • It turns into an item when pushed out by blocks.
  • Breaking the supporting block now produces breaking particles and a breaking sound.
• Straw Bed:
  • The sleeping camera is no longer positioned too high above the player.
  • Removed floating and extra pixels that were invisible in-game.
  • It no longer shows one overly shiny pixel.
• Items:
  • All remaining poplar items now sit between the mangrove and cherry items in the Creative inventory.

Changes

6 changes made. Here's the rundown:

• The player map icon now shows its rotation even outside the map's borders.
• Treasure maps have new icons to more clearly show where they lead.
• Skins can now have names made up entirely of digits.
• Friend profiles now have a dedicated join button for a Realm when the Realm is available.
• Updated the chat settings UI to improve the readability of the "Chat Color" and "My Mention Color" dropdowns.
• Added paged navigation for the Wishlist with gamepad bumper switching, and dynamic grid row sizing for Wishlist cards in the Marketplace.

Bug Fixes

24 bugs fixed. The highlights:

• Restored the original growth speed of Sulfur Spikes and the Pointed Dripstone after a recent change that accidentally made them grow 25 times faster.
• Fixed health syncing when activating a Totem when the resulting health equals the original.
• Fixed players and mobs sometimes loading into the world at (0,0,0) and losing all items after a reload.
• In-game models and textures now load correctly if the network connection changes while joining a world.
• Fixed the held item shaking when TAA anti-aliasing with upscaling is enabled.
• Fixed Spiders and Cave Spiders sometimes being slowed by Cobwebs.
• Fixed mobs and players sometimes reloading with an inconsistent movement speed.
• Fixed a crash when retrieving network addresses on Android.