Minecraft 26.50.4 [Release]
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The developers have released the Minecraft 26.50.4 update for Android! This release adds all the content from the fall Drop 3 2026: the Dappled Forest, Abandoned Camps, the poplar block set, Cushions, Straw Beds, and more. Below is the full list of additions and changes.
Drop 3 2026
Straw Bed
- A new type of bed: it lets you sleep through the night, but doesn't move your spawn point.
- It works once and breaks after you sleep.
- It's useless in the Nether and the End, trying to sleep destroys it.
- Found in Abandoned Camps. Three Hay Bales yield 4 beds at once.
Cushion
- A new entity: you can sit on it by interacting with it.
- Comes in 16 colors, crafted from three Wool Slabs of the matching shade.
- Can be placed on any flat surface.
- Snaps to the grid horizontally, but sits on top of its support vertically.
- Remove the supporting block and the Cushion breaks.
- It can't be moved from its spot.
- It has no collision, so it overlaps with any object except other Cushions.
Dappled Forest
- An autumn-themed forest biome that borders cold biomes.
- Filled with poplars, red shrubs, leaf litter, brown mushrooms, shelf mushrooms, and the occasional spruce.
- Both standing and fallen poplars grow here, with fallen ones appearing more often than other trees.
- Shelf Mushrooms generate on the poplars.
- Its wildlife includes passive and neutral mobs in their cold variants: Chicken, Cow, Fox, Pig, Rabbit, and Sheep.
Poplar
- A tree that grows in the Dappled Forest.
- Its foliage comes in three colors: red, orange, and yellow with the shade chosen at random when the tree generates or the sapling grows.
- A fallen poplar has a Shelf Mushroom on it.
Abandoned Camp
- A structure that appears across many biomes: Meadow, Cherry Grove, Forest, Birch Forest, Old Growth Birch Forest, Flower Forest, Windswept Hills, Dappled Forest, Taiga, Snowy Taiga, Old Growth Spruce Taiga, Old Growth Pine Taiga, Sparse Jungle, Bamboo Jungle, Swamp, Savanna, Wooded Badlands, and Pale Garden.
- Each camp has its own variations: made of colored wool stairs, or featuring foliage, cobwebs, wood, or a crop farm.
- Chests and barrels with loot sit nearby.
- Poplar Sapling:
- Grows into a poplar with red, orange, or yellow foliage.
- Can be bought from the Wandering Trader.
- Poplar Leaves:
- Three new types of leaves that grow on poplars.
- Occasionally play ambient block sounds.
- Poplar Log:
- Harvested from poplars.
- Has a stripped version.
- Poplar Wood:
- A wood block made from poplar logs.
- Has a stripped version.
- Poplar Planks:
- New planks made from poplar logs.
- Used to craft stairs, slabs, fences, fence gates, signs, hanging signs, buttons, pressure plates, doors, trapdoors, boats, boats with chest, and shelves.
- Red Shrub:
- A plant from the Dappled Forest.
- Works in the composter and grows with bone meal.
- Can now be snowlogged.
- Shelf Mushroom:
- A mushroom that grows on the sides of logs.
- Comes in two sizes; a small one grows into a large one with bone meal.
- A large Shelf Mushroom drops two mushroom items.
- Springs back when entities land on it.
- Goes into Mushroom Stew and Suspicious Stew.
- Sold by the Wandering Trader.
- Wool Stairs and Slabs:
- New wool blocks in all 16 colors.
- Concrete Stairs and Slabs:
- New concrete blocks in all 16 colors.
Changes
- Concrete Stairs and Slabs can now be cut from concrete on the Stonecutter.
- The Red Shrub now has its own sounds.
- Multiple jukeboxes can now play the same record independently of one another.
- Reworked the side texture of the Hay Bale so the two red threads sit symmetrically relative to the top and bottom edges.
- Locator map, map, empty map, and Explorer Map:
- Updated their inventory icons.
- The player marker once again shows the facing direction when the player is outside the map, and it got a new texture.
- Explorer Maps can no longer be zoomed out on either the crafting table or the Cartography Table.
- "Sunken Ancient City Camp Map" became "Sunken Ancient City Map."
- "Sunken Mineshaft Camp Map" became "Sunken Mineshaft Map."
- "Desert Temple Camp Map" became "Desert Pyramid Map."
- "Warm Ocean Ruins Camp Map" became "Warm Ocean Ruins Map."
- Recolored all poplar blocks on the map.
- Added camp maps pointing the way to other camps in these biomes: Bamboo Jungle, Cherry Grove, Birch Forest, Dappled Forest, Flower Forest, Pale Garden, Swamp, Windswept Forest.
- Added Explorer Maps to structures: Ancient City, Mineshaft, Desert Pyramid, Warm Ocean Ruins.
- Bats now spawn in all Overworld biomes except the Deep Dark, given a low enough light level.
- Hostile mobs now have a harder time detecting Armor Stands and Drowned while they're invisible.
- Automatic scaling quality now defaults to a constant resolution when using custom graphics settings.
- Red shrubs were recolored to Crimson Nylium on the map.
- The Shelf Mushroom was recolored to Terracotta Yellow on the map.
- The maximum render distance with Vibrant Visuals on Windows was raised to 48 chunks.
- The poplar door hinges got a metallic sheen.
- The panorama was updated to match Wilderness Bound.
- The "Renew" button for an expired Realms world is now disabled if the device doesn't support renewal.
- When applying custom packs to their Realms world, players are now warned how they'll appear with the profanity filter on.
- Custom pack names and descriptions are filtered in the Edit World menu when the profanity filter is on.
- The admin log now records events for changes to a Realms world's name and description.
- Added a guard against callbacks firing after a facet has left scope during new world creation.
- On the Realms tab, a localized spinner replaces the "Play" button while data loads, and a reload button was added next to it in case of failure.
- The "Point Light Quality" option was renamed "Block Light Quality" in the "Video" settings.
- The "Block Light Quality" setting was moved out of the "Dragon stats display for creators" experiment.
- Removed the "Text to Speech with Device Settings" option.
- Storage settings gained a "Clear Layout Cache" button for the Server tab's cache.
- Introduced a new foundation for the friends and social side drawer, with performance optimizations.
- The Marketplace Wishlist tab was moved to Ore UI.
- Added a high-resolution Korean font.
- Restored the missing translation on the layout button on the Achievements screen.
- Selecting a Featured Item in the Dressing Room now takes one click instead of two.
- The party eligibility check for joining multiplayer moved from JSON to Ore UI.
- Added a new grid for viewing achievements, along with general UI improvements.
- The column layout on the Play screen now switches between 4, 3, and 2 columns depending on UI scale.
- The inventory panel on the Loom, Stonecutter, Cartography Table, Villager, and Wandering Trader in the Pocket UI was brought in line with the Inventory and Crafting Table header style.
- The "Owned by Me" tab now defaults to sorting by "Acquired Date" when creating a world from a template, with the newest templates first.
- Labels on the world buttons in the "My Worlds," "My Templates," and "Servers" menus are no longer truncated by ellipses.
- A screenshot can now be set as a world thumbnail without triggering an assertion error.
- Trusted servers no longer ask for confirmation after the client restarts.
- The brightness adjustment screen in "Video" was moved to Ore UI.
- An empty-state message with a "Browse Marketplace" button was added for an empty Wishlist.
- The deletion modal in the Storage list was moved to Ore UI.
- The remaining poplar items in the Creative inventory now sit between the mangrove and cherry ones.
- A skin name can now consist entirely of digits.
- A friend's profile now has a button to join a specific Realm when it's available.
- The chat settings were reorganized so the "Chat Color" and "My Mention Color" dropdowns read more easily.
- The Marketplace Wishlist gained page flipping with a gamepad and dynamic grid row heights for cards.
- Some tools now show their efficiency, Axes show "Chopping Efficiency," Pickaxes "Mining Efficiency," Shovels "Digging Efficiency."
- Removed some line breaks and text fragments like "On head:," along with smithing ingredients; armor trim info is now on one line.
- Some sign-in errors previously flagged as "Wool" now get a more specific codename.
- Screen narration now correctly reads out the first focused element after the game menu opens.
- The Shelf Mushroom now has the correct scale in inventory slots.
- You can now mute a player when reporting their chat messages.
- Cloud storage was temporarily disabled in the Preview version as part of 26.42.
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