beta 26.40.27 (ChromeOS/Android) and Preview 26.40.27 (Windows/Xbox/iOS/iPadOS) is the 4th beta for Bedrock Edition 26.40, released on June 23, 2026[1][2]. It introduces some features from the 3rd minor update of 2026 via Experimental Gameplay and includes several bug fixes.
New Content
General
Experimental Gameplay
- Added the "Drop 3 of 2026" sub-option.
- Used to enable features coming in the 3rd minor update of 2026.
Settings
- Added a "V-Sync" option to the Video settings on Xbox platforms.
- Used to enable frame synchronization; disabled by default.
Experimental
The content in this section requires enabling the "Drop 3 of 2026" sub-option in Experimental Gameplay.
Blocks
Poplar Sapling
- A new sapling dropped by Poplar trees.
- Can be obtained by trading with Wandering Traders.
Poplar Leaves
- Natural blocks that generate with Poplar trees.
- Available in red, orange, and yellow colors.
Poplar Log
- Natural blocks that generate with Poplar trees.
- Includes corresponding stripped variants.
- Can be crafted into corresponding Hanging Signs.
Wood of Poplar
- Crafted from 4 Poplar Logs.
- Includes corresponding stripped variants.
Poplar Planks
- A new type of plank.
- Can be used to craft corresponding buttons, doors, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, slabs, stairs, trapdoors, boats, and boats with chests.
Shelf Mushroom
- Generates on the trunks of Poplar trees and fallen Poplar trees.
- Available in small and large sizes.
- Using Bone Meal on a small Shelf Mushroom will grow it into a large Shelf Mushroom.
- Breaking a large Shelf Mushroom drops two Shelf Mushrooms.
- Can be used to craft Mushroom Stew.
- Can be obtained by trading with Wandering Traders.
- Has a certain degree of elasticity, similar to beds.
Red Shrub
- Generates naturally in patches within Mottled Forests.
- Can be used for composting, with a 30% chance to increase the compost level by one.
- Using Bone Meal on it will generate new Red Shrubs in nearby valid positions.
Wool Stairs and Wool Slabs
- Stairs and slabs made from wool, available in all 16 colors.
Items
Suspicious Stew and Mushroom Stew
- Changed the crafting recipe; they can now be crafted using any two mushrooms.
World Generation
Abandoned Campsite
- A new structure that can generate in the following biomes:
- Meadow
- Cherry Grove
- Forest
- Birch Forest
- Old Growth Birch Forest
- Flower Forest
- Windswept Forest
- Mottled Forest
- Taiga
- Snowy Taiga
- Old Growth Spruce Taiga
- Old Growth Pine Taiga
- Sparse Jungle
- Bamboo Jungle
- Swamp
- Savanna
- Windswept Badlands
- Pale Garden
- Each biome has its own unique variant.
- Certain components of this structure are common across all biome variants.
- Chests with loot, Copper Chests, and Barrels can be found.
Mottled Forest
- A new forest-type biome that generates near cold biomes.
- Sheep, chickens, cows, and pigs that generate here are cold-climate variants; foxes and rabbits also generate here.
Poplar Tree
- A new tree type.
- Generates naturally in Mottled Forests.
- Leaves come in red, orange, and yellow colors.
- May generate as fallen trees.
Fixes
Accessibility
- The screen no longer jitters when changing the "Screen Distortion" accessibility option. (MCPE-239556)
Performance and Stability
- Fixed a crash that occurred when opening the game via an invite notification on Android platforms.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting the Advanced Settings of an NPC. (MCPE-239589)
Blocks
- Sulfur Stairs and Cinnabar Stairs no longer prevent chests from opening. (MCPE-239689)
- Fixed an issue where Bubble Columns would not replenish oxygen levels. (MCPE-239551)
Gameplay
- Fixed an issue where the arm animation would trigger even when no block was affected.
Graphics
- Fixed an issue where clouds would render in front of visually transparent blocks like glass when Deferred Technical Preview was enabled.
- Fixed an issue where colored glowing blocks in worlds using official RTX texture packs would no longer glow. (MCPE-218532)
- Block atlas composite textures now render correctly. (MCPE-223126)
Items
- Arrow damage now scales based on velocity rather than being completely random. (MCPE-161077)
- All arrows fired by mobs using crossbows now have the same damage behavior, regardless of the mob type.
- Previously, arrows fired by Piglins were treated as if fired by a bow.
- Only arrows fired by mobs using bows (such as Skeletons and their variants) will now adjust their damage based on world difficulty.
- Arrows fired by players and other mobs are no longer affected by difficulty.
- The screen no longer flashes when drinking a Milk Bucket while under the Nausea effect. (MCPE-239698)
Mobs
- Blocks absorbed by the Sulfur-Block-Monster now render with the same orientation as in the Java Edition. (MCPE-238269)
- High levels of the Strength effect now correctly increase the knockback distance of Sulfur-Block-Monsters containing blocks.
- Sulfur-Block-Monsters containing blocks now emit landing particles upon touching the ground. (MCPE-239318)
- Players no longer get stuck when standing inside the bounding box of a Sulfur-Block-Monster containing a block or a Ga-Zhi, as players can now pass through the mob to interact with surrounding entities and blocks.
- This only applies when the entity is invulnerable (i.e., the Sulfur-Block-Monster has absorbed a block, or the Ga-Zhi was spawned by a Ga-Zhi Heart).
- Replaced the solution where Ga-Zhi would disappear after blocking a player for too long.
- Fixed an issue where sheep would not eat grass after being sheared. (MCPE-239548)
Realms
- Fixed an issue where content obtained from the Marketplace would not immediately appear in available items when editing Realms.
- Fixed an issue where downloading a world from the Realms Hub slot screen and the Realms edit screen would result in different names.
- Owners can no longer modify the game permissions of administrators.
- Added a delete button for expired Realms in the Subscription tab.
- Updated terms on the Realms purchase screen.
Storage
- Beta only: Updated the conversion process for old worlds and retail worlds in the Storage settings tab.
- Added a specific error modal for when uploading to the cloud fails due to full cloud storage space. (MCPE-239104)
User Interface
- Added new social/friends drawer menu infrastructure, including various performance fixes.
- Options with tooltips are no longer hidden when downloading any behavior pack. (MCPE-184669)
- Optimized performance when scrolling through the recipe book. (MCPE-231750, MCPE-235811)
- Fixed an issue where canceling a resource pack download during a server transfer would cause players to get stuck on the "Connecting to server..." modal.
- Fixed a rare crash that occurred when interacting with items in the UI.
- Fixed an issue where the crosshair would flicker in split-screen mode. (MCPE-123918)
- Fixed an issue with banner messages for Graphics Mode settings. (MCPE-231879)
- Fixed an issue where full-screen mode would not remember the last screen used.
- Fixed an issue where the "Remove" button would not clear items in the Creative inventory under the Pocket UI.
