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Minecraft Preview 26.40.27
Official source by Jay Wells ·
Bedrock Preview 26.40.27 opens testing on the next wilderness-focused drop, led by the Dappled Forest and the mysterious Abandoned Camp structures found among poplar trees and red shrubs. Preview builds are experimental—use throwaway worlds, send feedback to feedback.minecraft.net, and file bugs at bugs.mojang.com when something breaks.
Dappled Forest generates near cold biomes with poplar trees (and fallen poplars), shelf mushrooms on those trunks, and patches of red shrubs. Cold-variant sheep, chickens, cows, pigs, rabbits, and foxes can appear here, and the biome gets its own Abandoned Camp flavor. Poplar leaves come in red, orange, and yellow with matching fall particles; saplings can grow into any color and also show up in Wandering Trader deals, while logs craft into a full poplar wood set.
Shelf mushrooms come small or large, grow with bone meal, work in stews, trade from Wandering Traders, and feel slightly bouncy underfoot like beds. Red shrubs are decorative compostables that bone-meal into neighboring patches. Abandoned Camps appear across a long list of temperate and wild biomes—from meadows and cherry groves to taigas, jungles, swamps, savannas, wooded badlands, and the Pale Garden—with biome-tuned looks, shared pieces, and loot in chests and barrels.
Builders also get wool stairs and wool slabs in every wool color. Quality-of-life and fix work in this Preview spans accessibility (less jitter when changing Screen Distortion), Xbox frame-pacing options, invite-related Android crashes, sulfur/cinnabar stair chest blocking, air-bubble replenishment, Vibrant Visuals cloud/glass sorting, RTX colored lighting, arrow damage consistency, sulfur cube and creaking interaction softlocks, Realms Marketplace visibility, and a pile of UI, crafting-book, and creator API updates. Treat the full changelog on Minecraft.net as the checklist; this briefing is the forest-first tour.
This page is a PixelCraftMusic summary written in our own words — roughly half the coverage of the official post. For every detail, changelog line, and media asset, read the original on Minecraft.net.
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This section is written by us for listeners and builders. It is not copied from Minecraft.net — just our session tips around Minecraft Preview 26.40.27.
Session vibe
Preview 26.40.27 is an earlier rung on the same Bedrock Preview ladder — still experimental, still not for irreplaceable saves. Read the notes, spin a throwaway world, and keep the music low and steady while you verify the few systems you care about. Think of it as a rehearsal for later Preview builds, not the main concert.
Player checklist
- Label the test world with the Preview number so you never confuse 26.40.27 notes with later builds.
- Avoid transferring inventories from Preview to retail; treat data as disposable until release.
- If performance dips, note device and settings before blaming a single changelog line.
Listen while you play
Suggested vibe: quiet laboratory rain pads — focused, monochrome calm for early Preview poking.
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Original article link
Want the full original article? Open it on Minecraft.net. Thanks to Jay Wells and the Minecraft team for the original reporting.
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