Minecraft Bedrock Preview 26.50.25: Changes and Test Guide

Build status: This article covers the historical Minecraft Bedrock Preview/Beta 26.50.25, posted August 11, 2026. Preview and Beta builds are works in progress. The official channel listed 26.50.26/27 as the newer build on August 25, so do not use 26.50.25 results as proof of current or stable behavior.

Preview 26.50.25 is the kind of changelog that looks small until you sort it by what you actually do in-game. Builders got meaningful fixes for concrete and wool variants. Mobile players got touch and inventory polish. Pack creators got stricter parsing and new settings behavior that can break sloppy JSON instead of quietly accepting it. The practical move is to test one lane at a time.

What changed for builders

Concrete stairs and slabs can be crafted in the Stonecutter in all 16 colors in this build. Wool stairs and slabs can be mined faster with shears, and dropped wool stair or slab items no longer create vibrations, matching full wool blocks more closely. Explosions also respect the tntExplosionDropDecay rule instead of always returning wool and concrete stair or slab blocks.

The Drop 3 pass also touched Abandoned Camps, Cushions, Explorer Maps, and Straw Beds. Camp loot and map destinations were adjusted, Cushions received placement and behavior fixes, and Straw Beds break faster with a hoe. These are Preview-specific observations. If you are maintaining a long-term world, test them on a copy before changing a build, farm, or loot route around them.

Mobile and controller changes worth checking

The “Leave Boat” button was restyled for the D-Pad & tap-to-interact touch layout. Inventory input switching between touch and mouse was improved, gamepad button swapping for emotes was prevented, and a layering issue for items held on the inventory cursor was fixed. None of that guarantees your personal control layout feels better, especially on a small phone or a DeX-style window. Run a quick input pass instead of assuming the patch note matches your setup.

1. Open a disposable world and note the exact build shown on the title screen.
2. Enter and leave a boat with your normal touch layout.
3. Move items with touch, then connect a mouse and repeat.
4. Open a crowded inventory and drag layered block items across one another.
5. Record device, control mode, GUI scale, and whether the issue reproduces.

If a resource pack or mobile visual setup is involved, start with MineBrush's Bedrock mobile texture-pack checklist. It gives you a cleaner baseline than toggling random settings mid-test.

Creator changes can fail loud now

For entity JSON using format version 1.26.50 and newer, the minecraft:barter and minecraft:preferred_path schemas became stricter. Invalid data can stop an entity definition from loading. That is useful, but it also means a pack that appeared to work because bad input was ignored may now expose a real content error.

Pack Settings gained a multiselect type. Molang can query selected options, while beta script APIs can return selected values as an array of strings. The changelog also promoted @minecraft/server-graphics 1.0.0 out of beta and states that it requires @minecraft/server 2.3.0 or newer. Treat those as exact dependency facts, not a blanket promise that every graphics pack is compatible.

Before blaming the client, validate the manifest and JSON, then test with only the target pack enabled. The MineBrush guides to Bedrock package formats and add-on troubleshooting can help isolate import problems from runtime schema failures.

Bottom line

Preview 26.50.25 is most useful as a targeted regression build: test block drops, shears, Stonecutter recipes, touch controls, and pack parsing separately. Keep the main survival world out of the test, preserve a copy, and retest on the current Preview or stable client before turning any result into lasting advice.

Primary source: official Minecraft Beta & Preview 26.50.25 changelog.