Java Edition 25w03a

Minecraft 25w03a
Edition	Java Edition
Release date	January 15, 2025
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.21.5
Downloads	Client (.json); Server
Obfuscation maps	Client; Server
Protocol version	dec: 1073742054; hex: 400000E6
Data version	4304
Resource pack format	48
Data pack format	63
Minimum Java version	Java SE 21

25w03a is the second snapshot for Java Edition 1.21.5 released on January 15, 2025,^[1] which adds test block, test instance block and fixes bugs.

Additions[edit | edit source]

Blocks[edit | edit source]

Test block

A technical block used in game test.
Can be obtained by /setblock, /fill, or /give commands, or through the Operator Items Tab.
The test block is a block used for implementing block-based tests. It has four modes:
- start: Triggers a redstone pulse when the test starts
- log: Logs a message to the server log file when powered by redstone (prints twice, due to a bug^[2])
- fail: Fails the test when powered by redstone
- accept: Completes the test when powered by redstone
Block-based tests are required to have at least one start block and one accept block in the structure.

Test instance block

A technical block used in game test.
Can be obtained by /setblock, /fill, or /give commands, or through the Operator Items Tab.
To run a test in a world, a test instance block is used. This type of block represents the test as placed in the world and is used to interact with that test, to save the structure, reset or run the test.
Using the /test command to run or create a test will also place a test instance block to control that test.

Command format[edit | edit source]

/test

A new command used to create and run tests.
- Syntax:
  - /test clearall [<radius>]
  - /test clearthat
  - /test clearthese
  - /test create <test> [<width>] [<height> <depth>]
  - /test locate <selector>
  - /test resetclosest
  - /test resetthese
  - /test resetthat
  - /test pos [<variable>]
  - /test run <selector> [<numberOfTimes>] [<untilFailed>] [<rotationSteps>] [<testsPerRow>]
  - /test runclosest [<numberOfTimes>] [<untilFailed>]
  - /test runfailed [<numberOfTimes>] [<untilFailed>] [<rotationSteps>] [<testsPerRow>]
  - /test runmultiple <selector> [<amount>]
  - /test runthat [<numberOfTimes>] [<untilFailed>]
  - /test runthese [<numberOfTimes>] [<untilFailed>]
  - /test stop
  - /test verify <tests>
- Parameters:
  - radius:
    - The radius to clear tests within.
  - test:
    - The namespaced ID of a test.
  - selector:
    - A wildcard-enabled selector for test IDs
    - Supports * and ? for matching namespaced IDs
    - If namespace is not supplied, defaults to minecraft
    - Examples:
      - *:*
        Matches all IDs
      - *
        Matches everything in the minecraft namespace
      - custom:folder/*_test_?
        Matches IDs in the folder folder of the custom namespace, with a prefix followed by _test_ followed by a single valid character
  - width:
    - The width of the test structure.
      - If omitted, 5 is used.
  - height:
    - The height of the test structure .
      - If omitted, the width is used.
  - depth:
    - The depth of the test structure.
      - If omitted, the width is used.
  - variable:
    - The variable name to include in the copied code snippet.
  - numberOfTimes:
    - The number of times to repeat each test.
      - If omitted, 1 is used.
  - untilFailed:
    - Boolean (default false) noting that the test should be stopped as soon as one iteration fails.
  - rotationSteps:
    - Number of extra 90 degree steps to apply to the test.
      - If omitted, 0 is used.
  - testsPerRow:
    - Number of tests to place per row in a grid layout.
      - If omitted, 8 is used.
/test clear*
- These subcommands clear the structures and blocks associated with the selected tests.
/test create
- This subcommand creates a test setup in the current location for the given test, preparing for a structure of the given size.
- This gives a starting point for creating the structure for the test.
/test locate
- Attempts to locate the given test.
  - Note that only loaded chunks are searched.
/test reset*
- These subcommands reset the structures for the selected tests, removing any surrounding barriers and placing the structure in from scatch.
/test pos
- Shows the local coordinates to the block pointed at in the test.
- If the optional variable name is specified, this variable name is used in a code fragment obtained by clicking on the coordinates in the output message.
/test run*
- Runs one or more tests.
  - If multiple tests are run at once, they are placed in a grid and run in parallel, although only up to a certain limit. Beyond that limit, tests are run in rounds where each round completes before any tests from the next round are started.
  - For each test, loads the given structure and runs the associated test. Each test location will have a beacon beam showcasing the test status.
    - Gray beacon = in progress
    - Red = fail (required test)
    - Orange = fail (optional test)
    - Green = success
  - If a test fails, the error is shown on a lectern book and an overlay.
/test stop
- Stops all running tests.
  - Note that gameplay events triggered by tests may still remain.
/test verify*
- Verifies one or more tests by running multiple instances of the same test.

General[edit | edit source]

Block-based tests

Use test blocks in the test structure to run the test and indicate success or failure.

Function tests

Rely on built-in functions to run a test and indicate success or failure.
- They have one additional field:
  - function:
    - The namespaced ID of the Test Function to run.

Game tests

The Game Tests system is a new integrated system for testing aspects of the game.
Each test is an asset defining some parameters for how the test gets executed, combined with a saved structure file containing a base setup.
Generally, the test framework expects to run tests in a separate superflat world.

Items model definition

Select Property
- minecraft:component
  - New data source has been added to select item model: component.
  - Returns value of component on item, if any.
  - Fields:
    - component - namespaced ID of component type.
  - Possible values: depends on component type.

Tags

Added the #can_equip_saddle entity tag.
- Contains entities that can be equipped with a saddle.
- This does not mean that the Saddle will function, just that it can be equipped into the saddle slot.

Test environments

Test Environments are a way to group up tests and give them the right preconditions to run.
A test environment is an asset in the test_environment registry.
Each test environment definition has a type field that determines its setup:
- all_of definitions
  - Apply the setup from several sub-definitions in the definitions field.
- function definitions
  - Use mcfunction files as setup and teardown.
  - setup:
    - Optional namespaced ID of the mcfunction to use for setup, if any.
  - teardown:
    - Optional namespaced ID of the mcfunction to use for teardown, if any.
- game_rules: definitions
  - Set any number of game rules.
  - bool_rules:
    - A list of boolean game rules to set and the value to set.
  - int_rules:
    - A list of integer game rules to set and the value to set.
  - Each rule is an object with two fields:
    - rule:
      - The exact name of the rule to set.
    - value:
      - The value to set
  - Game rules are reset to their default values after the test environment has completed.
- weather definitions (not working in this snapshot^[2])
  - Sets the weather state
  - weather:
    - The weather to set.
    - One of clear, rain and thunder.
- time_of_day definitions
  - Set a given time of day.
  - time:
    - The time of day to set in number of ticks, as a non-negative integer.
The game provides a single, empty test environment by default: minecraft:default.

Test instances

Test instances are defined in the registry test_instance.
- They're small assets defining a test to run.
- Fields:
  - batch (wrongly called ~~environment~~ in the changelog^[2]):
    - Namespaced ID of the test environment to run this test as part of.
  - structure:
    - Namespaced ID of the structure to use for the test.
  - max_ticks:
    - A positive integer representing the maximum number of ticks allowed to pass before the test is considered timed out.
  - setup_ticks:
    - Optional non-negative integer.
    - Default: 0
    - Represents a number of ticks to wait after placing the structure before starting the test.
  - required:
    - Optional boolean.
    - Default true
    - Whether the test is considered required to pass for the full test suite to pass.
  - rotation:
    - Optional rotation to apply to the test structure.
    - One of none (default), clockwise_90, 180 and counterclockwise_90.
  - manual_only:
    - Optional boolean.
    - Default false
    - Set to true for tests that are not included as part of automated test runs.
  - sky_access:
    - Whether the test needs clear access to the sky.
    - Default: false
    - Tests are enclosed in barrier blocks.
    - If set to true, the top is left open.
  - max_attempts:
    - Number of attempts to run the test.
    - Default: 1
  - required_successes:
    - Number of attempts that must succeed for the test to be considered successful .
    - Default: 1
  - type:
    - The type of test.
    - One of block_based and function.

Changes[edit | edit source]

Blocks[edit | edit source]

Leaf litter

Can be used in a composter.

Items[edit | edit source]

Saddles

Saddles equipped onto pigs or striders will now maintain properties such as custom name when dropped.
Saddles equipped onto camels and equines (horses, donkeys, mules) now remain visible if the mob equipped with them is inflicted with Invisibility.
Saddles equipped onto camels and equines no longer turn red when the mob wearing it takes damage.
When enchanted now show the enchantment glint on mobs wearing it.
Thorns and Curse of Binding enchantments now work on mobs that are wearing it.

Command format[edit | edit source]

Item slots

The horse.saddle item slot has been renamed to saddle, and now supports any entity that can equip a Saddle.
- Driven by the equippable component.
- Only mobs that normally support saddles will support riding and rendering of the saddle.
- Items in the saddle slot can apply attribute modifiers as with other equipment.

Gameplay[edit | edit source]

End portal and exit portal

When changing state, any blocks that are in its radius will be dropped as items and also make breaking sounds, rather than outright overwritten.^[3]

General[edit | edit source]

Data component format

weapon component
- damage_per_attack field was renamed to item_damage_per_attack

equippable component
- Can now apply to saddle slot.
- Any mob can now have equipment added in the body slot as long as the component allows it (allowed_entities).
- Added new optional field: equip_on_interact (boolean).
  - If true, players can equip this item onto a target mob by right-clicking it (as long as this item can be equipped on the target at all).
  - The item will not be equipped if the target already has an item in the relevant slot.
  - If not specified, defaults to false.

Data pack

The pack format version is now 63.

Entity format

The ArmorItems, HandItems, and body_armor_item fields have been merged into an equipment field.
- Format:
  - Map between equipment slot type and item stack.
    - Valid equipment slots: head, chest, legs, feet, mainhand, offhand, body, saddle.
  - If not specified or removed, the entity will have no equipment.
  - e.g. equipment:{chest:{id:'minecraft:diamond_chestplate'}}.
  - This affects all mobs and armor stands, but players are unaffected.
- The data format of saddles has been unified between mobs such as horses and pigs, becoming a new kind of equipment slot (and stored in the equipment.saddle field)
  - This also replaces the boolean Saddle flag from pigs and striders.
  - The Saddle dropping on death is now affected by the drop_chances field, as with other equipment slots.
- The FallDistance field has been changed from float to double and is now called fall_distance.

Entity variant components

Entities now have a set of components for configuring variants and other aspects of apperance.
If those components are present on spawning item (like spawn eggs, mob buckets, minecraft:painting, minecraft:item_frame), they will be applied to new entity
Components are currently not restored when spawn egg is picked from existing entity
Added components:
- villager/variant - one of desert, jungle, plains, savanna, snow, swamp, taiga
- wolf/variant - namespaced id from wolf_variant registry
- wolf/collar - one of 16 dye colors
- fox/variant - one of red, snow
- salmon/size - one of small, medium, large
- parrot/variant - one of red_blue, blue, green, yellow_blue, gray
- tropical_fish/pattern - one of kob, sunstreak, snooper, dasher, brinely, spotty, flopper, stripey, glitter, blockfish, betty, clayfish
- tropical_fish/base_color - one of 16 dye colors
- tropical_fish/pattern_color - one of 16 dye colors
- mooshroom/variant - one of red, brown
- rabbit/variant - one of brown, white, black, white_splotched, gold, salt, evil
- pig/variant - namespaced id from pig_variant registry
- frog/variant - namespaced id from frog_variant registry
- horse/variant - one of white, creamy, chestnut, brown, black, gray, dark_brown
- painting/variant - namespaced id from painting_variant registry
- llama/variant - one of creamy, white, brown, gray
- axolotl/variant - one of lucy, wild, gold, cyan, blue
- cat/variant - namespaced id from cat_variant registry
- cat/collar - one of 16 dye colors
- sheep/color - one of 16 dye colors
- shulker/color - one of 16 dye colors
Mob buckets and paintings available in creative menu will now use new variants instead of minecraft:entity_data component.
Custom tooltips for bucket of tropical fish and painting items are now based on new components instead of minecraft:bucket_entity_data and minecraft:entity_data.

Equipment assets

Equipment assets may now define new layer types:
- pig_saddle - equipment layer for Pig saddles
- strider_saddle - equipment layer for Strider saddles
- camel_saddle - equipment layer for Camel saddles
- horse_saddle - equipment layer for Horse saddles
- donkey_saddle - equipment layer for Donkey saddles
- mule_saddle - equipment layer for Mule saddles
- skeleton_horse_saddle - equipment layer for Skeleton Horse saddles
- zombie_horse_saddle - equipment layer for Zombie Horse saddles
The following textures have been moved to support the use of equipment assets for saddles:
- entity/pig/pig_saddle.png -> entity/equipment/pig_saddle/saddle.png
- entity/strider/strider_saddle.png -> entity/equipment/strider_saddle/saddle.png
The following textures have been split from their base entity texture to support the use of equipment assets for saddles:
- entity/camel/camel.png -> entity/equipment/camel_saddle/saddle.png
- entity/horse/horse_<variant>.png -> entity/equipment/horse_saddle/saddle.png
- entity/horse/donkey.png -> entity/equipment/donkey_saddle/saddle.png
- entity/horse/mule.png -> entity/equipment/mule_saddle/saddle.png
- entity/horse/horse_skeleton.png -> entity/equipment/skeleton_horse_saddle/saddle.png
- entity/horse/horse_zombie.png -> entity/equipment/zombie_horse_saddle/saddle.png

Predicates

Entity predicates
- A new optional field was added to entity predicate: components.
  - When present, predicate will match contents of entity components.
  - Format:
    - Map of component type key to matching component values.
- The following entity sub-predicates have been removed and replaced with combination of components predicate and variant entity components:
  - minecraft:axolotl
  - minecraft:fox
  - minecraft:mooshroom
  - minecraft:rabbit
  - minecraft:horse
  - minecraft:llama
  - minecraft:villager
  - minecraft:parrot
  - minecraft:salmon
  - minecraft:tropical_fish
  - minecraft:painting
  - minecraft:cat
  - minecraft:frog
  - minecraft:wolf
  - minecraft:pig
- The field color has been removed from minecraft:sheep sub-predicate.

Resource pack

The pack format version is now 48.
Added new equipment asset layer type for Pigs and Striders, and moved saddle textures.
Changed the size of pig_saddle texture.

Server.jar

Added the entry point net.minecraft.gametest.Main.
- Automatically starts a server, runs all available game tests and then exits.
- Options:
  - --help - Shows usage information
  - --packs <path> - Set a folder of datapacks to include in the world
    - Any zip file or folder with a pack.mcmeta file is included
  - --report <path> - Exports results in a junit-like XML report at the given path
  - --tests <selection> - Specify which tests to run with a selection - a wildcard expression matching namespace test instance IDs
    - If omitted, or used with an empty ID, runs all tests
  - --universe <path> - The path to where the test server world will be created
    - Any existing folder will be replaced
    - Default: gametestserver
  - --verify <boolean> - Enables test verification
    - Runs the tests specified with test or testNamespace 100 times for each 90 degree rotation step
    - Default: false
- Example usage: java -DbundlerMainClass="net.minecraft.gametest.Main" -jar server.jar --packs mytestpacks

Tags

Added leaf_litter to the #replaceable_by_mushrooms block tag.
Fixed the #is_overworld, and #has_structure/trial_chambers biome tags to contain all required biomes.

Text component format

Hover Events
- show_text action:
  - The text field has been renamed to value.

Fixes[edit | edit source]

39 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.21

MC-13738 – Invisible saddle when using invisibility potion on a horse, donkey or mule.
MC-80243 – Saddles don't apply attribute modifiers when worn by entities.
MC-189525 – Armored entities from pre-1.9 worlds upgrade to dual wielding armor.
MC-190000 – Saddles equipped on horses cannot be replaced without removing them first.
MC-227097 – End portals delete blocks that are inside of the portal.
MC-256469 – Invisible camels don't show their saddles.
MC-266912 – Saddle equipping sounds aren't played when saddles are equipped on horses, donkeys, mules, or camels shortly after the said entity is summoned.
MC-269637 – Horses can wear multiple saddles but not multiple horse armor.
MC-270192 – The saddles of some entities stay visible through their death animation.
MC-270197 – The saddle on pigs and striders stays visible through their death animation.
MC-272100 – Unused palette pixels in horse textures (horse_[brown/chestnut/creamy/white].png).
MC-272790 – Shulker boxes and other blocks in the end exit portal when it changes state are not dropped as items.

From 1.21

MC-274258 – All horse textures contain an unused chest bag texture.

From 1.21.2

MC-279340 – Baby polar bears are too small.

From 1.21.4

MC-278673 – The x-rotation of /teleport is limited to ±90 degrees relative to the entity's original angle.

From the previous development version

MC-279206 – Leaf Litter cannot be composted.
MC-279208 – Players can no longer begin sprinting when pressing a sideways movement key first.
MC-279211 – Shulker boxes both keep and drop their contents upon being broken via certain methods causing item duplication.
MC-279213 – Mushroom Blocks can't replace Leaf Litter.
MC-279221 – Leaf Litter replaces leaves in world gen.
MC-279224 – Using bone meal in meadows doesn't generate wildflowers.
MC-279226 – Experience orbs of any value all render as the smallest value.
MC-279233 – Shulker boxes drop their contents when broken.
MC-279234 – The minecraft:entity.generic.extinguish_fire sound does not play when the fire on an entity is extinguished.
MC-279238 – Dying to a minecart with TNT ignited by a blaze fireball doesn't count as the blaze's kill.
MC-279239 – The motion of primed TNT is choppy and jittery.
MC-279245 – Most hostile mobs aren't spawning even under the right conditions.
MC-279248 – Lava collision is too high.
MC-279281 – Fall damage occurs from jumping from 2 blocks up.
MC-279282 – Parrots with non-player owner UUID cause crash upon spawning.
MC-279301 – Player dies by falling from 22.00001 blocks instead of 23 blocks.
MC-279313 – The motion of item entities is choppy and jittery under certain circumstances.
MC-279314 – Projectiles twitch up and down slightly while flying through the air.
MC-279316 – The motion of fishing bobbers is choppy and jittery.
MC-279326 – Lit observers no longer send block updates when moved by a piston.
MC-279339 – Update order for sloped rails is incorrect.
MC-279345 – Pink petals and Wildflowers can no longer be grown by bone meal.
MC-279357 – Player can fall off edges while sneaking.
MC-279459 – /setblock and other fills don't properly update block entities.

Video[edit | edit source]

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References[edit | edit source]

↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 25w03a" – Minecraft.net, January 15, 2025.
↑ ^{Jump up to: a} ^b ^c "Mojang just added some WEIRD new blocks. Here's how they work." (Archive) by Conure [@conure512] – YouTube, 2025-01-15.
↑ "25w02a to 25w03a" (§ EndPodiumFeature) (Archive) – cdn.skye.lol.

Navigation[edit | edit source]

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[3] "25w02a to 25w03a" (§ EndPodiumFeature) (Archive) – cdn.skye.lol.

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Java Edition 25w03a

Contents

Additions[edit | edit source]

Blocks[edit | edit source]

Command format[edit | edit source]

General[edit | edit source]

Changes[edit | edit source]

Blocks[edit | edit source]

Items[edit | edit source]

Command format[edit | edit source]

Gameplay[edit | edit source]

General[edit | edit source]

Fixes[edit | edit source]

Video[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

Navigation[edit | edit source]

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