Java Edition 25w06a

Minecraft 25w06a

Edition	Java Edition
Release date	February 5, 2025
Type	Snapshot
Snapshot for	1.21.5
Protocol version	dec: 1073742057  hex: 400000E9
Data version	4313
Resource pack format	51
Data pack format	66
Minimum Java version	Java SE 21
◄◄  1.21.4 1.21.5 ◄  25w05a 25w06a

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25w06a is the fifth snapshot for Java Edition 1.21.5, released on February 5, 2025, which adds cactus flower, short and tall dry grass, new chicken variants and fixes bugs.

Additions

Blocks

Cactus Flower

• A new type of flower which has a chance of generating on cactuses in deserts and badlands.
• Can be placed on cactus blocks or any block which has center support at the top of the block.
• Has a chance of growing on cactus blocks.
  • If a cactus is one or two blocks high the flower has a 10% chance to grow instead of the cactus getting higher.
  • If a cactus is three blocks or higher the flower has a 25% chance to grow.
  • Cactus flowers will only grow if they have space on all four sides.
• Can be used in the composter.
• Can be used to craft 1 pink dye.

Short Dry Grass

• Is one block high.
• Generates in the desert and badlands.
• Can be placed on types of sand, terracotta and dirt blocks like the dead bush.
• Can be bone mealed.
• Using bone meal on short dry grass grows it into a tall dry grass.
• Can be used in the composter.
• Sheep can eat short dry grass to regrow its wool.
• Can be used as fuel for smelting.

Tall Dry Grass

• Is one block high.
• Generates in the desert and badlands.
• Can be placed on types of sand, terracotta and dirt blocks like the dead bush.
• Can be bone mealed.
• Using bone meal on tall dry grass places a neighbouring short dry grass next to the block if possible.
• Can be used in the composter.
• Sheep can eat tall dry grass to regrow its wool.
• Can be used as fuel for smelting.

Items

Blue Egg

• A variant of the egg laid by the cold chicken variant.
• Spawns the cold chicken variant when hatched.

Brown Egg

• A variant of the egg laid by the warm chicken variant.
• Spawns the warm chicken variant when hatched.

Mobs

Chicken

• New Chicken variants have been added.
  • Temperate Chicken: The pre-existing chicken variant.
    • Spawns by default where the cold and warm chicken variants do not spawn.
  • Cold Chicken: A variant that spawns in the following biomes:
    • Old Growth Pine Taiga
    • Old Growth Spruce Taiga
    • Taiga
    • Snowy Taiga
    • Windswept Hills
    • Windswept Gravelly Hills
    • Windswept Forest
  • Warm Chicken: A variant that spawns in the following biomes:
    • Savanna Plateau
    • Windswept Savanna
    • Jungle
    • Sparse Jungle
    • Bamboo Jungle
    • Eroded Badlands
    • Wooded Badlands
    • Badlands

General

Game rule

• Added the allowFireTicksAwayFromPlayer game rule.
  • Default value: false. When true, Fire and Lava ticks can occur outside of an 8 chunk range of a player.

Tag

• Added the #edible_for_sheep block tag.
  • Contains blocks that can be eaten by sheep to regrow their wool.

• Added the #eggs item tag.
  • Contains all variants of the egg item.

Changes

Blocks

Fire

• Will no longer burn or spread if no player is within 8 chunks.

Firefly Bush

• Conditions for The Firefly Bush playing ambient sounds have changed. It now plays when all of the following conditions are met:
  • Firefly Bush not blocked from above by any collidable block (except leaves).

General

• Any block in the simulation distance of a player or loaded by another source of chunk loading (such as ender pearls) may now receive random ticks, instead of just 8 chunks around players.
  • For example: if a chunk is loaded by an ender pearl or is in the spawn chunks, crops are able to grow, ice can melt, snow can fall, and a cauldron can be filled by rain.
  • Mob spawning, lava spreading fire, and lightning strikes still occur in the previous radius of 8 chunks around players.

General

Data pack

• The pack format version is now 66.

Entity data

• The armor and off-hand equipment of players is now also stored in the equipment field.
  • Although items written into the Inventory using armor and off-hand slot numbers still work.

Entity variant components

• Chicken variants can be data-driven adding entries to data/<namespace>/chicken_variant/<id>.json.
  • This feature is experimental.
  • Fields in file:
    • model - one of: normal, cold.
    • asset_id - namespaced id for this variant asset, resolves to assets/<namespace>/textures/<path>.png.
    • spawn_conditions - field described in uniform variant selection above.

Resource pack

• The pack format version is now 51.
• Added new textures for chicken variants:
  • cold_chicken
  • warm_chicken
• The texture chicken has been renamed to temperate_chicken.
• The temperate_chicken texture has been moved to a new folder:
  • entity/chicken.png -> entity/chicken/temperate_chicken.png

Tag

• The #dead_bush_may_place_on block tag has been renamed to #dry_vegetation_may_place_on.

Tooltip

• Tooltips for fireworks and crossbows now show a compact form of multiple repeated stars or projectiles that are identical.

Fixes

19 issues fixed

• MC-157196 – Tamed animals cannot be added to a team.
• MC-186241 – World border faces are rendered incorrectly with "Fabulous!" graphics.
• MC-279205 – Leaf litter map color is incorrect.
• MC-279207 – Leaf Litter can only be placed on dirt-like blocks.
• MC-279223 – Country Lode Take Me Home Advancement can be completed in the overworld but is still listed as a Nether advancement.
• MC-279235 – Certain farm animals are not spawned as their cold variant in some cold biomes due to an incomplete tag.
• MC-279242 – Kelp, twisting vines, weeping vines, and cave vines can no longer be stacked above or below one another by placing.
• MC-279261 – Making a mob its own owner causes persistent crashes.
• MC-279279 – Dismounting places player in same space as mount.
• MC-279292 – Pigs spawn as temperate in desert villages.
• MC-279309 – Wildflowers item has a misplaced transparent pixel.
• MC-279464 – Fire placed with /setblock doesn't tick/burn out.
• MC-279719 – Tooltip description for saddle attribute modifier slot is not translated.
• MC-279912 – You can use bone meal on bushes in situations where nothing grows.
• MC-279914 – The hitboxes of bushes don't reach the ground and are too wide compared to other similar blocks.
• MC-279924 – Bushes cannot be replaced by trees or mushrooms.
• MC-279933 – Firefly bushes cannot be replaced by trees or mushrooms.
• MC-279950 – Modifying command data storage throws an error.
• MC-279972 – Using /setblock & /fill with fluid.