Spring to Life

Spring to Life

Release date	?
Version(s)	Java Edition 1.21.5 Bedrock Edition 1.21.70
Placeholder name(s)	Spring Drop 2025 Drop 1 2025
◄◄ Tricky Trials ◄ The Garden Awakens

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The Spring Drop 2025 (also referred to as Drop 1 2025‌) is an upcoming game drop with no set release date. It adds warm and cold variants to various animal mobs, new foliage blocks to biomes, and ambience features such as sounds and falling leaf particles. The contents of this drop are available in snapshots on Java Edition, and it also available on betas and Previews on Bedrock Edition.

Notable features

New blocks

Leaf litter

• A new type of decorative block which can be found in the forests, dark forests and wooded badlands.
  • Can have different amounts of leaves in one block space.
    • Up to four leaf litter pieces can be placed in the same block space.
    • Placing a leaf litter into an already placed leaf litter block increases the amount of leaves.
• Can be placed in four orientations.
• Can be created by smelting any type of leaves block.
• Can be used as fuel for smelting.
• Has unique block sounds.
• Can be washed away.

Wildflowers

• A new type of flower which grow in birch forests, old growth birch forests and meadows.
  • Can have different amounts of flowers in one block space.
    • Up to four wildflowers can be placed in the same block space.
    • Placing a wildflower into an already placed wildflowers block increases the amount of flowers.
    • Using bone meal on wildflowers will produce more wildflowers.
• Can be placed in four orientations.
• Can be crafted into yellow dye.
• Can be washed away.

Test Block‌

• A technical block used in game test.
• Can be obtained by /setblock, /fill, or /give commands, or through the Operator Items Tab.
• Can be placed and used only in creative.

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..
• Can be placed and used only in creative.

Bush

• Generates in the following biomes:
  • Plains
  • Windswept Hills
  • Windswept Gravelly Hills
  • Windswept Forest
  • River
  • Frozen River
  • Forest
  • Birch Forest
  • Old Growth Birch Forest
• They are tinted by the grass color of the biome they are placed in.
• Can be used in the composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer.
• Using bone meal generates a neighboring bush next to it if possible.
• Can be instantly broken without any particular tool.

Firefly bush

• Generates in swamps and near rivers.
• When it's dark, glowing firefly particles appear around the firefly bush, up to 5 blocks away.
• Can be used in the composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer.
• Using bone meal on a firefly bush will spawn another firefly bush item.
• Emits a light level of 2.
• Can be instantly broken without any particular tool.
• Found in patches of 2 to 5.

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.

Changed blocks

Lodestone

• Has a new crafting recipe.

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Chiseled Stone Bricks + Iron Ingot

• Can now be found in ruined portals.

Leaves

• All leaves blocks now have a chance of spawning falling leaf particles.

New 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.

New mobs

Pig

• New pig variants have been added. The variant is determined by the biome they spawn in.
  • Temperate Pig: The pre-existing pig variant.
    • Spawns by default where the cold and warm pig variants do not spawn.
  • Cold Pig: A variant that spawns in certain cold biomes.
  • Warm Pig: A variant that spawns in certain warm biomes.
  • When bred by a player, a baby pig variant will not be chosen by the current biome, but instead randomly be selected from one of its parent's variants.

Cow

• New Cow variants have been added. The variant is determined by the biome they spawn in.
  • Temperate Cow: The pre-existing cow variant.
    • Spawns by default where the cold and warm cow variants do not spawn.
    • New texture and model.
  • Cold Cow: A variant that spawns in certain cold biomes.
  • Warm Cow: A variant that spawns in certain warm biomes.
  • When bred by a player, a baby cow variant will not be chosen by the current biome, but instead randomly be selected from one of its parent's variants.

Chicken

• New Chicken variants have been added. The variant is determined by the biome they spawn in.
  • 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 certain cold biomes.
  • Warm Chicken: A variant that spawns in certain warm biomes.
  • When bred by a player, a baby chicken variant will not be chosen by the current biome, but instead randomly be selected from one of its parent's variants.