Spring to Life

Spring to Life

Release date	March 25, 2025
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 Summer Drop 2025 ►

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Spring to Life is an upcoming game drop that is set to release on March 25, 2025. It adds warm and cold variants to various passive 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 in Java Edition, and it is also available in betas and Previews in Bedrock Edition.

During development, the update was referred to as the "Spring Drop 2025", and "Drop 1 2025" as the name of the Bedrock Edition experiment. The final name and release date of the update were revealed during Minecraft LIVE – March 2025, on March 22, 2025.

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 (half an item).
• Has unique block sounds.
• Can be washed away.
• Can be broken with any tool.
• Tinted based on which biome it's in.

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.
• Can be broken with any tool.

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 light level 13 or lower, 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 will generate a neighboring firefly bush next to it if possible.
• 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 all types of 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 all types of 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 all types of 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 leaf 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.
• Can spawn the cold chicken variant when hatched.

Brown Egg

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

Changed items Bundle

• Now generates in village chest loot.

Spawn Eggs

New spawn egg textures.

• Overhauled all spawn egg textures to be a caricature of the mob in question.

New mobs variant
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.

Changed mobs Cartographer

• Cartographers now offer the following items:
• Sell 7 new maps pointing to each village type as well as jungle temples and witch huts.
  • Different biome cartographers will have different selections of these maps, available at Apprentice level.
• Cartographers from different village types sell a different range of maps and colored banners.
• Prices and quantities for some trades have been adjusted.
• Trial chamber and ocean monument maps remain available at Journeyman level.
• Colored banners are sold at Expert level, with the range varying by biome.
• A woodland mansion map is guaranteed at Master level, along with the globe banner pattern.

Wandering Trader

• Improved prices, more trade options, and larger stock amounts for many items.
• The ability to buy basic supplies from players, allowing players to earn emeralds by helping the trader prepare for their next journey.
• New items for sale may include:
  • Logs (Acacia, Birch, Dark Oak, Jungle, Oak, Spruce, Pale Oak, Cherry)
  • Enchanted Iron Pickaxe
  • Potion of Invisibility
• The wandering trader will also offer to buy two items from the following list:
  • Water Bottle
  • Water Bucket
  • Milk Bucket
  • Fermented Spider Eye
  • Baked Potato
  • Hay Bale

Sheep

• Changed the rules for sheep coloring to be based on which biome they spawn in:
  • Temperate biomes:
    • Common:
      • White sheep
    • Uncommon:
      • Black sheep
      • Gray sheep
      • Light gray sheep
      • Brown sheep
    • Rare:
      • Pink sheep
  • Cold biomes:
    • Common:
      • Black sheep
    • Uncommon:
      • Gray sheep
      • Light gray sheep
      • White sheep
      • Brown sheep
    • Rare:
      • Pink sheep
  • Warm biomes:
    • Common:
      • Brown sheep
    • Uncommon:
      • Gray sheep
      • Light gray sheep
      • White sheep
      • Black sheep
    • Rare:
      • Pink sheep
• Sheep colors for temperate biomes is unchanged from current behavior.
• In a parity update with the Bedrock Edition, sheared sheep in Java Edition now display the correct wool color on their exposed skin.
• Pink sheep are very rare and able to spawn anywhere where sheep can spawn.
• The sheep wool texture has been tweaked to remove the stark line at the back.

Mooshroom and Brown Mooshroom

• Changed texture and extended snout by one pixel.

Camel

• Now spawns in deserts.

Wolf

• Added new sound personalities: Big, Cute, Puglin, Angry, Grumpy, and Sad. The original wolf sounds remain and are now known as Classic. These sound variants are unrelated to their visual variants.
  • Wolves receive a random sound variant when they spawn.

Spawn event‌

• Pigs, Cows, and Chickens Can now spawn on Spawn events and they used command summon or event to spawn this variants Cold and Warm Animals.

World generation Fallen tree‌

• Fallen trees are a new decorative variant of trees.
• Fallen trees come in four different wood type variants:
  • Oak
  • Spruce
  • Birch
  • Jungle
• Birch fallen trees can come in a shorter version or a longer version.
• Some fallen trees can be decorated with mushroom or vines.
• Fallen trees can be found in all biomes where their standing tree variant grow, except the following:
  • Meadow
  • Bamboo Jungle
  • River
  • Grove
  • Flower Forest
    • Has fallen birch trees but not fallen oak trees.

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Artwork of the drop shown in Minecraft LIVE - March 2025

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  The picture in the “Play the Spring to Life drop on March 25!” article in the Nintendo Switch News

Mojang screenshots

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  Cows and firefly bushes.

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  Ditto but in a different position.

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  Firefly bushes in a savanna.

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  A camel looking at the sun in a desert.

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  Noor and chicken variants.

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  Baby zombies on chickens, The middle one is looking at a chicken.

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  Chickens and their eggs.

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  Leaf litter in the dark forest.

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  Cactus flowers and dry bushes.

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  A villager, a wandering trader and lots of sheep.

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  A wandering trader and trader llamas, Efe is trading with trader.

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  Spawn eggs in a savanna.

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  A wall of spawn eggs.

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  A cow spawn egg (left), pig spawn egg (middle) and sheep spawn egg (right).

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  Spawn eggs and a sunset.

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