Spring to Life

Spring to Life

Release date	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

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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 in Java Edition, and it is also available in betas and Previews in Bedrock Edition.

Notable features

• Camels now spawn in Deserts.
• Bundles can now be found in some village chests.
• The appearance of both Mooshroom variants has been slightly updated to feature an extruded snout.

Sheep

Sheeps now have different rules for wool color based on the biome they spawn in:

Sheep Colors

Biome Type	Common (81.836%)	Uncommon (5%)	Uncommon (3%)	Rare (0.164%)
Temperate	White	Black Gray Light Gray	Brown	Pink
Cold	Black	Light Gray Light Blue Blue	Cyan	Pink
Warm	Brown	Gray Yellow Orange	Red	Pink

Updates to Trading

Cartographer Trades

• Cartographers now offer the following updates:
• Sell 7 new maps pointing to different villages or structures in various biomes. These maps help players quickly locate specific areas.
• Cartographers from different village types sell a different range of maps and colored banners.
• Prices and quantities for some trades have been adjusted.
• Maps to structures in different biomes are available (e.g., villages in Desert, Plains, Savanna, Snowy Plains, or Taiga; Swamp Hut in Swamps; Jungle Temple in Jungles). Different biome cartographers will have different selections of these maps, available at Apprentice level.
• 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.

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Wandering Trader Trades

The Wandering Trader now offers:

• 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

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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 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	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.