Summer Drop 2025

The Summer Drop 2025, also known as Drop 2 2025‌, is an upcoming game drop that is set to release in June 2025. Its contents are available in betas and previews on Bedrock Edition and in snapshots on Java Edition.

Summer Drop 2025

Release date	June 2025
Version(s)	Java Edition 1.21.6 Bedrock Edition 1.21.90
Placeholder name(s)	Summer Drop 2025 Drop 2 2025
◄◄ Tricky Trials ◄ Spring to Life

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Notable features

New block

Dried Ghast

• Found in soul sand valleys.
• Crafted with bone blocks and ghast tears.

Name	Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Dried Ghast	Ghast Tear + Bone Block

• When put in water, the mob's appearance changes 3 times depending on the time spent hydrated, changing its facial expression.

New items

Harness

• Used to fly on happy ghasts.
• Crafted with leather, glass, and wool.
• Comes in color variants based on the color of wool used.

Happy Ghast Spawn Egg

• Used to spawn a happy ghast.
• Shown explicitly and used in the aftershow of Minecraft LIVE – March 2025.

New mob

Happy Ghast

• A rideable entity, which can be equipped with a harness and ridden by up to four players.
• Can be stood on, similar to a Shulker.
• When not being ridden, will approach players holding snowballs.
• Baby versions are called ghastlings.
  • Spawned after a dried ghast gets hydrated in water.
  • Can be fed snowballs to speed up their growth.

Gameplay

Player Locator Bar

• The player locator bar is a new UI element on the player HUD that displays the direction of other players in the world.
• When the player locator bar experiment is enabled and there are multiple players in a world, the player locator bar will appear on-screen for each player, replacing the experience bar. The player level number will still be visible as before above the player locator bar.
• The player locator bar will display colored indicators when the camera is facing within 120 degrees towards another player. If another player is 30 degrees above or below the camera's viewport (the screen) an up or down arrow will be displayed.
• Players in spectator mode are not visible on the player locator bar.
• A player can hide and prevent their indicator from appearing on the locator bar via the following means:
  • Sneaking.
  • Wearing a head or a carved pumpkin.
  • Being under the Invisibility effect.
• Can be disabled by map creator or server operator.
• It's characteristics and entities affected by it can be changed with the /waypoint command in Java Edition (it can also be added to other mobs via /attribute).

Gallery

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  A Dried Ghast, a Happy Ghast and a Ghastling from left to right