Minecraft:Java Edition guides/Spring to Life

This guide is a simplified overview of all non-experimental changes in Minecraft:Spring to Life (Template:JE 1.21.5), which assumes at least some familiarity with Minecraft:The Garden Awakens (Java Edition 1.21.4), excluding experimental features in this version.

Mobs

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Minecraft:Pig, Minecraft:cow and Minecraft:chicken	Template:Animate Template:Animate Template:Animate	New mob variants have been added, the variant is determined by the biome they spawn in. Temperate variant - The pre-existing mob variant. Spawns by default where the cold and warm variants do not spawn. Cold variant spawns only in: Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Warm variant spawns only in: Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink When bred by a Minecraft:player, a baby variant will not be chosen by the current biome, but instead randomly selected from one of the parents' variants.
Minecraft:Sheep	Template:Animate	Changed the rules for sheep coloring to be based on which biome they spawn in: Common sheep color in cold biomes is black, and uncommon colors are gray, light gray, white and brown. Common sheep color in warm biomes is brown, and uncommon colors are gray, light gray, white and black. Sheep colors for temperate biomes is unchanged from current behavior. Pink sheep are very rare and able to spawn anywhere where sheep can spawn. Sheep's wool undercoat is now also colored when dyed, matching existing behavior in Template:El. Sheep can now eat Minecraft:ferns, Minecraft:Grass and Minecraft:dry grass.
Minecraft:Creaking	File:Creaking JE1 BE1.png	Can now be named using Minecraft:name tags. Named creakings will persist through the day. However, it will still be torn down if stuck with a player or if it is too far from its heart. Named creakings are still resistant to all damage, and can communicate with their hearts via particles.
Minecraft:Villager	File:Plains Villager Base JE2.png	Cartographers now sell seven new maps which each point to a different village or other structures in a different biome. These maps can help players who want to quickly find a specific location. Cartographers from different village types will sell a different range of maps and colored banners.
Minecraft:Wandering trader	File:Wandering Trader.png	The changes to wandering trader trades have been moved from experimental features and are now available during normal gameplay. Wandering traders now have better prices, more trades, and sell larger amounts of many items. Wandering traders can now buy basic supplies from players. Wandering traders can offer to buy two items from this list: Minecraft:Water bottle Minecraft:Water bucket Minecraft:Milk bucket Minecraft:Fermented spider eye Minecraft:Baked potato Minecraft:Hay bale Wandering traders now have a chance of selling these items in addition to their previous trades: Minecraft:Logs (acacia, birch, dark oak, jungle, oak, spruce, pale oak, or cherry) Enchanted Minecraft:iron pickaxe Minecraft:Potion of Invisibility
Minecraft:Zombified piglin	File:Zombified Piglin JE9.png	Must now be killed by a Minecraft:player to drop its Player-specific loot.
Minecraft:Camel	File:Camel JE1 BE2.png	Can now rarely spawn in Minecraft:deserts.
General		Farm animals can now spawn in Minecraft:badlands.
Minecraft:Wolf	File:Wolf JE2 BE2.png	Added six new sound variants. The variants are called Classic, Big, Cute, Puglin, Angry, Grumpy, and Sad. The existing wolf sounds are used for the Classic variant. Wolves receive a random sound variant when they spawn. Sound variants are not related to texture variants.

Blocks

New

Minecraft:Leaf litter	Template:Animate	Found on the floor of Minecraft:forests, Minecraft:dark forests, and Minecraft:wooded badlands.	Any	Can be used as fuel. Can be used in a Minecraft:composter.
Minecraft:Wildflowers	Template:Animate	Grows in Minecraft:birch forests, Minecraft:old growth birch forests, and Minecraft:meadows.	Any	Can be placed in four orientations. Can be crafted into yellow dye.
Minecraft:Firefly bush	File:Firefly Bush JE1.png	Generates in swamps and near rivers.	Any	When it's dark, glowing firefly particles appear around the firefly bush, up to 5 blocks away. Can be used in the Minecraft:composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer. Using Minecraft: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.
Minecraft:Bush	File:Bush JE1.png	Generates in the following biomes: Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink Template:BiomeLink	Any	They are tinted by the grass color of the biome they are placed in. Can be used in the Minecraft:composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer. Using Minecraft:bone meal on a bush will generate a neighboring bush next to it if possible. Can be instantly broken without any particular tool.
Minecraft:Cactus flower	File:Cactus Flower JE1.png	Has a chance of generating on cactuses in Minecraft:deserts and Minecraft:badlands.	Any	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 mined without any tool. Can be used in the Minecraft:composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer. Can be used to craft 1 Minecraft:pink dye.
Short and tall dry grass	Template:Animate	Generates in the Minecraft:desert and Minecraft:badlands.	Any	Both short and tall variants are one block high. Can be placed on types of Minecraft:sand, Minecraft:terracotta and Minecraft:dirt blocks like the Minecraft:dead bush. Can be obtained using Minecraft:shears or a Minecraft:Silk Touch tool. Can be bone mealed. Using Minecraft:bone meal on short dry grass grows it into a tall dry grass. Can be used in the Minecraft:composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer. Minecraft:Sheep can eat short dry grass to regrow its wool. Can be used as fuel for smelting, where they smelt half an item.
Minecraft:Test block	Template:Animate	Can be received by using commands.	N/A	The test block is a block used for implementing block-based tests. It has four modes: start: Triggers a redstone pulse when the test starts log: Logs a message to the log file when powered by redstone fail: Fails the test when powered by redstone accept: Completes the test when powered by redstone Block-based tests are required to have at least one start block and one accept block in the structure.
Minecraft:Test instance block	File:Test Instance Block JE2.png	Can be received by using commands.	N/A	To run a test in a world, a test instance block is used. This type of block represents the test as placed in the world and is used to interact with that test, to save the structure, reset or run the test. Using the Template:Cmd command to run or create a test will also place a test instance block to control that test.

Changed

General		Any block in the simulation distance of a player or loaded by another source of chunk loading (such as Minecraft:ender pearls) may now receive random ticks, instead of just 8 chunks around players. For example: if a chunk is loaded by an Minecraft:ender pearl or is in the spawn chunks, crops are able to grow, Minecraft:ice can melt, Minecraft:snow can fall, and a Minecraft: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.
Minecraft:Lodestone	File:Lodestone.png	Crafted with iron instead of netherite. 1-3 lodestones can be found in Minecraft:ruined portal chests
Minecraft:Leaves	File:Sprite AllLeaves.png	Generates falling leaf particles.
Minecraft:Bubble column	File:Bubble Column JE1 BE1.png	Produces fewer particles and sounds when entities that are unaffected by them are inside them.
Minecraft:Creaking heart	Template:Animate	Correctly placed between Logs have a new dormant texture during the day. Dormant creaking hearts cannot spawn new creakings and resin. The transition between the awake and dormant states of creaking hearts is now based on the fixed day time.
Minecraft:Eyeblossom	Template:Animate	The transition between the states of eyeblossoms is now based on the fixed day time.
Minecraft:Iron bars, Minecraft:iron block, Minecraft:iron trapdoor, Minecraft:iron door and Minecraft:heavy weighted pressure plate	Template:Animate	Added new break, place, step, fall and hit sounds.
End portal	File:End Portal JE8.gif	When changing state, any blocks that are in its radius will be dropped as items and also make breaking sounds, rather than outright overwritten.
Minecraft:Beacon	File:Beacon JE6 BE2.png	Beacons and their beams now render beyond 16 chunks up to the client render distance.

Items

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Minecraft:Egg	Template:Animate	New variants of the Minecraft:egg has been added. Blue egg: A variant of the Minecraft:egg laid by the cold chicken variant. Brown egg: A variant of the Minecraft:egg laid by the warm chicken variant. Spawns the corresponding chicken variant when hatched.
Minecraft:Saddle	File:Saddle JE2 BE2.png	Saddles equipped onto Minecraft:pigs or Minecraft:striders will now maintain properties such as custom name when dropped. Saddles equipped onto Minecraft:camels and equines (Minecraft:horses, Minecraft:donkeys, Minecraft:mules) now remain visible if the mob equipped with them is inflicted with Minecraft:Invisibility. Saddles equipped onto camels and equines no longer turn red when the mob wearing it takes damage. When enchanted now show the Minecraft:enchantment glint on mobs wearing it. Minecraft:Thorns and Minecraft:Curse of Binding enchantments now work on mobs that are wearing it.
Minecraft:Elytra	File:Elytra (item) JE2 BE2.png	Flight is now cancelled when gliding into climbable blocks like Minecraft:ladders, Minecraft:scaffolding, Minecraft:vines etc..
Minecraft:Crossbow	File:Crossbow.png	Will now show all charged projectiles in their tooltip instead of just the first.
Minecraft:Spawn egg	File:Creeper Spawn Egg JE3 BE2.png	Changed the visuals of all spawn eggs to make them easier to distinguish: each type of spawn egg now has its own unique icon instead of all just being colored variants of the same spotted egg.

Biomes

Changed

Minecraft:Pale garden

File:Pale Garden.png

Pale garden biome now occupies more space that was previously taken by Minecraft:dark forests. Minecraft:Woodland mansions can now generate in pale garden biome.

Structures

New

Minecraft:Fallen tree

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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.

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Fallen trees are a new decorative variant of trees. Fallen trees come in four different wood type variants: Oak Birch Jungle Spruce Birch fallen trees can come in a shorter version or a longer version. Some fallen trees can be decorated with mushroom or vines.

Gameplay

Changed

Minecraft:Narrator

The volume of the narrator is now affected by the game's configured volume in the 'Voice' category.