Minecraft:Java Edition 25w05a

25w05a is the fourth Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.21.5, released on January 29, 2025,<ref>Template:Snap</ref> which adds the Minecraft:bush, firefly bush, new cow variants and fixes various bugs.

Additions

Blocks

File:Bush JE1.png Minecraft:Bush

• Generates in the following biomes:
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• 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.

File:Firefly Bush JE1.png Minecraft:Firefly bush

• Generates in Minecraft:swamps and near Minecraft:rivers.
• 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.

Mobs

Template:Animate Minecraft:Cow

• Nose now extrudes from model.
• New cow variants have been added.
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    • Spawns by default where the cold and warm cow variants do not spawn.
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  • Template:EntityLink: A variant that spawns in the following biomes:
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• When bred by a Minecraft:player, a baby cow variant will not be chosen by the current biome, but instead randomly selected from one of the parents' variants.

General

Minecraft:Sound

• Minecraft:Dead bushes have a chance of playing ambient sounds when placed on top of two blocks that are any color of terracotta, sand or red sand blocks in any biome.

• Minecraft:Sand, Minecraft:red sand and Minecraft:terracotta of any color have a chance of playing ambient sounds when surrounded by any one of them on at least 3 sides 8 blocks away.
  • Template:Cd can be played in any biome.
  • Template:Cd only plays when in Minecraft:desert or Minecraft:badlands biomes.

Minecraft:Tag

• Added the Template:Cd block tag.
  • Contains blocks that will play ambient desert block sounds.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Beacon

• Beacons and their beams now render beyond 16 chunks up to the client render distance.
  • To keep it easily visible at large distances, the beam is rendered thicker the further away it is from the player.
  • The beam now renders up to 2048 blocks high, up from 1024.

Minecraft:Powder snow

• Landing on powder snow with Minecraft:leather boots equipped after falling further than 2.5 blocks will now make entities fall through the snow.
  • Jumping or falling less than 2.5 blocks allows the entity to land on top of the snow like before.

Mobs

Minecraft:Pig

• Warm pigs now properly spawn in Minecraft:windswept savannas.

Command format

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• Text component arguments are now resolved before use in context of entity held in Template:Cd.

General

Minecraft:Data component format

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  • Added the Template:Cd field - hashtagged damage type tag (optional)
    • If specified, blocking is bypassed by these damage types.
  • The objects within the Template:Cd list now have a new field:
    • Template:Cd- angle in degrees as a positive float
    • Default: Template:Cd
      • The maximum angle between the user's facing and the incoming attack for the block to be effective.

Minecraft:Data pack

• The Minecraft:pack format version is now Template:Cd.

Entity variant components

• Cow variants can be data-driven adding entries to data/<namespace>/cow_variant/<id>.json.
  • This feature is experimental.
  • Fields in file:
    • model - one of: normal, cold, warm.
    • asset_id - namespaced id for this variant asset, resolves to assets/<namespace>/textures/<path>.png.
    • spawn_conditions - field described in uniform variant selection above.

Minecraft:Raids.dat format

• Renamed all data file fields to lowercase underscore format.

Minecraft:Resource pack

• The Minecraft:pack format version is now Template:Cd.
• Added new textures for cow variants.
  • cold_cow
  • warm_cow
• Changed the size of temperate_cow texture.
• Changed the size of red_mooshroom and brown_mooshroom textures.
• The temperate Cow has an updated model and texture.
  • Cow models now have a snout.
  • Cow models now have their legs mirrored.
• The texture cow has been renamed to temperate_cow.
• The texture pig has been renamed to temperate_pig.

Minecraft:Tag

• Renamed the Template:Cd damage type tag back to Template:Cd.
• Replaced Template:Cd with Template:Cd in the Template:Cd biome tag.