Minecraft:Spring to Life

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Template:Pointer box Spring to Life is a Minecraft:game drop that released on March 25, 2025, as Java Edition 1.21.5 and Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.21.70. It focuses on nature related features such as warm and cold variants to various passive farm Minecraft:animals, new foliage blocks for different biomes, and ambience features such as sounds and falling leaf particles.

During development, the update was referred to as 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.

Experimental features for the update were been released prior to the finalized release as part of Minecraft:Bedrock Edition 1.21.60.

Additions

Blocks

File:Bush JE1.png Minecraft:Bush

• Generates in the following biomes:

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File:Cactus Flower JE1.png Cactus flower

• A new type of flower which can grow on cacti.
• Can only be placed on full blocks.
• Can be crafted into pink dye.

File:Short Dry Grass.pngFile:Tall Dry Grass.png Short and Tall dry grass

• Generates in the desert and all types of badlands.
• Can be used as fuel, smelting 0.5 items per dry grass.

File:Firefly Bush JE1.gif Firefly bush

• Generates in swamps and near rivers.
• File:Firefly.png Produces firefly particles when at a light level of 13 or lower, up to 5 blocks away.
• Make buzzing sounds at night.

Leaf litter

• A new type of decorative block which can be found in the forests, dark forests and wooded badlands.
• Four can be placed in one block.
• Can be used as fuel, smelting 0.5 items per leaf litter.
• Can be smelted from any type of leaf block.

Minecraft:Wildflowers

• A new type of Minecraft:flower which grow in birch forests, old growth birch forests and meadows.
• Four can be placed in one block.
• Can be crafted into yellow dye.

Items

Blue egg

• A variant of the Minecraft:egg laid by the cold chicken variant.
• Can spawn the cold chicken variant when hatched.

Brown egg

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

New Explorer maps

• Sold by cartographers.
• Village Map
  • Used to find villages.
• Jungle Explorer Map
  • Used to find jungle pyramids.
• Swamp Explorer Map
  • Used to find swamp huts.

Mobs

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</ref> variants of pigs, cows, and chickens.

• The variant of naturally spawned mobs is determined by the biome they spawn in.
• When bred by a player, a baby of these mobs will not be a variant chosen by the current biome, but instead randomly be selected from one of its parent's variants.
• The pre-existing variants are now called temperate.
• The temperate mobs spawn by default wherever the cold and warm variants do not.

Minecraft:Pig

• File:Cold Pig.png Cold pig: A variant that spawns in cold biomes.<ref group="info" name="cold biomes"/>
• File:Warm Pig.png Warm pig: A variant that spawns in warm biomes.<ref group="info" name="warm biomes"/>

Cow

• File:Cold Cow.png Cold cow: A variant that spawns in cold biomes.<ref group="info" name="cold biomes"/>
• File:Warm Cow.png Warm cow: A variant that spawns in warm biomes.<ref group="info" name="warm biomes"/>

Chicken

• File:Cold Chicken.png Cold chicken: A variant that spawns in cold biomes.<ref group="info" name="cold biomes"/>
• File:Warm Chicken.png Warm chicken: A variant that spawns in warm biomes.<ref group="info" name="warm biomes"/>

World generation

for Java Edition

• A new decorative variant of trees.
• Fallen trees come in five different variants:
  • File:Oak Fallen Log.png Oak
  • File:Birch Fallen Log.png Birch
  • File:Tall Birch Fallen Log.png Tall Birch
  • File:Spruce Fallen Log.png Spruce
  • File:Jungle Fallen Log.png Jungle
• Sometimes generate as tree stumps when there is no space to generate a tree trunk.
• Fallen trees are sometimes decorated with Minecraft:mushroom or Minecraft:vines.
• Fallen trees can be found in all biomes where their standing tree variants grow, except the following:
  • Meadow
  • Bamboo Jungle
  • River
  • Grove
  • Flower Forest
    • Has fallen birch trees but not fallen oak trees.

Sounds

Minecraft:Blocks

• Added ambient sounds for certain blocks:
  • Dead bush
    • Played when placed on top of two blocks of Minecraft:sand, red sand or any color of Minecraft:terracotta.
  • Minecraft:Sand, Red sand, Minecraft:Terracotta and Stained terracotta
    • Played when surrounded by any one of them on at least 3 sides 8 blocks away.

Minecraft:Wolf

• Now has sound variants:
  • Big
  • Cute
  • Puglin
  • Angry
  • Grumpy
  • Sad
  • The already existing wolf sounds are now part of the Classic sound variant.
• Wolves receive their sound personalities when they spawn.

Changes

Blocks

File:Dormant Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png Creaking heart

• Now has a unique dormant texture.

Minecraft:Lodestone

• Can now be found in ruined portals.
• The crafting recipe was altered to now require an iron ingot instead of a netherite ingot.

Minecraft:Leaves

• File:Green Leaf 3.png All leaf blocks now have a chance of spawning falling leaf particles.

Items

Minecraft:Bundle

• Now generates in village chest loot.

Spawn eggs

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New spawn egg textures.

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

Mobs

Cartographer

• Cartographers now offer the following items:
• Sell 7 new explorer 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 Minecraft: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.

Camel

• Now spawns everywhere in deserts, not just in desert villages.

File:Cow.png Cow and Mooshroom

• Changed texture and extend the snout by one pixel.

File:White Sheep JE4 BE7.png Sheep

• Changed the rules for sheep coloring to be based on which biome they spawn in:
  • Temperate biomes (all non-warm, non-cold biomes):
    • Common: White
    • Uncommon: Black, Gray, Light Gray, and Brown
    • Rare: Pink
  • Cold biomes:<ref group="info" name="cold biomes"/>
    • Common: Black
    • Uncommon: Gray, Light Gray, White, and Brown
    • Rare: Pink
  • Warm biomes:<ref group="info" name="warm biomes"/>
    • Common: Brown
    • Uncommon: Gray, Light Gray, White, and Black
    • Rare: Pink
• Sheep colors for temperate biomes is unchanged from current behavior.
• In a parity update with Bedrock Edition, sheep in Template:Editions now display the correct wool color on their undercoat, and eat ferns.
• Now eat dry grass.

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Wandering trader

• Improved prices, more trade options, and larger stock amounts for many items.
• New items the wandering trader can sell:

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• The wandering trader now offers to buy two items from the following list:

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Further revisions

Bedrock Edition

• 1.21.71 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.70.
• 1.21.72 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.71.
• 1.21.73 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.72.
• 1.21.80 was a minor update which adds flat world presets and experimental features from Chase the Skies.
• 1.21.81 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.80.
• 1.21.82 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.81.
• 1.21.84 was released to fix bugs related to 1.21.82.

Quotes

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The Spring to Life drop brings more reasons to explore! Befriend new mob variants, marvel at glittering firefly bushes, seek out ambient sounds, and delight in an Overworld full of life.

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Gallery

Official artwork

• Artwork of the drop shown in Minecraft LIVE - March 2025
  Artwork of the drop shown in Minecraft LIVE - March 2025
• Square format
  Square format

Mojang screenshots

• Minecraft:Efe, Ari, and Noor riding on the three pig variants.
  Minecraft:Efe, Ari, and Noor riding on the three pig variants.
• The cold variants of the chicken, cow, and pig in the snow.
  The cold variants of the chicken, cow, and pig in the snow.
• The warm variants of the chicken, cow, and pig in the desert.
  The warm variants of the chicken, cow, and pig in the desert.
• Gray and brown sheep in a savanna biome.
  Gray and brown sheep in a savanna biome.
• The new spawn egg textures.
  The new spawn egg textures.
• Noor looking up at falling leaves.
  Noor looking up at falling leaves.
• Ari, along with a cold chicken, cold pig, and a cold cow, are surrounded by fireflies at dusk.
  Ari, along with a cold chicken, cold pig, and a cold cow, are surrounded by fireflies at dusk.
• A player looking at a map of the desert.
  A player looking at a map of the desert.
• File:Warm leash.jpeg
• The picture in the “Play the Spring to Life drop on March 25!” article on Nintendo Switch News
  The picture in the “Play the Spring to Life drop on March 25!” article on Nintendo Switch News

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