Minecraft:Spring to Life

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Template:Relevant guide Spring to Life is a Minecraft:game drop that released on March 25, 2025, as Minecraft: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 Minecraft:ambience features such as sounds and falling leaf Minecraft:particles.

During development, the update was referred to as Spring Drop 2025 and Drop 1 2025 as the name of the Template:BE Minecraft:experiment. The final name and release date of the update were revealed during Minecraft: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:

File:Cactus Flower JE1.png Minecraft:Cactus flower

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

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

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

File:Firefly Bush JE1.gif Minecraft:Firefly bush

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

Template:Animate Minecraft:Leaf litter

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

Template:InvSprite Template:Animate Minecraft:Wildflowers

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

Items

Template:InvSprite Minecraft:Blue egg

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

Template:InvSprite Minecraft:Brown egg

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

Template:AnimateSprite New Minecraft:Explorer maps

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

Mobs

There are now cold<ref group="info" name="cold biomes"> The cold variant of each mob spawns in the following cold biomes:

</ref> and warm<ref group="info" name="warm biomes"> The warm variant of each mob spawns in the following warm biomes:

</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 Minecraft: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"/>

Minecraft: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"/>

Minecraft: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

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A new decorative variant of trees.
Fallen trees come in five different variants:
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:
- Minecraft:Meadow
- Minecraft:Bamboo Jungle
- Minecraft:River
- Minecraft:Grove
- Minecraft:Flower Forest
  - Has fallen birch trees but not fallen oak trees.

Sounds

Minecraft:Blocks

Added ambient sounds for certain blocks:
- Minecraft:Dead bush
  - Played when placed on top of two blocks of Minecraft:sand, Minecraft:red sand or any color of Minecraft:terracotta.
- Minecraft:Sand, Minecraft:Red sand, Minecraft:Terracotta and Minecraft: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 Minecraft:Creaking heart

Now has a unique dormant texture.

Minecraft:Lodestone

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

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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 Minecraft:village chest loot.

Template:Animate Minecraft:Spawn eggs

File:Wall of spawn eggs.jpg

New spawn egg textures.

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

Mobs

Minecraft:Cartographer

Cartographers now offer the following items:
Sell 7 new Minecraft:explorer maps pointing to each Minecraft:village type as well as Minecraft:jungle temples and Minecraft: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.
Minecraft: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 Minecraft:woodland mansion map is guaranteed at Master level, along with the Minecraft:globe banner pattern.

Minecraft:Camel

Now spawns everywhere in Minecraft:deserts, not just in desert Minecraft:villages.

File:Cow.png Template:Animate Minecraft:Cow and Minecraft:Mooshroom

Changed texture and extend the snout by one pixel.

File:White Sheep JE4 BE7.png Minecraft: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: Template:EntitySprite White
  - Uncommon: Template:EntitySprite Template:EntitySprite Template:EntitySprite Template:EntitySprite Black, Gray, Light Gray, and Brown
  - Rare: Template:EntitySprite Pink
- Cold biomes:<ref group="info" name="cold biomes"/>
  - Common: Template:EntitySprite Black
  - Uncommon: Template:EntitySprite Template:EntitySprite Template:EntitySprite Template:EntitySprite Gray, Light Gray, White, and Brown
  - Rare: Template:EntitySprite Pink
- Warm biomes:<ref group="info" name="warm biomes"/>
  - Common: Template:EntitySprite Brown
  - Uncommon: Template:EntitySprite Template:EntitySprite Template:EntitySprite Template:EntitySprite Gray, Light Gray, White, and Black
  - Rare: Template:EntitySprite Pink
Minecraft:Sheep colors for temperate biomes is unchanged from current behavior.
In a parity update with Template:BE, sheep Template:In now display the correct wool color on their undercoat, and eat Minecraft:ferns.
Now eat dry grass.

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Minecraft:Wandering trader

Improved prices, more trade options, and larger stock amounts for many items.
New items the wandering trader can sell:
- Template:BlockLink (Oak, Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia, Dark Oak, Cherry, Pale Oak)
- Template:ItemLink
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The wandering trader now offers to buy two items from the following list:

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 Minecraft: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.