Minecraft:Java Edition 25w08a

25w08a is the seventh Minecraft:snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.21.5, released on February 19, 2025, which adds new sound personalities for wolves, overhauls spawn egg textures, and fixes bugs.<ref>Template:Snap</ref>

Additions

Mobs

Minecraft:Wolf

• 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.

General

Entity components

• wolf/sound_variant
  • Namespaced ID from wolf_sound_variant registry.

Changes

Blocks

Minecraft:Leaf litter

• Leaf litter is now tinted based on which biome it is in.

Items

Minecraft:Spawn eggs

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A collection of the new spawn egg textures.

• 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.
  • Each egg visual varies in shape to reflect the in-world properties of the mob it spawns: for example, smaller mobs tend to have a smaller Spawn Egg icon.

Mobs

Minecraft:Sheep

• Reverted the change from Minecraft:25w07a that allowed blue, light blue, cyan, yellow, orange and red sheep to spawn naturally in different biomes.
  • Common sheep color in cold biomes remains black, and uncommon colors are now gray, light gray, white and brown.
  • Common sheep color in warm biomes remains brown, and uncommon colors are now gray, light gray, white and black.
  • Pink sheep will still be very rare and able to spawn anywhere where sheep can spawn.
• The wool undercoat of sheep is now also colored when dyed, matching existing behavior in Template:El.
• Sheep can now eat Minecraft:ferns, matching Bedrock Edition.

Minecraft:Wandering trader

• Some of the new trades have changed from a stock of one single trade to a stock of two trades.
  • This applies to the following trades:
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Gameplay

Minecraft:Creative mode

• The tab icon for the Spawn Eggs inventory tab has changed from the Minecraft:pig spawn egg to the Minecraft:creeper spawn egg.

General

Biome effects

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  • Defines the color used for tinting blocks using dry foliage tinting.

Minecraft:Data component format

• Template:Cd
  • If the blocked damage has no position, the compared angle will be assumed to be the maximum 180 for Template:Cd field of Template:Cd.

Minecraft:Data pack

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

Equipment Assets

• Equipment layers configured to be dyeable will now show if the dyed_color component is present on the item, even if the item is not in the #dyeable tag.

Minecraft:Resource pack

• The version is now Template:Cd.
• Added the possibility to tint blocks based on a dry foliage color map.
• Added colormap texture for tinting dry foliage tinted blocks.
• Removed Template:Cd and Template:Cd.
• The texture sheep_fur has been renamed to sheep_wool.

Minecraft:Tags

• Added Template:Cd to the Template:Cd block tag.
• Added Template:Cd to the Template:Cd damage type tag.

Fixes

Note: The bug tracker was offline for most of the preceding week, therefore many bugs from 25w07a may not have been reported on the tracker and are therefore not listed. Bugs were officially reported in the game's Discord server during this week. Template:Fixes