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

Mobs

Changed

Name Image Changed
Pig, cow and chicken

Sheep
  • 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 Bedrock Edition.
  • Sheep can now eat ferns, Grass and dry grass.
Creaking
  • Can now be named using 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.
Villager
  • 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.
Wandering trader
  • The changes to wandering trader trades have been moved from experimental features and are now available during normal gameplay.
Zombified piglin Must now be killed by a player to drop its Player-specific loot.
Camel Can now rarely spawn in deserts.
General Farm animals can now spawn in badlands.
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.

Blocks

New

Name Image Obtaining Tool Required Uses
Leaf litter Found on the floor of forests, dark forests, and wooded badlands.
Ingredients Smelting recipe
Any Leaves block
Invicon Oak Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Leaves with description: Oak LeavesInvicon Spruce Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Spruce Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Spruce Leaves with description: Spruce LeavesInvicon Birch Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Birch Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Birch Leaves with description: Birch LeavesInvicon Acacia Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Acacia Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Acacia Leaves with description: Acacia LeavesInvicon Jungle Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Jungle Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Jungle Leaves with description: Jungle LeavesInvicon Dark Oak Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Dark Oak Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Dark Oak Leaves with description: Dark Oak LeavesInvicon Mangrove Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Leaves with description: Mangrove LeavesInvicon Cherry Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Cherry Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Cherry Leaves with description: Cherry LeavesInvicon Pale Oak Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Pale Oak Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Pale Oak Leaves with description: Pale Oak LeavesInvicon Poplar Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Poplar Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Poplar Leaves with description: Poplar LeavesInvicon Azalea Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Azalea Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Azalea Leaves with description: Azalea LeavesInvicon Flowering Azalea Leaves.png: Inventory sprite for Flowering Azalea Leaves in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Flowering Azalea Leaves with description: Flowering Azalea Leaves
Invicon Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Coal with description: CoalInvicon Charcoal.png: Inventory sprite for Charcoal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Charcoal with description: CharcoalInvicon Oak Log.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Log in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Log with description: LogInvicon Oak Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Planks with description: Overworld PlanksInvicon Lava Bucket.png: Inventory sprite for Lava Bucket in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Lava Bucket with description: Lava BucketInvicon Block of Coal.png: Inventory sprite for Block of Coal in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Block of Coal with description: Block of Coal
Invicon Leaf Litter.png: Inventory sprite for Leaf Litter in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Leaf Litter with description: Leaf Litter
 Any
  • Can be used as fuel.
  • Can be used in a composter.
Wildflowers Grows in birch forests, old growth birch forests, and meadows. Any
  • Can be placed in four orientations.
  • Can be crafted into yellow dye.
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Wildflowers
Invicon Wildflowers.png: Inventory sprite for Wildflowers in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Wildflowers with description: Wildflowers
Invicon Yellow Dye.png: Inventory sprite for Yellow Dye in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Yellow Dye with description: Yellow Dye
Firefly bush 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 composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer.
  • Using 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.
Bush Any
  • They are tinted by the grass color of the biome they are placed in.
  • Can be used in the composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer.
  • Using bone meal on a bush will generate a neighboring bush next to it if possible.
  • Can be instantly broken without any particular tool.
Cactus flower Has a chance of generating on cactuses in deserts and 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 composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer.
  • Can be used to craft 1 pink dye.
Short and tall dry grass Generates in the desert and badlands. Any
  • Both short and tall variants are one block high.
  • Can be placed on types of sand, terracotta and dirt blocks like the dead bush.
  • Can be obtained using shears or a Silk Touch tool.
  • Can be bone mealed.
    • Using bone meal on short dry grass grows it into a tall dry grass.
  • Can be used in the composter, with a 30% chance to add a layer.
  • Sheep can eat short dry grass to regrow its wool.
  • Can be used as fuel for smelting, where they smelt half an item.
Test block 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.
Test instance block 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 /test command to run or create a test will also place a test instance block to control that test.

Changed

Name Image Changed
General
  • Any block in the simulation distance of a player or loaded by another source of chunk loading (such as ender pearls) may now receive random ticks, instead of just 8 chunks around players.
    • For example: if a chunk is loaded by an ender pearl or is in the spawn chunks, crops are able to grow, ice can melt, snow can fall, and a 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.
Lodestone
  • Crafted with iron instead of netherite.
  • 1-3 lodestones can be found in ruined portal chests
Leaves Generates falling leaf particles.
Bubble column Produces fewer particles and sounds when entities that are unaffected by them are inside them.
Creaking heart
  • 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.
Eyeblossom The transition between the states of eyeblossoms is now based on the fixed day time.
Iron bars, iron block, iron trapdoor,
iron door and heavy weighted pressure plate 		Added new break, place, step, fall and hit sounds.
End portal When changing state, any blocks that are in its radius will be dropped as items and also make breaking sounds, rather than outright overwritten.
Beacon Beacons and their beams now render beyond 16 chunks up to the client render distance.

Items

Changed

Name Image Changed
Egg
  • New variants of the egg has been added.
    • Blue egg: A variant of the egg laid by the cold chicken variant.
    • Brown egg: A variant of the egg laid by the warm chicken variant.
  • Spawns the corresponding chicken variant when hatched.
Saddle
  • Saddles equipped onto pigs or striders will now maintain properties such as custom name when dropped.
  • Saddles equipped onto camels and equines (horses, donkeys, mules) now remain visible if the mob equipped with them is inflicted with Invisibility.
  • Saddles equipped onto camels and equines no longer turn red when the mob wearing it takes damage.
  • When enchanted now show the enchantment glint on mobs wearing it.
  • Thorns and Curse of Binding enchantments now work on mobs that are wearing it.
Elytra Flight is now cancelled when gliding into climbable blocks like ladders, scaffolding, vines etc..
Crossbow Will now show all charged projectiles in their tooltip instead of just the first.
Spawn egg 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

Name Image Changed
Pale garden

Structures

New

Name Image Generates Chests Mobs Description
Fallen tree
  • 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.
 N/A N/A
  • 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

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

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