Spring to Life

Spring to Life is a game drop released on March 25, 2025, as Java Edition 1.21.5 and Bedrock Edition 1.21.70. It focuses on nature related features such as warm and cold variants to various passive farm 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 released prior to the finalized release as part of Bedrock Edition 1.21.60.

Bush

• Generates in the following biomes:
  • Plains
  • Windswept Hills
  • Windswept Gravelly Hills
  • Windswept Forest
  • River
  • Frozen River
  • Forest
  • Birch Forest
  • Old Growth Birch Forest

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.

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.

Firefly bush

• Generates in swamps and near rivers.
• 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.

Wildflowers

• A new type of 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.

Blue egg

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

Brown egg

• A variant of the 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.

There are now cold^{[info 1]} and warm^{[info 2]} 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.

Pig

• Cold pig: A variant that spawns in cold biomes.^{[info 1]}
• Warm pig: A variant that spawns in warm biomes.^{[info 2]}

Cow

• Cold cow: A variant that spawns in cold biomes.^{[info 1]}
• Warm cow: A variant that spawns in warm biomes.^{[info 2]}

Chicken

• Cold chicken: A variant that spawns in cold biomes.^{[info 1]}
• Warm chicken: A variant that spawns in warm biomes.^{[info 2]}

Fallen tree for Java Edition

• A new decorative variant of trees.
• Fallen trees come in five different variants:
  • Oak
  • Birch
  • Tall Birch
  • Spruce
  • Jungle
• Sometimes generate as tree stumps when there is no space to generate a tree trunk.
• Fallen trees are sometimes decorated with mushroom or 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.

Blocks

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

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.

Creaking heart

• Now has a unique dormant texture.

Lodestone

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

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Chiseled Stone Bricks + Iron Ingot

Leaves

• All leaf blocks now have a chance of spawning falling leaf particles.

  

  • Unlike pale oak or cherry leaves, they fall less frequently.

Bundle

• Now generates in village chest loot.

Spawn eggs

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

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 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.

Cow and Mooshroom

• Changed texture and extend the snout by one pixel.

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:^{[info 1]}
    • Common: Black
    • Uncommon: Gray, Light Gray, White, and Brown
    • Rare: Pink
  • Warm biomes:^{[info 2]}
    • 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 Java Edition now display the correct wool color on their undercoat, and eat ferns.
• Now eat dry grass.

Wandering trader

• Improved prices, more trade options, and larger stock amounts for many items.
• New items the wandering trader can sell:
  • Logs (Oak, Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia, Dark Oak, Cherry, Pale Oak)
  • Enchanted Iron Pickaxe
  • Potion of Invisibility
• The wandering trader now offers to buy two items from the following list:
  • Water Bottle
  • Water Bucket
  • Milk Bucket
  • Fermented Spider Eye
  • Baked Potato
  • Hay Bale

• 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.

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

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