Java Edition 25w05a
Minecraft 25w05a


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| Release date |
January 29, 2025 | ||||||
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| Obfuscation maps | |||||||
| Protocol version |
dec: 1073742056 | ||||||
| Data version |
4310 | ||||||
| Resource pack format |
50 | ||||||
| Data pack format |
65 | ||||||
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25w05a is the fourth snapshot for Java Edition 1.21.5, released on January 29, 2025,[1] which adds the bush, firefly bush, new cow variants and fixes various bugs.
Additions
Blocks
- Generates in the following biomes:
- 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.
- Generates in Swamps and near Rivers.
- 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.
Mobs
- Nose now extrudes from model.
- New cow variants have been added.
Temperate Cow: The pre-existing cow variant.
- Spawns by default where the cold and warm cow variants do not spawn.
Cold Cow: A variant that spawns in the following biomes:
Warm Cow: A variant that spawns in the following biomes:
- When bred by a player, a baby cow variant will not be chosen by the current biome, but instead randomly selected from one of the parents' variants.
General
- Dead bush blocks have a chance of playing ambient sounds when placed on top of two blocks that are any color of terracotta, sand or red sand blocks in any biome.
- Sand, red sand and terracotta of any color have a chance of playing ambient sounds when surrounded by any one of them on at least 3 sides 8 blocks away.
- Added the
#plays_ambient_desert_block_soundsblock tag.- Contains blocks that will play ambient desert block sounds.
Changes
Blocks
- Beacons and their beams now render beyond 16 chunks up to the client render distance.
- To keep it easily visible at large distances, the beam is rendered thicker the further away it is from the player.
- The beam now renders up to 2048 blocks high, up from 1024.
- Landing on powder snow with leather boots equipped after falling further than 2.5 blocks will now make entities fall through the snow.
- Jumping or falling less than 2.5 blocks allows the entity to land on top of the snow like before.
Mobs
- Warm pigs now properly spawn in windswept savannas.
Command format
/bossbar, /scoreboard and /team
- Text component arguments are now resolved before use in context of entity held in
@s.
General
blocks_attacks- Added the
bypassed_byfield - hashtagged damage type tag (optional)- If specified, blocking is bypassed by these damage types.
- The objects within the
damage_reductionslist now have a new field:horizontal_blocking_angle- angle in degrees as a positive float- Default:
90- The maximum angle between the user's facing and the incoming attack for the block to be effective.
- Added the
- The pack format version is now
65.
Entity variant components
- Cow variants can be data-driven adding entries to
data/<namespace>/cow_variant/<id>.json.- This feature is experimental.
- Fields in file:
model- one of:normal,cold,warm.asset_id- namespaced id for this variant asset, resolves toassets/<namespace>/textures/<path>.png.spawn_conditions- field described in uniform variant selection above.
- The pack format version is now
50. - Added new textures for cow variants.
cold_cowwarm_cow
- Changed the size of
temperate_cowtexture. - Changed the size of
red_mooshroomandbrown_mooshroomtextures. - The temperate Cow has an updated model and texture.
- Cow models now have a snout.
- Cow models now have their legs mirrored.
- The texture
cowhas been renamed totemperate_cow. - The texture
pighas been renamed totemperate_pig.
- Renamed the
#bypasses_blockingdamage type tag back to#bypasses_shield. - Replaced
windswept_hillswithwindswept_savannain the#spawns_warm_variant_farm_animalsbiome tag.
Fixes
From released versions before 1.21
- MC-108495 – Non-LivingBase entities can be on a team (and show color) but can't be targeted using
team=. - MC-165711 – Eye of ender hitbox always lags behind the animation.
From 1.21.2
- MC-279390 – Baby zombified piglin helmet clipping.
From 1.21.4
From the 1.21.5 development versions
- MC-279257 –
crafting_transmuterecipes don't give output if the resulting item has the same ID as the input item. - MC-279280 –
windswept_hillsis in both the warm and cold variant farm animal biome tags. - MC-279315 – Warm pigs do not spawn in windswept savannas.
- MC-279353 – The
minecraft:fall_damage_multiplierattribute doesn't function when riding specific rideable mobs. - MC-279497 – Structure preview outline breaks for max integer-length sizes.
- MC-279531 – GameTest entrypoint doesn't report failures to spawn the structure.
- MC-279534 – Display entities use interpolation duration value for teleport duration.
- MC-279543 – Neutral Mobs don't attack the player back when attacked under certain conditions.
- MC-279556 – The "
/execute on attacker" command does not target an entity previously targeted by the "/data" command. - MC-279577 – Test blocks are restricted to one within a block-based structure.
From the previous development version
- MC-279684 – Shield blocking animation no longer plays when blocking an attack.
- MC-279685 – Shields no longer consume durability when blocking attacks.
- MC-279688 – Sprinting is canceled upon flying with elytra.
- MC-279692 – Instrument component crashes the game.
- MC-279693 – Summoned lingering potions render as splash potions.
- MC-279697 – Llamas show a non-interactive saddle slot.
- MC-279698 –
provides_banner_patterncomponent does not use hash prefix. - MC-279760 – Typing an inline definition in the
provides_trim_materialcomponent crashes the game.
Video
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References
- ↑ "Minecraft Snapshot 25w05a" – Minecraft.net, January 29, 2025.