Spring to Life

Spring to Life

Release date	March 25, 2025[1]
Version(s)	Java Edition 1.21.5 Bedrock Edition 1.21.70
Placeholder name(s)	Spring Drop 2025 Drop 1 2025
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There are guides for this update!

 

See Java Edition guides/Spring to Life and Bedrock Edition guides/Spring to Life for a guide to all of the new features introduced in Spring to Life.

Spring to Life is a game drop that released on March 25, 2025.^[1] It added warm and cold variants to various passive animal mobs, new foliage blocks to 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.

Additions

Blocks

Leaf Litter

• A new type of decorative block which can be found in the forests, dark forests and wooded badlands.
  • Works like pink petals.
• Can be smelted from any type of leaves block.

Wildflowers

• A new type of flower which grow in birch forests, old growth birch forests and meadows.
  • Works like pink petals.

Test Block‌

• A technical block used in game tests.
• Can be obtained by /setblock, /fill, or /give commands, or through the Operator Items Tab.
• Can be placed and used only in creative.

Test Instance Block‌

• A technical block used in game tests.
• Can be obtained by /setblock, /fill, or /give commands, or through the Operator Items Tab.
• Can be placed and used only in creative.

Bush

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

Firefly Bush

• Generates in swamps and near rivers.
• When it's light level 13 or lower, glowing firefly particles appear around the firefly bush, up to 5 blocks away.

Cactus Flower

• A new type of flower which can grow on cacti in deserts and all types of badlands.

Short Dry Grass

• Generates in the desert and all types of badlands.

Tall Dry Grass

• Generates in the desert and all types of badlands.

Items

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

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

Mobs

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 temperate versions of the mobs spawn by default wherever the cold and warm variants do not.

Pig

• Temperate Pig: The pre-existing pig variant.
• Cold Pig: A variant that spawns in cold biomes.^{[info 1]}
• Warm Pig: A variant that spawns in warm biomes.^{[info 2]}

Cow

• Temperate Cow: The pre-existing cow variant.
  • New texture and model.
• Cold Cow: A variant that spawns in certain cold biomes.^{[info 1]}
• Warm Cow: A variant that spawns in certain warm biomes.^{[info 2]}

Chicken

• Temperate Chicken: The pre-existing chicken variant.
• Cold Chicken: A variant that spawns in certain cold biomes.^{[info 1]}
• Warm Chicken: A variant that spawns in certain warm biomes.^{[info 2]}

World generation

Fallen tree‌

• Fallen trees already existed in Bedrock Edition before this update.
• Fallen trees are a new decorative variant of trees.
• Fallen trees come in four different wood type variants:
  • Oak
  • Spruce
  • Birch
  • Jungle
• Birch fallen trees can come in a shorter version or a longer version.
• 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.

Changes

Blocks

Dead bush

• Can now make ambient sounds when placed on top of two blocks of sand, red sand or any color of terracotta.

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.

Sand, Red sand, Terracota and Stained Terracotta

• 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.

Items

Bundle

• Now generates in village chest loot.

Spawn eggs

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

Mobs

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.

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

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.

Mooshroom and Brown Mooshroom

• Changed texture and extended snout by one pixel.

Camel

• Now spawns everywhere in deserts, not just in desert villages.

Wolf

• Now has sound personalities: Big, classic, cute, puglin, angry, grumpy, and sad.
• Wolves receive their sound personalities when they spawn.
• These change how wolves sound when they bark, pant, whine, or growl.

Spawn event‌

• Pigs, cows, and chickens can now spawn with spawn events by using /summon or /event to spawn their cold and warm variants.

Quotes

	“	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.	„
		— Minecraft X account[2]

Videos

Gallery

Official artwork

• 
  Artwork of the drop shown in Minecraft LIVE - March 2025
• 
  Square format
• 
  The picture in the “Play the Spring to Life drop on March 25!” article on Nintendo Switch News

Mojang screenshots

• 
  Efe, Ari, and Noor riding on the three pig variants.
• 
  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.
• 
  Ari, along with a cold chicken, cold pig and a cold cow, are surrounded by fireflies at dusk.
• 
  A player looking at a map of the desert.
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