It’s the first snapshot Wednesday of 2025, and we have some fun new features to kick off the new year. This snapshot adds new ambient features to the game, including wildflowers, leaf litter, and falling leaves. Pigs are getting two new variants: you may venture into the colder biomes to find the cold pig, or head for sunnier spots to meet its counterpart – the warm pig! Lodestones are also becoming easier to craft, making them more accessible in the early game. Now you’ll only need an iron ingot with your chiseled stone bricks.

New Features

  • Added new falling leaves particles to Leave blocks without particles
  • Added cold and warm variants for the Pig
  • Added Wildflowers block
  • Added Leaf Litter block

Leaves block particles

  • All Leaves blocks now have chance of spawning falling leaf particles
  • These blocks are affected by this change:
    • Oak Leaves
    • Jungle Leaves
    • Acacia Leaves
    • Dark Oak Leaves
    • Spruce Leaves
    • Mangrove Leaves
    • Birch Leaves
    • Azalea Leaves
    • Flowering Azalea Leaves

Pig Variants

  • New Pig variants have been added, the variant is determined by the biome they spawn in
  • Temperate Pig – The Pig we are all familiar with
    • Spawns by default where the cold and warm Pig variants do not spawn
  • Cold Pig – A variant that spawns in the following biomes:
    • Old Growth Pine Taiga
    • Old Growth Spruce Taiga
    • Taiga
    • Snowy Taiga
    • Windswept Hills
    • Windswept Gravelly Hills
    • Windswept Forest
  • Warm Pig – A variant that spawns in the following biomes:
    • Savanna
    • Savanna Plateau
    • Windswept Savanna
    • Jungle
    • Sparse Jungle
    • Bamboo Jungle
    • Eroded Badlands
    • Wooded Badlands
    • Badlands
  • When bred by a player, a baby Pig variant will not be chosen by the current biome, but instead randomly selected from one of the parents’ variants

Wildflowers

  • Wildflowers are a new type of flower which grow in Birch Forests, Old Growth Birch Forests and Meadows
  • Wildflowers can have different amounts of flowers in one block space
    • Up to four Wildflowers can be placed in the same block space
    • Placing a Wildflower into an already placed Wildflowers block increases the amount of flowers
    • Using Bone Meal on Wildflowers will produce more Wildflowers
  • Wildflowers can be placed in four orientations
  • Wildflowers can be crafted into Yellow Dye

Leaf Litter

  • Leaf Litter is a new type of decorative block which can be found in the Forests, Dark Forests and Wooded Badlands
  • Leaf Litter can have different amounts of leaves in one block space
    • Up to four Leaf Litter pieces can be placed in the same block space
    • Placing a Leaf Litter into an already placed Leaf Litter block increases the amount of leaves
  • Leaf Litter can be placed in four orientations
  • Leaf Litter can be created by smelting any type of Leaves block
  • Leaf Litter can be used as fuel for smelting
  • Leaf Litter has unique block sounds

Changes

  • Lodestones have a new crafting recipe and can now be found in Ruined Portals
  • Added new break, place, step, fall and hit sounds for Iron Blocks, Iron Bars, Iron Trapdoors, Iron Doors and Heavy Weighted Pressure Plates
  • Zombified Piglins now need to be killed by a Player to drop the Player-specific loot
    • This makes them consistent with all other mobs in the game
  • Chunks loaded by a portal will now be re-loaded again automatically when the world is reopened
  • Farm animals can now spawn in Badlands
  • Short Grass now generates slightly sparser in Meadows
  • The volume of the narrator is now affected by the game’s configured volume in the ‘Voice’ category
  • Uploading a world to Realms will now enable Command Blocks by default
  • It is now possible to upload Hardcore singleplayer worlds to Realms
  • Bubble columns produce less particles and sounds when entities that are unaffected by them are inside them
  • If the game detects that the last startup did not complete normally, the fullscreen option will now be reset

Garden Awakens Changes

  • Pale Garden biome now occupies more space that was previously taken by Dark Forest
  • Woodland Mansions can now generate in Pale Garden biome
  • Pale Oak Leaves and Pale Oak Saplings have an updated map color
  • Creakings can now be named using Name Tags
    • Named Creaking 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
  • Creaking Hearts correctly placed between Logs have a new dormant texture during the day
    • Dormant Creaking Hearts cannot spawn new Creakings and Resin
  • Transition between the awake and dormant states for Creaking Hearts and transition of Eye Blossoms is now based on the fixed day time
    • All these behaviors are no longer affected by weather or dimension brightness

Lodestone Changes

  • The Lodestone is now crafted from 1 Iron Ingot surrounded by 8 Chiseled Stone Bricks
  • Lodestones can now be found as loot at Ruined Portals in the Overworld or Nether