Java Edition 25w07a

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25w07a is the sixth snapshot for Java Edition 1.21.5, released on February 13, 2025.^[1]

Tags

• Block tags
  • Added #camels_spawnable_on
    • Contains blocks that camels can spawn on.
• Structure tags
  • Added #on_savanna_village_maps.
    • Contains structures that can appear on savanna village maps.
  • Added #on_desert_village_maps.
    • Contains structures that can appear on desert village maps.
  • Added #on_plains_village_maps.
    • Contains structures that can appear on plains village maps.
  • Added #on_taiga_village_maps.
    • Contains structures that can appear on taiga village maps.
  • Added #on_snowy_village_maps.
    • Contains structures that can appear on snowy village maps.
  • Added #on_swamp_explorer_maps.
    • Contains structures that can appear on swamp explorer maps.
  • Added #on_jungle_explorer_maps.
    • Contains structures that can appear on jungle explorer maps.

Bush

• Now only drops when broken with shears or a Silk Touch tool.
• Is now replaceable when building.

Firefly bush

• Now spreads to neighboring blocks when applied bone meal.

Bundle

• Can now be found in some of the chests in villages.

Camel

• Now spawns in deserts.

Cartographer

• The changes to cartographer trades have been moved from experimental features and are now available during normal gameplay.
  • Added seven new maps which cartographers can sell, each pointing to a different village or other structures in a different biome, depending on the biome they come from.
    • Village maps points to a village in a specific biome. Jungle explorer map points to a jungle pyramid. Swamp explorer map points to a swamp hut.
    • Cartographers from different village types will sell a different range of maps and colored banners.
  • Some prices and quantities have also been adjusted.

Available new tradable maps

	Desert	Jungle	Plains	Savanna	Snow	Swamp	Taiga
Group 1	Savanna Village Map	Savanna Village Map	Savanna Village Map	Desert Village Map	Plains Village Map	Snowy Village Map	Plains Village Map
Group 2	Plains Village Map	Desert Village Map	Taiga Village Map	Plains Village Map	Taiga Village Map	Taiga Village Map	Snowy Village Map
Group 3	Jungle Explorer Map	Swamp Explorer Map	–	Jungle Explorer Map	Swamp Explorer Map	Jungle Explorer Map	Swamp Explorer Map

Mooshroom

• Model and textures for both variants have been updated to be more inline with the cow.

Sheep

• Changed the rules for sheep coloring to be based on which biome they spawn in:
  • Temperate biomes:
    • Common:
      • 👁 Image
        White sheep
    • Uncommon:
      • 👁 Image
        Black sheep
      • 👁 Image
        Gray sheep
      • 👁 Image
        Light gray sheep
      • 👁 Image
        Brown sheep
    • Rare:
      • 👁 Image
        Pink sheep
  • Cold biomes:
    • Common:
      • 👁 Image
        Black sheep
    • Uncommon:
      • 👁 Image
        Light gray sheep
      • 👁 Image
        Light blue sheep
      • 👁 Image
        Blue sheep
      • 👁 Image
        Cyan sheep
    • Rare:
      • 👁 Image
        Pink sheep
  • Warm biomes:
    • Common:
      • 👁 Image
        Brown sheep
    • Uncommon:
      • 👁 Image
        Gray sheep
      • 👁 Image
        Yellow sheep
      • 👁 Image
        Orange sheep
      • 👁 Image
        Red sheep
    • Rare:
      • 👁 Image
        Pink sheep
• Sheep colors for temperate biomes is unchanged from current behavior.

Wandering trader

• The changes to wandering trader trades have been moved from experimental features and are now available during normal gameplay.
  • The Wandering Trader now has better prices, more trades and a larger amount of stock for many items.
  • They will also now buy basic supplies from players.
  • The Wandering Trader will offer to buy two items from this list:
    • 👁 Image
      Water Bottle
    • 👁 Image
      Water Bucket
    • 👁 Image
      Milk Bucket
    • 👁 Image
      Fermented Spider Eye
    • 👁 Image
      Baked Potato
    • 👁 Image
      Hay Bale
  • Wandering Traders now have a chance of selling these items (in addition to their previous trades):
    • Logs (Acacia, Birch, Dark Oak, Jungle, Oak, Spruce, Pale Oak or Cherry)
    • Enchanted 👁 Image
      Iron Pickaxe
    • 👁 Image
      Potion of Invisibility
  • Trade list now made up by following trades, in order:
    • Buying Trade (new) × 2
    • Special Selling Trade × 2
    • Ordinary Selling Trade × 5
  • Added new buying trades, some selling trades, and changed some existing selling trades:

New trades of wandering traders

Category	Item wanted	Quantity	Item given	Quantity	Trades until disabled
Buying	👁 Image Baked Potato	4	👁 Image Emerald	1	1
Buying	👁 Image Fermented Spider Eye	1	👁 Image Emerald	3	1
Buying	👁 Image Hay Bale	1	👁 Image Emerald	1	1
Buying	👁 Image Milk Bucket	1	👁 Image Emerald	2	1
Buying	👁 Image Water Bottle	1	👁 Image Emerald	1	1
Buying	👁 Image Water Bucket	1	👁 Image Emerald	2	1
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Acacia Log	8	4
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Birch Log	8	4
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Cherry Log	8	4
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Dark Oak Log	8	4
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Jungle Log	8	4
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Oak Log	8	4
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Spruce Log	8	4
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Pale Oak Log	8	4
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	6-20	👁 Image Iron Pickaxe (Enchanted)	1	1
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	5	👁 Image Potion of Invisibility (Long)	1	1

Changed trades of wandering traders

Category	Item wanted	Quantity	Item given	Quantity	Trades until disabled
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Gunpowder	1 → 4	8 → 2
Special Selling	👁 Image Emerald	3 → 1	👁 Image Packed Ice	1	6
Special Selling → Ordinary Selling	👁 Image Emerald	5 → 3	👁 Image Bucket of Pufferfish	1	4
Special Selling → Ordinary Selling	👁 Image Emerald	5 → 3	👁 Image Bucket of Tropical Fish	1	4
Ordinary Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Lily Pad	2 → 5	5 → 2
Ordinary Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Brown Mushroom	1 → 3	12 → 4
Ordinary Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Red Mushroom	1 → 3	12 → 4
Ordinary Selling	👁 Image Emerald	1	👁 Image Vines	1 → 3	12 → 4

Sounds

• Ambient block sounds in deserts, badlands and pale gardens which are only used for ambience have been moved from "Blocks" to "Ambient/Environment" category.
• The breaking sound for grass sound type has been lowered, affecting all blocks using this sound.
• The breaking, stepping, placing sounds for leaf litter have been lowered.

Block entity format

• The CustomName field will no longer be preserved when removed.
• The LootTable field will no longer be preserved when removed.
• end_gateway
  • The exit_portal field will no longer be preserved when removed.
• furnace, smoker, blast_furnace
  • The RecipesUsed field will no longer be preserved when removed.
• skull
  • The note_block_sound field will no longer be preserved when removed.

Data pack

• The pack format version is now 67.

Entity format

• Pos, Motion, and Rotation values without the correct number of components (3, 3, and 2 respectively) will now be fully discarded, instead of only selecting the specified components.
• The SleepingX, SleepingY, and SleepingZ fields have been collected into a single sleeping_pos field.
  • e.g. sleeping_pos: [I;1,2,3]
• Block States in the entity data of arrows, minecarts, block displays, endermen, falling blocks, primed TNT, or piston moving blocks are no longer allowed to be specified as an empty object.
• The Tags field will no longer be preserved if removed.
• allay
  • Removed the CanDuplicate field (controlled by DuplicationCooldown).
• cat
  • The CollarColor field now defaults to 14 (red) if not specified.
• dolphin
  • Removed TreasurePosX, TreasurePosY, TreasurePosZ fields.
• falling_block
  • The BlockState field can now be air (will despawn immediately).
    • If otherwise not specified or invalid, defaults to sand.
• fox
  • The Trusted field now defaults to empty if not specified (and will no longer be merged with the previous state if modified by /data).
• item
  • The Owner and Thrower fields will no longer be preserved when removed.
• phantom
  • The Size field has been renamed to size.
  • The AX, AY, and AZ fields have been collected into a single anchor_pos field.
• player
  • The SpawnX, SpawnY, SpawnZ, SpawnAngle, SpawnDimension, and SpawnForced fields have been collected into a single respawn field.
    • Format: object with fields
      • pos - block position to spawn at.
      • angle - float, angle to spawn with (default: 0.0).
      • dimension - dimension id to spawn in (default minecraft:overworld).
      • forced - boolean, true if this spawn was set through commands (default: false).
  • The enteredNetherPosition field has been renamed to entered_nether_pos, and is now formatted as a list of doubles.
    • e.g. entered_nether_pos: [1.0, 2.0, 3.0]
• primed_tnt
  • The block_state field now defaults to tnt if not specified.
• shulker_bullet
  • The Dir and Target fields will no longer be preserved when removed.
• turtle
  • The HomePosX, HomePosY, and HomePosZ fields have been collected into a single home_pos field.
  • Removed TravelPosX, TravelPosY, and TravelPosZ fields.
  • The HasEgg field has been renamed to has_egg.
• vex
  • The LifeTicks field has been renamed to life_ticks.
  • The BoundX, BoundY, and BoundZ fields have been collected into a single bound_pos field.
• villager
  • The Gossips field will no longer be preserved when removed.
• wandering_trader
  • The wander_target field will no longer be preserved when removed.
• wolf
  • The CollarColor field now defaults to 14 (red) if not specified.
• zombie_villager
  • The Gossips field will no longer be preserved when removed.
• evoker_fangs, area_effect_cloud, and all projectiles
  • The Owner field will no longer be preserved when removed.
• item_frame, glow_item_frame, painting, and leash_knot
  • The TileX, TileY, and TileZ fields have been collected into a single block_pos field.
• arrow, spectral_arrow, trident
  • The inBlockState and SoundEvent fields will no longer be preserved when removed.
• minecart, *_minecart
  • The CustomDisplayTile field has been removed.
  • DisplayState will now always override the default displayed block state if specified.
  • DisplayOffset may now be specified to override the default offset even without a custom display block state set.
• block_display, item_display, and text_display
  • The glow_color_override field will no longer be preserved when removed.
• witch, ravager, pillager, illusioner, evoker, and vindicator
  • The patrol_target field will no longer be preserved when removed.

Predicate

• The stepping_on entity predicate can only evaluate to true if the entity is on ground.

Resource pack

• Item rendering
  • Item Display
    • firstperson_lefthand and thirdperson_lefthand transforms are now rendered the same as when held in hand.
  • Item Entity
    • When on ground, model size is now taken into account when determining hovering motion.
      • That means that models should never clip into the block below, no matter what size they are.
    • Positioning of items in an item stack on ground now depends on model size and model type.
      • If model depth (Z coordinate) is below 1/16th of a block, item is rendered as flat stack of items.
      • Otherwise model is rendered as a cluster of items offset in all directions around center.
      • Previously, flat stack rendering happened only for models with builtin/generated parent.
• The version is now 52.

Shaders

• Shader program definitions for core shaders and post-processing effects as JSON files have been removed.
• The shader programs themselves are still available and can be overridden.
• The post-processing effects are still configurable as JSON.
• Post-process Effect Definitions
  • The field program was replaced with vertexShader and fragmentShader.
    • <namespace>:<path> will resolve to assets/<namespace>/shaders/<path>.<vsh|fsh>.
  • type is now a required field for each uniform.
    • Possible values are currently int, ivec3, float, vec2, vec3, vec4, matrix4.
  • values in each uniform is now optional.
    • Leaving it unset is not recommended and is used for runtime configuration of the blur effect.
  • Leaving a uniform unspecified results in undefined behavior, the player must specify each one that will be used by the shaders.

Tags

• Added bush to the #replaceable block tag.

24 issues fixed

From released versions before 1.21

• MC-122840 – "/data remove" cannot delete beam_target tag in End Crystals.
• MC-152382 – End gateways and end portals don't fade away with render distance fog.
• MC-153392 – Unable to remove villager gossips using /data remove.
• MC-220091 – Summoning falling_block entities with BlockState NBT set to any air block (air, cave_air, void_air) default to sand.
• MC-230445 – End portals and end gateways are not rendered properly with the Blindness or Darkness effects.

From 1.21.4

• MC-279196 – Block loot tables cannot be removed with /data remove
• MC-279364 – CustomName cannot be removed from block entities.
• MC-279472 – Void appears lower & more faded than before.
• MC-279572 – End portals and end gateways aren't affected by water, lava or powder snow fog.

From the 1.21.5 development versions

• MC-279434 – Standing on powder snow and fire at the same time spams the fire extinguish sound.
• MC-279598 – Parts of test structures sometimes remain after running /test clearall.
• MC-279637 – Game crashes when /test verify-ing a test instance with max_attempts greater than 1.
• MC-279711 – Test instance block "Entities" flips when closing UI.
• MC-279913 – Mooshroom snout no longer matches cows.
• MC-279921 – The "Light as a Rabbit" advancement is granted even when the player sinks in powder snow.
• MC-279934 – block.sand.idle and block.sand.wind are not in the Ambient/Environment sound category.
• MC-279936 – The "commands.test.success" raw translation key is displayed when using "/test create..." command.
• MC-279948 – Cold cow variant's horns are not mirrored.
• MC-279992 – Jumping when wearing leather boots and landing on powder snow from some specific heights can cause the player to get stuck in the powder snow.
• MC-280067 – Scaffolding can no longer be placed if the player is intersecting it.
• MC-280134 – Sneaking with a Sneaking Speed attribute of 0 causes the game to freeze.

From the previous development version

• MC-280132 – Leaf litter generation is inconsistently interrupted by non-grass blocks.
• MC-280133 – The world border produces graphical glitches when moving near it.
• MC-280167 – Profiling with  +  outputs many errors to log.