Java Edition 1.21.5, named Spring to Life, is a game drop to 1.21 for Java Edition, released on March 25, 2025.

Additions

Blocks

• Bush
• Cactus Flower
• Firefly Bush
• Leaf Litter
• Wildflowers
• Short Dry Grass
  • Tall Dry Grass
• Test Block
  • Test Instance Block

Items

• Blue Egg
• Brown Egg

Mobs

• Pigs, Cows and Chickens
  • Added warm and cold variants.
    • The pre-existing variant before this update is now temperate.
• Wolves
  • Added 6 new wolf audio variants.

Structures and Features

• Added fallen trees similar to Bedrock Edition, with birch trees having a long and short variant

Changes

Blocks

• Lodestone
  • Can now be crafted with an Iron Ingot surrounded by 8 chiseled stone bricks, making it renewable.
  • Can now be found in ruined portal chests.
• Leaves
  • All leaf blocks now have leaf particles dropping from them, similar to the cherry and pale oak trees.
• Beacon
  • Beacon beams are now bigger from further away to make them more visible
• Block of Iron
  • Changed the sounds of the Block of Iron to more low-pitched metal sounds.
• The unused Wolf howl sound is unfortunately removed in Snapshot 25w08a.
• Removed Herobrine

Items

• Spawn Eggs
  • Changed the texture of all spawn eggs.
    • Each spawn egg now has their own unique visual which captures the personality and character of every mob it spawns.

Mobs

• Camels
  • Camels now spawn in deserts, even outside of desert villages.