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Minecraft 1.21.5 Snapshot 25w06a – Warm and Cold Chicken Variants

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Minecraft 1.21.5 Snapshot 25w06a brings new chicken variants into the game. Like the previous ones, chickens now have a Warm and Cold variant. While these can be found in their respective biomes, you will find the original models in all other zones. They will be named Temperate Chickens. Moreover, if you try making farms with these chickens, you might soon discover the new types of eggs introduced in this update. In addition to the chickens, this snapshot brings in a new form of flowers growing in the desert and badland biomes. Yes, now the desert and the badlands won’t look so barren after all. These flowers can spawn naturally and be placed manually. However, the chances of a flower spawning on top of a cactus increase with its height.

Finally, there are new forms of dry grasses including a short and tall dry grass variant. These are distinguishable from the normal grass variants as both of these are just a block high. These can spawn in both desert and badlands biome. These blocks are really useful since you can feed them to the sheep to regrow their wool, use them in the composter to make Bone Meal, or use them as a fuel source in Minecraft.

Features:

New Features

Added Warm and Cold Chicken variants
Added Short Dry Grass and Tall Dry Grass
Added Cactus Flower block which can grow on Cactus blocks

Farm Animal variants

Warm and cold variants have been added for Chicken
Existing Chicken variant has been renamed to temperate
The variant is determined by the biome they spawn in
Warm and cold biomes are the same for all animals with variants (i.e. Chicken, Pig, Cow)
Two new Egg items have been added for the warm and cold Chicken variants
- Blue Egg – The Egg that is laid by and can hatch cold Chicken variant
- Brown Egg – The Egg that is laid by and can hatch warm Chicken variant
Already existing Egg is laid by and can hatch temperate Chicken variant

Short and Tall Dry Grass

Added two new types of grass: Short Dry Grass and Tall Dry Grass
Both are one block high, which makes Tall Dry Grass differ from Tall Grass which is two blocks high
Both generate in the Desert and Badlands
Both can be placed on types of Sand, Terracotta and Dirt blocks like the Dead Bush
Both can be bone mealed
- Using Bone Meal on Short Dry Grass grows it into a Tall Dry Grass
- Using Bone Meal on Tall Dry Grass places a neighbouring Short Dry Grass next to the block if possible
Both can be used in the Composter
Sheep can eat both to regrow its wool
Both can be used as fuel for smelting

Cactus Flower

Cactus Flower is a new type of flower which has a chance of generating on cactuses in Deserts and Badlands
Cactus Flower can be placed on Cactus blocks or any block which has center support at the top of the block
Cactus Flowers have a chance of growing on Cactus blocks
- If a Cactus is one or two blocks high the Cactus Flower has a 10% chance to grow instead of the Cactus getting higher
- If a Cactus is three blocks or higher the Cactus Flower has a 25% chance to grow
- Cactus Flowers will only grow if they have space on all four sides
Cactus Flowers can be used in the Composter
A Cactus Flower can be used to craft 1 Pink Dye

Changes

Any block in the simulation distance of a player or loaded by another source of chunk loading (such as Ender Pearls) may now receive random ticks, instead of just 8 chunks around players
- For example: if a chunk is loaded by an Ender Pearl or is in the spawn chunks, crops are able to grow, Ice can melt, Snow can fall, and a Cauldron can be filled by rain
- Mob spawning, Lava spreading fire, and Lightning strikes still occur in the previous radius of 8 chunks around players
Fire will no longer burn or spread if no player is within 8 chunks
Tooltips for Fireworks and Crossbows now show a compact form of multiple repeated stars or projectiles that are identical

Firefly Bush

Conditions for The Firefly Bush playing ambient sounds have changed. It now plays when all of the following conditions are met:

it’s night
Firefly Bush not blocked from above by any collidable block (except Leaves)

Technical Changes

The Data Pack version is now 66
The Resource Pack version is now 51

Data Pack Version 66

Added new allowFireTicksAwayFromPlayer Game Rule

Game Rule

allowFireTicksAwayFromPlayer

When true, Fire and Lava ticks can occur ouside of an 8 chunk range of a player
Default value: false

Block Tags

#dead_bush_may_place_on has been renamed to #dry_vegetation_may_place_on
Added #edible_for_sheep – blocks that can be eaten by Sheep to regrow their Wool

Item Tags

Added #eggs – all variants of the Egg item

Entity Data

The armor and off-hand equipment of Players is now also stored in the equipment field (although items written into the Inventory using armor and off-hand slot numbers still work)

Chicken Variants

Chicken variants can be data-driven by adding entries to data/<namespace>/chicken_variant/<id>.json
This feature is experimental
Fields in file:
- model – one of: normal, cold
- asset_id – namespaced id for this variant asset, resolves to assets/<namespace>/textures/<path>.png
- spawn_conditions – field described in uniform variant selection above

Resource Pack Version 51

New and updated Chicken textures
Added textures for new Blue Egg and Brown Egg items
Added textures for new Cactus Flower block
Added textures for new Short Dry Grass and Tall Dry Grass blocks

New and updated Chicken textures

Added new textures for Chicken variants:
- cold_chicken
- warm_chicken
Texture chicken has been renamed to temperate_chicken
The temperate_chicken texture has been moved to a new folder:
- entity/chicken.png -> entity/chicken/temperate_chicken.png