Minecraft’s latest version may have focused on the Pale Gardens, but that’s not actually the most recent addition to the game. Minecraft 1.22 Snapshot 25w02a is a test drive for the content coming in Minecraft’s next update, was just released. It’s got new pigs, some nice touches to overworld forests, and some Pale Garden improvements.

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

Technical Changes

  • The Data Pack version is now 62
  • The Resource Pack version is now 47

Screenshots:

Requires:

Java

Java Runtime Environment

How to install:

Minecraft 1.22 Snapshot 25w02a Download Links

Client: Download from Server 1

Server: Download from Server 1

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