Minecraft’s latest version may have focused on the Pale Gardens, but that’s not actually the most recent addition to the game.
Java Snapshot 25w02a, 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.
The two new pig variants aren’t random spawns, they’re biome specific - and of course, come with a reclassification of the pink pig you already know.
The existing “Temperate Pig” is the default pig spawn for any pig-friendly biome that can’t otherwise spawn the new pigs. The “Cold Pig” spawns in cooler biomes like the snowy taiga and windswept gravelly hills. While the “Warm Pig” prefers the savanna, jungle, and badlands.
Each forest in the overworld just got a bit livelier, with all their leaf blocks now featuring a particle effect reminiscent of leaves falling in the wind. It’s fairly similar to the effects from the Cherry Groves, and as with that biome, we can now also find flowers scattered along the forest floor.
Wildflowers are essentially yellow versions of the cherry petals from the Groves, able to be found in Birch forests and meadows.
In a similar vein, you can also now find piles of dead leaves on the ground, in “leaf litter” piles with all the audio effects you’d expect from something so autumnal.
As for the Pale Garden, they’re a bit bigger now, and can have woodland mansions spawn within them. You can also put a nametag on a Creaking to have them persist through the day. And to top things off, there have been various small changes to Creaking Hearts, including a new dormant texture.
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you may read about everything in the new snapshot from Mojang’sown post on the topic.
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Obviously, content released in a snapshot isn’t yet finished, so there may be more on the way. But if we already have everything of substance, this feels like a good amount of content for a small touch-up.
You couldn’t make a whole “Caves & Cliffs” -esque marketing push out of leaves, flowers, and pig variants, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worthy of inclusion into the full game. But they don’t need to be connected to anything grander, it’s just a nice little drop of content.
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