Minecraft 25w02a

Everything below is measured by comparing the game files of 1.21.4 with 25w02a — not copied from patch notes.

25w02a block and item additions

2 new blocks and items. Hover a slot for the name; click to open its page.

Blocks +2

Leaf LitterWildflowers

Items +2

Leaf LitterWildflowers

Particles +1

How to make the new things 1

Hover a slot to see what goes in it.

Result	Made in	Recipe
Leaf Litter	Smelting	Smelting10.0s · 0.1 XP

Sound events +10

Block states changed

New in-game text 3

Reworded text 11

Wording Mojang changed in this version.

Read from Mojang’s own release notes for Minecraft Snapshot 25w02a, published 2025-01-08. Every entry keeps its original bug ID.

72 issues fixed, read from Mojang’s own patch notes. Each entry keeps its original bug ID.

Fixed bugs in 25w02a 72

• MC-7697 Tridents or arrows shot through lava sometimes don't catch fire
• MC-55800 Successful "/fill air destroy" commands give error message and return 0 for result/success
• MC-56653 Zombified Piglins drop XP and rare drops if killed by anything while in angered state
• MC-90212 You cannot hang on to climbable blocks while gliding with elytra
• MC-93185 The exit portal in the end generates at highest block at 0 0 which can make it generate incomplete
• MC-97244 The "minecraft:enchant.thorns.hit" sound event doesn't play when non-player entities are damaged by the thorns enchantment
• MC-113878 Attribute modifiers description for chest is misleading / "When on body" instead of "When on chest"
• MC-118053 Wolves with the Owner of a non-player are spawned sitting
• MC-118092 Crafting recipe unlock toast says "New Recipes Unlocked!" even when only one recipe was unlocked
• MC-118470 Narrator plays at full volume when volume is off
• MC-128079 Statistic for using shears doesn't increase when mining certain blocks
• MC-135192 Boats are immediately sunken if there is a string on the surface of the water
• MC-141297 You cannot set lit state of redstone torches using setblock, debug stick and BlockStateTag, to be to opposite of the situation it would be in
• MC-165421 Bubble columns have the opposite effect on tridents and wind charges
• MC-167125 Rounding error on fall damage
• MC-183329 Nether portal teleport overlay does not show up if the player has the nausea effect
• MC-183623 Hardcore worlds in the world menu have a comma after the red exclamation mark
• MC-184681 Customized worlds still say "Buffet world customization" since 20w21a
• MC-202226 /recipe give or take for one recipe says "recipes"
• MC-220672 Inconsistent pluralization in customize world preset heading source string
• MC-222876 "Buffet world customization" is incorrectly capitalized
• MC-226772 Shulker box opening / closing subtitle shows "Shulker"
• MC-241951 Player momentum on X and Z axis are cancelled separately at low values
• MC-248099 Mob pathfinding breaks after falling into water accidentally while walking
• MC-253721 Wrong logs when running /op @a
• MC-260440 Players can no longer activate swimming mode in water while flying with elytra
• MC-261385 Bubble columns act differently at the surface depending on non-air blocks
• MC-262928 The "minecraft:entity.player.hurt" sound is no longer played when players receive thorns damage from guardians or elder guardians
• MC-262939 Changing dimensions or respawning with nausea effect active displays nether portal overlay
• MC-265514 HRTF stuck on even when directional audio is set to off in update 1.20.2
• MC-267221 "value" within "change_page" clickEvent json looks for a string instead of an integer
• MC-267323 Items fields with old boolean JSON formatting are cleared upon world update
• MC-270220 Granting all advancements results in prolonged, disruptive and loud audio spam
• MC-271065 Diagonal movement is not normalized when crouching or using certain items
• MC-272790 Shulker boxes and other blocks in the end exit portal when it changes state are not dropped as items
• MC-273338 Flying boat glitch using string and rising bubble columns
• MC-274187 The sweeping attack from a sword enchanted with Fire Aspect can ignite other players with PVP disabled
• MC-275994 Having the pie chart open while the window is unfocused spams the logs
• MC-277403 Flaming arrows and tridents still don't extinguish when water is placed in their location
• MC-277537 Pale moss carpets sometimes generate disjointed
• MC-277780 Minecraft resaves all maps with every autosave even after the 1st patch
• MC-277807 Teleporting the player's mount causes rotation de-sync, previously did not
• MC-277865 The animation of boats in bubble columns breaks when over a certain "Time" in level.dat
• MC-277922 Boats in 1 block high downward bubble column will continue to rock back and forth
• MC-278040 Creaking swim pathfinding breaks after being submerged
• MC-278096 "Fabulous!" graphics and clouds disabled causes all particles to linger in frame buffer for one frame
• MC-278164 Click sound is played twice when you click a setting button and there's a slider under the mouse in the next screen
• MC-278204 Blaze fireballs now cause TNT minecarts to explode instantly
• MC-278249 Experience orb positions desync severely and abruptly correct themselves
• MC-278375 Feeding wheat or hay bale to llama or trader llama with maximum Temper causes item stack to be desynced
• MC-278376 Arrows and tridents act weirdly in one block deep bubble columns
• MC-278422 Reloading the world after removing Owner tag from a sitting tamed wolf with /data remove makes the wolf moving and sitting at the same time
• MC-278493 Tamed wolves which are angry at creakings remain angry when said creakings despawn
• MC-278502 Weeping and twisting vines disconnect
• MC-278552 minecraft:entity.player.big_fall no longer plays the sound when falling from great height
• MC-278585 Players can get stuck when landing on the edge of powder snow
• MC-278591 Ender dragon spawn egg is no longer given when using pick block on the ender dragon entity
• MC-278615 Reinforcement zombified piglins are angry at you even if you killed the "caller" in one hit
• MC-278621 Client/server desync when placing powder snow while landing in it
• MC-278627 Players wearing leather boots will take fall damage when landing on the edge of powder snow
• MC-278634 Trying to /setblock a 'waterlogged=true' state on (glow_lichen, resin_clump, sculk_vein, etc.) produces an error
• MC-278659 Attacking a natural stationary creaking does not trigger sculk sensors
• MC-278683 Mobs spawned from spawners or /summon never drop their equipment
• MC-278708 Throwing ender pearls while mounted only dismounts you, without teleporting
• MC-278728 smithing_transform recipes can't set an item's components back to default
• MC-278733 Breaking a double resin brick slab block only returns a single slab
• MC-278734 Sheep's heads stutter when they look up or down
• MC-278755 Teleporting far away while riding an entity softlocks the game
• MC-278801 The closed eyeblossom to gray dye recipe is not grouped with the other gray dye recipe
• MC-278841 Powder snow no longer slows down the player falling from a high place
• MC-279145 Shulker bullets are no longer affected by bubble columns
• MC-279152 Shulker bullets can't teleport through nether or end portals, end gateways

This build was part of the run-up to 1.21.5. Everything tested here landed in that release.