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A fallen birch tree with mushrooms growing on it in a Minecraft birch forest, with a player character holding a birch sapling

Minecraft Snapshot 25w09a

Published February 26, 2025

New Snapshot Available

In this week's snapshot, we are bringing a long-awaited feature into parity as fallen trees are making their debut in Java Edition. Additionally, firefly bushes can now generate in mangrove swamps and rarely in badlands.

On the technical side, SNBT syntax in commands has been expanded and improved, including fixing bugs related to SNBT text components preventing escapes from working.

New Features

Fallen Trees

Added fallen trees to be in parity with Bedrock Edition
Fallen trees are a new decorative variant of trees
Fallen trees come in four different wood type variants:
- Oak
- Birch
- Jungle
- Spruce
Birch fallen trees can come in a shorter version or a longer version
Some fallen trees can be decorated with mushroom or vines
Fallen trees can be found in all biomes where their standing tree variant grow, except the following:
- Meadow
- Bamboo Jungle
- River
- Grove
Flower Forest has fallen birch trees but not fallen oak trees

Changes

Leaf Litter

Leaf Litter is now replaceable by other blocks

Firefly Bush

The Firefly Bush can now generate near water in Mangrove Swamps and Badlands (very rarely), like other biomes with water

Get the Snapshot

Snapshots are available for Minecraft: Java Edition. To install the Snapshot, open up the Minecraft Launcher and enable snapshots in the "Installations" tab.

Testing versions can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.

Cross-platform server jar: Minecraft server jar

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