Something stirs in the pale garden!

Play the Garden Awakens drop today and explore a biome that's sleepy during the day – and unsettling at night. Follow the trail of blooming eyeblossoms deeper into the darkness and you might come face to face with the creaking.

Stay tuned for a new Minecraft Monthly for more unexpected surprises- including some rewards 👀 https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/the-garden-awakens-is-here

Beta/Preview 1.21.70.20

https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/33873681034637-Minecraft-Beta-Preview-1-21-70-20

Experimental Features
- Blocks
- Added Leaf Litter block
- Short Grass now generates slightly sparser in Meadows
- Added Wildflowers block
- Bush
- The Bush is a new type of decorative block that can be found in small patches in the following biomes:
- Plains
- Windswept Hills
- Windswept Gravelly Hills
- Windswept Forest
- River
- Forest
- Birch Forest
- Old Growth Birch Forest
- The Bush can be used in the Composter
- Using Bone Meal on a Bush places a neighbouring Bush next to the Bush if possible
- Firefly Bush
- Added the Firefly Bush block
- Spawns Firefly particles that fly around it when the player is near
- Illuminates the area around it
- Using Bone Meal on a Firefly Bush drops a Firefly Bush block

- Firefly Bushes are found naturally in clumps next to water in the Overworld

- In Swamp biomes they can be found anywhere and are twice as likely to be found next to water

- Cow Variants

- Added two new Cow variants - Warm Cow and Cold Cow!

- These have their own own unique texture and geometry, but not a separate spawn egg

- They spawn in the same biomes as the Warm, Cold, and Temperate Pigs

- 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

- Wildflowers

- Wildflowers are a new type of flower which grow in Birch Forests, Old Growth Birch Forests and Meadows

- Using Bone Meal on Grass Blocks in these biomes can grow Wildflowers

- Wildflowers can have different amounts of flowers in one block space

- Up to four Wildflowers can be placed in the same block space

- Placing Wildflowers 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

- New Ambient Sounds for Desert and Badlands

- Sand, Red Sand and Terracotta of any color have a chance of playing ambient sounds when surrounded by any one of them on at least 3 sides 8 blocks away

- block.sand.ambient can be played in any biome

- block.sand.ambient.attached only plays when in Desert or Badlands biomes

- Dead Bush blocks have a chance of playing ambient sounds when placed on top of two blocks that are any color of Terracotta, Sand or Red Sand blocks in any biome

...And many more!

Snapshot 25w06a
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-25w06a

New Additions
- Added new Warn and Cold variant for Chickens

- 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 (Cold variant) & Brown Egg (Warm variant)

- 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 can be placed on types of Sand, Terracotta and Dirt blocks like the Dead Bush

- Both generate in the Desert and Badlands

- Both can be bone mealed

- Added 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

- 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

- 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

- 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)

- ⚙️ The Data Pack version is now 66

- ⚙️ The Resource Pack version is now 51

- ⚙️ Added new allowFireTicksAwayFromPlayer Game Rule. When true, Fire and Lava ticks can occur ouside of an 8 chunk range of a player

Bugs fixed
- World border faces are rendered incorrectly with "Fabulous!" graphics

- Leaf Litter can only be placed on dirt-like blocks

- Country Lode Take Me Home Advancement can be completed in the overworld but is still listed as a Nether advancement

- Firefly bushes cannot be replaced by trees or mushrooms

...And more!