Release Date: June 17, 2025
Also Known As: Summer Drop 2025, Drop 2 2025, Game Drop 2 – 2025
This update added a wide range of new features, mechanics, items, mobs, music, graphics improvements, and gameplay enhancements. Below is a detailed breakdown.
1. Additions
1.1 Blocks
- Dried Ghast
- Naturally generates near Nether fossils in Soul Sand Valleys.
- Can also be obtained by bartering with piglins.
- Crafted from Soul Sand + 8 Ghast Tears.
- When placed in water, it hydrates over time, changing appearance 3 times, and eventually becomes a Ghastling (baby happy ghast).
1.2 Items
- Harness
- Used to pilot a Happy Ghast.
- Crafted using leather, glass, and wool.
- Available in 16 colors depending on the wool used.
- Happy Ghast Spawn Egg
- For Creative Mode to spawn a happy ghast directly.
- Music Discs
- Tears – dropped by ghasts killed with player-deflected fireballs. Composed by Amos Roddy.
- Lava Chicken – dropped when a baby zombie rides a chicken (chicken jockey). Composed by Hyper Potions.
1.3 Painting
- Dennis painting (3×3), created by Sarah Boeving, inspired by the movie.
1.4 Mobs
- Happy Ghast
- Passive version of the ghast.
- Can be ridden with a harness by up to four players.
- Can stand on it like a shulker.
- Approaches players holding snowballs if not being ridden.
- Baby version: Ghastling.
- Hydrated Dried Ghast → Ghastling.
- Snowballs accelerate growth.
1.5 GUI
- Locator Bar
- Displays direction of other players or entities.
- Replaces the experience bar (EXP) temporarily.
- Features colored indicators and up/down arrows based on camera orientation.
- Players in Spectator mode or Invisible do not appear.
- Can be disabled via server or map creator.
- Dialogs (Java Edition only)
- Modal screens with interactive buttons for data packs.
- Accessed via pause menu, marked with a warning sign.
1.6 Graphics
- Vibrant Visuals (Bedrock only)
- Pixel-perfect shadows, better lighting, water caustics.
- Planned for Java later.
- Environmental Fog (Java only)
- White haze in Overworld.
- Grows in intensity with distance from player.
- More intense during rain or thunderstorms.
1.7 Options
- Cloud Distance (Java only) – Adjust render distance of clouds.
- Music Frequency (Java only) – Change silence duration between tracks: Default / Frequent / Constant.
- Show Music Toast (Java only) – Popup notification when a track plays, showing composer info.
1.8 Music
- Lilypad – frozen peaks & groves
- Below and Above – cherry groves
- O’s Piano – lush caves
- Broken Clocks – forests
- Fireflies – deserts
- Tears – played from music disc
- Lava Chicken – played from music disc
1.9 Sounds
- Lead snapping.
- Shearing saddles, horse armor, and carpets from llamas.
1.10 Achievements (Bedrock only)
- Stay Hydrated! – Place a Dried Ghast into water.
1.11 Advancements (Java only)
- Heart Transplanter – Align Creaking Heart between Pale Oak Logs.
- Stay Hydrated! – Place a Dried Ghast in water.
1.12 Commands (Java only)
- /dialog – Show or clear modal dialogs for players.
- /version – Display current server version.
- /waypoint – Manage and customize waypoints for the Locator Bar (colors, styles, etc.).
2. Changes
2.1 Blocks
- Terracotta & Stained Terracotta no longer emit ambient sounds.
2.2 Items
- Lead
- Crafted with 5 strings now (no slimeball).
- Can attach/detach entities, removed using shears.
- Snapping distance increased to 12 blocks.
- Leather
- Can now be found in various chests (1–5 quantity), replacing saddles.
- Saddle
- Now craftable with 3 leather + 1 iron ingot.
- Can be removed with shears (except ravagers or ridden mobs).
- Cannot be equipped via dispensers anymore.
- Shears
- Can remove saddles, horse armor, harnesses, and carpets.
- Can cut leads.
- Carrot
- Can tame, heal, or grow horses, donkeys, and mules.
- Splash Potion
- Duration/potency now decreases with distance from impact.
2.3 Mob
- Ghast
- Texture resolution doubled.
- Drops “Tears” disc when killed with deflected fireball.
- New variant: Happy Ghast.
2.4 Graphics
- Cloud textures updated: smaller gaps, consistent oval shapes, some sections have creeper face.
- Cloud render distance increased.
2.5 Music
- Music continues to play even when paused in offline mode (Java only).
3. Further Revisions
Java Edition
- 1.21.7: Added Dennis painting variant and Lava Chicken disc.
- 1.21.8: Minor hotfix.
Bedrock Edition
- 1.21.91–1.21.101: Bug fixes, added Lava Chicken disc.
4. Promotions
- Giveaway – Travel-themed prizes (hammock, blanket, weekender bag, Crocs, thermos, creeper cooler). Players submit up to 5 photos/day using Vibrant Memories.
- Vibrant Memories Add-on – Capture and preserve locations and memories in your world.
- Ghastastic Challenges & Skin Pack – Community challenges, rewards for Bedrock (items) and Java (skin pack