Minecraft Releases New Snapshot Update for May 2025

Minecraft Releases New Snapshot Update for May 2025

From Game Rant (Written by Bruna Telles) on | OpenCritic

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Minecraft has released a new snapshot for Java Edition players. That is the second Minecraft snapshot released in May, and it brings fixes for various bugs, improvements, and new features to make the gameplay more engaging.

Snapshots are updates Mojang releases for Minecraft players to test features before they are fully introduced to the game. On May 3, the first snapshot for version 1.21 of Minecraft Java Edition was released, with a changelog of over 900 lines of changes. Before that, Mojang released snapshot 25w19a at the end of April, which added dried ghast block recipes, the new Happy Ghast mob, and completely overhauled leads. Less than a week after the release of that snapshot, a new one is out, and it introduces more changes for Minecraft players to check out.

A Minecraft player shares an interesting idea to make the Happy Ghast even better, and players debate how it could work in practice.

Minecraft Java Edition snapshot 25w19a is live, and one of the main new features is the fog adjustments. With this, Mojang plans to provide a more atmospheric experience by separating the concepts of environmental and distance-based fog from the render. The first represents...

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