Minecraft Update Makes Change to Clouds

Summary

Minecraft's latest experimental snapshot updates cloud patterns for a more packed and unique look.
Quality-of-life tweaks in the update allow players to feed carrots to horses, mules, and donkeys.
The update adds new sound effects for lead snaps and removing items from llamas, enhancing player experience.

A new experimental snapshot version has been rolled out for Minecraft's Java Edition, and brings a handful of quality-of-life updates to existing game mechanics while overhauling the generation of cloud patterns in the sky. This relatively small change brings quite a noticeable difference to the way Minecraft worlds look, but some fans have even spotted a neat easter egg amid the wide variety of cloud shapes and patterns.

Minecraft has been rolling out new snapshot versions frequently this year, with the annual Minecraft LIVE event revealing a ton of new content set to come to the game throughout 2025. Fans have gotten a glimpse at many of the upcoming features in experimental preview versions that have released for both Java and Bedrock editions, including Minecraft's new happy ghast mob and overhauled leashing mechanics. Players opting in to Minecraft's preview versions on Bedrock Edition have also gotten an early look at the game's upcoming Vibrant Visuals in action, a major graphical and lighting overhaul that's set to come to both Java and Bedrock editions in the future.

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By Jack Peachey

While Vibrant Visuals will be making its own changes to Minecraft's cloud aesthetics, the latest experimental version for Java Edition has overhauled the game's cloud patterns completely. While Minecraft's clouds have long been relatively sparse, simple shapes, the new cloud generation makes them noticeably more densely-packed, and allows them to generate in completely new formations and patterns. Perhaps the most interesting detail about this small change is a cool easter egg in which the iconic creeper face can appear in cloud patterns. It's not clear how rare this is to see, but some fans, such as YoungBiro05, have shared some of their own screenshots showing off this particular cloud formation.

Minecraft's New Cloud Patterns Hide a Familiar Face

Updated cloud patterns aren't the only thing introduced in the latest patch, though. The experimental update also introduces some helpful quality-of-life tweaks, including the ability for players to feed carrots to their horse companions in Minecraft. Horses, mules, and donkeys can all be fed carrots, and allows them to grow, restore health, and make them easier to befriend, just like with other foods.

Additionally, new sound effects have been added for when a lead snaps, and when saddles, carpets, and armor are removed from llamas by players. Several of Minecraft's other recent experimental versions have focused on introducing and improving upcoming features such as the ghastling and happy ghast mobs, which currently remain exclusive to the game's preview versions.

New Features

Updated the pattern of clouds in the sky
Horses, Donkeys, and Mules can now be fed carrots to heal, grow, and improve their temper

Music and Sound

Added a new sound for when a Lead snaps
Added new custom sounds for shearing Saddles, Horse Armor, and Carpets from Llamas

Technical Changes

The Data Pack version is now 78
The Resource Pack version is now 62

Data Pack Version 78

Dialogs

run_command click actions will now correctly close dialogs and book screens even if the command does not require elevated permissions
Dialogs should now correctly return to the previous non-dialog screen on close in all cases
If a new dialog is received by the client while warning screen is visible, it will not replace it, but when user clicks the "Back" button, the new dialog will be restored instead
The sizes of elements in dialogs are now restricted:
- buttons - between 1 and 1024 (inclusive)
- minecraft:plain_message dialog body - between 1 and 1024 (inclusive)
- minecraft:item dialog body
  - width of description - between 1 and 1024 (inclusive)
  - width - between 1 and 256 (inclusive)
  - height - between 1 and 256 (inclusive)
- minecraft:text input control - between 1 and 1024 (inclusive)
- minecraft:single_option input control - between 1 and 1024 (inclusive)
- minecraft:number_range input control - between 1 and 1024 (inclusive)

minecraft:text Input Control

max_length - maximum length of input, positive integer with default of 32
multiline - if present, allows users to input multiple lines, optional object with fields:
- max_lines - if present, limits maximum lines, optional positive integer
- height - height of input, optional integer in range 1 to 512
  - If this field is omitted, but max_lines is present, the height will be chosen to fit the maximum number of lines
  - If this and max_lines are both omitted, it will default to a height that fits 4 lines

minecraft:number_range Input Control

The steps field has been replaced with a new field:
- step - step size, optional positive float
  - If present, only values of initial + * step will be allowed
  - If absent, any value from range the is allowed
initial - if not specified, now defaults to the middle of the range

minecraft:multi_action_input_form Dialog Type

Added new field columns - positive integer describing number of columns, default: 2

Resource Pack Version 62

Sounds

Added entity/leashknot/break for when a Lead snaps
The following sounds have been renamed:
- entity/leashknot/break1 -> entity/leashknot/unleash1
- entity/leashknot/break2 -> entity/leashknot/unleash2
- entity/leashknot/break3 -> entity/leashknot/unleash3
- entity/leashknot/place1 -> entity/leashknot/leash1
- entity/leashknot/place2 -> entity/leashknot/leash2
- entity/leashknot/place3 -> entity/leashknot/leash3
The following sounds have been added for shearing Saddles, Horse Armor, and Carpets from Llamas
- mob/horse/armor_unequip
- mob/horse/saddle_unequip
- mob/llama/unequip

Fixed bugs in 25w21a

MC-36696 - Clicking on the statistics button on the menu screen advances the game by 1 tick
MC-112730 - Beacon beam and structure block render twice per frame
MC-236464 - Beacon beams emitted from below the player are invisible after reloading chunks
MC-258336 - Frost Walker causes frequent visual corruption near chunk borders on Threaded and Semi-Blocking Chunk Builder
MC-296337 - Minecarts cause memory usage increases and crashes
MC-297264 - Cat breeds are not seed based anymore
MC-297336 - Experience orbs from thrown bottles o' enchanting are very prone to getting stuck inside blocks when thrown against a corner
MC-297615 - Untranslatable error message when trying to join a closed Realm
MC-297803 - The string "menu.custom_screen_info.contents" misspells "personal" as "pesonal"
MC-297806 - music.game.swamp.labyrinthine misspells the song's title
MC-297808 - music.game.oxygene is missing the grave accent sign
MC-297812 - Bold text is rendered differently than in previous versions
MC-297813 - Amos Roddy is not listed in the credits
MC-297823 - music.game.mice_on_venus is using wrong capitalization
MC-297845 - Clicking the Statistics button in Singleplayer does not play the button click sound until you resume playing
MC-297846 - The music toast flashes in the pause menu when the Music slider is set to zero
MC-297875 - Text shadow from underlined text overlaps the text below it in chat messages
MC-297888 - Text no longer renders in a consistent order across different fonts
MC-297917 - The client stops responding when showing a dialog with an extremely wide button
MC-297977 - Dialog columns layout has extra spacing between the grid and the overflow linear layout