Just played the new Minecraft snapshot—25w02a! It's just got a lot of stuff to mainly make the world a bit prettier, but I find it does that really well. Like the Pale Oak leaves from the latest game drop, all leaves now emit leaf particles. (Though the Spruce trees probably should emit pine needles instead of just being the same texture as Oak and Birch trees.) They've also added two new variants of pigs on top of the classic pink pig: warm (an orange pig) and cold (a woolly, beige pig). New to Birch and Oak biomes are the Wildflower (yellow flowers that function like Pink Petals) and the Leaf Litter (dry leaves that also function like Pink Petals).
Past that, there was actually a pretty huge change to the Lodestone: it no longer requires a Netherite Ingot. I like this change personally, since, despite it being a very useful block, I never understood why it was positioned the same as Netherite armour. Iron replaces the Netherite in the recipe, and now they're way easier to get your hands on. (In fact, Lodestones now appears as Ruined Portal loot!) Out of the handful of additions to the snapshot, I imagine the Lodestone change is gonna be the most contested. I don't think it really should be. We should really just focus all contest onto the fact that Spruce trees don't have pine needles.
