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# Spring to Life Backport<\/p>\n

The Spring to Life Backport mod is a Fabric and NeoForge mod trying to bring back some features of the 1.21.5 game drop “Spring to Life” to Minecraft 1.21.1 to allow the features to be used in modpacks relying on mods not available for newer versions.<\/p>\n

## Current Features:<\/p>\n

\nEntities<\/summary>\n

– New Chicken Variants (Warm & Cold Chicken)
\n– New Cow Variants (Warm & Cold Cow)
\n– New Pig Variants (Warm & Cold Pig)<\/p>\n

(All including drops, spawning and breeding behaviour)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n

\nItems<\/summary>\n

– New Egg Variants (Blue Egg, Brown Egg) with recipes, obtaining and usage<\/p>\n<\/details>\n

\nBlocks<\/summary>\n

– Leaf Litter
\n– Bush
\n– Firefly Bush
\n– Short Dry Grass
\n– Tall Dry Grass
\n– Cactus Flower<\/p>\n

(All including world generation and other properties)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n

\nWorldgen<\/summary>\n

– Fallen trees
\n– Camels spawn in desert biomes<\/p>\n<\/details>\n

\nParticles<\/summary>\n

– Leaves now spawn particles descending slowly to the ground<\/p>\n<\/details>\n

\nOther<\/summary>\n

– Lodestone recipe changed
\n– Lodestone generates as loot in ruined portal chests<\/p>\n<\/details>\n

![Added animal variations](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/cb9acf80da334d2f29e41f0317956daf2b139186.png)<\/p>\n

## Attributions:
\nWalking on Dry Leaves.wav by ChamoneSteyn — https:\/\/freesound.org\/s\/542221\/ — License: Attribution 4.0<\/p>\n

Field ambience 01.wav by szelestamas — https:\/\/freesound.org\/s\/620099\/ — License: Creative Commons 0<\/p>\n

CRICKETS – 2 by SamuelGremaud — https:\/\/freesound.org\/s\/437027\/ — License: Creative Commons 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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