Minecraft now has new cow variants, shrubbery fireflies, and "bush" for public testingBovine intervention.Image credit: Eurogamer/Mojang News by Matt Wales News Reporter Published on Feb. 3, 2025 If you could barely contain yourself when Minecraft added a bunch of new pig variants last month, you might want to hold onto something solid: Mojang is back with a brand-new content update for public testing, and this time we're talking multiple cows.More specifically, Minecraft's latest Java snapshot update includes a total of two cow variants. Try not to swoon! You've got your fur-covered cold cows who'll wander around Minecraft's snow-covered biomes, and your warm cows who like to do their grazing in sandy biomes.Elsewhere, Mojang has introduced new ambient sounds for desert biomes, which include whispering sand, chirping crickets, rustling twigs, and howling winds. And the developer notes players can place a dead bush on two outdoor sand blocks, or cluster sand and terracotta blocks together to bring some of that desert ambience to their own bases.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Newscast: Xbox Developer Direct - four promising games also coming to PlayStation.Watch on YouTubeMoving on, it's time to get a little bush crazy. Java snapshot players can also get acquainted with the new firefly bush, which does pretty much exactly what it sounds like - conjuring a dainty swirl of dancing lights around its branches at nighttime. This can be found in swamps and other bodies of water, with players able to retrieve the firefly bush and grow it using bonemeal back at base if they want to enjoy it closer to home. Additionally, Mojang notes the firefly bush can be placed under other blocks to give the blocks above a sparkly effect.And that's not the end of the bush excitement. Minecraft's final addition is the deviously named "bush", which is exactly that - a new bush found in forests, birch forests, plains, windswept hills, and other green biomes. This can also be grown in bone meal if you just can't get enough of those bushy bushes. All the above - as well as the new pig variants, ambient falling leaves, and wildflowers added for testing in January - is available as part of Minecraft: Java Edition's latest snapshot right now, and can be accessed by enabling snapshots in launcher's "Installations" tab. Mojang notes the new features will be coming to Bedrock beta and preview "soon" - and all features currently in testing will get their full release later this year.Mojang hasn't yet indicated when Minecraft's first content drop of 2025 will get its proper release, but it did previously confirm it was changing the way it released new Minecraft content last September. Gone is Minecraft's traditional mega-sized summer update, replaced by multiple smaller drops throughout the year.