Java Edition 1.25

1.25, the first release of the Enchanting & Alchemy update, is a major update to Java Edition released July 16, 2025. The update adds a plethora of new enchantments and alchemy-related items.
==Additions==
===Blocks===
====Alchemy Table==== 
*A new utility block.
* Can be used for runecrafting and dipping food.
* The workstation of the Alchemist villager.
====Willow Log====
*A new type of wood.
*Generates in willow trees with willow leaves in Enchanted Forests.
*Can be crafted into willow planks, wood, doors, trapdoors, fences, fence gates, stairs, slabs, buttons, pressure plates, signs, and boats.
====Frosted Acid====
*Generates when a player walks on acid with boots enchanted with Frost Walker.
*Cracks and breaks shortly after forming.
*Unobtainable, even in creative mode.
===Items===
====Runes ====
==== Dipped Food====
*Food enhanced by potion effects.
*Created in the alchemy table with one piece of food, a potion, two nether wart and one blaze powder.
===Enchantments===
====Smelting Touch====
*Can be used on pickaxes.
*When used on iron ore, gold ore, copper ore, or nether gold ore, it will drop its respective ingot, rather than its respective raw/nugget variant.
*Incompatible with Silk Touch.
*One level.
====Leeching==== 
*Can be used on swords or axes.
*Heals the player after killing a mob, the amount dependent on the mob they killed.
*Three levels.
====Critical ==== 
* Can be used on swords or axes.
*Increases critical hit damage.
* Three levels.
====Stunning==== 
*Can be used on swords or axes.
*Gives a chance to temporarily stun enemies when hit.
*Incompatible with Thundering.
*Three levels.
====Ice Aspect==== 
*Can be used on swords or axes.
* Slows enemies when hit, and gives them freezing damage for a short time.
*Incompatible with Fire Aspect.
* Two levels.
====Thundering==== 
*Can be used on swords.
*Gives a chance to strike lightning on enemies when hit.
*Incompatible with Stunning.
*Three levels.
====Ender Slayer==== 
*Can be used on swords.
*Increases damage done to endermen, endermites, ender dragons, and enderbats.
*Incompatible with Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods.
*Five levels with enchanted books and enchantment tables, but a sixth can be obtained by trading with Alchemist villagers.
====Deflect==== 
*Can be used on any armor piece.
*Gives a chance to deflect arrows, snowballs, and eggs.
*Three levels.
==Changes==
*Fletching Table
**Now given functionality.
**Putting an arrow in the first slot and a potion in the second will create the respective tipped arrow variant.
*Frost Walker
**Now works while walking on acid and creates frosted acid.
* Sharpness
**Now has a sixth level, obtained by trading with Alchemist villagers.
*Smite
**Now has a sixth level, obtained by trading with Alchemist villagers.
*Bane of Arthropods
**Now has a sixth level, obtained by trading with Alchemist villagers.
*Protection
**Now has a fifth level, obtained by trading with Alchemist villagers.
*Blast Protection
** Now has a fifth level, obtained by trading with Alchemist villagers.
*Fire Protection
**Now has a fifth level, obtained by trading with Alchemist villagers.
*Projectile Protection
**Now has a fifth level, obtained by trading with Alchemist villagers.
*Feather Falling
**Now has a fifth level, obtained by trading with Alchemist villagers.
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