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Christmas & Yule

Small Spruce Trees Holiday Tree Decorations White Holiday Trees, Sweet Berry Garland, Other changes Presents Lights Garlands/Wreaths Leaves With Lights Picket Fences Lamp Posts Tiled/Snowy Roofs Mantels Decorating Mantels Mantel-Top Decorations Ugly Sweater Armor Mobs in Ugly Sweaters Upgrade Templates Crops Holiday Foods Holiday Music Discs

Other Winter Holidays

Hanukkah Blocks/Items Kwanzaa Blocks/Items


Christmas and Yule Blocks and Items

Christmas Trees

To decorate a Christmas Tree, you will first need to locate and cut down a Small Spruce Tree. These can be found growing in cold biomes, and sometimes their saplings will drop from Spruce Leaves. Cut down the tree to get the Christmas Tree Item.

Once you have your tree, you can leave it as is, or dye it with White Dye for a Snowy Christmas Tree.

Next, you'll need to craft a stand to place the Tree in.

Christmas Tree Decorations

Now you're ready to decorate your tree. Tree Decorations are:

There are two color choices for Tree Lights and Ornaments: White and Bright Colored, and you have your choice of either a Star or a Bow for a Tree Topper.

Decorating the Trees

The Trees have 3 sections, and each section can take one set of Tree Lights, one set of Ornaments, and one set of Sweet Berry Garland.
Clicking on the Top section with a Topper will place the Topper Block above the tree. To remove/change the topper, interact with the topper itself.
To decorate, place the item onto the desired Tree section.
To remove an item you have placed on the tree, click on it with an empty hand.

Presents

Find these in dungeons and Mineshaft chests! They can be placed anywhere. To reveal the present inside, just break them open! Presents are random and range from good gifts to exceptional gifts.

For 1.21.4 +, presents will use a tag for their loot, "present_gifts", which can be customized via datapack.

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Festive Lights

All light versions come in a set of white, or a set of multi-colors. There are horizontal, diagonal, and "top" or "cap" blocks for the tops of roofs. The horizontal light blocks will connect around corners as well.

Decorative Garlands and Wreaths

Garlands can be added to Walls and Picket Fences to create fences/walls adorned with garland. Wreaths can be added to doors in a crafting table to create a door with a wreath on it. Doors created with Lit Wreaths will give off light.

Leaves with Lights

Vanilla leaves can be crafted with lights to create lighted leaves.

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Picket Fences

A special type of fence that can be decorated with garlands and wreaths. These can be crafted from any Vanilla wood type. Just combine a garland with a piece of fence and a wreath with a gate to do so.

Lamp Posts

Lamp posts will extend upward when placed on top of one another. If a lamp post is at least 2 blocks high, you can place a wreath on it. You can light up a lamp post by clicking on the top of it with a torch.

Roofs

Stair or Slab blocks of any Vanilla wood type can be combined with roof tiles to create Roof Stair/Slab Blocks. These special Roof blocks become covered in snow, if they are snowed on for a while.

Or, you can hit them with a snowball, to do it manually.

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Fireplace Mantels

Cozy up on a cold night, next to a beautiful fireplace. These Merry Mantels can be decorated and are perfect for sipping cocoa by the fire.

The mantels are 3 blocks wide, 3 blocks high, and 1 block deep, and are centered around where you place the block.

Read on for how to decorate them...

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Decorating the Mantels

Merry Mantels can be decorated by clicking on each section with Horizontal Garlands of any type, and/or stockings.

To form a corner on the ends, just place a second piece of the same garland.

To remove the decorations, click on the mantel with an empty hand.

Mantel-Top Decorations

These are several blocks that are made specifically to sit perfectly on a fireplace mantel. They can, however, be placed on anything you desire, the same as any other decoration block.

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Ugly Sweater Armor

This delightfully tacky Holiday-themed armor comes in 2 colors but can be mixed and matched for the ultimate cringe factor. It has several tiers and can be upgraded in a Smithing Table, using Upgrade Templates.

Upgrade Templates

There are two types of templates for upgrading armor: Iron Upgrade Template and Diamond Upgrade Template. Netherite upgrades are done the same way as vanilla armor, using vanilla templates and a netherite ingot. Templates are found in chests: Iron Upgrade Templates:

Diamond Upgrade Templates are found in chests:

Mobs in Ugly Sweaters

The Monsters have decided to join in with the Holiday festivities!

Zombies and Skeletons of all kinds, Creepers, and even Zombie Piglins are all showing their Holiday Spirit by wearing Ugly Sweaters and Santa Hats!

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Crops

NOTE: For 1.21.1 and up, Crops are found in Mama's Herbs and Harvest.

There are several crops for growing foods used in Holiday Recipes. These are found in Village Chests. Each crop can be found in a specific biome:

Festive Foods and Drinks

Holiday Music Discs

There are 2 discs with Holiday Music. One has Lofi Holiday Songs and the other has more traditional Holiday Songs. They can be found in Igloo Chests and Dungeon Chests.

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Other Winter Holiday Blocks and Items

Hanukkah Blocks and Items

The Menorah takes blue and white candles in the proper order, which can be lit with a flint & steel. The Dreidel and Gelt are decorative blocks.

Kwanzaa Blocks and Items

The Mkeka is designed so that it can tile left/right. The Chalice, Kinara, and Corn can all be placed onto the Mkeka by clicking on it with them. One Mkeka block can hold either one Kinara, one Chalice, or up to 3 pieces of Corn. The Kinara takes red, green, and black candles, which can be lit with a flint & steel.

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