Minecraft: Things To Know About The Pale Garden

The main reveal at Minecraft Live 2024, and the main source of interest for various leaks leading up to the event, the new Pale Garden biome has already captured the community’s attention. While players are already exploring this eerie location, this forested region’s general theme and intended atmosphere come through clearly.

Coupled with its own unique mob, the Pale Garden seems to be the Overworld surface biome to counter the horrifying depths of the Deep Dark in caves below. Beyond that, the reveal and experimental snapshot for this new biome offers a great look at what is essentially concept art, with plenty of potential for additions and changes. For players ready to carefully explore these woods, there are five key things to know so far.

5 The Creaking

Minecraft’s Newest Threat

The newest mob added to the Minecraft roster, sitting firmly on the hostile side of things, the Creaking is a unique threat that can only be found in the Pale Garden and currently doesn’t have any drops when defeated. Clearly inspired by Weeping Angel mechanics, this living tree monster isn’t so much of a hazard on its own, but it will easily become a problem in big enough numbers.

The Creaking is effectively invincible unlike other recent hostile mobs, such as the Warden and the Breeze, and can somewhat trap the Warden in a loop of constantly attacking it to no avail. The mob can be instantly destroyed once players find the Creaking Heart that puppeteers it, as currently one Heart spawns and controls one Creaking, but until that point, players can not harm it. While it doesn’t do too much damage, it always delivers half a heart of damage on normal even with end-game armor along with being overwhelmed through numbers as the true threat, alongside the Creaking’s speed potentially allowing it to finish off players on low health after fighting other mobs. Thankfully, as long as players keep the Creaking in their sights, they’ll be unable to move.

4 New Wood Type

Pale Oak

For building-focused players, the Pale Garden adds an entirely new wood type, bringing white wood blocks into the game. While there is an array of different white blocks used purely for design reasons, adding a wood set of this color brings doors, fences, buttons, pressure plates, and more for builders to use.

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Pale Oak offers a high amount of versatility for players, with the only cost being to find the Pale Garden biome. Between the saplings, leaves, stripped log variant, and even the standard plank blocks, there’s a wide group of monochromatic blocks for builders to make the most of.

3 The Creaking Heart

The Master Puppeteer

What is described as a “living block” by developers, the Creaking Heart is the true monster using the Creaking as shallow puppets to haunt, harm, and stalk players in its Pale Garden, fitting right into the Bundles of Bravery idea. It is surprisingly well-hidden, at least from a Vanilla perspective, making an ax somewhat necessary for players needing to rip apart trees to rid themselves of the Creaking. Currently, as of the first experimental snapshot, the Creaking Heart blocks are finite and do not spawn when players grow pale oak trees.

As a “living block,” breaking the Creaking Heart can grant players the Monster Hunter and Monsters Hunted advancements, usually reserved for the standard zombies and creepers, making this block effectively a mob in its own weird way. Since it is the mastermind behind the Creaking, players can silk touch the block and make their own Creaking spawner, by placing the heart in between two upright logs and waiting for nighttime. When done correctly, and when using subtitles, an “awakening” sound will play. Additionally, for players with subtitles, the sound for attacking the Creaking mob is “Creaking Heart screams,” adding more to the eerie garden’s strange world.

2 Pale Flora

New Moss And Biome Tint

For players in search of new shades of gray to add to their builds, or for a more gothic flair for nature builds, the Pale Garden adds a small selection of new pale plants, as well as a new biome color for players to move into. From new moss blocks to ghostly leaves, there’s a small but distinct offering to pick from.

Fitting the biome’s name, typically green blocks are drastically desaturated, from the standard grass to even jungle trees, making it a solid location for spookier builds. In terms of unique blocks, the pale leaves are now white no matter the biome, adding strong potential for wintery builds. The hanging moss also adds great texture for underground builds, with the benefit of this hanging plant not growing on its own.

1 Biome Ambiance

Pale Silence

Perhaps one of the more intriguing but somewhat vague additions, the addition and lack of sounds in the pale garden present a focus on the ambiance in Minecraft not seen since the death of the fireflies. While most biomes in the game are usually quiet, if not for mob movement and music, the Pale Garden is especially silent.

Beyond the exaggerated quiet of the new biome, there seems to be a new method for adding ambient sounds. Certain blocks in the biome now give out certain sounds at night, such as the Creaking Heart, adding an extra layer of eeriness. Outside the current implications, the potential for more and similar ways to include ambient sounds, like leaves falling or waves rolling, is more than possible.