Minecraft Pale Garden release date: All you need to know

The Pale Garden is an eerie new biome arriving in The Garden Awakens update. A grim variant of the Dark Oak Forest, it features a haunting atmosphere and introduces a chilling mob known as the Creaking, adding a spine-tingling twist to exploration in the Overworld.

Here's everything you need to know about the release of Pale Garden in Minecraft.

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All you need to know about Minecraft Pale Garden

Release date

The Pale Garden during Minecraft Live 2024 (Image via Mojang)

The Minecraft Pale Garden biome is set to release on December 3, 2024. This brand-new biome is part of The Garden Awakens update. Along with the Pale Garden, Mojang is adding a creepy mob called the Creaking, a new tree, and many beautiful building blocks.

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What is the Pale Garden in Minecraft?

The Pale Garden is filled with "pale" blocks in Minecraft's Overworld (Image via Mojang)

Found in the Overworld, the Pale Garden is a new and mysterious Minecraft biome filled to the brim with pale oak trees and covered with pale moss, which both hangs from the vegetation and carpets the forest floor. Ordinary hostile mobs can spawn in this biome when the light level reaches zero, but another danger lurks in the Pale Garden: the creaking.

The creaking is spawned by a unique block found within the Pale Garden known as the creaking heart. These hearts can generate within pale oak trees and, when placed and aligned between two pale oak log blocks, will spawn the creaking during the night. The creaking will stalk players, but players can halt them by looking directly at them.

The creaking is exceptionally resistant to damage. Killing the creaking requires the destruction of the creaking heart block it's connected to. By striking it, orange spore-like particles appear that point out the location of the connected creaking heart.

Creaking lurking in the shadows (Image via Mojang)

The creaking will actively approach and attack players who aren't directly looking at them, and because several creaking hearts can generate within a Pale Garden biome, being overwhelmed by these mobs is a possibility. Players adventuring through the Pale Garden will have to stay on their toes, travel by daylight, and remove any creaking hearts they find proactively to prevent creaking spawns.

The Pale Garden also lacks any music, relying solely on ambient sound effects such as creaking tree sounds to populate the environment.