I Fought The Creaking In Survival.

Mojang has released snapshot 24w40a for Minecraft, bringing our first look at the Pale Garden Biome and the Creaking mob announced at Minecraft Live 2024!

I explore the snapshot in a fresh Survival world, starting from scratch and searching for the Pale Garden.
Once there, I explore the biome's eerie feel, harvest Pale Oak wood, Pale Hanging Moss, Pale Moss blocks, and Pale Moss Carpet until night falls and the Creaking arrives! At that point, it's a fight for survival and a search for the Creaking Heart.

Later, I discuss what the Pale Oak wood type brings to the game, how to grow Pale Oak saplings, how leaf colour works in other biomes, and how to manipulate the Creaking Heart once you've obtained it. We look at Pale Oak doors and trapdoors, whether Creaking Hearts are farmable, how to move the Creaking around, and possible redstone uses for the Creaking Heart!

Time stamps:
0:00 Searching for Pale Garden in Survival
6:22 Pale Garden biome: first impressions
12:03 The Creaking appears
16:20 Pale Garden blocks & biome colour
25:47 Farming Pale Oak trees
28:42 Activating the Creaking Heart
35:40 Building with Pale Oak
38:36 Pumpkin Head vs The Creaking
41:30 Creative Mode comparison of new blocks
45:50 Technical Ideas for The Creaking
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GNU Paranor001

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[Pixlriffs]

Another thought I've had since making this video: Pale Moss is better for moss mining! Since it doesn't generate the azalea & flowering azalea saplings, that means less inventory clutter, and no chance of accidentally growing a tree in your pit.
Any other fun ideas from this snapshot? Comment below!

[nisseheim]

Since you mentioned flowers missing from the pale garden on the spawn chunks, it seems like the perfect opportunity for Mojang to add a flower that gives us grey dye, the one remaining dye you can't directly farm(I think?). Also, another flower that acts like the pink petals would be lovely. In my head I call them Ashfall.

Edit: Right.. purple.

[moricantry]

Thank you Pix for taking time for yourself! Low key brag there, “sorry, I was busy touching grass”

Loved seeing you in a group photo getting with Joel, FWhip etc recently!

[bravehearticus]

"Is this big salmon?!" *glares at skizz and beef*

[djcollins]

As a Louisianian, I have always wanted a Cypress tree with Cypress moss in Minecraft. I'm glad they have the pale moss now to make a custom Cypress tree look more realistic.

[Unknown_Source]

Ideas to "improve" the Biome and Creaking:

• Fog, this biome needs its own fog to render the players vision to get in with the spooky ambience (or a New Weather: Fog, that can also work)

• More pale plants, like white pumpkins or pale flowers

• The Creaking's damage and speed needs to be slightly higher, idk it's fairly easily avoidable

• More Tree Shape, I get it that Mojang is insisting that it's a Dark Oak Variant, but it definitely needs it own identity

• Structures would be nice, like ancient stone circle, mausoleum, or graveyard.


"Ideas of Reasons to Go there"

• Pale Bloom! a flower that grows on pale moss and grows to adjacent pale moss(similar to how Mushroom spreads). This Flower is rare CAN'T be collected during the day or silktouch, you need to wait for NightFall to Collect the flower, risking your life venturing in to the night while dealing with the Creaking
- purpose of this flower can be a new potion ingredient for a new effect,

[ToastaToast]

Imagine a monochrome 1920s cartoon themed build. Like a little village or even just a cottage made of a black-white-gray block palette. Could go even further and do some terraforming by ripping up green grass and replacing it with pale moss and a similar looking gray block.

[Foxeyify]

I think Mojang nailed it with the creaking heart block. Redstone uses, decoration, mob spawning, ambience, mini-game usage. There is a lot to unpack with this one. The comment Pix made about the pale moss not producing as many blocks when bonemealed so that it would be easier to mine with. Also, the ambience of the biome. Fantastic content which is very usable.

[phantomjaden]

I think the concern isn't about needing a reason to visit (or revisit) the pale garden biome, but about the lack of reason to do so at night. There isn't any reason to interact with the creaking, unless you find that experience inherently enjoyable.
I'm totally fine with having unique building blocks as the only draw to visit a biome, as is the case with many other overworld biomes. However, Mojang has put significant effort into designing a totally new mob for this biome that most players will likely avoid entirely by visiting the biome only during the day. I really want the creaking to feel like it has some meaningful value as a feature, rather than existing to be avoided and ignored. Even something as simple as making the creaking drop pale oak logs on death could provide that value for me, because that would introduce a unique and interesting method for farming what would otherwise be an obnoxious wood type to farm.

[goodboi]

The first block I thought of when I saw the stripped Pale wood was Calcite! Maybe you checked it offscreen, but I think Calcite is another great accompaniment to the palette.

[thomasf]

I know this is supposed to be a small drop, and not a major update, but one way they could expand on this could be a special pale garden village type. It could look abandoned during the day, but have non-sleeping villagers who appear at night. They could be passive, but unsettling in some way, and should have a couple unique trades (maybe having something to do with the creaking heart). Maybe there is a locksmith villager who can convert keys from the trial chambers into keys that can be used with doors and chests.

[ApollosDagger]

I *love* the pink/purple tint of the stripped logs and planks! They pair so nicely with cherry wood and I can’t wait to build with them! It’s so wild to see how green stripped birch looks in comparison! The creaking heart is also such a beautiful block! Maybe one of my fav newer blocks actually? I’m very happy they don’t spawn anything with other wood types around it though haha!

[carriehulsey]

I can't wait to find this for my current Addams Family inspired world. This is going to make a wonderful addition to the surroundings and Morticia's greenhouse.

[simsley]

36:23 if you crouch while holding the shield, then I think you can strip logs

[r.k.knight]

Glad you're back but also glad that you did what you felt like doing at the time. I think I lot of creators put a lot of pressure on themselves to upload regularly and get burned out. I'm looking forward to more of the survival guide. I use it as reference for gameplay quite a bit.

[truthhunterhawk]

I think that the whole biome should have a wall for it's border, to better cement the fact that it is a "garden" and gardens are often private areas. Not necessarily a complete wall either, but perhaps ruined in places with age, crumbling, high in some places, nonexistent in other places, and slightly overgrown, probably with the pale moss
Edit: the garden could have smaller pale oak variants like how the jungle works, adding a slight undergrowth. These could easily be used to overgrow some parts of the wall to help the immersion

[jacobdegeling]

You need to crouch to strip logs while wielding an axe (edit: and while holding your shield in your off hand)... Which I like because I don't accidentally strip logs anymore 😅

[tmoonias]

I keep drifting away from Minecraft but Pixl keeps bringing me back.

[KuroOniyuri]

The Pale moss reminds me of Spanish moss growing from trees. Also white wood (or more specifically white doors, trapdoors, and fences) has been something I have been wishing for each new update for so long. I am so happy it is finally here, and I love the design. Now I just need black ones and I will finally be complete.

[thejonbmc]

I wish you could display the end texture of the creaking heart in its active state because it looks so cool. Unfortunately it turns back to gray as soon as you expose it. They should provide some kind of workaround for that for builders. Maybe make it show the active texture with redstone without actually making it active?