Pale Garden

A pale garden is a rare variant of the dark forest biome with pale oaks and many pale vegetation blocks. Creaking hearts that spawn creakings at night can often be found here.

Generation

Pale gardens generate adjacent to dark forests in areas of high continentalness and low erosion. They are always found on plateaus or mountain slopes from areas with medium temperature and the highest humidity.

Besides dark forests, pale gardens commonly border meadow and grove biomes, and uncommonly old growth pine taigas, forests, birch forests, jungles, frozen peaks, and jagged peaks. Because they can border meadows, villages sometimes touch pale gardens, unlike regular dark forests.

Because pale gardens generate near mountains and plateaus, they are likely to generate the deep dark underneath.

Description

They mainly consist of pale oak trees, along with pale moss patches made of pale moss blocks and pale moss carpets, and scattered eyeblossoms. Pale hanging moss can be found hanging off the trees. Some of the pale oak trees contain a creaking heart block, which spawns a creaking when activated at night. Woodland mansions can generate in pale gardens. The water, sky, and blocks of the biome are desaturated.

Abandoned camps sometimes generate in pale gardens.^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

With Vibrant Visuals, the pale garden has an extremely dense pale fog that blocks all skylight and limits the view to only a few chunks. Sunlight is much less bright and colored gray, as well as moonlight. Pale gardens use coolish color grading, which tints the environment colder blue.

The biome is said to be the only remnant of a world lost to time, with the tallness of the tress and the pale hanging moss combining to create a sense of an untamed wilderness.

Ambient music does not play in pale gardens. If a music track is playing while the player enters the biome, it fades into silence. The music resumes when the player exits the biome.

Mobs

Creakings are found in this biome only at night, but their spawning is controlled by creaking hearts, not the biome. Since naturally generated pale oaks only have a 20% chance to include a creaking heart, it is possible to find small pale gardens with no creaking hearts.

Regular passive mobs do not naturally spawn in the pale garden,^[1] but normal hostile mobs can spawn here, sometimes even during the day because of the thick foliage.^[2]

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In **Java Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
Skeleton	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
Slime^{[note 1]}	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
Spider	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
Zombie	⁹⁵⁄₅₁₅	4
Enderman	¹⁰⁄₅₁₅	1–4
Witch	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
Zombie Villager	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

In **Bedrock Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100	1
Slime^{[note 1]}	100	1
Spider	100	1
Zombie	95	2–4
Skeleton	80	1–2
Enderman	10	1–2
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
Glow Squid	1	2–4

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Pale Garden	`pale_garden`	`biome.minecraft.pale_garden`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	`pale_garden`	`193`

Achievements


Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Adventuring Time	Discover 17 biomes.	Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world.	40	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventuring Time	Discover every biome	Visit all of these 55^{[until: Third Drop 2026]}/56^[upcoming] biomes: Badlands Bamboo Jungle Beach Birch Forest Cherry Grove Cold Ocean Dappled Forest Dark Forest Deep Cold Ocean Deep Dark Deep Frozen Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Deep Ocean Desert Dripstone Caves Eroded Badlands Flower Forest Forest Frozen Ocean Frozen Peaks Frozen River Grove Ice Spikes Jagged Peaks Jungle Lukewarm Ocean Lush Caves Mangrove Swamp Meadow Mushroom Fields Ocean Old Growth Birch Forest Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga Pale Garden Plains River Savanna Savanna Plateau Snowy Beach Snowy Plains Snowy Slopes Snowy Taiga Sparse Jungle Stony Peaks Stony Shore Sunflower Plains Sulfur Caves Swamp Taiga Warm Ocean Windswept Forest Windswept Gravelly Hills Windswept Hills Windswept Savanna Wooded Badlands The advancement is only for Overworld biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for this advancement.

Videos

History

Announcement

September 24, 2024							A version of the Minecraft Live page announcing the pale gardens and creaking is published, by mistake. It was taken down in the following minutes.
September 28, 2024							Pale gardens are showcased at Minecraft Live 2024.
September 28, 2024							Pale gardens are shown to generate at low altitudes, next to sea level.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop	24w40a	Added pale gardens.
	24w40a	Pale gardens generate in mountainous areas rather than close to sea level as was showcased earlier.
	pre1	Added `pale_garden` to the `#is_overworld` biome tag.
1.21.4	24w44a	Pale gardens are now available without toggling the Winter Drop experimental data pack.
		Eyeblossoms now generate in pale gardens.
		Pale oak leaves with an exposed bottom face now create falling leaves particles when in pale gardens.
		The pale garden has no music, and currently playing music gradually fades out if the player enters one.
1.21.5	25w02a	Pale gardens now generate more frequently and are overall larger.
1.21.5	25w02a	Woodland mansions now generate in pale gardens.
Upcoming Java Edition
26.3	snap1	Added abandoned camps, which can generate in pale gardens.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.21.50	Preview 1.21.50.20	Added pale gardens.
	Preview 1.21.50.25	Eyeblossoms now generate in pale gardens.
		Further adjusted the color of the pale garden sky at the horizon to more closely match Java Edition.
		Increased frequency of the pale hanging moss ambience sound.
		Pale hanging moss no longer generates on pale oak trees grown from pale oak saplings.
	Preview 1.21.50.26	Pale oak leaves with an exposed bottom face now create falling leaves particles when in pale gardens.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.25	Pale gardens now generate more frequently and are overall larger.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.25	Woodland mansions now generate in pale gardens.
1.21.90	Preview 1.21.90.26	Added gray atmospherics, coolish color grading, heavy volumetric fog, and dark lighting to pale gardens with Vibrant Visuals.
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026	Preview 26.40.27	Added abandoned camps, which can generate in pale gardens.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.50	Preview 26.50.22	All features from the "Drop 3 of 2026" experiment have been fully implemented.

Issues

Issues relating to "Pale Garden" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

Eyeblossoms in a pale garden at night
A pale garden during sunrise
Above view of a pale garden at night
The Pale Garden seed template thumbnail
A woodland mansion in a pale garden
An abandoned camp in a pale garden
The sky in a pale garden with Vibrant Visuals
A pale garden single biome world
Ditto, with volumetric fog disabled

Mojang images

Pale leaf particles in a pale garden.
More pale leaf particles in a Pale Garden.
An image of a creaking with a pale garden behind it.
A pale garden.
New Year 2025 celebration image featuring a pale garden.
A zombie horseman in a pale garden.
Efe in a pale garden

Development images

Lineup of pale garden blocks as well as two unreleased two block tall pale grass and the creaking.
An early iteration of an opened eyeblossom with particles.
Early iterations of closed eyeblossoms in a pale garden.
A teaser image of the player dying supposedly to a creaking next to pale moss blocks.
A pale garden seen in Minecraft Live 2024 from the outside.
A pale garden seen from above.
The inside of the biome.
A creaking inside of a pale garden.
Closeup of a creaking inside of a pale garden.
The inside of the pale garden.
The pale garden at dusk.
The pale garden getting darker.
The pale garden at night.
Several types of pale moss.
A creaking camouflaged in front of a pale oak.
An overhead view of the pale garden.
Another view of the pale garden.

In other media

A render of a pale garden, with several heroes in hiding.
A creaking in a pale garden, as depicted on the key art for The Garden Awakens.
A creaking in a pale garden slowly approaching in a 1 day out teaser for The Garden Awakens release.
Creaking further approaching
Creaking further approaching
"Tomorrow"
Kai and Efe in the biome.
The Garden Awakens PR package featuring pale garden merchandise
A Lego Minecraft pale garden.

References

↑ "The pale garden" by Sophie Austin – Minecraft.net, October 2, 2024.
↑ "Minecraft Live 2024: Developer After-Show" – Minecraft on YouTube, September 28, 2024

This was a featured article from November 24, 2025 – November 30, 2025.

See Minecraft Wiki:Featured articles for more information.

[Slime-3] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

[Slime-4] Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

[1] "The pale garden" by Sophie Austin – Minecraft.net, October 2, 2024.

[2] "Minecraft Live 2024: Developer After-Show" – Minecraft on YouTube, September 28, 2024