The Garden Awakens

The Garden Awakens

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There are guides for this update!

 

See Java Edition guides/The Garden Awakens and Bedrock Edition guides/The Garden Awakens for a guide to all of the new features introduced in The Garden Awakens.

The Garden Awakens is a game drop released on December 3, 2024, as Java Edition 1.21.4 and Bedrock Edition 1.21.50. It focuses on the pale garden, a biome that is home to the creaking alongside pale oak trees and pale moss. The first features of this game drop were revealed at Minecraft Live 2024.

In an official and publicly shared survey about Minecraft Live^[1][2] and in file names on Minecraft.net,^[3][4] the drop was referred to as the Vanilla Holiday Update. During development, it was referred to as the Winter Drop, the name of the corresponding experiment in Java Edition. The final name and release date of the update were revealed on November 27, 2024.^[5]

Experimental features for the drop were released prior to the finalized release as part of Java Edition 1.21.2.

Creaking heart

• A non-flammable "living block"^[6][7] found in some natural pale oak trees, covered on all sides by pale oak logs.
• Only activates when placed between two pale oak logs in the same orientation and can't be deactivated unless the block is broken.
  • Spawns creakings at night when activated and links itself to them.
    • Produces resin clumps when the creaking gets damaged.
• Drops resin clump and experience when broken without Silk Touch.
• Can also be crafted using two pale oak logs and a block of resin.

Eyeblossom

• A new flower found in the pale garden biome.
• They exist in two variants: closed and open.
  • Eyeblossoms transition between the two variants based on the time of day.
    • During the night, eyeblossoms become open.
      • Will attract bees, however they get poisoned when fed or pollinate the flower itself.
    • During the day, they become closed.
      • Cannot attract bees.
  • In dimensions that do not have a day/night cycle, they remain as-is.
• Eyeblossoms planted on the ground communicate with each other, helping each other to open or close.
• Can be use to make suspicious stew which gives it Blindness or Nausea depending on the variant.
• Can be crafted into orange or gray dye depending on the variant.
• Emits ambient sounds when on top of pale moss block.

Pale hanging moss

• A vine-like block generate beneath the pale oak leaves and logs.
  • Emits creaking sounds when place to its corresponding block.
• Does not grow naturally.
  • Must be grown manually using bonemeal.
• Cannot be climbed.

Pale moss block

• A pale variant of the regular moss block.
• Generates in large patches under the pale oak trees.
• Unlike regular moss block, it can be burned.

Pale moss carpet

• A pale variant of the regular moss carpet.
• Unlike regular moss carpet, it can be burned.
• When placed, pale moss carpet grows up to two blocks on the solid faces of any block that borders it.
  • Pale moss carpet can be bone mealed to grow to full on all solid faces of any block that borders it.

Pale oak wood set:

• Pale oak sapling
  • Grows into a pale oak tree.
    • Lacks pale hanging moss.
• Pale oak leaves
  • Produces fallen leaf particles.

    

• Pale oak log and Stripped pale oak log
• Pale oak wood and Stripped pale oak wood
• Pale oak planks
  • Pale oak stairs
  • Pale oak slab
  • Pale oak sign
  • Pale oak hanging sign
  • Pale oak button
  • Pale oak pressure plate
  • Pale oak door
  • Pale oak fence
  • Pale oak fence gate
  • Pale oak trapdoor

Resin family of blocks:

• Resin clump
  • Obtained through creaking heart.
  • Up to 6 can be put on the same block space, merging into one block.
• Block of resin
  • Can be instantly mined.
• Resin bricks
  • Resin brick slab
  • Resin brick stairs
  • Resin brick wall
  • Chiseled resin bricks

Creaking spawn egg

• Used to spawn a creaking that is not attached to a creaking heart block.
  • This creaking only has one health.

Resin brick

• Used to craft resin bricks.
• Can also be used to trim armor.

Creaking

• A tree-like hostile mob that spawned by active creaking hearts during the night or thunderstorms‌^{[Java Edition only]}.
• Only moves when a player is looking away from it.
• Naturally indestructible.
  • Can only be killed by destroying its respective creaking heart, in which it began to twitch till it crumbles.
    • Can be damaged if spawned via the spawn egg or the /summon command.
• Emits particles that lead to its creaking heart when hit.

Pale oak boat

• A boat that is crafted from pale oak planks.
• Pale oak boat with chest

Pale garden

• A variant of the dark forest that generates with pale oak trees, pale moss blocks, pale moss carpets, pale hanging moss, and eyeblossoms.
• No animals can spawn here.
• Lacks music when entering the biome.

Pale oak tree

• A tree that generates in a pale garden.

Pale moss patch

• Pile of mosses that generate beneath the pale oak tree.

Wither rose

• Now withers bees when fed.

Illagers

• Are now scared of the creaking.

• 1.21.51 was released to fix critical bugs related to 1.21.50.
• 1.21.60 was a minor update which changed some features from The Garden Awakens and adds experimental features from Spring to Life.
• 1.21.61 was released to fix critical bugs related to 1.21.60.
• 1.21.62 was released to fix critical bugs related to 1.21.61.

To promote the release of the drop, an advertising campaign ran from December 4 to December 11, featuring many products with ties to the pale garden, such as add-ons and community incentives.

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  The Garden Awakens artwork.
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  An alternate version of the artwork.
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  Square format.
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  The creaking from artwork.
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  The artwork without the creaking.
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  The Garden Awakens secondary artwork.
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  An alternate version of the secondary artwork.
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  Ditto.
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  Ditto.
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  The cover for Minecraft: The Garden Awakens.

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  Lineup of pale garden blocks as well as two unreleased two block tall pale grass and the creaking.
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  An early iteration of an opened eyeblossom with particles.
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  Early iteration of the pale garden aswell as closed eyeblossoms.
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  Picture of a pale garden at night.
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  Pale garden and pale moss.
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  Pale garden and creaking.
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  Overhead view of a pale garden with a fire.
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  Creaking in pale garden.
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  Creaking on top of a pale oak tree.
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  Mini-game setup with creaking and pale oak house.
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  Falling leaves in a pale garden.
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  Players in a pale garden.
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  A creaking above a pale garden.
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  Pale garden during the day.
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  The image used as the name reveal banner of The Garden Awakens

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