Creaking Heart

Creaking Heart

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	10
Hardness	10
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (JE)	15 COLOR_ORANGE

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A creaking heart is a living block^[1][2] that can be crafted or found inside pale oaks in pale gardens. It activates if placed between two pale oak logs; then, during nighttime, it spawns a creaking and protects it from all damage. Breaking a creaking heart that is protecting a creaking instantly kills it. Hitting a protected creaking causes resin clumps to grow near its linked creaking heart.

Obtaining

Breaking

Creaking hearts drop as an item only when mined by a tool enchanted with Silk Touch. Otherwise, they drop 1–3 resin clumps; Fortune can increase the maximum drops by 1 per level (up to 6 with Fortune III).

Destroying a naturally-generated creaking heart also drops 20–24 experience, only in Survival mode.

Block	Creaking Heart
Hardness	10
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	15
Wooden	7.5
Stone	3.75
Copper ​	3
Iron	2.5
Diamond	1.9
Netherite	1.7
Golden	1.25
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Creaking hearts have a 20% chance to generate inside the top trunks of pale oak trees in the pale garden. They are always completely covered by other pale oak logs and are never exposed to the air. Pale oaks grown from pale oak saplings do not generate with hearts.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Pale Oak Log + Block of Resin

Usage

A creaking heart can be placed in different orientations, similar to logs. It has three states: uprooted, dormant, and awake. The creaking heart is uprooted by default, but it becomes dormant during the day and awake at night when placed between two pale oak logs, stripped pale oak logs, pale oak wood, or stripped pale oak wood with the same orientation. The texture of a creaking heart changes depending on its state, with the "core" appearing dark when uprooted, brighter when dormant and orange when awake. If the creaking heart hasn't already spawned a creaking, removing one of the surrounding aligned logs reverts it to the uprooted state.

Creaking hearts generate resin clumps on nearby pale oak logs when its linked creaking is attacked by a player or tamed wolf at night. There is a brief cooldown between each resin clump generation.

Spawning mechanics

If a creaking heart is properly aligned between two pale oak logs and is located in the Overworld, it becomes awake at night (between 12600 and 23400 ticks). An awake creaking heart waits 2 ticks (0.1 seconds) and checks if the matching logs are in place. If so and it detects no linked creaking, it tries to find a valid location in a 33×17×33 box centered at that creaking heart to spawn one until successful, interrupted by getting destroyed or disabled. If found, it waits 20 ticks (1 second) before checking again if the matching logs are in place. If successful, it spawns a creaking after 2 extra ticks, otherwise it uproots. While a creaking heart is awake and has a linked creaking, it does not uproot until broken, even if any of the matching blocks are removed.

Creaking hearts do not function outside the simulation distance of players.

Valid locations for creakings to spawn at follow these criteria:

• The block below must have a solid top surface.
• The block below is not leaves.
• The location is any non-solid block. This means blocks like carpet can spawn-proof creakings, but not buttons.
• The location is where there would be no liquid or other entities' hitboxes within a creaking's hitbox.

Creakings ignore solid blocks within its hitbox that are 2+ blocks above the ground while spawning.

Creaking hearts never spawn creakings in the Nether nor the End.

Despawning creakings

Breaking the heart kills its linked creaking and attributes the kill to the player who broke it, adding the kill to their statistics and triggering the Monster Hunter and Monsters Hunted advancements.

During daytime (starting at 23401 ticks), an awake creaking heart becomes dormant and despawns its linked creakings, unless it has been named using a name tag.

If the heart's linked creaking is too far away (more than 34 blocks away), that creaking despawns, and the heart spawns another one if conditions are met.

Redstone component

A redstone comparator connected to a creaking heart outputs a signal if the heart has a linked creaking. The strength of the signal depends on the Euclidean distance between the heart and its creaking, and is calculated as follows: ${\displaystyle \text{output}=15-\lfloor \frac{\text{distance}}{32}\times 15\rfloor }$

Pistons of any kind cannot move creaking hearts.

Ambient sounds

A creaking heart emits subtle eerie sounds when it is awake and surrounded by any types of logs, stripped logs, wood, or stripped wood in all 6 directions.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e creaking_heart sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.creaking_heart.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.5	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.creaking_heart.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.creaking_heart.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.creaking_heart.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.creaking_heart.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e creaking_heart sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.creaking_heart.break	0.5	0.8
	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.creaking_heart.place	0.7	0.8
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.creaking_heart.hit	0.25	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.creaking_heart.fall	0.5	0.75
	Players	Walking on the block	block.creaking_heart.step	0.15	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	block.creaking_heart.step	0.12	1.1
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	block.creaking_heart.step	0.4	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Creaking Heart	creaking_heart	Block & Item	block.minecraft.creaking_heart

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Creaking Heart	creaking_heart	1267	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -1012)	tile.creaking_heart.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Block data

A creaking heart has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Heart Transplanter	Place a Creaking Heart with the correct alignment between two Pale Oak Log blocks	—	20	Silver
		Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill a hostile mob or one of the following neutral mobs: an enderman, a piglin, a zombified piglin, a spider, or a cave spider.	15	Bronze

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Heart Transplanter	Place a with the correct alignment between two Pale Oak Log blocks	—
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Kill one of these 37 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Kill each of these 37 mobs: Blaze Bogged Breeze Cave Spider Creaking (by destroying its creaking heart) Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement.

History

September 28, 2024							Creaking hearts were showcased on Minecraft Live 2024.
Java Edition
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop			24w40a				Added creaking hearts.
			pre1				Redstone comparators connected to creaking hearts now output a signal strength dependent on the distance to the connected creaking.
1.21.4			24w44a				Creaking hearts are now available without using the "Winter Drop" experimental data pack.
							Updated the texture of the inactive creaking heart to be more consistent with its active state.
							Naturally generated creaking hearts now drop 20 to 24 experience when broken by a player, with or without Silk Touch.
							Breaking a creaking heart block without Silk Touch now drops 1 to 3 resin clumps.
							Creaking hearts can now be crafted with two pale oak logs and a block of resin.
							Added the natural block state and replaced creaking with a boolean active state.
							Changed the placing sounds from to .
			24w45a				A naturally spawned creaking heart no longer drops experience when broken in Creative mode.
							The subtitle for hurt has been changed.
			24w46a				Mining speed and blast resistance are doubled.
							Introduced a variation in how long time it takes for each creaking heart to spawn a creaking.
1.21.5			25w02a				Creaking hearts correctly placed between logs have a new dormant texture during the day.
							The transition between the awake and dormant states of creaking hearts is now based on the fixed day time.
Bedrock Edition
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.20				Added creaking hearts.
			Preview 1.21.50.25				Updated the texture of the inactive creaking heart to be more consistent with its active state.
							Creaking hearts can now be crafted with two pale oak logs and a block of resin.
							Naturally generating creaking hearts now drop 20 to 24 experience when mined.
							Increased the frequency of the creaking heart's ambience sound.
			Preview 1.21.50.26				Reduced the distance by which the creaking heart can spread resin clumps by one block.
			Preview 1.21.50.28				Adjusted the frequency of ambient sounds emitted by creaking hearts to better align with Java Edition.
							Creaking heart breaking and placing sounds are now quieter.
			Preview 1.21.50.29				Increased the base amount of time it takes to destroy a creaking heart with no tool to 15 seconds.
1.21.51							Creaking hearts now generate more often in naturally generated pale oaks.[3]
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.24				The fix for the creaking hearts' generation has been implemented in the Preview version.
							Destroying a creaking heart while it has a spawned creaking now grants the Monster Hunter achievement.
			Preview 1.21.60.25				The creaking heart now has an additional state for when it is in a valid configuration but unable to spawn a creaking because it is daytime.

Issues

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

Trivia

• Unlike destroying any other block, destroying a creaking heart triggers monster-related advancements.

Gallery

Mojang images

• 
  Creaking hearts and creakings in a minigame set-up.

In other media

• 
  Villager No. 15 placing a creaking heart.
• 
  A creaking heart in a pale garden on the key art for The Garden Awakens.

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