The Garden Awakens

This article is about the drop. For the extended play, see Minecraft: The Garden Awakens. For the skin pack, see The Garden Awakens (skin pack).
The Garden Awakens
1.21.4_banner.jpg: Infobox image for The Garden Awakens the theme in Minecraft
Bedrock_1.21.50_PatchNotes.png: Infobox image for The Garden Awakens the theme in Minecraft
Release date

December 3, 2024

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Winter Drop
Vanilla Holiday Update

Explore an eerie new biome, meet the creaking, uncover the secrets of the creaking heart, build with new blocks, row away in pale oak boats, trim armor with resin, decorate your base with hanging moss, and more. 

Sophie Austin
Key art
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. It adds the pale garden biome, a mob called the creaking, and other related blocks. It was announced 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]

Additions

Blocks

Creaking Heart

  • Can be found activated in the pale garden biome.
  • Can be mined and relocated with a Silk Touch tool.
  • Can also be crafted using two pale oak logs and a block of resin.
  • 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.

Pale oak wood set:

New foliage and vegetation blocks:

Resin family of blocks:

Items

Resin Brick

Creaking Spawn Egg

Mob

Creaking

  • Spawned by active creaking hearts during the night or thunderstorms.
  • Only moves when a player is looking away from it.
  • Can only be killed by destroying its respective creaking heart. Can be damaged if spawned via the spawn egg or the /summon command.
  • Emits particles that lead to its creaking heart when hit.

Non-mob entities

Pale Oak Boat

Biome

Pale Garden

Generated features

Promotions

Key art for the event.
Main article: Expect the unexpected

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.

Videos

Gallery

Official artwork

Development images

References

External links

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