What's New in Minecraft 1.21.4: The Garden Awakens Update
# What's New in Minecraft 1.21.4: The Garden Awakens Update
This means that a haunting biome enters with this update, the Garden Awakens Update (1.21.4). The major update allows an unveiling of the mysterious Pale Garden biome and several eerie features towards the new exploration by gamers in the Overworld. Let's dive into most of these key inclusions!
## The Mysterious Pale Garden
The Pale Garden is a haunting variant of the Dark Forest biome with its defining Pale Oak trees, as well as an overall feeling of dread. What really makes this biome stand out, however, is its complete lack of natural animal spawns and any sort of background music-playback, creating an almost silent environment that's broken only by ambient sounds.
The floor is covered with new Pale Moss blocks and their carpet variants, while Pale Hanging Moss hangs ominously from the leaves above. If you're wanting to find this new biome for yourself, then using the seed `3515201313347228787` will spawn you right next to a Pale Garden.
## Meet the Creaking: A New Hostile Mob
Perhaps the most interesting addition would be the Creaking, a strange hostile mob that spawns from Creaking Heart blocks, naturally generating within Pale Oak trees. They have some very special behavior: - They are activated when a player looks directly at them within 12 blocks. - They freeze in place when someone is looking at them. - They're resistant to fire and don't take environmental hazards. - Players wearing carved pumpkins can look at them without setting off their freeze behavior.
Eyeblossom: A New Dynamic Flora
A fascinating new type of flowers, the Eyeblossoms, will behave according to a day/night cycle, following these rules:
- Active open at night and closed by day
- The opening Eyeblossoms light their eyes in the dark
- It can also communicate with other nearby opened/closed Eyeblossoms in establishing the phase
- Open Eyeblossoms poison bees as an interesting game mechanic
New Materials in Building
There are new block types added to extend options when creative ingenuity comes into question:
- The full Pale Oak woodset: doors, fences, stairs, and boats
- Resin blocks and Resin Bricks, which come from Creakings
- Pale Moss variants for special ground coverage
- New decoration options with Pale Hanging Moss
## Gameplay Improvements
In addition to the big features, this update contains some quality-of-life changes:
- Improved mob behavior of item pickup
- Changed Suspicious Stew effect length
- Changed toolsets for many blocks
- Enhanced mob AI for item selection
## Finding the Pale Garden
For players eager to explore this new content, here are some tips:
- Look for areas that resemble Dark Forests
- Listen for the unique ambient sounds
- Watch for the distinctive pale wood and moss
- Trade with Wandering Traders who now sell Pale Oak Saplings and other new items
The Garden Awakens update imbues Minecraft with fresh layers of mystery and excitement as players are called to investigate the eerie new biome and fend off the mysterious Creaking mob. Be it new materials for a builder or an adventure of new challenges, there is something for everyone in this atmospheric update.
Keep your wits about you while exploring the Pale Garden, for you never know what might be watching from behind those Pale Oak trees.