Earlier this year at Minecraft Live 2024, Mojang announced a new creepy biome and mob update for the game.
The 'Garden Awakens Update' has now officially launched – allowing players to explore this creepy new biome, meet the screech and discover the “secrets” of its heart. You'll also gain access to new blocks, hanging moss, and more.
Here are the full patch notes for this Minecraft update, courtesy of the official support page:
The squeaking heart is a “living” block that is created in light oak trees, covered on all sides with light oak logs. It can create a Cracking Mob at night, and is placed between two properly aligned blocks of pale oak logs.
The Creaking mob appears at night in the Pale Garden biome if there is a Creaking Heart block generated on the Pale Oak tree. Game features:
An activated Squeak will not move if the player is looking at it
The squeak is insensitive to damage
When hit, a particle trail is displayed between the Creaking block and the Creaking Heart it is connected to
When the Creaking Heart block that the Creaking is connected to is destroyed, the Creaking is removed
It is not affected by light levels, but spawns and disappears based on the day/night cycle
Squeaky can't get into boats
A squeak caused from a Squeaking Heart cannot pass through portals
The Creaking Spawn Egg will spawn a Creaking mob unrelated to the Creaking Heart. Cracking mobs will persist day and night, load and save, and take damage from attacks and other sources of damage. Has one health point (half a heart)
Creaking summoned from Creaking Heart cannot be spawned with a spawn egg, nor can it be summoned by commands. It can only exist as part of the Creaking Heart block
A player wearing a carved pumpkin on their head can look at Creaking without being frozen in place
When a Squeaking Heart is destroyed, its Heart will twitch for a few seconds before disintegrating
The squeaks created by the Squeaking Heart will disintegrate if you are stuck in a hole with a player for more than 5 seconds
- This prevents a potential soft lock, as an invulnerable Creaking would prevent the player from mining or placing any blocks, requiring them to exit and re-enter the world to make the Creaking disappear
The screeching decay causes nearby Sculk Catalysts to bloom
- However, Sculk will not be placed as Creaking does not drop any XP
The squeaker plays 4 different swinging sounds
The squeak plays new attack sounds
Eyeblossoms are new flowers that spawn in the Pale Garden biome. Unique characteristics:
Ambient sounds in the Pale Garden biome do not come from the biome settings, but are generated by the blocks located in the biome
Pale Garden is a variation of the Dark Forest biome. Unique features:
Pale hanging moss forms naturally in the Pale Garden biome beneath the leaves of Pale Oaks
The Pale Moss block is naturally generated in the Pale Garden biome. Unique characteristics:
The following blocks now only drop when broken with a pickaxe: Blast Furnace, Cauldron, Dispenser, Dropper, Magic Table, Furnace, Funnel, and Smoker (MCPE-33950)
The following blocks that require support now always drop when broken with any tool: All Copper Gates, Iron Gates, Heavy Pressure Plate, Light Pressure Plate, Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate, and Stone Pressure Plate
Budding Amethyst is now slower to mine with the wrong tool
The following blocks (which always drop) are now mined faster when using a malfunctioning tool: Bell, Cooking Stand, Crafter, Ender Chest, Lamp, and Soul Lamp. Note that the Ender Chest is considered an 'Always Dropping Block' even though the drop is not an Ender Chest (MCPE-176374)
Swords can now instantly cut bamboo seedlings, just like bamboo does
Axes no longer mine bamboo seedlings and moss carpets faster
Picks and shovels no longer dig bamboo as fast as axes
Maces no longer dig up cobwebs faster than other non-sword tools
Heavy Core can now be mined faster with any inappropriate tool
A note block placed above Heavy Core now plays the correct sound
Crafter can now be quickly mined with any pick
If you somehow manage to mine a dragon egg, which is almost impossible, it no longer requires a pickaxe to drop and is just as fast to mine with any tool
Copper Gates and Copper Bulbs now require a Stone Pickaxe or better for throwing and fast mining
Swords no longer mine all blocks faster than bare hands, but only do so for some plant-type blocks that cannot already be instamined, such as leaves, pumpkins, large dropper, choir flower, choir plant, cacao, shiny lichen, melon block , moss and vine carpet (MCPE-93323)
Stone Button and Polished Black Stone Button no longer require a pickaxe to drop and are now faster to mine with any inappropriate tool (MCPE-162158)
Updated the texture of the Heavy Core item
The following blocks now only drop when broken with a pickaxe: Blast Furnace, Cauldron, Dispenser, Dropper, Magic Table, Furnace, Funnel, and Smoker (MCPE-33950)
The following blocks that require support now always drop when broken with any tool: All Copper Gates, Iron Gates, Heavy Pressure Plate, Light Pressure Plate, Polished Blackstone Pressure Plate, and Stone Pressure Plate
Budding Amethyst is now slower to mine with the wrong tool
The following blocks (which always drop) are now mined faster when using a malfunctioning tool: Bell, Cooking Stand, Crafter, Ender Chest, Lamp, and Soul Lamp. Note that the Ender Chest is considered an 'Always Dropping Block' even though the drop is not an Ender Chest (MCPE-176374)
Fixed an issue where the color of the Shulker Box was not listed as part of the name (MCPE-182930)
Grass and Nylium no longer decay into Dirt and Netherrack when under Slime, Honey, Hopper or Chemical Heat (Education Edition block) (MCPE-62132)
Grass and Nylium now decay into Dirt and Netherrack when under the Watcher
Trial spawners with a mob set spawn egg no longer return to empty when their cooldown ends (MCPE-185960)
Azalea, flowering azalea, mangrove, cherry, and light oak leaves no longer display black pixels from a distance (MCPE-156469)
Mangrove leaves now have a dedicated texture when “Fancy Leaves” is disabled (MCPE-170516)
Pale Oak Leaves texture orientation is no longer random for each block
Moss Blocks now have a quieter step and landing sound (MCPE-176933)
Decorated pots no longer activate watchers when loading the world
Sculk sensors now detect Eyeblossoms opening and closing
Fixed all skull block variants converting to skeleton_skull when opening world template version locked below 1.21.40 or structure. Note that this fix will not apply to already overwritten parts
Textures for Bricks, Nether Bricks, Red Nether Bricks, Resin Bricks and related blocks have been updated to be horizontally aligned with all other brick blocks (MCPE-187806)
Closed eye flowers no longer poison bees
The poison effect from Open Eyeblossoms now also damages bees while inside the block, not just after exiting
Reduced the duration of the effect of poisons applied by Open Eyeblossoms
Adjusted the frequency of ambient sounds emitted by Eyeblossoms, Creaking Hearts, and Pale Hanging Moss to better align with Java
The duration of the Suspicious Stew effect has been adjusted to be the same in all versions
Suspicious Stew from Open Eyeblossom now grants the same duration of blindness as Suspicious Stew from Azure Bluet (MCPE-187802)
Change the order of the tabs on the settings screen
Fixed a bug where players on the member management screen would not update when returning from 'Find Friends'
Improved feedback to user when Realm loading fails due to naming
When enabling experiments in world settings (OreUI) we no longer give the error that it will “automatically turn on cheating”. (MCPE-181435)
The item currently selected within a pack now correctly displays as part of the pack icon when the pack is placed in the inventory or crafting grid of the crafting table
The sounds of moving items into or out of packs now originate from the player's location instead of the corner of the block the player is standing on (MCPE-186619)
Fixed a bug where the world name text would sometimes display incorrectly in the pause menu (MCPE-179702)
Fixed a visual bug that could occur when navigating between the death screen and the game menu.
Fixed a bug with inventory touch controls where items could not be distributed across existing stacks of items of the same item (MCPE-164543)
Added UI controls to enable/disable bed functionality and percentage of sleep players need to make it through the night
The items “short_grass”, “fern”, “seagrass” and “vine” are now lighter in inventory, they were previously incorrectly pluralized with a shade of green (MCPE-53775)
He hid Create from template and button Import world button when in test mode.
Tweaked the position of the paper doll so it doesn't overlap the UI bars (MCPE-186341)
Mobile: Switching to windowed/split screen mode no longer clears saved custom control positions (MCPE-185964)
Thai font rendering improvements for chat and characters. (MCPE-166005)
Added missing quick change animations in GUI for several blocks
Packages that move under the player's cursor now correctly update their tooltip
The size of the Shield item no longer changes when the item is moved between slots
Packages that move under the player's cursor now correctly update their tooltip
It is now possible to collect crafting results with a bundle to add crafted items to the bundle
Touch Controls: Fixed a bug where ships were interactive during control customization (MCPE-184404, MCPE-184406)
Touch Controls: In joystick modes, it is now possible to double tap “fly up” to stop the flight. (MCPE-185237)
Touch Controls: Tapping fly up and fly down in quick succession no longer causes the player's flight to stop. (MCPE-185236)
Tools in the hotbar no longer animate when their durability is reduced (MCPE-186979)
Remove the 'X' close button from the command block UI when the player is using the Gamepad
A popup window now appears showing the name of the item when it is selected in the package tooltip on touch screen devices
Enabled selection of disabled buttons in 'join friends' menu while crossplay is off
Dualsense gamepads now have the correct tooltip icons on mobile devices
Fixed spacing on Realms Stories and Timeline pages
Touch Controls: Fixed a bug where boats were interactive during control customization. (MCPE-184404)
Fixed a bug where the death screen and new bed screen would sometimes have incorrect textures applied when resource packs were used (MCPE-178701, MCPE-184050)
Bundle tooltip items now have a gray background
Touch Controls: Fixed a bug where the camera could sometimes get stuck after leaving the ship. (MCPE-184406)
Set description appears correctly after placing from cursor
Gamepad tooltips are now correct when hovering over the crafting output on the inventory screen and crafting table screen with a beam on the cursor
Screenshots: Added the ability to highlight and display screenshots for others to see when they visit your profile. Added ability to set custom world thumbnail from screenshots.
Using the scroll wheel while hovering over a Bundle placed on the hotbar with the creative inventory search tab active now selects an item in the Bundle
Fixed a typo in the advanced tooltip for worlds with resource packs
Fixed a bug where double hints for gamepad input would show in certain death screen scenarios when using multiple input methods
The trial mode JSON UI modal shown in Create New World and Edit World has been migrated to the Ora UI
