Minecraft Creaking Heart Guide: Pale Garden, The Creaking, & More

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When an eerie creaking fills the air, be wary of what lurks near. Today, we examine the heart of a monster that has the skills of a master puppeteer in our Minecraft creaking heart guide.

Creaking Heart Overview

Creaking hearts are a block that generates within the pale oak trees of a pale garden biome. They glow an eerie orange at night and look like partially stripped logs in the daylight. However, their greatest strength is that they are almost never directly within sight. Hidden in leaves or in between logs, they wait patiently for their chance to strike, using a mob that only appears in the darkness of night.

The Creaking

The creaking is a hostile mob created by a creaking heart nearby. They are immune to nearly all damage and attack only when out of sight, but for all their strength, they can’t move when on-screen and are also the weakness of creaking hearts. Upon hitting the creaking, a line of particles will appear, showing where the creaking heart hides.

Defeating or Capturing a Creaking Heart

Once the location of a Minecraft creaking heart is known, it can be chopped from the tree with an axe, burned as a whole, or captured using an axe enchanted with silk touch. All three options will destroy the creaking it controls, but the third comes with the added bonus of being able to bring the creaking heart home. Creaking hearts remain dormant until they are placed vertically between two pale oak logs. Once done, the creaking heart will become active at night, spawning a creaking once more. The creaking will be hostile, much like before, so be warned! They make for entertaining guards and frightening pranks but remember the creaking can never travel further than 30 blocks from the heart it protects.