Minecraft: Bedrock Update Preview - Patch Notes (October 23, 2024)

It feels like yesterday when Mojang announced Pale Gardens, the new Minecraft biome, featuring the frankly terrifying Creaking monster. The frequent updates are Mojang living up to their promises to release smaller but constant patches of the game. Let's take a look at how the Pale Gardens are expanding with the most recent Minecraft patch notes.

Minecraft Bedrock Preview Update - Patch Notes (October 23, 2024)

If you thought that Pale Gardens felt a bit empty, you're not the only one. Mojang are adding some brand new blocks and flora to the creepy biome, and some tweaks to the ent-like creature the Creaking. Not that it would make him more pleasant to be around. Here's what Mojang are adding in the new Minecraft Bedrock Edition Patch v.1.21.50.25.

Eyeblossoms

Eyeblossoms are a new flower unique to the pale garden. Unique features:

• They exist in two variants: Closed and Open Eyeblossom
• Eyeblossoms transition between the two variants based on the time of day: during the night, Eyeblossoms will become Open, and during the day, they will become Closed. In dimensions that do not have a day/night cycle, they will remain as-is
• Eyeblossoms planted on the ground will communicate with each other, helping each other to open or close
• Open Eyeblossoms have glowing eyes during the night
• Eyeblossoms can be obtained by bonemealing the grass in the Pale Garden biome
• Bees get poisoned when they interact with Eyeblossoms
• Suspicious Stew made from Eyeblossom will have Blindness or Nausea effect depending on the variant
• Gray or Orange Dye can be crafted from Closed and Open Eyeblossoms respectively

Resin

Resin is a new multi-faced block coming to testing that you can use for building. Unique features:

• Dropped by the Creaking Heart when it is destroyed
• Placed around the Creaking Heart when its Creaking is attacked
• Can be crafted into a Block of Resin
• Can be hardened into Resin Bricks in a furnace
• Can be used to trim armor

Resin Bricks can be crafted into the Resin Brick set:

• Brick block
• Stairs
• Walls
• Slabs
• Chiseled Resin Brick block
• Blocks of Resin can be crafted into a Creaking Heart using two Pale Oak Logs.

Both can be found in Chests in the Woodland Mansion.

New Features & Bug Fixes

Pale Garden

• Further adjusted the color of the Pale Garden sky at the horizon to more closely match Java
• The texure of the Pale Oak Sign model and UI has been adjusted for consistency with other signs
• Pale Oak Saplings can now be composted
• Pale Hanging Moss now uses the same sounds as other Moss and Pale Moss blocks
• Increased frequency of the Pale Hanging Moss ambience sound
• Pale Hanging Moss no longer generates on Pale Oak trees grown from Pale Oak Saplings

Creaking Heart

• Naturally generated Creaking Hearts now drop 20 to 24 experience, even when collected with Silk Touch
• Increased frequency of the Creaking Heart ambience sound
• The texture of the inactive Creaking Heart has been updated to be more consistent with its active state

Creaking

• Increased the speed of aggravated Creakings
• Creakings now deal more attack damage
• When a Creaking Heart is destroyed, its Creaking will now twitch for a few seconds before crumbling
• Creakings spawned by a Creaking Heart will crumble when stuck in a hole with a Player for more than 5 seconds. This prevents a potential soft lock, as the invulnerable Creaking would prevent the player from mining or placing any blocks, requiring them to exit and re-enter the world to force the Creaking to despawn
• A Creaking crumbling now causes nearby Sculk Catalysts to bloom. However, no Sculk will be placed since the Creaking does not drop any XP
• The Creaking's walking animation has been updated
• The Creaking's attack animation has been updated
• A Creaking spawned by a Creaking Heart no longer avoids damaging blocks
• A Creaking spawned by command or Spawn Egg is no longer invulnerable to Fire and Lava
• A Creaking spawned by command or Spawn Egg now avoids damaging blocks
• The Creaking's attack speed has been decreased to match Java

This is everything new coming up in the Pale Gardens biome, but you can check out Mojang's blog post to see the full patch notes. There's more tunes and fixes you might find yourself pleasantly surprised by. Stay tuned for more updates and have fun exploring the dark depths of the spooky pale forests of Minecraft!