Tutorial:Mastering the pale garden
The pale garden is a bountiful source of pale oak and resin clumps. This tutorial will teach you how to master it, along with exclusive resources.
Preparation
When exploring and conquering the pale garden, it is recommended to carry at least the following items:
Axes, best made of iron or higher quality, capable of destroying pale oak logs and creaking hearts.
You can use a sword or spear to attack other enemies.
Armor, best made of iron or higher quality to reduce damage. If possible, enchant it with Protection.
Torches, which can illuminate dark areas and prevent monster spawning.
Highly nutritious food such as porkchops or steak to replenish hunger.
In addition to that, you can also choose to bring these items:
Hoes can be used to collect pale moss blocks and carpets, as well as the leaves.
Shears to break and collect leaves and pale hanging moss.
Shield to block attacks.
Flint and Steel for igniting the pale oak trees on the surface of the pale garden (You can carry iron ingots and flint to save inventory space).
A bow or crossbow can be used for ranged attacks.
Beds can used to set your respawn point.
Bundles for storing various miscellaneous items.
Seeking the pale garden
Pale gardens are typically located near dark forests and at higher elevations. You can search for pale gardens along the edge of a dark forest.
You can also use /locate biome pale_garden to directly locate the nearest pale garden, but this requires enabling commands.
Conquering the pale garden
Once you arrive in the pale garden, it is recommended that you first place torches on the ground. This is because the trees in a pale garden are quite dense, and a few monsters may spawn even during the day. If you have brought a bed, you can place it down and set your respawn point.
After illuminating a pale garden, only creakings will spawn. At night, creakings will start spawning near pale oak trees, as the creaking hearts hidden inside them activate.
Creakings deal up to four and a half health points in Hard mode, and you cannot directly harm them through attacks; therefore, you need to master some techniques:
- If the player is looking at a creaking (specifically, the angle between the line connecting the creaking to the player and the player's line of sight is less than 60°), the creaking will remain completely stationary and will not be able attack the player.
- If the player is not looking at a creaking, it will chase the player at a speed comparable to sprinting.
- Each creaking is bound to the creaking heart which spawned it. The bound creaking will not venture more than 32 blocks away from the creaking heart. When this creaking heart is destroyed, the bound creaking will die.
- When attacking a creaking, there will be particle effects between the hit creaking and its bound creaking heart.
Thus, as long as you are looking at the creaking, you can do other things without being chased and attacked by it. To make it disappear, you need to destroy the creaking heart it is bound to. When you attack it, you will see an orange and gray particle line; follow this line to find the creaking heart. If you need to change direction, walk in a circle around the creaking until you are facing away from your intended direction. Then open third-person view and slowly back away—this allows you to observe your surroundings while keeping the creaking stationary. If multiple creakings are chasing you, you can sprint in one direction, causing them to cluster together (confirm with third-person view). Turning your head to look at them will make all of them stop. When necessary, you can also use water and powder snow to hinder the movement of creakings.
If you didn't have the time to place torches, you also need to be cautious of other hostile mobs. If you have no more room to retreat and must flee directly, it's best to run on flat ground or downhill to avoid being blocked by blocks during jumps, which could allow creakings to catch you. Creakings will despawn when they are more than 32 blocks away from their bound creaking heart, at which point you are no longer threatened by them. Additionally, unnamed creakings will also disappear during the day.
Apart from that, you can also burn the pale garden directly with a flint and steel. This will burn the contiguous trees and expose the creaking hearts, which are not destroyed by fire, allowing you to collect them directly.
Pale gardens may also generate woodland mansions. If you are not prepared, as outlined in Tutorial:Defeating a woodland mansion, it is advisable not to venture there recklessly.
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