Summary
With the release ofMinecraft1.21.2, finally adding long-awaited items likethe Bundle, the snapshot and preview spotlight has once again landed onMinecraft’snewest biome, the Pale Garden. Now that this biome is receiving additions such as the new resin mechanic and eyeblossoms, the potential for further details has come to fruition.
As this biome seems to focus on the atmosphere and slight tension ofits eerie inhabitant,the Creaking Heart and its puppets in the Creaking, having extra elements not seen in most biomes would further accentuate the oddity that is this desaturated grove. Since this location is also denoted as a “garden,” additional features would seemingly be a must. Ranging from actual structures and blocks to visual flair, there are at least five key details the Pale Garden should receive.
5Structures
From A Forest To A Garden
One of the more criticized elements of the biome so far, the Pale Garden feels and looks more like a standard forest than a proper garden. While the name suggests more of a tone and supplies a pairing when a Woodland Mansion spawns in neighboring dark oak forests, the addition of unique structures could easily transform this wooded space.
With options ranging from stone garden walls to cemeteries to even a fancier choice in a gazebo, there are nearly endless ways to further clarify what makes this location a garden in the first place. Any addition of a garden-like oreven haunted-looking structurewill do wonders for the biome, not to mention the potential loot that could be found in such places.
4Plants
Floral Variety
With a title such as “garden,” having a wide array of plants for the biome is more than fitting and more than needed. The addition of the unique eyeblossom is a wonderful start, but for this forest to truly fit a seemingly overgrown garden look, a wide array of flora is required.
The eyeblossom, utilizing emissive textures that are sorelymissing on the torchflower,functioning as a glowing Creaking fake-out only at night adds a wonderful touch to the usual plant variety found in the game, especially since these flowers are evidently toxic to bees. Perhaps the most requested block for this biome, a white variant of the pumpkin, would be the perfect addition for the Pale Garden, partially for the visual of a stark white block found on the ground and partially for the building potential of a soulfire jack o' lantern block.
3Mobs
A Haunting Biome
Although the Pale Garden seems best when left strangely empty and devoid of life, the presence of few but effective mobs could easily add more to that seemingly dead air. While the Creaking certainly fills that silence at night, the addition of ravens or crows could add a haunting element during the day, especially withHalloweenaround the corner.
Adding these corvids could simply be a case of retexturing and adding new sounds for the parrot mob, with a gothic new look as the stark black of these birds could add a contrast to the paleness of the biome. Outside of crows, owls could be another mob that operates as another way to trick players as the Creaking, with gleaming orange eyes, much like the eyeblossom.
2Darkness
Adding An Edge
The Creaking, and its puppeteering Creaking Heart, are most effective when hidden in the shadows of the night and in the wooden bark of pale trees, and to add to that lurking nature, adding some kind of darkness effect to the Pale Garden at night would do wonders for this haunting and eerie atmosphere.
As seen withthe Warden in the Deep Dark,a pulsating or even situational darkness effect could add just the right level of fear to the Pale Garden, whether it is another use of the same effect for the Warden or potentially a way for the new resin items to have another use. Since resin is now part of the Pale Garden, it could be a way to prevent torches from snuffing out at nightfall or in the presence of a Creaking.
1Fog
The Theme Of Vision
One of the more requested features for the Pale Garden is a dramatic increase in and presence of fog within the biome’s borders, which is seemingly perfect given the intended atmosphere. A suffocating sweep of fog, completely reduces visibility to almost nothing, adding more to the ongoing theme of sight and vision within the biome, adding more to thethreat of being watched.
Even beyond the more horror-inspired aspects of fog, having rolling and pulsing walls of fog suggests the idea of a swampier and warmer garden feel, especially with the hanging pale moss. A dampness and plant-filled location all from the presence of fog, which seems to be what the Pale Garden partially wants to be.
