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Pale Garden

👁 Pale Garden.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Pale Garden'

👁 Pale Garden Vibrant Visuals.png: Infobox image for Minecraft biome 'Pale Garden'

Climate
Structures	👁 Image Abandoned Camp^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]} 👁 Image Woodland Mansion
Features	👁 Image Pale Oak
Blocks	👁 Image Grass Block 👁 Image Pale Moss Block 👁 Image Pale Moss Carpet 👁 Image Pale Hanging Moss 👁 Image Eyeblossom 👁 Image Tall Grass
Temperature	0.7
Downfall	0.8
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Sky color	#B9B9B9 (clear) #818181 (precipitation)‌^{[JE only]}
Fog color	#817770 (clear) #403C44 (precipitation)‌^{[BE only]}
Grass color	#778272
Foliage color	#878D76
Dry foliage color	#A0A69C
Water color	#76889D
Water fog color	#556980
Vibrant Visuals
Atmospherics	Pale Garden
Lighting	Pale Garden
Volumetric fog	Pale Garden
Color grading	Coolish

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A pale garden is a rare variant of the dark forest biome with pale oaks and many pale vegetation blocks. Creaking hearts that spawn creakings at night can often be found here.

Generation

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Pale gardens generate adjacent to dark forests in areas of high continentalness and weirdness. They are always found on plateaus or mountain slopes from areas with medium temperature and the highest humidity.

Besides dark forests, pale gardens commonly border meadow and grove biomes, and uncommonly old growth pine taigas, forests, birch forests, jungles, frozen peaks, and jagged peaks. Because they can border meadows, villages sometimes touch pale gardens, unlike regular dark forests.

Description

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They mainly consist of pale oak trees, along with pale moss patches made of pale moss blocks and pale moss carpets, and scattered eyeblossoms. Pale hanging moss can be found hanging off the trees. Some of the pale oak trees contain a creaking heart block, which spawns a creaking when activated at night. Woodland mansions can generate in pale gardens. The water, sky, and blocks of the biome are desaturated.

Abandoned camps sometimes generate in pale gardens.^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}

With Vibrant Visuals, the pale garden has an extremely dense pale fog that blocks all skylight and limits the view to only a few chunks. Sunlight is much less bright and colored gray, as well as moonlight. Pale gardens use coolish color grading, which tints the environment colder blue.

Ambient music does not play in pale gardens. If a music track is playing while the player enters the biome, it fades into silence. The music resumes when the player exits the biome.

Mobs

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Creakings are found in this biome only at night, but their spawning is controlled by creaking hearts, not the biome. Since naturally generated pale oaks only have a 20% chance to include a creaking heart, it is possible to find small pale gardens with no creaking hearts.

Regular passive mobs do not naturally spawn in the pale garden,^[1] but normal hostile mobs can spawn here, sometimes even during the day because of the thick foliage.^[2]

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In **Java Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
👁 Image Creeper	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Skeleton	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Slime^{[note 1]}	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Spider	¹⁰⁰⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Zombie	⁹⁵⁄₅₁₅	4
👁 Image Enderman	¹⁰⁄₅₁₅	1–4
👁 Image Witch	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
👁 Image Zombie Villager	⁵⁄₅₁₅	1
Underground water creature category
👁 Image Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
👁 Image Bat	1	8

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

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In **Bedrock Edition**
Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
👁 Image Creeper	100	1
👁 Image Slime^{[note 1]}	100	1
👁 Image Spider	100	1
👁 Image Zombie	95	2–4
👁 Image Skeleton	80	1–2
👁 Image Enderman	10	1–2
👁 Image Witch	5	1
👁 Image Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
👁 Image Glow Squid	1	2–4

↑ Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.

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Data values

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ID

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Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
👁 BiomeSprite pale-garden.png: Sprite image for pale-garden in Minecraft Pale Garden	`pale_garden`	`biome.minecraft.pale_garden`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
👁 BiomeSprite pale-garden.png: Sprite image for pale-garden in Minecraft [No displayed name]	`pale_garden`	`193`

Achievements

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Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
👁 Image	👁 Image	Adventuring Time	Discover 17 biomes.	Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world.	40	Silver

Advancements

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Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
👁 Image 👁 Image	Adventuring Time	Discover every biome	Visit all of these 55^{[until: Third Drop 2026]}/56^[upcoming] biomes: 👁 Image Badlands 👁 Image Bamboo Jungle 👁 Image Beach 👁 Image Birch Forest 👁 Image Cherry Grove 👁 Image Cold Ocean 👁 Image Dark Forest 👁 Image Deep Cold Ocean 👁 Image Deep Dark 👁 Image Deep Frozen Ocean 👁 Image Deep Lukewarm Ocean 👁 Image Deep Ocean 👁 Image Desert 👁 Image Dripstone Caves 👁 Image Eroded Badlands 👁 Image Flower Forest 👁 Image Forest 👁 Image Frozen Ocean 👁 Image Frozen Peaks 👁 Image Frozen River 👁 Image Grove 👁 Image Ice Spikes 👁 Image Jagged Peaks 👁 Image Jungle 👁 Image Lukewarm Ocean 👁 Image Lush Caves 👁 Image Mangrove Swamp 👁 Image Meadow 👁 Image Mushroom Fields 👁 Image Ocean 👁 Image Old Growth Birch Forest 👁 Image Old Growth Pine Taiga 👁 Image Old Growth Spruce Taiga 👁 Image 👁 Image Plains 👁 Image River 👁 Image Savanna 👁 Image Savanna Plateau 👁 Image Snowy Beach 👁 Image Snowy Plains 👁 Image Snowy Slopes 👁 Image Snowy Taiga 👁 Image Sparse Jungle 👁 Image Stony Peaks 👁 Image Stony Shore 👁 Image Sunflower Plains 👁 Image Sulfur Caves 👁 Image Swamp 👁 Image Taiga 👁 Image Warm Ocean 👁 Image Windswept Forest 👁 Image Windswept Gravelly Hills 👁 Image Windswept Hills 👁 Image Windswept Savanna 👁 Image Wooded Badlands The advancement is only for Overworld biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for this advancement.

Videos

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History

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Announcement

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September 24, 2024							A version of the Minecraft Live page announcing the pale gardens and creaking is published, by mistake. It was taken down in the following minutes.
September 28, 2024							Pale gardens are showcased at Minecraft Live 2024.
September 28, 2024							Pale gardens are shown to generate at low altitudes, next to sea level.

Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop	24w40a	Added pale gardens.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop	24w40a	Pale gardens generate in mountainous areas rather than close to sea level as was showcased earlier.
1.21.4	24w44a	Pale gardens are now available without toggling the Winter Drop experimental data pack.
		Eyeblossoms now generate in pale gardens.
		Pale oak leaves with an exposed bottom face now create falling leaves particles when in pale gardens.
		The pale garden has no music, and currently playing music gradually fades out if the player enters one.
1.21.5	25w02a	Pale gardens now generate more frequently and are overall larger.
1.21.5	25w02a	Woodland mansions now generate in pale gardens.
Upcoming Java Edition
26.3	snap1	Added abandoned camps, which can generate in pale gardens.

Bedrock Edition

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Bedrock Edition
1.21.50	Preview 1.21.50.20	Added pale gardens.
	Preview 1.21.50.25	Eyeblossoms now generate in pale gardens.
		Further adjusted the color of the pale garden sky at the horizon to more closely match Java Edition.
		Increased frequency of the pale hanging moss ambience sound.
		Pale hanging moss no longer generates on pale oak trees grown from pale oak saplings.
	Preview 1.21.50.26	Pale oak leaves with an exposed bottom face now create falling leaves particles when in pale gardens.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.25	Pale gardens now generate more frequently and are overall larger.
1.21.60	Preview 1.21.60.25	Woodland mansions now generate in pale gardens.
1.21.90	Preview 1.21.90.26	Added gray atmospherics, coolish color grading, heavy volumetric fog, and dark lighting to pale gardens with Vibrant Visuals.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
26.40 Experiment Drop 3 of 2026	Preview 26.40.27	Added abandoned camps, which can generate in pale gardens.

Data history

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Java Edition
1.21.2			pre1				Added `pale_garden` to the `#is_overworld` biome tag.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Pale Garden" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

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References

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↑ "The pale garden" by Sophie Austin – Minecraft.net, October 2, 2024.
↑ "Minecraft Live 2024: Developer After-Show" – Minecraft on YouTube, September 28, 2024

Navigation

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Biomes

👁 Image Overworld
Landforms	👁 Image Beach 👁 Image Snowy 👁 Image Stony Shore 👁 Image River 👁 Image Frozen
Snowy	👁 Image Frozen Peaks 👁 Image Grove 👁 Image Jagged Peaks 👁 Image Snowy Plains 👁 Image Ice Spikes 👁 Image Snowy Slopes 👁 Image Snowy Taiga
Cold	👁 Image Taiga 👁 Image Old Growth Pine 👁 Image Old Growth Spruce 👁 Image Windswept Hills 👁 Image Forest 👁 Image Gravelly 👁 Image Dappled Forest^{[upcoming: Third Drop 2026]}
Temperate	👁 Image Birch Forest 👁 Image Old Growth 👁 Image Cherry Grove 👁 Image Dark Forest 👁 Image 👁 Image Forest 👁 Image Flower 👁 Image Meadow 👁 Image Mushroom Fields 👁 Image Plains 👁 Image Sunflower 👁 Image Swamp
Warm	👁 Image Badlands 👁 Image Eroded 👁 Image Wooded 👁 Image Desert 👁 Image Jungle 👁 Image Bamboo 👁 Image Sparse 👁 Image Mangrove Swamp 👁 Image Savanna 👁 Image Plateau 👁 Image Windswept 👁 Image Stony Peaks
Ocean	👁 Image Frozen Ocean 👁 Image Deep 👁 Image Cold Ocean 👁 Image Deep 👁 Image Ocean 👁 Image Deep 👁 Image Lukewarm Ocean 👁 Image Deep 👁 Image Warm Ocean
Caves	👁 Image Deep Dark 👁 Image Dripstone Caves 👁 Image Lush Caves 👁 Image Sulfur Caves

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👁 BiomeSprite sky.png: Sprite image for sky in Minecraft
Other

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JE only	👁 Image The Void

Unused/removed

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Modified	👁 Image Dark Forest Hills 👁 Image Desert Lakes 👁 Image Modified Badlands Plateau 👁 Image Wooded 👁 Image Modified Jungle 👁 Image Edge 👁 Image Swamp Hills 👁 Image Taiga Mountains 👁 Image Snowy
Modified hills	👁 Image Giant Spruce Taiga Hills 👁 Image Gravelly Mountains+ 👁 Image Shattered Savanna Plateau 👁 Image Tall Birch Hills
Other	👁 Image Badlands Plateau 👁 Image Deep Warm Ocean 👁 Image Mountain Edge 👁 Image Mushroom Field Shore
BE only	👁 Image Legacy Frozen Ocean

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Unimplemented	👁 Image Sky

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Generation

Description

Mobs

Data values

ID

Achievements

Advancements

Videos

History

Announcement

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Data history

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