Minecraft’s terrifying new mobs and biomes update is now live on Switch, here are the full patch notes
Earlier this year at Minecraft Live in 2024, Mojang announced a terrifying new mob and biome update for the game.
The ‘Garden Awakens update’ is now officially live – allowing players to explore this strange new biome, meet the squeaker and discover the “secrets” at its heart. You will also have access to new blocks, hanging moss, and more.
Here are the full patch notes for this Minecraft update, provided by the official support page:
The creaking heart is a “living” mass created from a Pale Oak tree, covered on all sides by Pale Oak logs. It can spawn a Creaking mob after dark and is placed between two precisely aligned Pale Oak blocks.
Trumpet Mobs will appear at night in the Pale Garden biome if a Scouring Heart block is generated in the Pale Oak tree. Game features:
An activated jam will not move if the player looks at it
Creepy is invulnerable
When hit, a streak of particles is displayed between the Creaking block and the Heart Creaking block it is connected to.
When the Creepy Heart block to which the Creak is connected is destroyed, the Creak is removed
Unaffected by light levels but spawns and disappears based on the day/night cycle
The creaking sound does not get into the boat
The creaking sound produced by the Creaking Heart cannot pass through the gate
The Creaky Spawn Egg will spawn a Creaky Mob that is not connected to the Creaky Heart. Creaking mobs will exist throughout the day and night, loading and saving, and will take damage from attacks and other damage sources. It has one health point (half a heart)
Creaking Hearts summoned from Creaking Hearts cannot be spawned with spawn eggs, nor can they be summoned by command. It can only exist as part of the Creaking Heart block
Players wearing a carved pumpkin on their head can see Creaking Tiger without being frozen in place
When the Crying Heart is destroyed, it will convulse for a few seconds before shattering
The cry caused by the Creaking Heart will crumble when trapped in a hole with the Player for more than 5 seconds
- This prevents a potential soft lock, as the Invulnerable Jam will prevent the player from mining or placing any blocks, requiring them to exit and re-enter the world to force the Trumpet to appear.
The creaking noise causes the nearby Sculk Catalyst to bloom
- However, no Sculk will be placed as Creaking does not drop any XP
The tiger makes 4 different shaking sounds
The tiger made a new attack sound
Eye flower is a new flower spawned in the Pale Garden biome. Unique features:
Ambient sounds in the Pale Garden biome do not come from the biome settings but are generated by blocks found in the biome
Pale Garden is a biome variation of Dark Forest. Unique features:
Pale Hanging Moss spawns naturally in the Pale Garden biome under the foliage of Pale Oak Trees
Pale Moss blocks are naturally generated in the Pale Garden biome. Unique features:
The following blocks now only drop when destroyed with a pickaxe: Blast Furnace, Cauldron, Dispenser, Dropper, Enchantment Table, Furnace, Funnel, and Smokejumper (MCPE-33950)
The following blocks that require support now always fall off when broken with any tool: all Bronze Doors, Iron Doors, Heavy Pressure Plates, Light Weight Pressure Plates, Stone Pressure Plates polished black and stone pressure plate
Budding amethyst is now mined more slowly using unsuitable tools
The following blocks (always dropped) are now mined faster when using the incorrect tool: Bell, Brewing Stand, Crafter, Ender Chest, Lantern and Soul Lantern. Note that Ender Chests are considered ‘blocks that always drop’ even though the drop is not an Ender Chest (MCPE-176374)
Swords can now cut Bamboo Plants instantly, just like Bamboo
Axes no longer mine Bamboo Trees and Mossy Mats faster
Pickaxes and Shovels no longer mine Bamboo as quickly as Axes
Macs no longer exploit Cobwebs faster than other non-Sword tools
Heavy Core can now mine faster with any unsuitable tools
The note block placed above the Heavy Core now plays the appropriate sound
Crafters can now be mined quickly with any Pickaxe
If you somehow mine the Dragon Egg, which is almost impossible, it no longer requires a Pickaxe to drop and is quick to mine with any tool.
Copper Trap Door and Copper Bulb now require a Stone Pickaxe or better to drop and mine quickly
Swords no longer mine all blocks faster than bare hands, instead it only mines certain non-mineable plant type blocks, such as Leaves, Pumpkins, Large Dripping Leaves , Chorus flower, Chorus plant, Cocoa, Glowing lichen, Cucumber melon, carpet of moss and vines (MCPE-93323)
Stone Buttons and Polished Black Stone Buttons no longer require the Pickaxe to be released and can now be mined faster with any unsuitable tool (MCPE-162158)
Updated Heavy Core’s item textures
The following blocks now only drop when destroyed with a pickaxe: Blast Furnace, Cauldron, Dispenser, Dropper, Enchantment Table, Furnace, Funnel, and Smokejumper (MCPE-33950)
The following blocks that require support now always fall off when broken with any tool: all Bronze Doors, Iron Doors, Heavy Pressure Plates, Light Weight Pressure Plates, Stone Pressure Plates polished black and stone pressure plate
Budding amethyst is now mined more slowly using unsuitable tools
The following blocks (always dropped) are now mined faster when using the incorrect tool: Bell, Brewing Stand, Crafter, Ender Chest, Lantern and Soul Lantern. Note that Ender Chests are considered ‘blocks that always drop’ even though the drop is not an Ender Chest (MCPE-176374)
Fixed an issue where the Shulker Box color was not listed in the name (MCPE-182930)
Grass and Nylium no longer decompose into Dirt and Netherrack when under Slime, Honey, Hopper or Chemical Heat (Education Edition block) (MCPE-62132)
Grass and Nylium now decay into Dirt and Netherrack while under the Observer
Test spawners with Mobs placed by Spawn Eggs no longer return to empty when their cooldown ends (MCPE-185960)
Rhododendron, Rhododendron, Mangrove, Cherry, and Light Oak Leaves no longer display black pixels from a distance (MCPE-156469)
Mangrove Leaves now have dedicated textures when “Favorite Leaves” is disabled (MCPE-170516)
The direction of the Pale Oak Leaf texture is no longer random for each block
Moss blocks now have quieter walking and ground sounds (MCPE-176933)
Decorative pots no longer trigger Observers when loading the world
The Sculk sensor now detects the opening and closing of the Eyeblossom
Fixed all Skull block variants being turned into Skeleton_skull when opening locked world template versions below 1.21.40 or structures. Please note, this fix will not apply to segments that have been overwritten
Textures for Bricks, Nether Bricks, Red Nether Bricks, Resin Bricks, and related blocks have been updated to align horizontally with all other brick blocks (MCPE-187806)
Closed flowers are no longer toxic to bees
The Poison effect from the Eye Opener Flower now also damages Bees while they are inside the block, instead of only when exiting
Reduced the duration of Poison effects applied by Open Eyeblossoms
Adjusted the ambient sound frequencies emitted by Eyeblossoms, Creaking Hearts, and Pale Hang Moss to better suit Java
Suspicious Stew’s effect duration has been adjusted to be the same across versions
Suspicious Stew from Open Eyeblossom now has the same blinding duration as Suspicious Stew from Azure Bluet (MCPE-187802)
Change the order of tabs in the Settings screen
Fixed a bug that caused players on the member management screen to not update when returning from ‘Find Friends’
Improved feedback to users when Realm uploads fail due to naming
When enabling testing in world settings (OreUI), we no longer get the “Automatically enable cheats” status error. (MCPE-181435)
Items currently selected inside a Bundle are now correctly displayed as part of the Bundle’s icon when the Bundle is placed in the inventory or crafting grid of the Crafting Table
The sound of moving items into or out of Packs now originates from the player’s position instead of the corner of the block the player is standing on (MCPE-186619)
Fixed world name text sometimes displaying incorrectly on the pause menu (MCPE-179702)
Fixed a visual glitch that could occur when navigating between the death screen and the game menu.
Fixed an issue with inventory touch controls where items could not be distributed across existing item stacks of the same item (MCPE-164543)
Added UI controls for enabling/disabling active beds and the percentage of players sleeping required for the night
The items “short_grass”, “fern”, “seagrass” and “vine” are now brighter in inventory, previously they were incorrectly multiplied by green (MCPE-53775)
Hide Create from template button and Import world button when in Trial mode.
Refine the position of the paper doll so that it does not overlap with the UI bars (MCPE-186341)
Mobile: Switching to windowed/split-screen mode no longer overwrites saved positions of custom controls (MCPE-185964)
Improved Thai font display for chat and symbols. (MCPE-166005)
Added missing quick swap animation in GUI for some blocks
Packages moved under the player’s cursor now correctly update their tooltips
The size of the Shield item no longer changes when the item is moved between slots
Packages moved under the player’s cursor now correctly update their tooltips
It is now possible to collect crafting output with a bundle to add crafting items to the bundle
Touch controls: Fixed an issue where boats could interact during control customization (MCPE-184404, MCPE-184406)
Touch controls: in joystick mode, it is now possible to double tap “fly up” to stop flying. (MCPE-185237)
Touch controls: touching up and down consecutively no longer causes the player to stop flying. (MCPE-185236)
Tools in the hotbar no longer animate when their durability decreases (MCPE-186979)
Remove the ‘X’ close button from the Command Block UI when the player is using a Gamepad
A popup will now appear displaying the name of the item when it is selected in the Bundle’s tooltip on touchscreen devices
Enabled select disabled buttons on the ‘join friends’ menu while cross-play is disabled
The Dualsense Gamepad now has the correct tooltip icon on mobile devices
Fixed spacing on Realms Story and Timeline pages
Touch Controls: Fixed an issue where boats could interact during control customization. (MCPE-184404)
Fixed a bug where the dead screen and new bed screen sometimes applied incorrect textures when using resource packs (MCPE-178701, MCPE-184050)
Items in the Bundle tooltip now have a gray background
Touch controls: Fixed an issue where the camera could sometimes get stuck after leaving the boat. (MCPE-184406)
The package tooltip appears correctly after being placed from the cursor
Gamepad tooltips are now correct when moving crafting output in the Inventory Screen and Crafting Table Screen with a package on the cursor
Screenshots: Added the ability to Highlight and Show screenshots for others to see when they visit your Profile. Added the ability to set custom world thumbnails from screenshots.
Using the scroll wheel when hovering a Bundle placed in the hotbar with the creative inventory search tab active will select an item in the Bundle
Fixed typo in advanced tips for worlds with resource packs
Fixed display of duplicate gamepad input hints in certain cases on death screen when using multiple input methods
Moved JSON UI Trial Mode method shown in Create new world and Edit world to Ore UI
