Minecraft 1.21.4: The Garden Awakens Update

The update features blocks with unique properties, allowing for a variety of constructions and mechanics:

• Pale Mossy Cover: Grows up to two blocks high and spreads to adjacent surfaces. When fertilized with bone meal, it extends its coverage to all adjacent faces.

• Pale Moss Block: This building block can be used for decorative purposes. Its coating spreads to nearby blocks with the help of bone meal.

• Glazocvet: A glowing flower found in the Pale Garden. It can be closed or open. It is used in recipes for Suspicious Stew and for poisoning bees.

• Pale Oak Planks: A construction material suitable for creating doors, stairs, and other decorative elements.

• Pale Oak Log: The base material of the new tree used to create various building elements, including the stripped variant.

• Resin Clump: Generates near the Creaking Heart. Serves as the basis for crafting Resin Brick and Resin Block.

• Pale Oak Leaves and Pale Hanging Moss: Adorn the crown of the new tree, adding atmosphere and a unique sound effect.

• Creaking Heart: A special block inside the Pale Oak that sends particles to the Creaking and generates Resin Clumps. It is broken with an axe and crafted using the recipe: Resin Block + Pale Oak.

• Resin Block and Resin Brick: Materials obtained from Resin Clumps, used in construction and crafting.

• Resin Brick: Crafted from Resin Clumps and used for construction.

• Creeper Spawn Egg: Allows summoning a Creaker with minimal health for special scenarios.

The Creaking is a new hostile mob that inhabits the area around the Creaking Heart. It deals 3 points of damage, is immune to fire, and can overcome obstacles such as bushes, cacti, or powder snow. An important feature of the Creaker is its inability to enter boats or go through portals. When summoned using the egg, its health is set to the minimum level.

The new biome – the Pale Garden – is characterized by a gentle pale palette and the absence of musical accompaniment, creating a unique atmosphere. The biome forms at the edge of the Dark Forest, offering an abundance of new content, including unique plants, blocks, and mobs.

The new type of tree – Pale Oak – grows in the Pale Garden. Its white crowns and materials serve as the basis for many new blocks and items, forming the unique visual style of the update.

• The appearance of bricks in the Nether has been updated – cracked and red bricks have received a new texture.
• Now, by using the appropriate tool when breaking certain blocks, the player is guaranteed to receive items such as a copper door, a bell, a pressure plate, a brewing stand, a soul lantern, an iron door, and others.
• The Sculk Sensor can now output a signal level of 13 and reacts to the presence of Resin Clumps.
• When breaking an End Chest with an unsuitable tool, instead of its contents, the player receives obsidian.
• The duration of effects has been adjusted to balance gameplay.

• Bees: When attempting to feed bees with a Glazocvet or a Withering Rose, they may lose the ability to breed and also receive wither or poison effects. If the Glazocvet is closed, bees remain calm.

• Item Selection by Mobs: Mobs now choose higher quality tools and weapons, considering their durability, enchantments, and other characteristics.

• Animal Breeding: When breeding wolves and cats, the mixing of collar colors is taken into account, leading to new shades in the offspring.

• Combat Preferences: Pillagers and Piglins now prefer crossbows. The Winter Wraith, Swamplord, and Skeleton strive to use bows, while the Drowned prefer tridents.

This update fixes numerous bugs, improving the stability and quality of the game. Here are some of the fixes:

• When falling from a height, overburdening is now taken into account, allowing several seconds of damage immunity.
• Players can quickly prevent fire damage by reloading the world or rejoining the server.
• Fixed subtitles and visual artifacts when horse skeletons interact with water.
• It is no longer possible to set the "Lockable" status on a single chest without an adjacent chest.
• Improved text visualization and removed unnecessary shadows.
• Creakers can now unleash a strong wind.
• Sniffers have stopped digging in Pale Moss.

The 1.21.4 "The Garden Awakens" update introduces a new Pale Garden biome, as well as adding blocks, items, and the Creaker mob. In addition, numerous changes and fixes have been implemented to improve the game's performance and eliminate bugs.