I Made the Pale Gardens ACTUALLY Scary...

[@superspider64]

I feel like one major issue with the Creaking is that it goes away in the daytime, like imagine if it stood completely still, eyes closed during the day, just blending in with the trees as you're walking around, then uh oh, you were in the forest for too long and the sun is down and you're hearing creaking noises around you all of a sudden

[@LetsPlayWithPixels13]

I'm going to reply to every comment rn

[@leodark_animations2084]

Too much work for Mojang..they arleady made a new set of wood that's enough to compensate for a mob that could be awesome with a bunch of more features

[@TheodoreMcLean]

i that's a great idea they should also add more foyage that looks like eye so the kreeking can blend in better

[@SealWithoutHat]

That's actually such a simple but game changing idea, it's absurd how a random comment on the internet can come up with more creativity than Mojang, with no special features this thing is literally just scp 173.

[@RePorpoised]

I think it's a necessary part of its behaviour. First off, it needs *_some_* way to appear and disappear, especially since it (mostly) cannot be moved. Imagine a creaking is standing on a place you're building during the day, you now have to wait till nighttime to have a chance to get it to move away or go track and find its heart, which is kind of an annoying interaction. This also completely makes the challenge of creaking redundant. Just whack it in the day and you can find out where its creaking heart is without any trouble. Plus, they would be able to keep wardens permanently aggro and completely prevent wardens from despawning if that were the case. That's kind of cool, but also potentially really annoying since wardens are designed around de-aggroing fast enough that you can save dropped loot. Having a mob that's just kind of permanently an obstacle just isn't as much fun as it first seems.

[@xicad1533]

i dislike the creaking having the darkness effect, this was something special for the warden/shriekers. I think something like fog becoming thicker would be much better

[@dcincco]

Blindness might work too, since it’s more of a near-sight thing, so you can’t tell whether you see it or not.

[@snowparody]

Agreed

[@tsuketsu9889]

even better, just make 2 different mod versions. 1 with fog and the other with darkness. Or better yet, just make it an option in the mod config

[@kompst_tu]

Unfortunately they will never tweak fog dynamically based on a scenario

[@daniilfilms]

I feel like what the pale garden needed was a more lush environment like bushes, shrubs, etc, it would make the creaking blend in more with the environment and make it more scary.

[@lifeiscats1337]

Mojang said themselves that they wanted the biome to look as if its sick and dying, so that would defeat the purpose

[@mridiot57]

@@lifeiscats1337 then maybe a bunch of dead things, like leafless bushes and stuff, some more flowers that droop like they're sick

[@ItsNormenDay]

I feel that hundreds of eyes peering at you from the darkness are scarier than one giant pair. The single giant Creeking isn't that scary to me.

[@Rohan-q1x2t]

True

[@MinerGritz]

it's a bit of a 'would you rather fight 100 chicken sized zombies or 10 zombie sized chickens' situation

[@JOjustuce]

That’s why you add firefly’s

[@Mr.Starlight_gaming]

100% the zombies. The latter are basically cassoaries and im not fighting those things.

[@ItsNormenDay]

@@Mr.Starlight_gaming What?

[@Slimerror]

The best way they could make the creaking scarier is having it have an animation for when it disappears and giving the pale garden a more interesting aesthetic like it's the ashy ghost of a forest. The creaking are its animated remains protecting it from another fire.

[@ehdontlisten2467]

its kinda wild mojang went from the deep dark to *this* in levels of scary

[@LetsPlayWithPixels13]

I'm going to reply to every comment rn

[@lasercraft32]

WILD you say? You mean WILD UPDATE? XD

[@stupidbugger]

yeah they seemed to have tried harder on that and they hyped it up more to

[@eeeeeeee_e]

Uuuuuuuuuuuuh

[@GuyllianVanRixtel]

There are more forms of horror than just scary.

[@FogFrog606]

I think it would be cool if the creaking followed the player who caused it to spawn forever. Just imagine, you fly through a pale garden with an elytra and accidentally spawn a creaking. You fly away. A few in game days later you open your door and the creaking’s just standing there.

[@GuyllianVanRixtel]

So you just are screwed over for the rest of your playthrough?

[@PulpiSuper3246]

The idea is good, but then to do that, the mob would have to load chunks in real time and that in the long run generates a lot of lag.

[@Oliversentertainment6678]

@@GuyllianVanRixtel yep

[@GuyllianVanRixtel]

@@PulpiSuper3246 Which is definitly the only problem of course.

[@PulpiSuper3246]

@@GuyllianVanRixtel Clearly I am not going to say the same thing that you have commented in the answer. It's something too obvious🤷

[@MegaChickenfish]

I love the eyes in the giant tree almost like the whole tree is a giant Creaking though they did seem really harmless.

[@creeperselvaggio3754]

Omg I love the sound. A thing I love of some mod is the constant danger around you house and this is exactly the kind of vibe I love.

[@RUGER5264]

Fog. All Mojang needs is fog. And Maybe this mod too. 😂

[@dinoskywalker3515]

I also feel like the creaking could use more lore behind it, like maybe it’s a demon or an evil spirit that haunts this very forest. And maybe even all the villagers could say that the Pale Garden is forbidden.

[@trollge2643]

I have the idea that illagers were just villagers that got corrupted by pale garden, and that's why they are gray and afraid of creaking

[@Davisthedudeedits]

​@@trollge2643 good point

[@jimbolimbodimbo]

that reminds me of ravenholm from half life 2 ngl

[@timohara7717]

​@@trollge2643I read it as gay

[@AuriPlayzz]

I like to imagine that the Creaking is some kind of effigy constructed by the illagers, as the way you summon it and its actual appearance itself is very akin to Poppet crafting. You can also find the resin required to craft a creaking heart within Woodland Mansions. What their intentions with the Creaking are, I’m not so sure.

[@PossiblyMixingItUp]

the potential for a boss in the depths of heartwood trees is... alot.

[@porterijsseldijk3953]

The whole thing which the sky getting darker in the biome glitched, so now permanently my world is dark, even a thousand blocks away, pain in the ass, i miss the blue skys of Minecraft

[@AAZ-yu5ss]

4:25 You did not just get *Three* baby zombies chasing you on Hardcore 😭💀

[@StabanGaming]

@AAZ-yu5ss Philza!!!

[@StabanGaming]

Sorry for the Philza joke

[@LeonSBU]

dude this is sick!! congrats on finishing this huge project :)

[@Kqvikko]

This reminds me of the whole JetStarfish Deep Dark thing, because, I don't know, it feels almost... unnecessary. Like, really think about it, the Pale Garden is, from what I've seen, _supposed_ to be a different, almost twisted version of the Dark Oak Forest. And, I do thank you for not doing progress locks and all of the other horrid changes that Jet suggested, but it still feels a bit useless. But, that's just my opinion. This seems like a cool idea, and props to you for making it an actual datapack, and not-... wait a minute. That datapack is behind a paywall. That's against the Minecraft EULA code.

[@LiebertHOK]

This is 100x scarier than what minecraft made, nicejob

[@okayderp]

This is an incredible video, Josh! I REALLY enjoyed this one. Props to you, and well done!! This is an amazing data pack.

[@AuriPlayzz]

The pale garden absolutely screams gruesome fairytale. Like, something dark and mysterious, probably coming from somewhere like Germany. I’d love to see some more whimsical elements added to it as it still feels a little too barren for a garden right now.

[@sillyobjectz]

If anything I find the new biome calming actually like it’s rly pretty i didn’t even know it was meant to be scary at first lol

[@jacobfaro9571]

I have an idea or two to expand on this: Replace some (but not all) of the pale logs with a new animated texture that has eyes which occasionally open. Each tree structure that generates will have of or two of these. This kind of animation already exists in a Halloween texture pack in legacy console so I know it’s possible. Have another hostile flying mob that stalks the skies, but can’t see through leaves and is scared of someone on the surface. This is to make climbing on top of the trees just as if not more dangerous than the floor of the biome. Have a plant called shadow stalk or shrub that acts as a reverse light source: it takes light away from the area around it, either by creating a darkness in some areas even in the day, allowing hostile mobs to be present at all times. Maybe make it part of the pale trees like cocoa beans, maybe not. Point is you can’t just light the biome up with torches, you need to destroy these also to really be safe. Lastly, there should be some sort of reward for going here unique to this biome. Perhaps an ingredient for spectral potions or maybe make the eye plants an ingredient required for the night vision potions. Maybe you can make the hearts of pale monsters into the potion ingredient for spectral stuff.

[@theinsertnameherechannel2432]

I feel like it'd be better to have the level 3 creaking make the fog thicker and closer to the player, rather than the blindness. Imagine Silent Hill

[@ArcticFoxWaffles]

I think to make it really threatening; when you're looking at it and it can't move it should just start growing thorned vines that spread radially along all surfaces and if you get caught you take constant damage and get slowed down. This could also apply to if it is unable to reach you as well. That way it's not so easy to just stare at it to keep yourself safe. It should also blink slowly so that when it's eyes are closed you can't tell where it is.

[@filipinosonicfan]

I thought you would add fog or something, but tou actually made it a challenge! Well done.

[@lucasmatthiessen1570]

There should be an ominous effect that will make the pale garden more scary and challenging.

[@KattyKitten69]

no, the pale garden should be scary and challenging by default

[@tsuketsu9889]

Doesnt even look modded, just looks like if mojang actually put effort into it.

[@mcsquid9110]

one single minecraft modder casually doing more work than the entire workforce of Mojang, a billion dollar company

[@samucereal]

this isnt even a mod dawg + isnt making a mod/datapack/whatever way easier than actually working on the game?

[@StellarDrag0n]

Ikr

[@thatrandomrecorder914]

I think rather than have multiple creakings become bigger, they are just minions to a much larger, tentacley boss, with LOTS of eyes, of all sizes and shapes. And hostiles will only spawn after a couple of nights, with a message saying: "you feel you are being watched" then you see sentry looking things that just... Stare. Then tiny little dudes headbutt your shins some nights after. Then creakings spawn, then there is a clearing in the garden where "The Seer of the Garden" will spawn (that tentacley guy I mentioned earlier). I think these changes will really play at cacophobia (the fear of ugliness/ being watched).

[@James--.]

The tree structure was cool, but I feel like just making it larger and more powerful doesn't just equal scary. Also, I feel like the leveling up was fast enough that it would be the same if it just spawned leveled up, it is impressive though.

[@theofficialtundrania7016]

ngl this should be in the official Minecraft

[@nintendoswitch2927]

You people gotta understand that minecraft is not supposed to be a scary game, just a bit suspense full.

[@darklord4474]

The chicken you found would have been no use to you as chickens who spawn with baby zombie on top of them can't lay eggs to stop zombies from picking it up and not despawning

[@kovacsattila8993]

Creaking: Do you fear me? I don't fear of anything. Player: Did you heard of chainsaws? Creaking: Noooooo!

[@Fuvvie_oudie]

Player: kill zombies

[@Sethyros]

I dont know if mojang changed it since, but the last video i saw with the creaking (it was really soon after it was accesible for the first time in a snapshot iirc) someone tried to see what the demage dealt was if the player had netherite armor (unenchanted i think) and it barely did anything so in the later game that makes the creaking pretty much harmless and you could also quite easily outrun it. So if they increased its speed and demage it would make it a lot more interesting

[@phrooooooog]

Ok, random challenge idea, what if you tried making a magic mod but only using commands? I tried doing it in bedrock and it was genuinely really fun. plus, it has a ton of video potential

[@iamafanofmanythings3973]

this would be so cool to see, I hope he tries it out!

[@freybear8457]

Try incorporating the fear of being watched by making it so the evolved creaking have more eyes

[@8thOfTheWayBack]

wearing the mask for too long could turn you into a creaking, and spawn an extra one in the area after dying- it could even still have fragments of the armor left on to indicate which one was you.

[@PixelMasterson-ft9ou]

^^^^

[@thegamingpanda5134]

The first few things it needs are: Atnigth time more dark and the end if vines has creaking eyes.

[@_dekanijo]

This goes to show that even legit game companies and their team's ideas can be improved on! Good work sir

[@GDJosh101]

Now, mojang needs to add resin molds, made from a block called the “caster” and makes (if you put lava in it,) obsidian structures, since it requires water. Good idea or no?

[@svyashchenyimonolit]

Hell yeah man! I love the creaking sm

[@Mr_amethyst]

Pale gardens trees have to be desaturated version of dark forest, cuz by the lore, its infection started in dark forest

[@JOjustuce]

Imagine firefly’s in this biome

[@Sub2MilesMorales]

That's so spooky

[@andrewsemenenko8826]

Can you make Creeking close eyes? To make it blend in with the forest to make it even more scary!

[@OccupiedMuffins]

I swear Mojang just do nothing all day. Like wtf are these updates? Theres like no substance to anything without mods

[@vidalteeluck1970]

OH GEE, ANOTHER ROUND OF DWELLER MODS.

[@andrewrodriguez2218]

This man needs to be in charge of the official updates ❤

[@youyououmf8200]

Hanging moss that have "eyes" would be cool (eyes like the creaking has, or maybe a kind of resin that look like eyes that would be on some trees

[@polypore6795]

As always, your music choices are on point.

[@xWølfx278]

This guy made pale gardens more better then Mojang themselves

[@arcanep]

minecraft is shooting themsleves in the leg with being to scared to change anything and try new ideas they are just boring updates which could have huge potential but lost it cause the management style

[@Roma-bi7nw]

Can't wait for people to make Creaking dweller

[@Kain_Crow]

That house is scarier than the deep dark

[@korben_dream]

Applying the darkness effect and dealing more damage. That's all I want from the creaking. (Like, partly the Weeping Angels mod)

[@FieryZaneStudios]

Woah, I love this!!

[@VikingVoiceover]

Make an effect where when it hits you, you get a blinking effect. Overtime basically it makes you blink alot which can cause the creaking to move, but the longer the creaking that gave it to you lives, the stronger the blinks get. They start to appear way more often and are longer to the point where the creating is eventually just chasing you. Also make some of the trees come to life and move around when you arent looking. ((kind of like a big creaking but the terrain actually moves))

[@UltrAlexian]

the eyes in the tree seems like the smiling entities in the backrooms

[@cjgamesroblox887]

you should add fireflies which look like creaking eyes

[@ch3z5t1x8]

Mojang scrapped fireflies a while ago since they were poisonous to frogs

[@cjgamesroblox887]

@ch3z5t1x8 well there are no frogs in the pale garden, and they also look like creaking eyes, perfect for an every once in a while spook

[@wolfgang_h3t]

​@@ch3z5t1x8 Mojang is also a bad dev, so who cares precisely?

[@TheYT-Channel]

It would make sense if the creaking teleported away from you when you look at it then just standing there like a doof

[@king124kine]

So, the Enderman?

[@TheYT-Channel]

@ well sort of like that,

[@warriorcast8567]

i had actually made my own model for the creaking that looks like an uprooted and twisted up tree stump so that design and this behavior would work really well also another idea i had was that the creaking would follow the player out of the pale garden if they had taken anything from it and would stop at nothing to reach them Edit: also maybe have it close its eyes when its looked at

[@Cheese-xp8yt]

they did so well with the deep dark it was obviously dark, it was hard to see, and you had to sneak around and if one mob attacked you it would be your downfall but the pale garden is just like a half assed attempt at recreating it it’s virtually the exact same except it’s weeping angels now that’s not a bad thing I love that, but there’s just nowhere near as much atmosphere as the deep dark no ominous fog no darkness effect no sounds that gets you scared you don’t even really have any reason to look around just ooga booga spooky stick man

[@jakneez]

So you did make a resin farm but I made the first almost completely automated one, with the exception of attacking the creaking, as it cannnot suffocate.

[@bramzzy4208]

It’s crazy how Moja takes forever just to release this small update, but a moderated did something like this and only a few days

[@Flaminantnrainbowfalls]

The ambient sounds make it so much creepier

[@TankerBankerESU]

horror mod tier list from meh to oh fuck -This shit -the pale update -Pokemon -Cave dweller -Fog man -RL Craft -Jenny mod.

[@PixelMasterson-ft9ou]

so true

[@scoopidyschloop]

it's called fapcraft

[@PixelMasterson-ft9ou]

@@scoopidyschloop ofc youd know

[@Sr.Azul-hq3ud]

pov: why pale garden is scary my brain: stranger things

[@Fuvvie_oudie]

Nice edit bro!

[@jellydots201ify]

Your house is soo cool! I love it

[@eliatoms]

wait is resin a vanilla feature or one you added?

[@CodeNeonMC]

Resin is vanilla!

[@lonecrusaider]

This is actually really good.

[@haros2868]

That creeking looks like a Gormiti

[@Dr.Macaroni999]

If i had to make some changes personally I would make it so the creakings instead of darkness have like fog or blinking effects another comment i saw talked about this and i think it'd help possibly another variant of the creaking could be smaller ones that circle the player and instead of attacking when you look away alerting the bigger creakings and instead of the mask being some loot for a chest make it a drop from some sort of boss and possibly slow ths growth rate from what i saw it was a little fast but other than that it was really cool 10/10

[@unique_storm_777]

The background music 🗿

[@yvonnegielis4846]

When will download come

[@MrChocolateCookie]

yeah thats what im asking :((

[@realquadmoo]

Are you using any resource packs / shaders? The reason I ask is because it kind of looks like legacy console Minecraft to me

[@nonameTimeFile]

1:12 you can compost gravel??? :V

[@Arvono1987]

That is not gravel, it is the pale moss. But I thought it was gravel for a sec as well XD

[@KyuuDesperation]

You need better eyes.

[@EskimoBeetle]

​@KyuuDesperation it literally looks barely the same

[@KyuuDesperation]

@@EskimoBeetle you need even better eyes.

[@BIGTHANKSHEESH]

@@KyuuDesperationat first glance, it does look a bit like gravel. It’s only when you pause when you see it’s not. Also, stop agreeing your own comment pls.

[@AlexTheBestKuya]

Yo, we should get this guy more subs

[@mentalovrdrive]

that’s awesome!

[@Iverald]

The creaking could be more aggressive when you're holding an axe.

[@dedbeeep]

mojang dishes out slop and expects praise and everyone somehow gives it

[@Rexington]

Will you port this to 1.20.1 mods?

[@exode7414]

It is a little scary but more creepy tbh

[@Tally_in_a_Jeep]

It would be cool if you made the eyes on the heartwood mask glow like the mob's.

[@Witchyelfpeach11512]

Some idiot said the vanilla pale gardens is scarier than any dweller mods.

[@UNIT_3650-v6v]

The Dr. Strange weeping angels

[@omichromium]

HELL YES DUDE

[@josiahlee7999]

How do I find are get this mod? I've never encountered this..

[@Missing_____]

He made it and used no mods

[@Missing_____]

@@josiahlee7999 He made it in vanilla, you have to be a member to access it

[@t6ryy]

love this

[@jakneez]

How do I get the data pack for switch when it comes out

[@2muchrift]

honestly i was extremely dissapointed with this update. in a year we got a stupid mob and a reskin of the dark oak? like cmon mojang you pulled off a whole redo of a dimension in a year, this update is gonna be one of the reasons of minecrafts fall. i love the game but if they keep doing this to the game the outcome will be grim

[@Oliversentertainment6678]

The only problem with this is that you could break the block and you won’t experience scary stuff

[@Robotronic12345]

7:08 that's what she said

[@theilluminati682]

Okay, so to make this 'actually scary' you added the darkness effect, let the creakings grow slightly bigger over time and added an item which turns them peaceful?

[@CodeNeonMC]

In a normal world, the mask would be exceedingly rare. It also has durability, and is only as protective as an iron helmet. It also makes the creaking heart actually useful as base defense. You got me on the darkness effect, I spent a couple days trying to add fog but it's VERY complicated to do with no mods. I had to cut my losses and go with darkness as a backup. The Creaking not only gets bigger, it gets faster and hits harder over time. The idea is to add pressure to the encounter without changing the core concept. It's not meant to be a full overhaul, but rather some conservative tweaks to make it more dangerous.

[@GuyllianVanRixtel]

@@CodeNeonMC The mask is useless af

[@FishyBoi1337]

@@CodeNeonMC Goated response to criticism

[@IdkbroWhy-d2u]

@theilluinati682 that was a not so well thought out hate comment also code neon. This is really cool and you have amazing skill. I love this video.

[@koolbrayden21]

I think I speak for everyone. Whennni. Say this needs to be official.

[@ConnorCro]

6:49 Rip bat 😢😢😢

[@nabrzhunter]

Are you planning to release this as an add-on? For Bedrock? Please? It would be the first add-on I’d ever consider. Except for Villagers Legacy. Which isn’t in the store. :/

[@CuBoyd]

yoooo acee video neon!

[@Da_outer1]

Does anyone know the mod because I want to get it but I can’t find it anywhere

[@Macmaster713]

what is the name of the mod