Details needed for a pale garden in Minecraft

Key conclusions

• Pale Garden in Minecraft needs more structures like stone garden walls or graveyards to really feel like a garden.
• Adding unique plants, such as the toxic eye color and the white pumpkin variant, will enhance the atmosphere of the Pale Garden biome.
• Introducing stalking mobs like ravens or crows and implementing dark effects at night can add to the eerie nature of the Pale Garden.

With the release of Minecraft 1.21.2 has finally landed again with the addition of long awaited items like Set, Snapshot and Spotlight View Minecraft newest biome, Pale Garden. Now that this biome is getting additions like new resin mechanics and eye flowers, the potential for further details has been realized.

Since this biome seems to focus on the atmosphere and light tension of its creepy inhabitant, Squeakyheart and his puppets in Squeaky, having additional elements that most biomes don't have would further emphasize the weirdness of this undersaturated grove. Since this place is also labeled as a “garden”, additional features would seem necessary. Ranging from actual structures and blocks to visual flair, there are at least five key details that Pale Garden should get right.

5 Constructions

From the forest to the garden

The Pale Garden, one of the most criticized elements of the biome, looks more like a normal forest than a normal garden. Although the name suggests more tones and provides a juxtaposition when the Woodland Mansion appears in the neighboring dark oak woods, adding unique structures can easily transform this wooded space.

With options ranging from stone garden walls to cemeteries and even the more luxurious choice of a gazebo, there are an almost endless number of ways to specify what makes this place a garden in the first place. Any addition of a garden-like building or even a haunted look would do wonders for the biome, not to mention the potential loot to be found in such places.

4 Plants

Floral variety

With a name like “garden”, having a wide variety of plants for the biome is more than appropriate and more than necessary. Adding a unique flower is a great start, but it takes a wide variety of plants to really make this forest look like an overgrown garden.

The eye flower, which uses the emissive textures that the torch flower so lacks, functions as a glowing squeaky fake only at night, adds a nice touch to the usual variety of plants found in the game, especially since these flowers are apparently toxic to bees. Perhaps the most sought-after block for this biome, the white variant of the pumpkin would be an ideal addition to the Pale Garden, partly for the visual appeal of the white block found on the ground, and partly for the building potential of the soul nest 'lantern block.

3 Mobs

Ghost biome

​​​​​​While the Pale Garden looks best when it is left strangely empty and devoid of life, the presence of few but effective mobs can easily add more to this seemingly dead air. While the Screech certainly fills that silence at night, adding ravens or crows can add an element of haunting during the day, especially when Halloween is just around the corner.

The addition of these corvids could simply be a case of retexturing and adding new sounds for the parrot crowd, with a new gothic look as the black of these birds could add contrast to the paleness of the biome. Besides crows, owls can be another mob that works as another way to trick players like Squeaky, with glowing orange eyes that look a lot like an eye flower.

2 Darkness

Adding an edge

Squeaky and his puppeteer Squeakyheart are most effective when hidden in the shadows of night and in the wooden bark of pale trees, and to add to this hidden nature, adding some darkness to the Pale Garden at night does wonders for that haunting and eerie atmosphere.

As seen with Warden in Deep Dark, a pulsating or even situational darkness effect can add the right level of fear to the Pale Garden, whether it's another use of the same effect for Warden or potentially a way to resin new items for other uses. Since the pitch is now part of the Pale Garden, this could be a way to prevent the torches from going out at nightfall or if Screep is present.

1 The fog

The subject of vision

One of the most requested features for the Pale Garden is the dramatic increase and presence of fog within the biome, which seems to be perfect for the intended atmosphere. Suffocating fog completely reduces visibility to almost zero, reinforcing the current theme of sight and vision in the biome, increasing the threat of being watched.

Even beyond the eerie aspects of the fog, the moving and pulsating walls of fog suggest a more boggy and warm garden, especially with the hanging light moss. A damp and vegetated place, all due to the presence of fog, which the Pale Garden seems to partially want to be.