Creaking mob in Minecraft
The Creaking is the wooden stalker of the Pale Garden. It only moves when nobody is looking at it, and your weapons cannot kill it while its Creaking Heart survives. To get rid of it, find the heart hidden in a pale oak trunk and break it.
- Health
- Special
- Behavior
- Hostile
- Found in
- Pale Garden
Creaking stats
- Health
- Special
- Behavior
- Hostile
- Spawns in
- —
- Size
- 0.9 × 2.7 blocks
- XP when killed
- None
- Speed
- 0.4
- Detection range
- 32 blocks
// Experience drops only when a player kills it. Speeds are the game’s internal values, not blocks per second.
How much damage Creaking deals
Damage to a player without armor, by world difficulty. 1 ♥ = 2 damage points.
// Armor, Protection and Resistance reduce these values. Base values read from the game code (26.3).
Where to find Creaking
Spawns at night from a Creaking Heart generated in Pale Oak trees.
Creaking drops
Nothing.
Health compared
Advancements with Creaking
Advancements whose criteria involve this mob, from the game files.
Command
/summon minecraft:creaking ~ ~ ~Where the Creaking comes from
Every Creaking is tied to a Creaking Heart, a block set inside the trunk of a pale oak tree in the Pale Garden. During the day the heart sleeps. At night it wakes up and summons its Creaking nearby, one per heart. At dawn the Creaking goes away again. That is why a Pale Garden is calm in daylight and dangerous after dark.
It moves when you do not look
A Creaking freezes as soon as a player looks at it, and it twitches into motion again the moment you look away. In practice:
- Keep it in view. Walking backwards while you watch it is the safest way to cross a Pale Garden at night.
- Watch your back. In a group of trees, the one you are not looking at is the one getting closer.
- Do not stop to mine or build with your eyes elsewhere. That is when it reaches you.
Why your sword does not kill it
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s -2095.8 102 -2060.5 71.6 7While its heart is intact, a Creaking takes no damage. Hitting it does one useful thing: a trail of particles flows from the Creaking to its heart. Follow it to find the right trunk.
Break the Creaking Heart, ideally with an axe, and the Creaking crumbles on the spot. You can also break the heart during the day, when there is no Creaking around, to make that part of the garden safe for good.
What the Creaking Heart gives you
A broken Creaking Heart drops Resin Clumps. Nine clumps make a Block of Resin, and smelted clumps give resin bricks for building. Mined with Silk Touch, the heart drops itself instead. You can also craft one: a Block of Resin between two Pale Oak Logs.
The Creaking itself drops nothing. All the loot is in the heart.
✓ Checked in Java Edition 26.3 · updated 1 November 2026
Creaking — FAQ
How do you kill a Creaking?
Break its Creaking Heart. Follow the particles that appear when you hit the Creaking to find which pale oak trunk holds it.
Why does the Creaking stop moving?
It freezes whenever a player looks at it and moves again as soon as you look away.
Does the Creaking come out during the day?
No. Its heart is only active at night, and the Creaking disappears at dawn.
Where does the Creaking spawn?
Spawns at night from a Creaking Heart generated in Pale Oak trees: Pale Garden.
What does a Creaking drop?
Nothing.
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