Creaking
Creaking — mob.
Natural spawning
The creaking appears in the Pale Garden at night and is linked to a placed creaking heart. Its pale-wood habitat and dark forest floor make the glowing eyes and heart connection the important visual clues.
| Habitat | Pale Garden |
|---|---|
| Active period | Night |
| Control block | Creaking heart |
| Mob category | Monster |
Obtaining
Use a creaking spawn egg for a controlled test, or let a placed creaking heart create the encounter in its natural setting. Breaking the linked heart ends the encounter, so identify the block before starting a fight.
Sounds
The creaking has separate ambient, activation, deactivation, attack, death, step, freeze, unfreeze, spawn, sway and twitch events. The heart has its own block sound family for the linked encounter.
| Ambient | entity.creaking.ambient |
|---|---|
| Attack | entity.creaking.attack |
| Freeze | entity.creaking.freeze |
| Unfreeze | entity.creaking.unfreeze |
| Heart break | block.creaking_heart.break |
Behavior
A heart-bound creaking can resist ordinary damage: the heart records the protector and the mob becomes vulnerable through the heart interaction. It pursues nearby targets, freezes when its movement is disabled, and attacks on a short timer.
| Category | hostile |
|---|---|
| Max health | 1 |
| Width | 0.9 |
| Height | 2.7 |
| Summonable | Yes |
| Fire immune | No |
| Health | 1 |
| Attack damage | 3 |
| Movement speed | 0.4 |
| Follow range | 32 blocks |
| Attack interval | 40 ticks |
| Heart bound | Yes for natural encounters |
| Damage response | Ordinary damage is redirected through the linked heart |
| Heart link | Stores the creaking's home position |
Data values
The entity uses the `minecraft:creaking` identifier. Its state tracks whether it can move, whether it is active, whether it is tearing down and the optional home position of its heart.
| Identifier | minecraft:creaking |
|---|---|
| Version | Minecraft 26.2 |
| Entity ID | minecraft:creaking |
| Size | 0.9 × 2.7 blocks |
| State fields | can_move, is_active, is_tearing_down, home_pos |
| Experience | 0 |
Encounter lifecycle
The linked heart creates and tracks its protector while it is awake. When the heart loses the required pale-oak structure or is uprooted, the encounter tears down instead of leaving an independent creaking behind.
| Protector record | Stored by the heart block entity |
|---|---|
| Required structure | Pale-oak logs around the heart |
| Teardown trigger | Uprooted or inactive heart |
Gallery
See also
References
| Local source | Creakingcreaking |
|---|---|
| Entity registration | net/minecraft/world/entity/EntityTypes.java |
| Entity behavior | net/minecraft/world/entity/monster/creaking/Creaking.java |
| Brain and goals | net/minecraft/world/entity/monster/creaking/CreakingAi.java |
| Heart block entity | net/minecraft/world/level/block/entity/CreakingHeartBlockEntity.java |
| Heart decorator | net/minecraft/world/level/levelgen/feature/treedecorators/CreakingHeartDecorator.java |
| Heart state | net/minecraft/world/level/block/state/properties/CreakingHeartState.java |
| Renderer | net/minecraft/client/renderer/entity/CreakingRenderer.java |
| Pale Garden record | data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/pale_garden.json |
Navigation
Data and provenance
minecraft:creaking
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Facts
| Category | hostile |
|---|---|
| Max health | 1 |
| Width | 0.9 |
| Height | 2.7 |
| Summonable | Yes |
| Fire immune | No |
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