Creaking
- Namespaced ID
- minecraft:creaking
- Numeric ID
- 29
- Health
- Invulnerable while its Creaking Heart stands (1 HP otherwise)
- Added in
- Minecraft 1.21.4 (Pale Garden)
- Edition
- Java
The Creaking is a nocturnal hostile mob from the Pale Garden that is bound to a Creaking Heart block. It is completely immortal while you can see it — it freezes solid the instant a player looks at it and only moves and attacks when unobserved.
How to find and kill a Creaking
You don't craft the Creaking — it spawns at night in the Pale Garden biome, within 16 blocks of an activated Creaking Heart (a pulsing block set between two pale oak logs). To kill one, ignore the body and destroy its Creaking Heart instead: breaking the heart instantly kills every Creaking it spawned. Otherwise simply wait for daybreak, when the Creaking crumbles and despawns.
What the Creaking does
- •Freezes completely whenever a Survival or Adventure player looks at it within a 60° cone — it can only move and attack while unseen.
- •Invulnerable to all normal damage as long as its Creaking Heart is intact; your hits just knock resin clumps onto nearby pale oak logs.
- •Deals about 3 hearts per headbutt on Normal difficulty (2.5 on Easy, 4.5 on Hard).
- •Only active at night — it falls apart and despawns in daylight unless name-tagged.
- •Cannot open doors or break blocks, so any sealed shelter keeps you safe.
Tips
- •Hitting a protected Creaking spawns resin clumps on the connected pale oak logs — the main way to farm resin for resin bricks and the resin lantern.
- •Look at it to pin it in place, then back away or break its heart; never turn your back while it's close.
Creaking drops
- •Nothing — no items and no experience
/summon command
Replace ~ ~ ~ with absolute coordinates to spawn at a fixed location.
Command builder
Set a custom name, health, and behavior flags to generate a ready-to-paste /summon command for Creaking.
Spawned at ~ ~ ~ — replace with absolute coords for a fixed location.
Hitbox
- Width
- 0.9 blocks
- Height
- 2.7 blocks
Metadata fields
Fields tracked on this entity over the network protocol. Useful for data-pack and command-block authors.
- shared_flags
- air_supply
- custom_name
- custom_name_visible
- silent
- no_gravity
- pose
- ticks_frozen
- living_entity_flags
- health
- effect_particles
- effect_ambience
- arrow_count
- stinger_count
- sleeping_pos
- mob_flags
- can_move
- is_active
- is_tearing_down
- home_pos
Spawn egg
Creaking Spawn Egg → for the spawn-egg item details and /give command.