Overview
You cannot kill a Creaking by hitting it, and that single rule is the whole encounter. Strike one and a red tether flashes back to a creaking heart embedded in a nearby pale oak trunk; breaking that heart is the only thing that destroys the mob. The registry gives it 1 health, but it is functionally invulnerable while linked, immune to knockback, fire, wind charges and everything else in your inventory. It moves like a weeping angel: completely frozen whenever any player has it in view, advancing only while every player has looked away, so backing down a corridor with your eyes on it is safe and turning round is not. It hits for 3 on Normal, 2.5 on Easy and 4.5 on Hard, stands 2.7 blocks tall, and will not follow you beyond its heart's range. Come dawn it simply vanishes. A Creaking spawns only in the pale garden, the biome 1.21.4 added, where nothing else spawns at all and the silence is part of the design — there is no ambient biome sound. An axe is the fastest tool for the heart, which has hardness 10, the toughest block any axe mines, and breaking it without Silk Touch yields 1 to 3 resin clumps.
Resin, and a reason to carry an axe into the pale garden. Destroying a creaking heart drops 1 to 3 resin clumps, the material behind resin bricks and the whole orange pale-garden building set.
The creaking is functionally invulnerable: hitting it only flashes a red line back to the creaking heart in a nearby pale oak, and destroying that heart is the only way to kill it. It is a weeping-angel mob, frozen solid whenever any player looks at it and advancing only when every player has looked away. It will not chase you outside its heart's range, and it vanishes at dawn.
Creaking is a hostile mob in Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4. It carries 1 health in the data and none of it can be taken off by attacking — the damage goes somewhere else entirely. Its attacks do 3 damage on Normal.
It drops no experience when killed.
Properties
Creaking has 1 health, which is 0.5 hearts. It drops no experience when a player kills it. Its hitbox is 0.9 blocks wide and 2.7 tall, which is what decides whether it fits through a gap or a one-block-high opening.
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Added in
- 1.21.4
Damage by difficulty
Creaking hits for 2.5 on Easy, 3 on Normal and 4.5 on Hard — the site's stat strip shows the Normal figure, which is the one most guides quote.
A full set of diamond armour cuts that by up to 80% against a small hit and less against a large one, and Protection IV on all four pieces — 16 EPF — takes a further 64% off what is left.
| Difficulty | Attack damage | Hearts |
|---|---|---|
| Easy | 2.5 | 1.25 |
| Normal | 3 | 1.5 |
| Hard | 4.5 | 2.25 |
Spawns in
Emerges at night from creaking hearts embedded in pale oak trunks. Tied to its heart and cannot spawn without one.
It is restricted to Pale Garden, so it will never turn up outside those biomes however dark it gets.
- Dimension
- Overworld
- Biomes
- Pale Garden
- Added in
- 1.21.4
Dimension: Overworld · Added in 1.21.4
Drops
Killing Creaking drops Resin Clump. Looting raises the maximum on most of these by one per level.
- Resin Clump: 1 — Dropped by the creaking heart when the creaking is destroyed, not by the creaking itself.
How it behaves
Attacking the Creaking achieves nothing: the damage is redirected to whatever sustains it, and destroying that is the only thing that removes it. Light, walls and distance are not the answer here.
It drops no experience however it dies, so there is nothing to farm here.
Command
In a world with cheats on, this spawns one Creaking where you are standing.
Summon
/summon minecraft:creaking ~ ~ ~Guides and tools that cover this
Frequently asked questions
How do you kill a Creaking?
You cannot attack it directly. Find the creaking heart in the nearby pale oak and break that block instead.
Where does the Creaking spawn?
Only in the pale garden biome, at night, from creaking hearts generated in pale oak trunks. See the pale garden and the creaking.
How much damage does a Creaking do?
3 on Normal, 2.5 on Easy and 4.5 on Hard.
Does the Creaking despawn?
Yes, at dawn. It also never leaves the range of the creaking heart it is tied to.
How much health does the Creaking have in Minecraft?
The registry gives the Creaking 1 health point, but damage dealt to it is redirected elsewhere, so hitting it is not how it dies.
What does the Creaking drop?
It drops Resin Clump, plus 0 experience when killed by a player.
Where does the Creaking spawn?
Emerges at night from creaking hearts embedded in pale oak trunks. Tied to its heart and cannot spawn without one.
How much damage does Creaking do?
3 on Normal difficulty — 1.5 hearts — with 2.5 on Easy and 4.5 on Hard.
Related pages
How to get it
Creakings emerge at night from creaking hearts inside pale oak trunks in the pale garden biome. They cannot spawn without a heart, drop no items and give 0 experience — the 1 to 3 resin clumps come from the heart you break.
Tips
- Keep it in view and walk backwards: a Creaking cannot move at all while any player is looking at it.
- Follow the red tether to the pale oak trunk — the creaking heart is always visible from where the mob stands.
- Bring an axe, because the creaking heart has hardness 10 and any other tool takes several times as long.
- Use Silk Touch only if you want the heart block itself; otherwise plain mining gives you the resin clumps.