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    Sophie Austin
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    Sophie Austin
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    10/23/24

    Test new drop features

    Eyeblossoms and resin enter the pale garden

    Have you stepped into the pale garden yet? This unsettling biome was released into testing recently in both Java snapshot and Bedrock preview/beta, meaning players the world over could take their first steps between its veils of hanging pale moss, and meet the mob that lurks there – the creaking!

    As a self-proclaimed scaredy-cat, I’ll tell you it’s a lot scarier having a staring contest with a creaking when everything all around you is pitch black. Which is why I am so excited about two of the newest features coming to Bedrock preview and beta testing this week: eyeblossoms and resin! Don't worry Java players – it'll be coming to Java snapshot soon, too!

     

     

    Eyeblossoms

    Eyeblossoms are a new flower unique to the pale garden
    Eyeblossoms are only found in the pale garden, and are closed during the day
    This screenshot shows eyeblossoms blooming at night
    But wait until night, and you'll see them start to bloom!
    Eyeblossoms blooming at night
    Eyeblossoms even encourage nearby eyeblossoms to bloom, too – and they give off an orange glow

    Eyeblossoms are a flower that’ll be unique to the pale garden. Grey and closed during the day, at night eyeblossoms bloom with an orange glow that’ll help you find a path through this dense biome. Each blooming eyeblossom will also encourage nearby eyeblossoms to bloom – just don’t do what I did and assume this glow means hostile mobs won’t spawn – eyeblossoms aren’t a light source – and creakings will definitely still find you…

    Eyeblossoms can also be used to craft dye – and the dye color it’ll create will be different depending on whether you mine them when they’re closed, or blooming.

     

    Resin

    This screenshot shows resin bricks

    Resin is a new block coming to testing that you can use for building – but how you get resin is where it becomes interesting. Resin is spawned from pale oak trees – but only if you’ve aggravated the pale garden’s local creaking population. As someone who is most definitely a runner, and not a fighter (not an ideal strategy against creakings…) getting my hands on those precious resin clumps took a lot of bravery, and more than a few failed attempts. But once you’ve got them, you can craft these clumps into resin bricks, and build to your heart’s content. 

    In fact, I plan to build an entire house from resin bricks! Of course that means I’ll have to face down a few more creakings…. Hmm. Perhaps I need to recruit my Realm buddies to help me with this (and then possibly go and make a cup of tea while they fight it out?). If you think that sounds cowardly of me – you’d be right! Listen, I told you I was a scaredy-cat at very beginning of this article. At least I’m an honest scaredy-cat? 

     

    Playtest these features today!

    You can test eyeblossoms and resin by enabling previews/beta* for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. To enable preview/beta for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition follow these instructions.  

    Eyeblossoms and resin will be coming to testing for Java snapshot at a later date.

    *Preview is available for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Realms on Xbox, Windows 10/11, and iOS. Betas are available on Android (Google Play).  

     

    This screenshot shows resin blocks crafted to make a well

     

    Test on your Realm! 

    If you are a Realm owner, you can also play the betas* and previews* on your Realm! Any player who has an active Realms subscription is eligible to create a free testing Realm, so you can try out the new features with friends. Find more information on how to enable betas/previews on Bedrock Edition Realms*!

    *Preview is available for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Realms on Xbox, Windows 10/11, and iOS. Betas are available on Android (Google Play). 

    Important note: testing versions can corrupt your world, so please backup and/or run them in a different save folder from your main worlds.  

     

    Send us your feedback!  

    These features are all still in development, which means that the details outlined above might change as we iterate on them. So then why have we released them into testing? Because we want your feedback! Send your thoughts on the eyeblossom and resin block here, and report bugs at bugs.mojang.com! 

     

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