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Minecraft’s Pale Garden Feels Like Another Step Toward an Inevitable Mode

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This upcoming winter season, a new biome called the Pale Garden will be added to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. First revealed at Minecraft LIVE 2024, the Pale Garden is a thick forest filled with gray trees, overgrown moss, and is home to the mysterious tree-like mob called the Creaking. Acting similarly to Doctor Who’s Weeping Angels, the Creaking only comes out at night and can only move when out of players’ view. Much like the Angels, the Creaking are horrifying, near-invulnerable creatures that can only be taken down by destroying their creaking hearts found in trees. With the addition of the Pale Garden, the Creaking, and Minecraft’s prior terrifying features, Mojang should consider introducing a new horror-centric mode.



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Minecraft’s History with Horror

While Minecraft is a game available for players of all ages, many of its features are rooted in the realms of horror and other frightening stories. Most of Minecraft’s hostile mobs are based on common human fears, such as spiders of all sizes, seeing a moving human skeleton, and getting attacked by a group of wolves. Others are based on societies’ folklore and beliefs, such as zombies originating from Haitian folklore in which corpses were reanimated by witchcraft. Similarly, the Nether is based on Hell or the Underworld from multiple Eurasian religions, including Norse paganism and Christianity.


Other hostile mobs are based on other pieces of pop culture. Possibly most famously, the Endermen are based on the character Slenderman of the 2009 internet creepypasta and 2012 game Slender: The Eight Pages. Both the Enderman and Slenderman are tall, dark creatures with the ability to quickly teleport to frighten and attack their foes. Similarly, the tall, black, sword-wielding skeletons called Withers are similar to mechanics found in the 2011 game Terraria, while the term Wither comes from Mojang’s Chief Creative Officer Jens Bergensten’s 2001 roleplaying game Whispers in Akarra. Additionally, the Warden and Sculk are said to be inspired by the otherworldly horrors found in the works of H. P. Lovecraft.

In
Minecraft
, there are a total of 46 mobs that are or could become hostile towards the player.


The Potential of a Minecraft Horror Mode

Minecraft’s various game modes encourage players to play in certain ways. Survival Mode encourages players to play creatively, cooperatively, and conservatively in order to survive in prosperity within their worlds. Creative Mode encourages players to experiment and build without the fear of being attacked by monsters or dying from starvation. Hardcore Mode encourages players to remain cautious at all times, since they only have one life and can’t respawn. Based on these designs, Mojang could create a Horror or Spooky Mode that puts players on the defensive and restricts their combat abilities, since that’s how most protagonists act in horror narratives.


This Horror or Spooky Mode could have players spawn in a world that is perpetually set at night or darkened with constant rainfall. Instead of being able to craft any and all of Minecraft‘s items, players wouldn’t be able to place blocks and be limited to only obtaining items found in chests located in villages, dungeons, mineshafts, ocean monuments, or underwater ruins. This would make players more vulnerable, as they wouldn’t be able to craft torches or weapons, grow crops, or build structures to help prepare themselves for inevitable attacks from mobs. If players find an axe, pickaxe, or shovel, they can briefly use them for their purposes, but they will operate how they would in real life, meaning cutting down a tree may take an entire day.


The Goal of Minecraft’s Horror Mode

Just like most Minecraft modes, the goal of Horror or Spooky Mode would be to survive as long as possible. However, hostile mobs will spawn in greater numbers and target the player at all times, even if they’re not in their line of sight. Players will always need to be on foot at all times to find weapons or structures of some kind to try and survive, just as most protagonists do in common zombie or monster storylines. To add to the horror feel, players in this mode wouldn’t be able to sleep through nights and would only have one life similar to Hardcore Mode. A Horror Mode would make each monster encounter in Minecraft a truly terrifying scenario once more.

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