Things To Know About Resin In Minecraft

Key Takeaways

• Resin blocks add a vibrant color palette to Minecraft’s Pale Garden, obtained by Creaking Heart.
• Players must engage with Creaking to farm resin clumps, adjusting playstyle to obtain this new item.
• Resin blocks offer bright orange block sets for builders, suitable for armor trim color palettes.

Resin blocks are the newest addition to Minecraft’s Pale Garden biome, thanks to a recent Bedrock Preview. They have added a whole new palette for builders to use. With a bright orange color scheme, players of all kinds have their eyes on this vibrant set of blocks and items.

Since resin is still a brand-new item, the potential for more uses and further iterations is highly possible. Even still, this item varies from the usual processes of other items used for building materials and cosmetic details in several ways. Between having an unconventional obtaining method, several uses, and more, there are five things players have to know about resin.

5 Night-Time Cultivation

Only Around The Heart

Unlike most other resources, resin has a fairly complex series of requirements. Outside of one-off loot chests and the wandering trader, renewable obtaining the block form of resin clumps requires finding the Pale Garden and staying within the biome by nightfall. Only when that condition is met will players even have a chance to gather a large amount of resin.

As the resin clump block is tied entirely to the new creaking mob and creaking heart, it is entirely required that players engage with these new monsters to obtain the new item. Since the Creaking Heart essentially produces the resin, making a temporary base near or within a known and exposed Heart will be advantageous.

4 The Creaking

Puppeteer Connection

Beyond the dark of night awakening the Creaking Heart and allowing it to summon its puppet, the Creaking, it is the only renewable method for players to actually farm plenty of resin clumps. Even once players obtain enough resin to make their own Creaking Heart for a resin farm anywhere they want, contending with the Creaking is a necessity.

Subtitled as “Creaking Heart screams,” attacking the Creaking may not deal any damage at all, but it does produce a small light show of particles, indicating that resin is appearing around the hidden Heart block. Trapping a Creaking for the night is the only real way of obtaining a useful quantity of resin, whether at the player’s main base or within the new pale biome.

3 Loot Tables

Mansion Treasure

With Pale Garden biomes almost always bordering dark oak forests, it’s unsurprising that bits from the garden have wound up inside the most prominent part of some dark oak forests, the woodland mansion. While players won’t find too much of the Pale Garden creeping its way into the woodland mansion, bits of resin have made the cut into various chests within the looming dark oak structure.

Appearing throughout the mansion, resin bricks can be found in scattered and semi-hidden chests in several rooms in this strange abode. While not a perfect method of obtaining large amounts of this brand-new material, it is a convenient little reward outside of the grander prizes and terror within the mansion.

2 Whole New Blockset

Bright Orange Blocks

Perhaps the most enticing part of the new resin item is the fact it can be turned into blocks with a fairly intense color palette, adding a new and farmable resource for a brilliant block set. Adding a saturated orange block, with brick variants and a “raw” compartmentalized option, this addition for builders certainly adds a jolt of fall tones to any build.

As the resin block set seems to be the primary use of resin, players looking for more vibrant color choices in build palettes are in luck. Unlike other colorful blocks, namely the various options for concrete, resin can be used in the stonecutter, making it far more convenient and flexible for any build players can think up.

1 Armor Trim

Another Color For Fashion

Somewhat teased during the 2024 April Fool’s snapshot centered around the magnificent and extremely useful poisonous potato, bright orange was briefly added as an option for the armor trim color palettes. While copper did fill in this gap as a shade of orange, it is hard to argue that said shade of orange wasn’t closer to brown. Adding another option for armor trims already is a plus for detail-focused players, and hints at the potential for even more in the future.

With the only major color missing from the trim material list being pink, the addition of bright orange with resin is well-appreciated compared to the far more subdued copper. Since armor trims and resin bricks can be found within woodland mansions, players can almost instantly upgrade to an autumnal palette by finding these rare structures.