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Make the Pale Garden a Cave Biome + Other Features

My thoughts on the Pale Garden is that its a fun concept to introduce more horror aspects into the game, but heavily suffers from how its implemented. 
Why does it suffer from being a surface biome? Well it mainly suffers because of the way its horror function only occurs during the night. You can avoid the biome during the night, or clear the creaking heart during the day, making the horror aspect very easy to overcome and diminishes what its trying to accomplish.
How does it fit as a cave biome? Well firstly I think it fits perfectly with the other cave biomes perfectly, it could be a lush cave that failed to thrive, it introduces another entity that focuses on a human sense, such as sight instead of sound. A grim, monochrome biome in a dark environment with ambience easily heightens the fright. The Pale Garden as a cave biome makes it easier to cave as well, since you have a better accessibility to wood making it very useful.
Additional Thoughts; Making the Pale Garden a cave biome would make it function a lot better since you'd be able to consistently have Creakings in the biome (Due to the caves always been dark) rather than the biome exclusive mob being available for a limited time during the night. 
Another idea for the biome is to add an orange vibrant vegetation that mimics the eyes of the Creaking to make the player a lot more paranoid, and adds another layer to the Creaking trying to be camouflaged to its environment.

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• September 28, 2024 18:31
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  • October 14, 2024 04:45
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  The stark almost lifeless environment is out of place in the overworld and that's the idea, there's something wrong with this biome. But in my opinion this goes against the values of the overworld, a safe place, free of corruption and terror. Down and the caves it's a different story, lines between the safe haven of the overworld blur with more sinister concepts like the deep dark, imagine if you found that on the surface, it would look completely out of place. And that is the same issue the pale garden faces today. The developers have talked about Minecraft being a ecosystem, things need to be in balance and the pale garden disrupts that. 

  From scientific point of view, (I know this is a video game) the leaves are grey, indicting a lack of chlorophyll which is used to harvest energy from the sun. Where would you expect to find a tree that is only used to harvesting low levels of light, down in a cave not on the surface. The warden makes perfect sense to put in a cave as it is creature that have evolved without light meaning that is relies on it's other senses. But the pale garden on the surface? Let's face it is a bit of an eyesore. I really like the line about the lush garden that failed. And if it's a cave biome it will also encourage players to actually go there for things other than building supplies. Like traveling through caverns or gathering ores. This will also encourage players to actually face the creaking especially if it spawns not matter what. It should be cave.

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  • October 14, 2024 05:01
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  You can still have the biome be "wrong" for example instead of a corrupted dark oak biome just have a failed lush cave biome. It can still not fit into the ecosystem, but at least make it fit into the world. 

  But one thing to considered, is that I mentioned before how it didn't fit into the ecosystem and it didn't fit into the world. That was probably the entire idea, let's make a biome that completely defies everything we have already established and make the player wonder "What is going on here?" In my opinion it's certainly a bold move and my theory is that they did consider making it a cave biome. I feel like the themes of this update "There's something wrong" feel like instead "This world is messed up" and maybe that's intended. It's a bold move for sure.