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Template:Infobox block A creaking heart is a living Minecraft:block<ref name="pale">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="snap">Template:Snap</ref> that can be crafted or found in pale oak trees in pale gardens. It activates if placed in a line between two pale oak logs; then, during nighttime, it spawns a creaking and protects it from all damage. Breaking a creaking heart that is protecting a creaking instantly kills it. Hitting a protected creaking causes resin clumps to grow on pale oak logs near its linked creaking heart.

Obtaining

Breaking

Creaking hearts drop as an item only when mined by a tool enchanted with Minecraft:Silk Touch. Otherwise, they drop 1–3 resin clumps; Fortune can increase the maximum drops by 1 per level (up to 6 with Fortune III).

Destroying a naturally-generated creaking heart also drops 20–24 experience, only in Survival mode.

Creaking heart has the highest hardness value of all blocks having the axe as the suitable tool.

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Natural generation

Creaking hearts have a 10% chance to generate inside the top trunks of pale oak trees in the pale garden. They are always completely covered by other pale oak logs and are never exposed to the air. Pale oaks grown from pale oak saplings do not generate with hearts.

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Crafting

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Usage

A creaking heart can be placed in different orientations, similar to Minecraft:logs. It has three states: uprooted, dormant, and awake. The creaking heart is uprooted by default, but it becomes dormant during the day and awake at night when placed between two pale oak logs, stripped pale oak logs, pale oak wood, or stripped pale oak wood with the same orientation. The texture of a creaking heart changes depending on its state, with the "core" appearing dark when uprooted, brighter when dormant and orange when awake. If the creaking heart hasn't already spawned a creaking, removing one of the surrounding aligned logs reverts it to the uprooted state.

Creaking hearts generate resin clumps on nearby pale oak logs when its linked creaking is attacked by a player or tamed Minecraft:wolf at night. There is a 5-second cooldown between each resin clump generation.

Spawning mechanics

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File:Creaking Heart In Java Edition.png

A disabled creaking heart (left) and an active creaking heart (right)

If a creaking heart is properly aligned between two pale oak logs and is located in the Minecraft:Overworld, it becomes awake at night (between 12600 and 23400 ticks). An awake creaking heart waits 2 Minecraft:ticks (0.1 seconds) and checks if the matching logs are in place. If so and it detects no linked creaking, it tries to find a valid location in a 33×17×33 box centered at that creaking heart to spawn one until successful, interrupted by getting destroyed or disabled. If found, it waits 20 ticks (1 second) before checking again if the matching logs are in place. If successful, it spawns a creaking after 2 extra ticks, otherwise it uproots. While a creaking heart is awake and has a linked creaking, it does not uproot until broken, even if any of the matching blocks are removed.

The 33×17×33 box in which a Creaking Heart is able to spawn its Creaking.

Creaking can spawn in yellow or brown regions when provided with a valid spawning space by a spawnable block placed in yellow or orange regions and three blocks of air above it.

Valid locations for creakings to spawn at follow these criteria:

The block below must have a solid top surface.
The block below is not Minecraft:leaves.
The location is any non-solid block. This means blocks like Minecraft:carpet can spawn-proof creakings, but not Minecraft:buttons.
The location is where there would be no liquid or other entities' hitboxes within a creaking's hitbox.

Creakings ignore solid blocks within its hitbox that are 2+ blocks above the ground while spawning.

Creaking hearts never spawn creakings in Minecraft:the Nether nor Minecraft:the End.

Despawning creakings

Breaking the heart kills its linked creaking and attributes the kill to the player who broke it, adding the kill to their statistics and triggering the Monster Hunter and Monsters Hunted advancements.

During daytime (starting at 23401 ticks), an awake creaking heart becomes dormant and despawns its linked creakings, unless it has been named using a name tag.

If the heart's linked creaking is too far away (more than 34 blocks away), that creaking despawns, and the heart spawns another one if conditions are met.

Redstone component

A redstone comparator connected to a creaking heart outputs a signal if the heart has a linked creaking. The strength of the signal depends on the Euclidean distance between the heart and its creaking, and is calculated as follows:

<math>\text{output} = 15 - \left\lfloor \frac{\text{distance}}{32} \times15 \right\rfloor</math>

In other words, the closer a creaking is to its heart, the stronger the signal.

Additionally, a creaking itself can be used to detect when a player is looking at it. An observed creaking sinks in Minecraft:water (or Minecraft:lava) instead of swimming upward, which can cause it to activate a pressure plate or similar means. An unobserved creaking bobs up and down in liquid, which can cause it to activate a pressure plate even if not being looked at. Giving a creaking enough space to bob prevents this.

Minecraft:Pistons of any kind cannot move creaking hearts.

Ambient sounds

A creaking heart emits subtle eerie sounds when it is awake and surrounded by any types of Minecraft:logs, stripped logs, Minecraft:wood, or stripped wood in all 6 directions.

Sounds

Generic

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Unique

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Data values

ID

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Block states

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Block data

A creaking heart has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

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- Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity
- Template:Nbt: The Minecraft:UUID of the transient creaking associated with this creaking heart, stored as four ints.

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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements

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Advancements

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History

Issues

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Trivia

Unlike destroying any other block, destroying a creaking heart triggers monster-related advancements.

Gallery

Mojang images

Creaking hearts and creakings in a minigame set-up.

Creaking hearts and creakings in a minigame set-up.

In other media

Villager No. 15 placing a creaking heart.

Villager No. 15 placing a creaking heart.
A creaking heart in a pale garden on the key art for The Garden Awakens.

A creaking heart in a pale garden on the key art for The Garden Awakens.

References

Navigation

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de:Knarzherz es:Corazón de crepitante fr:Coeur de grinceur ja:クリーキングの心臓 ko:크리킹 심장 pl:Trzeszczące serce pt:Coração de Rangente ru:Скрипцевина uk:Серце скрипня zh:嘎枝之心

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-A '''creaking heart''' is a living [[Minecraft:block]]<ref name="pale">{{Citation|author=Sophie Austin |title=The Pale Garden |url=https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/the-pale-garden |website=minecraft.net |date=2 October 2024 |quote=While creaking hearts might look like wood, these are actually living blocks}}</ref><ref name="snap">{{snap|24w40a|October 2, 2024}}</ref> that can be [[Minecraft:crafted]] or found in [[Minecraft:pale oak]] trees in [[Minecraft:pale garden]]s. It activates if placed in a line between two [[Minecraft:pale oak log]]s; then, during [[Minecraft:Daylight cycle|nighttime]], it spawns a [[Minecraft:creaking]] and protects it from all [[Minecraft:damage]]. [[Minecraft:Breaking]] a creaking heart that is protecting a creaking instantly kills it. Hitting a protected creaking causes [[Minecraft:resin clump]]s to grow on [[Minecraft:pale oak log]]s near its linked creaking heart.
+A '''creaking heart''' is a living [[Minecraft:block]]<ref name="pale">{{Citation|author=Sophie Austin |title=The Pale Garden |url=https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/the-pale-garden |website=minecraft.net |date=2 October 2024 |quote=While creaking hearts might look like wood, these are actually living blocks}}</ref><ref name="snap">{{snap|24w40a|October 2, 2024}}</ref> that can be crafted or found in pale oak trees in pale gardens. It activates if placed in a line between two pale oak logs; then, during nighttime, it spawns a creaking and protects it from all damage. Breaking a creaking heart that is protecting a creaking instantly kills it. Hitting a protected creaking causes resin clumps to grow on pale oak logs near its linked creaking heart.
 == Obtaining ==
 === Breaking ===
-Creaking hearts drop as an item only when mined by a tool enchanted with [[Minecraft:Silk Touch]]. Otherwise, they drop 1–3 [[Minecraft:resin clump]]s; [[Minecraft:Fortune]] can increase the maximum drops by 1 per level (up to 6 with Fortune III).
+Creaking hearts drop as an item only when mined by a tool enchanted with [[Minecraft:Silk Touch]]. Otherwise, they drop 1–3 resin clumps; Fortune can increase the maximum drops by 1 per level (up to 6 with Fortune III).
-Destroying a naturally-generated creaking heart also drops 20–24 [[Minecraft:experience]], only in [[Minecraft:Survival]] mode.
+Destroying a naturally-generated creaking heart also drops 20–24 experience, only in Survival mode.
-Creaking heart has the highest [[Minecraft:hardness]] value of all blocks having the axe as the suitable tool.
+Creaking heart has the highest hardness value of all blocks having the axe as the suitable tool.
 {{Breaking row|horizontal=1|Creaking Heart|link=none|Axe|drop=0}}
 === Natural generation ===
-Creaking hearts have a 10% chance to generate inside the top trunks of [[Minecraft:pale oak]] trees in the [[Minecraft:pale garden]]. They are always completely covered by other [[Minecraft:pale oak log]]s and are never exposed to the air. Pale oaks grown from [[Minecraft:pale oak sapling]]s do not generate with hearts.
+Creaking hearts have a 10% chance to generate inside the top trunks of pale oak trees in the pale garden. They are always completely covered by other pale oak logs and are never exposed to the air. Pale oaks grown from pale oak saplings do not generate with hearts.
 {{Block distribution}}
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 == Usage ==
-A creaking heart can be placed in different orientations, similar to [[Minecraft:log]]s. It has three states: uprooted, dormant, and awake. The creaking heart is uprooted by default, but it becomes dormant during the day and awake at night when placed between two [[Minecraft:pale oak log]]s, [[Minecraft:stripped pale oak log]]s, [[Minecraft:pale oak wood]], or [[Minecraft:stripped pale oak wood]] with the same orientation. The texture of a creaking heart changes depending on its state, with the "core" appearing dark when uprooted, brighter when dormant and orange when awake. If the creaking heart hasn't already spawned a [[Minecraft:creaking]], removing one of the surrounding aligned logs reverts it to the uprooted state.
+A creaking heart can be placed in different orientations, similar to [[Minecraft:log]]s. It has three states: uprooted, dormant, and awake. The creaking heart is uprooted by default, but it becomes dormant during the day and awake at night when placed between two pale oak logs, stripped pale oak logs, pale oak wood, or stripped pale oak wood with the same orientation. The texture of a creaking heart changes depending on its state, with the "core" appearing dark when uprooted, brighter when dormant and orange when awake. If the creaking heart hasn't already spawned a creaking, removing one of the surrounding aligned logs reverts it to the uprooted state.
-Creaking hearts generate [[Minecraft:resin clump]]s on nearby pale oak logs when its linked creaking is attacked by a [[Minecraft:player]] or tamed [[Minecraft:wolf]] at night. There is a 5-second cooldown between each resin clump generation.
+Creaking hearts generate resin clumps on nearby pale oak logs when its linked creaking is attacked by a player or tamed [[Minecraft:wolf]] at night. There is a 5-second cooldown between each resin clump generation.
 === Spawning mechanics ===
 {{Main|Creaking#Spawning}}
 [[File:Creaking Heart In Java Edition.png|right|thumb|A disabled creaking heart (left) and an active creaking heart (right)]]
-If a creaking heart is properly aligned between two pale oak logs and is located in the [[Minecraft:Overworld]], it becomes awake at [[Minecraft:night]] (between 12600 and 23400 ticks). An awake creaking heart waits 2 [[Minecraft:tick]]s (0.1 seconds) and checks if the matching logs are in place. If so and it detects no linked creaking, it tries to find a valid location in a 33&times;17&times;33 box centered at that creaking heart to spawn one until successful, interrupted by getting destroyed or disabled. If found, it waits 20 ticks (1 second) before checking again if the matching logs are in place. If successful, it spawns a creaking after 2 extra ticks, otherwise it uproots. While a creaking heart is awake and has a linked creaking, it does not uproot until broken, even if any of the matching blocks are removed.
+If a creaking heart is properly aligned between two pale oak logs and is located in the [[Minecraft:Overworld]], it becomes awake at night (between 12600 and 23400 ticks). An awake creaking heart waits 2 [[Minecraft:tick]]s (0.1 seconds) and checks if the matching logs are in place. If so and it detects no linked creaking, it tries to find a valid location in a 33&times;17&times;33 box centered at that creaking heart to spawn one until successful, interrupted by getting destroyed or disabled. If found, it waits 20 ticks (1 second) before checking again if the matching logs are in place. If successful, it spawns a creaking after 2 extra ticks, otherwise it uproots. While a creaking heart is awake and has a linked creaking, it does not uproot until broken, even if any of the matching blocks are removed.
 [[File:Creaking Heart Spawning Box.png|alt=The 33×17×33 box in which a Creaking Heart is able to spawn its Creaking.|thumb|Creaking can spawn in yellow or brown regions when provided with a valid spawning space by a spawnable block placed in yellow or orange regions and three blocks of air above it.]]
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 * The block below is not [[Minecraft:leaves]].
 * The location is any non-solid block. This means blocks like [[Minecraft:carpet]] can spawn-proof creakings, but not [[Minecraft:button]]s.
-* The location is where there would be no [[Minecraft:liquid]] or other entities' [[Minecraft:hitbox]]es within a creaking's hitbox.
+* The location is where there would be no liquid or other entities' hitboxes within a creaking's hitbox.
-[[Minecraft:Creaking]]s ignore solid blocks within its hitbox that are 2+ blocks above the ground while spawning.
+Creakings ignore solid blocks within its hitbox that are 2+ blocks above the ground while spawning.
 Creaking hearts never spawn creakings in [[Minecraft:the Nether]] nor [[Minecraft:the End]].
 === Despawning creakings ===
-Breaking the heart kills its linked creaking and attributes the kill to the [[Minecraft:player]] who broke it, adding the kill to their [[Minecraft:statistics]] and triggering the Monster Hunter and Monsters Hunted [[Minecraft:advancement]]s.
+Breaking the heart kills its linked creaking and attributes the kill to the player who broke it, adding the kill to their statistics and triggering the Monster Hunter and Monsters Hunted advancements.
-During daytime (starting at 23401 ticks), an awake creaking heart becomes dormant and despawns its linked creakings, unless it has been named using a [[Minecraft:name tag]].
+During daytime (starting at 23401 ticks), an awake creaking heart becomes dormant and despawns its linked creakings, unless it has been named using a name tag.
 If the heart's linked creaking is too far away (more than 34 blocks away), that creaking despawns, and the heart spawns another one if conditions are met.
 === Redstone component ===
-A [[Minecraft:redstone comparator]] connected to a creaking heart outputs a signal if the heart has a linked creaking. The strength of the signal depends on the [[Minecraft:Euclidean distance]] between the heart and its creaking, and is calculated as follows:
+A redstone comparator connected to a creaking heart outputs a signal if the heart has a linked creaking. The strength of the signal depends on the Euclidean distance between the heart and its creaking, and is calculated as follows:
 <math>\text{output} = 15 - \left\lfloor \frac{\text{distance}}{32} \times15 \right\rfloor</math>
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 In other words, the closer a creaking is to its heart, the stronger the signal.
-Additionally, a creaking itself can be used to detect when a [[Minecraft:player]] is looking at it. An observed creaking sinks in [[Minecraft:water]] (or [[Minecraft:lava]]) instead of swimming upward, which can cause it to activate a [[Minecraft:pressure plate]] or similar means. An unobserved creaking bobs up and down in liquid, which can cause it to activate a pressure plate even if not being looked at. Giving a creaking enough space to bob prevents this.
+Additionally, a creaking itself can be used to detect when a player is looking at it. An observed creaking sinks in [[Minecraft:water]] (or [[Minecraft:lava]]) instead of swimming upward, which can cause it to activate a pressure plate or similar means. An unobserved creaking bobs up and down in liquid, which can cause it to activate a pressure plate even if not being looked at. Giving a creaking enough space to bob prevents this.
 [[Minecraft:Piston]]s of any kind cannot move creaking hearts.
 === Ambient sounds ===
-A creaking heart emits subtle [[#Unique|eerie sounds]] when it is awake and surrounded by any types of [[Minecraft:log]]s, [[Minecraft:stripped log]]s, [[Minecraft:wood]], or [[Minecraft:stripped wood]] in all 6 directions.
+A creaking heart emits subtle [[#Unique|eerie sounds]] when it is awake and surrounded by any types of [[Minecraft:log]]s, stripped logs, [[Minecraft:wood]], or stripped wood in all 6 directions.
 == Sounds ==
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 * {{nbt|compound}} Block entity data
 ** {{nbt inherit/blockentity}}
-** {{nbt|int-array|creaking}}: The [[Minecraft:UUID]] of the transient [[Minecraft:creaking]] associated with this creaking heart, stored as four ints.
+** {{nbt|int-array|creaking}}: The [[Minecraft:UUID]] of the transient creaking associated with this creaking heart, stored as four ints.
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 === Showcase ===
 {{HistoryTable
-|{{HistoryLine||September 28, 2024|link={{ytl|qnX6sPFjXnA}}|[[File:Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png|32px]] Creaking hearts were showcased on [[Minecraft:Minecraft Live 2024]].}}
+|{{HistoryLine||September 28, 2024|link={{ytl|qnX6sPFjXnA}}|[[File:Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png|32px]] Creaking hearts were showcased on Minecraft Live 2024.}}
 }}
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 |{{HistoryLine|java}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.21.2|exp=Winter Drop|dev=24w40a|[[File:Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png|32px]] Added creaking hearts.}}
-|{{HistoryLine|||dev=pre1|[[Minecraft:Redstone comparator]]s connected to creaking hearts now output a signal strength dependent on the distance to the connected [[Minecraft:creaking]].}}
+|{{HistoryLine|||dev=pre1|Redstone comparators connected to creaking hearts now output a signal strength dependent on the distance to the connected creaking.}}
 |{{HistoryLine||1.21.4|dev=24w44a|Creaking hearts are now available without using the "Winter Drop" experimental data pack.
 |[[File:Creaking Heart JE2 BE2.png|32px]] Updated the texture of the inactive creaking heart to be more consistent with its active state.
 |Naturally generated creaking hearts now drop 20 to 24 experience when broken by a player, with or without Silk Touch.
-|Breaking a creaking heart block without Silk Touch now drops 1 to 3 [[Minecraft:resin clump]]s.
+|Breaking a creaking heart block without Silk Touch now drops 1 to 3 resin clumps.
-|Creaking hearts can now be crafted with two [[Minecraft:pale oak log]]s and a [[Minecraft:block of resin]].
+|Creaking hearts can now be crafted with two pale oak logs and a block of resin.
 |Added the <code>natural</code> block state and replaced <code>creaking</code> with a boolean <code>active</code> state.
 |Changed the placing sounds from {{Sound||Wood dig1.ogg|Wood dig2.ogg|Wood dig3.ogg|Wood dig4.ogg}} to {{Sound||Creaking heart place1.ogg|Creaking heart place2.ogg|Creaking heart place3.ogg|Creaking heart place4.ogg}}.
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 |{{HistoryLine||1.21.5|dev=25w02a|[[File:Dormant Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png|32px]] Creaking hearts correctly placed between logs have a new dormant texture during the day.
 |The transition between the awake and dormant states of creaking hearts is now based on the fixed day time.}}
-|{{HistoryLine||1.21.6|dev=25w15a|Added the [[Minecraft:advancement]] "Heart Transplanter".}}
+|{{HistoryLine||1.21.6|dev=25w15a|Added the advancement "Heart Transplanter".}}
 }}
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 |{{HistoryLine||1.21.50|dev=Preview 1.21.50.20|[[File:Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png|32px]] [[File:Active Creaking Heart JE1 BE1.png|32px]] Added creaking hearts.}}
 |{{HistoryLine|||dev=Preview 1.21.50.25|[[File:Creaking Heart JE2 BE2.png|32px]] Updated the texture of the inactive creaking heart to be more consistent with its active state.
-|Creaking hearts can now be crafted with two [[Minecraft:pale oak log]]s and a [[Minecraft:block of resin]].
+|Creaking hearts can now be crafted with two pale oak logs and a block of resin.
 |Naturally generating creaking hearts now drop 20 to 24 experience when mined.
 |Increased the frequency of the creaking heart's ambience sound.}}
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 == Trivia ==
-* Unlike destroying any other block, destroying a creaking heart triggers monster-related [[Minecraft:advancement]]s.
+* Unlike destroying any other block, destroying a creaking heart triggers monster-related advancements.
 == Gallery ==
 === Mojang images ===
 <gallery>
-Creaking Heart and Creaking.jpg|Creaking hearts and [[Minecraft:creaking]]s in a minigame set-up.
+Creaking Heart and Creaking.jpg|Creaking hearts and creakings in a minigame set-up.
 </gallery>
 === In other media ===
 <gallery>
-'s creaking heart.png|[[Minecraft:Villager No. 15]] placing a creaking heart.
+'s creaking heart.png|Villager No. 15 placing a creaking heart.
-The Garden Awakens Pre-Release Tertiary Key Art.jpg|A creaking heart in a [[Minecraft:Pale Garden|pale garden]] on the key art for [[Minecraft:The Garden Awakens]].
+The Garden Awakens Pre-Release Tertiary Key Art.jpg|A creaking heart in a [[Minecraft:Pale Garden|pale garden]] on the key art for The Garden Awakens.
 </gallery>
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 [[Category:Block entities]]
-[[Minecraft:category:Hazardous blocks]]
+category:Hazardous blocks
-[[Minecraft:category:Natural blocks]]
+category:Natural blocks
-[[Minecraft:category:Readable by comparators]]
+category:Readable by comparators
-[[Minecraft:de:Knarzherz]]
+de:Knarzherz
-[[Minecraft:es:Corazón de crepitante]]
+es:Corazón de crepitante
-[[Minecraft:fr:Coeur de grinceur]]
+fr:Coeur de grinceur
-[[Minecraft:ja:クリーキングの心臓]]
+ja:クリーキングの心臓
-[[Minecraft:ko:크리킹 심장]]
+ko:크리킹 심장
-[[Minecraft:pl:Trzeszczące serce]]
+pl:Trzeszczące serce
-[[Minecraft:pt:Coração de Rangente]]
+pt:Coração de Rangente
-[[Minecraft:ru:Скрипцевина]]
+ru:Скрипцевина
-[[Minecraft:uk:Серце скрипня]]
+uk:Серце скрипня
-[[Minecraft:zh:嘎枝之心]]
+zh:嘎枝之心