How do you get resin clumps in Minecraft?

Resin clumps appear on pale oak logs in the Pale Garden after you hit the Creaking. Strike the mob, check the surrounding trees, and collect the orange clumps that have formed on the bark.

Do armor trims use resin clumps or resin bricks?

Resin bricks. The trim recipe originally accepted raw clumps, but it was changed, so smelt your clumps into bricks before heading to the smithing table.

Where else can you find resin bricks?

Woodland mansion chests can contain ready-made resin bricks, which saves you the furnace time if you are already raiding one.

Can resin clumps be placed underwater?

Yes. Resin clumps are waterloggable, so they can share a block with water and stay in place, which makes them useful for decorating ponds, aquariums and flooded builds.

5 Best Uses of Resin in Minecraft

Resin has one of the oddest supply chains in Minecraft. You find the Pale Garden, wait for the Creaking to appear, hit it, and the pale oak trees around it weep orange clumps that you can peel off the bark. It feels more like folklore than mining, which is fitting, because resin goes on to power some of the eeriest builds and mechanics in the game. Here is what to do with every clump.

1. Craft a Creaking Heart

This is resin's headline recipe, and it quietly fixed a design problem: the Creaking Heart used to be unobtainable in survival crafting terms, a block you could only take from the world with Silk Touch. Resin made it renewable. Compress nine clumps into a block of resin, then place that block in a crafting grid with a pale oak log above it and another below, and you have a brand-new Creaking Heart. Set the heart between two pale oak logs anywhere you like and it activates, ready to spawn a Creaking of your own. Just remember that in survival, that Creaking will attack the moment you stop looking at it.

2. Smelt Clumps into Resin Bricks

Run resin clumps through a furnace with any fuel and they come out as resin bricks. You can also find these bricks ready-made in woodland mansion chests, a nice shortcut if your mansion raid pays off. The bricks are the refined form of the material, and they are what the next two uses actually consume, so most players smelt the bulk of their harvest as a matter of routine.

3. Give Armor a Lava-Orange Trim

As a smithing material, resin lays down one of the most striking trim colours in the game: a bright orange that looks like lava flowing through the seams of your armor. In the smithing table, place your armor piece in the middle, a trim template on the left and a resin brick on the right. A small history note for returning players: the recipe originally used raw clumps, but it now takes the smelted brick, so check your material before wondering why the trim will not apply.

4. Build with the Resin Block Family

Resin is a building material in its own right. Nine clumps craft a block of resin with a glossy, bubbly texture and a soft squishy sound when you place, break or walk on it. Smelted bricks, meanwhile, craft into resin brick blocks that behave like the clay and nether brick families, complete with matching stairs, slabs and walls. The warm orange palette is unique in the block roster, perfect for autumnal builds or a castle that looks at home beside a Nether lava lake.

5. Place the Clumps as Decoration

Do not overlook the raw clump as a detail block. Clumps can be placed on practically any surface, and they are waterloggable, meaning they share a space with water without breaking or washing away. Players use them to edge pathways, stud the walls of a build with amber-like accents, or dot them across ore blocks as a prank for the next miner who comes along. Few decoration blocks are this flexible for something you peeled off a tree.