The Wild Update

The Wild Update is a major update released on June 7, 2022, as Java Edition 1.19 and Bedrock Edition 1.19.0, themed around "scary things" and natural wilderness. It introduces the deep dark and mangrove swamp biomes; ancient cities; mobs such as the allay, the frog, the tadpole, and the warden, as well as new items obtainable only in these new biomes.

On Java Edition, the first publicly-available build containing The Wild Update content is Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1, which was released on February 17, 2022. The first pre-release for The Wild Update was released on May 18, 2022 and the first release candidate was released on June 2, 2022.

Notable features

 * New blocks
 * Froglight
 * Frogspawn
 * Mangrove Leaves, log, plank, propagule, roots and muddy roots
 * Mud
 * Mud bricks
 * Packed Mud
 * Reinforced Deepslate
 * Sculk
 * Sculk Catalyst
 * Sculk Shrieker
 * Sculk Sensor
 * Sculk Vein


 * New items
 * Spawn Eggs
 * Allay spawn egg.
 * Frog spawn egg.
 * Tadpole spawn egg.
 * Warden spawn egg.
 * Bucket of Tadpole
 * Echo Shards
 * Goat Horn
 * Recovery Compass
 * Disc Fragment
 * Mangrove Boat
 * Music Disc 5


 * New mobs
 * Allay
 * Frog
 * Tadpole
 * Warden


 * New structures


 * Ancient City
 * Mangrove Tree


 * New Biomes
 * Deep Dark
 * Mangrove Swamp


 * New non-mob entities
 * Boat with Chest


 * New gameplay
 * Enchanted Book.gif Enchanting
 * Added the Swift Sneak enchantment.


 * Particles
 * Sculk Soul
 * Emitted by sculk catalysts when activated by mob deaths.
 * Shriek
 * Emitted by sculk shriekers when activated by sculk sensors.
 * Sculk Charge
 * Emitted by sculks and sculk veins when a sculk charge generated by sculk catalysts travels along them.
 * Sonic Boom
 * Emitted by wardens when using their ranged attack.
 * Detection
 * Emitted by wardens and skulk sensors when they detect a player or when the allay hears a note block.


 * Effects
 * Darkness
 * A status effect triggered by the sculk shrieker block, causing the player's camera to dim in brightness, thus limiting the vision of players

Java Edition

 * 1.19.1 was released to add player chat reports, chat signing status indicators, and fix bugs.
 * 1.19.2 was released to fix 2 critical bugs.
 * 1.19.3 was released to overhaul the creative inventory, change the vex model, and fix bugs.

Bedrock Edition

 * 1.19.2 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.0.
 * 1.19.10 was released to bring more parity with and fix bugs.
 * 1.19.11 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.10.
 * 1.19.20 was released to bring even more parity with and fix bugs.
 * 1.19.21 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.20.
 * 1.19.22 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.21.
 * 1.19.30 was released to bring even more parity with and fix bugs.
 * 1.19.31 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.30.

Showcases
Videos made by slicedlime:

Trivia

 * While this update introduces mud as a block, mud has existed in the franchise as a fluid in Minecraft Earth. The properties of mud in this update are identical to a block.
 * Fireflies were initially planned for this update, but were ultimately scrapped as some species of fireflies are poisonous to some species of frogs in real life. This decision was heavily criticized by the community.
 * To promote the wild update, Mojang released a free choose your own adventure game on Minecraft.net called Craft Your Own Adventure: Wild Tales.
 * Kingbdogz stated in a tweet that the souls in the warden's chest is incredibly important to its lore.

Concept artwork
Some concept art in this gallery was originally made for the Caves & Cliffs update.