Elder Guardian

The Elder Guardian is a hostile mob which only spawns underwater in ocean monuments. It is a stronger variant of the Guardian.

Spawning
Three Elder Guardians spawn naturally during the generation of each ocean monument. They will not respawn after their initial spawn, thus there are a limited amount of them per world. Elder Guardians spawned with monuments do not naturally despawn, although they will be removed along with other hostile mobs in peaceful difficulty. They cannot be spawned using spawn eggs.

Drops
The Elder Guardian drops 0 to 1 prismarine crystals, 0 to 2 prismarine shards, and 0 to 1 raw fish. If killed by the player, it also drops a single wet sponge.

The Elder Guardian has a 2.5% chance of dropping a rare drop when killed by the player. The chance of which fish you get is identical to catching fish: 60% chance for raw fish, 25% chance for raw salmon, 2% chance for clownfish, and 13% chance for pufferfish.

Looting increases the maximum prismarine shard drop by one per level. The chance of getting a raw fish drop is 50% with Looting I (2/4), 60% with Looting II (3/5), and 67% with Looting III (4/6). The chance of getting a rare drop is also increased by 0.5% per level.

The prismarine crystals drop will only happen if the common raw fish drop fails, with the same chances as the raw fish drop. This works out to a base chance of 22% (2/9), Looting I giving 25% (4/16), Looting II dropping down to 24% (6/25), and Looting III giving 22% (8/36), or the same as the base chance.

Behavior
scary behavior

Combat
much combat

Trivia

 * Elder Guardians can be spawned using.
 * Using only will spawn an Elder Guardian with 30 HP, the same HP as a normal Guardian.
 * The Elder Guardian's eye is actually the "head" part of the mob's model. This gives the illusion of a dynamic eye.
 * Guardians can actually be converted to elders with the /entitydata command, by adding the {Elder:1} NBT tag.
 * The ghostly image of the Elder Guardian can be triggered using.
 * Using this will not trigger the Curse sound, even if Hostile Monster sounds are turned on.

Gallery
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