Minecraft Dungeons:Royal Guard

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Royal Guard

Behavior	Hostile
Natural equipment	Dark Armor Mace Royal Guard Shield

A royal guard is a heavily-armored illager that wields a shield and a mace found in Minecraft Dungeons. The royal guards are the highest ranking guards of the Arch-Illager and they protect him at all costs. A variant of the royal guard, the tower guard exists in certain floors of the tower.

Appearance[]

Royal guard are illagers wearing dark armor with yellow outlines on the helmet and sleeves, and with a sapphire gem. They carry shields that have a yellow cross-like pattern, in addition to maces.

Spawning[]

Redstone Mines (Ancient Hunt)
Highblock Halls
Underhalls
Obsidian Pinnacle
Lone Fortress
Lost Settlement
Gale Sanctum
Gauntlet of Gales
Colossal Rampart
Broken Citadel
Sometimes in other missions with Raid Captain
Tower

Behavior[]

Royal guards are one of the strongest illagers in the Arch-Illager’s army, capable of overwhelming the hero with both damage and numbers.

Royal guards are usually protected by their heavy armor and their shield and mace. The shield should be destroyed first, so the hero can damage it. Royal guards are slower than most mobs, but extremely strong, capable of dealing heavy damage to the hero. Their health pool is larger than the gold armored vindicator and they do more melee damage. They still can be stunned by normal attack.

In this sense, they are the illager equivalent of skeleton vanguards, except they use maces instead of glaives.

They have three behaviors:

Charge

If a royal guard is in range it charges at the hero.

Basic attack

Royal guards are capable of swinging their mace at the hero, dealing heavy damage.

Target lock

If the hero runs fifteen blocks away from a royal guard, it locks onto them and chases after them, ignoring other heroes.

Royal guard shield[]

Royal Guard Shield

Type	Armor
Rarity	Common Rare

A royal guard shield is an unobtainable shield equipped exclusively by royal guards.

Health[]

Power	Min health
1	52.8
4	89.76
10	142.56
16	216.48
22	290.4
27	390.72
33	522.72
39	675.84
45	865.92
51	1114.08
56	1510.08
62	2048.64
68	2766.72
74	3553.44
80	4561.92
86	5855.52
91	7972.8
97	10818.72
103	14657.28

Sounds[]

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The specific instructions are: Walk, attack sounds and death sound with armor sound

Sound	Description
	Death
	Hurt
	Idle
	Novelty
	Shield breaks
	Mace ground smash
?	Step

Vigilant scoundrel[]

The vigilant scoundrel is the ancient variant of the royal guard encountered during Ancient Hunts with the minimum offering of the following runes:

The ancient resides within a Highblock Halls interior-themed arena and possesses, at minimum, the following enchantments:

15 enchanted pillagers act as the ancient's minions, possessing the following enchantments:

Upon defeating the vigilant scoundrel, a gilded variant of the following items will drop as a reward:

Data values[]

In the game files, the royal guard is referred to internally as the RoyalGuard and the IllagerRoyalGuard.
In the game files, the royal guard’s shield is referred to internally as the RoyalGuardShield and the IllagerRoyalGuardShield.

Relations[]

History[]

Minecraft Dungeons
Dungeons Beta					32pxAdded royal guards and royal guard shields.
1.7.2.0					Adjusted new "taunt circle + lock" behavior for Royal Guard.
					Reduced charge speed.
					Reduced melee ticks to 2 (was 3).
					Added behavior which makes them go aggressive when hurt when standing in taunt circle.
					They now get locked on the hero if they run away > 15 blocks.
October 16, 2021					A video was shown in a twitter post revealing that tower guards, a royal guard variant, will spawn within the Cloudy Climb tower.^[1]
October 16, 2021					Another video was shown in a twitter post revealing that royal guards will spawn alongside tower guards.^[2]
October 16, 2021					A video was shown in a twitter post, showing a hero being saved by another hero from enchanted royal guards.^[3]

Trivia[]

Sometimes, the Creepy Crypt and Panda Plateau can generate a skeleton with the royal guard's equipment. When the hero clicks on it, the skeleton disappears and waves of skeletons are summoned around it. After the waves have been defeated, the hero gets a chest reward, but still can't take the dark armor and the shield.