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A royal guard is a heavily-armored illager that can be found within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons. A variant of the royal guard, the tower guard exists within certain floors of the tower.
Appearance[]
The royal guard
Royal guards can be seen wearing dark armor that has a fancy gold trim running around the helmet edges and beneath the shoulder gear. A blue gem can be seen embedded as the centerpiece of the helmet. In addition, they wield maces alongside shields that bear a golden cross-like pattern.
Lore[]
Traveling throughout the Mainland, it did not take the Heroes long to notice the hierarchy of the Arch-Illager's Illager empire. At the top of illager society were the royal guards, these high-ranking warriors were handpicked by the Arch-Illager for his own personal defense. As such, their armor was not made with subtlety in mind, needing to be capable of overwhelming enemies with both damage and numbers. Because they were elite warriors, they were deployed only at strategic locations such as the Highblock Halls, the Obsidian Pinnacle, the Lone Fortress, the Gale Sanctum, and the Lost Settlement. Despite this, however, there were royal guards stationed in other places, such as the Creepy Crypt, the Lower Temple, the Underhalls, the Colossal Rampart, the Gauntlet of Gales, and the Broken Citadel. They have three methods in which they attack their enemies. At first, they try charging, hoping to intimidate foes into fleeing with fear. If that fails, they instead relay on their mace and brute force. However, once an enemy does try to flee after this, they would pursue them.[1] The Arch-illager may have been inspired by the sight of the Nameless One's skeleton vanguards and due to their uneasy alliance.[citation needed]
Spawning[]
- Missions
- Mobs
Behavior[]
Royal guards are only able to be damaged once their shield is destroyed. Royal guards are slower than most mobs, yet extremely strong, capable of dealing heavy damage to the hero. Despite this, they can be, however, be stunned by normal attacks.
Royal guards chase and attack the hero who attracted them first and ignore other heroes. [verify]
Royal guards have three behaviors:
- Walk
Royal guard walk
Royal guards charge at any hero that comes within their range of attack. When the Royal Guard moves, its left eye is slightly squinted to make it look more aggressive.
- Basic attack
Royal guard basic attack
Royal guards swing their mace at the hero, dealing heavy melee damage. However, unlike vindicators, they cannot move while attacking.
Royal guard shield[]
A royal guard shield is an unobtainable shield that can be seen exclusively equipped by royal guards.
Appearance[]
Royal guard shields are dark gray shields that have a gold trimmed edge in addition to four gold trimmed lines running from each side to the dark gray center.
Behavior[]
Royal guard shields provide royal guards some protection against attacks, they do not deflect all ranged attacks. This is unlike tower guard shields wielded by tower guards.
Sounds[]
| Sound | Description |
|---|---|
| Attack (Hit sounds) [note 1] | |
| Mob body fall (Mix with death sounds) [note 2] | |
| Death [note 2] | |
| Death (Armor)[note 3] | |
| Hurt [note 2] | |
| Hurt (Armor "Impact" sounds)[note 3] | |
| Idle | |
| Novelty [note 2] | |
| Shield breaks [note 4] | |
| Mace ground smash (Low) [note 5] | |
| Mace ground smash (Mid) [note 5] |
Unused [verify][]
There are two unknown sound set json files named with royal guard - sfx_mob_royalGuardBlock.json and sfx_mob_royalGuardPreSummon.json. [note 2]
| Sound | Description |
|---|---|
| Chain equip | |
| Diamond equip | |
| Gold equip | |
| Iron equip | |
| Leather equip |
Step [note 2][]
According to sfx_mob_royalGuardStep.json file, royal guard step sounds in game are mix from:
| Sound | Description |
|---|---|
| Double axe impact shing (1) | |
| Dirt shatter (3) | |
| Hammer shimmer impact (4) |
The above sound effects also appear in the death, hurt, PreSummon and block sounds json file.
The royal guard step sound effects below were made by add-ons creator Rumaaji:
| Sound | Description |
|---|---|
| Fanmade step sounds |
- ↑ In
BP_IllagerRoyalGuardCharacter.jsonfile. The hit sounds shares with zombie attack sounds. - ↑ a b c d e f According to json file, These sounds are low-pitch and volume modify when plays in game.
- ↑ a b Shares with plate armor sounds
- ↑ Shares sounds with skeleton vanguard shield break sounds.
- ↑ a b Sound ID:
sfx_item_maceGroundImpact
Vigilant scoundrel[]
Note: Extension for DungeonsEntity template
The arena where the vigilant scoundrel is summoned and fought.
The Vigilant Scoundrel without shield in the arena during the ancient fight.
Ditto.
A vigilant scoundrel.
The vigilant scoundrel and its minions.
The vigilant scoundrel is an ancient royal guard that can be encountered during ancient hunts with the minimum offering of the following runes:
The ancient resides within a Highblock Halls-themed arena and possesses, at minimum, the following enchantments:
Fifteen enchanted pillagers act as the ancient's minions, possessing the following enchantments:
Upon defeating the vigilant scoundrel, a gilded variant of the following items drops as a reward:
Data values[]
- In the game files, royal guards are referred to internally by the names
RoyalGuardandIllagerRoyalGuard. - In the game files, royal guard shields are referred to internally by the names
RoyalGuardShieldandIllagerRoyalGuardShield.
Relations[]
History[]
| Minecraft Dungeons | |||||
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| Dungeons Beta |   Added royal guards and royal guard shields. | ||||
| 1.8.0.0 |  Added the vigilant scoundrel. | ||||
| October 16, 2021 | A video was shown in a twitter post revealing that tower guards, a royal guard variant, spawn within the Cloudy Climb tower.[2] | ||||
| October 16, 2021 | Another video was shown in a twitter post revealing that royal guards spawn alongside tower guards.[3] | ||||
| October 16, 2021 | A video was shown in a twitter post, showing a hero being saved by another hero from enchanted royal guards.[4] | ||||
Trivia[]
- Sometimes, a skeleton with royal guard equipment can generate within the creepy crypt and the panda plateau. When the hero interacts with it, the skeleton disappears and waves of skeletons are summoned around it. After the waves are defeated, the hero gets a chest as a reward, yet they cannot take the shield and dark armor.
- Armor and shields of the royal guard are slightly scaled up by 1.1x or 1.2x in game and loading screens. However in the Highblock Halls cutscenes, royal guard uses original size.
- A stunned royal guard can be also found within the loading screen of the obsidian pinnacle.
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Royal Guard" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[]
Renders[]
A Royal Guard's isometric idle render.
Ditto (Without shield).
A Royal Guard's isometric walk render.
Ditto (Without shield).
A Royal Guard's isometric attack render.
Ditto (Without shield).
A Royal Guard's shield.
A skeleton "crypt pose" with a Royal Guard's equipment.
A Royal Guard's isometric idle render without equipment.
- Royal GuardTPose.png
The T-pose of a Royal Guard without an animation file.
Animations[]
A Royal Guard's idle animation.
Ditto (Without shield).
A Royal Guard's walking animation.
Ditto (Without shield).
A Royal Guard's attack animation.
Ditto (Without shield).
A Royal Guard's stun animation.
Ditto (Without shield).
The Vigilant Scoundrel being idle.
Textures[]
A Royal Guard's in-game texture file.
A Royal Guard's in-game shadow texture file.
The face of a royal guard.
A Royal Guard's Shield's in-game texture file.
Ditto (Shadow Texture).
Gameplay[]
Some royal guards in game.
A few royal guards attacking a hero.
A skeleton with a royal guard's equipment found within the creepy crypt.
Two royal guards found within the lone fortress.
The Vigilant Scoundrel attacking a hero equipped with the ember robe.
The Vigilant Scoundrel in an Ancient Boss Rush mod map.
Official Artwork[]
Minecraft Dungeons official artwork featuring a Royal Guard on the left.
A T-Shirt design featuring a Royal Guard.
Miscellaneous[]
The Arch-Illager, a royal guard, and a mage seen within the Minecraft Dungeons Arcade cutscenes.
A royal guard lacking its armor (illager in blue) appearing within the image for the Diver's Dozen achievment. it is seen along with a pillager, a geomancer, and an unidentified end illager.
Front view of a Royal Guard walking with a slightly squinted left eye.
References[]
- ↑ Mojang, Mob of the month: Royal Guard, Nintendo Switch News (Posted under Minecraft Dungeons), October 3, 2023
- ↑ "And that’s not all, we’re also bringing the mysterious Tower to Dungeons. Test yourself in this new adventure and ultimate challenge – will you reach the top?" – @dungeonsgame on X, October 16, 2021
- ↑ "As you enjoy another look at the new content coming to Dungeons, let’s hand things back to @Minecraft!" – @dungeonsgame on X, October 16, 2021
- ↑ "Heroes, the adventure continues! Seasonal Adventures are coming to Dungeons! Advance through an all-new progression system to earn pets, flairs, emotes and skins! Coming December, reach new heights during Cloudy Climb – Dungeons’ first Seasonal Adventure! #CloudyClimb" – @dungeonsgame on X, October 16, 2021