A tower guard is a heavily-armored tower keeper royal guard variant that can be found within the Tower of Minecraft Dungeons.
Appearance[]
Tower guard
Tower guards are illagers similar in appearance to royal guards with the difference of them being exclusive to the tower and having unique armor and weapons. Firstly, they wear a unique hood with yellow outlines in the back, they also wear red underclothing under their armor, and lastly, they wear capes and don a unique shield. The same pattern on their shield is seen on their capes. Their eyes are also seen glowing a bright blue.
Spawning[]
Behavior[]
Walk
Stun
Basic attack
Shield broken
Charging
Charge collided stop
Charge normal stop
Tower guards have strength that is equivalent of the Arch-Illager’s royal guards, capable of overwhelming the hero with both damage and numbers, they also like to circle the hero blocking them.
Tower guards are usually protected by their heavy armor, with their shield and glaive. The shield can deflect all ranged attacks unlike shields of royal guards which can be broken with ranged attacks, so it must be destroyed first, so the hero can damage it. Tower guards are slower than most mobs, but extremely strong, capable of dealing heavy damage to the hero. They can be stunned by normal attacks like royal guard.
Tower guards chase and attack the hero who attracted them first and ignore other heroes. [verify]
Tower guards have six attack behaviors:
- Basic attack
Tower guards are capable of swinging their glaive at the hero, dealing heavy damage and knock hero back.
- Shield broken
When the tower guards loses their shield, they stomps angrily and black smoke appears above its head, then disappears.
- Charge attack
Tower guards without shield are capable of charging at the hero if they are within range. Have five seconds cooldown.
- Charging
Tower guard have charging and particle effects whiling charging. Similar to Vengeful Heart of Ender.
- Charge collide stop
If the tower guards misses the hero or hits a wall while charging, they will "collide stop".
- Charge normal stop
If the tower guards catch up to the hero while charging, they will "normal stop" themselves and slash the hero with their spear. Deals knockback and few damage.
Tower guard shield[]
A tower guard shield is a royal guard shield variant that can be found exclusively equipped by tower guards within the cloudy climb seasonal adventure of Minecraft Dungeons.
Appearance[]
Tower guard shields are red with golden outlines, one on every edge of the shield and one square outline in the interior of the shield. There are four additional outlines inside of the interior outline. These have dark gray squares inside. The weird shape of the squares almost resembles the tower where the tower guards spawn but this is currently unconfirmed. There is an additional dark gray square on top of the shield.
Behavior[]
Tower guard shields deflect all ranged attacks, unlike royal guard shields. Similar to deflect enchantment.
Tower guard spear[]
A tower guard spear is a spear variant that can be found exclusively equipped by tower guards within the cloudy climb seasonal adventure of Minecraft Dungeons.
Appearance[]
Tower guard spears are long dark gray spears that resemble a glaive. The blade on the edge of the spear is a diamond like color however it is currently unknown if the blade is actually made of diamond. This diamond color also appears on the other edge of the spear in the form of two small pieces that decorate the weapon.
Sounds[]
| Sound | Description |
|---|---|
| Basic attack (armor) | |
| Basic attack (swing) | |
| Block | |
| Charge attack start | |
| Charge attack stop (collide) | |
| Charge attack stop (normal) | |
| Death | |
| Hurt | |
| Idle | |
| Shield break | |
| Shield break (vocal) | |
| Step | |
| Stun |
Achievements[]
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| Alpha Centurion |
Data values[]
- In the game files, tower guards are referred to internally by the name
IllagerTowerGuard. - In the game files, tower guard shields are referred to internally by the name
TowerGuardShield. - In the game files, tower guard spears are referred to internally by the name
TowerGuardSpear.
History[]
| Minecraft Dungeons | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 16, 2021 | Tower guards with royal guard basic attack animation are revealed in-game in the live as one of them attacks and overwhelms the hero in numbers. They are also revealed to exclusively spawn in the tower.[1] | ||||
| October 16, 2021 | A video was shown in a Twitter post featuring tower guards again in-game.[2] | ||||
| 1.12.0.0 |    Added tower guards, tower guard shields, and tower guard spears. | ||||
Trivia[]
Tower guard without shield (Original)
- Tower guards have an unused gold line boots in their texture file and season 3 game launcher artwork. However the in-game tower guards shares boots texture with royal guard.[3]
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Tower Guard" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Relations[]
Gallery[]
Renders[]
The idle isometric render of a tower guard.
The idle isometric render of a tower guard without a tower guard shield.
The isometric render of a tower guard walking.
The isometric render of a tower guard walking without a tower guard shield.
The isometric render of a tower guard attacking.
The isometric render of a tower guard attacking without a tower guard shield.
The isometric render of a tower guard shield.
The isometric render of a tower guard spear.
A tower guard without equipment.
A tower guard without a tower guard shield with the original boots texture.
The in-front view of a tower guard with the original boots texture.
Textures[]
Texture file of the tower guard.
The shadow texture file of the tower guard.
The face of a tower guard.
The texture file of a tower guard shield.
The grayscale texture file of a tower guard shield.
The texture file of a tower guard spear.
The shadow texture file of a tower guard spear.
Texture file of 3 diagonal lines found in the tower guard's files.
Animations[]
The tower guard basic attack animation.
The tower guard basic attack animation without a tower guard shield.
The tower guard basic attack in game animation.
The tower guard basic attack in game animation without a tower guard shield.
The tower guard "Charge Attack" full animation.
The tower guard charging animation.
The tower guard charge collided stop animation.
The tower guard charge normal stop animation.
The tower guard shield broken animation.
The tower guard idle animation.
The tower guard idle animation without a tower guard shield.
The tower guard stun animation.
The tower guard stun animation without a tower guard shield.
The tower guard walk animation.
The tower guard walk animation without a tower guard shield.
Official Renders[]
An official render of a tower guard by Mojang Studios and Double Eleven.
Official Artwork[]
A tower guard within the fauna faire game launcher artwork.
Miscellaneous[]
Three tower guards are seen being accompanied by three tower wraiths, with one being green.[4]
A tower guard and a tower wraith were featured in an official Mojang Studios tweet asking players to vote for which tower mob that they believe is tougher.[5]
![Three tower guards are seen being accompanied by three tower wraiths, with one being green.[4]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/e/e9/Green_Tower_Wraith_Intro.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20220126045633)
![A tower guard and a tower wraith were featured in an official Mojang Studios tweet asking players to vote for which tower mob that they believe is tougher.[5]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft_gamepedia/images/e/e0/Tower_Guard_Or_Tower_Wraith.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20220126045734)
References[]
- ↑ "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
- ↑ Tower guard's boot textures bug - "Won't fix".
- ↑ "NEW TOWER MOBS Meet tough-as-nails Tower Guards, and Tower Wraiths – who are known to pack a poison punch! This pair won’t let your tower trek be easy! How will you fare in #CloudyClimb, coming Dec 14!?" – @dungeonsgame on X, November 25, 2021
- ↑ "Who’s the tougher new Tower mob? #CloudyClimb" – @dungeonsgame on X, December 22, 2021