The Wild Update

The Wild Update is the name of an upcoming major themed update set to release in 2022 as Java Edition 1.19 and Bedrock Edition 1.19.0. It will add the Deep Dark biome, along with the warden, sculk blocks and the deep dark cities, and overhaul the swamp biome, adding a mangrove variant. It's also planned to make various other biomes more atmospheric and immersive as well as the addition of several mobs.

Notable features

Blocks

Mangrove Log

• Generated as a part of mangrove trees which are located in swamps.
• Can be crafted into mangrove planks.

Texture is derived from Jungle Logs.

Mangrove Leaves

• Generated in mangrove trees.
• A decorative block.

Mangrove Propagule (fruit form)

• Generated in mangrove trees.

Mangrove Planks

• Crafted from the respective logs.
• Can be used to craft respective slabs, stairs, fences, fence gates, pressure plates, signs, buttons, doors, boats and trapdoors.

Mangrove Roots

• A decorative block.
• Can be waterlogged.

File:Mangrove Sappling.png Mangrove Propagule

• Grows into a mangrove tree.
• Grows underneath mangrove leaves.
• Can be placed both on land and in water.

Mud

• Found in mangrove swamps.
• Can be created by using a water bottle on a dirt block.
• Can be placed on top of dripstone to dehydrate and form clay.
• This in turn enables renewable Clay.

File:Mud Bricks Render.png Mud Bricks

• Crafted using mud, sand, and wheat.
• A decorative block.

This image shows the Sculk Blocks in the Redstone tab in creative mode, implying that the other sculk blocks also have redstone uses.

Sculk Block

• Generates in the mysterious new cave biome where the Warden lives, called the Deep Dark.
• Has an animated texture.
• Drops only experience when broken without Silk Touch.
• May be used in redstone.
• Sculk blocks grow underneath a mob corpse around a sculk catalyst.

Sculk Catalyst

• Generates in the Deep Dark.
• Made of sculk and a bone-like material.
• May be used in redstone.
• Will spread Sculk blocks to wherever a nearby mob dies. The amount it spreads depends on the amount of experience the mob is meant to drop.
  • This means that even if the mob doesn't drop experience as it wasn't killed by a player, the blocks would still spread based on the amount of experience it normally drops.
• Blooms when activated.
• Drops only experience when broken without Silk Touch.
• Emits light.
• Emits soul particles after a mob dies and grows sculk.

Sculk Vein

• Generates in the Deep Dark.
• Generates in a layer on top of blocks, similar to snow.
• Can be placed in all directions, like glow lichen.
• Has an animated texture.
• Drops nothing when broken without Silk Touch.
• Some have parts that are transparent, allowing the player to see the block it is on top of.
• May be used in redstone as seen in this video when they talk about the sculk sensor.

File:Sculk shrieker new.gif Sculk Shrieker

• Generates in the Deep Dark.
• Perhaps made of sculk and a bone-like material.
• Has 2 soul-shaped patterns in the center.
• Has the ability to 'shriek', emitting ring-like/sonic particles.
• Will be activated by the sculk sensor.
• When activated, gives players the Darkness effects.
• If activated too many times, a warden will spawn.

Frame Block

• Composes a large open frame at the center of every Deep Dark City generated structure.
• Appears to be composed of deepslate.
• Has some unknown "interesting" purpose.

Items

Spawn Eggs

• Warden spawn egg.
• Frog spawn egg.
  • Possibly tadpole spawn egg.
• Allay spawn egg.
• Firefly spawn egg.

Bucket of Tadpole

• Obtained by using a water bucket on a tadpole, similar to fish.
• Can be used to carry around and empty out tadpoles, also similarly to fish.

Mobs

Allay

• Voted to be in the update during Minecraft Live 2021.
• Can find dropped blocks or items for a player.
  • Picks up dropped items in loaded chunks and will be able to carry up to a stack at a time, and cannot duplicate items or take items out of chests. It will drop the items that it collects when in range of a note block.

Frog

• Comes in three variants: default, tropical, and snowy.
  • Variants depend on the temperature of the biome.
• Likes to jump on lily pads and big dripleaves.
• Each variant is planned to have a unique use for players, currently unknown.
• Grows from a tadpole.
  • Tadpole
  • Grow up into frogs.
  • Can be held in buckets.
  • Frog type dependent on which temperature a tadpole grows in. This mob has 3 variants, tropical, temperate, and tundra.

Firefly

• Glows in the dark.
• Are eaten by frogs.
• Are currently only two pixels big, making them the smallest mob in the game.

A picture of the Warden and Iron Golem standing side by side

Warden

• Will spawn in the new Deep Dark biome, including within Deep Dark Cities.
• The first fully blind mob (bats, despite relying almost exclusively on echolocation, still have basic eyesight).
  • Has a sense of smell. It will detect a player if they get too close, regardless if they made any vibrations.
  • Has a sense of vibration. When sensing movement, it moves toward the source of the movement.
    • It follows and attacks players, mobs, and other entities that make vibrations.
      • It does not attack other Wardens.
    • When attacked, it path finds toward the player.
    • Seems to follow the same rules as the Sculk Sensor when detecting noise.
      • When it detects a vibration, the growths on its head rattle and light up, similar to the sculk sensor.
    • If any projectile (e.g. egg, snowball, arrow) lands near the Warden, the mob inspects the location where the projectile landed, due to the projectile creating movement and noise. This feature can be used in order to cause a distraction.
    • Does not detect players that are sneaking.
    • When aggravated for long enough, the warden follows the player continuously, regardless of any other distractions.
  • Because of this, it can detect players that are invisible.
• Will burn in direct daylight.
• It is the only mob that spawns in Deep Dark.
• A mob designed to be extremely difficult, intended to be avoided and fled from.
  • Has a way to counter the strategy of building up 3 blocks to avoid attacks.
  • Incredibly strong, doing 30 × 15 damage, bringing players wearing full netherite armor from full health to 7 health points.
  • Currently has 500 × 250 health points.
  • At least as fast as the player's walking speed.
  • Seems to have knockback resistance.
• The warden's chest has a glowing core that appears to brighten and dim in tandem with the Darkness effect.
  • The core creates a low throbbing sound as it pulses. The sound and animation seem to speed up rapidly when the warden notices a player.
• Is about 3.5 blocks tall, making it one of the tallest mobs in the game, exceeding the iron golem and enderman in height and width (the same).
• Can be summoned by Sculk Shriekers; a Warden will rise out of the ground nearby if too many are activated.

World generation

Swamp

• Completely overhauled.
• Will contain mangrove trees.
• Contains mud.
• Can spawn frogs.
• Can spawn fireflies while nighttime.

Mangrove Swamp

• New biome variant of a Swamp.
• Will contain mangrove trees, and are the only trees that can generate there.
• Contains mud as ground.

Mangrove Trees

• New type of tree.
• Made of Mangrove Logs
• Generated roots composed of Mangrove Root Blocks.
• Has propagules hanging from leaves.
• Found in swamps.

Deep Dark

• New biome at the "deepest depths of the world".
• Originally planned for 1.17, then moved to 1.18, and was then postponed to 1.19 due to increased scope.
• May not contain any water or lava aquifers.
• May be the rarest cave biome.
• Will tend to generate under continental/mountainous areas.
• Generates exclusively within the deepslate layer between Y=-1 and Y=-64.
• Contains the new Deep Dark City generated structure.
• Wardens can spawn there through the activation of Sculk Shriekers.
• Contains all Sculk-related blocks.
• With the exception of spawners, no mobs other than Wardens can spawn there, similar to mushroom fields.

Deep Dark City

• New structure that generates within the Deep Dark.
• Includes all of the Deep Dark features within it.
• Made of deepslate and its variants, basalt blocks and its variants, planks, and wool.
• Contains soul sand, soul fire and soul lanterns.
• Contains candles and skeleton skulls.
• Contains chests with unique loot.
• Contains the unknown frame block.
• Has different levels and open spaces.
• May contain mob heads.

Non-mob entities

An image of two variants of the Boat with Chest shown during Minecraft Live 2021

Boat with Chest

• Similar to a Minecart with Chest but with boat instead of minecart.
• Unlike the functionality of a Minecart with Chest, a player (but only one) can still ride in the boat when the chest is present.
• Different wood variants.

Effects

Darkness

• A status effect triggered by the Sculk Shrieker block, causing the player's camera to dim in brightness, thus limiting vision.

Particles

• Sculk catalysts will emit a new particle, resembling the existing soul particle, but blue, when triggered:
  • File:Sculk Soul (texture 10).png
• Sculk shrieker will emit a new particle, resembling a ring or smoke signal, when activated.

Planned changes

Blocks

Clay

• More efficient way to regenerate clay by placing mud over a dripstone block with a stalactite dripstone growing under. The dripstone will dry it out, producing a clay block.

Sculk Sensor

• Now are able to activate Sculk Shriekers.
• Now are able to communicate with warden.
• Now are able to detect sneaking players who step on top of it.
• Will now generate in the Deep Dark biome.

World generation

Biomes

• Updating various overworld biomes, such as Birch Forests, to make them more diverse, unique and add more immersion to biomes in general.

Unconfirmed features

Blocks

Lotus flower in the swamp concept art.

Lotus Flower

• Can be seen in the concept art of the swamps, there are lotus flowers on lily pads.

Shelf fungi in the birch forest concept art.

Cattails

• Can be seen in the concept art of the swamps.

Shelf Fungi

• Can be seen in the concept art of tall birch forests.

Pappus Plant

• Can be seen in the concept art of tall birch forests. It is a tall stem with white pappus on the end.
• Pappus is a type of wind-dispersal mechanism for plants and flowers.

Violets

• Can be seen in the concept art of tall birch forests.
• The small flowers occupy block wide areas.
• Come in four colors: Pink, Purple, White, and Light Blue.

Moss-Covered Birch Log

• Can be seen in the concept art of tall birch forests. (Alex is stepping on said block).

Hollow Birch Log

• Can be seen in the concept art of tall birch forests.

Sculk Jaw

• Generates in the Deep Dark biome.
• Has a different top texture than the Sculk Block and Sculk Catalyst.
• Has state with unknown name.
• Will likely not make it into the final release.

Items

Bundle

• Originally announced at Minecraft Live 2020, it was originally going to be added in 1.17. When the Caves & Cliffs update was split into two parts, however, it was pushed to 1.18, but it was postponed again. It may come in 1.19, but has not been announced.

Goat Horn

• They were introduced in Bedrock beta 1.16.200.52 and didn't make into 1.17. Recently it was stated that they won't come in 1.18. It may come in 1.19, but has not been announced.

World generation

A fallen birch tree in the birch forest concept art.

Fallen Trees

• Can be seen in the concept art of the birch forest.
• Already exists in Bedrock Edition.

Birch Tree Branch

• Can be seen in the concept art of the birch forest.
• Tall birch tree with a singular birch log acting as a branch to hold a beehive.

Gameplay

Archaeology

• Originally announced at Minecraft Live 2020, it was originally going to be added in 1.17. When the Caves & Cliffs update was split into two parts, however, it was pushed past both releases. It may come in 1.19, but has not been announced.

Trivia

• The warden was originally known as a "stalker" early during development. That iteration also had white flesh with holes in it, to the point where it was deemed too gory by the developers and had to be tuned down.
  • Brandon Pearce also mentioned that this is one of various "wildly different" iterations that he's going to preview once the warden is released to the public.
• This was the first update to add a 2-dimensional mob, the firefly.
• This is the first update that features a losing biome vote candidate.
• The tropical frog is based on the grey foam-nest tree frog.
• While this update introduces mud as a block, mud has existed in the franchise as a liquid in Minecraft Earth. Whether a liquid form of mud (and possibly the muddy pig) will be introduced has not been stated.

Gallery

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  The Wild Update logo

• Frog tropical white.png

  Tropical frog

• Frog green.png

  Tundra frog

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  Temperate frog

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  Tadpoles

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  Fireflies

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  Mud brick house

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  Mangrove swamp

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  Mangrove tree

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  Warden emerging from the ground of the Deep Dark

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  Deep dark city

• Magrove log.jpg

  Mangrove tree trunk

• Mangrove Sapling.png

  Mangrove propagule planted underwater

• Minecraft Live 2021 Mud Block (Showcase) .png

  Block of mud

• Mud Bricks (Showcased at Minecraft Live 2021) .png

  Wall of mud bricks

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  Frog catching fireflies

Concept artwork

Some concept arts in this gallery are originally made for the Caves & Cliffs update.

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  Warden early sketches

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  Warden final concept

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  Axolotl and warden

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  Concept art for the axolotl, goat, and warden.

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  Deep dark. Featuring Deep dark city.

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  Mangrove tree and different designs of mangrove roots.

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  Mangrove swamp. Featuring mangrove trees, fireflies, and boat with chest.

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  Mangrove swamp during the night. Featuring mangrove trees and fireflies.

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  New birch forest.

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  Mangrove swamp, new birch forest, and new(?) oak forest biomes during a sunset.