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 adds the Deep Dark biome, along with the Warden, Sculk Blocks and the Deep Dark Cities, and makes various other biomes more atmospheric and immersive. In addition, it also introduces several new mobs and biomes variants.

Notable features

Blocks

Mangrove Log

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

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

• Generates in 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.
• Warden may spawn from it, if nearby Sculk Shrieker was activated too many times.

Sculk Catalyst

• Generates in the Deep Dark.
• Made of sculk and a bone-like material.
• May be used in redstone.
• Spreads 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.png.png 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.
• Is activated by the Sculk Sensor.
• Gives players the Darkness effect when activated.
• If activated too many times, the Warden spawns.

Frame Block

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

Items

Spawn Eggs

• Warden spawn egg.
• Frog spawn egg.
  • Possibly spawn eggs for each variant: tropical and snowy.
  • Possibly tadpole spawn egg.
• Allay spawn egg.
• Firefly spawn egg.

Bucket of Tadpole

• Obtained by using a water bucket on a tadpole, similar to obtaining a bucket of fish or axolotls.
• Can be used to transport tadpoles, also as with fish and axolotls.

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 can carry up to a stack at a time, and cannot duplicate items or take items out of chests. It drops its collected items when in range of a note block.

Frog

• Comes in three variants: default, tropical, and snowy.
  • The default variant is orange, the tropical variant is white, and the snowy variant is green.
• Grows from a tadpole.
• Variants depend on the temperature of the biome it turns from a tadpole to a frog in.
• Jumps on lily pads and big dripleaves.
• Eats fireflies.
• Each variant is planned to have a unique use for players, currently unknown.

Firefly

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

Tadpole

• Grows up into a frog.
• Can be held in a water bucket.
• Frog type dependent on which temperature a tadpole grows in. This mob has 3 variants, tropical, temperate, and tundra.

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

A picture of the Warden and Player standing side by side

Warden and Rabbit

Warden

• Spawns in the 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 detects a player who gets 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.
• Burns in direct daylight.
• It is the only mob that spawns in the Deep Dark.
• A mob designed to be extremely difficult, intended to be avoided and fled from.
  • Has a way to counter "cheesing" strategies like pillaring up to avoid attacks. The solution does not involve block breaking.
  • Incredibly strong, doing 32 × 16 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 or "heartbeat" sound as it pulses. The sound and animation speed up rapidly as the warden gets closer to attacking the 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 rises out of the ground nearby if too many are activated.

World generation

Swamp

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

Mangrove Swamp

• New biome variant of a Swamp.
• Contains 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.
• Tends to generate under continental/mountainous areas.
• Generates exclusively within the deepslate layer between Y=-1 and Y=-64.
• Contains Deep Dark Cities.
• 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.
  • The loot is intended to be items that cannot be found anywhere else, and that provide unique abilities and mechanics to players that weren't possible before and are not attainable by other methods.
• Contains the unknown frame block.
• Has different levels and open spaces.
• May have been built by an ancient civilization according to Brandon Pearce.

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 a boat instead of a 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 Soul

• Emitted by the Sculk Catalysts when activated.

Shriek

• Emitted by the Sculk Shriekers 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 dries it out, producing a clay block.

Sculk Sensor

• Now are able to activate Sculk Shriekers.
• Now are able to communicate with the Warden.
• Now are able to detect sneaking players who step on top of it.
• 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

File:Sculk Jaw.png.png Sculk Jaw

• Generates in the Deep Dark.
• Has a different top texture than the Sculk Block and Sculk Catalyst.
• File:Sculk Jaw Bite.png.png Has state with Sculk Catalyst.
• Likely will not be included in the final release.

Effects

Darkness

• Might also be triggered by the Wardens given how the duration of the effect extended past the one imposed by the Sculk Shrieker in the Minecraft LIVE 2021 showcase, and as suggested by a tweet from kingbdogz.

Trivia

• The Warden was originally known as the "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 vote candidate (biome, in this case), the Swamp biome update from MINECON Live 2019.
• 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 fluid in Minecraft Earth. The properties of mud in this update have 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 art in this gallery was 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 and new birch forest biome during a sunset.