The Wild Update

"Mud" redirects here. For the fluid in Minecraft Earth, see MCE:Mud.

"Warden" redirects here. For the unseen illager in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Warden.

The Wild Update is an upcoming major update set to release in 2022 as Java Edition 1.19 and Bedrock Edition 1.19.0., themed around "scary things" and nature. It notably introduces the deep dark biome and many different forms of fauna and flora to the Overworld, as well as adding onto the atmosphere and immersion of the game.

Notable features

Blocks

Mysterious Frame

• Composes a large open frame at the center of every ancient city.
• Appears to be composed of deepslate.
• Has some unknown "interesting" purpose.
• Known in the Bedrock game files as the mysteriousFrame and the mysteriousFrameSlot.

Frog Egg

• Can't be obtained in survival.
• Is laid by frogs when they are bred.
  • Tadpoles "explode" from them soon after.
  • Tadpole variant depends on the biome where it grows into a frog.

Froglight

• Is dropped by tiny magma cubes when they are eaten by frogs.
• Has three variants: pearlescent (purple), verdant (green), and ochre (yellow).
  • Which variant is dropped depends on the frog variant that eats the magma cube.
    • A pearlescent froglight is dropped if a tropical (white) frog eats the magma cube.
    • A verdant froglight is dropped if a snowy (green) frog eats the magma cube.
    • An ochre froglight is dropped if a default (orange) frog eats the magma cube.

Mangrove Fruit_{(subject to texture changes)}

• Generated in mangrove leaves.

Mangrove Log

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

Mangrove Leaves

• Generated in mangrove trees.
• A decorative block.

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.
• Can be used to craft respective slab, stair, and wall.

This image shows 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.
• Sculk blocks grow underneath a mob corpse around a sculk catalyst.
• If too many sculk shriekers activate, wardens may emerge from the sculk blocks.

Sculk Catalyst

• Generates in the deep dark biome.
• 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 Shrieker

• Generates in the deep dark biome.
• Has two soul-shaped patterns in the center.
• Has the ability to "shriek", emitting ring-like/sonic particles.
• Is activated by a sculk sensor.
• Gives players the Darkness effect when activated.
• If activated too many times, a warden will start to summon from the ground.
  • Sculk shriekers only summon wardens if there isn't one within 48 blocks.

Sculk Vein

• Generates in the deep dark biome.
• 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 Mojang Studios talks about the sculk sensor.

Items

Spawn Eggs

• Warden spawn egg.
• Frog spawn egg.
• Tadpole spawn egg.
• Allay spawn egg.
• Firefly spawn egg.

File:Bucket of Tadpole BE1.png 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 to another location, similarly 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.

Firefly

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

Frog _{(subject to texture changes)}

• Grows from a tadpole.
• Comes in three variants: default, snowy, and tropical.
  • The default variant is orange, the tropical variant is white, and the snowy variant is green.
  • Frog variant depends on the temperature of the biome where it turns from a tadpole to a frog.
  • Each variant is planned to have a unique use for players, currently unknown.
• Jumps on lily pads and big dripleaves.
• Has the ability to swim.
• Eats small slimes, dropping slime balls.
• Eats small magma cubes, dropping froglights.
  • Each frog variant drops a different variant of froglight.
    • The default frog drops ochre (yellow) froglights.
    • The snowy frog drops verdant (green) froglights.
    • The tropical frog drops pearlescent (purple) froglights.

Tadpole

• Grows up into a frog.
  • Frog type depends on which temperature it grows in.
• Can be held in a water bucket.
• Will "panic" if gets on land and pathfind to a nearby water source.
  • Also will panic if there are axolotls nearby.

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 _{(subject to texture changes)}

• Spawns in the deep dark biome, specifically when too many sculk shriekers are activated.
• "Emerges" from the ground when spawned by sculk shriekers.
  • Digs back into the ground when it doesn't sense any vibration after 60 seconds.
• The first fully blind mob (bats have basic eyesight, both in-game and in the real world).
  • Because of this, stumbles as it walks.
  • Has a sense of smell. It can detect and pathfind towards the general location of a player or mob through a "smelling" action.
    • Prioritizes smelling the player or mob that it is most suspicious of, rather than the one closest to it.
  • Has a sense of vibration. When sensing movement, it pathfinds 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 it detects a vibration, the growths on its head rattle and light up, similar to the sculk sensor.
    • Seems to follow the same rules as the sculk sensor when detecting vibrations.
      • If any projectile (e.g. egg, snowball, arrow) lands near it, the warden inspects the location where the projectile landed, due to the projectile creating significant vibrations. This feature can be used in order to cause a distraction.
    • Does not detect players that are sneaking.
  • Because of this, it can detect players or mobs that are invisible.
• Becomes more suspicious of a player or mob as it detects its location more through vibrations and/or smelling. When it suspects the target enough, it identifies its exact location, which causes it to aggravate and pathfind towards said target to attack regardless of outside distractions.
• Burns in direct daylight.
• It is the only mob that spawns in the deep dark biome.
• 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 a walking player.
  • Seems to have knockback resistance.
• 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 more suspicious of or closer to attacking a player or mob.
• 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).

World generation

Ancient City

• New structure that generates within the deep dark biome.
• 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 deepslate frames.
• Has different levels and open spaces.

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 ancient 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.

Mangrove Swamp

• New biome variant of a swamp.
• Contains mangrove trees, and are the only trees that can generate there.
• Biome surface is composed of mud.

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.

Swamp

• Completely overhauled.
• Contains mangrove trees.
• Contains mud blocks on the ground.
• Frogs can spawn here.
• Fireflies can spawn here during the night.

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.
• Comes in different wood plank variants, some of which include the dark oak and jungle variant.

Gameplay

Particles

• Sculk Soul
  • Emitted by sculk catalysts when activated.
• Shriek
  • Emitted by sculk shriekers when activated.
• Sculk Sensor particles
  • Emitted by sculk sensors when activated.

Status effects

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

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 wardens.
• Now are able to detect sneaking players who step on top of it.
• Now generate in the deep dark biome.
• Potentially planned to be able to detect a wool block but only when it is placed.

World generation

Biomes

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

Unconfirmed features

Gameplay

Status effects

• Darkness might also be triggered by 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.
  • In the sixth episode of “The Secrets of Minecraft,” it was revealed that one of the warden’s other prototype names besides the “stalker,” was the “hollowed.” Many different versions of concept art were shown, including one with the warden labeled as the “stalker.” The narrator also jokingly revealed that the warden’s personal name is William, similar to how the ender dragon, the wither, Steve, and Alex all have personal joke names.
• This is 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.
• 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

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  Mangrove swamp

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  Mangrove tree

• Magrove log.jpg

  Mangrove tree trunk

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  Mud brick house

• 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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  Fireflies

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  Frog catching fireflies

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  Tadpoles

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  Warden emerging from the ground of the deep dark

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  Ancient city

Concept artwork

Some concept art in this gallery was originally made for the Caves & Cliffs update.

• Warden secret concepts.png

  Various concepts of the warden before sculk's appearance was fully-decided on.

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  Early iterations of the warden, using the current sculk colors.

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  Sketches of the final iteration of the warden, as well as other iterations for its ears.

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  Sketches of the axolotl and warden.

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  A "scale of cuteness" depicting the axolotl, goat, and warden.

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  Concept art of the deep dark and ancient city.

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  Concepts for how mangrove roots could be portrayed in-game.

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  Concept art of the mangrove swamp.

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  Concept art of the mangrove swamp at night.

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  Concept art of the birch forest.

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  Concept art depicting three forested biomes in a sunset setting.