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The warden is a hostile mob summoned by sculk shriekers. They are completely blind, and thus rely on vibrations and their sense of smell to identify the player and other mobs. They are the most powerful of all the monsters, having the highest health, and dealing the most damage of any mob in the game except for the unused giant.
Spawning
Wardens do not use traditional mob spawning mechanics. When a player activates any sculk shrieker three times, and there isn't another warden within 48 blocks, and the light level is lower than 11, a warden emerges from the ground. Up to 20 attempts are made to spawn a warden within a 11×13×11 box centered on the shrieker.
The warning count for sculk shriekers is specific to each player, not each sculk shrieker. This means that the same player can activate three different skulk shriekers just once, and a warden still spawns on the third activation.
Behavior
Wardens are blind and wander randomly. A nearby vibration alerts the warden, which moves toward the location where the vibration originated. It can also smell the area around it, allowing it to zero in on an entity's location. The more vibrations a mob or player makes, the more agitated it grows.
The souls on its chest creates a low throbbing heartbeat sound, in tandem with the Darkness effect. The animation and sound speeds up gradually as the warden becomes more agitated.[1] Wardens prefer to track down mobs that it finds most suspicious, rather than the closest one.[2]
Once a warden reaches a high enough level of agitation, it roars and pursues the target. In this state, the warden pathfinds to the target normally, regardless of vibrations made. If a mob or player collides with a warden, or attacks it first, the warden immediately enters its angry state.
The warden tracks down and attack all other mobs, excluding other wardens. The warden can also follow vibrations made by non-mob entities such as projectiles or minecarts.
After sixty seconds of being "calm" and not detecting any vibrations, the warden burrows back into the ground and despawns. The warden is completely invulnerable while emerging or burrowing, including damage from /kill, though it can still be pushed by entities, pistons, and liquids.
The warden is classified as an undead mob, which means it takes extra damage from the Smite enchantment, gets healed by the Instant Damage status effect, is damaged by the Healing status effect, is immune to Poison and Regeneration, and is ignored by the wither. However, unlike some undead mobs, the warden does not burn under direct sunlight.
The warden's attack disables shields, and deals an exceptional amount of damage, enough to instantly kill a player wearing Full netherite armor on Hard difficulty.
Wardens can fit in a 1 block wide and 3 blocks height corridor, due to their hitbox. This allows them to chase entities pathfinding precisely even on small gaps, such as cave corridors.
Drops
Wardens drop three experience points on death.
Advancements
There are no advancements associated with the warden. The warden is intended to be a natural disaster that is almost impossible to kill and best avoided.[3] Therefore, killing a warden doesn't count for the Monster Hunter advancement, nor is it needed to receive the Monsters Hunted advancement.[4]
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warden groans angrily | Hostile Creatures | Plays randomly while searching for an entity | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden whines | Hostile Creatures | Plays randomly | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden rages | Hostile Creatures | Warden targets an enemy | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden lands hit | Hostile Creatures | Warden attacks | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden digs | Hostile Creatures | Warden despawns | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden dies | Hostile Creatures | Dying | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden emerges | Hostile Creatures | Warden spawns | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden heart beats | Hostile Creatures | Plays randomly | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden hurts | Hostile Creatures | Taking damage | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden takes notice | Hostile Creatures | Warden notices vibration | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden takes notice angrily | Hostile Creatures | Warden moves toward the source of vibration | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden approaches | Hostile Creatures | Warden gets called by sculk shrieker once | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden advances | Hostile Creatures | Warden gets called by sculk shrieker twice | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden draws close | Hostile Creatures | Warden gets called by sculk shrieker thrice | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden roars | Hostile Creatures | Targets entity | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? | |
| Warden sniffs | Hostile Creatures | Scans for nearby entities | entity | subtitles | 0.75 | ? | ? | |
| Warden steps | Hostile Creatures | Walking | entity | subtitles | 0.3 | ? | ? | |
| Warden tendrils click | Hostile Creatures | Detects movement | entity | subtitles | 1 | ? | ? |
History
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Created concept art with early designs known as the "stalker". | ||||
| 2020 | Created concept art with early designs known as the "hollowed". | ||||
| This was considered too gory for Minecraft, so it was scrapped. | |||||
| October 3, 2020 | |||||
| October 6, 2020 | A set of teaser images of the warden's size and behavior were released on Brandon Pearce's Twitter. | ||||
| October 16, 2021 | |||||
| November 26, 2021 | It was revealed that wardens have a sense of smell. It can detect and pathfind toward the general location of a player or mob through a "smelling" action. It also prioritizes smelling the player or mob that it is most suspicious of, rather than the one closest to it.[5][6] | ||||
| December 18, 2021 | Showed warden emerge behavior. | ||||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.19 | Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1 | File:Warden JE1.png Added wardens. | |||
| 22w11a | Warden is not available in this snapshot. | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| December 9, 2021 | |||||
| December 17, 2021 | Showed new animation of the warden burrowing into blocks. | ||||
Trivia
- Previous names considered for the warden were the "stalker" and the "hollowed".[7]
- The stalker iteration was tall, asymmetrical and had a glowing core. It occurred in totems throughout the Deep Dark. The stalker would stand completely still to trick players into taking its core and aggravating it, and could transform into a one block high form to prevent players from digging away. That iteration, specifically its appearance and transformation mechanic, felt clunky and was more goofy than scary, so it was scrapped.[8]
- The hollowed was designed with the intent of inciting trypophobia and had white flesh with holes in it. That iteration was deemed too gory by the developers and had to be toned down.[9]
- In the sixth episode of “The Secrets of Minecraft” it was jokingly revealed that the warden's personal name is William, similar to how the Ender dragon, the Wither, and player characters all have personal joke names. The word was also jokingly broken down into the words: war and den.[7]
- Brandon Pearce (kingbdogz) stated in a tweet that the souls in the warden’s chest is incredibly important to its lore.[10]
- Kingbdogz also stated that the warden is inspired by the "monster" heard at the end of "11" (a music disc).[11]
- Coincidentally, in the spinoff game, Minecraft: Story Mode, there was a character who was also named the Warden. It is unlikely that the mob was based on the character.
- Although the warden is intended be blind, when the player spectates the warden in spectator mode, it gives out a normal vision.
Gallery
Animations
Screenshots
Developer screenshots
- The Stalker Sculk With The Stalker Incarnation.jpeg
The iron golem and warden next to each other.[13]
Warden and rabbit.
- Warden x ancient city sneak peak.jpeg
A warden within an ancient city.[14]
- Warden Subtitles Reveal.jpeg
The showcase of the new warden subtitles.[15]
Concept artwork
Videos
- Other gameplay
A warden "emerging" from the ground.
A warden "digging" to the ground.
A video showing an early design of the warden known as the "hollowed."
References
- ↑ "Currently the Warden's heartbeat gets faster the more angry or "close" it is to finding its prey. In real time, this has really felt like it mimics the panic level of the player itself — the closer the Warden is to finding you, the more anxious you're probably going to be." – @kingbdogz on X, October 17, 2021
- ↑ "Also currently it sniffs out the mob/player that it is most suspicious of, rather than the nearest mob/player." – @kingbdogz on X, November 26, 2021
- ↑ "You shouldn't be killing Wardens, they are designed to be unkillable" – @kingbdogz on X, August 17, 2021
- ↑ "No" – @kingbdogz on X, July 7, 2021
- ↑ "Kinda. Wardens have no capability to detect players through vision. It technically has no idea where the player is, a system tells the Warden a general location that the player MIGHT be, not exactly. Only when the Warden suspects a mob enough that it knows their exact position" – @kingbdogz on X, November 26, 2021
- ↑ "Also currently it sniffs out the mob/player that it is most suspicious of, rather than the nearest mob/player." – @kingbdogz on X, November 26, 2021
- ↑ a b "The Secrets of How We're Making the Warden" – Minecraft on YouTube, January 21, 2022
- ↑ "Some ideas we had for early iterations of the Warden. stalkers were going to have a glowing item in the middle of its chest that you would also randomly find throughout the biome floating on totems. The idea was stalkers would stand perfectly still to "fake" those glowing items." – @kingbdogz on X, January 22, 2022
- ↑ "146 - From Modding to Mojang with Kingbdogz // The Spawn Chunks: A Minecraft Podcast" – The Spawn Chunks @ 2:55 on YouTube, June 21, 2021
- ↑ "In terms of character, the souls in its chest were incredibly important to its lore and, likewise with the color palette. It all comes together to tell a story that I think can be really more unsettling than any of these previous iterations, despite it being less "gory"." – @kingbdogz on X, January 23, 2022
- ↑ "Ask Mojang #11: All About Caves & Cliffs" – Minecraft on YouTube, October 30, 2020
- ↑ "That Sculk with a version of the Stalker" – @kingbdogz on X, January 22, 2022
- ↑ "Looking kinda short there, Iron Golem." – @kingbdogz on X, October 6, 2020
- ↑ "warden x ancient city sneak peak" – @Cojomax99 on X, February 15, 2022
- ↑ "Warden whines" – @kingbdogz on X, February 17, 2022






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