The ankle monitor was a foot item exclusive to the April Fools' snapshot 1.RV-Pre1.
Obtaining
Mob loot
Zombies, zombie villagers, and skeletons could spawn with an ankle monitor on their right foot. They had a chance to drop it when killed by the player.
Usage
Ankle monitors were equipped in the boots slot. They could not be taken off in survival mode, similarly to items afflicted with the yet to be added Curse of Binding.
While wearing an ankle monitor during the night (between 12541 and 23458, or 18:30 and 5:30), being outside a 50 block spherical radius centered on the player's spawn point afflicted the player with Slowness I for 14 seconds and prompted the following message in chat: "CURFEW WARNING! You are violating your house arrest! Get back by [distance] meters!" The message was displayed again and the effect was reapplied every 10 seconds until the player got back into the 50 block radius.
If in the Nether or the End, the player is afflicted with Slowness I for 14 seconds and a different set of messages was cycled through, which can be seen in the section below. The effect was reapplied and the messages were displayed every 9 seconds.
Nether and End messages
- CURFEW WARNING! You are violating your house arrest! Uuuh... where are you anyway?
- CURFEW WARNING! Hello, are you there?
- CURFEW WARNING! I'm sure you have important things to do, but you need to go back!
- CURFEW WARNING! We're lonely back home!
- CURFEW WARNING! By "we" I mean I. I'm lonely.
- CURFEW WARNING! Ok enough games... GET BACK RIGHT NOW!
- CURFEW WARNING! LAST WARNING!
- CURFEW WARNING! LASTEST WARNING (really now)
- CURFEW WARNING! ...
- CURFEW WARNING! So... Where are you?
- CURFEW WARNING! Having a good day?
- CURFEW WARNING! Did you see that monster over there?
- CURFEW WARNING! Give it a whack, if you would be so kind.
- CURFEW WARNING! Teheee...
- CURFEW WARNING! Ok, enough of this!
- CURFEW WARNING! Last straw!
- CURFEW WARNING! Now you die.
- CURFEW WARNING! Boom!
- CURFEW WARNING! Hehe, fun right?
- CURFEW WARNING! Ok, you will not hear anything more from me now!
- CURFEW WARNING! You'll be as lonely as I am.
- CURFEW WARNING! How does that feel?
- CURFEW WARNING! I know, I'll wipe my memory. That way, I can start over!
- CURFEW WARNING! *bzzzzttt*
After this, the ankle monitor starts over with 'CURFEW WARNING! You are violating your house arrest! Uuuh... where are you anyway?'
Sounds
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| None | Entity-Dependent | When a notification is displayed | item | None | 1.0 | 1.0 | 16 | |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ankle Monitor | ankle_monitor | 501 | Item | item |
Issues
Issues relating to "Ankle Monitor" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".
Gallery
Screenshots
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The message that displays when the player is far from their spawn during the night, while the ankle monitor is equipped. -
