Warden

For other uses, see Warden (disambiguation).

Warden

Health points	500HP × 250
Behavior	Hostile
Mob type	Monster
Attack strength	Melee: Easy: 16HP × 8 Normal: 30HP × 15 Hard: 45HP × 22.5 Ranged: (ignores armor and Protection) Easy: 6HP Normal: 10HP Hard: 15HP × 7.5
Hitbox size	Height: 2.9 blocks Width: 0.9 blocks While digging/emerging‌[JE only]: Height: 1 block Width: 0.9 blocks
Knockback resistance	100%
Spawn	When a player activates naturally generated sculk shriekers four times or more
Can be leashed	No
Can ride boats	No
Can ride minecarts	No

A warden is a hostile mob summoned by sculk shriekers which are located in the deep dark. It is completely blind, relying entirely on vibrations and its sense of smell to detect players and entities to attack, and digs down to despawn if it does not detect anything for 60 seconds and if it doesn't have a name. If a warden successfully detects a target, it rapidly strikes them with its arms, or fires damaging sonic beams which pass through blocks and ignore armor, shields, and all enchantments. A warden will always drop one sculk catalyst and five experience points.

Spawning

Wardens do not follow the standard mob spawning rules. Instead, a warden is spawned when a player in Survival, Adventure or Creative mode activates any number of naturally generated sculk shriekers four times (see details below).

A warden can also be spawned if calibrated sculk sensors activate sculk shriekers.

Each player has a warning level, which increases every time that player activates a naturally generated sculk shrieker. This is not specific to any sculk shrieker. A sculk shrieker that has already been activated by a player before activates the same way it does normally, and the warning level does not reset if the player were to activate a new sculk shrieker. The distance between the shriekers doesn't matter. The shrieker spawns a warden 4.5 seconds after the warning level reaches 4, or immediately if the sculk shrieker is destroyed. If the warning level is already at 4, it stays at 4 and spawns another warden.

The light level does not have an effect on shrieker activation or warden spawning, regardless of the warning level.

When a shrieker attempts to spawn a warden, it makes up to 20 attempts to spawn the warden within an 11×13×11 cubic area centered on the shrieker. During each attempt, the game picks a random column (i.e. a stack of blocks parallel to the Y axis), and then picks the highest valid block in that column. A valid block is any block that has a complete top surface (i.e. the top face is a grid-aligned square meter surface with no holes), and that a warden can be placed directly on top of without having the warden collide with any existing blocks or entities. A warden can't spawn if the bottom block that it would occupy has a liquid inside it, but it can spawn with 1 or more liquids in the blocks above that. So, a pressure plate with water flowing on top would be a valid location for the shrieker to spawn the warden (this would place the warden with its feet in the water, one block above the pressure plate).

In Java Edition, warden spawning can be toggled on or off with the game rule spawn_wardens.

Drops

On death

Java Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Sculk Catalyst	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Sculk Catalyst	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Sculk Catalyst	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Sculk Catalyst	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

Bedrock Edition:

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Sculk Catalyst	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00	1	100.00%	1.00

Item		Quantity / Chance / Average
		Default			Looting I			Looting II			Looting III
	Sculk Catalyst	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Item		Amount	Probability
			Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Sculk Catalyst	1	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)	1 (100.00%)
		Average	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)	1 (1.00)

Killed		1
Item		Expected Drops
		Default	Looting I	Looting II	Looting III
	Sculk Catalyst	1.00	1.00	1.00	1.00

• 5XP experience if killed by either a player or a tamed wolf.

Behavior

After spawning, wardens wander randomly and move toward nearby vibrations originating from players, mobs, and non-mob sources including projectiles and minecarts. A warden also periodically sniffs the area around it, allowing it to zero in on targets even if they don't create vibrations. As wardens sniff, pick up vibrations, or are touched by other players or mobs, they become increasingly agitated.

Similar to sculk, the bright blue parts of the warden's texture are emissive with Vibrant Visuals, easily noticeable in the dark place.

Idle

A warden can fit inside any space that is 1 block wide and 3 blocks tall, allowing it to chase players and mobs through small corridors.

Wardens are immune to damage from fire or lava, and are immune to knockback. They pursue through blocks that are usually avoided by other mobs, including rails^[1], cacti, or magma blocks. However, in Bedrock Edition, they cannot pathfind through fire or soul fire.^[2]

A warden listens to all vibrations within a 15 block radius ovoid shape, except those from other wardens, armor stands, dying mobs, and players in Creative or Spectator mode. Like with sculk sensors, they cannot detect vibrations from a sneaking player that is moving, jumping, falling or shooting a projectile. A warden has a 2-second cooldown between detecting vibrations.

A warden is aware of all targetable entities within a 49×51×49 box around itself. If the warden has a targetable entity, is not investigating any disturbances, and is otherwise idle, it pathfinds toward the closest entity, prioritizing players over mobs. While pathfinding, the warden can begin a 'sniff' behavior and animation. This takes around 4.2 seconds and has a 5-10 seconds cooldown. A warden can still sniff out sneaking players, despite not being able to detect vibrations from them.

A warden prefers to track down the most suspicious targets, rather than the ones closest to it.^[3]

Inflicting Darkness

A warden, whether angered or not, gives 13 seconds of Darkness to all players within a 20 block ovoid radius of it every 6 seconds. The souls in its chest make a low heartbeat that occurs in tandem with the Darkness effect.​ The heartbeat speeds up as the warden becomes increasingly agitated.^[4]

Heartbeat

A warden has a heartbeat which plays loudly every few seconds and can be seen as a glowing pulse inside the warden's chest. Once a warden spawns, its heartbeat is slow and calm, but as its anger level rises, the heartbeat becomes faster.

Suspense

Wardens keep track of how angry they are at each suspect as a number from 0 to 150. When a warden notices a vibration, it adds anger to the player or mob that caused the vibration. It adds 10 anger if the vibration was from a projectile or 35 anger for other vibrations. However, if two projectiles from the same player/mob are heard by the warden within five seconds, it instead adds the full 35 anger toward that player/mob. Wardens do not add anger toward a mob/player if the projectile was shot from more than 30 blocks away, although the projectile does count toward the counter of two projectiles. Anger decays at a rate of 1 per second and immediately clears if the targeted player switches to Creative or Spectator modes, the target or warden leaves the dimension, or if the target dies.

A warden adds 35 anger ‌^{[JE only]} or 80 anger ‌^{[BE only]} toward any mob that directly touches it. This effect has a 1-second cooldown.

When it finishes sniffing, a warden adds 35 anger to the nearest mob or player within a 6 block radius horizontally and 20 blocks vertically, a cylindrical volume centered on the warden.

Once a warden reaches 80 anger with a target, it roars for 4.2 seconds, adds another 20 anger, and pursues the target. In this angered state, the warden chases the target normally despite being blind. A warden also enters its hostile state and adds 100 anger if directly attacked by a mob. If the attacking player or mob is within 5 blocks, it skips its roaring animation altogether and immediately gives chase.

A warden is biased toward player vibrations, attacks, and contact - even if a warden is angrier at another mob, it still attacks the player first as long as they have angered the warden as well. This is not true of any other mob.^[5]

After 60 seconds of being "calm" and not detecting any vibrations or sniffing any targets, as well as immediately after being spawned by a command block with status effects, a warden burrows back into the ground and despawns. If the warden is floating on a liquid, it instead immediately despawns without any burrowing animation. During its emerging/burrowing animation, a warden cannot detect any vibrations and can take damage only from /kill, though it can still be pushed by entities, pistons, or liquids.‌^{[JE only]} Named wardens do not despawn.

Unlike most hostile mobs, wardens do not despawn randomly when more than 32 blocks from a player, nor do they immediately despawn when more than 128 blocks from a player.

Attacks

A warden's melee attack has a cooldown of 36 ticks (1.8 seconds) and disables shields for 5 seconds, dealing 16HP × 8 to 45HP × 22.5 health points depending on the difficulty.

If a warden cannot reach its target, it switches to its ranged attack: a sonic boom. It does so when the following are true:

• It has been 10 seconds since the warden detected the target
• It has been 5 seconds since the warden last used a melee or ranged attack
• The target is within a 14-block radius horizontally and 20 blocks vertically of the warden in an ovoid shape.

The sonic boom aims directly at only the target, making it impossible to dodge, passing through all blocks and entities. A warden takes 1.7 seconds to charge and unleashes the attack, which instantly hits the target as long as the target is within attack range. The attack takes an additional 1.3 seconds to cool down before the warden can use melee attacks again for a total of 3 seconds. The sonic boom is visible via teal particles that are projected out of the warden's chest. This attack bypasses most forms of armor, including shields, armor enchantments (such as Protection), and the natural armor that some mobs possess, except the Thorns enchantment in Bedrock Edition. Only wolf armor, the 85%‌^{[Java Edition only]} magic damage resistance of a witch, and the Resistance effect can reduce the damage from a sonic boom. Wolf armor loses durability when hit by a sonic boom, but normal armor does not.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Warden	warden	entity.minecraft.warden

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
Warden	warden	131	mob monster warden	entity.warden.name

Entity data

Wardens have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this achievement.	10	Bronze
		Sneak 100	Sneak next to a Sculk Sensor without triggering it	Sneak next to a Sculk Sensor or Warden without triggering or aggravating it.	10	Bronze

Achievements that apply to all mobs:

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver
		Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor stands and players also count for this achievement as they are technically mobs.	10	Bronze

Advancements

Killing a warden does not grant the Monster Hunter advancement and is not required in order to complete the Monsters Hunted advancement.^[7][8]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	How Did We Get Here?	Have every effect applied at the same time	Have all of these 34​[until: Fourth Drop 2026]/35​[upcoming] status effects applied to the player at the same time: Absorption Bad Omen Blindness Breath of the Nautilus Conduit Power Darkness Dolphin's Grace Fire Resistance Freezing Glowing Haste Hero of the Village Hunger Infested Invisibility Jump Boost Levitation Mining Fatigue Nausea Night Vision Oozing Poison Raid Omen Regeneration Resistance Slow Falling Slowness Speed Strength Trial Omen Water Breathing Weakness Weaving Wind Charged Wither The source of the effects is irrelevant for the purposes of this advancement. Other status effects may be applied to the player, but are ignored for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Sneak 100	Sneak near a Sculk Sensor or Warden to prevent it from detecting you	Sneak while causing a vibration within 8 blocks of a sculk sensor or 16 blocks of a warden.
	It Spreads	Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon. Mobs that drop no experience are ignored for this advancement.

Advancements that apply to all mobs:

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventure	Adventure, exploration and combat	Kill any mob, or be killed by any living entity.
	A Throwaway Joke	Throw a Trident at something. Note: Throwing away your only weapon is not a good idea.	Hit a mob with a thrown trident.
	Take Aim	Shoot something with an Arrow	Using a bow or a crossbow, shoot a mob with an arrow, tipped arrow, or spectral arrow.
	Mob Kabob	Hit five mobs in the same Charge attack using the Spear	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement.
	Arbalistic	Kill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot	Armor Stand and Mannequin also count for this advancement. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the Mace	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

Videos

YouTube

Other

• A warden running in an ancient city
• Steve running away from a warden in an ancient city
• A warden with a bow tie, wooden cane and glowing sticks dancing from Minecraft's YouTube
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History

For the Nether Update, Mojang planned to add a "blind piglin that could only respond to sounds" that could be found within a "new biome".^[9] This idea was then later reused for the warden instead.

The warden was developed by Brandon Pearce. During early development, the planned mechanics and abilities of the warden were significantly different to the final version. Planned and then scrapped ideas for the warden include:

• If the player managed to get out of the warden's attack and pathfinding range but still be within its detection range, the warden would use a "mind-altering" attack that would cause the player to move erratically (walking forward would cause the player to go backward, etc.) and deal damage overtime. The mechanic was eventually scrapped due to being deemed too complicated.^[10][11]
• The warden would destroy blocks or burrow through them. The former was rejected due to the developers wanting to limit the number of "destructive" mobs there are in the game and the latter was rejected due to being too difficult to implement.^[11]
• The warden could hide the player's hunger bar and health bar.^[12]
• Brandon wanted the warden to be immune to damage to discourage players from fighting it, but he didn't think that would work for a sandbox game.^[13]
• The warden originally burned when exposed to daylight.^[14]

The warden is the most concepted and worked through mob in Minecraft in terms of sound design.^[15] When Brandon Pearce was first developing the warden, sound design was important to him, and the warden was designed with that in mind.^[16] Brandon originally wanted players to hear their own "heartbeat" as the warden got closer for anticipation, but he thought that it felt out of place and didn't make sense to hear the player's heartbeat. His solution was for something else to make the heartbeat, and thus the warden itself gained a heartbeat sound.^[17]

Early concepts and prototypes

There were multiple prototypes for what ultimately became the warden.^[18] According to Jasper Boerstra, it went through 175 different concept iterations to ensure that the warden was "something really special".^[19] The very first warden iteration created was a modified cow that made the lights and torches flicker and served as the main prototype for the darkness effect.^[20]

Some known concepts and names for the warden from this time were the "shade",^[21] the "stalker" and the "hollowed".^[18]

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  Various early concepts for the warden, including some concept art for the shade and the stalker. Two concepts resemble a wither.
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  A concept of the warden with an ethereal style
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  A concept of the warden, using the current sculk colors. This one floated or hovered.
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  Iterations of the warden, using the current sculk colors
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  Early texture of the final warden iteration^[22]
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  A recreated render of a warden with this early texture

Shade

The shade was a vaguely humanoid translucent mob with glowing eyes. It was meant to be a more ambient mob, which would stand in darkness with only its eyes visible and would slowly fade away as the player approached it. It would also imitate the noise of other mobs, making it sound as though they were right behind the player.

Rather than an iteration on the warden, by then called the "stalker", the shade had come to be a completely separate mob to the stalker, though in some concepts it was meant to be sort of complementary, living in the ancient cities and helping the stalker by tricking players into alerting it. It was eventually scrapped due to a feeling that it would grow to become annoying rather than creepy, and so the team could better focus on developing the stalker.^[23]

It is unknown whether the shade was ever implemented into the game as a prototype.

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  Concept art of the early "shade" prototype

Stalker

For the mob in Minecraft Dungeons II, see Dungeons II:Stalker.

Another early prototype was the stalker. Several pieces of concept art were created for this iteration of the mob, and a prototype of the original stalker design was programmed into the game.

The first stalker iteration was a mob that could spawn anywhere deep underground. Stalkers could make torches flicker off and on when nearby.^[24] The stalker was tall and asymmetrical with a glowing core, sometimes referred to as a chest crystal.^[9] It occurred in totems throughout the deep dark. The stalker would stand completely still to trick players into taking its core and aggravating it.

A later version of the stalker could transform into a form that was less wide and tall when chasing an entity or player, while its regular form was meant to disguise as a treasure totem. This iteration got scrapped as it was considered too clunky and goofy, and was insufficiently scary.

The vibration-sensing aspect, which was developed in this version, however, was passed down to and refined in the later iterations.^[25][26]

The sounds iterated for the stalker.^[27] Interestingly, these are recycled from the Zoglin's idle sounds.

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  Early concept art of the stalker prototype
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  The stalker with a rearranged form
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  The in-game model of an early iteration of the stalker^[9]
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  The stalker in-game, with both it and the sculk using brown textures similar to soul sand and rust sculk concept art
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  Ditto
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  A stalker standing and two in 1 block tall mode
• The in-game prototype of the stalker, being able to transform
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  A recreated render of the stalker in the earliest known screenshots. Its legs were thicker than in later iterations.
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  A recreated render of the initial stalker design
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  A recreated render of a later version of the stalker, in vertical form
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  A recreated render of the one block tall form of the stalker
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  A recreated render of a stalker transforming

Hollowed

Later on, the stalker was renamed to hollowed. Several pieces of concept art were also created for the hollowed design iteration. A prototype of the hollowed design was programmed into the game.

The hollowed was designed with the intent of inciting trypophobia and had white flesh with holes in it. According to Brandon Pearce, its design was an experiment to see how far the boundaries of Minecraft could be pushed and to try and draw a line as to what would be acceptable. The design had to ultimately be toned down multiple times due to said metaphorical line being crossed. The visuals for this iteration were ultimately scrapped, as they were considered too uncanny and overall frightening for Minecraft. After many back-and-forths between the developers, the directors and art team, a design similar to the current one was landed on, with the mechanics remaining mostly the same.^[28][29]

The sounds created for the hollowed were even more unsettling and scarier than what had been created for the current warden iteration.^[30]

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  Early concepts of the warden, featuring a "weird smiling creature"
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  More early concepts of the warden, involving particles
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  Concept of the warden being "overtaken" by the "hollowed"
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  An in-game prototype of the hollowed
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  Vibration particles of the hollowed. First starting off as one pixel, then four pixels encircled by a ring then bigger circles.
• An in-game prototype of the hollowed
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  A recreated render of the hollowed prototype design

Announcement

October 3, 2020							The warden was announced at Minecraft Live 2020.
October 6, 2020							A set of teaser images regarding the warden's size and behavior were posted on Brandon Pearce's Twitter.
2020-2021							The warden's texture from between Minecraft Live 2020 and 2021 was showcased in the series The Secrets of Minecraft.
October 16, 2021							New spawning conditions and textures for the warden were revealed at Minecraft Live 2021.
November 26, 2021							The warden was revealed to 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.[31][32]
December 18, 2021							The warden's emerging animations were showcased.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.19			Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1				Added wardens.
			22w11a				Removed wardens.
			22w12a				Re-added wardens.
							Wardens are no longer considered undead.
							Wardens have been given a new attacking animation.
							Increased warden's vertical reach from 3 blocks to 4 blocks.
							Wardens no longer slow down in water.
							Wardens are now immune to fire and lava.
							Warden textures have been changed. The tusks on the chest have been separated and new overlays have been added.
							Nametagged wardens can no longer dig and despawn.
			22w13a				Wardens can now pass over rails.[33]
			22w14a				Wardens now become angry at all living mobs that bump into it, not just players.
							Wardens now slow down in water and are affected by bubble columns again.
			22w15a				Wardens now charge and release a ranged attack when the target is found to be well beyond the melee attack's range. This attack can penetrate walls, and can be blocked with shields, but disables them.
							Wardens can now smell players from further away.
							The vertical range in which wardens get angry has been increased from 6 to 20 blocks.
							Reverted the warden's vertical reach back to how it was before 22w12a.[34]
			22w16a				Decreased the warden's vertical reach again, from 3 to 2 blocks.
							Added the game rule doWardenSpawning.
			22w17a				Wardens now drop one sculk catalyst upon death.
							The amount of damage dealt by its ranged attack has been decreased from 30HP × 15 to 10HP.
							The cooldown for their ranged attack has been decreased from 5 to 2 seconds.
							The ranged attack can now bypass shields and armor.
			22w18a				Updated the textures of the sonic boom particle.
			22w19a				The warden's ranged attack is now affected by difficulty.
							Sculk shriekers now need to be activated four times to summon the warden, to give players warnings.
			pre3				The warden's sonic boom attack damage is no longer reduced by the Protection enchantment.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
December 9, 2021							Development of deep dark content, including the warden, was revealed for Bedrock.
December 17, 2021							A new burrowing animation was showcased.
1.18.30 Experiment Wild Update			Preview 1.18.30.33				Added wardens behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
							At that time, there were no hit or death sound effects, and some of its features were outdated compared to the latest Java Edition snapshots.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.21				Wardens are now available without having to enable experimental gameplay.
							Added hurt, death, and angry listening sound effects.
							Wardens can now preserve anger levels toward despawned entities.
							Wardens no longer get angry toward other wardens or inanimate objects.
							Due to a bug, the warden's hurt animation is slightly broken.[35]
			Preview 1.19.0.27				Wardens now charge and release a ranged attack when the target is found to be well beyond the melee attack's range. This attack can penetrate walls.
							Wardens can now smell players from further away.
							The vertical range in which wardens get angry has been increased to 6 to 20 blocks.
							Wardens now gets angry at all living mobs that bump into it, not just players.
							Wardens now prioritize attacking players over other mobs.
			Preview 1.19.0.29				Wardens now drop one sculk catalyst upon death.
							The amount of damage dealt by its ranged attack has been decreased from 30HP × 15 to 10HP.
							The cooldown for their ranged attack has been decreased from 5 to 2 seconds.
							The ranged attack can bypass shields and armor.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.23				The warden's hurt animation has been fixed to match Java Edition.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.24				Removed the idle sound event from the warden object in sounds.json.

Issues

Issues relating to "Warden" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The warden is the most iterated mob in terms of designs with it having 175 iterations.^[36] The second being the bee with it having 13 iterations as seen in The World of Minecraft book.
• Although the warden is supposed to be blind, spectating it reveals that it still has normal vision.^[37]
• Brandon Pearce considers the warden as something entirely new, as it isn't a boss, a mini boss or a regular enemy, but a force of nature: "when a tornado is barreling towards you, you don't try to kill it - you run away! The warden is exactly the same."^[38]
• Brandon's thought process on finally giving the warden a drop after he was heavily against it was the warden should never drop something that is important or hard to get that would be worth going through the trouble of fighting it. In this case, fighting a warden is not worth a sculk catalyst. This change was made for renewability farms and tech players.^[39]
• The warden and sculk were inspired by Lovecraftian horror, as the developers wanted to make something that wasn't traditionally scary (like jumpscares), but scary in a "mysterious and unknown" way.^[40]
• In the sixth episode of The Secrets of Minecraft, it was joked that the warden's personal names are "Jonathan" and "William", depending on the scene, similar to how the player, the ender dragon or the wither all have personal joke names.^[18] "Warden" itself was also jokingly broken down into "War! Dens!" in the description.
  • "Jonathan" can be seen on a blackboard for name suggestions alongside "the stalker" and "the hollowed".
  • It is also joked that the name "warden" was the result of calling it "William" and spelling it wrong.
  • In the tenth episode, both names were used when Narrator spotted the warden behind him.^[41] He mistakenly called the warden Jonathan before correcting himself as William, foreshadowing Jonathan Minecraft, who appears in the eleventh and final episode leading into Around the Minecraft World in 80 Biomes.^[42]
• Brandon Pearce stated in a tweet that the souls in the warden's chest is important to its lore.^[43]
  • He also said that the warden is inspired by the mystery creature heard at the end of the Music Disc 11.^[44]
• If heard closely, the warden's first sonic boom sound () contains the third explosion sound (), and the fourth sonic boom sound () contains the second explosion sound ().
• In Bedrock Edition, wardens can dig into the void, as the BE void has a solid bottom and the warden has time to despawn before it dies.

Gallery

Renders

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  A warden
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  A warden with all its layers
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  A warden's glowing texture layer
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  A warden's pulsating spots

Animations

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  A newly spawned warden emerging from the ground
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  A warden burrowing into the ground before despawning
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  A warden idling
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  A warden walking
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  A warden sniffing
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  A warden hearing a vibration
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  A warden roaring
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  A warden performing its melee attack
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  A warden performing its sonic boom attack
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  A warden hurt rotating in a 12-degree angle
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  Ditto, but the warden rotates -12 degree when hurt
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  Warden's old melee attack animation from Java Edition Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1
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  A recreation of the warden's old animations from Minecraft Live 2020
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  The warden's sniffing animation on Bedrock Edition (left) and Java Edition (right) have different head movement in the last few seconds.

Screenshots

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  A warden inspecting a zombie
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  A warden fighting an iron golem
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  Warden in an ancient city
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  A warden

Mojang images

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  A warden in the deep dark
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  A warden approaching the player
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  A warden in Minecraft Live 2020
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  A warden in Minecraft Live 2020
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  The iron golem and warden next to each other
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  Warden and rabbit
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  Player and warden next to each other
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  Warden emerging from the ground of the deep dark
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  A warden within an ancient city
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  The showcase of the new warden subtitles
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  An alternative sonic boom animation made by Chi Wong as a joke^[45]
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  Chi Wong making the warden scarier by giving it a fishing rod referencing 1.8 PvP as a joke
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  Chi animating the warden in Blende
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  Warden's old digging animation revealed by Marcio
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  Behind the scenes of a warden in the Minecraft Live trailer^[46]
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  The warden using its sonic boom attack on a chicken
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  Warden attacking Steve
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  Warden in ancient city
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  Warden in ancient city
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  A warden taking a selfie as reflected on a bathroom mirror

Concept artwork

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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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  Mood concept art for the warden
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  Sketches of the final iteration of the warden, as well as other iterations for its ears
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  Ditto but warden is roaring at bunny instead of looking at it
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  Early iterations of the warden's tendrils
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  Ditto but the third warden has a different tendril shape
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  Ditto but the middle has another different tendril shape and color
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  Early concepts of the warden's animations
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  A warden in an ancient city standing with Alex
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  A warden in an ancient city
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  Ditto
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  Concept art of Mojang's Mojavatar Maker with a warden head
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  Concept art of the stalker, a proposed design for the warden
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  More stalker concept art
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  Concept art of the hollowed, a proposed design for the warden
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  More hollowed concept art
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  Proposed designs of the warden
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  More scrapped warden designs
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  Proposed designs for the warden nearing its final design
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  Final design for the warden

Textures

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  Warden texture file
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  Warden bioluminescent layer texture file
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  Warden heart layer texture file
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  Warden pulsating spots 1 layer texture file
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  Warden pulsating spots 2 layer texture file

In other media

Official media

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  A warden in official artwork for The Wild Update
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  A warden in an ancient city
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  Warden artwork.
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  Looping animation of the Warden running through a tunnel outside an ancient city
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  A warden burrowing through blocks^[47]
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  The Warden inspecting Efe and a chicken
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  Warden in the Minecraft Live announcement trailer
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  Warden shooting a sonic boom
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  A warden riding a minecart in the Minecraft Live announcement trailer
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  The warden sniffing
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  Warden with different rib cage design from merch
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  Suprised warden from official Minecraft Discord
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  Pixel art version of the warden made by Nekofresa
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  Warden chasing Alex holding the silence armor trim
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  Steve slaying the warden with a mace
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  Pixel art of the Warden used on a banner for the Minecraft Marketplace
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  A sleep paralysis demon in the form of a warden
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  A warden under a bed
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  A warden skulking in the streets

Merchandise

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  Warden action figure, produced by Mattel
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  Lego Minecraft warden
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  Minecraft Mini Mode Warden
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  Minecraft Mini Mode Rise of the Warden Playset
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  Warden figure of Flippin' Figs
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  The Twisted Warden, a boss in Minecraft Dungeons II

References

External links

• "Meet the Warden" by Per Landin – Minecraft.net, June 3, 2022.
• "Mob Menagerie: Warden" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, April 9, 2024.