

As wardens sniff, pick up vibrations or are touched by other players or mobs, wardens become increasingly agitated. The warden also periodically sniffs the area around it, allowing it to zero in on targets even if they don't create vibrations. The warden is blind and seeks out targets by sensing vibrations and by sniffing.Īfter spawning, wardens wander randomly around the world and move toward nearby vibrations originating from players, mobs and non-mob sources including projectiles and minecarts. It also drops 5 experience if killed by either a player or a tamed wolf.

In Java Edition, the warden spawning can be toggled on or off with the game rule doWardenSpawning.Ī warden drops a single sculk catalyst upon death, unaffected by Looting. For example, a pressure plate with water flowing on top is still a valid location). During each attempt, the game picks a random column from the y axis, then the game picks the topmost block in that column with a top surface with full collision and the block above must have no collision (the spawning warden cannot collide with any existing entities or liquids wardens must not have water inside their spawn block, where their feet go, but they can spawn with water in the second and third block. Up to 20 attempts are made to spawn a warden within an 11×13×11 cubic area, which is centered on the shrieker. The light level does not have an effect on warden spawning. This means that the player can activate four different shriekers in different locations and a warden emerges after the fourth activation. The warning count for sculk shriekers is specific to each player rather than each sculk shrieker. A warden spawns by emerging from the ground near the shrieker that summoned it, taking about 6.7 seconds to do so and being completely invulnerable until fully emerged. They are instead spawned when a player activates naturally generated sculk shriekers four times instead and if there isn't already another warden within 24 blocks of it.

Wardens do not use standard mob spawning mechanics. The warden emerges from the ground after being summoned by sculk shriekers
