Update Minecraft 1.19 The Wild: Release date, description of innovations

The Wild Update (Russian. Wildlife Update) is a major thematic update scheduled for release on June 7, 2022 as Java Edition 1.19 and Bedrock Edition 1.19.0. 

This update will add a Dark Depths biome that includes a Guardian, Skalk Blocks, and an Ancient City, as well as a complete overhaul of the Swamp with the addition of a new type of tree. At the moment, it is planned to update other biomes to make them more atmospheric and diverse.

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Below we detail everything you need to know about the release date. Minecraft 1.19.

For now, the following platforms will be able to download the update when it releases on June 7th:

• PlayStation 4
• PS 5
• Xbox One
• Xbox Series S/X
• Nintendo switch 
• Android
• iOS devices
• PC

The Guardian is more dangerous than ever

The Keeper is a powerful mob boss that spawns in the Biome Frame from Minecraft Live 2021, which depicts two different variants of the Dark Dungeons chest boats. Mojang has been testing this mob for a while now and it has gained a lot of power since then. A month ago, Mojang released some snapshots for players to test out the new guardian, and it turns out they can kill him pretty easily by ascending. In the old version of the Guardian, there is no ranged attack.

However, in the release version, he will get a ranged sonic attack that breaks through shields, armor enchantments, and knocks back. The Guardian can also fire them fairly quickly, preventing players from simply outrunning the skill. The Guardian is currently a huge monster with 500 HP, 15/30/45 melee damage and 6/10/15 ranged damage (depending on difficulty).

In general, it's best to avoid the Guardian for now, as the developer intended. Fighting his devastating ranged attack is too dangerous.

A crowd of frogs and their various forms

Frogs are the first amphibious mob added to the game, and as such, they are great for decorating the aquatic part of your base. Players can get up to three frog variants depending on the temperature of the current biome.

Players can create Frog Lanterns by feeding them Magma Cubes. Frogs have three varieties: common, tropical and snowy. The color depends on the type of frog consuming the magma cube. This block emits level 15 light, the highest level in the game.

Players can breed frogs with slime to create frog spawn blocks. They turn into tadpoles after being placed in water for a while.

Dark Dungeons Biome

Dark Dungeons is a cave biome that generates deep underground in the Overworld. Its main structure, the Ancient City, is filled with rare loot and treasure. However, players must be careful not to provoke the screamers and avoid the Guardian. 

Some of the rare items that can only be found in Dark Dungeons:

• Boot enchantment that increases movement speed while crouching.
• New Music Disc "5": The disc is split into 9 pieces and players need to find all 9 to create it.
• Echo Shards and Restoration Compass: The latter automatically points to where players die if they are in the same dimension.

Mangrove swamp biome

The new mangrove biome is a reworked version of the existing swamp biome. It is home to exclusive mangrove trees, a warm variant of frogs, muddy waters and more.

They spawn in humid and warm areas, just like a normal swamp biome. Mangrove trees are the main flora of this biome and are able to grow on the surface of the water.

All planned innovations.

Blocks

 mangrove wood

• Generated as part of a mangrove tree that grows in swamps.
• Can be used to create mangrove planks.

 mangrove leaves

• Generated as part of the mangroves.
• Decorative block.

 mangrove sprout

• Grows into a mangrove.
• Grows under foliage.
• Can be placed both on land and in water.
• Can be planted in a flower pot.

 Mangrove sprout (as a fruit)^{[informal name]}

• Generates on mangrove trees.

 mangrove planks

• Crafted from wood of the corresponding type.
• Used to craft matching slabs, steps, fences, gates, pressure plates, signs, buttons, doors, boats, and hatches.

 mangrove roots

• Transparent decorative block, same as leaves, but may be waterlogged.
• At present, the water does not spread outwards, as it does with other waterlogged blocks.
• Mining is faster when using axes.
• Unlike leaves, it does not break when the piston moves.
• Has unique sounds.

Dirty mangrove roots

• Found in mangrove swamp biomes.
• Can be crafted with 1 Mud and 1 Mangrove Root.
• Unlike ordinary roots, they are a transparent block that cannot be filled with water.
• Mining is faster when using shovels.

 frog caviar

• Cannot be obtained in Survival Mode.
• One of the frogs rushes about after feeding two individuals.
• After a while, tadpoles hatch from it.

   Froglights

• A new block available in three colors: pearl, green and ocher.
• Dropped by a small lava cube if it was eaten by a frog.
  • The color of the block depends on the type of frog.
    • If the Swamp Frog eats the Lava Cube, an Ocher Block will drop.
    • If a tropical frog eats a lava cube, a mother-of-pearl block will drop.
    • If the snow frog eats the lava cube, a green block will drop.

 Mud

• Generates naturally in swamps.
• Can be crafted by using a water flask on the ground.
• Transforms into clay if placed on a drip block with a drip growing from below.

dense mud

• Can be crafted with 1 mud and 1 wheat.
• Can be used to create adobe bricks.

 adobe bricks

• Crafted from four blocks of dense dirt.
• Can be used to create slabs, steps and walls with a workbench or stone cutter.

 Skalk

• Will spawn in a new cave biome known as Dark Dungeons.
• Has an animated texture.
• Drops experience when destroyed without a tool enchanted with Silk Touch.
• Can be used in redstone circuits.
• The scalk grows under the mob death site around the scalk catalyst.

 scalk catalyst

• Will generate in the dark dungeon biome.
• Consists of rolling pin and bone-like material.
• Will spread skalk blocks to the nearest mob and player with experience death. The number of blocks distributed depends on the experience that the mob or player drops when they die, or can drop if their death was not at the hands of the player.
•  Have a state bloom.
• Might have something to do with axolotls.
• Can be used in redstone circuits.
• Drops experience when destroyed without a tool enchanted with Silk Touch.
• Emits light.
• Emits soul particles when a mob or player dies.

 Skalkovy vein

• Will be generated in the dark dungeon biome.
• They are generated in layers on the upper faces of the blocks, thus resembling snow.
• Can be placed in all directions, similar to glowing lichen.
• Some parts are transparent, allowing the player to see the block that the rock veins are attached to.
• They have an animated texture.
• Drop experience when destroyed without a tool enchanted with Silk Touch.
• Can be used in redstone schemes.

 Skulk screamer

• Will generate in the dark dungeon biome.
• Consists of rolling pin and bone-like material.
• Has patterns resembling two souls on the top face of the block.
• Has the ability to make loud noises.
• Will be activated by the rolling sensor.
• When activated, casts a dark effect on the player.
• If activated several times, then the guardian spawns.

 Fortified Abyssal Slate

• Creates a large open frame in a dark dungeon city.
• Most likely, it consists of deep shale.
• Has an unknown "interesting" use.
• Has high durability - a Netherite pickaxe with level 5 efficiency destroys it in 80 seconds
• It is generated in the form of a rectangle resembling a portal.

objects

Summoning Eggs

•  Guardian spawn egg.
•  Frog spawn egg.
•  Tadpole Summoning Egg.
•  Quiet Summoning Egg.

 Bucket with a tadpole

• Can be obtained by using a bucket of water on a tadpole.
• Used to move a mob from place to place, like a bucket of fish.

Echo Shard

• Can only be found in loot chests in ancient cities.
• Can be used to create recovery compasses.

mangrove boat

• A new type of boat made from mangrove boards.

Recovery Compass

• A new type of compass that can point to the last place the player died.
• Randomly rotates if the player is not holding it, the player has not died, or when not in the same dimension as the death point.
• Can be crafted with a compass surrounded by 8 echo shards

Goat horn

• Obtained when a goat crashes into its native block.
• There are 8 species, 4 of which come from the screaming goat
• Depending on the type of horn, there will be a different sound.

Mobs

 Tikhonya

• Was the winner of the vote to add to the game on Minecraft Live 2021.
• Able to find dropped items of the same type and collect them.
  • Picks up items that are in loaded chunks and stacks them. He is unable to duplicate items or take items from chests.
• Throws objects and begins to dance when the music block or player is activated.

 Frog

•  It has three options: regular, tropical and snowy.
  • The option depends on the temperature of the biome.
• He likes to jump on water lilies and large hard sheets.
• Feeds on small slugs.
• Eating a small magma cube drops a toadlight.
• Each option has a unique benefit for the player, however the exact details are unknown.

 Tadpole

• After a while, it turns into a frog.
• Can be caught with a bucket.
• Like frogs, it has three variants depending on the climate of the biome.

 Keeper

• Spawns in the dark dungeon biome.
  • It is the only mob that lives in this biome.
• The first completely blind mob (bats, although they navigate in space thanks to echolocation, still have basic vision).
• When picking up vibrations, it moves towards the source of the noise.
  • Follows players, mobs and other entities, trying to attack them.
    • Does not attack other guardians.
  • When attacked by a player, it finds its own way to it.
  • Picks up noise in the same way as a rolling sensor.
    • Similar to the scaling sensor, when vibrations are detected, the growths on the mob's head glow and produce an animation.
  • If any projectile (for example, a snowball, arrow or egg) fell near the keeper, then it will go to the landing site. This feature can be used to divert attention.
  • Does not react to sneaking players.
  • Can detect invisible players.
  • When attracted long enough, it follows the player continuously, ignoring other sources of noise.
• Incredibly strong as it deals 30 ( × 15) damage, and 7 ().
• Currently has 500 ( × 250) health points.
• Made strong on purpose so that players avoid him.
• Has the ability to counter the 3 block building strategy to avoid attacks.^[
• Moves at the same speed as the player while walking.
• Possibly has knockback resistance.
• The Guardian's chest contains a glowing core that seems to brighten and dim along with the ambient lighting of the Dark Depths biome.
  • The core emits a quiet pulsing sound. The sound and animation is likely to speed up quickly when the mob notices the player.
  • If the Guardian cannot reach the player, the ribs on their chest open and a pulse is emitted from the core, knocking them back and dealing damage.
• The Guardian is about 3,5 blocks tall, making it one of the tallest mobs in the game, surpassing the Iron Golem and Enderman in both height and width.
• Spawns if Skalk Screamer has been activated too many times; when the mob appears, it crawls out of the floor of the cave.

Generating the world

Swamp

• Completely redone.
• Mangrove trees are found here.
• Contains dirt.
• Frogs can spawn here.

mangrove swamp

• A new version of the swamp.
• It has mangrove trees.
• The surface of the biome is made up of dirt.

Mangrove

• A new kind of tree.
• It has roots consisting of blocks intended for this.
• There are shoots hanging from the foliage.
• Grows in swamps.

Dark Dungeons

• A new biome located in the "dark depths of the world".
• Any aquifers may not generate in this biome.
• They are the rarest underground biome.
• Can spawn in areas with high terrain, reaching Y = -64.
• Guardians spawn here.
• Includes scaling blocks and scaling sensors.
• They are generated exclusively in the deep shale layer from Y = −1 to Y = −64.
• May contain candles.
• They can also generate loot chests.
• Without spawners, many mobs won't spawn here naturally like in mushroom fields.

Ancient city

• A new structure found in dark dungeons.
• Contains all the features and functionality associated with dark dungeons.
• Consists of deep schist, basalt and their variants.
• Includes soul sand, soul fire, and soul lanterns.
• Contains candles and skeleton skulls.
• There are chests with unique loot.

Entities

 Boat with a chest

• It is an analogue of a trolley with a chest.
• However, unlike this variant of the minecart, the player can get into the boat and float on it even with a full chest.
• Available in all types of wood.
• There may only be one player.

Effects

 Dark

• An effect applied by the Skalk Screamer and Keeper to the player that causes their camera to fade out from time to time, limiting their view.
• It was originally a warning that the warden was nearby, but this was later reworked.

Particles

 Soul rolling pin

•  The Skalk Catalyst will emit Soul Particles when activated.

 Scream

•  Skulk Screamer will emit ring-shaped particles when activated.

Planned changes

Blocks

Clay block

• Now has a new renewable mining method that consists of placing dirt over a drip block and dripper. Over time, the dirt will dry out, turning into a clay block.

Scalk sensor

• Will activate with a Skalk Screamer.
• Will interact with the keeper.
• Will be generated in dark dungeons.
• They can now only be obtained with the Silk Touch enchantment, otherwise they will lose experience.
• Now always activates when stepped on, even if the player is sneaking.

Generating the world

Biomes

• Other Overworld biomes will be updated, such as the birch forest. They will become more unique and atmospheric.