The Wild Update

This article is about the update that adds the Deep Dark and Mangrove Swamps. For the soundtrack, see Minecraft: The Wild Update (Original Game Soundtrack). For the item, see Wild Armor Trim.
The Wild Update
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Release date

Java and Bedrock editions:
June 7, 2022
Education Edition:
April 12, 2023

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See Java Edition guides/The Wild Update and Bedrock Edition guides/The Wild Update for a guide to all of the new features introduced in The Wild Update.

Set your sights for adventure, wander aimlessly, or seek out something new in The Wild Update! The choices are endless, and all of them yours.

— minecraft.net on The Wild Update

The Wild Update is a major update released on June 7, 2022, as Java Edition 1.19 and Bedrock Edition 1.19.0,[1] themed around "scary things" and natural wilderness. It introduces the deep dark and mangrove swamp biomes; ancient cities; mobs such as the allay, the frog, the tadpole, and the warden, as well as new items obtainable only in these new biomes.

Key art

On Java Edition, the first publicly-available build containing The Wild Update content is Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1, which was released on February 17, 2022. The first pre-release for The Wild Update was released on May 18, 2022 and the first release candidate was released on June 2, 2022.

Additions

Blocks

Froglight

  • Obtained from frogs eating small magma cubes.
  • Froglight color depends on the frog type.
  • Has three variants: pearlescent, verdant, and ocre.

Frogspawn

  • Spawned in the water after breeding two frogs.
  • Hatches into tadpoles.
  • Cannot be obtained even with Silk Touch.

Reinforced Deepslate

  • Found in the centerpiece of the ancient city.
  • Cannot be moved with a piston, and mining is slow and will not drop the item.

New mangrove wood type, found in the mangrove swamp biome:

New mud blocks:

New sculk blocks, all found in the deep dark:

  • Sculk
  • Breaking sculks is a good way to get Experience.
  • Sculk Catalyst
  • Sculk Shrieker
    • Causes a shriek sound and particle effect to be made when activated by the player or nearby sculk sensors.
    • Has a warning system where the player can only activate the sculk shrieker three times; upon the fourth shriek, a warden will spawn.
    • Sculk shriekers placed by the player or generated by sculk catalysts cannot spawn a warden.
  • Sculk Sensor
    • Detects any vibrations within a 8-block radius.
    • Vibration detection can be dampened with wool or carpet.
    • Emits a redstone signal depending on vibration frequency and close proximity.
  • Sculk Vein

Items

Bucket of Tadpole

  • Obtained by using a water bucket on a tadpole.
  • Can be used to transport the tadpole to a new location.

Echo Shard

Goat Horns

  • Obtained from goats ramming into blocks native to their biome.
  • Has eight different variants, four from normal goats, and four from screaming goats.

Recovery Compass

  • Used to point to the location of the player's last death.

New music disc:

Spawn eggs:

Mobs

Allay

Frog

Tadpole

  • Hatches from frogspawn
  • Will mature to a frog; its type depending on the biome they are matured in.
  • Can be moved with a water bucket.
  • Like fish mobs, tadpoles suffocate when on land.

Warden

  • Powerful, yet evadable hostile mob, with the most health out of any mob.
  • Spawns in from above after enough sculk shriekers have been activated.
  • A blind mob that can only detect players and mobs using vibration, smell, and touch.
  • Upon finding a target, the warden roars and pursues the target.
  • If it cannot reach the target, the warden does a sonic boom attack that bypasses armor, enchantments, shields, and other mob-related armor.
  • If not aggravated for 60 seconds, the warden will burrow down and despawn.
  • Drops a sculk catalyst when killed.

Non-mob entities

Boat with Chest

  • A variant of the boat used to also provide item storage.

Mangrove Boat

Display entities

  • Including block display, item display, and text display (block_display, item_display, and text_display), for flexible display of blocks, items and text.

Interaction

  • A new type of entity that records attacks and interactions. Interactions (interaction) are invisible and of a custom size, with following fields:
    • width: Width of the entity's bounding box (default 1).
    • height: Height of the entity's bounding box (default 1).
    • attack: An action object, records the last attack action on the entity.
    • interaction: An action object, records the last interaction action on the entity.
    • response: Boolean specifying if interacting should trigger a response (arm swing, sound effects, etc - default false).
  • Introduced action object accordingly. When an action is stored, it always has two fields:
    • player: The UUID (in standard integer array format) of the player performing the action.
    • timestamp: The timestamp of the game tick when the event happened (stored as a long).
  • This made following command usage possible:
    • Execute command as the last player who attacked the entity when using /execute on attacker.
    • Execute command as the last player who interacted with the entity when using /execute on target.
  • Advancement triggers also got triggered, when:
    • Interacting with an interaction entity: player_interacted_with_entity.
    • Attacking an interaction entity: player_hurt_entity.

Biomes

Deep Dark

Mangrove Swamp

Generated structures

Ancient city[2]

Mangrove tree

Enchantments

Swift Sneak

  • Used on leggings to provide a quicker sneaking speed.

Effects

Darkness

  • Occurs upon activating a sculk shrieker or being in close proximity with a warden.
  • Similar to blindness, but with a pulsating darkness limiting visibility with 14 blocks.

Music

Four new ambient tracks from Lena Raine were added; all but "Ancestry" would play on the main menu until Trails & Tales.

Changes

Item

Polar Bear Spawn Egg

  • The colors used by polar bear spawn eggs have changed.

Mob

Vex

  • The model and texture of the vex has been changed.

Further revisions

Java Edition

  • 1.19.1 was released to add allay duplication, player chat reports, chat signing status indicators, and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.2 was released to fix 2 critical bugs.
  • 1.19.3 was released to overhaul the creative inventory, change the vex model, add new default skins and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.4 was released to add the /ride and /damage commands, make technical changes, and fix bugs.

Bedrock Edition

  • 1.19.2 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.0.
  • 1.19.10 was released to bring more parity with Java Edition and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.11 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.10.
  • 1.19.20 was released to bring even more parity with Java Edition and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.21 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.20.
  • 1.19.22 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.21.
  • 1.19.30 was released to bring even more parity with Java Edition and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.31 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.30.
  • 1.19.40 was released to bring even more parity with Java Edition and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.41 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.40.
  • 1.19.50 was released to bring even more parity with Java Edition and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.51 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.50.
  • 1.19.60 was released to bring even more parity with Java Edition and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.62 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.60.
  • 1.19.63 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.62.
  • 1.19.70 was released to bring even more parity with Java Edition and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.71 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.70.
  • 1.19.72 was released exclusively on PlayStation 4 to fix a lone bug that prevented players from purchasing or renewing Realms.
  • 1.19.73 was released to fix even more bugs.
  • 1.19.80 was released to add the "Short Sneaking" experimental toggle, bring even more parity with Java Edition, and fix bugs.
  • 1.19.81 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.80.
  • 1.19.83 was released to fix bugs after the release of 1.19.81.

Videos

Trailers

Main article: Mojang cinematics

Showcases

Videos made by slicedlime:

Soundtrack

Trivia

  • While this update introduces mud as a block, mud has existed in the franchise as a fluid in Minecraft Earth. The properties of mud in this update are identical to a block.
  • Fireflies were originally planned for this update, but were ultimately scrapped as some species of fireflies are poisonous to some species of frogs in real life.[3] This decision received heavy criticism from the community.
  • To promote The Wild Update, Mojang released a free choose your own adventure game on minecraft.net called Craft Your Own Adventure: Wild Tales.[4]
  • Kingbdogz stated in a tweet that the souls in the warden's chest is incredibly important to its lore.[5]
  • The official artwork and trailer for the update is notable for marking the first appearance of Sunny and Noor, before their official introduction into the game.
    • Similarly, Efe's first appearance was in the What Will You Uncover trailer.
  • So far, this is the last major update that has the word "Update" in its name. All subsequent major updates and game drops (e.g. Trails & Tales, Armored Paws, Tricky Trials, The Garden Awakens, Chase the Skies, etc.) do not have the word "Update" in their names. The first named major update whose name did not include "Update" was Village & Pillage, released in 2019.

Gallery

Official artwork

  • Square key art
    Square key art
  • Logo.
    Logo.
  • Wallpaper of Alex going on an adventure with a boat with chest and an allay.
    Wallpaper of Alex going on an adventure with a boat with chest and an allay.
  • Wallpaper of a frog in a mangrove swamp.
    Wallpaper of a frog in a mangrove swamp.
  • Wallpaper of a warden in an ancient city.
    Wallpaper of a warden in an ancient city.
  • Mobile wallpaper of Alex going on an adventure with a boat with chest and an allay.
    Mobile wallpaper of Alex going on an adventure with a boat with chest and an allay.
  • Mobile wallpaper of a frog in a mangrove swamp.
    Mobile wallpaper of a frog in a mangrove swamp.
  • Mobile wallpaper of a warden in an ancient city.
    Mobile wallpaper of a warden in an ancient city.
  • A temperate frog, extending its tongue out.
    A temperate frog, extending its tongue out.
  • A temperate frog from behind.
    A temperate frog from behind.
  • A warm frog.
    A warm frog.
  • An allay.
    An allay.
  • A warden.
    A warden.
  • Sunny in a boat with chest.
    Sunny in a boat with chest.
  • Noor catching a frog.
    Noor catching a frog.

Development screenshots

Concept artwork

Some concept art in this gallery was originally made for the Caves & Cliffs update.

Environments

  • The 2 dimensional pixel art of the allay shown at Minecraft Live 2021.
    The 2 dimensional pixel art of the allay shown at Minecraft Live 2021.
  • Concepts for how mangrove roots could be portrayed in-game.
    Concepts for how mangrove roots could be portrayed in-game.
  • Concept art of the mangrove swamp.
    Concept art of the mangrove swamp.
  • Concept art of the swamp at night.
    Concept art of the swamp at night.
  • Concept art of the birch forest.
    Concept art of the birch forest.
  • Concept art depicting three forested biomes in a sunset setting.
    Concept art depicting three forested biomes in a sunset setting.
  • The process of the prior concept art being made.
    The process of the prior concept art being made.


Deep dark and ancient city
  • Concept art of the deep dark and ancient city.
    Concept art of the deep dark and ancient city.
  • Deep dark Concept art with a white color theme.
    Deep dark Concept art with a white color theme.
  • Another concept art with a white color theme.
    Another concept art with a white color theme.
  • Ditto.
    Ditto.
  • The deep dark with "ghostly white" blocks resembling crystals or coral.
    The deep dark with "ghostly white" blocks resembling crystals or coral.
  • Concept art with an orange theme.
    Concept art with an orange theme.
  • Another concept art with an orange theme.
    Another concept art with an orange theme.
  • A render with an orange themed deep dark.
    A render with an orange themed deep dark.
  • A teal themed deep dark with orange incorporated.
    A teal themed deep dark with orange incorporated.
  • Ditto.
    Ditto.
  • Lime green themed deep dark concept art.
    Lime green themed deep dark concept art.
  • Concept artwork for the ancient city.
    Concept artwork for the ancient city.
  • Ancient city "atmosphere" concept artwork.
    Ancient city "atmosphere" concept artwork.
  • Pots, vases, and stone chests concept art for the ancient cities.
    Pots, vases, and stone chests concept art for the ancient cities.
  • Ditto.
    Ditto.
  • Concept artwork showing the "lifelessness" of the ancient city.
    Concept artwork showing the "lifelessness" of the ancient city.
  • Ruin layout concept art.
    Ruin layout concept art.
  • Ancient city gameplay concept art.
    Ancient city gameplay concept art.
  • More ancient city gameplay concept art.
    More ancient city gameplay concept art.
  • Ancient city blocks concept art.
    Ancient city blocks concept art.
  • Ancient city walls concept art.
    Ancient city walls concept art.
  • Stone chest concept art. These would have generated within the ancient cities.
    Stone chest concept art. These would have generated within the ancient cities.


Warden and sculk

  • Sketches of the axolotl and a warden.
    Sketches of the axolotl and a warden.
  • A "scale of cuteness" depicting the axolotl, goat, and warden.
    A "scale of cuteness" depicting the axolotl, goat, and warden.
  • One of the early concept of the warden, referred to as the stalker.
    One of the early concept of the warden, referred to as the stalker.
  • Various concepts of the warden before sculk's appearance was fully-decided on.
    Various concepts of the warden before sculk's appearance was fully-decided on.
  • Early concepts of the warden, featuring a smile on it.
    Early concepts of the warden, featuring a smile on it.
  • More early concepts of the warden, involving particles.
    More early concepts of the warden, involving particles.
  • Early concepts of the warden, having white as a main color with sculk referred to as the hollowed.
    Early concepts of the warden, having white as a main color with sculk referred to as the hollowed.
  • Unofficial render of a stalker iteration.
    Unofficial render of a stalker iteration.
  • In-game visual of another stalker iteration.
    In-game visual of another stalker iteration.
  • Unofficial render of the hollowed iteration.
    Unofficial render of the hollowed iteration.
  • Early iterations of the warden, using the current sculk colors.
    Early iterations of the warden, using the current sculk colors.
  • Sketches of the final iteration of the warden, as well as other iterations for its ears.
    Sketches of the final iteration of the warden, as well as other iterations for its ears.
  • Early incarnations of the warden's ears.
    Early incarnations of the warden's ears.
  • A version of Sculk that went with the stalker incarnation of the warden.[9]
    A version of Sculk that went with the stalker incarnation of the warden.[9]
  • The stalker sculk with the stalker.[10]
    The stalker sculk with the stalker.[10]

Trailer

  • The Minecraft Wild Update trailer concept art.
    The Minecraft Wild Update trailer concept art.
  • Ditto.
    Ditto.


References

  1. ↑ "The Wild Update is here" by Sofia Dankis – Minecraft.net, June 7, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Minecraft Live 2021 @ 1:47:57" – Minecraft on YouTube, October 16, 2021
  3. ↑ https://www.pcgamer.com/minecraft-ditched-fireflies-in-the-119-update-so-kids-real-pet-frogs-wont-croak/
  4. ↑ "Where in the wild will you wander? The Wild Tales await... Craft your own adventure right now: http://redsto.ne/wild-tales" – @Minecraft (Minecraft) on X (formerly Twitter), June 4, 2022
  5. ↑ "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 (formerly Twitter), January 23, 2022
  6. ↑ "warden x ancient city sneak peak" – @Cojomax99 on X (formerly Twitter), February 15, 2022
  7. ↑ "Warden whines" – @kingbdogz on X (formerly Twitter), February 17, 2022
  8. ↑ "...woke up! Exhilarated, Tiny @_LadyAgnes pulled out her laptop, opened up http://minecraft.net, and downloaded the Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot, available now!" – @Cojomax99 on X (formerly Twitter), February 17, 2022
  9. ↑ "And here is another version which was what Sculk looked like with the Stalker iteration" – @kingbdogz on X (formerly Twitter), January 22, 2022
  10. ↑ "That Sculk with a version of the Stalker" – @kingbdogz on X (formerly Twitter), January 22, 2022

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