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Plaguewhale Slab

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This article documents an April Fools' Day joke as part of 24w14potato.
 
This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
Plaguewhale Slab
Plague Whale Slab.gif: Infobox image for Minecraft entity 'Plaguewhale Slab'
Invicon Plaguewhale Slab Spawn Egg.png: Inventory sprite for Plaguewhale Slab Spawn Egg in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Plaguewhale Slab Spawn Egg
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A plaguewhale slab, also known as simply plaguewhale, is a modified version of the elder guardian with a purple body and a green eye found in April Fools' snapshot 24w14potato. It has the same width and length, but half the height as the elder guardian.

Spawning

Around 15 plaguewhale slabs spawn upon the generation of a colosseum. These plaguewhales can despawn under the same conditions as most hostile mobs.

An additional 9 are spawned by the mega spud when it enters its ninth phase.

Drops

On death

ItemQuantity / Chance / Average
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
Dent1100.00%1.001100.00%1.001100.00%1.001100.00%1.00

ItemQuantity / Chance / Average
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
Dent111111111111

ItemAmountProbability
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
Dent11 (100.00%)1 (100.00%)1 (100.00%)1 (100.00%)
Average1 (1.00)1 (1.00)1 (1.00)1 (1.00)

Killed1
ItemExpected Drops
DefaultLooting ILooting IILooting III
Dent1.001.001.001.00

Behavior

Plaugewhale slabs do not inflict Mining Fatigue. Their laser does not cause any direct damage, but it inflicts the Poison effect for 1 second constantly while hitting its target, and if fully charged, it adds the Wither effect for 4 seconds. Attacking the plaguewhale causes the player to gain Wither effect for 2 second.

Stacking

Sometimes a plaguewhale decides to ride another nearby plaguewhale, similar to how baby piglins ride baby hoglins. Two mobs stacked on top of each other closely resemble a single elder guardian, but their hitbox is still a bit smaller than that of elder guardian.

Sounds

Plaguewhale slabs use the Hostile Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Plaguewhale Slab zoomsHostile MobsRandomly while in waterentity.plaguewhale.ambientsubtitles.entity.plaguewhale.ambient​1.00.8–1.216
​Plaguewhale Slab slapsHostile MobsRandomly while out of waterentity.plaguewhale.ambient_landsubtitles.entity.plaguewhale.ambient_land​1.00.8–1.216
​Toxifin Slab zapsHostile MobsWhen a plaguewhale slab uses its laser attackentity.toxifin.attacksubtitles.entity.toxifin.attack​0.0–1.0 [sound 1]0.7–1.2 [sound 2]16 (technical) / ∞ (effective)[sound 3]
​Plaguewhale Slab diesHostile MobsWhen a plaguewhale slab dies while in waterentity.plaguewhale.deathsubtitles.entity.plaguewhale.death​1.00.8–1.216
​Plaguewhale Slab diesHostile MobsWhen a plaguewhale slab dies while out of waterentity.plaguewhale.death_landsubtitles.entity.plaguewhale.death​1.00.8–1.216
​Plaguewhale Slab hurtsHostile MobsWhen a plaguewhale slab is damaged while in waterentity.plaguewhale.hurtsubtitles.entity.plaguewhale.hurt​1.00.8–1.216
​Plaguewhale Slab hurtsHostile MobsWhen a plaguewhale slab is damaged while out of waterentity.plaguewhale.hurt_landsubtitles.entity.plaguewhale.hurt​1.00.8–1.216
​Plaguewhale Slab flipsHostile MobsWhile a plaguewhale slab is on landentity.plaguewhale.flopsubtitles.entity.plaguewhale.flop​1.01.016
  1. ↑ Increases quadratically from minimum to maximum as the attack goes on
  2. ↑ Increases linearly from minimum to maximum as the attack goes on
  3. ↑ MC-57057 – Guardian laser attack sound ignores distance

Data values

NameIdentifierEntity tags Translation key
EntitySprite plaguewhale-slab.png: Sprite image for plaguewhale-slab in Minecraft Plaguewhale Slabplaguewhaleaquatic
axolotl_always_hostiles
can_breathe_under_water
not_scary_for_pufferfish
sensitive_to_impaling		 entity.minecraft.plaguewhale

Issues

Issues relating to "Plaguewhale Slab" 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".

Screenshots

  • A plaguewhale slab
    A plaguewhale slab
  • Several plaguewhales spawned inside of a colosseum, together with mega spud
    Several plaguewhales spawned inside of a colosseum, together with mega spud
  • Two plaguewhales stacked on top of each other
    Two plaguewhales stacked on top of each other

Sources