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.

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.

On Bedrock Edition, experimental content for The Wild Update has been released as part of 1.18.0, 1.18.10, and 1.18.30 prior to the finalized release.

Froglight

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

Frogspawn

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

Mangrove wood set:

• Mangrove propagule
  • Can be planted and grow both on land and underwater.
• Mangrove leaves
  • Does not drop saplings.
    • Instead, it can be bone mealed to grow mangrove propagules.
• Mangrove log and stripped mangrove log
• Mangrove wood and stripped mangrove wood
• Mangrove roots
• Mangrove planks
  • Mangrove stairs
  • Mangrove slab
  • Mangrove sign
  • Mangrove button
  • Mangrove door
  • Mangrove fence
  • Mangrove fence gate
  • Mangrove pressure plate
  • Mangrove trapdoor

Mud block set:

• Mud
  • Found in mangrove swamps.
  • Can also be created by using a water bottle on dirt.
  • Converts to clay when placed above a pointed dripstone.
• Packed mud
  • Crafted using a mud and a wheat.
• Mud bricks
  • Mud brick stairs
  • Mud brick slab
  • Mud brick wall
• Muddy mangrove roots
  • Generate in mangrove trees.
  • Can also be crafted using a mud and mangrove roots.

Reinforced deepslate

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

Sculk family of blocks:

• Blocks that are found in the deep dark biome.
• Can be instant mined using a hoe.
• Sculk
  • Drops Experience when broken.
• Sculk catalyst
  • Mobs killed near a catalyst will cause nearby blocks to either be converted to sculk or have sculk veins grow.
  • Occasionally spawn a sculk sensor or an inert sculk shrieker.
• 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
  • Up to 6 can be put on the same block space, merging into one block.
  • Does not drop experience when broken.

Bucket of tadpole

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

Disc fragment

• Obtained from ancient city chests.
• Can be used to craft music disc 5.

Echo shard

• Obtained from ancient city chests.
• Used to craft a recovery compass.

Globe banner pattern for Bedrock Edition

• Only obtained through trading a cartographer.

Goat horn

• Obtained from goats ramming into blocks native to their biome.
• Can also be found in pillager outpost loot chests.
• Has eight different variants, four from normal goats, and four from screaming goats:
  • Normal
    • "Ponder"
    • "Sing"
    • "Seek"
    • "Feel"
  • Screamer
    • These goat horn variants cannot be found in loot chests.
    • "Admire"
    • "Call"
    • "Yearn"
    • "Dream"

"5" music disc

• Crafted using 9 disc fragments.
• The music was composed by Samuel Åberg.

Recovery compass

• Crafted from a compass being surrounded by 8 echo shards.
• Used to point to the location of the player's last death.

Spawn eggs:

• Allay spawn egg
• Frog spawn egg
• Tadpole spawn egg
• Warden spawn egg
• Added spawn eggs for already existing mobs:
  • Ender dragon spawn egg
  • Iron golem spawn egg
  • Snow golem spawn egg
  • Trader llama spawn egg for Bedrock Edition
  • Wither spawn egg
  • Ender dragon and wither spawn eggs are only obtained through commands.

Swift Sneak

• Used on leggings to provide a quicker sneaking speed.

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.

Allay

• A passive flying mob found in pillager outpost cages or woodland mansion jail cells.
• Follows the player around when holding an item.
  • In that state, the owner is unable to harm the allay unless its related to its surroundings.
• Will collect any item close by and drop it to either an activated note block or the player.
• Can be duplicated using amethyst shards when playing to a jukebox.

Frog

• A passive semi-aquatic mob that spawns in swamps and mangrove swamps.
• Can jump 8 blocks height.
  • Occasionally prefer to land on lily pads or big dripleaves.
• Eats small slimes and magma cubes by launching its tongue, the latter produces froglights.
• Can be bred using slime balls, which laids frogspawn.
• Has three variants:
  • Temperate frog: A variant that spawns in temperate biomes.
  • Cold frog: A variant that spawns in cold biomes.
  • Warm frog: A variant that spawns in warm biomes.

Tadpole

• A baby version of the frog that 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, and being attacked by axolotls.

Warden

• A blind, powerful, yet evadable hostile mob, with the most health out of any mob.
• Spawns in from above after enough sculk shriekers have been activated.
• Being blind, it 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.
  • Does not attack other wardens.
  • If not aggravated for 60 seconds, the warden will burrow down and despawn.
    • Can be prevented when using a name tag.
• Drops a sculk catalyst when killed.

Boat with chest

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

Mangrove boat

• A boat that is crafted from mangrove planks.

Deep dark

• Found deep underground, commonly under mountainous areas.
• Generates with sculk, sculk veins, sculk catalysts, sculk sensors, and sculk shriekers.

Mangrove swamp

• Generates with mangrove trees, mud, dead bushes, and lily pads.
• Frogs, bees and tropical fishes can be found here.

Mangrove tree

• A tree that generates on mangrove swamp.

Ancient city

• An underground structure found in the deep dark.
• Has a higher chance of finding enchanted golden apples than any other structures prior.
• Three music discs, disc fragments, echo shards, and an enchanted book with a random level of Swift Sneak can be found here.

Nether fungi blocks

• Added unique sounds to warped and crimson woods.

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

• "Ancestry"
  • Plays in the deep dark.
• "Aerie", "Firebugs", & "Labyrinthine"
  • Play in forests, birch forests, dark forests, old growth taigas jungles, lush caves, swamps, and mangrove swamps.

Monster spawner in Java Edition

• Renamed from "Spawner" to "Monster Spawner" to match Bedrock Edition.
• Now available in the creative menu.
• No longer have a default mob spawn type when placed by a player, which was a pig previously.
  • Do not emit fire particles when a mob spawn type has not been defined.

Scaffolding

• Changed texture to better match the upcoming bamboo wood set.

Boats

• Changed item texture.

Polar bear spawn egg

• The color has been changed to distinguish from the ghast spawn egg.

Potions

• Changed colors of the following potions: Night Vision, Invisibility, Leaping, Fire Resistance, Swiftness, Slowness, Turtle Master, Water Breathing, Harming, Poison, Strength.
• No longer have an enchantment glint.

Water bottle

• Can now be use to convert dirt into mud.

Goat

• Now sometimes spawn with one horn.
• When ramming, they lose their horn if they hit following blocks:
  • Stone
  • Coal Ore
  • Copper Ore
  • Iron Ore
  • Emerald Ore
  • Log
  • Packed Ice

Iron golem in Bedrock Edition

• Now crack as they take damage.
• Can be repaired using iron ingots.
• Previously exclusive to Java Edition.

Vex

• The model and texture has been changed.

• 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.

• 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.

The Wild Update: What Will You Uncover? – Official Minecraft Trailer (view on YouTube)

The Wild Update: Where Will You Wander? – Official Minecraft Trailer (view on YouTube)

The Wild Update: Craft Your Path – Official Minecraft Launch Trailer (view on YouTube)

Videos made by slicedlime:

All the New Sounds of Minecraft 1.19 (view on YouTube)

Sculk Sensor Tutorial - Everything About the Sculk Sensor in Minecraft 1.19! (view on YouTube)

Changes to Textures, Visuals and Pixels in Minecraft 1.19 (view on YouTube)

The Loot in the Ancient Cities of Minecraft 1.19 (view on YouTube)

Lena Raine - "Firebugs" (view on YouTube)

Lena Raine - "Aerie" (view on YouTube)

Lena Raine - "Labyrinthine" (view on YouTube)

Samuel Åberg - "Five" (view on YouTube)

• 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.^[2] This decision received heavy criticism from the community.
  • They were later added as part of firefly bushes.
• To promote The Wild Update, Mojang released a free choose your own adventure game on minecraft.net called Craft Your Own Adventure: Wild Tales.^[3]
• Kingbdogz stated in a tweet that the souls in the warden's chest is incredibly important to its lore.^[4]
• 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.

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

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  The sculk family
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  A warden in the deep dark.
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  A warden approaching the player.
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  An iron golem and a warden standing next to each other.
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  A warden and a rabbit
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  The player and a warden next to each other.
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  A mangrove swamp
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  A mangrove tree
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  A mud brick house
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  Some fireflies
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  Fireflies
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  A frog catching fireflies
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  Some tadpoles
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  A warden emerging from the ground of the deep dark.
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  An ancient city
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  A warden within an ancient city^[5]
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  The showcase of the new warden subtitles.^[6]
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  The last image in the build up to the Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot.^[7]

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

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

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

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  Sketches of the axolotl and a warden
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  A "scale of cuteness" depicting the axolotl, goat, and warden.
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  One of the early concept of the warden, referred to as the stalker.
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  Various concepts of the warden before sculk's appearance was fully-decided on.
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  Early concepts of the warden, featuring a smile on it.
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  More early concepts of the warden, involving particles.
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  Early concepts of the warden, having white as a main color with sculk referred to as the hollowed.
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  Unofficial render of a stalker iteration
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  In-game visual of another stalker iteration.
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  Unofficial render of the hollowed iteration
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  Early iterations of the warden, using the current sculk colors.
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  Sketches of the final iteration of the warden, as well as other iterations for its ears.
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  Early incarnations of the warden's ears
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  A version of Sculk that went with the stalker incarnation of the warden.^[8]
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  The stalker sculk with the stalker^[9]

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  The Minecraft Wild Update trailer concept art
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