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Minecraft ane.19: everything we know about the Wild Update

Minecraft 1.19 the Wild Update - concept painting of Steve and Alyx in a boat holding a torch while rowing beneath tall mangrove tree roots in the swamp.

(Image credit: Mojang)

Desire to learn more than about the Minecraft 1.19 update? Mojang has announced the next major version update coming to Minecraft, and it's packed with even more new biomes, blocks, and mobs. With this ane, Mojang is focusing on 2 different kinds of "wild": the dandy outdoors and some suitably spooky adventures in the dark. With the new swamp biome variant we get the towering, wild Mangrove trees, and then the still upcoming Deep Dark biome is going to exist overloaded with frights.

Although the Wild Update isn't coming until after this year, we already know some of the major new additions from what Mojang shared during Minecraft Live 2021 such equally the new frog mob, the mangrove copse, and the Allay. Here's everything we know so far nearly the Minecraft 1.nineteen Wild Update.

When does Minecraft 1.nineteen launch?

Minecraft one.19 will launch in 2022, but Mojang hasn't given a specific date notwithstanding. The 2nd half of the Caves & Cliffs update launched in Nov 2021, then it seems likely that the Wild Update won't arrive until afterwards in 2022.

1.19 Beta builds

Minecraft 1.19 snapshots for Java

Minecraft 1.19 snapshots started rolling out in March 2022. The get-go Wild Update snapshot is 22W11A for Java Edition, which adds the Deep Dark biome (but not the Wardens) and Mangrove wood blocks (but not the swamps or copse). Y'all can besides play effectually with the cute new frogs and tadpoles!

Minecraft 1.19 beta versions

You tin can besides endeavor out some of the Wild Update features in Minecraft for Windows past toggling on "Wild Update" experimental features in your game settings. So far, the experimental Wild Update features accept added frogs, froglights, and skulk blocks.

For even more, you lot tin opt into the beta version of Minecraft through the Xbox Insider app on your PC. Merely remember that you'll have to opt out of the Insider Hub to play the regular release version of Minecraft once more.

What's new in 1.xix?

Here's a quick await at what will be new in the Wild Update this year. We're sure to discover out more equally more than snapshot builds for the update get released throughout 2022. For at present, here are the highlights:

Frog mob
Polliwog mob
Froglights
Warden mob
Mud block
Mud Brick block
Boats with chests
Mangrove copse
Mangrove Woods cake
Mangrove wood decor variants
Mangrove Swamp biome
Skulk Sensor block
Skulk Catalyst

Minecraft 1.nineteen Mangrove Swamp Biome

I of Minecraft's oldest biomes is finally getting a new variant. The new Mangrove Swamp biome will be total of towering mangrove trees, tons of mud blocks, and those new frog mobs also.

Mangrove Trees

Minecraft is calculation a big, super neat new tree type to the game: the mangrove. They'll have vines that hang downwardly from their leaves like swamp trees exercise currently, and will also grow large, arching roots that you tin can walk and swim below. What'southward particularly cool about mangroves is that they can be planted on state or in h2o. When they grow, they'll accept a base of twisty root blocks beneath their principal mangrove wood trunks.

Yup, that's correct, mangroves will too have their ain woods type. Mojang says that when y'all cutting them downwardly and turn them into mangrove planks, you'll be able to employ them for creating mangrove woods colored decorations such as doors, fences, and other woods products just like other wood types.

Mud Blocks

You lot'll too find that the ground in the mangrove swamp biome isn't made upward of clay blocks. It's actually covered in mud. You can create new Mud Blocks past dumping a water bottle on dirt. You can also put mud blocks on height of the new dripstone from the Dripstone Cave biome, which will dry out out your mud block and plough it into clay. A renewable source of clay—neat! At present you'll be able to farm your own instead of going diving in every unmarried water source y'all stumble beyond.

Minecraft 1.xix new mobs

Minecraft - Orange frogs sit on the ground in a swamp biome — (Image credit: Mojang)

We've learned nigh two fun new mobs coming to Minecraft in the Wild Update: I hails from those new mangrove swamps and the other was voted in past players.

Frogs and tadpoles

Don't hop on out of the mangrove swamps just yet! You'll want to stop and meet the new frog mobs commencement. Unlike other mobs which have babies that expect like smaller adults, frogs will have bodily tadpoles. Like axolotls, they can also exist carried around in a bucket. That'll exist handy for transporting your budding trivial buddies to a new abode.

Frogs come in 3 different variants: swamp, snowy, and tropical. They'll grow upwardly into an adult frog based on the biome they're in when they mature.

With the preview of frogs in Boulder ane.18.10 we've likewise learned that frogs tin be bred past players, just we don't know what tasty swamp treat will piece of work in the final update—only that the placeholder is Sea Grass. We also learned that frogs have a propensity to chomp both small Slimes and Magma Cubes, producing Slime Balls and the new Froglight item respectively. Froglights come in colors that match the frog that created them, and function similarly to Glowstone and Ocean Lanterns as light-shedding decorations, while the Slime Assurance are already used to make Leads and Sticky Pistons.

Tadpoles were also put on find, as we plant out axolotl's can grub down on them, while frogs won't have a specific predator if they survive that far.

Allay

The Allay is a helpful little mob that was chosen past Minecraft players during this year'south Minecraft Live poll. It's a very cute flying blue creature that loves collecting things. If you give information technology a particular detail, it will grab similar ones nearby and bring them dorsum to you lot. The Abate also loves music, so y'all can also use a Notation Cake to give information technology a different drop location for its items.

Minecraft 1.19 Deep Dark biome and Wardens

Minecraft - in a very dark Deep Dark ancient city, a Warden towers over the player with a glowing teal heart — (Image credit: Mojang)

Later originally being planned for the 1.18 update, Minecraft's dangerous Warden mob has been delayed to the Wild Update in 2022. The Deep Dark biome we'd seen previously has been expanded further as well. Mojang did a serious dive into the Deep Dark biome this year and it'due south looking much scarier than before.

What makes the Deep Dark so much spookier now is the Skulk Shrieker blocks which will emit a screech when activated and put a darkness effect on the nearby area. You'll need to get abroad from that Skulk Shrieker quickly and quietly because that loud dissonance will likely attract a Warden.

As nosotros'd already seen, the Warden mobs are very, very unsafe and will hunt downwards players past sound. The Shrieker's pulsing darkness effect makes the stomping of the behemothic Warden sound like something out of a horror game. In the new video of the Warden we actually see i tunnel out of the ground through some skulk blocks, which is extremely frightening.

Likewise new in the Deep Dark are the big ancient city structures that you can find downwards in the dark. Mojang has hinted that there's a construction at the middle of every ancient city that may take its own secrets. You lot'll also want to pay attending to the Skulk Catalysts. When an enemy dies near ane, it will convert nearby blocks on the footing to Skulk Blocks, which you can mine to gather experience.

Lauren started writing for PC Gamer as a freelancer in 2017 while chasing the Dark Souls manner constabulary and accepted her part as Associate Editor and Chief Minecraft Liker in 2021. She originally started her career in game evolution and is withal fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes. She likes long books, longer RPGs, multiplayer cryptids, and can't finish playing co-op crafting games.