Even if the warden's main mechanic is "follow sound" it can still find the player eventually because according to mojang it can smell the player so you cant just stand still forever while a warden is around

The warden is literally the first thing in this game that genuinely terrified me.

IS THIS NOT EXACTLY how we’ve felt when we first opened Minecraft and darkness came… and we had no clue how things worked, other than darkness = danger? It’s amazing, it’s so refreshing and it’s TERRIFYING OH MY GOD

Jard: "I wanna zoom but obviously there's no Optifine..." Spyglass: "Am I a joke to you?"

“Man I wish I could zoom, but there’s no optifine” Yeah man if only there was a way in vanilla to zoom in on things, that would be pretty cool, like if there was a craftable tool for that

1:49 Placing wool normally doesn't trigger sculk sensors, however it will if it is being placed on top of a sculk block (the explanation likely being that the sculk feels it, perhaps it is somehow one organism)

After some testing, the warden takes 62 hits with a netherite sword. That means it has almost 500 health.

when he takes damage he sounds like the pufferfish choking on a carrot

Fun fact Jardon: The Warden can sniff you out even though it can’t see 👍🏽

*Hits the warden 49 times with a sharpness V netherite sword* "It's a little too easy"

6:40 Jordan: 'I feel like they're gonna implement a counter' Warden: *nods*

The reinforced deepslate being a new portal does have SO MUCH potential. Hope they do it

All they gotta do is give the Warden hops and the ability to break blocks, or some kind of ranged attack and we're gonna be in trouble..haha

Minecraft is naturally becoming a horror game

The Warden should totally be able to roar if it's unable to reach you which will cause players and mobs within a certain range to "shake" off a block they're on whilst also making it so shifting won't stop you falling off.

This is probably one of the coolest updates Mojang have ever added

*Immediate theory:* The ancient cities were created by villagers that lived underground. To protect from mobs, they created the warden- similar to the above-ground golem. 2 scenarios for what happened to the cities: 1. Something went wrong with the wardens and they killed everyone instead of protecing them. 2. Something *else* got the villagers, and the wardens are now just naturally protecting the abandoned cities.

Ngl, the warden spawning right infront of Jordan was hella terrifying :O

Fun fact: As of right now, even though it is just about as blast resistant and harder to break than obsidian and cannot be obtained in survival, reinforced deepslate can be pushed with a piston (though they might patch this out)

It looks like a ruin. Plus, the way the warden came out of the ground. So scary! This update is so cool!

I just searched this dudes channel after like 8 years and I can't believe my guy is STILL on Minecraft, now THAT is some dedication right there

The problem with wool in this situation is, while it does occlude sound through it, placing the wool itself creates a sound that is picked up.

For the build up strat, the devs have mentioned on tweets and interviews that there will be a counter for that but it seems it's not yet in the game as per the tests.

since it's what I've been doing all morning, here's some tips for exploring the snapshot: - bring night vision. Nothing else spawns, so you don't actually need to light things up, but it lets you get around far better than torches do - bring a hoe. You can sneak up to a sensor, break it quickly with a hoe and run, all other tools are slower - bring something to mark where you've been. There's only a handful of distinct structures and it's hard to gain an overview, so you'll get lost easily - the warden can smell you, and if you've blocked yourself in but left a block to view it through, it CAN hit and kill you through that - that being said, you can just wait it out. It'll eventually go back underground if it doesn't find you - both the warden and the shriekers will give you the darkness effect - there's one main corridor with pillars around it which leads to the central structure and many intersecting walkways in large square rooms. You'll find the chests to the sides of the walkways, there can be up to 2 in one spot but those will always have shriekers - the chests will have bones, snowballs, nametags, the different skulk blocks, books, random enchanted books, new enchanted books and potions of instant health 2 (as far as I know) - some pillars and one type of chest nook will have a skeleton head Happy exploring! :D

The strange shape in the middle of the cities perplexes me, I really hope it’s explored as something relevant in a future update or it would just feel weird

Personally, I wanna test throwing Eggs in the Deep Dark Cities to see if Chickens will spawn and run around, further distracting the Warden.

Ah yes, wardens and ancient cities... *Legends Arceus looks a little different than what they promised*

"A little bit too easy" Captain, if I need to run and hide to play minecraft I will suffer

watching the warden crawl its way out of the ground like that is some horror movie bullshit, and i am so here for it. like this whole area is just peak sound design, and watching that wave of darkness wash over the whole cavern is the dopest thing i've ever seen also 11:17 throw back to the days of surviving the first night in a dirt hovel for fear of zombies; oh how far we've come

to combat players pillaring to safety, maybe they could add a way for the warden to have like a loud scream attack that would push players backwards when they're unreachable? Absolutely loving this update, it looks amazing! Edit: Would also love to see an all advancements playthrough once 1.19 comes out!

I got a plan for the ancient city when the update comes out. I am planning on finding one and completely remove the sculk and refurbish it, and make it into a underground base/village for trading, and since no mobs spawn there, I shouldn't have to worry about a zombie killing my villagers. so yeah, I am stoked!

Can't wait for the wild update! This is big hype

I’ve been waiting so long for Minecraft to add in sound/stealth related features, this makes me so happy to see!

A great way to counteract players pillaring up, would be for the warden to be able to weaken blocks to the point they just break when the player is on top of them. Like screaming really loud that the block the player is standing on is getting broken with the speed of steve fisting it.

7:46 I have found Smite 5 is very effective against the warden but it still takes like 20 hits to kill him.

2:40 Jardon: "I wish I could zoom in on it" Spyglass: "am I a joke to you?"

"And we also kinda want to experience the darkness effect" Jardon walking down there: *Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again*

Making the Warden able the break blocks (similar to the Wither) is an idea. Having them also able to break 2 (or more) blocks above them could also prevent players from hitting it while on a pillar. Having able to break blocks _could_ also stop them from being used in farms. I can't remember if any of this is planned, but I think this is what mojang should do if they want to make the warden the way they said they wanted to.

*Sprints around and makes a lot of noise* Another one, these are impossible to deal with.

Oh ya wool stops the sounds but placing it makes sound, they made it do that so you can't wool cheat it.

Sparklez: I wish i could zoom in Spyglass: am i joke to you?

I am absolutely thrilled that Mojang is taking a serious step towards adding mystery and intrigue to the otherwise lore barren world of Minecraft. The Sculk dimension could be some kind of alien dimension thrust into the Overworld through the experiments that the Ancient endermen did to escape their barren world. It could be the ancestors of the villagers and their constant drive to advance themselves both alchemically and scientifically by creating/linking themselves to the Stargate of a nearby star. Ohhh my god im so happy I get to live in this timeline.

The warden will probably have projectile attack to deal with cheese strats

Also, i really like this format of update videos, where you actually explore the update feature

This demo video really turned into something entertaining.

Jardon forgot or missed the memo the act of PLACING wool was decided to trigger skulk sensors in order for the deep dark to be more challenging

I think It'd be a cool idea if the deep dark portal could be used to travel between deep dark cities, a quick way to fast travel. This would encourage base building near these portals. Maybe these could be linked with either nether stars, a lodestone, or possibly a drop from the warden

I like how Jordan goes through this whole ordeal without realizing that placing the wool down will make noise. Mojang literally talked about making that change to prevent players from cheezing the Deep Dark

The reinforced deepslate can be pushed by pistons, so can definitely see some cool wither based mining machines coming in the future

Can't wait to play this version!

I've been waiting for this. I'm so glad they're adding it, I do wonder if you'll get a reward for actually taking on the Warden or if they'll add more to these cities to mess you up.

its super cool, but needs to be more difficult imo. With a name like "The Warden" it's just begging to be badass

man, gettin' some really major Lovecraftian vibes from the Ancient City/Wardens and i absolutely *love* it

The reinforced deepslate being a portal really fits with some existing theories about how portals work in Minecraft. The Nether portal requires obsidian, and fire. A really hard material, and heat, in a rectangle shape. The End portal requires end-portal frames, and lava- as well as some eyes of ender. A really hard material, and heat, in a square shape. (Which is a kind of rectangle.) A hypothetical Deep-Dark portal? We have reinforced deepslate: A very hard material, in a rectangle shape. Now the question is, what do we use to light it, and what item might be necessary as a key? Maybe the Warden will drop a special item in a future update, that acts as a Deep-Dark key, similarly to the Eyes of Ender to the End portal. And I wonder what source of heat it might need. Maybe it'll finally be a *good* use for the blast-charge? TNT explosion, maybe? Who knows.

Wow, the warden is so awesome!!! Way better than my super high expectations!

When he was traveling through the hallway with wool on the ground it really felt scary. Just imagine how the ppl of the ancient cited felt.

5:46 that reaction though

Yooo, keep up the good work! I love the content!

I love the fact that other mobs can’t spawn in the ancient cities. Not only does it make the atmosphere more foreboding, but it makes you wonder what on Earth could be terrifying enough to chase away other monsters.

So excited for this update!

Y’all remember the songs he made? Nostalgia man

It would be interesting if they made the cities surrounded by reinforced deep slate with small pockets or larger entrances to the cities as the only openings. Although it is a little hard to somehow create even better loot given what's in the game and how quickly you can get things like diamonds now

7:56 it takes like 46 or 47 hits to kill the Warden as long as it a netherite sword with sharpness 5.

Something that I’ve noticed coming back to Jardon’s content is that it reminds me of watching my older brother playing games. It makes me really happy, after growing up watching Jardon coming back and just bingeing his videos, we’re really lucky he still makes great content

The warden should be able to climb walls and have a creepy climbing animation

2 hearts of damage isn't a lot, but with how much health the Warden has, he can kill you faster than you can kill him.

I really appreciate you still putting out content! Your personality on camera just makes me smile.

"I fear no mob." "But that THING..." (Warden) *"It scares me."*

him: "u cannot zoom there is no optifine" spyglass: really??

I had trouble finding the snapshot. Thank you for mentioning/linking everything.

This is why i been watching YOU for TEN YEARS. Smooth talking. not annoying. The best

It’d be cool if the warden can creepily climb blocks twice as fast as the player can build so they can’t cheese an escape

This is a certified hood classic

11:14 I had a similar reaction. Besides, it's kind of rewarding to see the zombie get rekt like that. 17:08 That's disappointing. I thought about adding it to my everyday armor. It would be a nice enchantment to have on at all times, along with the other boot ones, not for special occasions that clash with your ability to swim faster. 20:53 Ooo, I would gladly watch that. I want to see Jordan get "How did we get here?", which is, I think, the hardest one in the game.

I hope you do decide to go through with a completing all achievements play through bc those are always a blast!

This looks SO COOL :D

they should make egaps have a higher spawn rate in the cities than other places, that would make going there very worth it

so, fun fact: every world has a shrieker "cooldown." once every world, the first shrieker to be activated by a player has to be set off three times. after that, every other shrieker in the world will only have to be activated once to summon the warden

something that makes sound : exist the warden : hipiti popiti your soul is now my probity

Did he ever think that the reinforced deepslate and can be a counter to the warden? Like you can’t break, but you can obtain it. Maybe you can use it to cage yourself in (with a way out of course) and the warden won’t be able to destroy this block?

I think they should add little houses since it’s you know a City.

keep making these videos!! i love them

jardon not know about the wool changes is probably what got him in the most trouble here lmao

That was actually weird how many hitpoints it took for him

11:50 "How does he know!? " I mean...didn't they add a sniffing mechanic, he can smell you. 😤 You can for real hear them sniffing you out. I Hate there can be more then one...Shouldn't there only be ONE warden and maybe, some little guards he can spawn in after if you keep triggering the shriekers. That would have been neat though, him spawning in little guards, and instead of him having a smelling mechanic, each guard would have one big eye, and if they can see you then so can the Warden. But if you kill them he goes back to being blind. Oh well. 14:00 Why you no break the shriekers? 🤣 18:14 I hope we can collect/craft it or get it from chests...OR a warden drop, mostly cause I like how the texture looks. If it was a portal in the future that would both be neat and terrifying! But could open up to a bunch of new mobs/blocks/items.

A shriek attack that hits all targets in like an 8 block radius as a one-off warden move that kills bats would be amazing, especially if it has some knockback to it. That'll also really mess with people building up

I really like how chill this video is :)

The deep dark spawn doesn't look let's just say as hoped and it looks slightly lacking but also I know it is a snapshot and the Minecraft team will do great so I am excited. I was also hoping for the warden to be more overpowered damage wise it's health seems pretty good. Again I now this is a very early snapshot and it is not an attack on the devs I this is just my opinion it looks great for the first snapshot. I was just off put by the fact it looks like the structure was just plopped down and not like it was actually built there. Again great snapshot

This looks so cool and I absolutely love it, but I feel like the payout isn't really great. I hope they do more things with it in later snapshots.

Also, they made is so when you place wool, it will still trigger sound, but when you then do sound behind it, it will quiet it. It's to avoid people using it to sneak around undetected

"Swift sneak" THAT'S GONNA BE SO GOOD IN MULTIPLAYER

Honestly this one structure is more exciting than 1.17

I feel like the warden should have a bossbar.

I believe it was mumbo who built a sculk farming restone machine. it is basically multiple cobblestone makers with pistons pushing the cobble under a mob farm where they fall to their demise and after the cobble is converted it gets pushed into layers off to the side to harvest after your afk time

From what I'm understanding with the charges is that when a mob dies it creates a charge proportional to the XP the mob would've dropped. That charge causes the schulk to spread eventually making the charge run out or "decay" and if it manages to run out 4 blocks away from the catalyst it has a chance to spawn a sensor or shrieker.

I would've liked to see some of the city without the gamma being artificially brightened by the editor. It seemed to lose a lot of the scary effect because of that, but I guess I can just check them out myself!

First. Can't wait to flee in terror

5:51 is perfect movie or something moment!!! (IDC if it was planned, still amazing)

You know, Swift Sneak is gonna be one heck of an enchantment in PVP. A major element of PVP is people not seeing your name tag, so you can get the drop on them. With that enchantment, now you can do so with ease.

Thank you, love yer vid!