The idea that Jeb is the only one who truly knows the Minecraft lore and refuses to tell anyone else in the studio is really funny to me

People hate on 1.19 but the deep dark is an excellent feature. The Warden was instantly iconic.

the stalker is terrifying! I think it would be super interesting if they had some sort of cave structure like trial chambers but it's just a gross wet cave with tons of stalkers in them. This way the player could turn around and leave, or they could stay and try to acquire loot without touching them. If you do touch one, all that are in the vicinity would be able to track and attack. That one block tall feature is absolutely nightmare fuel

Wait so the heartbeat is actually a heartbeat from one of the creators with a contact microphone??!!!! That really adds to the scary. I like that you guys go fully realistic with the sounds. That's genius!

I honestly think that The Stalker was a pretty horrifying concept. The fact that it has its own animation for when it crawls in a 1 block gap scared me kinda when thinking of it.

Never thought that a cow would cause all of this

You have no idea how badly I want that Warden plushie.

Personally, the Warden will always be my favorite hostile mob in Minecraft. Salutations and congrats to Mojang Studios for working so hard to bring this mob to the Minecraft game. To this day, I never stop experimenting with Sculk and visiting the Deep Dark, everytime I create a new world, and always wish I could give the Warden a big hug.

1:49 Turns out Minecraft had already planned out the Cave Dweller before us They were always one step ahead

That cow is definitely not harmless

I remember Minecraft once shared a picture of the warden, where he looks like he just wants to hug.

"Sympathy for the monster", that quote fits The Warden

They truly ate with the development of the Warden and Ancient Cities. One of the most fleshed out and polished experiences added to Minecraft in recent history.

I love how there’s visible void textures in the hollowed’s design in the hands feet and chest. Give a whole new factor of lore they were trying to work in before the warden was finished

Minecraft is officially doing Scary Myth videos and I love it 😍🔥

I love finding out about the development process of features, it's fascinating!

"I feel like he is kinda misunderstood." Agnes being the sweetheart aunt as always. Just wanna hug her and make all my problems go away.

If I had a nickel for every time Minecraft turned a farm animal into a deadly monster I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

Love the warden's current design (because come on he's such a markatble lil guy i just wanna squeeze em!) but the hollowed with the older sounds is just amazing, like, leagues creepier than the warden ever was, but, im glad we have our little blind lad

Steve: "Where's the beast?" Villager: "It's right there!" Steve: "...That's a cow..."

This story passed the Base Blooben test.

5:12 now we know where the wandering trader sounds originated from

You’ve done an amazing job at making the warden. I love making liminal bases within the ancient cities. He along with the deep dark creates a lovely horror experience within an already lovely game. You simply outdone yourself with this concept.

Those first two mods sounded dope, wish they had some version of either, we need more horror

5:14 the transition tho😮

If the warden folded through holes I would have quit Minecraft completely 😂

what i like is how the cave just feels dark and empty but at the same time not, this also mix beautifuly in with the horrifying cave sounds!

I really do love the mystery surrounding the warden, the cities, and sculk in its entirity. What is it, how did it get there, why is the warden so hostile? Its so intriguing and I never expected something so foreboding and ominous to ever be in vanilla minecraft lol

To think the warden was what caused the ancient builders to flee the cities. Disc five tells us that the wither had found the ancient builders, the ancient builders built a portal to escape then out came the warden, the warden kills the wither and after that the warden reeked havoc causing the ancient builders to flee to the end. But that's just a theory, a game theory, thanks for reading

"A blind sad scary looking creature alone and who you may not want to encounter" sounds very much like my life😊

Modding community is gonna love this one

It may not be as iconic as a Zombie or Skeleton, but the Warden has risen the ranks of my favourite mobs to Rank 1 almost immediately. You all did such a great job with this one, the Deep Dark and everything within it is just amazing. I am hoping to see some extensions on this in future updates! I feel like the uniqueness of the Sculk biome has a lot of potential.

The Warden was the original Cave Dweller.

2:07 imagine if they kept that, I’m not going to caves again 😂

The warden came out great! Truly a staple of the game. Still, I think it would be a cool idea to create some sort of resource pack to show off the concepts like the Hollowed, could be fun!

I like the Warden's design so much that it drew me into playing Minecraft. Absolutely my favorite mob

2:45 THE HOLLOWED WARDEN COULD BREAK BLOCKS

3:44 Steve died in a sec That really shows how strong the warden is 😢💀💀

Where is my april fools ?

this is one of the things that I don’t think the average Minecraft commentator doesnt even think about, that there is a whole design process to actually making these mobs and it takes an extremely long time to fully develop it and you can’t just put it into the game and say oh, this is a finished product

the ancient city soundtracks and audios are just tiptop, i love it 🔥🔥🔥

Kinda unfortunate that the Warden had to be dialed back so much for the sake of not traumatizing little kids. Its symmetrical design and lumbering walk just make it look goofy rather than scary and it's not even all that dangerous, you have 7-10 business days to get away from it during its spawning sequence.

I love the warden so much. It’s perfect, and the pulsing rythmons sounds really get you feeling stressed. The vibe is immaculate

i feel like the only problem of the warden is… it’s not scary because of one thing : by over elaborating it, they ended up making him too expected. they made it like every third time they activate a shrieker he spawns and chase you and if you crouch, sniffs you. the problem is : it’s too expected. the player will just know « don’t ever make any noise here and it will be fine » « but when he uncovers you, run on wool or die » when you hear about it, it just seems worthless. the player know exactly what they shouldn’t do at anytime because of the shriekers and his sniffing ability. it would have been way better if it was a rare mob that can appear in the ancient cities(or near abandoned houses with loot) anywhere’s and at anytime, but still rarely. and couldn’t sniff the player, so it would have been just way scarier. yes removing one of his abilities would have made it way scarier because the player shouldn’t make noise, but wouldn’t know exactly when. just near some structures or in the deep dark. like that the snowball trick from the trailer would have been interesting, but it would conflict one thing from the sense of players : they wanna go fast, but doesn’t want to die. so this could have been the most interesting mob in minecraft history, not only this angry strong and flawless neighbor that chase you if you’re way too noisy in his apartment. so yeah, i think mojang should have made it simpler to make it better, to like what he’s been in the legendary 1.17 trailer more than he’s right now.

_This is the story of the _*_scariest Mob in Minecraft history_* Me: "Ah, Big Salmon?" Mojang: "No, just Beef."

3:14 It would be very interesting one day for you to work on a mob that has this end portal effect, it's a very interesting and innovative concept since we've never seen a mob like this before

It would actually be cool to see the stalkers back as a helping hand for the warden, as in the stalker being this also blind creature that is passive and what it does is warn the warden and flee from the player and from other mobs, and instead keep a distance. That'd be neat

Could the fact that they are expanding the game's story be a possible hint at what we'll see in the Minecraft movie?!

2:30 thankfully they didn’t use this… i hate holes…. 😅

2:52 sounds a lot like a volatile scream from dying light

Warden plush is so cute🩷 0:56

If the Hollowed was added I would probably quit going to caves 💀

5:39 Narrator: The Warden is a hostile mob living in the Deep Dark, and who you may not want to encounter. The Mace: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?!

They made the Creeper from the Pig. They made the Warden from the Cow. Please don't make anything horrifying with the Goat.

i love the process of design and all the previous versions...also i love the voice of Lady Agnes and her smile... please never leave minecraft team!

I heard a theory about the deep dark: Once upon a time, there was an underground civilisation. Then the Warden came and wiped them all out, destroying the whole city. The souls of the slaughtered villagers were taken by the skulk catalysts and were turned into Skulk. That explaines the Skulk in the caves, the destroyed City, but leaves the portal for another story.

Hear me out Minecraft. Those first two warden ideas are AMAZING. I would absolutely love a separate difficulty called “spooky” or some other word that allows both of them to spawn. So players who don’t want such a horror experience can toggle it on and off.

i swear minecraft can add the literal demon and agness will still say its "sorta cute" 😂

the warden is just misunderstood 💔

I'm sad that the warden never got some of that cool "End Portal" like texture, It would have given it more depth and make it look like theres an entire new dimension inside of it, further hinting at the "Deep Dark Portal" but I guess that's the reason that the warden doesn't have that texture as well.

Trypophobia is not just the fear of holes, not only is a phobia not just a fear, but trypophobia is more a disgust than an actual fear nothing that serious btw just a little info

I like to imagine the wardens as ancient golems which should have protected the residents of the ancient cities, but once the sculk wiped away everything, the golems were just left there to be slowly infected and turned in to what we see now. This could explain why you can't farm them outside of the deep dark and why they're the only living beings other than the sculk infection itself.

Decked Out II is a testament to just how solid the Warden and its mechanics are. Also, the Hollow is absolutely terrifying, and I don't even have the phobia! That mouth and those sounds, woof! That thing belongs in a a different game all together, or my nightmares. 😬

These ideas make me really think they were just like “let’s traumatize our younger players.”

4:45 CUTE...

At 4:50, wait, so that's its mouth?!... I always thought it was the hole of some kind of hood or balaclava, and its face was behind it, in the shadow, which was why it couldn't see. Even knowing this, I still can't see anything but a hood now...

I think it’s genuinely so wonderful that a developers heartbeat is in the game!

5:22 the warden is a villager corrupted by sculk thats my theory lol

back in the summer days before the ancient city was revealed, i and others used to talk regularly all about what could become of the deep dark, all of the horror possibilities, wardens lurking the corridors of a cave ruins. and when the city was revealed, we all lost it, absolute chills. amazing work, devs! 🎉

Would love to see the Stalker and the Hollowed some day, even if only as a mod

The Stalker is such a cool name, and I love the fleshy design of The Hollowed, I wish they could've taken the 1 block idea from The Stalker and still kept The Hollowed design, or maybe given the Warden different variants.

I really like seeing these in development footages of things already in-game

I love the idea of the stalker being able to essentially crouch.

I love how there’s visible void textures in the hollowed’s design in the hands feet and chest. Give a whole new factor of lore they were trying to work in before the warden was finished 😍😄😄😍

So are we just gonna not notice that there's no april fools update?

Dang, I don't think a cow is harmless. Once, I was pushed off my mob grinder by my pet cow, bean.

"The Scariest Horror Mod" Trend right now. And Mojang release this. As a reality check!

My favorite idea of the lore behind what the warden is and where it came from was due to a KZfaqr known as Owenjuice and his role in a series based of the origins mod, he gave a sense of extremeness to the warden and the deep dark it was intriguing, the portal frame in the ancient city had been given a Horror induced meaning like no other.

Official confirmation... 1.19 is NOT Caves and Cliffs part 3, its _actually_ a Nether Update part 2 (because apparently the ideas for the Warden started with 1.16, as well as the Allay too).

I wish you could somehow befriend hostile mobs. I've been playing for over 10 years, and have always felt this way. There should be some Extremely Dangerous method of getting an item that can allow you to tame/befriend any hostile mobs. For example, the endermen... They're friend shaped :3 They always say "hey!" and ask you "what's up?" or "what's this", with a block in hand. They're so cute, at least to me!! And I think it would be nice to befriend them! Maybe they could help you with terraforming, you could, for example, mark an area to flatten in the plains and they'd help you pick up all the blocks! And whatever the item is that you get to befriend the hostile mobs, you would need like 10 of them to befriend the warden (assuming you could survive long enough to use the 10 items on them!!!) Maybe the warden could use sculk sensors to warn you that creepers or other hostile mobs are nearby! That way you can focus on your build without getting an explosive surprise from behind! And maybe... JUST maybe... You could work really hard and get enough taming items to tame the ender dragon. But not the first one, oh no. That one's untameable. You could use it on the dragon egg, tame and hatch it in the overworld. You'd still need the end crystals and the whole setup though!

5:58 Warden: THE VIDEO IS FINISHED! GET OUT!

The Stalker randomly attacking and bending to follow you into tunnels is TERRIFYING

yeaaaaaah i agree with you on not adding the hollowed that would scare the souls out of the 5 year olds who are casually mining dimonds

2:40 What is that again?🤨

4:27 Ah. The Taken Blight.

5:12 imagine the Warden being a villager from the ancient city that turned into the warden because of the sculk that infested the city which made everyone abandon it

1.22 should be a HUGE nature Update including the promised Birch, Savanna, Badlands and Desert Updates; the losers Moobloom, Crab and Penguin; Seasons; Athmosphere features; new biomes and mobs, the villager profession of Beekeeper and mob variants we see in the Spinoffs (Mossy Skeleton and Mossy/Icy Zombie, Cluckshroom/Moolip, Wooly Cow/Horned Sheep and cosmetic variants of farm animals)

5:57 why is nobody talking about this clean transition

I think the stalker would still be cool to see as it’s own thing, hopefully in a mod or add-on. I like that crawling animation.

Minecraft should really add more Deep Dark exclusive mobs. I already have three ideas based on the Sensor, Shrieker, and Catalyst: Sludger, the Guided Ears of the Warden. It would like to weep, but it has no eyes Appears as a sloppy pile of skulk, with a Sensor as a head. Chunks of deepslate may be visible. Passive Scuttler, the Rickety Ceiling Crawler of the Deep. It would like to listen, but it has no ears Appears as a skinny, long limbed entity with a Shrieker for a head, with an eye inside if instead of the two souls, taller than the player. Afraid of literally everything, so it hides on the ceilings. Passive Summoner, the Ordained High Ruler of the Skulk. It would like to scream, but it has no mouth Appears as an over-the-top Pope staff, forking into four ends at the top for the Catalyst to comfortably sit in. Oh so very very hostile 2:39 also the fine print, lol

I think Minecraft should add Copper Golems too, Because I think this is a "Copper Based Update". You know that in this update, Minecraft added alot more varieties of Copper blocks.

Brother, add the stalker, its concept is fascinating, a mod that can sneak around and even go through a block would be the best for Minecraft. That feeling of fear and feeling watched that previously existed in the game was beautifully indescribable, it seems to me that the stalker (the first warden design in Minecraft) is something that the game needs, a hostile mob that reminds us of the fear we felt before in the game something that makes us make a decision whether to enter or not enter that place, the lights turning off the sounds produced by whoever is chasing you, stalking you and passing through blocks where the player would not fit is simply beautiful something that would undoubtedly give a lot of To talk about the game, currently we have wanted a mob like this, please mojang listen to the community and give such a wonderful mob a chance.

Finally history reveal 0:17

Y’all should make the stalker mob too. Just a creepy mob that can spawn in any cave and just hunt you down. It can be connected to the warden or not, but it’s a cool idea

Will there be a special April 1st edition?

I've been spending a lot of time there. Also that original Warden looked insane. I have so much love for the horror aspects, even if they're softened up.

1:27 this looks like very similar… Were you inspired by Siren Head?

I love how before the warden exploring the caves was scary but nearly no singular mob would have us running out of it. Then the warden comes around and 90% of interactions are like "Dude... theres a warden here, we gotta go!"

I wish they also went into the depth about the actual history of the the warden, like why there was an underground city, what were the testing experiments, and how the warden came to be in the game rather than “here’s how we developed it into the game”

The combination of Deep Dark, Sculk, Ancient Cities, & the Warden... 🔥🔥🔥