Bedrock Edition guides/The Wild Update

For the Java Edition version of this guide, see Java Edition guides/The Wild Update.
The Wild Update
Edition

Bedrock Edition

Official name

The Wild Update

Version(s)

This guide is a simplified overview of all changes in The Wild Update update (Bedrock Edition 1.19.x releases), which assumes at least some familiarity with the Caves & Cliffs updates (Bedrock Edition 1.17.x and Bedrock Edition 1.18.x releases).

Mobs

New

Name Image Habitat Drops Note
Warden Summoned when a player triggers a natural sculk shrieker four times.
  • The first fully-blind mob. In order to find a target, it relies on vibrations, smell, and contact.
  • Rises out of the floor when summoned. Digs back into the ground when it reverts back to a calm state and doesn't detect a vibration in 60 seconds.
  • Has the highest health out of all mobs in Java Edition.
  • Is immune to fire, lava, and knockback.
  • A warden starts out searching for a target, slowly getting more agitated as it gets more suspicious of a mob. When agitated, it roars and then pursues the target.
  • A warden instantly becomes agitated when hit by another mob.
  • Wardens possess an extremely powerful melee attack, which can also disable shields.
  • Targets that are still being pursued, but are out-of-reach for its melee attack, will be hit with a ranged sonic boom attack, which bypasses shields and armor.
Frog Swamp and mangrove swamp
  • Spawns when a tadpole grows up.
  • Frogs have three color variations, each depending on the temperature of the biome it spawns in. Temperate biomes spawn orange frogs, cold biomes spawn green frogs, and warm biomes spawn white frogs.
  • Eats tiny slimes to produce slime balls.
  • Eats tiny magma cubes to produce froglights. The type of frog influences the froglight's color.
Tadpole None None
  • Spawns when hatching from frogspawn.
  • Grows up into a frog.
  • Possesses the traits of a fish mob, like requiring water, being able to be placed in a water bucket, and flopping around outside of water.
Allay None
  • Flies around and follows the player.
  • Looks for dropped items of the same kind as the item given to it by the player. After a while, it brings those items to the player.
  • When a note block is played nearby, the allay will leave the items on top of the note block instead.

Changed

Name Image Changed
Fish Now have less health from 6HP♥♥♥ to 3HP♥♥ to match Java Edition.
Endermen, skeleton and
wither skeleton


Now spawn from light level 0 to 11 in the Nether, which is wider range than before.
Goat
  • Now can drop 2 horns each.
    • The number of horns left to drop is represented on the model.
Parrot Can now imitate wardens.
Spider and
cave spider

Fixed texture mapping of both types of spiders.
Wandering trader
Trader llama Are now separate from normal llamas.
Vex Changed its model and textures.
Ender dragon Can no longer destroy crying obsidians, respawn anchors, light blocks, deny blocks, allow blocks, borders, and jigsaw blocks.
Ravager
Villager While playing tag, baby villagers will now run at a quicker speed that matches Java Edition.

Blocks

New

Name Image Obtaining Tool Required Uses
Reinforced deepslate Generates as part of the frame structure in the ancient city. None (does not drop) Used for decoration.
Sculk
  • Generates in the deep dark.
  • Can be found in ancient city chests.
  • Can be created by a sculk catalyst.
Hoe (requires Silk Touch) Drops experience when mined without Silk Touch.
Sculk catalyst
  • Generates in the deep dark.
  • Can be found in ancient city chests.
  • Dropped by wardens.
Hoe (requires Silk Touch)
  • When a mob dies nearby, the catalyst blooms and sends out a bubbling charge, which spreads a patch of sculk and sculk veins whenever it goes over surface blocks like stone, grass blocks, and netherrack.
  • Bubbling charges only spread sculk veins on other non-surface blocks.
  • Bubbling charges have a chance to create sculk sensors and sculk shriekers when moving on top of sculk.
  • The amount of sculk it spreads depends on how much experience the mob would have dropped.
Sculk shrieker
  • Generates in the deep dark.
  • Can be created by a sculk catalyst.
Hoe (requires Silk Touch)
  • Shrieks as a response to a player setting off sculk sensors nearby, stepping on itself, or when receiving a redstone signal.
  • A natural sculk shrieker can inflict the darkness effect.
  • Each shriek acts as a warning. The warden is summoned on the fourth shriek.
  • Each warning level gets cleared out if the player has not set off a shrieker within 10 minutes.
  • Dying completely clears out warning levels.
  • A sculk shrieker placed by a player or catalyst cannot inflict darkness or summon wardens.
Sculk vein
  • Generates in the deep dark.
  • Can be created by a sculk catalyst.
Hoe (requires Silk Touch)
  • Used for decoration.
  • Can be placed on all six sides of a block, much like glow lichen.
Froglight
  • Produced when a frog eats a tiny magma cube.
  • Warm frogs produce pearlescent froglights.
  • Cold frogs produce verdant froglights.
  • Temperate frogs produce ochre froglights.
Any Emits a light level of 15.
Mangrove log Found naturally at mangrove trees Axe Can be crafted into planks of the corresponding wood type.
Mangrove planks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Log
Axe Functions the same as every other plank type.
Mangrove stairs and slabs
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Planks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Planks
Axe Used for decoration.
Mangrove leaves Found naturally at mangrove trees Shears, hoe, sword Propagules can grow under mangrove leaves when generated as part of a tree, or when bone meal is used on the underside of the block.
Mangrove propagule Drops from grown propagules Any
Mangrove wood
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Log
Axe
  • Can be used as a decorative block.
  • Can be crafted into mangrove planks.
Stripped mangrove log Can be obtained by right clicking any log with any tier of axe, this consumes one durability on the axe. Axe
  • Can be used as a decorative block.
  • Can be crafted into mangrove planks.
Stripped mangrove wood Can be obtained by right clicking any wood with any tier of axe, this consumes one durability on the axe. Axe
  • Can be used as a decorative block.
  • Can be crafted into mangrove planks.
Mangrove trapdoor
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Planks
Axe Can be opened and closed.
Mangrove pressure plate
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Planks
Invicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove PlanksInvicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove Planks
Invicon Mangrove Pressure Plate.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Pressure Plate in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Pressure Plate with description: Mangrove Pressure Plate
Axe Produces a redstone signal when stepped on.
Mangrove button
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Planks
Invicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove Planks
Invicon Mangrove Button.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Button in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Button with description: Mangrove Button
Axe Produces a redstone signal when pressed.
Mangrove fence
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Planks +
Stick
Axe Acts like a barrier for mobs and players.
Mangrove fence gate
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Stick +
Mangrove Planks
Invicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: StickInvicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove PlanksInvicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: StickInvicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: StickInvicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove PlanksInvicon Stick.png: Inventory sprite for Stick in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Stick with description: Stick
Invicon Mangrove Fence Gate.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Fence Gate in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Fence Gate with description: Mangrove Fence Gate

Axe

  • Acts like a barrier for mobs and players.
  • Can be opened and closed.
Mangrove door
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Planks
Axe Can be opened and closed.
Mangrove sign
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Planks +
Stick
Axe
  • Displays custom text.
  • Text color can be changed with dyes, or brightened with glow ink sacs.
Mangrove roots Found naturally at mangrove trees Axe
  • The only transparent block that can transmit redstone signals.
  • Can be waterlogged.
Mud
  • By using a water bottle on dirt, coarse dirt, or rooted dirt.
  • Found naturally in mangrove swamps.
Shovel
  • Mobs that walk on top of mud sink slightly.
  • Can be crafted into packed mud.
  • Mud can be converted into clay when positioned above a block that has pointed dripstone underneath.
Muddy mangrove roots Generates underneath mangrove trees that grow on mud.
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mud +
Mangrove Roots
Invicon Mud.png: Inventory sprite for Mud in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mud with description: MudInvicon Mangrove Roots.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Roots in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Roots with description: Mangrove Roots
Invicon Muddy Mangrove Roots.png: Inventory sprite for Muddy Mangrove Roots in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Muddy Mangrove Roots with description: Muddy Mangrove Roots
Shovel Used for decoration.
Packed mud
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mud +
Wheat
Invicon Mud.png: Inventory sprite for Mud in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mud with description: MudInvicon Wheat.png: Inventory sprite for Wheat in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Wheat with description: Wheat
Invicon Packed Mud.png: Inventory sprite for Packed Mud in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Packed Mud with description: Packed Mud
Pickaxe Can be crafted into mud bricks.
Mud bricks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Packed Mud
Pickaxe Used for decoration.
Mud brick stairs and slabs
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mud Bricks
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mud Bricks
Pickaxe Used for decoration.
Mud brick wall
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mud Bricks
Pickaxe Acts like a barrier for mobs and players.

Changed

Name Image Changed
Sculk sensor
  • Now available outside experimental gameplay.
  • Now generates in the deep dark.
  • Can now be created by a sculk catalyst.
  • Now activates when stepped on.
  • Mining a sculk sensor without Silk Touch now drops experience.
Monster spawner Now drop XP only when destroyed by a pickaxe.
Sweet berries Can now be placed on the top of mud, muddy mangrove roots, and rooted dirt.
Bell Can no longer catch on fire or be destroyed by fire.
Scaffolding When used as fuel for furnaces, they now burn equally as long as a bamboo does.
Hopper Hoppers can now collect items through all blocks that have a lower height than a full block.
Vines Now drop nothing when mined with silk touch enchanted tools except shears.
Brewing stand Slightly changed its texture, to make their arms connect to their bases.
End portal frame Slightly changed its texture, to make better transition with the end stone texture.
End rod Removed unused pixels in its texture.
Mycelium Slightly changed its side texture, to match other dirt-based blocks.
Campfire Campfires no longer set players and mobs on fire.
Dispenser
  • Dispensers can now equip saddles and horse armors to tamed horses.
  • Dispensers can now equip saddles and chests to tamed mules and donkeys.
  • Dispensers can now equip carpets and chests to tamed llamas.
  • Dispensers can now equip saddles to pigs and striders.
  • Shears in a dispenser will now only shear one sheep at a time.
  • Shears in a dispenser will now shear snow golems and mooshrooms.

Items

New

Name Image Obtaining Uses
Spawn eggs for all new mobs. Obtained from the creative inventory. Spawns the respective mob.
Spawn eggs for iron golem, snow golem, wither, ender dragon and trader llama. Obtained from the creative inventory. Spawns the respective mob.
Swift Sneak enchanted book Can be found in ancient city chests.
  • Applied to leggings.
  • Increases sneaking speed.
Bucket of tadpole Obtained by using a water bucket on a tadpole. Can be used to spawn a tadpole.
Echo shard Can be found in ancient city chests. Can be crafted into a recovery compass.
Recovery compass
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Echo Shard +
Compass
Invicon Echo Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Echo Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Echo Shard with description:Invicon Echo Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Echo Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Echo Shard with description:Invicon Echo Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Echo Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Echo Shard with description:Invicon Echo Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Echo Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Echo Shard with description:Invicon Compass.png: Inventory sprite for Compass in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Compass with description: CompassInvicon Echo Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Echo Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Echo Shard with description:Invicon Echo Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Echo Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Echo Shard with description:Invicon Echo Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Echo Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Echo Shard with description:Invicon Echo Shard.png: Inventory sprite for Echo Shard in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Echo Shard with description:
Invicon Recovery Compass.png: Inventory sprite for Recovery Compass in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Recovery Compass with description:
  • Points to your last death point.
  • Spins randomly if the player has not died yet or is in a different dimension to the death point.
Music disc ("5")
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Disc Fragment 5
Invicon Disc Fragment 5.png: Inventory sprite for Disc Fragment 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Disc Fragment 5 with description: Disc Fragment Music Disc - 5Invicon Disc Fragment 5.png: Inventory sprite for Disc Fragment 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Disc Fragment 5 with description: Disc Fragment Music Disc - 5Invicon Disc Fragment 5.png: Inventory sprite for Disc Fragment 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Disc Fragment 5 with description: Disc Fragment Music Disc - 5Invicon Disc Fragment 5.png: Inventory sprite for Disc Fragment 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Disc Fragment 5 with description: Disc Fragment Music Disc - 5Invicon Disc Fragment 5.png: Inventory sprite for Disc Fragment 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Disc Fragment 5 with description: Disc Fragment Music Disc - 5Invicon Disc Fragment 5.png: Inventory sprite for Disc Fragment 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Disc Fragment 5 with description: Disc Fragment Music Disc - 5Invicon Disc Fragment 5.png: Inventory sprite for Disc Fragment 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Disc Fragment 5 with description: Disc Fragment Music Disc - 5Invicon Disc Fragment 5.png: Inventory sprite for Disc Fragment 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Disc Fragment 5 with description: Disc Fragment Music Disc - 5Invicon Disc Fragment 5.png: Inventory sprite for Disc Fragment 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Disc Fragment 5 with description: Disc Fragment Music Disc - 5
Invicon Music Disc 5.png: Inventory sprite for Music Disc 5 in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Music Disc 5 with description: Music Disc Samuel Åberg - 5
Plays the track "Five" from the The Wild Update soundtrack.
Disc fragment Can be found in ancient city chests. Can be crafted into music disc "5".
Goat horn
  • Drops when a goat charges at blocks typically found in biomes it spawns in.
  • Ponder, Sing, Seek, and Feel horns are dropped by regular goats; in addition, they are found in pillager outpost chests.
  • Admire, Call, Yearn, and Dream horns are dropped by screaming goats.
  • Emits a loud noise when used.
  • Each horn variant creates a different sound.

Changed

Name Image Changed
Boat
  • Changed item textures of all previously existing boats.
    • The paddles represent their respective wood color and their inside rims of the boats are darker, to matchBedrock Edition
Pufferfish Decreased its poison level from IV to II.
Polar bear spawn egg Changed the colors, to distinguish it from the ghast spawn egg.
Map Mangrove, bamboo, and polished blackstone buttons are no longer visible.
Potion Potions no longer have an enchantment glint due to it obscuring the color of the potion contents.

Structures

New

Name Image Generates Chests Mobs Description
Ancient city Deep Dark. Yes (multiple) Warden (when summoned from sculk shriekers)
  • An extensive, sculk-infested dungeon comprised of ruins of deepslate, wool, and dark oak.
  • All ancient cities have a large frame structure in the middle - the only place where the reinforced deepslate block generates.
  • Its chests may contain unique loot not found anywhere else, including a new enchantment, a new material, and music disc fragments.
  • No mobs may spawn in this structure besides wardens, even if parts of it are outside of the deep dark's borders.
Mangrove tree No No A tree made of mangrove leaves, roots, logs, vines, and moss carpets.

Non-Mob Entities

New

Name Image Creation Drops Note
Mangrove boat
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Mangrove Planks
Invicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove PlanksInvicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove PlanksInvicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove PlanksInvicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove PlanksInvicon Mangrove Planks.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Planks in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Planks with description: Mangrove Planks
Invicon Mangrove Boat.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Boat in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Boat with description: Mangrove Boat
None Can be used to cross water.
Boat with chest
Ingredients Crafting recipe
Chest +
Oak Boat or
Spruce Boat or
Birch Boat or
Jungle Boat or
Acacia Boat or
Dark Oak Boat or
Mangrove Boat
Invicon Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Chest with description: ChestInvicon Oak Boat.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Boat in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Boat with description: Oak BoatInvicon Spruce Boat.png: Inventory sprite for Spruce Boat in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Spruce Boat with description: Spruce BoatInvicon Birch Boat.png: Inventory sprite for Birch Boat in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Birch Boat with description: Birch BoatInvicon Jungle Boat.png: Inventory sprite for Jungle Boat in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Jungle Boat with description: Jungle BoatInvicon Acacia Boat.png: Inventory sprite for Acacia Boat in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Acacia Boat with description: Acacia BoatInvicon Dark Oak Boat.png: Inventory sprite for Dark Oak Boat in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Dark Oak Boat with description: Dark Oak BoatInvicon Mangrove Boat.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Boat in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Boat with description: Mangrove Boat
Invicon Oak Boat with Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Oak Boat with Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Oak Boat with Chest with description: Oak Boat with ChestInvicon Spruce Boat with Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Spruce Boat with Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Spruce Boat with Chest with description: Spruce Boat with ChestInvicon Birch Boat with Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Birch Boat with Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Birch Boat with Chest with description: Birch Boat with ChestInvicon Jungle Boat with Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Jungle Boat with Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Jungle Boat with Chest with description: Jungle Boat with ChestInvicon Acacia Boat with Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Acacia Boat with Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Acacia Boat with Chest with description: Acacia Boat with ChestInvicon Dark Oak Boat with Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Dark Oak Boat with Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Dark Oak Boat with Chest with description: Dark Oak Boat with ChestInvicon Mangrove Boat with Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Mangrove Boat with Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Mangrove Boat with Chest with description: Mangrove Boat with Chest
None Can be used to transport items over water.

Changed

Name Image Changed
End crystal
  • Increased end crystal collision box size to match Java Edition.
  • End crystals with obsidian or bedrock below them now will not damage blocks below them when they explode.

Biomes

New

Name Image Description Structures
Deep dark
  • A cave biome that generates in the deepest depths of the world, covered almost entirely by sculk.
  • The deep dark is oriented to generate underneath mountainous regions, typically those covered by peak biomes like stony peaks and badlands.
  • No mobs can spawn in this biome besides wardens.
Mangrove swamp
  • A densely-forested variant of the swamp, housing a lot of mangrove trees.
  • Mangrove swamps are oriented to generate along the borders of warm biomes such as jungles and deserts.
  • The ground of the mangrove swamp is composed of grass blocks and mud.
Mangrove trees

Gameplay

Changed

Name Changed
Crafting Recipes can now refer to a tag instead of an item.
Options Profile settings has been split into two new sections: General and Account.
Sound Updated unique wood type sounds are now played by default without experimental toggle on.
Vibration Vibration listeners such as sculk sensors, sculk shriekers, and wardens now listen to the closest vibration instead of the first vibration in the tick.

Effects

New

Name Image Causes Description
Darkness Wardens and sculk shriekers Dims the player's vision by darkening the screen and pulling in black fog.

Enchantments

New

Enchantment Max Level Applicable Items Notes
Swift Sneak III Increases sneaking speed.

Achievements

IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS)
PS4Other
Birthday SongHave an Allay drop a cake at a noteblockTame an allay by giving it a cake while having dropped cake items and play a note block nearby.10Bronze
It SpreadsKill a mob next to a catalyst10Bronze
Sneak 100Sneak next to a Sculk Sensor without triggering itSneak next to a Sculk Sensor or Warden without triggering or aggravating it.10Bronze
With Our Powers Combined!Have all 3 froglights in your inventoryAcquire at least one of each pearlescent, verdant, and ochre froglights in your inventory at the same time.30Gold

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