Dungeons:Ancient Guardian
The Ancient Guardian is a guardian boss in Minecraft Dungeons. It can be found in the Abyssal Monument mission and in The Tower. It is the sole boss of the Hidden Depths DLC.
| Health points |
13000 |
|---|---|
| Behavior |
Hostile |
| Classification | |
| Attack strength |
Melee Attack: 200 |
| Spawn |
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"label": "Health points"
},
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"label": "Behavior"
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"label": "Classification"
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"field": "Melee Attack: 200<br/>Aoe Ram Damage: 200<br/>Aoe Spike Damage: 160<br/>Beam Damage: 150",
"label": "Attack strength"
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"label": "Spawn"
}
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"Ancient Guardian.png"
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}
Lore
The ancient guardian, as its name implies, is the oldest guardian of the ocean monument. After the shattering of the Orb of Dominance, one of its shards landed within the hidden depths, corrupting the ancient guardian.
With its newfound power, the ancient guardian was emboldened and empowered, turning from a brilliant white to a corrosive purple. The shard of the Orb of Dominance attempted to use it to spread its corruption, but it was bested by heroes journeying the ocean's depths.
Spawning
In the Abyssal Monument, the ancient guardian has a unique spawning cinematic where it breaks through a wall in the structure.
Behavior
When the hero reaches the arena, the ancient guardian enters by bursting through a wall. After taking notable damage, it can swim away from the arena to avoid further damage. In addition, it has five attacks:
Spike attack
The ancient guardian can attack nearby heroes or summons by piercing them with its spikes, which creates a high-damage shockwave.
Spike protection
The ancient guardian sometimes pops out its spikes as a means of defense. Attacking it with a melee weapon results in the attacker taking some damage back in a similar manner to the Thorns enchantment.
Laser attack
The ancient guardian is capable of firing a yellow beam at its target, which behaves the same way as its weaker counter parts but deals more damage. After doing this attack, the ancient guardian retracts its spikes, and can be attacked without suffering thorns damage.
Summon minions
The ancient guardian can summon guardians to assist itself during battle. It usually summons about three guardians near a hero, but this attack sometimes spawns an elder guardian instead. It cannot spawn elder guardians if there already is one alive.
Summon biomines
The ancient guardian spawns 3-5 biomines that explode shortly afterward, although it cancels this attack after becoming sufficiently damaged. When the biomines explode, they leave behind a temporary poison cloud that deals continuous damage to nearby heroes or summons.
Biomine
| Behavior |
Hostile |
|---|---|
| Attack strength |
35 |
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"invimages": [],
"images": [
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A biomine is a type of guardian-shaped mob that the ancient guardian summons every so often when coming back into the arena.
Behavior
When summoned, biomines explode shortly afterward, though it cancels this attack after becoming sufficiently damaged. When the biomines explode, they leave behind a temporary poison cloud that deals continuous damage to nearby heroes or summons.
Fake ancient guardian
| Health points |
1 |
|---|---|
| Classification |
Aquatic |
| Spawn |
Summoned by the Ancient Guardian |
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"field": "Summoned by the Ancient Guardian",
"label": "Spawn"
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"invimages": [],
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}
A fake ancient guardian is the version of the boss that is seen before the boss fight.
Spawning
Behavior
Attacking the fake ancient guardian eventually results in it disappearing and dropping an item from the Abyssal Monument loot table.
Drops
Sounds
Music
| Sounds | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sound | Description | Resource location |
| Ancient Guardian theme loop | D5_bgm_mob_abmoBossLoop-001 | |
| Ancient Guardian theme end | D5_bgm_mob_abmoBossEnd-001 | |
Ancient guardian
| Sounds | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sound | Description | Resource location |
| Wall intro | ? | |
| Shadow | ? | |
| Death | ? | |
| Hurt | ? | |
| Idle | ? | |
| Laser activate | ? | |
| Laser charge | ? | |
| Laser loop | ? | |
| Show spikes | ? | |
| Spike attack | ? | |
| Spawn mines | ? | |
| Spawn mines (animation) | ? | |
| Mine trigger | ? | |
| Mine disarm | ? | |
| Stun | ? | |
| Summon guardians | ? | |
| Oceans Arena boss sound | ? | |
| Oceans Arena splash | ? | |
| Oceans Arena laser bubbles | ? | |
| Swim | ? | |
History
| Minecraft Dungeons | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2021 | In a Twitter post, the developers referred to the ancient guardian as being the “corrupted master” of the other guardians and elder guardians...[1] | ||||||
| 1.9.1.0 | Added the ancient guardian, the fake ancient guardian, and biomines. | ||||||
Issues
Issues for Minecraft Dungeons relating to "Ancient Guardian" are no longer maintained on the bug tracker since September 28, 2023.
Gallery
Textures
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The ancient guardian's in-game texture file. -
The ancient guardian's in-game shadow texture file.
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The texture file of the biomine. -
The shadow texture file of the biomine.
Screenshots
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The ancient guardian's boss fight intro cutscene. -
The ancient guardian seen in its arena in the Abyssal Monument.
Development images
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A render of the ancient guardian.
Concept artwork
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4th sketch of the ancient guardian. -
Concept art of the ancient guardian.
