When will Wild Update drop? 2021 is already over, and 2022 is here, and is there any news for the update? This article will discuss everything about the Wild Update, from its features to its release date. Minecraft is an open-world sandbox survival game. It was created by Markus “Notch” Persson in 2011. Minecraft has four different modes for the players. They are Creative, Survival, Hardcore, and Adventure mode. Minecraft lets the player explore a world where everything is blocky. Minecraft allows the players to extract and craft the materials obtained.
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What is Wild Update in Minecraft?
The upcoming major update of Minecraft is called Wild Update. It will come in both Bedrock and Java editions of the game. This update will bring many new contents for the beloved sandbox open-world survival game, Minecraft. Scroll down to find out all the new things coming in this update.
What Are The New Contents For The Wild Update?
The Wild Update is bringing in a huge amount of content for Minecraft, ranging from blocks to new biomes. We will discuss all the upcoming content coming with the update.
Let us start with none other than the new blocks arriving.
- Sculk – Sculk is a new animated, textured block that will drop experience when broken. It will only spawn in Deep Dark Biome and around the Sculk Catalyst.
- Sculk Shrieker – Sculk Shrieker is a new block that is very creepy, to be honest. It will also spawn in Deep Dark biomes and has the ability to shriek when its sculk sensor detects anything. It can summon the Warden if it is not present within 48 blocks.
- Sculk Catalyst- It is a new block that spawns in the same area as Sculk and has an appearance of Sculk on top and Bone like material from mid to bottom. Sculk Catalyst spreads sculk around a dead mob.
- Mangrove blocks – Mangroove is the new block, which will spawn in the Swamps from Mangrove trees. When a Mangrove tree breaks it will drop the Mangroove Log, which can craft Mangroove related blocks like Mangrove Planks.
- Mud – A new block coming to the Wild Update is Mud. It will spawn in the Swamps. When Mud block is crafted with the Sand and Wheat block, it will create a Mud Brick block.
The blocks are an important thing in Minecraft, but what makes it more fun is the mobs or the NPCs. We will now list all the new mob characters arriving in the Wild Update.
- Warden – A new mob character that will live in the Deep Dark biome. With a height of 3.5 blocks, Warden is the only mob that will live in the Deep Dark. When the Sculk Shrieker shrieks, the Warden will spawn from the ground. It is a fully blind character and can only search the players or mob from vibrations or Sculk Shrieker. When in contact with the sunlight, the Warden will burn and die. Dev has said that this mob will be a difficult opponent during the fight, and the players must avoid it.
- Allay – A new support mob character for the player. It will find and carry the dropped blocks and items in a chunk or a stack.
- Fireflies – Fireflies glow in dark places. They are the shortest mob at two pixels long and are 2d characters.
- Frog – The frog will come in three different colors Orange, Green, and Gray. They grow from the tadpoles. They jump on the lily pad and big dripleaves and can swim. A frog will drop slime balls and froglights when it eats slimes and small magma cubes.
Will the update bring in any new biomes for Minecraft? The good news is yes. The wild update will bring not one, not two, but four new biomes for Minecraft. Scroll down to find out what are the new biomes.
- Swamps – With the Wild Update, Swamps are completely overhauled. It will now contain Mangrove Trees, muds, frogs, and fireflies.
- Mangrove Swamps – A swamp that will only contain and spawn Mangrove trees in it.
- Deep Dark – It will be the rarest biome in Minecraft. Developers describe this biome as the “deepest depth of the world.” It may or may not contain waters or lava. Deep Dark will contain ancient cities which will contain soul sand and fire, chest with unique and distinct loots, has different levels and open spaces. Wardens are the only mobs that infest Deep Dark. All the Sculk-related things spawn in Deep Dark.
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When Will Minecraft Wild Update Release?
After scrolling down and reading all the new things coming with the Wild update, the next question is obvious when will it release? Will the date not come any closer? The Wild Update will come to Minecraft as Java Edition 1.19 and Bedrock Edition 1.19.0.
Currently, there is no set release date for the update. Mojang and Microsoft are silent about the release date of the update. 2022 is the year when the update will drop, and it is confirmed. Expect the developers to drop any news for the release date of Wild Update any day now.
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