The Best Way To Kill The Warden In Minecraft

Added in minecraft 1.19 the warden is a terrifying creature found in the deep dark dimension that is spawned after setting off four sculpt shriekers at 500 health it has almost twice the health of a wither in java at least and on hard mode by dealing 22 and a half hearts of

Shield disabling melee damage and seven and a half hearts of armor ignoring range damage is the hardest hitting mob in the game even with all this it only drops a skull catalyst upon death making the risk reward for engaging a warden pretty unenticing despite not being designed as

A mob to be sought out and killed since when has that ever stopped anyone from seeking out a challenge so what’s the best way to kill the warden let’s go through some options and figure it out let’s establish a baseline here start off by keeping it simple and attack the

Warden head-on with the best gear in the game protection for netherright with a sharpness 5 netherright sword surely we’ll stand a chance right we can block right oh no he’s disabled our shield and i’m not gonna last much longer okay so head-on’s not the play now if you’re unfamiliar with the warden

Your next thought would be okay well let’s just trap him in a box and then we can take swings at his feet and do damage that way but of course even though we’re dealing a lot of damage with our sharpness five sword here before we’re able to deal enough

And actually get him taken out he’s gonna switch to the sonic boom attack which is gonna then start ignoring our armor and we’re in normal mode so it’s not dealing the most it could but one more hit from that and i’m dead again before i can deal enough damage with the

Sharpness five swords so probably not the best strategy either logically the next thought would be okay maybe we shouldn’t attack directly let’s instead let lava do the heavy lifting so let’s lure the warden into this pool of lava here and unfortunately the warden doesn’t take damage from lava which i think some

People might not actually have realized and that presents more of an issue because you know normally even if you were having trouble with something you could at least lure it into lava and the lava would get rid of it for you and you can’t do that with the warden it’s it’s really unfortunate

And with that it leads us to our next area which i think is the best way to kill the warden and when i say best i mean it’s reliable and it’s repeatable and it’s simple it’s not very glamorous but it works so first things first you just want to dig a

Little hole it can be as small as two blocks wide and then you gotta add some trapdoors so the ai thinks it’s walking over a block and falls into the hole next you will need a bow and some arrows obviously if you have a power five bow

That’s great but if you’re trying to do this really early just trying to beat the warden as quickly as possible this is what you can easily stock up with if you just do some trades at a village with a fletcher and so again we’re going for something that can be done quickly

Early game easily reliably so let’s go over here and we’ll spawn the warden and then hop on across loreman and then what we’re gonna need to do let’s back away a little bit let’s just get him in there all right great so he’s stuck in there he’s going to switch over

To sonic boom but sonic boom’s attack range is actually only 15 blocks so if we stand behind the line of diamonds here that’s out of range of sonic boom but you’re still annoyingly going to have the darkness effects and that’s going to keep reapplying even so while

You’re within the 15 blocks you’ll see it counts down and then it re-ups to 12 seconds so you actually need to back away a little bit more to 19 blocks and then as you’ll notice the darkness effect it’ll actually start counting all the way down and it’s not going to be

Reapplied by the warden of course you can go into your settings and you can reduce how significant the darkness effect is in accessibility but if you’re playing with it in full effect you’re gonna need to come back down to 19 blocks away this gives you a free shot

At the word and you’re out of range of sonic boom and you don’t have the darkness so you can aim and then you just keep shooting and it takes about a stack of arrows but it gets the job done and that was 62 arrows because i missed one of the shots so

Not fast not glamorous a lot better if you did have power five but again all it requires is a few emeralds from trading sticks with a fletcher get yourself some arrows get yourself a bow real quick and fortunately because in an ancient city there aren’t other mobs

Spawning around you don’t have to worry about getting snuck up on as long as you’re not setting off any other shriekers while you’re doing this you should be in the clear so lure it over to an edge or something like that of course if you want to live

Dangerously and save yourself a few seconds and a few arrows you can always try to do a few pot shots with a sword before the warden switches over to its sonic boom attack it’s being very generous here and then okay hits us with the sonic boom we back

Off and then we repeat the process it can immediately switch to a sonic boom as soon as it falls in the hole or in that case i think that’s the longest i’ve seen it take you might be able to lay a few shots in of course

It might not have a full on sharp five netherright sword but if you do then you can lay a lot of damage in and you’ll be great and that time we saved ourselves quite a few about 30 arrows or so by being able to lay in those crit hits at

First which uh again if you have a sharpness 5 netherrite sword on you you probably also have a power 5 bow so it would take significantly less and you’d be able to tackle the whole thing pretty quickly so i think this is the the most easy

To set up reliable way to fight a ward and therefore i think it’s the best way to approach it where you’re the least likely to die that said there’s a couple other things over here to look at so you want to know a fun fact actually that’s bedrock bottom of the world

That up there is uh max build height top of the world did you know that if you have a warden all the way at the top of the world and you drop it all the way to the bottom it will survive that’s pretty fun right so

You can’t actually drop a warden to its death unless you use drip stone and have a little spike platform if you do that you can actually do a 255 block drop right here put some drip stone sticking up and then it’ll actually be a different story

So if you can manage to do this reliably and get a warden to be 255 blocks up from a drip stone platform then you can actually do an automated way of killing the warden um unfortunately ancient cities they’re they’re pretty deep underground so getting a warden to follow you up that

High and then dropping it off well that’s gonna be a fun thing that you’re gonna have to figure out yourself i guess but this does work thank you drip stone it hurts a lot very spiky ouch but also i kind of want to do it again because

It’s actually kind of awesome and away we go sorry i’m taking pleasure in your pain bud i know we’re not really supposed to be seeking out ways to kill you it’s not really your design but it’s just you know again it’s a challenge so 255 blocks

There you have it fun time finally there is one more automated trap option for us and it’s probably easier to set up than the fall damage one because you could build this in an ancient city and not have to worry about luring the warden 255 blocks up so let’s give this one a

Try and see how well it works for us come here buddy let’s go for a little uh run oh we got him boys all right suffocation surely this won’t take a super long time to work out let’s watch how long it takes to go through 500 hearts with suffocation oh

I guess he got bored and decided to leave that’s understandable actually i would do the same if i was just suffocating i’d be like okay i’m out so just kidding suffocation not turns out not really an option but hey this was a cool contraption and you’d have a great time building it

In the ancient city right there you have it a little overview of some options on how to tend to the warden and again what i think is the best way to kill the warden even though it’s not glamorous it works it’s reliable and you’re able to do it fairly early on in

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