Minecraft:Java Edition Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1

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Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1 is the first and only experimental snapshot for Minecraft:Java Edition 1.19, released on February 17, 2022,<ref>Template:Mcnet</ref> which adds features related to the Minecraft:deep dark. This version is a fork of 1.18.1. After the release of 1.18.2, the deep dark features previewed in this version gradually made their way into official snapshots between Minecraft:22w11a and Minecraft:22w13a. This is the first and only experimental snapshot released in 2022.

Additions

Blocks

File:Reinforced Deepslate JE1.png Minecraft:Reinforced deepslate

A new block only found in Minecraft:ancient cities shaped as a large frame.
Is completely blast-resistant, and takes an incredibly long amount of time to mine (82.5 seconds).
Can be broken, but won't drop anything, even with Minecraft:Silk Touch.
Can be moved with pistons.

File:Sculk JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Sculk

Generates in the deep dark biome.
Has an animated texture.
Drops only Minecraft:experience when broken without Minecraft:Silk Touch.
When Minecraft:wool blocks are placed on a sculk block, it lets nearby Minecraft:sculk sensors know, preventing that vibration from being occluded.
Sculk blocks grow when a Minecraft:mob dies near a Minecraft:sculk catalyst.

File:Sculk Catalyst Bloom JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Sculk catalyst

Generates in the deep dark biome.
Emits soul particles after a mob dies within 8 blocks, and grows sculk related blocks.
- Spreads sculk blocks to wherever a nearby mob dies. The amount it spreads depends on the amount of experience the mob is meant to drop.
  - Even if the mob doesn't drop experience as it wasn't killed by a player, the blocks still spread based on the amount of experience it normally drops.
  - The experience isn't dropped in these cases.
- The charge decays over time, faster the furthest away from the catalyst it moves.
  - If a charge decays more than 4 blocks away from the catalyst, it has a chance of creating either a Minecraft:sculk sensor (90%) or a Minecraft:sculk shrieker (10%).
  - If a charge decays more than 24 blocks away from the catalyst, it merely vanishes.
Drops only Minecraft:experience when broken without Minecraft:Silk Touch.
Emits a light level of 6.
File:Sculk Catalyst Bloom.gif Blooms when activated.
Can only spread sculk on blocks in the sculk_replaceable Minecraft:tag.

File:Sculk Shrieker JE1 BE2.gif Minecraft:Sculk shrieker

Generates in the deep dark biome.
Has two soul-shaped patterns in the center.
Has the ability to "shriek", emitting ring-like/sonic particles.
Is activated by a Minecraft:sculk sensor, Minecraft:redstone signal or player's stepping.
Gives players the Darkness effect when activated.
If activated three times, a warden is summoned from the ground.
- Minecraft:Sculk shriekers summon Minecraft:wardens only if there isn't one within 48 blocks.

File:Sculk Vein JE1 BE1.gif Minecraft:Sculk vein

Generates in the deep dark biome on the edge of Minecraft:sculk patches.
Generates in a layer on top of blocks and can be placed in all directions, like Minecraft:glow lichen.
Has an animated texture.
Some have parts that are transparent, allowing the player to see the block it is on top of.
Can be Minecraft:waterlogged.
Drops nothing when broken without Minecraft:Silk Touch.

Items

Minecraft:Spawn eggs

File:Warden Spawn Egg JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Warden spawn egg

Mobs

File:Warden.gif Minecraft:Warden

Spawns in the deep dark biome, specifically when too many Minecraft:sculk shriekers are activated.
- It is the only mob that spawns in the deep dark biome.
"Emerges" from the ground when spawned by Minecraft:sculk shriekers.
- Digs back into the ground when it doesn't sense any vibration after 60 seconds.
The first fully blind mob.
- Has a sense of smell. It can detect and pathfind toward the general location of a player or mob through a "smelling" action.
  - Prioritizes smelling the player or mob that it is most suspicious of, rather than the one closest to it.
- Has a sense of vibration. When sensing movement, it pathfinds toward the source of the movement.
  - It follows and attacks players, mobs, and other entities that make vibrations.
  - When it detects a vibration, the growths on its head rattle and light up, similar to the Minecraft:sculk sensor.
    - If any projectile (e.g. Minecraft:egg, Minecraft:snowball, Minecraft:arrow) lands near it, the warden inspects the location where the projectile landed, due to the projectile creating significant vibrations. This feature can be used in order to cause a distraction.
  - Does not detect players that are sneaking.
- Can detect players or mobs that have the Minecraft:Invisibility effect.
Becomes more suspicious of a player or mob as it detects its location more through vibrations and/or smelling. When it suspects the target enough, it identifies its exact location, which aggravates it, causing it to pathfind toward the target to attack regardless of outside distractions.
Has Template:Hp health points and does Template:Hp damage on Normal difficulty, bringing players wearing full netherite Minecraft:armor from full health to Template:Hp health points.
Wardens disable shields when they hit the players with their fists.
The warden doesn't qualify as a target for the advancement "Monster Hunter" and isn't needed to receive the advancement "Monsters Hunted" due to its role.
Warden's chest has a glowing core that appears to brighten and dim in tandem with the Darkness effect.
- The core creates a low throbbing or "heartbeat" sound as it pulses. The sound and animation speed up rapidly as the warden gets more suspicious of or closer to attacking a player or mob.
Is about 3.5 blocks tall, making it one of the tallest mobs in the game, exceeding the Minecraft:iron golem and Minecraft:enderman in height and width (the same).

World generation

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Generates within the deep dark biome and includes all of the deep dark features within it.
Made of Minecraft:deepslate and its variants, Minecraft:basalt and its variants, and Minecraft:gray wool.
Contains soul sand, soul fire and soul lanterns, as well as candles and skeleton skulls.
Contains chests with unique loot, like the Minecraft:Swift Sneak enchantment.
Has different levels and open spaces.

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New Minecraft:biome at the "deepest depths of the world".
Tends to generate under continental/mountainous areas, exclusively within the Minecraft:deepslate layer between Y=-1 and Y=-64.
Contains Minecraft:ancient cities.
The floor is covered in Minecraft:sculk and contains all Minecraft:sculk-related blocks.
Wardens can spawn there through the activation of Minecraft:sculk shriekers.
- With the exception of spawners, no mobs other than wardens can spawn there, similar to Minecraft:mushroom fields.

Command format

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Controls the spawning timers used by the warden: changing it to 3 summons a warden.
- Likely temporary/experimental due to success messages being bare translation strings.

Gameplay

Minecraft:Effects

File:Darkness JE1 BE1.png Minecraft:Darkness
- A status effect triggered by the Minecraft:sculk shrieker, causing the player's camera to dim in brightness, thus limiting the vision of players.
- Lowers the gamma down at an equivalent of “Moody” while having this effect.

Minecraft:Enchanting

Added the Minecraft:Swift Sneak enchantment.
- This enchantment can be found exclusively in chests in ancient cities.
  - Cannot be obtained by Minecraft:fishing, Minecraft:enchanting, or other loot chests, similar to Minecraft:Soul Speed.
- Has three levels.
- Can only be applied on Minecraft:boots.
  - Is incompatible with Minecraft:Soul Speed, Minecraft:Frost Walker, or Minecraft:Depth Strider.
- Allow the player to walk faster while sneaking, up to 75% of normal speed at level III.

General

Minecraft:Options

A new accessibility slider has been added in the options menu called “Darkness Effect”.
- It controls how dark the Darkness effect gets when a warden or Minecraft:sculk shrieker gives it to the player.

Particles

Added four new particles: shrieks, sculk_souls, sculk_charge_pops, and sculk_charge.
- shrieks has an extra parameter representing the delay in ticks before the particle appears.

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