Mobs are one of the most intriguing things about Minecraft that make the game more interactive and fun to explore. Some of them are quite scary, and the warden is at the top of this list.
It is a hostile mob that was first introduced during Minecraft Live 2020. A while after it was announced, it was added to a Java snapshot for version 1.19.
Minecraft 1.19: The Wild Update came with not only a new mob but also a huge underground structure that could be found in the Overworld. This is where players would often come into contact with the warden.
Finding and preventing the warden from despawning in Minecraft
The warden is a ferocious hostile mob with a lot of HP and attack damage per hit. It was designed to be an almost unkillable character with which players would avoid fighting. It has 250 hearts of health, 50 more than even the infamous Ender Dragon.
Ideally, players would want to stay as far away from it as possible, as even though the warden cannot see, it can still detect vibrations from the player.
Preventing a warden from despawning
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<p>Luckily, this can be prevented quite easily. All players need to do is give the warden a name using a <a href=)
name tag. This item can’t be crafted and can be acquired by either trading with master-level librarians or from the loot chests of dungeons, mineshafts, ancient cities, and woodland mansions.
Finding a warden
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<p>As the warden is spawned by only a naturally generated sculk shrieker, the only place where players can summon a warden is the <a href=)
deep dark cave biome. Players will have to dig a lot to find this cave biome as it only generates very low Y levels.
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<p>To use the name tag, players need to place it on an <a href=)
anvil and write a name. Players need to sneak up to the warden and then use the tag on it by pressing the use button.
Sneaking up and using it on the warden is the hardest part, if the player makes even the slightest sound, the mob will start attacking them instantly.
If there are no librarians to trade with, the second best source of name tags is mineshaft. This is because they have a 42.3% chance of having a name tag in their loot chests in both Java and Bedrock Edition.
