Let me tell you a little story about hubris. Well, not so much a story as a lament. Because some of you have been thinking that the warden was a little too easy. I won’t name names, but I know you’re out there. Why else would we be adding ranged attacks for this already terrifying mob? Was the sniffing not enough? When will it end? Not today, apparently. 

Enjoy a new terrifying warden along with more advancements and technical changes.

New Features in 22w15a

• Added advancement “When the Squad Hops into Town” for getting each Frog variant on a Lead
• Added advancement “Sneak 100” for sneaking near a Sculk Sensor or Warden to prevent it hearing you
• Added a new ranged attack to the Warden

Warden Ranged Attack

• Building up high, hiding behind walls or being out of range of their powerful melee attack will cause Wardens to switch to their ranged attack
  • Their rib cages will open up to shriek a sonically charged ranged attack that can penetrate walls

Changes in 22w15a

• Added Darkness effect to “How Did We Get Here?” advancement
• Allays have a natural health regen of 2 health per second
• The main menu background now shows a Wild Update panorama
• Mud generates all the way from the surface down to stone in Mangrove Swamps
• Tall Mangroves are far more common than Short Mangroves in Mangrove Swamps
• Moss Carpet generates on top of Mangrove Tree’s roots
• The Wandering Trader will now sometimes offer Propagules for sale
• A previous change to Noteblocks that only Wool and Wool Carpets would block the sounds has been reverted
• Wardens can now sniff you from further away
• The vertical range Wardens get angry at a target while sniffing is now 20 blocks instead of 6 blocks

Changes to vibrations

• Carpets, like Wool blocks, will now dampen the vibrations caused by their placing, breaking or dropping as items
• Carpets now also dampen the vibrations caused by running and jumping over them

Technical Changes in 22w15a

• Removed item_delivered_to_player advancement trigger
• Added thrown_item_picked_up_by_player advancement trigger
• Added avoid_vibration advancement trigger
• Added sonic_explosion particle

Advancements

New triggers

thrown_item_picked_up_by_player

• Triggered when a player picks up an item that was thrown by an entity
• Conditions:
  • player - a predicate for the player picking up the item
  • entity - a predicate for the entity that threw the item
  • item - a predicate for the item

avoid_vibration

• Triggered when a vibration event is ignored because the source player is holding the sneak key
• Conditions:
  • player - a player for which this trigger runs

Game Events

• Renamed game event tag ignore_vibrations_on_occluding_block to dampenable_vibrations
• Added block tag dampens_vibrations to indicate blocks which will not trigger vibrations when placed, broken or stepped on
• Renamed item tag occludes_vibration_signals to dampens_vibrations item tag as well

Fixed bugs in 22w15a

• MC-36783 - Item frames/Glow item frames don’t change their hitbox if they contain a map
• MC-147686 - Joining a world that uses custom resources shows default resources until fully loaded
• MC-183520 - Phantoms with NoAI can go through blocks
• MC-212610 - Glow lichens cannot be put on soul sand
• MC-212629 - Leashes from two or more invisible entities connect to each other
• MC-216567 - Vines cannot be placed on the sides of 8 layers of snow
• MC-216569 - Glow lichen cannot be placed on the side of 8 layers of snow
• MC-219642 - Vines cannot be placed on the sides of soul sand
• MC-231458 - The word “ingot” within the “Serious Dedication” advancement description is improperly capitalized
• MC-235035 - Sleeping in a custom dimension with “natural” set to false causes crash
• MC-237924 - The word “villager” within the “Star Trader” advancement description is improperly capitalized
• MC-249072 - Sculk shriekers replace water blocks
• MC-249087 - The inside texture of mangrove roots darkens when solid blocks are placed adjacent to them
• MC-249094 - Unexpected culling of inner sculk shrieker faces
• MC-249111 - sculk_charge cannot be used in /particle command
• MC-249208 - Vines, glow lichens, and sculk veins cannot be placed on the side or top faces of mud
• MC-249315 - Mangrove Roots cannot be composted
• MC-249347 - Map color for mangrove sign and mangrove wall sign is incorrect
• MC-249423 - You can’t open the boat with chests without a shift, even when you can’t get into the boat
• MC-249445 - Activated sculk shriekers fail to summon the warden when broken
• MC-249488 - Darkness pulsing option is not saved
• MC-249495 - Inconsistent shading in boat item sprites
• MC-249664 - Warden despawns when far away
• MC-249688 - Mangrove stairs come after nether wood stairs in the Building Blocks tab
• MC-249737 - Allay can be pushed around with {NoAI:1b}
• MC-249741 - New advancement names are not properly capitalized
• MC-249785 - Warden can be pushed when emerging and digging
• MC-249917 - Mangrove trees don’t replace certain blocks with roots
• MC-249923 - Recovery compass isn’t sorted with regular compass in creative inventory
• MC-249927 - You can use a Recovery Compass on a Lodestone
• MC-249931 - Growing a Mangrove Tree with bone meal creates a ghost block
• MC-249933 - Game crash related to the frog occurred (Accessing LegacyRandomSource from multiple threads)
• MC-249934 - Mangrove roots sometimes don’t generate waterlogged when generating within water
• MC-249936 - Cave carvers don’t cut through mud
• MC-249938 - Mangrove Leaves do not drop from Silk Touch tools
• MC-249942 - Water got removed after waterlogged Mangrove Propagule grows
• MC-249947 - Top of Sculk Shrieker model is vertically squished
• MC-249966 - Warden can forget a target it just roared at
• MC-249968 - Powering a beacon disconnects player from server
• MC-249977 - Harsh chunk borders appear when upgrading a 1.18.2 world
• MC-249979 - Chance to have mangrove roots not waterlogged when growing from a sapling while underwater
• MC-249980 - The Birthday Song advancement description is incorrectly capitalized
• MC-249984 - note_block is inconsistently spelled as noteblock in the allay_deliver_cake_to_noteblock advancement
• MC-250017 - UUID launch argument required
• MC-250025 - The “You Got a Friend in Me” advancement is incorrectly presented in the past tense
• MC-250099 - Mangrove Log and Mangrove Planks don’t spawn in bonus chest
• MC-250101 - Can’t plant sugar cane on mud
• MC-250103 - Can’t plant bamboo on mud
• MC-250104 - Can’t plant big dripleaf on mud
• MC-250106 - Overworld vegetation cannot be placed on muddy mangrove roots

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