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Guardian

Mobs & entity

The Guardian is a mob in Minecraft. A spawn egg for it exists, so players can place one without waiting for it to appear on its own.

When a Guardian is killed, it drops Prismarine Shards, Raw Cod, and sometimes Prismarine Crystals. Players defeat it to collect these items.

Contents (8)
  1. Animations
  2. Sounds
  3. Stats
  4. Advancements
  5. History
  6. Registry entry
  7. Related items
  8. See also

Animations

5 of these were recorded inside the running game, so the movement is the animation Mojang shipped rather than an imitation of it. Transparent background, free to download.

Guardian, walking
WalkingDownload
Guardian, running
RunningDownload
Guardian, idle
IdleDownload
Guardian, taking damage
Taking damageDownload
Guardian, death
DeathDownload

Sounds

8 sound events for this mob, 23 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
ambientGuardian moansentity.guardian.ambientsubtitles.entity.guardian.ambient
ambient landGuardian flapsentity.guardian.ambient_landsubtitles.entity.guardian.ambient_land
attackGuardian shootsentity.guardian.attacksubtitles.entity.guardian.attack
deathGuardian diesentity.guardian.deathsubtitles.entity.guardian.death
death landGuardian diesentity.guardian.death_landsubtitles.entity.guardian.death
flopGuardian flopsentity.guardian.flopsubtitles.entity.guardian.flop
hurtGuardian hurtsentity.guardian.hurtsubtitles.entity.guardian.hurt
hurt landGuardian hurtsentity.guardian.hurt_landsubtitles.entity.guardian.hurt

Stats

Mojang publishes these numbers in the Bedrock behaviour pack (bedrock-samples); the Java edition keeps them in code, not in any data file. Most values match across editions, but not all — treat them as the Bedrock figures.

Health points30
Attack strength5
Movement speed0.12
Hitbox size0.85 blocks wide, 0.85 blocks tall
Mob typeaquatic, guardian, monster, mob

Advancements

Advancements whose own criteria name this entry. Recipe-unlock entries are left out — they never appear on the player’s Advancements screen.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w50a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w50a (12 December 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:guardian
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also