Minecraft Player Discovers How Many Wolves It Takes To Kill a Warden

A Minecraft player has discovered that it takes 19 Armored Wolves to defeat a Warden. The Warden is one of the strongest Minecraft mobs as it can deal and withstand massive damage, but this gamer has a trick to defeating one without having to attack it themselves.

The Warden was added to Minecraft with update 1.19 alongside its typical spawning location, the Ancient City. Wardens are summoned by a Sculk Shrieker after they are alerted by a Sculk Sensor. These sensors are typically triggered by players moving without crouching or breaking blocks close to the Sculk Sensors. The Warden is the first blind mob introduced to the game, and it can track a player's movements based on the noise they produce. Players can use Wool to mask their noises in the Ancient City and Snowballs to throw the Warden off their trail. One Minecraft player has discovered a way to defeat the Warden without ever attacking it themselves, and that's via the help of Armored Wolves.

Reddit user BrunoGoldbergFerro recently shared a clip in which 19 Armored Wolves are trapped with a Warden in a small walled-off area. The tight space lacks any Minecraft Sculk Sensors or Shriekers which suggests that this experiment was done in Creative mode. The Seed is paused as the video begins, with the Armored Wolves on one side of a dirt line and the Warden on the other. As the player unpauses their game with a command, the Wolves surge toward the Warden, with three of them ending up atop the surrounding barrier. The Wolves deal small bits of damage to the powerful mob, but they start to die one by one. Given that the Warden can only focus on one Wolf at a time, the multiple bits of damage slowly outnumber the loss of the Wolves, eventually causing the death of the Warden.

By the end of BrunoGoldbergFerro's clip, there's only one Minecraft Armored Wolf left, making it unlikely for 18 Wolves to defeat the boss without the assistance of the player. Each Wolf takes four melee attacks from the Warden before dying, and