[2022] Tweets by Kingbdogz on 22 Jan

The amount of work that we have put into iterating on the Warden has been quite a journey. I really recommend if you want to see part of that process, this new video will give you some more context https://youtu.be/cd7cVNeb0Uk

RT @_TechJess: Extensive crunch is abuse.

Those totems would hold glowing loot, and this would be a way that Stalkers would trick prey (players) into walking up to it. The Stalker would also be able to transform its body into a quadrupedal creature, being able to run through 1x1 block holes even if you tried to dig away

Some ideas we had for early iterations of the Warden. Stalkers were going to have a glowing item in the middle of its chest that you would also randomly find throughout the biome floating on totems. The idea was Stalkers would stand perfectly still to "fake" those glowing items. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJubH9XX0AEw_5t.png

The only idea I still really like is it faking glowing items that you'd find throughout the biome. That didn't make it in the end because there'vs already a lot going on with the Warden's design, and it felt better to focus on its "lack of vision" aspect more deeply.

We didn't go for this version because asymmetry is really had to get looking good in Minecraft, and it often looked "out of place", and not in the way we intended. The transforming ideas also proved too clunky in practice. It worked, but felt goofy not scary.

It was the tallest mob we ever had that walked, taller than an Enderman. It had a much creeapier vibe in how its focus visually was to be asymmetrical, it really stumbled and would transform into weird shapes to adapt to its environment

creepier* Ah I wish Twitter had an edit button

@RustyFox_ Might post in-game pictures sometime later, don't have them on my PC at the moment :) A lot of these iterations made it into the game as prototypes. Was important to actually get a feel for them rather than just theorycraft with concept art.

@Realshow128 Yeah I could definitely see it fitting in a different environment, but likely wouldn't have the vibration detection stuff.

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@corvaline Yeah it originally wasn't intended to look like Siren Head at all, in fact I think this was made before that became popular. But it really has a resemblence

@chilichapters I think for me it had the perfect level of bulkiness and character that fit the vision we were going for in the Deep Dark. In terms of "texture", it felt like the current, final version of Sculk is the best we've come up with - it's creepy, a little disgusting, but not too scary

@chilichapters In terms of character, the souls in its chest were incredibly important to its lore and, likewise with the color palette. It all comes together to tell a story that I think can be really more unsettling than any of these previous iterations, despite it being less "gory".

When we went the typophobia route for the Warden, this is what Sculk was going to look like at one point Keep in mind these were textures I made myself, so the art team hadn't touched these yet! http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJu_lnrWUAMJMPl.jpg

And here is another version which was what Sculk looked like with the Stalker iteration http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJu_uVmXwAISu8k.jpg

That Sculk with a version of the Stalker http://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJvAGT5X0AMx8pn.jpg

trypophobia*

And here was the Stalker at one point, testing out it transforming into its form that could squeeze into smaller tunnels. It's really interesting looking back at iterations like this and seeing where the Warden actually ended up. Very proud of the work we did as a team. http://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1484993001231458308/pu/img/79DKN3phzwDZpMhH.jpg

@Bold_Muddy Stalker first

@Shi_Pool I definitely agree, this would need a lot more work to make it feel vanilla. But that's why we got where are we now with the Warden :)

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