Guardian Mob Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains all about guardians with screenshots and step-by-step instructions. Let’s learn about guardians in Minecraft.

Background

The following is a picture of what a guardian looks like in Minecraft:

Hostility Level	Hostile Mob
Health Points	30 health points  x 15
Where to Find	In the Deep Ocean, Deep Lukewarm Ocean and Deep Cold Ocean biomes (Ocean Monument)
Weapon	None
Attack Method	Fires a laser and performs a thorn-like attack
Drops	 0-2 Prismarine Shards  0-1 Prismarine Crystals
Experience Points	10 experience points

Hostility Level (Hostile)

A guardian is a hostile mob. The term mob is short for mobile and is used to refer to all living, moving creatures in the game such as chickens, creepers, and guardians. Because a guardian is a hostile mob, it will attack you in Survival mode but not Creative mode.

Health Points

In Minecraft, a guardian has 15 hearts

 for health. This gives a guardian 30 health points (because 1 heart = 2 health points). To kill a guardian, you need to inflict 30 points of damage to the guardian.

Where to Find Guardians

In Minecraft, you can find guardians inside the Ocean Monument (also called the Guardian Temple).

These Ocean Monuments are found in the Deep Ocean, Deep Lukewarm Ocean and Deep Cold Ocean biomes.

Deep Ocean

Deep Lukewarm Ocean

Deep Cold Ocean

If you are having trouble finding a guardian, you can summon a guardian using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg.

Weapon

A guardian does not carry a weapon.

Attack Method

In Minecraft, a guardian fires a laser at you and performs a thorn-like attack.

Drops

When you kill a guardian in Minecraft, it may drop one or more of the following items: prismarine shards or prismarine crystals.

Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear. They are useful and should be kept in your inventory to be used later.

Experience Points

As you play the game, you will gain experience. The most common way to gain experience is by killing mobs. When a mob is killed you will see tiny green and yellow balls appear and move towards you.

These orbs represent experience points. When you kill a guardian, you will gain 10 experience points.

Spawn Egg for Guardian

You can spawn a guardian using the following spawn egg:

Guardian Spawn Egg

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for a guardian in Minecraft:

How to Summon a Guardian

NBT Tags for Guardian (Java Edition)

Here are the NBT tags (formerly called data tags) that you can use in game commands for a guardian in Java Edition:

NBT Tags for Guardian

Spawn Events for Guardian (Bedrock/Education)

Here are the spawn events that you can use in game commands for a guardian in Bedrock Edition and Education Edition:

Spawn Events for Guardian

Other Mobs

Here are some of the other mobs in Minecraft:

Allay
  Axolotl
Bat
  Bee
  Blaze
  Camel
Cat
Cave Spider
  Chicken
Cod
  Cow
  Creeper
Dolphin
Donkey
Drowned
Elder Guardian
  Ender Dragon
  Enderman
  Endermite
  Evoker
Fox
  Frog
  Ghast
  Giant
  Glow Squid
Goat
Hoglin
  Horse
  Husk
Illusioner
  Iron Golem
Killer Bunny
  Llama
Magma Cube
  Mooshroom
Mule
Ocelot
Panda
  Parrot
  Phantom
  Pig
  Piglin
  Piglin Brute
  Pillager
  Polar Bear
Pufferfish
  Rabbit
  Ravager
  Salmon
  Sheep
  Shulker
Silverfish
Skeleton
Skeleton Horse
Slime
  Snow Golem
  Spider
Squid
Stray
Strider
Tadpole
Trader Llama
Tropical Fish
Turtle
Vex
Villager
Vindicator
Wandering Trader
Warden
Witch
Wither Boss
 Wither Skeleton
Wolf
Zoglin
Zombie
Zombie Horse
Zombified Piglin (Zombie Pigman)
Zombie Villager
NPC