The Minecraft world gets a lot of inspiration from our real world, this is the reason that the gameplay has a lot of elements and other things similar to the real world. The very ideas of the game do reveal a true identity and actual reality.
One such example of this aspect are the ocean monuments that you get to explore underwater. The ocean monuments match the varying structures and architecture that we find under oceans in our real world. The idea of finding a hidden settlement or the proof of some early civilization has engulfed our curiosity and led us to believe in various theories. You get to explore that same excitement and thrill in the Minecraft gameplay, when you find the ocean monuments.
What are ocean monuments in Minecraft?
In this article given below, we will be considering the facts and information about the ocean currents, so do follow this article to the very end, so as to know the whole thing.
Before we move on to know about the ocean currents in Minecraft, let us explore the editions of Minecraft that do support the features of Ocean monuments.
The editions of Minecraft that allow you to explore the feature of ocean monuments are;
Java Edition- 1.8
Pocket Edition- 0.16
Xbox One- TU31
Xbox 360- CU19
PS3- 1.22
PS4- 1.22
Wii U- Patch 3
Nintendo Switch
Windows 10 Edition- 0.16
Education Edition- 1.0
So these are the editions of Minecraft that support the ocean monuments featured in the Minecraft gameplay.
Ocean monuments
Ocean monuments refer to the structures or buildings that are found under water. These structures do get formed themselves from time to time. You may find an ocean monument every time you get to the same location where you have previously found it before.
They are even sometimes being called the guardian temples or water temples. As the ocean monuments are found underwater and they mostly contain a temple or an elder guardian, these are the forms of it. Well we will be learning about them in the below section.
Now that we have known some basic aspects of the ocean monuments, let’s know about the places or locations where we can find them in Minecraft.
An ocean monuments can easily be found in the following oceans given below,
Deep ocean
Deep lukewarm ocean
Deep cold ocean
So, these are the oceans where you can actually find the ocean monuments in the Minecraft gameplay.
Material of the ocean monuments
Ocean monuments are underwater structures that are actually made up of a variety of blocks. The blocks provide a unique ability to the ocean monuments for surviving underwater.
The items or blocks that constitute the structure of the ocean monuments are;
Prismarine
Prismarine bricks
Dark prismarine
Sea lanterns
There are a total of about 23 pillars that make the actual structure of the ocean monuments in Minecraft. All these pillars that you see in the ocean monuments are made up of prismarine bricks.
You will notice one very peculiar thing. around the ocean monuments, a lot of squids will be revolving or moving around the structure.
Here, you need to know one thing before moving towards the structure in the water. You cannot directly run into the ocean monuments simply, as they do occur underwater which isn’t the safe place for you to turn towards.
You will need to enter the creative mode in your Minecraft gameplay, and then move towards the ocean monument. Or you need to drink a portion of the water breathing that allows you to move freely in the water without losing health points.
Entering the monument
Now that we know some of the basic aspects of the ocean monuments, let us consider the way of entering an ocean monument.
Well, there are no openings or gates for entering a monument directly, you will have to move and find the arches of sea lanterns around the monument.
After you have found the arches of sea lanterns around the ocean monument, you will have to follow the same arches of sea lanterns.
Thereby, you will find an entrance to the temple as you go further down inside the arches of the sea in Minecraft.
There, you will notice that there are multiple passages which you can follow to reach the temple.
- Follow one single passage to reach the temple.
Here, you will reach the temple inside the ocean in Minecraft.
After you reach the temple, you will see that the temple has two kinds of mobs that protect the eternity of the temple there.
Both of these mobs or protectors differ from each other in various ways.
The two types of protectors that protect the temple from unwanted visitors or movs are;
- Guardian
- Elder Guardian
Let us explore the two types of protectors here;
Guardian
A guardian is just like a large vending machine that is in the form of a rectangle and covered with 8 strips from the four sides and four edges of the front section.
A guardian can fire a seamless laser and attack you with a thorn shape.
There, you need to be quite conscious of your moves and actions while you are in front of the guardian, as it can harm you really badly and lower your health points.
So that was about the guardian protector in the Minecraft gameplay.
An elder guardian also has some similar characteristics and features but it does differ from the guardian in many ways.
Elder guardian
An elder guardian is in the form of a large vending machine that has a rectangular structure. The rectangular structure is covered with the blue strips of nearly equal lengths from all 8 planets; those eight places include four sides and four respective edges of the front section of the structure.
Follow the link given below for getting a simple and interesting link to know about the elder guardian in Minecraft.
What are Elder guardians in Minecraft?
An elder guardian ca. find a running stream of laser beams in Minecraft that can destroy the health of the subsequent users.
It can also use the thorn shape armor for attacking the players, and also inflicting mining fatigue.
So that was all knowing the ocean monuments in the gameplay.
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