Guardian Mobs (Polymer)

🌙🛡️ Guardian Mobs (1.21.11)

Bring ancient hearts to life and turn them into powerful area defenders.
Guardian Mobs adds friendly defensive guardians that protect their territory from hostile mobs — with more guardian types on the way.

At the moment, this includes both the Creaking Guardian and the Skeleton Guardian, with more planned for future updates.

✨ Highlights

🧪 No crafting required — create guardians in-world
🌙 Night-based defense systems with heart-linked protection
📏 Adjustable defense radius
🎯 Attacks hostile mobs, never players
⭐ Upgradeable guardians with stronger stats, improved effects, and special abilities
🛡️ Multiple guardian types with unique roles
🚧 More to come — additional guardian variants are planned

👁️ Current Guardian Types

🌲 Creaking Guardian

A spooky night patrol guardian created from a Creaking Heart.
It protects its area from hostile mobs at night and vanishes at dawn.

Features

• Patrols its assigned area
• Fights hostile mobs
• Never attacks players
• Regenerates near its heart
• Uses melee and ranged attacks when needed
• Can be upgraded into an Enchanted Guardian

🏹 Skeleton Guardian

A specialized defensive guardian built for ranged combat and anti-Phantom protection.

Features

• Prioritizes Phantoms and other hostile mobs
• Can operate in Patrol Mode or Stationed Mode
• Linked to a Skeleton Heart for area defense
• Uses advanced ranged attacks
• Can be upgraded into an Enchanted Skeleton Guardian
• Displays status info like health, mode, and kill counts

🧪 How to Get a Guardian

Creaking Guardian

1. Find a Creaking Heart with its bound Creaking
2. Throw a Splash Potion of Strength near the Creaking
3. The heart converts into a Guardian Creaking Heart and your guardian appears

Skeleton Guardian

Created through its own guardian system and bound to a Skeleton Heart for defending a set area.

🧱 Guardian Heart Controls

📏 Use a Stick to adjust the defense radius (sneak to decrease)
⭐ Use a Nether Star to upgrade a guardian into its Enchanted form

Heart-linked guardians stay tied to their assigned defense zone and gain key benefits while operating near their heart.

⚔️ Guardian Behavior

👹 Defends its area from hostile mobs
🙅 Never targets players
🩹 Gains support from staying near its heart
🌙 Some guardians are night-based, while others can remain active in different modes
🏹 Uses ranged attacks when appropriate, melee when enemies get close

⭐ Enchanted Upgrade

Upgrading a guardian unlocks a stronger enchanted form with:

• 💪 Increased health, damage, and armor
• ✨ Enhanced visual effects
• 💥 Special attacks and stronger combat abilities
• 🛡️ Improved defensive performance

Creaking Guardian Note:
⚠️ If the enchanted guardian dies, the heart resets back to normal

🚧 More to Come

Guardian Mobs is expanding beyond its current lineup.
More guardian types, new abilities, and additional heart-based defenders are planned for future updates.

Stay tuned — this is only the beginning.