1.22 - Fiends & Foes

1.22, the first release of Fiends & Foes is a major update to Java Edition, released on March 12, 2026. The update was announced on December 25, 2024, during Minecraft Live 2024. It introduces many new monsters, structures and weapons to Minecraft, as well as a new boss.
==Additions==
===Blocks===
Silkstone
*A variant of stone covered with spider webs that generates in webbed caves.
*Drops cobbled silkstone when mined.
*Can be obtained with a Silk Touch pickaxe, or be smelting cobbled silkstone.
Cobbled Silkstone
*Drops from silkstone when mined with a pickaxe without Silk Touch.
*Can be used interchangeably with cobblestone, deepslate and blackstone in crafting recipes.
*Can be crafted into respective stairs, slabs and walls
*Can be smelted back into silkstone.
Royal Egg
*A rare block that sometimes generates in the webbed cave.
*Breaking it spawns the Spider Queen.
*The royal egg can be harvested without spawning the Spider Queen by breaking it with a silk touch pickaxe.
===Items===
Mace
*A weapon that has a 1/8 chance of being dropped by armored pillagers.
*Does 5 health points of damage.
*Can break armor easier than other weapons.
Majestic Silk
*A material that can be used to make armor.
*Dropped by the Spider Queen on death.
Web Armor
*Crafted by putting majestic silk in the formation used to craft other armor.
*Bypasses the lowered speed from cobwebs.
*Has the same toughness as diamond armor.
*Has higher durability than netherite, but has the same enchantability as diamond.
===Mobs===
Armored Pillager
*Spawns in Bad Omen II+ raids.
*34 health points.
*Holds a mace in their left hand.
*Does 5 damage.
*Comes from Minecraft Dungeons.
Spider Queen
*A boss that spawns when a player breaks a royal egg.
*Has 150 health points.
*Does 15 damage and inflicts paralysis for 2 seconds.
*Other attacks include shooting a web at the player and summoning 1-2 spiders.
*Drops 2-3 majestic silk on death.
===World Generation===
Webbed Cave
*The biome that won the 2025 biome vote.
*Generates with silkstone and lots of cobwebs
*Spiders, skeletons, creepers, zombies, cave spiders, and bats spawn in this biome.
*Only place to find the royal egg.
===Gameplay===
Status Effects
*Paralyzed
**A status effect that is triggered from getting bit by the Spider Queen.
**Stops the player from moving.
==Changes==
===Blocks===
===Items===
===Mobs===
Illusioner
* Can now spawn in Bad Omen III+ raids.
===World Generation===
===Gameplay===
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