Level 5 · Mysteries & Monsters

Mission 407

Night Patrol: Count Every Monster in the Dark

Badge: Night Watch

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Build a lit patrol wall, count every mob for 2 nights and find the pattern.

The explorer vanished at night. Tonight, you walk the walls and count everything that moves.

  • New skill Building a safe patrol wall
  • Level 5 · Mysteries & Monsters
  • Difficulty Intermediate
  • Mode Survival
  • Time 40–60 min
  • Ages 13+

What you’ll build

Build a patrol wall around HQ with a watchtower at each corner, light the inside and leave the outside dark. For two nights you'll walk laps on a timer, tallying every monster you spot. Then crunch the numbers to find the commonest mob and the busiest lap, and build a wool bar chart to show it off.

Finish line: You have a patrol wall, two nights of mob tallies and a wool bar chart showing what you counted.

Bonus challenge: Make your wool bar chart as tall as the real counts and add a sign on top of the tallest bar: "Most wanted.".

You’ll need

  • Lots of building blocks
  • Plenty of torches
  • A bow and arrows or a shield
  • Wool in several colours
  • A timer

You choose

  • My patrol's call sign
  • Patrol style: wall walk, tower ring or glass bridge
  • My bet for the most common mob

Stuck?

  • Spiders climb straight walls. Add a row of blocks sticking out at the top so they can't get over.
  • Monsters spawning inside the wall? Add more torches until there are no dark patches left.
  • Sleep on the third night. Stay awake too long and phantoms start swooping down from the sky.

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This mission is in Mission Pack 40. Each printable has the full steps, a Plan & Log page and a parent page.

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Played on Minecraft Bedrock on iPad. Buttons can differ on other devices and versions.