While fighting the warden, build a tower two blocks high, crouch, and stay roughly centered on the tower. Your crouching prevents you from being knocked off by his boom due to the shallow angle. This allows him to be trapped standing still in your melee reach. Eating subsequently nullifies the damage of the warden boom. Here someone demonstrates the issue:
Proposed fix: Add back Warden extended melee range or make sonic boom have a special exception bypass the protection enchantment. This will allow the warden to be much more difficult to cheese. When you must build higher to avoid his melee range, the angle is steeper, and you won't be able to prevent yourself being knocked off by simply crouching.
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I argue it's not intentional, due to KingBDogz recent tweet from today stating they don't want the warden to be "cheesable from a two block tower" https://twitter.com/kingbdogz/status/1527594347348299776
Yeah, not the same as those reports either; this is about not being knocked off when you sneak, while clearly being knocked upwards a bit. The proposed fix should be removed though, as that doesn't actually fix the issue; just being launched off would.
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