Minecraft: The Deep End trophy guide

Defeat an elder guardian in an ocean monument. Status: Single source.

PS5 trophy details

• Grade: Silver. Set: Expansion Pack 6. No separately purchased DLC is implied by the catalogue's expansion-pack label.
• Missable: no story-ending lockout; the task can be repeated in an eligible Survival world. Eligibility can still be lost through settings.
• Difficulty: 5/10, Hizzle editorial estimate. Time: UNSURE. Hidden flag: UNSURE.
• Players: Solo route described; online play is not required by this method. Online required: no for the described route; local play can be used for the two-player tasks.
• Roadmap: late phase of Minecraft PS5 Platinum trophy roadmap.

What to do

1. Locate an ocean monument on Easy or above and prepare Water Breathing, armor, an underwater weapon and a clear retreat. Choose a monument that still contains its elder guardians.
2. Use the existing passages to reach the top room or a side wing. Break the guardian beam's line of sight with cover while watching your health and breathing timer.
3. Personally defeat one of the larger, pale elder guardians. The trophy asks for one elder guardian, not all three.

Before you repeat it

Milk strips Water Breathing along with Mining Fatigue, which a living elder guardian can immediately reapply in Bedrock. Use the passages instead of relying on a milk-and-mine window. Peaceful can remove loaded elders, and those elders do not naturally respawn. That is different from permanently disqualifying every world that ever used Peaceful.

Evidence and editions

Current Bedrock combat references correct the milk tactic: fatigue is reapplied immediately, while useful potion effects are lost. Elder guardians generate with their monument and do not naturally respawn. Historical tutorial coordinates and an all-damage-by-one-player restriction are not generalized to current PS5. Latest stable Bedrock 26.60 notes were reviewed November 3, 2026. A second complete independent combat-method audit remains incomplete, so this solution stays Single source. No in-game PS5 test is claimed. PS4 players should use this method only for a matching trophy in their own stack; see Minecraft PS5 vs PS4 trophy differences. Xbox points and Java advancement equivalence are not established by this PS5 record.

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Minecraft PS5 trophies: complete catalogue and solutions, Minecraft trophy world settings and eligibility, Minecraft trophy not unlocking: safe checks.