For those that play alone and sometimes get stuck or bored, my suggestion is to invite someone and play together for a while.
My kid sometimes joins me in my world, we go to a new place, build a few houses, collect some animals, have some adventures. By the time she gets bored, I have a ton of new ideas, new material combinations she thought of, connecting the settlement to my other builds and on and on.
I am trying to raid an ancient city. I always end up with the warden killing me.
I watched and read guides (eg the tutorial on the wiki), and it is said that "When a sculk shrieker activates, it starts shrieking and increases the player's "warning level" but it does not actually spawn a warden right away. It does so after its shrieking has finished, if the "warning level" is at four."
I was hoping I could somehow hear the first 3 warnings and then retreat. But there is always some kind of sounds - even when I am not moving, some sensor going off because bats or whatever. I can't distinguish a shrieker warning from other sounds.
Got any advice?