Sculk

Sculk

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.2
Hardness	0.2
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (JE)	29 COLOR_BLACK

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Sculk is a block found abundantly in the deep dark or converted from other blocks by a sculk catalyst. Like most of the rest of the sculk family, it drops experience when broken by a tool.

Obtaining

Breaking

A sculk block can be mined with any tool, but hoes are the quickest. It drops itself only if mined with any tool enchanted with Silk Touch. It always drops 1 experience if mined without Silk Touch.

Block
Hardness	0.2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	0.3
Wooden	0.15
Stone	0.1
Copper ​	0.1
Iron	0.05
Diamond	0.05
Netherite	0.05
Golden	0.05
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Sculk are naturally generated in patch formations within the deep dark biome.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
	Ancient City	Chest	4–10	23.2% { "item": "Sculk", "stacksize": "4–10", "chance": 0.23238142813184637, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Chest" }

Post-generation

Sculk blocks generate when a mob dies within 8 blocks of a sculk catalyst, replacing blocks in the area with the sculk_replaceable tag, which includes the surface materials of most biomes in all three dimensions:

Usage

Sculk blocks are primarily used for decoration. They have an animated texture that consists of glowing spots, but they do not illuminate the surroundings. It has a similar texture of an end portal viewed from above.

Sculk Spreading and Growth

Sculk, when connected to sculk catalysts, is used to grow a patch of sculk. See sculk catalyst for more details.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e sculk sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.sculk.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.sculk.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.sculk.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.sculk.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.sculk.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e sculk sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.sculk	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	break.sculk	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.sculk	0.35	0.5
	Friendly Creatures‌ Friendly Mobs​	Falling on the block with fall damage	step.sculk	0.4	1.0
	Friendly Creatures‌ Friendly Mobs​	Walking on the block	step.sculk	0.17	1.0
	Friendly Creatures‌ Friendly Mobs​	Jumping from the block	step.sculk	0.12	1.0
	Friendly Creatures‌ Friendly Mobs​	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.sculk	0.14	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Sculk	sculk	Block & Item	block.minecraft.sculk

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Sculk	sculk	713	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.sculk.name

History

October 3, 2020							Sculk blocks are shown at Minecraft Live 2020.
November 13, 2020							In a tweet, Brandon Pearce revealed that sculk had gotten a new texture.
April 26, 2021							Kingbdogz stated in another tweet that sculk features aren't coming in 1.17.
October 16, 2021							Sculk blocks are shown again at Minecraft Live 2021.
							Sculk features were delayed to 1.19.
Java Edition
1.19			Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1				Added sculk.
							Sculk is now a member of the skip_occlude_vibration_when_above block tag.
			22w11a				Sculk no longer prevents vibration occlusion from wool being placed on their top side.
							Sculk is no longer a member of the skip_occlude_vibration_when_above block tag.
			22w17a				Lowered blast resistance of sculk from 0.6 to 0.2.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.30			beta 1.17.30.22				"Sculk" was mentioned in Bedrock Beta documentation.
			beta 1.17.30.23				The texture of sculk was shown in internal Caves & Cliffs textures.
1.18.0 Experiment Vanilla Experiments			beta 1.18.0.22				Added sculk blocks behind the "Vanilla Experiments" experimental toggle.
1.18.10 Experiment Wild Update			beta 1.18.10.21				Moved sculk blocks to the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
1.19.0			beta 1.19.0.20				Sculk are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.21				Decreased the hardness and blast resistance of sculk from 0.6 to 0.2.
1.20.40			Preview 1.20.40.20				Sculk no longer drops experience in addition to itself when mined with Silk Touch.

Issues

Issues relating to "Sculk" or "Sculk Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• "Sculk" is derived from the word "skulk," meaning "keep out of sight, typically with a sinister or cowardly motive".^[1]
• During the prototype phase, sculk was much easier to trigger; simply stepping on it would make a lot of noise and attract the warden. This ended up being deemed unfair.^[2]

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  The teaser image for Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1, featuring sculk. Click here to see all teaser parts.
• 
  Early concept of deep dark.

Development images

Images are sorted by their approximate creation date.

• 
  A version of sculk that went with the stalker iteration of the warden.
• 
  An early iteration of the warden, referred to as the stalker, with both it and the sculk using brown textures similar to soul sand.
• 
  An early trypophobia version of the sculk.
• 
  A cave full of sculk.
• 
  A deeper cave full of sculk.
• 
  A flooded cave full of sculk.

Concept artwork

• 
  Sculk concept art with a rust theme.
• 
  Sculk concept art with a bone theme.
• 
  Sculk concept art with a void theme.
• 
  Sculk concept art with a corruption theme.
• 
  Sculk concept art with a hallow theme.
• 
  Sculk concept art with a flesh (trypophobia) theme.

See also

• Deep dark
• Warden

References

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