Sculk

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 that is not enchanted with Silk Touch.

Obtaining

Chest loot

Breaking

Sculk blocks can be mined with any tool, but hoes are the quickest. It always drops 1 experience if mined without Silk Touch.

Natural generation

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

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 blocks near sculk catalyst are also used for sculk growth (click link for more details), which can produce more sculk blocks, sculk sensors and sculk shriekers.

Sounds

Generic

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Unique

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Data values

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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.
Vanilla Experiments (experimental)		beta 1.18.0.22			Added sculk blocks behind the "Vanilla Experiments" toggle.
Wild Update (Experimental)		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.

Issues

Issues relating to "Sculk" or "Sculk Block" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues 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 in would make a lot of noise and attract the Warden. This ended up being deemed unfair, resulting in the creation of the Sculk Sensor.^[2]
• The old trypophobia shrieker was a combination of the modern day shrieker and scrapped sculk jaw as it would both scream and show teeth^[3]

Gallery

Screenshots

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  The teaser image for Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1, featuring sculk. click here to see all teaser parts.

Development images

Images are sorted by their approximate creation date.

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  A version of Sculk that went with the stalker iteration of the warden.
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  An early iteration of the warden, referred to as the stalker, with both it and the sculk using brown textures similar to soul sand.
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  An early trypophobia version of the Sculk.
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  Sculk concept art with a rust theme.
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  Sculk concept art with a bone theme.
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  Sculk concept art with a void theme.
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  Sculk concept art with a corruption theme.
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  Sculk concept art with a hallow theme.
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  Sculk concept art with a flesh (trypophobia) theme.

See also

• Deep dark
• Warden

References