Sculk Vein

A sculk vein is a block found in the deep dark or generated by sculk catalysts. It can generate or be placed on any side of a solid block.

Obtaining

Skulk veins drops itself only if it is broken with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch. Otherwise, it drops nothing.

Sculk veins are generated within the deep dark biome.

Sculk veins can be mined with any tool, but hoes are the quickest.

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Sculk veins generate when a mob dies within 8 blocks of a sculk catalyst.

Sculk veins can be placed on any and multiple sides of a block, similar to glow lichen.

Sculk veins cannot be destroyed by flowing water or lava.^[1]

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.sculk_vein.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	0.8	0.88	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.sculk_vein.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	0.8	0.88	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.sculk_vein.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.sculk_vein.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.sculk_vein.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Blocks	Once the block has broken	`break.sculk_vein`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`break.sculk_vein`	1.0	0.8-1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`step.sculk_vein`	0.3	0.5
Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`step.sculk_vein`	0.4	1.0
Blocks	Walking on the block	`step.sculk_vein`	0.17	1.0
Blocks	Jumping from the block	`step.sculk_vein`	0.12	1.0
Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`step.sculk_vein`	0.14	1.0

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Sculk Vein	`sculk_vein`	Block & Item	`block.minecraft.sculk_vein`

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Sculk Vein	`sculk_vein`	`714`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i 2]}	Identical^{[i 3]}	`tile.sculk_vein.name`

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
down	`false`	`false` `true`	When true, a sculk vein texture is displayed on the bottom.
east	`false`	`false` `true`	When true, a sculk vein texture is displayed on the east.
north	`false`	`false` `true`	When true, a sculk vein texture is displayed on the north.
south	`false`	`false` `true`	When true, a sculk vein texture is displayed on the south.
up	`false`	`false` `true`	When true, a sculk vein texture is displayed on the top.
waterlogged	`false`	`false` `true`	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this sculk vein.
west	`false`	`false` `true`	When true, a sculk vein texture is displayed on the west.

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
multi_face_direction_bits	`0x1` `0x2` `0x4` `0x8` `0x10` `0x20`	`0`	`0 to 63`	`0 to 63`	The directions the sculk vein exists. Each bit determines one direction: 0x1: Down 0x2: Up 0x4: North 0x8: South 0x10: West 0x20: East 0 is unused and it behaves like 63.

Java Edition
October 3, 2020		Sculk veins are shown at Minecraft Live 2020.
November 13, 2020		The sculk veins has a new texture in a tweet from Brandon Pearce.
April 26, 2021		Kingbdogz states that sculk features aren't coming in 1.17.
October 16, 2021		Sculk features were delayed to 1.19.
1.19	Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1	Added sculk veins.
	22w11a	Implemented sculk veins into normal snapshot.
	22w15a	Can now be placed on the top and sides of soul sand, mud and maximum height snow.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.30	beta 1.17.30.22	"Sculk Veins" was mentioned in Bedrock Beta documentation.
1.17.30	beta 1.17.30.23	Sculk Veins texture was shown in internal Caves & Cliffs textures.
Vanilla Experiments (experimental)	beta 1.18.0.22	Added sculk veins.
Wild Update (experimental)	beta 1.18.10.21	Sculk veins have been moved behind the "Wild Update" toggle.
1.19.0	beta 1.19.0.20	Sculk veins are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.