Overtaking Minecraft with my own version of the Sculk

Ever since the deep dark was announced i’ve always been looking forward to his release imagine the potential of me ruining it day one but now it’s been delayed two times that’s it i’m making my own also scrub scribe anyway so to start with the root of the

Evil i added the skull catalyst which as you may know from minecraft live will expand its grasp and spread some skull when a mob dies near it and drops experience orbs but to be honest with you that’s terribly inefficient so naturally i allowed it to spread out anonymously and instead of waiting for

Mobs to be killed in his vicinity well it’ll kill mobs itself and as you can notice as well it tends to spread a bit further than what was shown in minecraft live uh don’t worry about that i just bought it to infinity now because of that a catalyst has the potential to

Gradually corrupt your entire world but do not fret the catalyst doesn’t exactly work like a normal minecraft block if you go up to it you’ll start to notice really fast that you can’t exactly mine it instead you’ll have to damage it with a weapon and when doing so it starts to

Recede for every damage it takes it’s gonna convert back the blocks it converted to skulk into what they were before until it eventually has no blocks left to convert and then it breaks if there’s one thing i find fun it’s messing with settings see that’s why i i added a lot of rules

To do so but the two that will interest us are skull catalyst bloom delay and skull catalyst bloom rages this cold catalyst bloom delay game rule handles how frequently the catalyst blooms which means basically spread so if we put it to something really really high we won’t

Have time to wait but you’ll notice that it doesn’t spread but if we put it into something really low like one it will spread basically with no downtime and the other game rule that will interest us is scott kelly’s bloom rages which handles how many blocks the skull calis

Converts upon blooming by default it’s set to 25 but if we put it something like 100 you’ll notice it’s spread a little bit more and if you put it something like a thousand it spreads even faster now let’s put it to ten thousand and yeah you get the idea oh my oh

Oh my god like i said infinite reach now there is one thing you won’t get back when destroying a skull catalyst grass and flowers i am terribly sorry for that but if you look on the bright side of things you know it’s it’s a great lawnmower now if you remember when

I mentioned it was more efficient and killed mob by itself you may have noticed that um it didn’t only kill mobs see when it was showcased on minecraft live walking on a skull block doesn’t seem to do anything to you it doesn’t seem to do much and

Honestly that’s not gonna cut it with me so that’s why when you walk on skull blocks every entity including the player will get slowness mining fatigue and also take some skulk damage now let me just get off of this now if you don’t like this don’t worry you can always wear a

Pair of boots and in that case you won’t take any more damage you won’t get slowed anymore but uh yeah you’ll still get mining fatigue because obviously your arms are still exposed now it doesn’t limit its reach to only living entities it will naturally also absorb other non-living entities like boats

Items and even tnt after seeing the warden at minecraft live rise from the skulk when it is summoned i decided to do something similar with all normal mobs see when a mob dies from skulk damage it will rise again from the skulk these mobs will have a sculpt texture and uh

Sometimes that may lead to some weird models like this uh these thick chicken legs and obviously that works for every mob leading to um some interesting texture changes to say the least and since i’m all about efficiency sometimes when the skull catalyst spreads it may decide to spawn

A hostile sculpt mob itself as you can see with these spiders creepers and also the zombies and skeletons that are burning as you can guess these coke mobs aren’t exactly just a retexture they are faster on skulk and will also be stronger and legendary health on skull

But to compensate for that they are blind and can only hear you if you get detected by a skulk sensor if you play it carefully as you can see these mobs won’t do a single thing to you they can’t exactly see you or hear you

However as soon as you step near a skulk sensor and activate it yeah you’re in for a bad time because they’re also faster and every single one of them will target you if you get too close now if you envy the skull mobs i may ask but rat what about the players well

Yes you can become a school yourself this changes the gameplay quite a bit and comes with a few perks and disadvantages the first one my vision is altered i have a higher contrast and it makes it kind of painful to see in the day but if we put it to night time you

Can see our vision allows us to see better in the dark and in the caves obviously it’s gonna be even better now ignore the spots with the lava obviously that’s gonna burn your eyes you’ll also notice that you have a lower health and cannot hold any items other than skull

Blocks and cannot pick them up as well you are faster and get regeneration on skulk and skulk mobs won’t do anything to you and you won’t trigger skulk sensor at all and because you’re basically a mini warden your most interesting ability is the ability to see vibrations through walls for

Instance with trap doors opening and closing or bells ringing or pistons extending those will make vibrations and like i said even in survival you can see those through walls so yeah beware of noise machines and in multiplayer that also means that you’ll be able to see vibrations from player

Movement if they are not sneaky however if they are sneaky or stand still well they will appear invisible to you unless they are detected by a skulk sensor in that case they’ll be revealed to you even if they go selfie just like they are revealed to all of our skull mobs

But that’s not everything that you can do you can also mine skull blocks to get them in your inventory directly and build with them but why is that well you can teleport to them and since you cannot suffer suffocation damage that also leads to pretty cool uses like

Getting out of caves like this for instance where you can just straight a beam to the surface you can also make pretty cool skulk elevators with parkour or you can also hide under the skull can you know rise whenever your prey is closed and one final cool feature is

That if there are multiple catalysts in your world like i put one here and one there you can relocate randomly to another catalyst if you wish to do so and you know just travel around your world this way oh and one last thing even if you’re hungry just don’t drink the skulk