A sculk catalyst is a block that converts blocks around it to blocks in the sculk family (except for more sculk catalysts) when a mob that drops experience dies nearby.
Obtaining[]
Natural generation[]
Sculk catalysts are generated within the deep dark biome.
Chest loot[]
Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
---|---|---|---|---|
Java Edition | ||||
Sculk Catalyst | Ancient City | Chest | 1–2 | 16.1% |
Bedrock Edition | ||||
Sculk Catalyst | Ancient City | Chest | 1–2 | 16.1% |
Mob loot[]
A warden drops a single sculk catalyst upon death, unaffected by Looting.
Breaking[]
Sculk catalysts can be mined with any tool, but hoes are the quickest. It drops 5 experience and no item if mined without Silk Touch. It drops itself if mined with any Silk Touch tool.
Block | Sculk Catalyst | |
---|---|---|
Hardness | 3 | |
Tool | ||
Breaking time[A] | ||
Default | 4.5 | |
Wooden | 2.25 | |
Stone | 1.15 | |
Iron | 0.75 | |
Diamond | 0.6 | |
Netherite | 0.5 | |
Golden | 0.4 |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Usage[]
If a mob dies near a sculk catalyst, it can cause a sculk bloom. The catalyst's texture will react, causing a blooming animation. The sculk bloom produces sculk blocks, sculk veins, and sculk shriekers. These blocks can be used as decoration or harvested for experience. The sculk bloom also produces sculk sensors, which are useful in redstone contraptions.
For more information, see Sculk Growth.
Light source[]
Sculk catalysts emit a light level of 6.
Sounds[]
Generic[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Block broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
Block breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
None[sound 1] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[sound 1] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
Footsteps | Blocks | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 |
Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blocks | Once the block has broken | break | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | When the block is placed | break | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.3 | 0.5 | |
Friendly Creatures | Falling on the block with fall damage | step | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
Friendly Creatures | Walking on the block | step | 0.17 | 1.0 | |
Friendly Creatures | Jumping from the block | step | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
Friendly Creatures | Falling on the block without fall damage | step | 0.14 | 1.0 |
Unique[]
Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sculk Catalyst blooms | Blocks | When a mob is killed near a sculk catalyst | block | subtitles | 0.5 | 0.6-1.0 | 12 |
Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blocks | When a mob is killed near a sculk catalyst | bloom | 2.0 | 0.6-1.0 |
Data values[]
ID[]
Name | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|
Sculk Catalyst | sculk_catalyst | Block & Item | block.minecraft.sculk_catalyst |
Name | Identifier |
---|---|
Block entity | sculk_catalyst |
Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sculk Catalyst | sculk_catalyst | 715 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.sculk_catalyst.name |
Name | Savegame ID |
---|---|
Block entity | SculkCatalyst |
Block states[]
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
---|---|---|---|
bloom | false | false true | Whether the sculk catalyst is actively spreading the sculk or not. |
Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
---|---|---|---|
bloom | 0 | 0 1 | Whether the sculk catalyst is actively spreading the sculk or not. |
Block data[]
A sculk catalyst has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.
- Block entity data
- Tags common to all block entities
- cursors: List of charges associated with the sculk catalyst.
- : A charge.
- charge: How much power is in the charge.
- pos: List of three integers representing the coordinates of the charge.
- decay_delay: Does not relate to delay. Be 1 if the charge was spread from a sculk or sculk vein, 0 otherwise. The charge can spread to any block if this tag is 1. If it is 0, all the powers in the charge disappear when it spreads to a block not in sculk family.
- update_delay: Delay in ticks until the charge begins to travel after being created.
- facings: If the block to replace is an air or water, replace the block at its position with sculk vein, and store the facings of this sculk vein. If the charge is not at an air or water, or this tag is null, attempt to replace a block next to it with sculk vein. Can be any combination of
north
,south
,east
,west
,up
,down
.
- : A charge.
Advancements[]
Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
It Spreads | Kill a mob near a Sculk Catalyst | Monster Hunter | Kill one of these 70 mobs near a sculk catalyst:
| adventure/kill_mob_near_sculk_catalyst
|
History[]
October 3, 2020 | Sculk catalysts are shown at Minecraft Live 2020. | ||||
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November 13, 2020 | The sculk catalyst 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. | ||||
New sculk catalyst functions were shown. | |||||
Java Edition | |||||
1.19 | Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1 | Added sculk catalysts. | |||
22w11a | Implemented sculk catalysts into normal snapshot. | ||||
22w17a | Wardens now drop a single sculk catalyst upon death, making them renewable. | ||||
1.19.1 | Pre-release 6 | Sculk catalysts now drop five experience instead of 20. | |||
Bedrock Edition | |||||
1.17.30 | beta 1.17.30.22 | "Sculk Catalyst" was mentioned in Bedrock Beta documentation. | |||
beta 1.17.30.23 | Sculk Catalyst textures were shown in internal Caves & Cliffs textures. | ||||
Vanilla Experiments (Experimental) | beta 1.18.0.22 | Added sculk catalysts. | |||
Wild Update (Experimental) | beta 1.18.10.21 | Moved sculk catalysts to the "Wild Update" experimental toggle. | |||
beta 1.18.30.22 | Sculk catalysts were updated to match Java Edition's behavior. | ||||
1.19.0 | beta 1.19.0.20 | Sculk catalysts are now available without enabling experimental gameplay. | |||
beta 1.19.0.28 | Wardens now drop a single sculk catalyst upon death. | ||||
1.19.20 | beta 1.19.20.23 | Sculk catalysts now drop five experience instead of 20. |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Sculk Catalyst" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[]
Slicedlime "corrupting" a canyon into sculk block by using sculk catalyst and dying skeleton in his video.
References[]