Sculk Shrieker

Sculk Shrieker

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	3
Hardness	3
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

A sculk shrieker is a sculk block found in the deep dark biome that produces a "shrieking" noise when a player is detected nearby. Shriekers found in the deep dark can summon the warden when they are triggered.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Sculk shriekers can be found within the deep dark biome. These shriekers can summon the warden.

Breaking

Sculk shriekers can be mined with any tool, but hoes are the quickest. It drops 5 experience when mined without Silk Touch. When a sculk shrieker is broken it loses the ability to summon the warden and cause Darkness, even if mined with Silk Touch.

Block	Sculk Shrieker
Hardness	3
Tool
Breaking time
Default	4.5
Wooden	2.25
Stone	1.15
Iron	0.75
Diamond	0.6
Netherite	0.5
Golden	0.4

Post-generation

A sculk catalyst has a 1% chance of generating a sculk shrieker on top of a sculk block. These shriekers do not summon the warden or cause Darkness.

Usage

The shriek particle.

Sculk shriekers can "shriek" after being activated, which can happen by a player stepping on it, being hit by a projectile, or by triggering a nearby sculk sensor. It does not itself detect vibrations in the absence of nearby sensors, and can be prevented from detecting sensors by placing wool blocks in between. The shrieker shrieks for exactly 90 game ticks (4.5 seconds).

Spawning wardens

A set of shriek particles emitted by a sculk shrieker.

Sculk shriekers that naturally generate in the deep dark biome are capable of inflicting the Darkness effect upon players and summoning wardens. If a sculk shrieker is placed by a player or generated via a sculk catalyst, the tag can_summon is set to false, and therefore a warden is not summoned and Darkness is not inflicted by that sculk shrieker. Each time a naturally generated sculk shrieker is activated, it adds 1 to a "warning" level to alert the warden. The warning level is specific to each player, not each sculk shrieker, meaning that the same player can activate a different sculk shrieker for each of the four times, and a warden still spawns on the fourth activation, even though any particular shrieker had been activated once. If a player does not activate any sculk shrieker, the warning level decreases by 1 every 10 minutes (12000 ticks). After the shrieking ends, all players in Survival mode within 40 blocks are given the Darkness effect for 12 seconds. After a warden is summoned, a player's warning level does not reset back to 0.

Naturally generated sculk shriekers have a 10-second cooldown per player. This means that if a player triggers one shrieker, they are completely unable to trigger any other shrieker within 10 seconds. The cooldown period includes the 4.5-second shrieking, which means 5.5 seconds after the previous shrieking ends, the player can activate sculk shriekers again.

When a player's warning level reaches level 4, the sculk shrieker attempts to spawn a warden after its shrieking ends. Up to 20 attempts are made to spawn a warden within an 11×13×11 box centered on the shrieker. If there isn't another warden within 24 blocks, a warden emerges from the ground. The warden will always spawn at the highest available block.

If the player that triggered the sculk shrieker is outside the shrieker's range when the shrieking ends, the sculk shrieker does not apply the Darkness effect to any player. The player's warning level still increases by 1.

It is possible to make a warden spawn from a distance, by shooting a projectile into the direction of known sensors that are near shriekers.

The warnings have unique subtitles at different levels of warning: 1) "Warden approaches." 2) "Warden advances." 3) "Warden draws close."

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.sculk_shrieker.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	0.9	1.0	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.sculk_shrieker.fall	None	1.0	1.0	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.sculk_shrieker.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	1.0	1.0	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.sculk_shrieker.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	0.9	1.0	16
	Sculk Shrieker shrieks	Blocks	Sculk shrieker is activated	block.sculk_shrieker.shriek	subtitles.block.sculk_shrieker.shriek	0.9	1.0	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.sculk_shrieker.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

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

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

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

ID

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Sculk Shrieker	sculk_shrieker	716	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.sculk_shrieker.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
can_summon	false	false true	If true, the sculk shrieker can summon the warden.
shrieking	false	false true	Whether the sculk shrieker is shrieking or not.
waterlogged	false	false true	Whether or not there's water in the same place as this sculk shrieker.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
active	Not Supported	0	0 1	Unsupported	Whether the sculk shrieker is shrieking or not.
can_summon	Not Supported	false	true false	Unsupported	If true, the sculk shrieker can summon the warden.

History

October 16, 2021					Sculk shriekers are shown at Minecraft Live 2021.
Java Edition
1.19		Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1			Added sculk shriekers.
		22w11a			Implemented sculk shriekers into normal snapshot.
					Sculk shriekers no longer drop when mined with Silk Touch.
					Sculk shriekers can't be activated in this snapshot, as wardens and darkness are not added in this snapshot.
		22w12a			Readded functionality to the sculk shrieker.
					Sculk shriekers are no longer generated by sculk catalysts.
		22w13a			Sculk shriekers are once again obtainable with Silk Touch and once again spawn from sculk catalysts.
					There’s now a new can_summon tag for sculk shriekers that controls whether or not they can spawn a warden, it is set to true for naturally generated shriekers and false for ones that were placed by a player or spawned by a sculk catalyst.
					When the can_summon tag is set to false, it has another texture.
		22w15a			The model of the sculk shrieker has been changed.
					Sculk shriekers can no longer be triggered by redstone activation.
		22w19a			Sculk shriekers now need to be activated four times to summon the warden.
Bedrock Edition
1.17.30		beta 1.17.30.22			"Sculk Shrieker" was mentioned in the Bedrock Beta documentation.
		beta 1.17.30.23			Added textures of the sculk shrieker in internal Caves & Cliffs files.
Vanilla Experiments (experimental)		beta 1.18.0.22			Added sculk shriekers behind the "Vanilla Experiments" toggle.
					It uses an outdated model.
					It can be activated with a redstone signal, or by stepping on it.
Wild Update (experimental)		beta 1.18.10.21			Moved sculk shriekers to the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
		beta 1.18.30.20			Sculk shriekers now listen to sculk sensor tendril clicking.
					The threat level that causes the warden to spawn in the future now decreases over time.
		beta 1.18.30.22			Updated the sculk shrieker's model.
					Revamped the sculk spreading mechanics to match Java Edition.
		beta 1.18.30.28			Sculk shriekers no longer drop when mined with Silk Touch.
		beta 1.18.30.32			Sculk shriekers can now summon the warden.
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.20			Sculk shriekers are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
		beta 1.19.0.24			Sculk shriekers can be obtained again with Silk Touch.
					There’s now a new can_summon tag for sculk shriekers that controls whether or not they can spawn a warden, it is set to true for naturally generated shriekers and false for ones that were placed by a player or spawned by a sculk catalyst.
					When the can_summon tag is set to false, it has another texture.
					Sculk shriekers can no longer be triggered by redstone activation.
		beta 1.19.0.26			The model of the sculk shrieker has been changed to match match Java Edition.

Issues

Issues relating to "Sculk Shrieker" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• The sculk shrieker's design was inspired by the human larynx.

Gallery

• 

  A player steps on a sculk shrieker and activates it.

References

Redstone 

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