How to Obtain and Defend with Blessed Dust

Receiving the Priest's Blessing

Blessed Dust provides a potent stationary defense against undead raids. To acquire it, you must perform a consecration ritual in a village:

1. Earn at least 1 experience level.

2. Place Glowstone Dust into your active hand.

3. Approach a village priest to receive their blessing, which consumes your experience level and consecrates the dust into Blessed Dust.

Establishing Sacred Ground

• Perimeter Laying: Place Blessed Dust along the ground to form continuous trails around your base perimeter, doorways, or village paths.
• Repelling Mobs: Undead and most other mobs actively recognize the danger of Blessed Dust and will refuse to pathfind or cross over the trail under normal circumstances.
• Punishing Intruders: If an undead mob is forced onto the dust—such as by knockback, crowding, or fluid currents—the dust immediately inflicts a high amount of holy damage upon them.
• Maintenance: Blessed Dust does not last indefinitely during combat. Each time an undead mob walks over a sacred tile, there is a chance the holy power depletes, causing that specific piece of dust to dissipate. Routinely inspect your defensive borders after skirmishes and replace missing dust.