How to Survive Combat and Farm Nether Fortresses

Draining Health with Sculk Infect

Fighting in pitch-black caves or hostile dimensions is much safer when you use your dark magic to sustain yourself. Open the addon menu to review your combat skills before engaging tough mobs. During a fight, activate Sculk Infect to drain the life force from your enemies, helping you recover and survive close-quarters battles. While exploring dangerous corridors, you can also summon a wither skeleton to fight alongside you.

Exploiting Wither Immunity in the Nether

Nether fortresses are ideal hunting grounds for a sculk dragon because your diet and natural immunities directly counter the area's main threats:

• Ignore Wither Skeleton decay: You have complete immunity to the wither effect. You can fight wither skeletons head-on without carrying milk buckets, leaving ranged Piglins with crossbows and standard melee hits as your primary concerns.
• Walk safely on Wither Roses: Stepping on wither roses deals zero damage to you. Plant wither roses around your underground base entrances or combat arenas to damage pursuing mobs while moving freely across them yourself.
• Refuel between fights: Harvest soul sand and nether wart directly from fortress rooms to restore your hunger without returning to the Overworld.