Sculk Infection FAQ

It adds sculk-themed blocks, items, and mobs, including sculked variants of existing creatures and new hostile bosses. It also adds a block that starts the sculk infection, which spreads and engulfs the world.

It adds the Arbiter, Arbiter Body, Watcher, Unstable Enderman, and sculked versions of the Bat, Creeper, Skeleton, Spider, Spiderling, Zombie, and Zombie Miner.

It supports Minecraft 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.21, and 1.21.1.

It is a Fabric mod. It can also run on NeoForge (1.21) and Forge (1.20) via Sinytra Connector, using Forgified Fabric API instead of Fabric API.

Yes, Fabric API is required for this mod to work.

The Arbiter is a worm entity that hunts players underground and acts as the second phase of the Watcher. It has 200HP, does 18 damage, can move through blocks, and reacts to sounds.

The Watcher is a special entity that infects and spreads sculk throughout the caves. It has 150HP and does 11 damage.

Crulk is a new moving block that alerts Watchers and Arbiters. It can be obtained with Silk Touch.

Yes, the mod adds a helmet that allows players to sense vibrations. Based on drops from the worm, you can create a special helmet that shows the location of sound sources from hostile mobs and players.

The mod's new entities spawn outside of the Deep Dark biome, but still below deepslate. The author has also mentioned that the mod currently does not have natural spawning for the worm and is considering a bad omen-like effect for encounters.