Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension)
by Ixra
Players who want to reach the Ancient City can use the portal block that Arda's Sculks adds, and the mod fills its Deep Dark biomes with sculk-themed creatures and bosses.
What it does
Arda's Sculks adds a portal to the Ancient City and a separate Ancient World dimension. Entering that dimension requires the Portal Igniter item. Deep Dark biomes receive many boss creatures, and the mod's content is spread through that biome family rather than kept in a single structure.
Sculk-themed versions of the creeper, skeleton, enderman and fox are added, along with a fast, agile slime that splits into two when it dies, as regular slimes do. The Sculk Ghost is a flying enemy that goes after the player. Geckolib is a required dependency. Language packs cover English, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, German, Chinese, Spanish and about a dozen more.
The mod is client and server, so the server and every player need it. Forge builds exist for 1.20.1 and NeoForge builds for 1.21.1; the latest Forge file is for 1.20.1 and the latest NeoForge file is for 1.21.1, on the beta channel. Game versions covered run 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 across three release versions. The code is under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only and is open source.
Key features
Ancient City portal
A portal block leads from the overworld into the Ancient World dimension, built around the Ancient City.
Deep Dark bosses
Several boss creatures spawn in the Deep Dark biomes, adding fights to the existing sculk areas.
Sculk-themed mobs
Creeper, skeleton, enderman and fox variants carry sculk styling, with the creeper's explosion leaving a darkness slowing effect.
Language support
Translations cover about twenty languages, from English and German to Kazakh, Tatar and Uyghur.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Sculk Dimension is a Forge file for 1.20.1, client and server, under All rights reserved and not open source, so it covers the same dimension theme on a single version. Sculk And Jaw runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 1.21.11, client and server, and is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, which makes it the broader choice. The Deep Echo is server-side only and ranges 1.21.1 – 1.21.4 on NeoForge, so players need nothing installed.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension) | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-10-11 |
| Sculk Dimension | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-09-25 |
| Sculk And Jaw | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-08-29 |
| The Deep Echo | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.4 | Server-side only | 2025-09-05 |
Questions
Does Arda's Sculks need Geckolib?
Does the server need Arda's Sculks as well as players?
Which loader should be chosen for Arda's Sculks?
In the catalog
Arda's Sculks (Ancient City Portal / Deep Dark Dimension) is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
Versions 1.4 and above require GECKOLIB. # Language 1 English (US) — Complete 2 Turkish (TR) — Perfected Complete 3 Portuguese (BR) — Perfected Complete 4 Azerbaijani Turkish (AZ) 5 French (FR) 6 Kazakh (Kazakhstan) 7 Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) 8 Yakut (Sakha) 9 Turkmen (Turkmenistan) 10 Uzbek (Uzbekistan) 11 Tatar…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/ardas-sculks
- Owner
- Ixra
- Published
- 2024-09-02
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15