Sculk Expansion

Sculk blocks, sculk catalysts and reinforced deepslate keep burning with soul fire once they are lit. The effect lasts indefinitely, which suits builds that rely on that light. Four new recipes handle conversions between sculk veins and sculk blocks, and a smelting route yields one vein plus some experience from a block.

A walking warden leaves a thin trail of sculk on the ground, which can reach sculk sensors and active shriekers. Wardens also swim faster in water and cannot drown, which breaks drowning-based warden farms. While held, the recovery compass emits soul particles once every two seconds, and the particles point toward whichever mob or player is closest, provided that target is within 32 blocks.

The mod is a server-side data pack, and the server is the only side that needs it. Players can join without installing anything. It targets 1.19 – 1.21.11 on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the code is not open source; it is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license, which allows reuse with credit but not for profit.