Sunken Skeletons
by OfficePigeon
Sunken Skeletons turns skeletons that stand in warm or lukewarm ocean water into an aquatic variant, with its own arrows, drops and spawn rules.
What it does
Sunken Skeletons adds an aquatic version of the skeleton mob, based on the Minecraft Dungeons design. Skeletons that spend time submerged in water in the configured biomes can become Sunken Skeletons, and the mod converts them in the same way vanilla turns Skeletons into Strays or Powdered Snow skeletons. Spawning is governed by a biome tag, so the default setup covers warm ocean and lukewarm ocean, along with deep lukewarm ocean.
Sunken Skeletons is a Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21 – 1.21.11, released under All rights reserved and not open source. Source code and an issue tracker are public. Fabric API is required and must be installed alongside it. Because the mod changes mob behavior, it is client and server: the server and every player need it.
Key features
Aquatic spawns
Sunken Skeletons spawn in the ocean biomes listed in the spawn tag, so their range can be changed through data files.
Coral drops
A killed Sunken Skeleton may drop coral, with the chance depending on the variant, and the Looting enchantment raises the rate.
Shearing for coral
Sheared Sunken Skeletons drop coral and lose their heads, so the drop is not repeatable from a single mob.
Water-slowed arrows
The arrows Sunken Skeletons fire are slowed down in water, which changes how they fight near the surface.
Translations
Russian, Simplified Chinese and Ukrainian translations are included, with credits to their translators.
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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
Use cases
Ocean monument play
Players exploring warm and lukewarm oceans meet the mob in its natural habitat while they gather coral.
Coral farming
Players who want coral can use shearing or the Looting enchantment to raise the number of drops from these mobs.
Who it’s for: Players who want a new ocean mob and server owners who need a mob that spawns only in configured water biomes.
How it compares
Deadly Skeletons is a Fabric mod for 1.21.1 that runs on the server only, released under the MIT License, and it is not open source. Skeleton Arrow Nerf is a server-side Fabric mod for 1.20.1 that is open source under the MIT License, so it changes arrows without adding a new mob. Sunken Skeletons needs both sides, while these two do not require a client install.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunken Skeletons | Fabric | 1.21 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-01-11 |
| Deadly Skeletons | Fabric | 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2025-12-14 |
| Skeleton Arrow Nerf | Fabric | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2024-12-20 |
Questions
Does Sunken Skeletons need Fabric API?
Must the mod be installed on a server?
Where do Sunken Skeletons spawn?
In the catalog
Sunken Skeletons is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Adds the aquatic Sunken Skeleton mob from Minecraft Dungeons. These skeletons spawn in biomes defined by the #wich:spawns_sunken_skeletons tag [default minecraft:warm_ocean, minecraft:lukewarm_ocean, and minecraft:deep_lukewarm_ocean]. When killed by a player, Sunken Skeletons have a chance to drop coral depending on…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/sunken-skeletons
- Owner
- OfficePigeon
- Published
- 2025-11-11
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-01-11
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15