







Sculk Expansion Data Pack expands on gameplay involving sculk and the warden.
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Features:
Warden
- The warden now spreads a modest amount of sculk along the ground wherever it walks. This can sometimes include sculk sensors and even active sculk shriekers. If you’re trying to contain a warden or bring one to the surface, be careful!
- Additionally, wardens now swim faster in water and can’t drown. Note that this does break drowning-based warden farms.
Recovery Compass
- The recovery compass has an additional use while holding it: every 2 seconds, it emits soul particles that point in the direction of the nearest mob or player within 32 blocks of you.
Gameplay
- Sculk veins are now climbable, making ancient cities even more interesting to navigate. Note that due to the way the
climbabletag works, walking over a sculk vein that’s on the floor will slow down your movement. - Sculk blocks, sculk catalysts, and reinforced deepslate now indefinitely burn with soul fire when lit. Looks great for builds!
Recipes
In addition, there are four new recipes:
- You can craft four sculk veins into one sculk block, or vice versa.
- You can smoke one sculk block into one sculk vein and some experience, providing a way to extract experience from sculk that can be automated, as opposed to breaking it by hand or with a hoe.
- You can craft eight sculk blocks and one glass bottle into a bottle o’ enchanting, providing a way of stockpiling them that doesn’t require villager trading.
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Sculk Expansion Data Pack Download Links
For Minecraft 1.21.11
For Minecraft 1.21.10, 1.21.9
For Minecraft 1.21.8, 1.21.7, 1.21.6
For Minecraft 1.21.5, 1.21.4
For Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21
For All Versions from Minecraft 1.19 to Minecraft 1.20.6
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.11, 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Download size: 22 KB
- Download link checked 17 Jun 2026 — working
- Mirrored on our own servers — the download does not depend on the original host
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.