Sculk Vein

For the feature, see Sculk Vein (feature).

Sculk Vein

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.2
Hardness	0.2
Luminous	No
Transparent	Yes
Waterloggable	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	29 COLOR_BLACK
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A sculk vein is a block found in the deep dark or generated by sculk catalysts. It can generate or be placed on any side of a solid block.

Obtaining

Breaking

Sculk veins can be mined with any tool, but hoes are the quickest. A sculk vein drops itself only if it is broken with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch. Otherwise, it drops nothing.

Block	Sculk Vein
Hardness	0.2
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	10.3 (JE) 0.3 (BE)
Wooden	10.15 (JE) 0.15 (BE)
Stone	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Copper	10.1 (JE) 0.1 (BE)
Iron	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Diamond	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Netherite	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Golden	10.05 (JE) 0.05 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Sculk veins are generated within the deep dark biome.

Post-generation

Sculk veins generate when a mob dies within 8 blocks of a sculk catalyst.

Usage

Sculk veins can be placed on any and multiple sides of a block, similar to glow lichen.

Sculk veins cannot be destroyed by flowing water or lava.^[1]

Sounds

Java Edition:

sculk_vein sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.sculk_vein.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	0.8	0.88	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.sculk_vein.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	0.8	0.88	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.sculk_vein.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.sculk_vein.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.sculk_vein.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

sculk_vein sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.sculk_vein	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	When the block is placed	break.sculk_vein	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	step.sculk_vein	​ ?	0.3	0.5
	​ ?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	step.sculk_vein	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.sculk_vein	​ ?	0.17	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	step.sculk_vein	​ ?	0.12	1.0
	​ ?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.sculk_vein	​ ?	0.14	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Sculk Vein	sculk_vein	Block & Item	block.minecraft.sculk_vein

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Sculk Vein	sculk_vein	714	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.sculk_vein.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

History

Development

October 3, 2020							Sculk veins are shown at Minecraft Live 2020.
November 13, 2020							The sculk veins has a new texture in a tweet from Brandon Pearce.
April 26, 2021							Kingbdogz states that sculk features aren't coming in 1.17.
October 16, 2021							Sculk features were delayed to 1.19.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.19			Deep Dark Experimental Snapshot 1				Added sculk veins.
			22w11a				Implemented sculk veins into normal snapshot.
			22w15a				Can now be placed on the top and sides of soul sand, mud, and maximum height snow.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.17.30			beta 1.17.30.22				"Sculk Veins" was mentioned in Bedrock Beta documentation.
			beta 1.17.30.23				Sculk Veins texture was shown in internal Caves & Cliffs textures.
1.18.0 Experiment Vanilla Experiments			beta 1.18.0.22				Added sculk veins behind the "Vanilla Experiments" experimental toggle.
1.18.10 Experiment Wild Update			beta 1.18.10.21				Sculk veins have been moved behind the "Wild Update" experimental toggle.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.21				Sculk veins are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.

Issues

Issues relating to "Sculk Vein" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A naturally generated sculk vein directing the flow of lava from a spring
• 
  A monster room covered with sculk vein
• 
  Sculk vein in a stronghold

Renders

• 
  A concept design for the sculk vein with the trypophobia warden design
• 
  Ditto, but for the stalker design

References