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Sculk Catalyst

A block from the deep dark that spreads sculk and sculk growths when a mob dies nearby, consuming the experience the mob would drop. It emits a small pulse of light when it spreads.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

1.19

Item ID

sculk_catalyst

Sculk Catalyst at a glance

Sculk Catalyst comes from mining and natural world generation, and Utility Blocks is where it sits as a block. Stack Sculk Catalyst 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest.

Sculk Catalyst is a 3-hardness block. Mining Sculk Catalyst and blowing it up both run into 3. Use a hoe on Sculk Catalyst to speed it up; no particular tier is required. Light level 6 comes off Sculk Catalyst without any help. Generated chests only ever hold Sculk Catalyst in one place: ancient city chests (about 17%, 1 to 2 at a time). It sits between Scaffolding and Sea Lantern in Utility Blocks, number 278 of 340 there.

How to obtain

  • Mining
  • Natural generation

Mobs that drop it

1 per kill, and only Warden carries Sculk Catalyst at all.

Notes

Cannot be crafted. Only drops itself when mined with a Silk Touch tool. Generates in the deep dark biome.

Frequently asked questions about Sculk Catalyst

  1. Mining leading to Sculk Catalyst, the way this answer says Sculk Catalyst arrives

    How do you get Sculk Catalyst in Minecraft?

    Sculk Catalyst is obtained through mining, and Sculk Catalyst from natural world generation. No crafting recipe exists for Sculk Catalyst. The best odds are ancient city chests, about 17% per chest.

  2. Sculk Catalyst on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Sculk Catalyst used for?

    A block from the deep dark that spreads sculk and sculk growths when a mob dies nearby, consuming the experience the mob would drop. It emits a small pulse of light when it spreads.

  3. 64 Sculk Catalyst drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Sculk Catalyst can you stack?

    Sculk Catalyst goes 64 to a slot, and ancient city chests hand over 1 to 2 at a time, so a full slot is at least 32 chests of searching. A full backpack of 36 inventory slots carries 2,304 at once.

  4. Sculk Catalyst as a block, next to the hoe its 3 hardness asks for

    How long does Sculk Catalyst take to break?

    What Sculk Catalyst comes down to is 3 against a tool on it and 3 against a blast. Identical values are the game's way of saying Sculk Catalyst was not designed to stop anything hitting it. Use a hoe on Sculk Catalyst to speed it up; no particular tier is required. Light level 6 comes with Sculk Catalyst. Java 26.2 keeps Sculk Catalyst on file as printed, which is what it shows here.

  5. Several Sculk Catalyst at once, the way a kill drops them

    Which mobs drop Sculk Catalyst?

    1 per kill, and only Warden carries Sculk Catalyst at all.

  6. A chest beside Sculk Catalyst, the loot this answer lists

    Where do you find Sculk Catalyst in chests?

    Sculk Catalyst is chest loot in one place and one only: ancient city chests (about 17%, 1 to 2 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

  7. Sculk Catalyst coming forward out of the past, in the game since 1.19

    When was Sculk Catalyst added to Minecraft?

    Sculk Catalyst was added in version 1.19.

Building with it

A sculk catalyst turns the death of a nearby mob into a spreading patch of sculk, which is how the deep dark grows. Silk Touch collects it, and placed at home it becomes a mob farm that paves its own floor and produces experience as it goes.

Related Astroworld Resources

Warden drops Sculk Catalyst

The Warden page on Astroworld Mobs, where Sculk Catalyst is listed as a drop

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