Sculk Echo 1.4.0-beta — Trials & Tribulations

The epidemic leaves the Deep Dark. It learns to fly, to cast, to hunt in frozen silence — and it never stops recruiting.

New mobs — End Echoes (1.3 content)

• The Whisperer (Infected Enderman) — teleports in bursts of sculk souls, sometimes leaving sculk blocks behind. Within 16 blocks it jams your Echo Pulse with phantom noise; in echo-vision its silhouette flickers. In darkness only two teal eyes burn. Drops 1–2 echo shards.
• Sculk Shulker — a living turret with a sculk vortex for a heart. Its bullets inject +3 infection per hit on players and may seed sculk on struck blocks.
• Sculk Mite (Sporeling) — a fast burrower that vanishes in sparks and resurfaces behind your back. Its death bursts into a conversion cloud (radius 2).
• Sculk Witch — hurls vials of infection (+2 infection per hit), drinks echo shards to heal when wounded, leaves a conversion puddle and an echo shard on death. In echo-vision she burns with a violet-teal double aura.

New mobs — Trials & the Frozen North (1.4 content)

• Sculk Breeze — a corrupted wind elemental. Shoots wind charges that inject +2 infection per hit; seeds sculk beneath itself when it lands. Wrapped in an animated teal vortex; in darkness only glowing eye-dots remain.
• Sculk Evoker — a corrupted illager captain. On death: a conversion cloud (radius 3, 4 damage), a Totem of Undying and 3 echo shards. The most dangerous mob of the epidemic.
• Sculk Polar Bear — the apex predator of the frozen north, claimed by the sculk. Ice-like sculk plating on its back, glowing teal eyes, devastating melee. The epidemic now reaches every climate.

Sculk alchemy & counterplay

• Sculk Potion — brew a splash potion with an echo shard (brewing stand) or craft it shapeless. On landing it blooms like a mini-catalyst: a patchy sculk crust spreads over the surface (up to 12 blocks). Direct hits convert mobs.
• Sculk Ward enchantment — an enchanted book sold only by the Sculk Merchant (14–18 shards, 1 in stock). Applied to armor via anvil: while worn, infection cannot grow from any source and infected mobs refuse to target you. You become a ghost in the epidemic.

Merchant & QoL

• Sculk Merchant rolls a random stock on spawn: 2 fixed shard trades + 3–4 random offers (diamond, potion, golden apple, sculk catalyst, XP bottles, ender pearls, sculk, netherite scrap) with floating prices.
• Button in the trading GUI: "New goods: 1 shard" — pay a shard, the merchant reshuffles his stock on the spot.
• New advancement: "Universal Friendship" — complete a trade with the Sculk Merchant.

Total: 16 infected mobs

Overworld farms and villages, Deep Dark, Trial Chambers, the End and the frozen north — nowhere is safe, everywhere is recruitable.

Known issues & roadmap

• Gradual blindness over in-game days — roadmap.
• Infected piglin/brute for full Nether coverage — roadmap (1.5 or 1.0).
• Echo Stimulator crafting at the Merchant — roadmap.

The sculk does not kill. The sculk recruits.