Dark Update

What was added

• Deep Dark expansion with new blocks (Resonant Sculk, Veil Sculk, Gloom Lantern) that pulse dread, slow invaders, and illuminate ancient vaults.
• New relics and crafting chain: Abyssal Alloy, Veil Shards, Abyssal Heart, Echoing Stew, Echo music disc, lore tablet, and a Shrine Keystone to raise small sculk shrines with loot.
• Abyssal armor set built from Abyssal Alloy for heavy protection and knockback resistance.
• Hostile mobs: Sculk Crawler packs in the overworld and the Abyss Warden boss with a boss bar, roar-based fear aura, and dread-inflicting melee.
• World flavor: Echoing Depths biome data, sculk shrine feature/placed feature for Deep Dark and the new biome, and shrine loot tables.
• New sound events (abyss roar, echo heartbeat, crawler ambient) and the Dread status effect that chains darkness and panic.

How it works and how to try it

• Blocks and items live in the “Dark Update” creative tab; shrine keystone places a 3x3 sculk dais with a loot chest and lantern core.
• Resonant/Veil sculk apply Dread and slowness when walked on; Gloom Lantern emits light and dread pulses.
• Abyss Warden can be spawned via its egg or naturally in Deep Dark; it roars to spread Dread, knock back players, and displays a boss bar. Crawlers roam overworld caves and inflict Dread on hit.
• Sculk shrines are defined as a placed feature added to Deep Dark and Echoing Depths; each shrine chest rolls from the sculk_shrine loot table for alloys, shards, disc, and supplies.
• Abyssal armor crafts from Abyssal Alloy (echo shard + netherite scrap); wearing uses netherite visuals with improved toughness/knockback resistance.

Notes and limitations

• Echoing Depths biome is data-defined and available for custom world setups or /locate but not injected into vanilla noise settings by default.
• Abyss Warden renderer reuses a biped layout with the vanilla warden texture for compatibility; replace the model/texture if you want a bespoke look.
• Sounds reference existing vanilla audio; supply custom .ogg files under the same ids if you want unique ambience.

Server Validation

✅ Server validation passed - The mod was tested on a real Minecraft server and loaded successfully.