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Sculk shriekers are one of the new interesting blocks being added to Minecraft with The Wild Update. Parts of the ancient cities are infested with the death-corrupted sculk, and all variants of the blocks. Coupled with both the warden and the sculk sensor, these screaming blocks can spell disaster for players that stray too close without knowing how they work.
But what exactly is the sculk shrieker, how do players interact with it, and what does the player’s interaction with the sculk result in? This article will answer all these questions.
How to activate Minecraft’s sculk shrieker, and what that does
How to activate a sculk shrieker
Sculk shriekers can be activated in a pretty simple way. However, their detection system is quite unique for Minecraft. They can be activated in two ways: the player directly stepping on them or the player activating a nearby sculk sensor. This is done through noise and vibrations, and if the player makes too much noise, they will be detected.
Once a shrieker detects a player, it will, as the name implies, shriek. These shrieks last for 90 in-game ticks, which equates to 4.5 real-world seconds of screaming.
Sculk shriekers have a universal 10 second cooldown after activation, per player. This means that once a specific player has activated any sculk shrieker, they cannot activate any other sculk shriekers for 10 seconds. However, this cooldown window includes the duration of the scream, which lasts for 4.5 seconds.
This means that the player effectively has a 5.5 second activation protection window after activating a sculk shrieker, since the scream itself lasts for much of the shriek immunity window.
Shriekers can also act as redstone player detectors. They have a spherical range of 16 blocks.
What activating a sculk shrieker does
Once a shrieker has finished its 4.5 second shriek, all players in the survival game mode within 40 blocks will be given the darkness debuff for 12 seconds. However, this is their secondary effect, which is mostly atmospheric in nature. Their real draw and reason for existing is different.
Each shrieker that a player activates will add one to a warning level that is specific to each player. Whenever that player hits four warning levels, a warden will attempt to spawn. Since the warning level is tied to the player, four different shriekers activated once will summon a warden just like one shrieker being activated four times.
If a warning is not generated for 10 minutes, the player’s current warning level will decrease by one. If the player manages to get out of the shriekers range after activating it, they will avoid both the darkness effect as well as summoning a warden. However, players should keep in mind that their warning level will still increase by one.
To give further details on their redstone potential, when a shrieker is fed a redstone signal, it will search for a player within their mentioned 16 block spherical range. If a player is detected, the shrieker will activate and if no players are detected, it will not activate.
