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Ghastly Wail
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Ghastly Wail

When a ghast dies in a portal, the frame becomes crying obsidian and shatters.

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📖About Ghastly Wail

Ghastly Wail

Minecraft versions
environment: server
loader: Fabric
available for: Quilt Loader
Requires: Fabric API
supports: Cloth Config
supports: Mod Menu
license: MIT
source on: GitLab
issues: GitLab
localized: Percentage
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When a ghast dies in a nether portal, the frame becomes crying obsidian and shatters.

Works server-side and in single player.

Adds a new mechanic for renewable crying obsidian.

When a ghast dies in a nether portal, all the obsidian blocks that make up the portal frame will be converted to obsidian and then shatter into item form.

Ghastly Wail

Why?

  • It thematically connects normal obsidian and crying obsidian
  • Ghasts' tears mean it makes 'video game sense' for them to be involved in the conversion to crying obsidian
  • "But crying obsidian is already renewable through piglin barters!" I recommend removing crying obsidian from bartering using the builtin "piglin_bartering_sans_crying_obsidian" datapack (since 1.1.4, default disabled).

Configuration

As of 1.1.4, two game rules allow control over how obsidian is converted:

  • ghastly_wail:obsidianConversionChance; 0 to 100, default: 100

    chance for nether portal frame obsidian to convert to crying obsidian

  • ghastly_wail:convertedObsidianBreakChance; 0 to 100, default: 100

    chance for converted crying obsidian blocks to break

Between versions 1.1.0 and 1.1.4:

  • ghastly_wail:breakConvertedObsidian; default: true

    controls whether crying obsidian is dropped as an item or replaces the portal frame in block form


Translating

localized: Percentage
As of version 1.1.4, there are several translatable lines.
If you'd like to help translate Ghastly Wail, you can do so on
Crowdin.


This mod is only for Fabric (works on Quilt, too!) and I won't be porting it to Forge. The license is MIT, however,
so anyone else is free to port it.

I'd appreciate links back to this page if you port or otherwise modify this project, but links aren't required.

👥 Team & Contributors

supersaiyansubtlety
supersaiyansubtletyOwner

⚙️ Compatibility

Environment
🖥️ Server-side
Loaders
fabricquilt
Minecraft Versions
1.21.11

🔗 Links

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