DryOut — The Desert Update
Basic Info
DryOut is a desert survival addon that expands Minecraft's deserts with ancient Egyptian themed content, dangerous creatures, mysterious structures, powerful relics, useful trinkets, new blocks, events, and survival mechanics.
The desert is no longer just an empty biome. Explore, fight, discover hidden places, collect powerful items, and survive the dangers buried beneath the sand.
Categories
Mobs
DryOut adds new desert creatures and enemies, including:
- Scorpion
- Scarab
- Mummy
- Tarantula
- Tumbleweed
- Other desert enemies and creatures will be added
Some mobs have special behaviors and mechanics instead of acting like normal Minecraft mobs.
Structures
Discover new structures throughout the desert, including:
- Tombs
- Oases
- Statues and monuments
- Temples
Structures are designed to make desert exploration more rewarding and dangerous.
Items
Relics
Relics are powerful items that give you special abilities and spells.
Use relics to gain unique powers, manage mana, and fight enemies in new ways.
Trinkets
Trinkets provide passive abilities while held in hand (offhand or mainhand).
Examples include special items that can improve your survival, movement, defense, or interaction with the desert.
Blocks
DryOut adds custom blocks and gameplay blocks, including:
- Custom dungeon spawner
- Special utility blocks
- Alchemy related blocks
- Blocks used by structures and gameplay systems
Custom Spawner
The DryOut dungeon spawner is a custom mob spawning system designed for structures.
It can:
- Detect nearby players
- Spawn multiple mobs
- Use different mob types
- Use weighted mob spawning
- Have spawn limits
- Have custom spawn intervals
- Activate only when players are nearby
This makes dungeons feel more alive without constantly spawning mobs everywhere.
Mechanics
Food Dousing
Food can have special interactions and effects through DryOut's food system.
As of now, you can put custom effects on food by holding an item in your offhand and food in your main hand, then right-clicking it.
Currently supported items include the Scorpion Venom Gland, with more coming soon.
Sandstorms
Sandstorms are dangerous desert events that can suddenly change the environment around you.
During a sandstorm:
- Strong winds can push entities
- Visibility can become worse
- The desert becomes more dangerous
- Special particles and effects appear
- Other desert threats can become more noticeable
- You can hide under a block to stay safe
- Ambient storm sounds play
Curse Events
Some of DryOut's most dangerous mechanics are connected to curses.
Certain discoveries and encounters can trigger powerful curse effects that change how you survive and explore the world.
The curse system is designed to make major encounters feel more meaningful instead of simply giving the player another normal reward.
A curse will last a few days and randomly swap between different curse events.
Use /dryout in chat to set the current active event for testing only.
Achievements
DryOut includes custom achievements for completing challenges and discovering different parts of the addon.
Achievements can be earned through exploration, combat, relic usage, special discoveries, and other objectives.
Craft a guide book with a piece of sand and a book to find out all the achievements you can earn.
Exploration
Exploration is a major part of DryOut.
Search the desert for hidden structures, rare loot, powerful items, dangerous enemies, and secrets (lore added soon).
The deeper you explore, the more dangerous the desert becomes.
Combat
DryOut expands combat with new enemies, abilities, relics, and special encounters.
Different creatures have different behaviors, making combat less predictable than fighting normal desert mobs.
Progression
DryOut is designed around survival, exploration, and discovery.
Start by surviving the desert, then discover better equipment, relics, trinkets, structures, and secrets as you progress.
Eventually, you will encounter some of the strongest challenges hidden within the desert.
What DryOut Adds
- New desert mobs
- New structures
- Oases
- Custom dungeons
- Relics
- Trinkets
- Custom mechanics
- New blocks
- Sandstorms
- Curse events
- Food mechanics
- Custom achievements
- Special combat abilities
- Exploration rewards
- Ancient Egyptian themed content
- Secrets and hidden discoveries
- Retextured blocks
- Desert visual overhaul
DryOut turns the desert into a dangerous place worth exploring.