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Colored Shulkers
Description and User Guide
Initial public release · 1.0.3

Colored Shulkers is a standalone Fabric mod that brings the full Shulker Box color palette to the creatures you meet in the End. Each of the 16 dye colors has a dedicated spawn egg and a shell drop that matches. The original undyed Shulker stays in the lineup, along with its original egg and shell.

Release information

Project name — Colored Shulkers
Mod ID — colored_shulkers
Release file — colored-shulkers-fabric-1.21.11-1.0.3.jar
Compatibility — Java Edition 1.21.11, Fabric Loader, and Java 21 or newer
Required dependency — Fabric API for 1.21.11
Tested with — Fabric Loader 0.19.3 and Fabric API 0.141.6+1.21.11

Installation and upgrading

1. Use a Fabric profile for 1.21.11. Put the Colored Shulkers JAR and the Fabric API JAR in the profile's mods folder.
2. If you already have an earlier Colored Shulkers JAR, replace it. An existing world works without being recreated. Shells saved by earlier versions keep their color and use the current shell art.
3. For multiplayer, install the same Colored Shulkers release and the required Fabric API on the server and on each client. No other content mod is required.

Find a color in Creative

Open the Shulkers tab, marked by a purple spawn egg. The first pair is the original Shulker Spawn Egg and the ordinary purple Shulker Shell. The remaining 16 pairs each put a colored egg immediately before its matching shell. There are 34 entries in all. You can take both items directly from this tab.

The 16 colors are White, Orange, Magenta, Light Blue, Yellow, Lime, Pink, Gray, Light Gray, Cyan, Purple, Blue, Brown, Green, Red, and Black. The dyed Purple variant and the original undyed Shulker are separate entries. The undyed one keeps the original purple appearance, egg, and shell.

Use the egg normally on a suitable block. A blue egg always creates a blue Shulker, for example. A dispenser can also use the egg without changing the selected color. The spawned creature retains its color when the world is saved and reopened.

Find colored Shulkers in Survival

End Cities — In newly generated End Cities, each original Shulker sentry position has about a 75% chance of receiving a colored Shulker and about a 25% chance of keeping the original undyed one. The 16 colors are all possible. This changes the color at existing sentry positions, not the layout of the city or the number of sentry positions. Already-generated cities are not retroactively recolored.

Outer End islands — Colored Shulkers can also appear outside cities as you explore the outer islands in Survival or Adventure. The mod occasionally looks for a clear, exposed End Stone surface in loaded, ticking terrain. It looks roughly 28–56 blocks away horizontally and will not place a Shulker less than 24 blocks from a non-spectator player. This rule applies only in outer-island biomes at least 768 blocks from the End origin. When three Shulkers placed by this outer-island rule are already nearby, it skips the attempt. Outer-island spawning is disabled on Peaceful or when doMobSpawning is off. There are no added natural spawns in the central End or other dimensions.

Shell drops and crafting

When a dyed Shulker drops a shell, the shell matches its color. The original drop probability, Looting bonuses, and drop count still apply. A Shulker may drop nothing. The original undyed Shulker still drops the ordinary purple shell.

All colored shells use the original shell shape and shading pattern. Only the palette and display name change. The shell you pick from the Creative tab is the same as the corresponding shell obtained as a drop. Different shell colors stack separately, but they all work in the original recipe. Place one shell above a chest and one below it. You can mix two colors, or use one colored shell and one ordinary shell. The result is a standard Shulker Box. Apply a dye separately if you want a colored box.

What stays the same

Colored Shulkers are still Shulkers. They keep the original model, shell opening and closing, attachment, teleportation, attacks, and projectiles. The mod does not add block disguises, new attacks, or an in-world dyeing mechanic. The original Shulker Spawn Egg still produces the original undyed variant.

Release goals

This release completes the color set, gives every color a reliable way to spawn it, makes the egg-and-shell matches easy to find in Creative, and lets players encounter those same colors naturally in the End. The original undyed variant, shell use, and Shulker behavior are preserved.