The Sift Unbound

Step through the Warden Portal into the Sift: the soul-filled dimension from Minecraft Dungeons II, in Minecraft Java today.

Every texture, model, sound and note of music is original, made for this mod. Names, creatures and mechanics follow the Sift as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons II.

🌀 Wake the Warden Portal

Every ancient city has a reinforced-deepslate frame at its heart. Wake it as they do in Dungeons II: put eight note blocks in front of the frame and play the Sift's melody, F♯ A C♯ B A E C♯ F♯, by hand or with redstone. Each right note sends up a soul.

Prefer a shortcut? Craft an Echo Tuner from echo shards and use it on the frame. Sneak-use it to hear the melody and see its notes. Or hand an Echo Golem an echo shard and let it play the tune for you.

Dormant…	…awakened

🌸 Six regions to explore

• Singer's Meadow: red sculk hills, swaying grass and soulshale monoliths carved with the singer.
• Sifter Canyons: deep canyons full of sifter nests, and of sifters.
• Pallid Grove: pale, droopy trees and drifting souls.
• Ichor Ponds: pools of shimmering ichor where blubs bathe.
• Humbler Huskland: sand, sculk spires and the colossal fossils of humblers: rib cages, carapaces and skulls.
• Lullaby Hills: rolling red sculk under a teal sky.

Singer's Meadow	Pallid Grove	Ichor Ponds

Humbler Huskland	Lullaby Hills

🌗 The tides

The Sift has no sun. Its day turns through three tides, and each one changes how you play:

• Flow: calm and teal.
• Endure: deep blue darkness. Wounds stop healing on their own, monsters come out stronger, and slabbers curl up asleep.
• Thrive: salmon-gold light. Wounds mend 50% faster.

Flow	Endure	Thrive

Check the tide any time with /sift tide.

🌊 Ichor

The Sift's thick, oily, rainbow liquid. It drains the souls of Overworlders with Soulsickness, while the Sift's own creatures bathe in it happily.

🐾 Wildlife

• Blubs: squeaky jelly creatures in three looks. You can't hurt them; they bathe in ichor and shed Blub Jelly. Breed them and bucket them.
• Nuzzles: sheep-like grazers. Shear them for pink wool, which grows back as they graze.
• Slabbers: armoured, turtle-like and sleepy. During the Endure Tide they look just like the ground.
• Echo Golems: caretakers powered by the soul blocks on their heads. They recharge in ichor and can wake portals.
• The Singer: a gentle, healthy warden who keeps the Singer's Portal, sings the Sift's melody and creates echo golems.

🌿 The Sifters

The Sift's plant-like natives roam in hostile bands. Hurt one and the whole band comes for you.

• Seedling: small, quick and bitey. It even eats arrows.
• Nester: tall and stilt-legged. It gallops in and dodges your blows.
• Pollinator: frog-like. It spits pollen globs that burst into sticky, slowing goo.
• Sentinel: bearded and crested. It fires a storm of homing quills.
• Sprout: a floating support. Its Life Link beam powers up its allies.
• Harmonizer: a rare mini-boss. It roars for reinforcements, binds them with beams and pulls you into its vortex.

⚠️ Kill a Sprout or a Harmonizer and every sifter nearby becomes enraged for good: faster, stronger and tougher, glowing purple, and out for you.

🦂 The Sculkers and the Monarch

• Stalkers: clawed hunters of the Endure Tide. They strike twice and lunge from range.
• Scavengers: golden, cage-bodied casters. Their homing soul bolts leave pools of soulsickness, and they dash away in a blur of afterimages.
• Sculkers hunt sifters too, and their fights spill across the Sift.

Deep beneath the hills lie the sculker nests of the Ravines. Find a soulshale doorway in a hillside and follow the tunnel down to a dim cavern of sculk and ichor where the Monarch waits.

• Every melee hit the Monarch lands heals it.
• It summons stalkers and scavengers to its side.
• Its dashes and spins leave feathers hanging in the air, and five seconds later they fly at you.
• Once it is wounded, its spectral Monarch Echo joins the fight.
• Beat it for the treasure on its obsidian plinth.

🏆 Advancements that teach you the Sift

26 advancements guide you from your first echo shard to the Monarch's throne. Each one's description explains the mechanic it's about, so the advancement tab doubles as your guide to the Sift.

✨ And more

• 50+ blocks: the Soulshale stone family, Chiseled Soulshale carved with a singer (also found in ancient city chests), Pallid wood, Sift grass and plants, and Soul Shard ore.
• An original soundtrack, ambience, and sounds for every creature.
• A Sift title screen: a 360° panorama and Sift splash texts.

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft Java 26.3
• Fabric Loader 0.20.1+ and Fabric API
• Install it on both the server and every client.

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