
Deepspawn Origin
An origins datapack that adds the Deepspawn, a sculk-themed origin that thrives on trapping, planning, and fighting on their home turf.
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About this Mod
Whether you died and were revived by the sculk or are merely a construct of its will, you are innately attuned to the Deep Dark.
The Deepspawn are a sculk-inspired origin that gain buffs in their home turf, but are left exposed if they venture out without a plan.
Origins or Origins (Forge) is needed to use this datapack.
Impact: HIGH
Powers
Powers:
🟢 Positive:
- Deep Dark Inhabitant: You spawn in the closest Ancient City to [0,0].
- Quiet: Noises you make can't be detected by sculk sensors or wardens.
- Meld: You can phase into sculk-family blocks and climb sculk veins. While within the sculk, you gain Strength and Speed over time.
- Fire Immunity: You are immune to all types of fire damage and can't be set on fire.
- Attuned Hearing: While crouched, you can see entities within 12 blocks of you through walls. While standing on or inside of sculk, this range is doubled to 24 blocks. Players sneaking, on wool, or on carpets cannot be tracked.
- Echo Charge: By using an echo shard on a sculk shrieker, you can change whether it can spawn wardens or not.
- Subdivide (active ability): You can consume 10 levels and some of your vitality to create a sculk catalyst.
- Colonize (active ability; 2.0 onwards): You can cause any sculk catalyst you're standing on to spread sculk at the cost of experience. You need a seed block of sculk or sculk veins to start the process. Uses the secondary ability key which is unbound by default, sorry the tooltip is broken, I'll probably fix it at some point.
🟡 Neutral:
- Soul Eater: You can't eat. Instead, experience orbs refill your hunger.
🔴 Negative:
- Reincorporate: You get Regeneration II and Resistance I when within 8 blocks of a sculk catalyst. Outside of potions, this is your only way to regenerate HP.
- Depthborn: You can see slightly better in the dark, however the sun (or bright light in 2.0 onward) overwhelms your senses, leaving you weakened and unable to see very far in it's presence.
(I recommend turning off darkness pulsing in accessibility settings.)
Powers are rated on how positively/negatively they effect gameplay, not how positive or negative the ability looks at first glance. For example, ancient city respawn is often listed in the neutral or negative category, but it actually provides a huge early game headstart for this origin especially, so it's considered a positive.
Feel free to dm me on Discord (@alwaysalty_) or Twitter (@Alwaysalty) if you want me to add or fix anything (compatibility with other mods, versions with changed features, etc).
Special thanks to the Sculkling, Sculked Magpie, and Sculk Mole origins, as they were my main inspiration for making my own sculk origin.
As spawning in an ancient city without being able to trigger sculk shriekers kind of trivializes the early game, you might want to be careful including this origin in more vanilla servers. Feel free to include this mod in any of your modpacks, you don't have to ask!
Available Versions
How to Install Deepspawn Origin on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set datapack Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the datapack loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.1).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Deepspawn Origin". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21.1, 1.21, 1.20.4 (+3 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Deepspawn Origin server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong datapack version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Deepspawn Origin compatible with datapack and fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?
Deepspawn Origin officially supports datapack, fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21, 1.20.4. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Deepspawn Origin – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Deepspawn Origin consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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