Scorching Desert
A Minecraft mod that expands on the vanilla Desert biome, adding new mobs, blocks, structures, and features to bring the desert to life.
Overview
Scorching Desert expands on the vanilla Minecraft desert with new mobs, blocks, structures, and world generation. Start a world and head to a Desert or Mesa biome to find new wildlife, dangers, and things to discover.
Not everything you find will be friendly. Explore carefully.
Contents
- Mobs All hostile, neutral, and passive creatures added by the mod.
- Blocks Decorative, functional, and natural blocks.
- Items Consumables, crafting components, and loot drops.
- Tools and Gear Weapons, armor, and tools.
- Structures Temples, ruins, dungeons, and other generated buildings.
- Features Biome mechanics, terrain features, and more.
Mobs
Coyote
Passive during the day unless provoked. Turns hostile at night. Baby Husks can spawn riding Coyotes as a Coyote Jockey.
Road Runner
Passive. Always flees from almost everything, and is extremely fast. Good luck catching one.
Blocks
Natural Blocks
Quicksand
Step on it and you will begin to sink. If you stay too long, you will suffocate.
Red Quicksand
Same behaviour as Quicksand, found in the Badlands and Mesa biomes.
Decorative Blocks
Ancient painted sandstone blocks found inside structures, depicting stories and scenes from the desert civilisation.
Painted Story Ancient Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Painted Story Massacre Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Painted Story Creeper Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Painted Story Village Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Painted Story Golem Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Painted Story Wither Red Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Painted Story Death Red Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Painted Story Soul Red Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Painted Story Temple Red Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Painted Story Mummies Red Sandstone
Ancient painting found in structures.
Items
Consumables
Road Runner Meat
Restores about as much hunger as raw chicken.
Cooked Road Runner Meat
Restores about as much hunger as cooked chicken.
Miscellaneous
Road Runner Egg
Randomly dropped by the Road Runner while alive.
Road Runner Feather
Chance to drop from a Road Runner on death.
Coyote Fang
Chance to drop from a Coyote on death.
Tools and Gear
Scorching Desert adds a full dagger weapon tier from Wood through Netherite, plus a unique enchantment exclusive to daggers.
Wooden Dagger
Stone Dagger
Golden Dagger
Iron Dagger
Diamond Dagger
Netherite Dagger
Stabbing Enchantment
A dagger exclusive enchantment. On hit, there is a 25% chance to deal bonus damage scaling with the dagger tier, dealing an additional 6 damage based on what material the dagger is made from.
Structures
Sunken Temple
- Location Buried below sand in the Desert biome.
- Loot Ancient Dagger
- Traps Placing any blocks in the parkour section will ignite TNT and cause dripstone to fall.
Sunken Red Temple
- Location Buried below red sand in the Badlands and Mesa biomes.
- Loot Ancient Dagger
- Traps Placing any blocks in the parkour section will ignite TNT and cause dripstone to fall.
Features and Mechanics
Quicksand Lake
Watch your step in Desert biomes. Quicksand Lakes can generate naturally and will trap and slowly suffocate anything that steps in them.
Red Quicksand Lake
The same danger as Quicksand Lakes, but found in the Badlands. Watch your step around Mesa biomes.