Soul Shards 1/en

Soul Shards is a mod created by that adds the  which allows the capture of "souls" of the mobs the player kills. These Shards can be placed into a, a block that acts similarly to a vanilla Mob Spawner. The is a special block that corrupts metals and s when fuelled by —an imperative process in the creation of Soul Shards.

Not only can Soul Cages spawn mobs normally unavailable in vanilla Minecraft, but at higher tiers (dependent on the amount of souls the Shard has captured) they can spawn mobs at higher rates while ignoring light levels.

The souls of most vanilla mobs, passive or hostile, can be stored in Shards. However, s,, , s, the , the , and all mobs cannot be stored in Shards. On the other hand, all mobs (,, and ) can.

Note: souls can be captured even with their apparent relation to Villagers, whose souls cannot be captured.

Trapping Souls
In order to capture souls with a Soul Shard, the player must place the Shard on their hotbar. Next, the player must find the mob in which they want to 'tie' the Shard to and kill it. The Soul Shard will now be linked to that mob type and will only gain souls by killing that mob, e.g. if the player wants an Soul Shard, they must kill an Enderman.

The player can also capture souls by right-clicking on a vanilla with a Soul Shard in their hand which will destroy the spawner and add 200 souls to the Shard. Note that the shard must already have at least one of the mob's soul inside it for the player to be able to right-click a Spawner.