Abyssal Wailers

Quickstart

1. Obtain an Abyssal Ghoulblade from the Creative inventory, or craft one using an Echo Shard, a Netherite Sword, and a Sculk Shrieker.
2. Equip the blade in your main hand.
3. Use the blade normally to summon one passive Abyssal Wailer in front of you.
4. Sneak while using the blade to summon six Wailers in a ring around you.
5. Attack a mob with the blade to make your summoned Wailers focus on that target.
6. Keep the Ghoulblade in your main hand while commanding them. If you stop holding it, your summoned Wailers become hostile.

You can also summon a Wailer directly with:

/summon com_abyssal_wailers_voaasndj:myblaze

A directly summoned or naturally spawned Wailer is hostile.

Overview

Abyssal Wailers adds a flying shadow monster and the Abyssal Ghoulblade, a weapon that calls Wailers into battle. Wailers can fight at range, attack nearby enemies, and unleash a powerful knockback blast.

Summoned Wailers begin as harmless followers. The Ghoulblade determines whether they remain passive, follow your attack command, or turn hostile.

What It Adds

How To Use

Summoning one Wailer

Hold the Abyssal Ghoulblade and use it without sneaking. One Wailer appears about two blocks in front of you and starts in a passive state.

Summoning an army

Sneak and use the Ghoulblade to summon six Wailers around you. This ability has the same one-second use cooldown as the blade’s normal summon.

Giving an attack command

With your summoned Wailers nearby:

1. Keep the Ghoulblade in your main hand.
2. Attack a mob with the blade.
3. Your summoned Wailers focus on the mob you hit.

When the marked mob dies, the Wailers return to their passive state. Hitting another valid mob replaces the previous focus target.

Keeping control

Your summoned Wailers remain passive only while their summoner is holding an Abyssal Ghoulblade in the main hand. Switching to another item causes them to become hostile.

Wailers summoned by different players are tracked separately. Your attack command controls your own summoned Wailers, not another player’s followers.

Crafting And Obtaining

Abyssal Ghoulblade

Craft one Abyssal Ghoulblade at a crafting table using:

• 1 Echo Shard
• 1 Netherite Sword
• 1 Sculk Shrieker

Place the ingredients in a vertical line with the Echo Shard above the Netherite Sword and the Sculk Shrieker below it.

The blade deals 12 attack damage, has 2,031 durability, and is treated as a sword and tool.

Creative inventory

The Abyssal Wailers Spawn Egg is available in the Creative inventory. Use it to place a hostile Wailer.

Natural spawning

Wailers naturally spawn in the Nether:

• In low light, with brightness from 0 to 4
• On netherrack, blackstone, soul sand, or soul soil
• In groups of one or two

Abilities And Mechanics

Combat behavior

A Wailer has 20 health and can fly freely.

The ranged attack can reach targets up to 48 blocks away and fires every 3–5 seconds. The shadow blast has an eight-second cooldown.

Wailers target players and other mobs, but do not attack other Wailers. Their shadow blast also ignores Wailers.

Environmental traits

• Immune to fire and lava
• Do not take fall damage
• Take damage while in contact with water
• Can fly over water and avoid damaging blocks

Sound

Wailers emit a loud abyssal wail while idling, attacking, taking damage, shooting, and dying. The Ghoulblade also produces the wail when summoning.

Drops And Experience

When killed by a player or a player’s pet, a Wailer can drop:

• 0–2 bones
• Up to 1 Echo Shard, with a 20% chance

Looting can increase the drop amounts and Echo Shard chance. A player who kills a Wailer receives 10 experience points.

Progression And Strategy

• Craft the Ghoulblade as soon as you have access to a Netherite Sword, Echo Shard, and Sculk Shrieker.
• Summon a single Wailer first to test its position and behavior.
• Use the six-Wailer army against groups of mobs or large targets.
• Strike a target once with the blade to coordinate your followers instead of letting them choose enemies independently.
• Fight from a distance while Wailers use their shulker bullets.
• Avoid water, which damages Wailers over time.
• Keep the blade ready in your main hand so your followers do not become hostile unexpectedly.
• Stay clear of the shadow blast’s launch area, especially near cliffs or hazards.