Silent Venom

Quickstart

1. Craft a Poison Syringe from a glass bottle, fermented spider eye, ink sac, and iron nugget. The recipe is automatically unlocked when you join the world.
2. Hold the syringe and right-click an animal. The syringe is consumed outside Creative mode, and the animal becomes infected.
3. Wait about 15 seconds. The infection then becomes active: the animal produces ominous effects, attacks living creatures, and may spread the infection.
4. Kill the infected animal to obtain meat marked with hidden venom. Eating that meat infects you after a delayed incubation period.
5. You can also put the syringe in your offhand, hold food or a regular drinkable potion in your main hand, and use the main-hand item once to poison it. Consume it afterward to begin the infection.

Overview

Silent Venom turns ordinary animals, food, and potions into delayed dangers. Infection remains hidden at first, then develops into a lethal sickness.

The mod adds:

• Poison Syringe — infects animals or contaminates food and potions.
• Infected animals — become aggressive, spread the sickness, and eventually die.
• Poisoned meat — meat from infected animals carries hidden venom.
• Blood Puddle — a thin blood stain occasionally left by active infected animals.
• Delayed player symptoms, increasing Slowness, damage, particles, and a darkening screen.

What It Adds

Poison Syringe

The Poison Syringe is a single-use item. It can be used in two ways:

• Right-click an uninfected animal to infect it.
• Place it in your offhand while holding food or a regular potion in your main hand, then use the main-hand item to contaminate it.

Creative players do not consume the syringe when using it.

Infected Animals

Animals remain outwardly quiet during the hidden phase. Once the infection becomes active, they can:

• Hunt nearby living creatures.
• Attack non-infected animals and players.
• Spread the infection through successful attacks.
• Emit unsettling sounds.
• Produce red and ash-like particles.
• Occasionally leave a Blood Puddle beneath themselves.
• Die from the infection after about 20 minutes.

An infected animal does not target another infected creature.

Blood Puddle

A Blood Puddle is a thin, non-solid blood stain. Active infected animals can leave one naturally, and it is also available in the Creative inventory under Colored Blocks.

It can be placed on a solid block surface and has no collision. Break it to collect the block item.

How To Use

Infecting an Animal

1. Select the Poison Syringe.
2. Right-click an uninfected animal.
3. Move away and observe it during the incubation period.
4. Return once the infection becomes active to see its hostile behavior.

Only animals can be directly infected with the syringe. Using the syringe on an already infected animal has no additional effect.

Poisoning Food or a Potion

1. Put the Poison Syringe in your offhand.
2. Hold food or a regular drinkable potion in your main hand.
3. Use the main-hand item once. This loads it with hidden venom and consumes the syringe outside Creative mode.
4. Eat the food or drink the potion normally.

The item does not become a separate item type, so poisoned food can be mistaken for ordinary food.

Collecting Meat

When an infected animal dies, its meat drops are marked as poisoned. The affected meat includes:

• Beef
• Porkchop
• Mutton
• Chicken
• Rabbit
• Cod
• Salmon

The meat remains ordinary-looking, but eating it starts an infection.

Abilities And Mechanics

Animal Infection Stages

A successful attack by an active infected animal has a 30% chance to infect its target. Targets can include animals and players, but an infected animal cannot spread the infection to a creature that is already infected.

Player Infection

Players can become infected by:

• Eating poisoned food.
• Drinking a poisoned potion.
• Being successfully attacked by an active infected animal.

Player infection is hidden for the first 60 seconds. After incubation:

• Recurring damage begins.
• Slowness starts at Slowness I and intensifies over time, reaching Slowness V.
• Damage becomes more frequent and more severe as the sickness progresses.
• Blood-red particles appear around the player.
• The screen gradually darkens as the player’s health falls.

Milk does not remove the infection.

Poisoned Meat

Poisoned meat is created from the drops of infected animals. It is not safe merely because the animal was killed before the terminal stage; any infected animal’s applicable meat drops can be marked.

Avoid mixing poisoned meat with safe food, since it has no separate appearance to identify it.

Crafting And Obtaining

Poison Syringe

The Poison Syringe is crafted shapelessly from:

• 1 Glass Bottle
• 1 Fermented Spider Eye
• 1 Ink Sac
• 1 Iron Nugget

The recipe is given to players automatically when they join. It can also be found in the Creative inventory under Tools.

Blood Puddle

Blood Puddles are created naturally by active infected animals. They can also be taken directly from the Creative inventory under Colored Blocks.

Progression And Strategy

• Keep a safe distance from infected animals once the hidden phase ends.
• If you are testing the infection, use an isolated pen so the sickness cannot spread through nearby animals.
• Mark or separate suspicious meat immediately after killing an infected animal.
• Do not eat food or drink potions while carrying an unknown item from an infected test area.
• Use Creative mode when experimenting if you want to reuse the Poison Syringe.
• If an infected animal reaches a settlement or livestock enclosure, remove it quickly before it can attack and create new hidden infections.