The Sift

Quickstart

1. Explore your world and look for The Sift biome.

2. Use the Creative inventory to obtain Sift Soil, Sift Stone, Siftwood Log, Siftwood Leaves, Shimmer Reed, and Sift Bloom. Place them to build with or decorate your own Sift-themed area.

3. Find a Siftling in The Sift, or use a Siftling Spawn Egg from the Creative inventory.

4. Hold a slime ball near a Siftling to attract it. Feed slime balls to two Siftlings to breed them.

5. For a quick test creature, use:

   /summon com_the_sift_zeuns7q2:siftling

6. Craft Sift Shards at a crafting table. They are also dropped when a Siftling is killed by a player.

Overview

The Sift is a biome-focused Minecraft experience featuring its own terrain blocks, plants, wood, and amphibious creature. Explore the biome, gather its natural materials, decorate with Sift blocks, and observe Siftlings as they move between land and water.

What It Adds

Blocks and Plants

Breaking the custom blocks and plants gives the corresponding block or item, allowing you to collect and relocate them.

Siftling

The Siftling is a small frog-like creature that can live both on land and in water. It can spawn naturally in The Sift in groups of 2–5 when suitable surface blocks are present, including Sift Soil, grass, and dirt.

Siftlings can also be obtained with a Siftling Spawn Egg or summoned with:

/summon com_the_sift_zeuns7q2:siftling

How To Use

Building With Sift Materials

Collect Sift Soil, Sift Stone, Siftwood, leaves, and plants from The Sift, then place them like ordinary Minecraft blocks. Use the appropriate tool when gathering larger quantities:

• Shovel for Sift Soil
• Pickaxe for Sift Stone
• Axe for Siftwood Logs

Shimmer Reed and Sift Bloom are especially useful for adding Sift vegetation around paths, ponds, and buildings.

Interacting With Siftlings

Siftlings can be:

• Attracted with slime balls
• Bred with slime balls
• Named with a name tag
• Attached to a lead
• Observed swimming, walking, jumping, and croaking

They are not restricted to water: Siftlings breathe both air and water, and they move between land and water on their own.

Crafting And Obtaining

Sift Shard

A Sift Shard is crafted from glow ink sacs, quartz, and orange dye. The recipe produces 2 Sift Shards.

You can also obtain a Sift Shard by killing a Siftling yourself. Siftlings do not drop this item when killed by other causes.

Natural Materials

Explore The Sift to gather its themed blocks and plants. The blocks can also be obtained from the Creative inventory:

• Sift Soil
• Sift Stone
• Siftwood Log
• Siftwood Leaves
• Shimmer Reed
• Sift Bloom

Abilities And Mechanics

Siftling Behavior

Siftlings have 10 health and are amphibious. They can swim, walk, jump, and move through water without drowning. They avoid harmful blocks and take damage from lava.

Siftlings may jump toward water lilies and big dripleaves, while avoiding jumping directly into water during this behavior. They also periodically croak when they are on land.

When a Siftling spawns, it produces The Sift’s ambience sound at its location.

Siftling Variants

Siftlings have temperate, cold, and warm appearances. Their appearance is selected according to the biome conditions where they spawn.

Feeding and Breeding

Hold a slime ball to tempt a Siftling and use slime balls on two Siftlings to breed them. After breeding:

1. One Siftling becomes pregnant.
2. It searches nearby areas for water.
3. It lays frogspawn on water with open air above it.
4. The frogspawn follows normal Minecraft frogspawn behavior.

Hunting

Siftlings can hunt and eat certain Slimes and Magma Cubes that they can see nearby. Their eating behavior can provide useful drops:

Progression And Strategy

• Visit The Sift early when you want distinctive building materials and decorative plants.
• Gather Siftwood and Sift Stone first for structures, then use Sift Soil, Shimmer Reed, and Sift Bloom to create themed landscaping.
• Keep slime balls on hand to attract, breed, and move Siftlings.
• Place water near a breeding area so pregnant Siftlings can reach a suitable location for laying frogspawn.
• If you want Sift Shards without crafting them, search for naturally spawned Siftlings and defeat them yourself.
• Watch Siftlings around Slimes and Magma Cubes to collect slime balls and variant-dependent froglights.