Scorchful

"Survival is the ability to swim in strange water." — Frank Herbert, Dune

Mod Features

Scorchful is a Vanilla+ style mod that enhances survival difficulty in hot biomes and the Nether by adding a realistic heat and overheating system.

Sun Protection and Cooling

In jungles, deserts, savannas, and badlands, prolonged exposure to sunlight becomes dangerous. Without shade protection, body temperature gradually increases, leading to heatstroke with symptoms of weakness, hunger, and mining fatigue.

Overheating can be reduced by staying wet. You can achieve this by dipping in a water body or pouring a bucket of water on yourself. Drinking water from potions, bottles, certain food items, the new water skin, or cactus juice also helps — this triggers sweating, providing the same cooling effect.

Nether Survival

The Nether is an extreme environment with elevated temperatures where water cannot remain liquid for long. To cool down, you need to carry water for drinking or use Nether lilies found in crimson and warped forests, and occasionally in the Nether wastes.

Crimson lilies have adapted to harsh conditions by developing powerful root systems to extract moisture from netherrack. They use this moisture as protection against fire-born monsters. Players can step on crimson lilies for quick hydration or collect water from the more peaceful warped lilies for long Nether travels.

Sandstorms

During weather events in deserts and badlands, sandstorms now occur. Thick sand fog limits visibility but simultaneously blocks solar heat. This is not just a visual effect — during storms, sand piles begin to accumulate and exposed cauldrons fill with sand, creating renewable sand.

Combat System and Development Plans

The current Scorchful version focuses on survival aspects but includes combat elements. Setting mobs and players on fire quickly increases their temperature, making fire extinguishing critically important. Splash potions also wet players, allowing quick cooling in combat.

The next update will introduce The Mirage — a hostile desert wraith attracted to heat.

Configuration and Compatibility

Scorchful features extensive configuration options allowing you to disable features, adjust difficulty, or modify various parameters. For example, you can completely disable passive heating while keeping sandstorms or heat effects from fire. The mod also supports datapack integration for temperature effects and heat resistance armor tags.

Integration with Other Mods

• Frostiful: Native support, both mods designed to work together
• Dehydration: Automatic disabling of built-in thirst system when this mod is present
• Colorful Hearts and Overflowing Bars: Through Thermoo Patches, burning hearts render over new hearts
• Enchantment Descriptions: Adds description for Rehydration enchantment on armor
• Trinkets: Sun hat works in accessory slot
• Farmer's Delight: Food and drinks provide hydration
• Ad Astra: Netherite space suits provide heat resistance

Incompatibility

• Tough as Nails: Conflict between temperature and thirst systems
• PyroFrost, EnvironmentZ, Thermite: Different temperature systems
• Shader packs may break fog effects during sandstorms

Requirements

Required: Fabric API, Thermoo, Mod Menu, and Cloth Config. Quilt users can replace Fabric API with Quilt Standard Libraries.

Video Materials

Video reviews and gameplay available on YouTube and other video hosting platforms.