Ghastly Wail

This mod adds a new mechanic for renewable crying obsidian.

When a ghast dies in a nether portal, all the obsidian blocks that make up the portal frame will be converted to obsidian and then shatter into item form.

Ghastly Wail Demo

Why?

• It thematically connects normal obsidian and crying obsidian
• Ghasts' tears mean it makes 'video game sense' for them to be involved in the conversion to crying obsidian
• "But crying obsidian is already renewable through piglin barters!" I recommend removing crying obsidian from bartering using the builtin "piglin_bartering_sans_crying_obsidian" datapack (since 1.1.4, default disabled).

As of 1.1.4, two gamerules allow control over how obsidian is converted:

• ghastly_wail:obsidianConversionChance (0 to 100, default 100): chance for nether portal frame obsidian to convert to crying obsidian
• ghastly_wail:convertedObsidianBreakChance (0 to 100, default 100): chance for converted crying obsidian blocks to break

As of 1.1.0, the gamerule ghastly_wail:breakConvertedObsidian controls whether the crying obsidian is dropped as an item or replaces the portal frame in block form. (replaced in 1.1.4)

This mod is only for Fabric (works on Quilt, too!) and I won't be porting it to Forge. The license is MIT, however, so anyone else is free to port it.

I'd appreciate links back to this page if you port or otherwise modify this project, but links aren't required.