Deeper and Darker Building Blocks and Mod Integration

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Beyond gear, Deeper and Darker ships a deep palette of sculk-themed building blocks and integrates with popular tech and farming mods. This guide covers both.

Bloom and echo wood

The Otherside's woods give complete building sets. Bloom Planks come from a Blooming Stem (one stem to four planks) and extend into a Bloom Slab, Bloom Stairs, Bloom Fence, Bloom Door, Bloom Trapdoor, Bloom Sign and boats — with echo wood offering a darker parallel set. If you have Farmer's Delight installed, its cutting board reworks many of these wood items as an alternative to crafting.

Dark stone building

Gloomslate and Sculk Stone each form a full stone line through the stonecutter — cobbled, bricks, chiseled, cut, smooth, plus slabs, stairs and walls — for building in the dimension's palette. The Block of Lite and its bordered variant add light to the dark.

Tech integration

Deeper and Darker plays well with Create: its crushing wheels process the Otherside ores at doubled yield, turning Gloomslate Redstone Ore into twelve Redstone Dust or copper ore into raw copper nuggets. Between Create crushing, Farmer's Delight cutting, and the mod's own smelting and stonecutting, the Otherside slots neatly into an existing modded base.

Stonecutting is the block system

95 stonecutting recipes, identical on both builds, are how the Otherside's stone families become slabs, stairs and walls. Against 137 blocks in the mod, that is most of the decorative range in one workstation.

Carrying a stonecutter to the dimension is more efficient than hauling every variant home.

Processing that only exists on 1.21.1

The integration categories — two Crushing lists (50 for Mekanism, 16 for Create) and Enriching (48) — are present on both builds. Cutting runs 11 Farmer's Delight recipes on 1.21.1 and splits into 6 plus 4 Create recipes on 1.20.1. Only Sawing (8) and the single campfire and smoking entries are 1.21.1 exclusives.

These are recipes for other mods' machines, so they also require those mods to be installed. Their absence on the older build is a version limit, not a missing dependency.

The rest

Crafting runs 99 recipes on 1.21.1 against 91 on 1.20.1, and smelting 23 against 22 — the base mod barely changed. One structure generates in the world.