Extracting Cursed Sapballs and Blighted Wood in Malum

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A Cursed Sapball in Malum is a corrupted resinous reagent harvested from blighted soulwood trees, utilized in forbidden spirit transmutations and dark soul binding.

Cultivating and Tapping Blighted Soulwood

Gathering cursed sap begins with propagating dark soulwood groves in tainted soil:

Discover or synthesize blighted saplings and plant them in beds of Blighted Earth within your dark sanctum.
As the tree matures, its pale bark secretes dark, viscous sap pockets visible along the trunk.
Use a specialized tapping knife or tree tap on the trunk to collect sticky droplets of Cursed Sap.
Compress gathered droplets of Cursed Sap into a concentrated Cursed Sapball for laboratory use.
Enclosing soulwood groves within stone containment barriers prevents corrupted soil from encroaching on peaceful village farms.
Alternatively, harvest healthy resin from runewood trees to produce a benign Runic Sapball for contrast studies.

Handling corrupted tree sap requires care, as tainted flora spreads corrupted vegetation across adjacent dirt tiles.

Transmuting Tainted Rock and Void Artifacts

The Cursed Sapball acts as a potent chemical catalyst in dark spirit infusion rituals:

Place raw stone or cobblestone on a Spirit Altar and infuse the block with a Cursed Sapball to create Tainted Rock.
Carve Tainted Rock at a stonecutter into ominous architectural blocks like chiseled tiles and jagged wall brackets.
Combine a Cursed Sapball with soulwood timber to craft cursed doors, trapped cabinets, and forbidden book lecterns.
Utilize cursed resin in void favor rituals to appease anomalous entities and unlock forbidden encyclopedia entries.
The pungent resin stabilizes chaotic volatile reactions that would otherwise shatter standard runic glass.

Dark Equipment Crafting and Combat Utility

Infusing personal equipment with cursed sap grants sinister combat advantages:

Forge cursed weapon coatings that inflict lingering soul rot on struck targets during dungeon combat.
Craft the Belt of the Starved by infusing leather belts with dark sap and soul essence to gain combat vampirism.
Smelt discarded soulwood timber inside an arcane kiln to produce dense lumps of Arcane Charcoal.
Storing cursed sap in sealed glass vessels protects workshop flora from accidental blighting.
Weapons infused with cursed soulwood sap emit ominous dark soul particle effects upon striking hostile dungeon bosses.