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The Otherside

The Otherside is a dark dimension without a sky, reached through a Reinforced Deepslate portal lit with the Heart of the Deep. Quick facts, biomes, the Stalker and Warden, and quests.

The Otherside is a dark dimension without a sky, reached through a Reinforced Deepslate portal that you light with the Heart of the Deep. It is added by Deeper and Darker 1.3.3 (a native Fabric jar) and it is one of the nine dimensions of the pack (see Dimensions). In the quest book it is Part 7, The Listening Dark, and its boss is the Stalker.

Quick facts#

Dimension iddeeperdarker:otherside
Added byDeeper and Darker 1.3.3
How to get inGo to a Reinforced Deepslate portal frame, as in an Ancient City, and light it with the Heart of the Deep
Frame blockReinforced Deepslate
ActivationRight-click the frame with the Heart of the Deep
Way backA return portal (8 x 4) is generated in the Otherside
Beds workYes
Respawn anchors workNo
Fixed time18000 (permanent night)
Height (min Y / height)0 / 128
Quest chapters2: Below the Bedrock in Part 7; The City That Listens in Part 4 covers the Warden and the Heart

Getting there#

The portal uses the mod's own portal system, and the pack keeps the mod's settings. Follow these steps:

  1. Get the Heart of the Deep. Wardens always drop it (the mod's Warden drops are on), and the pack also leaves the mod's extra Ancient City loot on.
  2. Go to the portal frame, made of Reinforced Deepslate, in an Ancient City. The mod accepts frames from 2 x 2 up to 48 wide and 24 tall inside.
  3. Right-click the frame with the Heart of the Deep. The portal lights up.
  4. Step through. A return portal of 8 x 4 is generated on the other side.

The quest chapter Below the Bedrock lists the same two items, Reinforced Deepslate and the Heart of the Deep, and its description says the frame is already cut. The portal also searches for existing portals between heights 2 and 122.

The Part 4 capstone The Heart asks for the Heart of the Deep, and Part 5 waits for that quest. So on the main road you will normally already have a Heart when you reach Part 7. See Part 4: The Deep.

What you find#

The Otherside has no sky and permanent night (time is fixed at 18000). It has a ceiling, no skylight and very low ambient light, and it is piglin-safe. It has 4 biomes: Deeplands, Echoing Forest, Blooming Caverns and Overcast Columns. The quest chapter names exactly these four.

The dimension has 3 structures that a world can place: Deeper and Darker's Ancient Temple, plus one structure each from Cataclysm and Repurposed Structures whose biome lists include the Otherside. L_Ender's Cataclysm runs through Sporran. The pack does not change the spacing of any of these.

Materials and gear#

Deeper and Darker adds gloomslate and sculk ore sets. The Otherside has its own gear too, including warden and resonarium armor. The quest chapter asks for resonarium, reinforced echo shards and a sonorous staff.

Keys#

Two Deeper and Darker keys are on shared keys: V uses the Sculk Transmitter (it sits on the shared V wheel), and Ctrl boosts the Soul Elytra and shares its key with Sprint. See Controls.

Creatures and bosses#

Deeper and Darker adds 8 mob types, listed as hostile: Shattered, Sculk Snapper, Sculk Centipede, Sculk Leech, Shriek Worm, Sludge, Angler Fish and the Stalker. The Otherside's own spawn lists use the Deeplands, Echoing Forest and Blooming Caverns, and the Deep Dark in the Overworld uses the same mobs.

The Stalker is the dimension's boss. The Warden lives in Ancient Cities and is the usual source of the Heart.

BossTierWhereHPMain dropsQuest
StalkerA (boss bar)Ancient Temple in the Otherside200 (code)Soul crystalThe Stalker, in Below the Bedrock
WardenB (mini-boss)Ancient Cities, including the Deeper and Darker Ancient Cities500 (vanilla code)Heart of the Deep (always, from Deeper and Darker), sculk catalystDo Not Wake It in The City That Listens; It Was Asleep in Titans of Nytheria

The Warden has no boss bar. Boss Ultimatum covers the Stalker but not the Warden. See Other Bosses & Mini-Bosses for both fights.

Dangers and what to bring#

  • Darkness. There is no sky and time is fixed at night, so there is no daylight. See Maps & Navigation for finding your way.
  • Waystones. Wild waystones only generate in the Overworld, the Nether and the End, so you will not find one here.
  • Sculk mobs. The chapter asks you to kill every sculk mob, so expect them in numbers.
  • Warden. You may meet a Warden at the Ancient City on your way to the Heart.
  • Death. Beds work here, respawn anchors do not.

In the quest book#

Below the Bedrock is Part 7, The Listening Dark. It is the only chapter of the part, with 19 quests: 15 required and 4 hidden. It opens when you finish The Sun Spirit in the Aether chapter Three Locked Dungeons.

You enter the Otherside through the Ancient City portal frame, with a choice kit called What to Carry Down (12 soul lanterns, 32 golden carrots or 12 phantom membranes). Then the chapter sends you through the four biomes with their matching blocks, to the Ancient Temple and its Stalker, and on to shattered, resonarium, reinforced echo shards and a sonorous staff. You explore all four biomes and kill every sculk mob. The capstone, Nine Days, Wearing It, wants the warden upgrade template and a full set of warden armor. It pays a soul lantern, a Deep Road Cache, 8 XP levels and 3 embers, the largest wallet reward on the main road. The chapter totals 50 XP levels and 5 embers.

That capstone is the gate that opens Part 8, The Far Shore, so the Otherside is the last dimension before the End on the main road. The Warden fight itself belongs to The City That Listens in Part 4: The Deep, and the Heart is its capstone. Read Part 7: The Listening Dark for the chapter in full and The End Portal & the 16 Eyes for what comes next.

See also#

Last updated 2026-10-15 Source: content/dimension-otherside.md