⚔️ Harder Hordes
Mobs come after you in groups, and they get nastier the better you do. 😈
The longer you survive and the better your gear, the bigger the packs that hunt
you, mostly at night. Fight them or run. They won't kill you on sight, your
first days stay calm so you can settle in.
✨ What you'll notice
- Grows with you — survive and gear up, and hordes get bigger and tougher.
- Nights are scary again — they show up nearby and walk right at you.
- Every world has its own mobs — zombies up top, piglins & blazes in the
Nether, endermen in the End.
- Rare loot — sometimes one mob drops its gear, so clearing a horde can pay off.
- Protect your base — put a bell on a 3x3 platform of metal blocks (iron → diamond, plus a netherite block for the biggest zone) to make a safe zone hordes won't spawn in.
- Works with other mods — modded mobs and weapons join in on their own.
👉 Full feature list: FEATURES.md on GitHub
⚙️ Settings
Everything is in one file: config/harder_hordes-common.toml. Open it with any text
editor, every setting has a plain note next to it, and changes apply without a restart.
<details>
<summary>📖 What you can change (click to open)</summary>
- spawn — how often hordes come, how close, and which worlds.
- ward — bell-totem safe zones and how big each metal makes them.
- size — how many mobs per horde (and the max).
- equip — how many carry weapons and armor.
- scaling — extra health and damage as you get stronger.
- rewards — how often hordes drop loot.
- difficulty — your "danger level" math.
- hybrid — mixed-type hordes.
- creeper — charged creepers and buffs.
- types — turn each horde type on or off.
- tiers — when mobs get diamond and netherite gear.
More or fewer hordes? → change dayBaseChance (bigger = more). 📊
Harder or easier overall? → change scoreScale (bigger = harder). 🔥
</details>
🕹️ Commands
/harderhordes (needs cheats):
spawn <type> — force a horde 🐺score — see your danger level 📟list — see what can spawn where you stand 📍ward — check if you're in a safe zone 🔔
🔌 Compatibility
No required dependencies. Adds no items or blocks, just the hordes.
Built for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge. 🧱
