🌊 Wave Survivor

Bind the altar. Defend the Monolith. Survive the horde — or build a kingdom around it.

Wave Survivor turns Minecraft into a wave-defense game you can play solo or with friends. Bind a horde to the Runic Altar, protect the Monolith, and survive wave after wave of monsters and bosses — or switch to Kingdom mode and build a fortified realm against enemy Gates. Everything is editable in game, no file editing required.

🔮 New in 1.5.0 — Relics, Renaissance & Kingdom Tools: relic sets and a Forge with 12 legendary relics, a Heritage tree and Renaissance ranks, plus a Repair Workshop, a kingdom map, a golden compass, scout reports and saved games for Kingdom mode.

⚡ At a glance

⚔️ Classic Hordes

• 🌊 Waves that grow stronger and scale with players and difficulty
• 💀 Bosses, special waves and horde mutators
• 🔥 Breaches to close before the horde gets stronger
• 🛒 Merchants, 🎰 mystery chests and 🙏 blessings between waves
• 🔒 Horde progression: unlock the hordes one after another

🏰 Kingdom Mode

Your altar becomes a kingdom. Enemy Gates open in a ring around the Monolith, and you alternate between the Calm — gather, build, complete objectives — and the Assault.

🧱 Build your defenses

• 6 buildings with 3 levels and 3 specializations each: Archer Tower, Mage Tower, Shrine, Barracks, Gleaner Tower and the new Repair Workshop
• Walls, gates and traps — and solid foundations, or your towers collapse
• A defense sheet on every building: stats, upgrades, specializations, repair, dismantle

⚔ Hold the line

• Siege units: Rams, Sappers, Climbers and Standard-bearers
• Soldiers with orders, and a Commander who leads them with a War Cry
• A shared treasury (coins, wood, stone, iron, essence) and player roles

🗺 Scout & plan

• Calm objectives: Convoy, Champion, Buried Treasure and Purification
• A kingdom map with 3 zoom levels and a golden Kingdom Compass
• A scout report before each Assault and an Assault report after it
• Kingdom games are saved and resumed after a server restart

🌪 Chaos & Resources

Fantasy trees and ore deposits erupt mid-fight or during the Calm: harvest them before the timer runs out. Catalysts, breaches and other chaos events keep every game different.

🗿 The Runic Altar

Offer the right ingredients to seal a horde to the altar, pick your challenge, and choose blessings as the waves go by.

💍 Relics

• 🧩 21 relics in 6 families — wear several pieces of a family to unlock its set bonus
• 🎒 A dedicated Relic slot (Curios supported) — only equipped relics take effect
• ⭐ Tiers I – III, and a Forge to fuse relics into 12 legendary relics
• 🎁 Sealed Reliquaries that break open into a random relic

🌳 Renaissance

Sacrifice items and play hordes to earn Renaissance Points, then grow stronger for good:

• 🌿 A Heritage tree with 3 branches — Survivor, Merchant and Lord
• 👑 5 Renaissance ranks, each with a title, an aura and an extra relic slot
• 💪 Permanent upgrades and a Renaissance shop

🛠️ Fully Editable In Game

• A visual horde editor: waves, entities, bosses, chaos events, loot, merchants and Kingdom settings
• Starter templates, validation, wave preview and import / export as .zip
• A chest builder and a Renaissance shop editor for admins
• Collaborative editing and an in-game Codex that explains every mechanic (/ws codex)

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge 47+
• Install on both client and server
• Optional: Curios API for the dedicated relic slot

🌍 Languages

English · Français — switch with /ws lang <en/fr>

🧭 What's next

• 👑 Boss Rush mode
• 🏅 Advancements and 📊 player statistics
• ❄ A new frost horde
• 🆙 Port to Minecraft 1.21 / NeoForge

💻 Source code, feedback & support

• Open source (MIT) on GitHub: yoyolegrand/wave-survivor
• Bug reports & ideas: GitHub Issues
• Also on Modrinth: modrinth.com/mod/wave-survivor
• Support the development on Patreon