{"id":154650,"date":"2026-06-09T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/the-hordes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:22:57","slug":"the-hordes","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/the-hordes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hordes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Forge, requires Atlas Lib.<\/p>\n<p>This mod will only support Neoforge instead of forge in 1.21 +<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>## Invasions<\/p>\n<p>_You hear the howls of a nearby horde_<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0![The Horde](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/O3HDffUR\/images\/eac5c96f136023e3e3b338575d5fcd66e2de5928.png)<\/p>\n<p>On a configurable nights hordes of monsters will attack your base in waves from midnight until morning, with the encounterable mobs and times of day also being configurable.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nFor guides about configuring the mod in version 1.2.0+ check here.<\/p>\n<p>## Infection<\/p>\n<p>If enabled players and horses can be infected after being hit by a zombie, turning into a zombie after 5 minutes have passed or they die with the infection.<\/p>\n<p>In a players case this will kill them and spawn a zombie player in their place.<\/p>\n<p>This infection can be cured with a golden apple with the default settings, but can be configured to be any item which can be consumed, but not reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Optional settings that are enabled by default extends this to villagers, preventing zombie villagers from being cured.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nHas an option in the config to add any zombie variants of other mods mobs to the list of entities that can become zombified, providing there is a corresponding zombie for it to convert into.<\/p>\n<p>1.3.0+ now has support for custom textures to make it possible to add zombified variants of similar mobs. <\/p>\n<p>![Zombified Illagers](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/O3HDffUR\/images\/5e592564a0ffc8ed93dd1e98425b9a9ebc6f0e81.png)<\/p>\n<p>## Zombie Players<\/p>\n<p>![Zombie Players](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/O3HDffUR\/images\/c9a1d5003da18d3ec3e60b77fc98a93959e98075.png)<\/p>\n<p>When a player dies from infection or dies when an optional setting is enabled a zombified version of that player spawns in their place, containing all their items, or when underwater a drowned version.<\/p>\n<p>By default zombie players are immune to sunlight, but this can be disabled in the config.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>## Other Misc Tweaks<\/p>\n<p>Optional settings to make zombie horses a hostile mob (enabled by default) and to prevent undead mobs from burning in sunlight (disabled by default).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to bstylia14 for the original mod concept and for providing ideas and help during development, as well as Ski_Z for helping find a lot of bugs and giving mod suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adds monster hordes invasions and zombie infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":154651,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"the-hordes","_minecraft_project_id":"O3HDffUR","_minecraft_author":"Smileycorp","_minecraft_license":"LGPL-2.1-only","_minecraft_downloads":1122886,"_minecraft_follows":295,"_minecraft_client_side":"required","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"the-hordes.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":19642277,"_minecraft_version_count":49,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-16T12:36:41.443286Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2023-01-14T22:04:46.185656Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2026-05-02T16:16:40.961266Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/the-hordes","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":154651,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-06-09T09:22:58+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"a274b7988a77602b65e1902515320f6d","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[87,104,89,137,158],"mod_loader":[106,160],"minecraft_version":[385,48,51,53,55,56,57,58,59,36,62,37],"class_list":["post-154650","mod","type-mod","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mod_category-adventure","mod_category-forge","mod_category-game-mechanics","mod_category-mobs","mod_category-neoforge","mod_loader-forge","mod_loader-neoforge","minecraft_version-1-12-2","minecraft_version-1-16-5","minecraft_version-1-18","minecraft_version-1-18-2","minecraft_version-1-19-1","minecraft_version-1-19-2","minecraft_version-1-19-3","minecraft_version-1-19-4","minecraft_version-1-20","minecraft_version-1-20-1","minecraft_version-1-21","minecraft_version-1-21-1"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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