**Zombieium turns Minecraft nights into a focused zombie survival experience.**
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\nWhile enabled, the mod:
\n– Spawns vanilla Zombies around players at night (configurable distance, interval, amount, and nearby cap)
\n– (Optionally) keeps the Overworld hostile-mob roster \u201czombie-only\u201d by removing other hostile mobs as they load
\n– Adds a Boss Event: after midnight, a red beam marks a player\u2014and when it ends, Zombieium arrives (bossbar, buffs, boosted stats, and dramatic arrival effects)<\/p>\n
Features<\/p>\n
Night zombie spawner
\n– Configurable min\/max spawn distance
\n– Configurable zombies per cycle + spawn interval
\n– Configurable max nearby zombies per player (prevents runaway swarms)<\/p>\n
Target filtering
\n– Optional: skip creative players
\n– Optional: skip spectators<\/p>\n
Boss Event<\/p>\n
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– Configurable minimum night, chance %, beam duration
\n– Boss stats tuning: max health, speed, follow range, attack damage multipliers
\n– Optional boss chat announcements + bossbar<\/p>\n
Config UI
\n– Works with ModMenu (in-game settings screen)
\n– Also stored as config\/zombieium.json<\/p>\n
Debug mode
\n– Extra info in chat\/logs about spawns and failures<\/p>\n
Commands<\/p>\n
\/zombieium status
\n– Shows current settings + boss state<\/p>\n
\/zombieium reload
\n– Reloads config from disk<\/p>\n
\/zombieium spawnnow
\n– Forces a spawn cycle (useful for testing)<\/p>\n
\/zombieium boss status
\n– Shows boss\/beam status<\/p>\n
\/zombieium boss start
\n– Forces the boss event (Overworld, night, eligible player)<\/p>\n
\/zombieium boss end
\n– Ends the active boss encounter<\/p>\n
Notes \/ Compatibility
\n– Server-side gameplay mod: install on the server for effect.
\n– Client-side optional: install on the client if you want the ModMenu config screen.<\/p>\n
Config highlights (defaults)
\n– Zombies per cycle: 4
\n– Interval: 120 ticks (6s)
\n– Distance: 20\u2013200 blocks
\n– Nearby cap: 16 zombies per player
\n– Boss: starts from night 3, 5% chance after midnight, 60 ticks beam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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