EvolveCraft: A World That Evolves

The world starts out completely normal. But it is watching how you play - and it learns.

Use your sword a lot, and the monsters grow a defence against swords. Shoot from far away, and they learn to sprint and leap at you and knock your arrows out of the air. Blow things up, and they learn to walk out of the blast. Every world ends up different, because every player fights differently.

Evolution Crystals

Glowing crystal clusters grow in caves and now and then stand on the surface. Every crystal you break makes the world evolve a step - and shifts it a little right away (a frost snap, a crystal bloom, a gravity pulse, a monster rush, a heat wave).

On a new world you do not have to hunt for the first one - a crystal grows near you, with a pillar of light over it.

The monsters that learn

• Frost Beast - a hulking ice ape with a ridge of crystals. Freezes what it hits, throws ice, raises an Ice Shield.
• Magma Warrior - cooled black lava with molten arms. Sets you on fire, leaps across the battlefield and slams the ground.
• Redstone Golem - a stone giant with glowing redstone veins. Punches you flying and fires laser eyes.
• Soul Rider - a skeleton on a skeleton horse in soul fire. Calls up soul warriors.

Fusing monsters

Hurt a learning monster below half its health and catch its soul in a Soul Jar. Put two different souls on a Fusion Altar and they melt together into a brand-new creature - and it is yours. It follows you, fights for you, and you can ride it (the dragons and the wraith fly).

Steal their powers

Beat a monster and it may drop its Power Core. Right-click it and the power is yours; more cores of the same power level it up to 5. Your powers are listed on the right of the screen. Hold Ctrl and press the number:

Riding a fused creature? H uses its own power.

The Nemesis

At the end, the world builds a boss out of everything you did. It grows the parts of every monster you met - ice, horns and lava, stone fists, soul fire, wings, crystals - it has all their powers, and it is made to beat your way of fighting. It even carries a copy of your favourite weapon. Beat it and take its Evolution Heart: 40 seconds with no waiting on any power. Then, after three more crystals, it comes back stronger.

Physics, like real life

• Chop the bottom log of a tree and the whole tree tips over, speeding up as it falls, and crashes down - the trunk lies on the ground, the leaves burst. (Sneak while breaking to break just the one log.)
• Explosions throw real blocks through the air that land as rubble.
• Earthquakes and slams tear up the ground and throw it; anything flying hard enough hurts what it hits.
• Turn it off with /evolvecraft physics false.

Also

• The Frost Blade: every hit freezes, right-click for a blast of cold.
• Every creature has its own model and hand-painted skin, and glows in the dark where it should (crystals, lava, soul fire, eyes).
• English and Hebrew.
• /evolvecraft shows how far the world has evolved and what it knows about you. With cheats: crystals, storm, grove, nemesis, power, allpowers.

Good to know

• Your powers never hurt you, other players, your pets or villagers.
• Players' powers can break weak blocks (the laser burns through), and the Earthquake throws up natural ground blocks. Monsters' powers only break blocks when mobGriefing is on.
• Forge 1.20.1. Made from scratch - all models, art and code are this mod's own.