Minecraft's Hardest Mod?

Nightmare Mode

is an addon for Better Than Wolves CE 3.X that raises the difficulty to its extreme. ALL mobs are buffed out of their mind, and survival becomes a brutal challenge (even for experienced BTW players). To compensate for this, a lot of the tech / farming tedium of the original Better Than Wolves has been made optional.

Features:

• You spawn at night
• Mobs get stronger as you progress through the milestones (nether, wither, dragon)
• Your items violently explode after dying
• Mobs regenerate health naturally ( + faster than you do)
• They see through walls and have a larger aggro radius (up to 48 blocks, which is 3x vanilla Minecraft)
• All Mobs have improved AI and capabilities (Zombies can break blocks, Skeletons can jumpshot, Creepers leap before exploding, Endermen teleport you around, Spiders poison you, Squids attack through walls ...)
• Blood Moons (in Hardmode), and Solar Eclipses (post-Dragon), with unique mobs and loot
• Activating a Nether Portal starts Hardmode, where all Mobs get buffed and new ones start spawning. Defeating the Wither and Dragon also cause permanent buffs and gameplay changes (eg. Steel becomes minable, but every night is a Gloom night)
• QoL blocks and items, such as early game Bandages, Knitting Needles, and late game Road & Asphalt
• All Hardcore elements of Better Than Wolves - Survival is near-impossible and much more.

Mob Variants

Mob variants are special versions of Mobs that have unique abilities or mechanics. They're often direct upgrades to the Mob they are a variant of. Variants have a chance of spawning in place of the original Mob. For example:

• Fire Creeper : They are slightly faster, have shorter fuse, and spawn fire on their explosions. Their explosions are larger if they are on fire.
• Shadow Zombie : Spawns in Hardmode (Post-Nether). They can teleport to the player from up to 16 blocks away (ignoring walls). They are immune to fall damage, suffocation, arrows and don't take knockback.
• Blood Zombie : Spawns only on Gloom Nights (when it's pitch black and the player needs light to survive). They have unlimited player seeking range, high speed and faster block breaking. They can drop raw meat on death. And many, many more.

Expectations

Nightmare Mode is the mod you were promised by those clickbait Youtube thumbnails. Expect to die a lot. It's a tough learning curve. Most players give up before reaching the crafting table (3-5 hours of playtime in a single world). The expected time to complete is 100-120 hours (on a single world) and hundreds of attempts.

Videos / Playthroughs:

Mud Flaps (6.5m+ views, v0.1.4)

Calebrune3 (400k+ views, v0.2.2)

ThatPhatGoose (1m+ views, v0.1.8)

TdLmc (300k+ views, v0.2.3)

NOTICE:

Better Than Wolves is a REQUIRED DEPENDENCY of Nightmare Mode. You must have Better Than Wolves installed to play Nightmare Mode. Better Than Wolves can be found HERE: https://modrinth.com/mod/btwce

A full list of features can be found in the changelog, which is viewable on every Github release

Join our Discord Community, which is the best place to talk to the developer, or ask for advice.

Installation Guide. If you get stuck, the Discord is a great place to find help.