ZEN's Better Champions

A vanilla-friendly NeoForge mod that makes monsters more dangerous and more rewarding. Some monsters now spawn as champions, with more health, special abilities and better loot.

Features

• ⭐ Five tiers of champions, from common to very rare
• 🔥 Over thirty special abilities
• 💎 Better loot and more experience
• ❤️ Health bar and colored aura
• ⚙️ Everything can be changed in the config, in game

Champion Tiers

Every monster that spawns naturally has a small chance to become a champion. The rarer the tier, the stronger the champion:

🔵 ★ 5%

🟢 ★★ 2.5%

🟡 ★★★ 1%

🔴 ★★★★ 0.5%

🟣 ★★★★★ 0.1%

• More Health: Champions get from +50% to +500% health, depending on their tier.
• Effects: Each champion gets from 1 to 5 random effects, such as Speed, Strength or Resistance.
• Abilities: From three stars, champions use real abilities: meteor showers, tornadoes, lightning, spectral swords, frost and fire novas, a legion of allies and many more.

Rewards

Champions killed by a player drop extra loot on top of their usual drops. The higher the tier, the better the rewards.

• Loot: Iron, gold, lapis, redstone, emeralds, diamonds, netherite and enchanted books.
• Experience: A third more experience per tier.

Display

• Health Bar: Look at a champion to see its health bar and its stars at the top of the screen.
• Aura: Colored particles in the color of its tier float around every champion.

Configuration

Everything can be changed in game from the config menu, in English and French.

• Spawning: The chance of each tier, the dimensions and the ways of spawning that give champions.
• Mobs: Which mobs can become champions, and which effects each mob can or cannot get.
• Balance: Health, effects, loot, experience and an optional damage bonus per tier.

Requirements

Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.21.1 with NeoForge.
• ZEN's EffectLib: Required.
• Installation: Both mods on the client and the server.