Zombie Sieges (Vanilla Tales)

Turns a vanilla zombie siege into a real event, with a ringing bell, a boss bar and two waves of zombies.

It does not add sieges. It hooks into the vanilla chance and makes the ones that happen visible.

Versions: 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.8

Loader: Fabric, Forge (1.20.1); Fabric, NeoForge (1.21.1, 1.21.8)

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Requirements

• On Fabric you need Fabric API. On Forge or NeoForge you do not.
• Server-side: install it on the server (or in singleplayer). Players do not need it, and vanilla clients can join without it.
• Languages: English and German. German shows for players who have the mod installed (for example in singleplayer); vanilla clients without the mod see English.

What it does

• Vanilla already rolls a small chance for a zombie siege at a village each midnight. This mod does not change that chance, only what happens once one starts.
• The siege looks for a bell up to 128 blocks away (64 if too few chunks are loaded) and rings it when the siege begins; that bell also becomes the siege's center.
• Zombies march on the center only when it is a real bell. Without one nearby, they behave exactly like a vanilla siege instead.
• A boss bar shows the siege and how many zombies are left, for every player near the village.
• Zombies arrive in two waves. All zombies of a wave come from one spawn point; the second wave comes once the first is nearly gone, or after a short delay either way.
• Holding out until every siege zombie is dead, including burning at dawn, counts as a win: every player near the village gets a reward from a siege loot table plus experience.

Advancements

• Hold the Line: end a siege as a win and get the reward.

Configuration

File: zombie_sieges.json.

waves is capped at 20 and zombiesPerWave at 100. A config file with a syntax error is left untouched: the mod logs the problem and keeps the last working settings instead of overwriting the file with defaults.

The siege reward is a normal loot table, zombie_sieges:gameplay/siege_reward, so a data pack can change what it drops.

Commands

Both commands need operator permission.

Good to know

• Sieges only happen in the Overworld, like in vanilla.
• A siege keeps running correctly across a server restart.

Part of VanillaTales

Zombie Sieges is part of VanillaTales, a collection of small, independent mods that add little stories to vanilla content. Each mod works on its own; install only the ones you want.

• Sherd Stories: gives every decorated pot a title and the story of where its sherds were found.
• Ghost Crews: gives every shipwreck a name and a crew of drowned that guard it until it is looted clean.
• Illager Scouts: a pillager scout watches your village and warns you two days before a patrol arrives.
• Occupied Villages: some new villages spawn already occupied by an illager garrison you can liberate.
• Bonded Pairs: binds two mobs from the same spawn group into a pair that avenges each other.
• Golem Patrol: gives iron golems a daily patrol, a night watch and an escort for villagers.
• Raid Aftermath: villagers repair the damage a raid or an explosion left in the village.
• Wayfarer's Landmarks: shows a title and helpful icons when you enter a structure.

More mods by LithiumPlus

• DataDrivenVillagers: create and change villager professions from JSON files or an in-game editor.
• VillagersPlus: new villager types, trades and beautiful workstations. Forge version: VillagersPlus (Forge).
• VillagerTradingPlus: add, replace or delete the trades of any villager, change the currency and gate trades behind conditions, all from a datapack.
• Nyctophobia: dark, foggy and unsettling biomes for the Overworld. Forge version: Nyctophobia (Forge).
• The Graveyard (Fabric) and The Graveyard (Forge/NeoForge): structures, mobs, bosses and blocks with a graveyard theme.