Adaptive Horde brings progression-based danger to your world by spawning mob waves that scale to each player’s real gear power.

No static difficulty spikes, no waiting for “day X” to matter. As players get stronger, nights become more intense with smarter wave selection, scaling mob stats, and configurable spawn pacing.

Main Features

Per-player gear score scanning (armor, enchants, melee, ranged)
Dynamic wave selection by strength requirement
Dimension-aware waves (Overworld / Nether / End)
Configurable wave composition, spawn chances, and multipliers
Wave-only custom drops (ADD or OVERRIDE)
Boss bar tracking for active waves with remaining enemies
Per-player wave announcements (toggle on/off)
Ignore list for exempt players
JSON-first configuration for easy server editing
Works with modded entities and weapons

Built for Modpacks

Adaptive Horde is designed to work in heavily modded environments:

Supports modded mobs by entity ID in waves.json
Supports manual weapon scoring overrides (WeaponOverrides.json)
Supports tag/item ranged overrides in ScalingConfig.json
Hot reload supported via /adaptivehorde reload

Commands

All commands start with:
/adaptivehorde

Includes wave control, scanning, debugging, ignore management, announcements, bossbar toggle, and weapon override tools.

Config Files

Generated in:
config/adaptivehordes/

ModConfig.json (runtime + pacing)
ScalingConfig.json (gear score + scaling rules)
MobConfig.json (wave mob runtime behavior)
IgnoreConfig.json (ignored players)
WeaponOverrides.json (manual weapon registry)
waves.json (all wave definitions)

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Adaptive horde