Afterdeath (Zombie Player & Infection System)

AFTERDEATH WIKI IS IN PROGRESS

When you die, you rise again as a zombie player. Your inventory drops, your abilities change, and you must find a way to cure yourself - or embrace the undead life.

• Getting hit by zombies or cave spiders gradually infects you.
• Infection progresses through 3 stages with increasing debuffs.
• Dynamic HUD: A custom on-screen progress bar and fullscreen tint will visually track your exact infection percentage.
• At 100% (Infection Stage III), you transform into a zombie player.
• Entering Infected Water or standing on infected blocks will actively inflict Poison and Nausea.
• You can eat Totem Shards or Golden Apples to reduce infection.
• Beware of Infected Water and over 450 new Infected Block variants spreading through the environment.
• The Gas Zombie: A dangerous hostile zombie variant that spits toxic projectiles and leaves lingering infected gas clouds upon death.
• Submerging vanilla mobs in Infected Water for 15 seconds will cause them to violently shake and mutate into their undead variants:
  • Zombies > Drowned
  • Husks > Zombies
  • Villagers > Zombie Villagers
  • Piglins > Zombified Piglins
  • Horses > Zombie Horses

Toss vanilla iron items into Infected Water to create the new Rusty Iron set (Armor, Tools, Shears, Blocks, Buckets, Doors, Trapdoors, Bars, Horse Armor, Shields, Lanterns, and Chains).

• Rusty tools inflict Poison on mobs and Infection on players. Rusty Armor acts like Thorns, infecting attackers (but it slowly infects the wearer too).
• Rusty Armor and Tools can be fully repaired in an anvil using Rusty Iron Ingots. (The Rusty Shield, which fully supports Banner Patterns, is repaired with Infected Planks).
• Rusty Horse Armor provides the exact same Thorns (infection/poison) counter-attack effect as player Rusty Armor.
• Harvesting any infected block in Survival mode strictly requires using the correct matching Rusty Iron tool.
• Slaying a Gas Zombie specifically with a Rusty tool completely prevents it from releasing its toxic gas cloud.
• Rusty Buckets instantly convert normal water into Infected Water upon scooping. (Just don't try to scoop lava with one).

• Splash Potion of Holiness: A brand new brewable item. Craft it by placing a Totem Shard and Splash Water Bottles into a Brewing Stand.
• When thrown, it instantly cures infected blocks and water within a 4-block radius, fully cures players in the early infection stages, and acts as a Super Fertilizer on crops.
• Hitting fully-turned Zombie or Skeleton players drops them to half a heart and applies a massive "Stun" debuff (Slowness, Weakness, and Glowing) - making them vulnerable to a Forced Cure.
• Sponges can absorb Infected Water, turning into Wet Infected Sponges (which can be dried by smelting).

You can use the built-in World Converter directly from the mod's Config Screen. With one click, the tool will automatically create a safe backup of your save file, scan your entire world, and restore all infected blocks and water back to their normal vanilla states.

• Infected Lake: A highly dangerous, naturally generating source of Infected Water. (Can generate in all biomes except Mushroom Island)
• Graveyard: Brave the dangers to find unique loot chests hidden inside ancient Coffins. (Can generate in all biomes except Mushroom Island)

• Burn in sunlight.
• Night vision in darkness.
• Hostile mobs ignore you (before you touch them).
• You cannot sprint during the day unless in darkness, rain, or thunder.
• Limited inventory (left and right hands).
• Raw meat heals more, cooked food is worse.
• Iron Golems & Snow Golems attack you.
• Villagers and Wandering Traders flee from you.
• Breathe underwater.
• Killing a Villager, Horse, Piglin, or Wandering Trader will instantly convert them into their undead variant.
• As you rot, you gain massive combat resistance against players and mobs, but become significantly more vulnerable to sunlight and fall damage.

Fresh Drowned -> Rotting Drowned -> Bloated Drowned -> Bogged

• Gain an underwater navigation speed buff (Fresh +20%, Rotting +40%, Bloated +50%, togglable).
• Your thrown tridents never lose durability and automatically gain a returning loyalty effect (no enchantment required, togglable).
• You are highly sensitive to solar heat, taking increased damage under the sun (Fresh 1.25x, Rotting 1.5x, Bloated 2.0x, togglable).
• Reach the final Bogged stage to grow mushrooms directly on your head! Other players can shear you for red and brown mushrooms, starting a 10-minute regrowth timer.

Fresh Husk -> Rotting Husk -> Mummified Husk -> Parched

• You are entirely immune to burning under direct sunlight.
• Your melee attacks inflict Hunger on your targets (configurable duration).
• You drown 3x faster, receive Slowness II when submerged in water, and receive Slowness I when standing in rain (togglable).
• Reaching the Mummified Husk stage grants you a permanent 75% reduction to all fire damage.

• The Drying Bar: A new progress bar. It fills up whenever a Zombie player stands in dry biomes (Deserts, Badlands, Savannas, Nether) or when a Drowned player is out of water and rain. Standing in water or rain instantly empties it.
• Heat Mutations:
  • If a Drowned player dries out completely (reaches 100% on the Drying Bar) or takes fatal sun damage, they revert to their corresponding tier of Zombie.
  • If a Zombie player reaches 100% on the Drying Bar in a hot/dry biome, they bake into their corresponding tier of Husk.
• Submergence Mutations:
  • If a Zombie player runs out of air and drowns, they transform into their corresponding tier of Drowned.
  • If a Husk player runs out of air and drowns, they hydrate and convert back into their corresponding tier of Zombie.

• Skeletons don't need to eat. Instead, you heal yourself by right-clicking with Bones.
• You have infinite arrows and your bows/crossbows will never take durability damage.
• Because you have no eyes, you can safely stare at Endermen without angering them.
• Reach the final stage to become 100% immune to fire and lava, inflict the Wither effect on melee hits, heal from the Wither effect, and never take sword durability damage.
• Blazes are highly aggressive toward all undead players except Wither Skeletons, which they will treat as neutral Nether allies.
• [NEW!] Nether Ascension: Skeletons are born of cold earth, but forged in fire. Surviving as a Parched, Bogged, or standard Skeleton in the Nether for 30 minutes will permanently mutate you into a Wither Skeleton.
• [NEW!] Specialized Ammo: When your inventory is completely empty of arrows, shooting bows as a Bogged skeleton will fire Poison arrows, and as a Parched skeleton will fire Weakness arrows.

As a fully decomposed undead, you are a commander of the horde.

• Old Zombie players can tame other zombie-type mobs using Rotten Flesh, while Wither Skeleton players can tame skeleton-type mobs using Bones.
• Tamed undead will follow and defend you. Skeleton arrows will pass harmlessly through you and your other minions. (Note: Tamed mobs automatically untame if you transition forms or are cured).
• Zombie players can tame and ride Zombie Horses using Rotten Flesh, and Skeleton players can tame and ride Skeleton Horses using Bones (A saddle is also required to ride them).
• Skeleton players can tame, ride, and actually steer Spiders (and Cave Spiders, if enabled in config).

1. Get the Weakness effect (splash potion or any other item that gives a Weakness effect).
2. Eat a Golden Apple.
3. Eat the Heart of Life.

Human players can now forcefully cure an undead player in combat.

• Zombie Curing: Humans can throw a Splash Potion of Holiness to "stun" a Zombie Player, then right-click them with a Golden Apple to cure them. The newly cured player receives massive survival buffs (Regeneration II and Absorption I) to help them escape.
• Skeleton Surgery: Once stunned with holy water, humans must right-click them with 24 Rotten Flesh to rebuild their body limb-by-limb, before finally applying the Golden Apple.

Zombie players can steal the body of living players they kill in PvP - curing themselves (by 50%) while zombifying the victim.

A massive, new advancement tree containing 38 advancements. Unlock milestones for surviving as a zombie, crafting Rusty Iron gear, stealing bodies, acting as a Field Surgeon, raising an Army of the Dead, or crafting specialized survival gear.

A unique equipment item that expands your hotbar by 3 extra slots when worn as a chestplate. Items persist inside the sack when unequipped. Can be crafted with 7 rabbit/normal leather and 1 string. You can use the 0, - and = to access the extra slots quickly.

The Sack can be dyed into all 16 different colors (your items will safely transfer over when re-dyeing).

111 server-side options and 15 client-side options. Toggle every single feature, adjust damage multipliers, customize UI elements and more.

Added a built-in Search Bar to instantly find any setting by name, description, or value.

Accessible directly from the Vanilla Pause Menu and right before you Create a New World. You can even create and assign unique server configuration profiles for each individual world.

Admin & Compatibility Features:

• Includes custom //infect and //cure commands (with full undo/redo support) to easily corrupt or purify massive world selections at once (only when WorldEdit is installed).
• [NEW!] Includes /zombie, updated /skeleton command, and brand-new /drowned and /husk developer utility commands.

(More coming in next versions)

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