CoreSiege

Core Siege

A complete tower defense game inside Minecraft. Defend your Defense Core through 12 night-time waves of monsters with seven kinds of towers and your own Siege Rifle. Join a new world and you’re ready to play, with no setup.

Quick start

1. Create a new world (any type; Easy difficulty or higher, since monsters don’t spawn on Peaceful). Core Siege builds a walled battleground around where you spawn, with the Defense Core in the middle.
2. Right-click the Defense Core to start.
3. You get 30 seconds to prepare, then the first wave arrives.

You start with a Siege Rifle, 20 coins and a Crafting Table.

How it plays

• Glowing monsters spawn in a ring around the Core and walk toward it. Don’t let them touch it. The Core has 20 health.
• Games run at night, and nearby players get Night Vision. The time of day is restored when the game ends.
• Monsters drop coins. Clearing a wave gives a bonus. Spend coins on towers.
• Survive all 12 waves to win. Wave 6 and wave 12 are boss waves (Ravagers).
• Natural monsters can’t spawn near the Core, so only the waves attack you.
• Sneak and right-click the Core during prep time to start the next wave early.

Your weapon: the Siege Rifle

A bolt-action rifle with unlimited ammo. Right-click to fire, about once a second. Hold Sneak to scope in: the view zooms and the shot is perfectly accurate. Each shot does heavy damage, headshots do double, and the bullet pierces up to 3 monsters in a line. It reaches 100 blocks and only hurts monsters, so your pets are safe. Lost it? Craft another from 2 iron ingots and 4 coins.

Towers

Craft towers at a crafting table using coins only. Open the recipe book: towers you haven’t unlocked yet are hidden, and new towers unlock as you clear waves.

Right-click a tower to see its stats. A good defense mixes types. Frost and Cannon work well together, and Sniper and Wither handle the bosses.

The battleground

• New worlds: the battleground builds automatically at your first spawn. It’s a walled arena with gatehouses, a spawn pad, dirt roads lit by lamp posts, and houses, watchtowers and ruins to explore.
• Existing worlds: your world is never changed automatically. Type /tdarena where you want the arena. It flattens everything inside the wall, so pick a spot you don’t mind changing.
• The arena adds a real world border. Remove it with /tdarena noborder.
• Uneven terrain is fine. Hills are cut away, and valleys, lakes and caves are filled in.
• You can also just place a Defense Core on open ground without any arena.

Commands

• /tdarena: build the battleground (singleplayer, or ops on a server)
• /tdrecipes: list every tower, its cost, and whether it’s unlocked
• /tdkit: get a new Defense Core, coins, crafting table and Siege Rifle

Multiplayer

Works in singleplayer and on servers. Everyone near the Core shares the game, the boss bar and the coin rewards, so you can defend it as a team.

Options

config/towerdefense-common.toml lets you turn off the automatic arena in new worlds, the night-time mode, and the recipe-book cleanup at login. Core Siege shows only its own recipes in the recipe book: it replaces Minecraft’s automatic recipe unlocks, so vanilla recipes can still be crafted by hand but won’t appear in the book.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Minecraft Forge 47.3.0 or newer

Feedback and balance suggestions are welcome in the comments.