EtBW2 Bosses Enhance
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Enhance some main-line process bosses on Explore the Bright World 2 modpack.
ETBW2 Bosses Enhance
Enhance some main-line process bosses on Explore the Bright World 2 modpack.
Enhanced the bosses used in the main game progression of this bundle.
Currently including Plague Maiden and Sporeking from the Shadowlands mod, and the combat mechanics of The Destroyer and The Mourner (Defiled Lands).
This is a small, event-driven add-on: it never edits the original mod jars, and all changes are applied at runtime through Forge events.
Shadowlands — Boss Skills & Dialogue
Both bosses get a curated skill kit plus in-game dialogue lines (rendered via cinematic_subtitles). Skills that only duplicated vanilla boss behaviour were intentionally left out, so everything here adds something distinct:
Plague Maiden
- Cleansing Silence — area Blindness + Slowness + damage, with a skill line.
- Rotting Slumber — Wither + Poison + a corruption ray, with a skill line.
- Poison Miasma (shared) — a lingering poison fog: Blindness + Poison + Weakness.
- Life Drain — a 5-second channel that siphons health from the target to the boss.
- Spore Burst — a ranged lobbed projectile: explodes on impact and leaves a 5-block poison cloud that applies Poison II for 3s only (no extra damage).
Sporeking
- Spore Spread — wide Poison + Hunger, with a skill line.
- Digestive Feast — bite lifesteal, with a skill line.
- Fermenting Hotbed — places spore landmines, with a skill line.
- Mycelial Bind — single-target root for 5s + Poison + Nausea.
Defiled Lands — The Mourner as a Two-Phase Boss
The Mourner is no longer summoned directly. It is now phase two of The Destroyer:
- Phase 1 — normal summon. Right-click an active Conjuring Altar with the Idol of Sorrow to summon The Destroyer, using the original summoning protocol (spawns 3 blocks above the altar, 200-tick invulnerable charge-up, consumes the idol outside Creative). No time warping here — just a normal boss fight.
- Phase 2 — transformation rite. Killing The Destroyer triggers the rite:
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| Kill | Death is cancelled: the Destroyer feigns death — its boss bar empties, the falling animation plays, it becomes invulnerable and freezes in place. The daylight gamerule is saved, then time acceleration begins. |
| 0–1s | Bar holds empty. |
| 1–8s | Wither-style recharge: health refills linearly over 7s (the bar is health-driven, exactly like the Wither). Time hits noon (6000) at second 7. |
| 8–10s | Bar stays full, time locked at noon. |
| Second 10 | The Destroyer entity is cleared and The Mourner spawns at its death coordinates with the original charge-up effect, while the Shadow Sun (shadow_fog) is force-triggered amid purple particles. |
During the fight, noon and the Shadow Sun are absolutely locked (even /time cannot change them), the rite cannot be interrupted, and bosses despawn if all players leave a 100-block radius (a hidden bar is not a disengage). When the Mourner dies or despawns, the temporary Shadow Sun is stopped and the saved daylight cycle is restored — shadow_fog's natural random cycle is untouched. Nightmare Stalker natural spawns are suppressed during the rite.
Cheat Command
/etbw2 skip_dl (operator / cheats, permission level 2) — force-terminates the rite, removes the Destroyer/Mourner entities, stops the Shadow Sun and restores the world's original state. Also clears any leftover boss entities as a fallback.
EtBW2 Bosses Enhance Team
