Eternal Defense

Plant a beacon. Build a base worth defending. Hold it when the night comes.

Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge · built around TaCZ guns and Create

Night falls. Past the edge of your base, something is gathering. The turrets are loaded, the walls are patched, and the beacon in the middle of it all is humming. You have one day left to get ready.

Eternal Defense turns Minecraft into a co-op base-defense campaign. Plant a Defense Beacon, survive the first raid, and grow a muddy camp into a fortress with a factory behind it, a kitchen inside it and a cannon on the hill that answers your call.

• Raids that grow with you: waves, elites, bosses and four special raid types
• Five Ages of guns: from flintlocks to sci-fi, all from one workshop
• Your own artillery: a personal support cannon with 12 kinds of fire support
• Real base defense: powered turrets, traps, walls and spotlights
• A world fighting back: infected land, hearts to destroy, villages to take over
• An After-Action Report after every raid: where they hit, who killed what, and what to fix
• Drones, a squad kitchen, loadout kits and a lot more

Your base is the objective

Plant the Defense Beacon and a glowing zone marks your turf. From then on, the beacon is what everything fights for. Lose it and the campaign is over. Hold it and everything gets better.

• Build pretty, earn more. The beacon scores your base on structure, palette, details, lighting, furniture, layout, factory and weapon stations. A better base raises your reward tier, from 0 to 10, and the raids grow with it.
• Grow the beacon. Upgrade it from Mk-1 to a hulking Mk-4, with upgrades for logistics, damage reduction, healing, raider detection and protection from above.
• Win and it's fixed. A won raid puts back every block the raiders broke. Lose, and the ruins stay.
• You set the pace. Cap the raid level, call the next raid early, or pay for a break.

Raids: they come for the beacon

They breach, they dig, they shoot. Raiders go for your doors first and punch through walls when they have to. Shooters hang back and fire from range. Glowing elites carry special powers, and bigger raids bring mini-bosses and a boss.

The infected

Every raider is infected: eighteen mobs, each with its own look and its own way of making your night worse. Grunts fill every raid. Elite kinds join as the raid level climbs: Bastion Turtles from level 2, Cavalry Riders from level 3, the anti-tank Bastion Turtle from level 4. From raid level 3 the last wave brings a mini-boss, and from level 4 a hard raid ends with the Grave Titan.

Elites

Any raider can show up as an elite: its name in gold over its head, a glowing ring at its feet in its power's colour, and one special power. The first elite of a wave is announced in chat, every wave with one pays an extra Ardent Energy, and every elite drops Ardent Energy of its own. Elites start rare and become several a wave at the top raid levels.

Special raids

Pick a special raid in the beacon's Raid control for extra Ardent Energy:

Raid modifiers

Feeling strong? Make the next raid harder on purpose and get paid for it. Pick any number of modifiers on the beacon's Raid control page: each one makes the raid's reward cache bigger and makes raid mobs drop Ardent Energy more often. They last for the next raid only.

Stack all six with a special raid and raid mobs drop Ardent Energy twice as often.

The armory

Four workshop tables keep a huge gun collection organized instead of overwhelming:

Guns are built from receivers made in your Create factory, so the factory and the frontline feed each other.

Armor sets with personality: Quick Draw, Stormtrooper (fire hurts 25% less), Night Operator, Exo Bulwark (explosions hurt 20% less) and Ardent Ward, plus the Drone Pilot and Potion Seller suits.

Call in Support

Every player gets their own Support Platform and Support Cannon: a hulking 3 × 3 gun with your name on a brass plate. Throw a flare and it answers:

• Support Flare: load the platform's grid, throw the flare, and a supply chest parachutes in.
• Return Flare: a purple portal opens where it lands. Step through and you're home.
• Fire Support Flare: your cannon grinds around, settles and shells the target. Every time, exactly on the flare.

Twelve kinds of fire support. Pick yours at the cannon or on the Handheld Radio:

And more to call on:

• Handheld Radio: call your flares in from a distance. A glowing ring shows exactly where they'll land.
• Loadout Station: save a full kit into a coin. Step in, and six seconds later you're dressed for war.

Drones

Build a Drone Pad in your base: a landing deck with a hangar and a 108-slot storage that hoppers and Create can pull from. Every drone works out of it.

• Recovery Drone: died far from home? Send it from the pad for 6 Ardent Energy. It flies out to your deaths from the last 30 minutes, picks up your dropped gear, and empties your body or grave too (Corpse, Gravestone and other grave mods). Then it brings everything back to the pad.
• Sweeper Drone: a little floor robot that drives around your base, picks up loose items and drops them into the pad's storage. Pay once and it stays on duty.
• Package Drones: set one down anywhere, fill its 9-stack hold and hit SEND. It floats up on a balloon and lands on your pad.
• Deliveries land here: boxes from the Specialty Seller and the Drill Harvester come down on the pad instead of next to the beacon.

Drone backpacks

Wear a drone on your back, or fit it to any Eternal Defense chestplate and it's drawn over your armor in the set's colours. Press U to open the pack you're wearing.

• A7 Drone Arm: a robot arm that drinks Healing for you when you're low, throws splash Healing at hurt teammates, and throws your harmful potions at the nearest enemy. Load it once: it never uses up a potion.

• D7 Drone Deployer: put any TaCZ gun and its ammo in the pack. When an enemy comes close, a gun drone flies out, circles over your head and fights with that gun: its real fire rate, bolt action and recoil. It holds fire when a friend is in the way, and it reloads from the pack's ammo slots.

• Cores power them. An Attack Core runs the D7 and a Support Core runs the A7. Your own hits on monsters charge them back up, and the Drone Pad sells and recharges them for Infected Ardent Energy.

• Pilot suits: the Drone Pilot suit charges an Attack Core 50% faster. The Potion Seller rig gets more throws from a Support Core, and harmful splash potions don't touch you.

Hold the line

Spin Create shafts into power, wire your base with Power Poles, and switch on the defenses:

• Turrets in three Marks: machine guns, shotguns, flamethrowers and tesla coils (no ammo, chain lightning)
• The Heavy Cannon, with a 40-block reach and incendiary shells
• The Curse Gas Totem, which rolls waves of slowness and poison over the attackers
• Spotlights, sandbags, barricades, punji traps, and barbed wire that a Shock Box makes live

Buy them all at the Defense Depot with Ammo Coins.

The After-Action Report

After every raid, won or lost, the beacon writes you a one-page debrief:

• A map of your base from above, with red where the raiders hit your walls and doors, and the worst spots numbered
• Who killed what: every player, turret, support strike, drone and trap
• What came: raiders by kind, elites, the mini-boss and the boss
• What it cost and paid: shots fired, strikes called, blocks broken, Ardent Energy earned
• One piece of advice for next time, picked from what actually happened

The last five reports are kept, so you can see whether your base is getting better. And the raiders learn too: where they got stuck on the way in, fewer come next time.

The kitchen

A fed squad is a winning squad. The Mess Hall cooks meals that buff the whole team, and every meal buff counts double at home. Make sandwiches, a nine-serving stew, 15 legendary gun meals and MRE ration bars for the road.

Drinks work differently. The Drink Station brews vanilla potions and mixes up to three of their effects into one drink. A drink doesn't double: it makes the potion last much longer. Each effect keeps its full strength for 10 minutes, or up to 30 with sweetener, and at home it doesn't run out at all.

Out in the world

• Half the world is infected. Infected land spawns infected mobs, and it gets worse as the days go by. Each infected region has a heart with its own mission: a zeppelin, a church, a bunker, trenches. Beat its guardian and break its core to take the land back.
• Forward Operating Bases. Take over a village, win its raid, and you have an outpost far from home, with a supply rail that pays tribute.
• Command Table and Satellite Beacon. A live satellite map: hunt enemy warbands and Warlords, and get paid for it.
• Tactical Enchanting Table. Enchant with Ardent Energy instead of XP.

The Drill Harvester

Beaten a heart? Don't just break its core. Plant a Drill Harvester on it.

• It takes the land back, just like breaking the core: the infection dies off and the infected turn back into ordinary mobs and villagers.
• It drills Infected Ardent Energy out of the dead heart: 8 an hour, and up to 32 wait in the drill.
• It ships home by itself. Put a Supply Catapult in its zone, and every 4 crystals go into a box that's thrown home to your Drone Pad (or next to your beacon).
• A little outpost. Its zone counts like a forward base: meals and drinks work as if you were home, and you can build defenses around it.
• What it's worth: Infected Ardent Energy sells for 3 Ardent Energy at the Exchange Shop, and it buys and recharges your drone cores.

Easy to learn

No wiki needed. You start with a gun, ammo, the beacon and a Field Guide that walks you through everything step by step. Every screen says what a thing is, how to unlock it and what can go wrong, and warnings reach the whole team before a raid starts.

Every block at a glance

Companion mods

• [TaCZ] Gun Displays: eleven stands, wall racks and glass cases for your gun collection. Your trophy room counts toward your base score.
• [TaCZ] Gun Information: a small HUD card with the real keys of the gun in your hand, plus a reload ring.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge 47.4 or newer, TaCZ 1.1.8 or newer (1.1.x), TaCZ Attributes 1.4, Create 6, GeckoLib 4.8 or newer, LesRaisins Tactical Equipments 0.4.3 or newer, and JEI.

An Eternal Defense modpack with everything set up, plus gun packs and quality-of-life mods, is on the way.

Optional requirements

Any TaCZ gun pack works. The Weapon Platform sorts every gun, round and attachment into an Age, and a gun it doesn't know goes into Age 3 or later. The gun packs below were checked one by one: every gun, round and attachment in them has its own place on the table.

Also checked:

• [TACZ Addons] Daffa's Arsenal
• [TaCZ] Cinder's masterpiece
• [TaCZ] CS+
• [TaCZ] Damascus
• [TaCZ] edsMCJE Gunpack
• [TacZ] Elite x Quality Guns Zip Edition
• [TaCZ] Fatal Contract gunpack
• [TACZ] Gucci & Vuitton Attachments
• [TaCZ] mastery
• [TaCZ] Original HK-416D
• [TaCZ] Rusty
• [TaCZ] Timeless Remodernization
• [TACZ] CS2 to MC
• [TaCZ] Expeditionary Force: DuYu's Weapon Workshop
• [TacZ] Guns and Targets
• [TACZ] LesRaisins Append Pack
• Ageless & Definitive Zero
• General Attachments
• Plazma Burst 2 Guns

On CurseForge:

• [TaCZ] Enlisted Gunpack WW2
• [TacZ] Gunpowder Revolution: Great War
• [TaCZ] ChocolateMan: Retro gunpowder
• [TaCZ] Relics & Antiques
• [TaCZ] Apocalypse Gun Pack
• [TaCZ] Create Armorer
• [TaCZ] Laffey's gunpack
• [TaCZ] Helldivers: Escalation of Freedom
• [TacZ] Alex Kim's Gunpack Classic Return
• [TACZ] Valorant Gun Pack for TACZ
• [TaCZ] MCS2 gunpack
• Ares Gun Pack for TACZ
• [TaCZ] Cataclysm Guns
• [TaCZ] TRIS-dyna gunpack
• [TaCZ] EMX-Arms gunpack
• [TaCZ] MS-Mobius gunpack
• [TaCZ] Weapons and Tactics
• [TacZ] Cold War Guns for TacZ
• [TaCZ] Absolute opponent gun pack [OCLE]
• [TaCZ] Modern Warfare Gun Pack for TaCZ
• [TACZ] Perseus Gun Pack
• [TACZ] Fel's WW1 Gun Pack
• [TACZ] Phoenix Gunpack
• [TaCZ] Cyber Armorer
• [TACZ] Fallout Gunpack
• MineOps-Ultimate-Weaponry

Other mods Eternal Defense works with: [TaCZ] Gun Displays, [TaCZ] Gun Information, TaCZ Magazines (empty magazines at the Ammo Platform), TaCZ Special Forces (its soldiers join late raids), Corpse and Gravestone (the Recovery Drone empties your body or grave), Shoulder Surfing (recoil moves the camera), Player Animator, and Entity Culling (the beacon beam never vanishes). Every one of these features has an on/off switch in the config.

FAQ

Is it multiplayer? Yes. One beacon per world and one base for the whole team, and every player owns their own support gear.

Do I need a big factory? It helps, but it isn't required. Ardent Energy from kills and won raids buys a lot at the Exchange Shop.

Where are my raid rewards? In the beacon itself: press the reward button in its menu.

Can I turn features off? Yes. Every optional feature has a switch, and every HUD piece can be moved, in the config files.

Your base is the objective. Your factory keeps it alive. Light the beacon.