Black Crown: F-RPG

Dark fantasy bosses, powerful relics and a path of your own.

Face corrupted guardians, recover their equipment and uncover the legacy of the Black Crown. Created for Fritz’s RPG, this mod supplies the custom bosses, items, lore and character systems behind the modpack’s developing story and progression. You can also play it outside the modpack with its required dependencies.

Early Beta — current feature overview. Black Crown is playable and still growing. Natural dungeon generation and the complete story journey are unfinished; the features and access details below explain what is available now. See the Files tab and individual changelogs for release-specific changes.

The pictures below are real in-game captures from development test areas.

Maelor and his Star Guardians prepare to attack a target.

Seven bosses with distinct fighting styles

Each boss has custom models, animations, combat behavior and rewards, with combat built around Epic Fight.

• Durnan, the Ashen Smith: a heavily armored forge warrior with powerful greatsword attacks and escalating combat phases.
• Vaelorn: a gilded revenant whose sweeping blade punishes anyone caught within reach.
• Sir Aldren Valebright, the Oathbroken: a sword-and-shield fighter with counters, shield bashes and sunburst attacks.
• Elowen Greyfeather, the Hollow Huntress: a mobile archer using rapid shots, arrow spreads and marked areas struck by arrow rain.
• Maelor Starborn, the Unbound Sage: an Iron’s Spells caster with fiery and spectral projectile trails, protected by summoned Guardians that charge his enemies.
• Veyra Nightveil, the Faceless Verdict: an aggressive dagger fighter with quick cuts, lunges and aerial dives.
• Xarathos: a three-phase encounter involving Dominion Crystals and a changing battle as his defenses fall.

Choose your origin and develop your character

Choose from (at this moment ) 10 origins: Human, Mirwood Elf, Dwarf, Ironhide Orc, Ashborn, Duskblood, Lightfoot Halfling, White Willow Fae, Stoneborn and Frostborn. Their traits affect combat, magic, movement, mining and resistances; some also change your character’s size. Your choice is permanent through normal gameplay.

Defeating monsters earns separate Path of the Black Crown XP. Progress to level 60 and spend attribute points through the inventory progression screen:

• Might improves physical melee damage and heavy weapon impact.
• Martial Arts improves attack speed and combo damage.
• Vitality strengthens health and recovery.
• Resistance provides damage reduction and protection against afflictions.
• Endurance supports Epic Fight stamina and recovery.
• Arcana improves Iron’s Spells mana, spell power and casting.

Each attribute has 20 ranks, with milestone perks at ranks 5, 10, 15 and 20.

Wear the armor of the fallen

Boss fragments can be reforged into seven complete armor sets . Collect Durnan’s Ashen Smith, Vaelorn’s Gilded Oathguard, Aldren’s Sunward Oathkeeper, Elowen’s Greyfeather Huntress, Maelor’s Starborn Sage, Veyra’s Nightveil Verdict and Xarathos’s Black Sovereign equipment.

The designs echo their bosses with layered plates, raised ornaments, fastenings and cloth details. Individual pieces can be mixed and worn with ordinary movement or Epic Fight animations. Ashen Smith armor also provides fire protection, an emergency ward and a full-set benefit for Durnan’s greatsword power.

Vaelorn’s Gilded Oathguard armor, shown on a player.

Relics with powers you can use

The rewards include weapons, a shield, a spellbook and relics with active or passive abilities:

• Heartforge Hammer: release an armor-weakening shockwave and extract fragments from Dominion Anchors.
• Durnan’s Ashen Greatsword: unleash a fiery cleave and deal additional melee damage to burning enemies.
• Vaelorn’s Blade: slow enemies with a soul cleave and recover health after hostile melee kills.
• Sunward Aegis: block attacks as a shield and grant nearby allies a protective ward.
• Windpiercer: draw quickly, mark enemies for increased damage and unleash a three-arrow fan with area effects on landing.
• Codex of the Last Star: an eight-slot Iron’s Spells spellbook with magic bonuses, an in-hand Magic Missile cast and a separate reveal ability.
• Mercy and Judgement: two separate daggers with stronger paired benefits, a cleansing dash and an empowered follow-up strike.
• Black Crown Shard: cleanse harmful effects and gain a temporary protective ward.

Relic Power defaults to H. Use Sneak + H to prioritize a supported offhand relic, or change the binding in Controls. Normal attacks and shield blocking remain available.

Mercy and Judgement are two independent weapons.

Reforge your equipment at the Ashen Forge

Craft a compact Ashen Forge core, place it on solid ground with enough clear space, and watch it assemble into a working 7 × 5 × 6 forge.  

Use the forge’s built-in recipe guide to craft boss armor and restore damaged relics. Repairing the broken dagger pair produces both Mercy and Judgement. The forge can also separate older combined dagger items, and mining the structure with a suitable pickaxe returns its portable core.

The craftable forge assembles when its core is placed. Its planned placement inside Durnan’s dungeon is still being integrated.

Build with new woods, stone and lighting

Mirwood, Dark Mirwood and Willow add green, deep purple and pale cream wood palettes. Each includes matching logs, stripped variants, planks, stairs, slabs, fences, gates, doors, trapdoors, buttons, pressure plates, leaves and growable saplings.

Mirwood: green heartwood with matching building pieces.

Dark Mirwood: a deep purple palette for darker fantasy builds.

Willow: pale cream wood with matching doors, fences and other building pieces.

Ashen Tuff combines cool stone with animated molten veins. Its variants cover raw, polished and brick blocks with stairs, slabs and walls, plus both chiseled forms. Since 0.37.1, all variants emit light level 15, matching lava, while remaining safe to walk on. Crafting and stonecutting provide the different shapes.

There are also dwarven forge bricks, pillars, tiles, grates, runed blocks and emblems, alongside standing, wall, hanging and lantern-style braziers in several flame colors.

Ashen Tuff’s building palette. This daylight capture shows the textures and shapes; the latest build adds stronger emitted light.

Lore, dungeons and what is still in progress

The story follows the Oathbound guardians, forgotten relics and the returning influence of Xarathos. Discover forge records, tablets, trophies and five types of Dominion Anchor, whose fragments can be extracted with the restored Heartforge Hammer.

With optional Patchouli, you can craft the Black Crown Codex from a book and Charred Forge Notes for an early introduction to the story. The Notes currently require Creative or commands; their normal survival discovery is still being integrated. This guide is separate from Maelor’s spellbook weapon.

Current encounter access: the seven bosses are available through Creative spawn eggs or summon commands.

Still in development: natural dungeon placement, the connected story and survival progression between encounters, further dungeon content including the Black Crown Citadel, and the Ashen Forge. Combat balance, animations and visual polish will continue to improve. These plans do not have a promised release date.

Requirements

For the version described here: Minecraft 1.21.1  NeoForge.

• Required: Epic Fight, GeckoLib and Iron’s Spells ’n Spellbooks, together with their required libraries.
• Optional: Patchouli for the in-game Black Crown Codex.

Check the chosen file’s dependency list and changelog when installing. Black Crown can be used outside Fritz’s RPG, but the required mods are still needed.

Feedback, bugs or ideas?

Black Crown is an unfinished Early Beta, and feedback helps shape what comes next. Share your suggestions, bug reports and gameplay experiences on the Discord server. For bugs, include your mod version and what happened; screenshots or a crash report.

Need a server? Take a look at Wabbanode through the Fritz’s RPG affiliate link.