NeroEvents

Dynamic server events that keep worlds alive — meteor showers, alien invasions, supply drops and server-wide bosses for the Neroland universe.

NeroEvents is the dynamic server events mod of the Neroland ecosystem — the connective tissue that turns a collection of static systems into a living server. It runs a server-side scheduler that fires timed or reactive world events — meteor showers, solar storms, alien invasions, pirate raids, supply drops, faction wars, market shocks and server-wide boss fights — that pull players out of their automated bases and back into the world for shared moments. Most modded servers feel exciting for two weeks and then go quiet; NeroEvents fights that decay directly.

Built on Neroland Core, so its config framework, progression gates, currency/reputation reward routing, power/upgrade disruption hooks and c: compat tags are shared with the rest of the lineup. (Planned — in design; not yet released.)

1. The event scheduler

A server-side scheduler on a tick-based clock maintains a weighted pool of registered event definitions. Each carries conditions (dimension, minimum online players, time-of-day, faction state, economy thresholds), a cooldown, a weight and a payload. Every pass filters the pool by current world state, rolls against weights, and either fires immediately or queues a scheduled announcement with a countdown.

• 🗓️ Reactive, not random noise — events read server state (population, faction balance, economy, dimension) and fire content that is contextually relevant, not purely random.
• 📜 Datapack-driven — every event is declarative JSON referencing reusable payload templates (spawn waves, structure drops, loot injection, broadcasts, world effects), so owners define new events without code.
• 🛠️ Admin tooling — force, cancel, preview and reweight events live at runtime.

2. Progression-gated event pool

The pool is gated by Core's server-side progression rules so early players are never hit with content they cannot survive, and the same datapack behaves correctly on a fresh server and a mature one.

• 🌍 Earth / early industrial — mild events: supply drops, market price changes, small pirate raids that reward exploration and trade.
• 🚀 Space access — meteor showers, space debris crashes, solar storms and planetary storms unlock once players reach orbit and planets.
• 🪐 Colonies & late game — alien invasions, faction wars and server-wide boss events scale to established populations and high-tier gear.

3. World events & hazards

• ☄️ Meteor showers — falling meteor entities leave smouldering craters with embedded ore and relic loot.
• 🌞 Solar storms — a dimension-wide hazard that disrupts powered machinery, drains shields and raises ambient damage to unprotected players in space.
• 🌪️ Planetary storms — localised dust storms, ion squalls and cryo blizzards keyed to Nerospace planet metadata, affecting movement, visibility, oxygen or power.
• 🛰️ Space debris crashes — derelict satellite and hull fragments form mini-wreck salvage sites, occasionally with hostile salvage drones.

4. Combat & conflict events

• 👽 Alien invasions — wave-based combat escalating around populated areas until repelled.
• 🏴‍☠️ Pirate raids — smaller targeted raids on a base, convoy or station, with an objective tracker driving loot and reputation outcomes.
• ⚔️ Faction wars — structured contested-objective conflicts between two or more factions, scored to a victor.
• 🐲 Server-wide boss events — the flagship spectacle: a single powerful boss spawns at an announced location and the whole server is invited to fight it.

5. Rewards & economy

• 🎁 Supply drops — air-dropped, contested loot pods with guarded loot tables.
• 📈 Market price changes — non-combat economic shocks (shortages, crashes, trade booms) that shift NeroEconomy price curves for a window.
• 🏆 Contribution-weighted rewards — a participation tracker records who engaged (boss damage, drops collected, raids repelled) and splits loot fairly, routing payouts through Core's currency/reputation API so inflation can be monitored centrally.
• ⚖️ Fair disruption — destruction is scoped, opt-out-able where appropriate, respects claims and faction territory, and never permanently ruins protected claims; a "calm window" keeps newly-wiped servers gentle.

Privacy (POPIA / GDPR)

NeroEvents is designed to store the minimum possible. The scheduler and participation tracker prefer aggregate counts and transient session data over durable per-player logs; where participation records are kept (who joined a boss fight, when, reward payouts) they are UUID-only, retention-pruned on a short configurable window, and cleared through Core's shared data-erasure hook so one request purges you across every Neroland mod. Player data is never exported or transmitted off-server without explicit consent, and the server config documents exactly what is retained. Any anonymous crash telemetry is opt-out and carries only version strings — never names, UUIDs, IPs or world data.

Why it fits the ecosystem

• 🧩 Built on Neroland Core — one config framework, one progression arc, one reward/reputation API, shared c: tags. NeroEvents ships in its own creative tab.
• 🔌 Interoperates, never hard-depends — it detects other Nero mods and unlocks the matching payloads when present: Nerospace (space weather, planet metadata), NeroEconomy (market shocks), NeroFactions (wars and raid targets), NeroCreatures (invasion and boss rosters), NeroRuins (relic loot and wreck/arena structures) and NeroAgriculture (storm crop effects). With them absent, those systems still run on their own — they simply lose the timed, global event presentation.
• 🌐 External interop through Core tags only — Create, AE2, Mekanism, Ad Astra and Energized Power are reached through Core's common compat tags (power tags for machine disruption, material tags for salvage/reward loot, space tags for dimension gating), never a hard dependency on any of them.
• 🧱 Cross-loader — NeoForge, Forge and Fabric on Minecraft 26.1.2 and 26.2.

Requirements & compatibility

• Requires Neroland Core — install it alongside NeroEvents (it loads first).
• Soft synergies with Nerospace, NeroEconomy, NeroFactions, NeroCreatures, NeroRuins and NeroAgriculture — each unlocks more event payloads when present, none is required.
• Modpacks are allowed and encouraged — any platform, no need to ask. Use the official files and credit NeroEvents by Neroland with links to this page and the GitHub repository. Full terms: LICENSE.

Links

• 📖 Wiki — every event and system documented.
• 💬 Discord — chat, help, and sneak peeks.
• 🐞 Issues — bug reports and feature requests.
• 🗒️ Changelog
• 🟢 Also on Modrinth

Created by Neroland. The project logo was made with the help of AI image tools; in-game art is generated by the project's own tooling and refined by hand.