# ⚔ NPC Battles ⚔
**Stage epic mob battles anywhere in your world.** One right-click with the Battle Scepter clears the land, raises a full colosseum around you, packs the stands with a cheering crowd, and lets your armies fight it out. When it's over, restore the land exactly as it was.
## How it works
1. Craft the **Battle Scepter** (diamond, gold block, blaze rod in a vertical line) or grab it from the creative tab.
2. Right-click to open the setup screen.
3. Build up to **four teams** from **any mob in the game, including mobs from other mods**.
4. Pick your rules, hit **Start Battle!**, and watch the arena rise.
## Game modes
- **To the Death**: no respawns, last team standing wins.
- **Limited Respawns**: every fighter gets 1 to 10 lives.
- **Capture the Flag**: grab the enemy flag and carry it home.
- **Defend the VIP**: protect your team's star fighter at all costs.
Choose from four arena sizes (Small to Giant), an empty, sparse or packed audience, time limits, cover on the arena floor, and name tags. You can watch from the royal box, or **jump in and fight for a team yourself**.
## Smart AI
Fighters don't just run at each other. They:
- spread out their targets, protect wounded teammates and hunt flag carriers and VIPs
- take roles: attackers, defenders, bodyguards and escorts
- sidestep arrows and fireballs, pounce on enemies, retreat to heal and kite melee attackers
- never hurt their own team
Even cows and villagers can fight!
## 13 custom bosses
Every boss has its own model, animations, glowing textures, a boss bar, a second phase below half health and a set of unique abilities:
| Boss | Highlights |
|---|---|
| **Mutated Zombie** | Ground slam, leaping crash, a roar that summons zombies |
| **Elite Skeleton** | Bow and sword, 5-arrow volleys, arrow rain, honour guard |
| **Bedrock Golem** | Quake rings, thrown boulders, damage-reflecting fortify |
| **Ember** | A flying blaze king with fireball spirals, flame pillars and meteors |
| **Death Warden** | Piercing sonic boom, soul drain, darkness pulse, vex wraiths |
| **Darth Vader** | Saber combos, Force choke and push, saber throw, calls in Stormtroopers |
| **Redstone Creeper** | Chain lightning, redstone mines, explodes without dying |
| **Tarantula** | Wall climbing, pounce, web shots, venom, a cave-spider brood |
| **Endersteel** | Blink strikes, void rifts, homing ender bolts |
| **Grown Silverfish** | Burrows and erupts beneath its prey, summons silverfish swarms |
| **Iron Man** | Flight, repulsors, unibeam, homing mini-missiles |
| **Pillager Commando** | Crossbow bursts, firework rockets, TNT grenades, radios in a ravager |
| **Wretched Witch** | Hexed potion volleys, levitation curse, vanishing poison clouds |
Plus **Stormtroopers**: blaster-firing troopers you can put on any team.
All bosses have spawn eggs and work outside the arena too.
## Summoned helpers join the fight
Anything that appears mid-battle joins the side that brought it: boss minions, evoker vexes, zombie reinforcements, splitting slimes, and summons from other mods. Helpers wear their team's colour, fight for their side, and can be targeted by the enemy.
## Safe for your world
- The arena saves every block it replaces, chest contents included. Click **Restore Land** to put everything back.
- Explosions inside a running arena never break blocks, and bosses never grief terrain.
- Works in multiplayer: other players can watch from the royal box or end a battle themselves.
## Commands (operators)
- `/npcbattle demo [mode] [size] [preset]`: start a ready-made battle. Presets: `classic`, `bosses`, `summoners`, `empire`
- `/npcbattle stop`: end the nearby battle
- `/npcbattle restore`: restore the land under the arena you're standing in
- `/npcbattle list`: list arenas and battles
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*Requires Minecraft 1.19.2 and Forge 43+.*
NPC Battles Team
