Peaceful Ward

Protect Your Builds. Control Hostile Spawns. Enjoy the Peace.

Tired of hostile mobs spawning inside your carefully built base? Peaceful Ward introduces two powerful, craftable protection blocks that prevent natural hostile mob spawns within a designated area, allowing you to build, explore, and enjoy your surroundings without constantly worrying about monsters appearing.

Whether you're protecting a small survival home, a massive castle, or an entire multiplayer settlement, Peaceful Ward provides a simple and effective way to keep your builds safe—without changing the difficulty or disabling hostile mobs throughout your world.

Two Levels of Protection

Peaceful Ward — 32×32 Protection

The standard Peaceful Ward is perfect for smaller builds, starter bases, farms, and personal survival areas.

• Protection Area: 32×32 blocks (1,024 blocks²)
• Vertical Coverage: All heights
• Mining Requirement: Stone pickaxe or better
• Crafting Materials: 4 Diamonds, 4 Obsidian, and 1 Nether Star

Greater Peaceful Ward — 64×64 Protection

Need more space? Upgrade to the Greater Peaceful Ward for a significantly larger protected area, ideal for castles, villages, large bases, and multiplayer communities.

• Protection Area: 64×64 blocks (4,096 blocks²)
• Vertical Coverage: All heights
• Mining Requirement: Iron pickaxe or better
• Crafting Materials: 4 Netherite Ingots, 4 Diamond Blocks, and 1 Peaceful Ward

Both protection ranges can be customized through the mod's configuration file.

Key Features

Hostile Mob Spawn Prevention

Prevent ordinary natural hostile mob spawns within your ward's protected area. No more unexpected creepers, zombies, or skeletons appearing inside your base!

Protection at Every Height

Each ward protects its entire horizontal footprint from the bottom of the world to the top. Underground bases, towering castles, and multilevel structures can all benefit from the same protection.

Visual Protection Boundaries

Not sure where your protection ends? Simply right-click a ward with an empty hand to display its protected boundaries using particles for 10 seconds.

Survival-Friendly Crafting

Both wards require valuable resources, making them rewarding upgrades as you progress through survival gameplay.

Fully Configurable Protection Areas

Adjust the protection dimensions for both ward types using the configuration file:

config/peacefulward-common.toml

Multiplayer-Friendly

Protect shared bases, community buildings, villages, and other important locations on multiplayer servers.

Preserves Normal Gameplay

Peaceful Ward targets natural hostile mob spawning rather than removing every monster from the game. You can still explore dangerous areas, fight bosses, and experience normal survival challenges outside protected zones.

How It Works

1. Craft a Peaceful Ward or Greater Peaceful Ward.
2. Place the ward near the center of the area you want to protect.
3. The ward automatically prevents natural hostile mob spawns within its protection range while active and loaded.
4. Right-click the ward with an empty hand to display its protection boundaries.
5. Enjoy a safer base without changing your world's difficulty!

No complicated setup or activation process is required.

Important Information

Peaceful Ward is designed specifically to prevent natural hostile mob spawning, not to eliminate all threats.

• Existing hostile mobs will not be removed.
• Passive and friendly mob spawning is not affected.
• Spawns caused by monster spawners, commands, raids, or other non-natural sources are not blocked.
• Hostile mobs can still enter protected areas from outside.
• Wards must remain in loaded chunks for their protection to remain active.

This keeps the mod balanced while providing reliable protection against ordinary natural monster spawns.

Compatibility & Requirements

• Minecraft Version: 1.20.1
• Mod Loader: Minecraft Forge 47.x
• Java Version: Java 17
• Configuration: config/peacefulward-common.toml

Designed for Minecraft Forge 1.20.1 survival worlds, multiplayer servers, and modpacks.

Create Your Own Safe Haven

From a humble starter house to a sprawling multiplayer kingdom, Peaceful Ward gives you control over where hostile mobs can naturally spawn.

Build without interruption, protect what matters, and make your home a truly peaceful place.

Peaceful Ward — Your Base. Your Rules. Your Peace.