
Warden bossfight
Turns a player into a boss with warden and sculk-based abilities
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About this Mod
Overview
- Allows you to turn a player into a warden boss.
- To bring up the main menu, either use
/reloador/function warden/setup. From there, you can turn yourself into a warden, change configs, stats, and ability cooldowns. Full explanation below. - This datapack uses some tricks to be compatible with ALL minecraft versions from 1.20.5 up to 1.21.11, with a singular release.
Warden stats
- 500 health
- 5 attack damage
- 70% knockback resistance
- +50% movement speed
- +20% water movement speed
- +10% size
- 0.5 block step height
- +0.5 block range
- no fall damage
- no soul sand slowdown
- fire resistance
- night vision
- infinite hunger, but no health regen
Warden abilities
Sonic boom
- Shoots a sonic blast.
- Default cooldown: 5s
Descending dark
- Jump into the air before charging down, dealing damage and burning an area around the landing location.
- Default cooldown: 10s
Wild charge
- Briefly wind up before gaining a huge speed boost, blowing up the first target you run into.
- Default cooldown: 15s
Agitate
- Most abilties spread sculk. Cause nearby sculks to catch fire and spread to nearby sculk, blinding, weakening and slowing entities hit.
- Default cooldown: 20s
Warden menu
Give warden's mark
- Give yourself an item you can shoot other players with to mark them. Marked players will initiate a transformation sequence upon death and gain their stats and abilities.
Remove warden
- Remove the current warden's attributes, abilities, and bossbar.
Become warden
/tag @s add warden_mark- Running the command marks you as the next warden. You can also change
@sto another player's name to mark them instead
Uninstall
/function foppy:uninstall- Uninstalls the datapack.
Configs
Infect blocks
- Whether warden can turn soft blocks into sculk. Agitate will work on all blocks if this is disabled.
- Default: 1 (true)
Warden health
- How much health a warden starts with. Since you can change this value, wearing armor is not recommended.
- Default: 500
Warden damage
- How much base damage the warden deals. Weapons are also not recommended.
- Default: 5
Requires death
- Whether a marked player needs to die to turn into a warden. If disabled, whoever gets marked becomes a warden immediately.
- Default: 1 (true)
Use custom game rules
- Whether the datapack will set its game rules during the next reload, being:
- doImmediateRespawn: true
- mobGriefing: false (Explosions will destroy blocks if true)
- sendCommandFeedback: false
- When disabled, you still need to set the gamerules manually. They just won't be reset on the next
/reload
Final notes
- Join the discord server to suggest more features, configs and attacks.
- Don't try to spawn two wardens at once, it won't end well.
- Credit to
lowpolyellieon discord for creating wild charge and descending dark. - If you want to use this datapack for commercial purposes, please notify me before doing so. This is just for tracking purposes, I have no issues with people profiting off of my work
Available Versions
How to Install Warden bossfight on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set datapack Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the datapack loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.11).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Warden bossfight". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21.11, 1.21.10, 1.21.9 (+11 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Warden bossfight server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong datapack version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.11). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Warden bossfight compatible with datapack and fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?
Warden bossfight officially supports datapack, fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 1.21.11, 1.21.10, 1.21.9. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Warden bossfight – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Warden bossfight consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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