The Graveyard

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Structures, mobs, blocks and a boss with a graveyard theme.

Graveyards, crypts and overrun villages, the Corrupted Champion in its prison, and a Chronicle that collects the lore.

Versions: 1.20 to 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.7 to 1.21.8

Forge 1.20.1: The Graveyard (Forge)

Boss music "Incarnated Evil" thanks to Rotch Gwylt

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*** The Graveyard fills the Overworld with the places where the dead are buried, and with the dead that do not stay there. Small graves stand in plains, deserts, savannas and on mountains. Larger graveyards lie in forests and taigas, a haunted house rots in the dark forest, and a crypt winds through the caves far below. At night the undead walk, and now and then a whole horde of them appears near a player. Some villages did not survive. Overrun villages are burnt-out vanilla villages: charred and scorched houses, embers that still smolder, skeletons where the villagers fell, corrupted illagers on guard and flocks of crows. At night tormented villagers wander through the ruins, sobbing over what they lost. A ringing bell sets their broken souls free. If nobody rings it, they fade away at dawn. What happened is written down in the Chronicle. Its 36 pages are hidden in the chests of graveyards, crypts and the other structures of the mod. And high above the ocean, locked in its prison, the Corrupted Champion waits. *** ## Structures | Structure | Where it generates | | --- | --- | | Small Grave | forests and plains | | Small Graveyard | plains and meadows | | Small Desert Grave, Small Desert Graveyard | deserts | | Small Savanna Grave | savannas and badlands | | Small Mountain Grave | peaks, slopes, groves, meadows and cherry groves | | Medium Graveyard | forests, flower forests and windswept forests | | Large Graveyard | taigas and snowy taigas | | Crypt | underground in cave biomes, between Y -40 and -10 | | Haunted House | dark forests, swamps and old growth taigas | | Ruins | forests | | Altar | snowy plains and ice spikes | | The Corrupted Champion's prison | at Y 210 above deep and frozen oceans | | Dead Tree | dark forests and swamps | | Memorial Tree | birch forests | | Giant Mushroom | mushroom fields and swamps | | Mushroom Grave | mushroom fields, jungles and swamps | | Overrun Village | plains and meadows, deserts, savannas, snowy plains and taigas, one variant for each | *** ## Mobs **The undead** * **Ghoul**, **Revenant** and **Nightmare** roam at night. Ghouls and Revenants burn in daylight. * **Skeleton Creeper**: an undead creeper. It swells before it explodes. By default the explosion does not break blocks. * **Wraith**: can rise when you open a coffin or sarcophagus below ground. It puts out torches and other lights near it. * **Reaper**: off by default, can be turned on in the config. **The corrupted** * **Acolyte**: an illager in the service of the Corruption. It drops the Bone Dagger. * **Corrupted Vindicator**, **Corrupted Pillager** and **Corrupted Evoker**: undead illagers that guard the overrun villages. * **Tormented Villager**: appears in overrun villages at night. Weapons do not hurt it. Ring a bell within 48 blocks to redeem it and get experience. Left alone, it fades away at dawn. * **Nameless Hanged**: a trader that only deals at night. It takes Corruption, which the mobs of this mod drop, as payment. **Birds** * **Raven**: sits on gravestones, fences, walls and leaves. * **Crow**: flies in flocks, eats crops and scatters when startled. Crows keep away from scarecrows: a carved pumpkin or jack o'lantern on a hay bale with a fence next to or under the bale, or an armor stand that wears a pumpkin. * **Magpie**: picks up shiny items from the ground, such as nuggets, ingots, raw ores and gems. Hit it and it drops what it took. **The Ghouling** Use a bone staff on a block to raise a Ghouling. It follows you, fights for you and waits when told to. You can draw it into the staff and set it down again somewhere else. Give it a coffin or a sarcophagus and it carries 54 slots of items and picks up what lies around. How to get a bone staff is in the spoiler under The Corrupted Champion. *** ## Blocks and items * **Skeleton decorations**: 39 skeletons, skulls and bone piles in normal and wither versions. They are carved from bone blocks in the **Ossuary**. * **Gravestones** in 13 stone types. You can write on them like on a sign. * **Urns**: glazed urns and small urns in 16 colors, and large terracotta urns in 17 variants. Urns store items. * **Coffins** in 11 wood types and the **Sarcophagus**, both with storage. * **Dark Iron**: ingot, block, door, trapdoor and bars. The door and trapdoor open by hand. * **Fire Brazier**, **Soul Fire Brazier**, **Candle Holder**, **Small Pillar** and **Ceramics**. * **Charred and scorched wood** from the overrun villages: planks, logs, wood, stairs, slabs, fences, fence gates, doors and trapdoors, plus Smoldering Debris. Eight logs around a piece of charcoal make scorched logs, eight scorched pieces around charcoal make charred ones. Light them with flint and steel or a fire charge and they smolder. Put them out with a shovel or a water bucket. * **Lore Book**: lay a Chronicle page down in the world as a Lore Book for the next player. * **Bone Dagger**, **Vial of Blood**, **Corruption** and the music disc "Incarnated Evil" by [Rotch Gwylt](https://rotchgwylt.bandcamp.com/track/the-graveyard-incarnated-evil-lich-theme). *** ## The Corrupted Champion The Corrupted Champion is what is left of a hero who fell to the Corruption. It waits at the altar of its prison above the ocean, and only blood calls it back.

Summoning the Corrupted Champion (spoiler)

Summoning

Find the three Ominous Bone Staff Fragments: the upper, the middle and the lower piece. Each Ruins structure holds one of them. Break the fragment to take it. The Nameless Hanged sometimes sells a fragment for 64 Corruption, or a map to the Ruins.
Get a Bone Dagger. Craft it from bones or take it from an Acolyte.
Keep a glass bottle in your offhand or hotbar and kill villagers with the Bone Dagger. The first kill turns the bottle into a Vial of Blood. Eight kills fill it.
Go to the Corrupted Champion's prison. Seven blocks in front of the altar, three blocks of Corrupted Deepslate give off soul particles. Place one fragment on top of each of them: the middle piece on the middle block, the upper and the lower piece on the two outer blocks.
At night, and not on Peaceful, use the full vial on the altar. The fragments vanish, the vial empties and the Champion rises.

The fight

The fight has three phases, each with its own health bar. Revenants and ghouls join the fight.

Phase 1: the Champion stays at its altar. Up close it strikes with a soul beam that throws you back. It casts falling corpses across the arena, fangs, cursed skulls and levitation. Below 300 health it teleports you away and heals while you get wither and mining fatigue. Damage stops the healing.
Phase 2: it rises again and hunts you for 40 seconds. It is faster, hits harder, charges at you, blinds you and pulls you close. It cannot be hurt while it hunts. Then it goes back to its altar and stands stunned for 30 seconds. Hit it then.
Phase 3: its body breaks and it crawls. It is faster, chases you and pounces at you from a few blocks away.

The reward

The Champion drops a bone staff in one of five colors: white, black, red, cyan or purple. The staff calls a Ghouling. As soon as a bone staff is in your inventory, the staff recipes unlock. From then on you can also craft a staff from the three Ominous Bone Staff Fragments and a dye of the color you want.

*** ## Configuration File: `graveyard.json5`, in the `graveyard` folder of the loader's config directory. * **Structures**: each one on or off, with a generation chance. The height of the crypt and of the prison can be changed. * **Mobs**: each one on or off. Most mobs also have spawn weight, group size, burning in daylight, and health, damage and speed factors. This works the same on every loader. * **Hordes**: on or off, how often they come, how far from the player and whether only at night. * **Corrupted Champion**: summoning, spell durations and cooldowns, the phase change, the number of summoned mobs, darker sky and fog, and the boss music. * **Behaviour**: magpies taking items, crows eating crops, the Ghouling picking up items, wraiths putting out lights, the Skeleton Creeper's explosion radius and block damage, smoldering blocks in villages, the urn inventory size and the number of trades of the Nameless Hanged. * **Chronicle**: the inventory button, the toast for each found page and pages in chest loot. * **Particles**: fog and ash. The option `structuresOnly` stops all natural mob spawns, spawners and hordes of this mod. Spawn eggs and commands still work. A config from 3.x (`the-graveyard-3.0-config.json5`) is read once to create `graveyard.json5`. The old file is left as it is. *** ## More mods by LithiumPlus * **[VillagersPlus](https://modrinth.com/mod/villagersplus)**: new villager types, trades and workstations. * **[VillagerTradingPlus](https://modrinth.com/mod/villagerstradingplus)**: add, replace or delete the trades of any villager, change the currency and gate trades behind conditions, all from a datapack. * **[Nyctophobia](https://modrinth.com/mod/nyctophobia)**: dark, foggy and unsettling biomes for the Overworld. * **[DataDrivenVillagers](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/data-driven-villagers)** (CurseForge): create and change villager professions from JSON files or an in-game editor. **VanillaTales** is a collection of small, independent mods that add little stories to vanilla content. Install only the ones you want. The links go to CurseForge. * **[Golem Patrol](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/golem-patrol)**: iron golems patrol by day, stand watch by night and rally to a ringing bell. * **[Zombie Sieges](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/zombie-sieges)**: turns a vanilla zombie siege into a real event, with a ringing bell, a boss bar and two waves of zombies. * **[Sherd Stories](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/sherd-stories)**: gives every decorated pot a title and the story of where its sherds were found. * **[Ghost Crews](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/ghost-crews)**: gives every shipwreck a name and a crew of drowned that guard it until it is looted clean. * **[Illager Scouts](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/illager-scouts)**: a pillager scout watches your village and warns you two days before a patrol arrives. * **[Occupied Villages](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/occupied-villages)**: some new villages spawn already occupied by an illager garrison you can liberate. * **[Bonded Pairs](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/bonded-pairs)**: binds two mobs from the same spawn group into a pair that avenges each other. * **[Raid Aftermath](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/raid-aftermath)**: villagers repair the damage a raid or an explosion left in the village. * **[Wayfarer's Landmarks](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/wayfarers-landmarks)**: shows a title and helpful icons when you enter a structure.

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