ZombiesEverywhere - Ultimate Zombie Survival Mod

Tired of the bland difficulty of vanilla Minecraft? Craving a truly intense, heart-pounding zombie apocalypse experience? ZombiesEverywhere is built exactly for you. Designed to fit seamlessly into the vanilla gameplay ecosystem, this mod adds unique zombie variants, an infection mechanic, dynamic difficulty scaling and infinitely upgradable endgame gear, building a perilous survival world where danger lurks at every turn.

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Core Gameplay Features

Six Distinct Zombie Types for Rich Combat

The mod adds 6 zombie entities with fully unique roles, without modifying any vanilla mob attributes. All zombies feature custom models and visual effects rendered via GeckoLib.

• Common Zombie: The baseline enemy, tuned to work with the mod's spawn and day-scaling systems.

• Toxic Zombie: Attacks apply poison to wear down players over time.

• Swift Zombie: Strikes at blistering speed with almost no reaction time, built for relentless pressure.

• Burning Zombie: Immune to fire. Wields two ranged abilities — Fire Volley and Enhanced Fireball — and ignites targets on melee hits.

• Undead Summoner: Continuously summons common and special zombies to fight alongside it, and unleashes a massive horde burst upon death.

• Elite Zombie: A top-tier foe with overwhelmingly superior stats, raw power is its greatest strength.

All zombies share a 35-block detection range and do not trigger vanilla reinforcement mechanics.

Tiered Infection Mechanic for True Survival Pressure

Attacks from modded zombies have a chance to inflict the Infection debuff, which scales across 5 tiers. Higher tiers impose increasingly severe penalties, reducing movement speed, max health and attack power while amplifying incoming damage.

• Consecutive hits stack infection chance; infection triggers once the threshold is met. The chance fully resets after a long period without taking damage.

• Infection automatically levels up over time, and taking additional damage while infected speeds up the progression.

• A short immunity window applies after each level-up, with a maximum cap of Tier 5.

• Drinking milk clears all tiers of infection instantly.

Dynamic Day-Based Scaling: Harder the Longer You Survive

Zombie strength grows dynamically with the number of in-game days — the longer your world survives, the deadlier the threat. This only applies to zombies from this mod and does not affect vanilla mobs.

• Scaling level is tied directly to in-game days and displayed after the zombie's name (e.g. Common Zombie Lv.5).

• Health, attack, defense and movement speed all scale progressively, each with its own growth rate and maximum multiplier.

• The entire system is fully toggleable and numerically configurable, so you can fine-tune the difficulty curve to your preference.

Dual-Pool Loot System with Rewarding Drops

The loot system was completely rebuilt in V1.2.0 with a separate Common Pool + Exclusive Pool mechanic, where every zombie type has its own dedicated drop table.

• Common Pool: Shared by all zombies with a guaranteed minimum drop count, providing a steady supply of basic resources.

• Exclusive Pool: Unique to each zombie type, dropping themed rare items covering valuable resources from all vanilla dimensions.

• Supports adding loot from other mods via external JSON files, which are automatically assigned to the appropriate zombie's drop pool.

Corrupted Gear System with Infinite Upgrades

To stand against the ever-growing zombie threat, the mod introduces a full set of top-tier Corrupted Gear forged from Netherite, including a sword, full armor set, bow and trident — all infinitely upgradeable at the smithing table.

• Base gear comes with built-in special effects: weapons can apply Infection, armor grants infection resistance, and the trident features permanent channeling and a kill-summon effect.

• Upgrades alternate between Normal Enhancement and Special Enhancement every 4 levels: Normal Enhancement grants steady stat gains with no failure penalty; Special Enhancement grants enchantments and permanent stat bonuses, but degrades the item by 1 level on failure.

• The Corrupted Bow has 4 exclusive powerful enchantments: Splitting (arrows fragment into a spread), Volley (fires multiple arrows in one shot), Piercing Shot (gravity-free, armor-piercing projectiles) and Armor Break (bypasses target defense).

Highly Customizable Spawn & Difficulty Controls

The mod runs its own independent zombie spawn system, fully separate from vanilla mob spawning, with extensive customization options.

• Adjust spawn weights for each zombie type, with total weights automatically normalized.

• Biome-specific spawn bonuses: certain zombies receive greatly increased spawn weight in their matching biomes or dimensions.

• Tune spawn chance, maximum zombies per chunk, spawn radius, daytime spawning and many more parameters.

• Built-in Zombie-Only Mode: Disables natural spawning of non-zombie vanilla mobs for a pure zombie apocalypse experience, with a configurable whitelist for allowed entities.

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Additional Quality Features

• Floating Damage Numbers: Damage values pop up above zombies when struck — red for normal damage, gold for critical hits — with a smooth rise-and-fade animation.

• Custom Models & Textures: Replace all zombie models and textures via external config files, with automatic resource integrity verification on game launch.

• 3x Experience Bonus: Modded zombies drop triple the vanilla experience to match the elevated combat challenge.

• Automatic AttributeFix Support: Automatically detects the AttributeFix mod and configures itself to lift vanilla attribute caps, unlocking the full potential of the day-scaling system.

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Compatibility & Dependencies

Required Dependencies

• As of version 1.2.0, the mod uses custom zombie textures powered by GeckoLib, making it a required dependency. Version 4.9.2 or higher is recommended.

Recommended Mods

• AttributeFix: Lifts vanilla attribute caps. The mod auto-detects it and configures compatibility automatically.

• Bookshelf & Prickle: Required frontend dependencies for AttributeFix.

Compatibility Notes

• To maximize cross-mod compatibility, this mod does not use Mixins and makes minimal changes to the base game, resulting in excellent overall stability (tested to run reliably in the "New Journey" and "Severe Mechanic Syndrome" modpacks).

• All zombies are independently added entities and do not alter the attributes or behavior of any vanilla mobs.

• Every feature supports deep adjustment via config files, so you can tailor the experience to your preferred difficulty.