DucktaleZ: Sigils of Slaughter

Twelve bosses. Four tiers. One Codex to fill.

DucktaleZ: Sigils of Slaughter turns your world into a hunting ground. Twelve hand-built boss fights wait in arenas across new terrain, each with its own theme, music, moves and signature weapon. You can read every attack before it lands. Every victory hands you the tool the next fight is built around.

Then the hunt widens: a four-chapter story with ten quest givers, griffons that fly you between roosts, and three repeatable dungeons for you and up to three friends.

Fights you can read

Every big attack has a tell. A named cast bar fills under the boss’s health bar, and area attacks mark the ground before they hit. Interrupt the casts you can, dodge the ones you can’t, and learn the dance.

• Normal, Heroic or Mythic. Sneak and use the altar to choose. Higher modes hit harder and add mechanics; Mythic adds an enrage timer.
• Solo or with friends. Bosses scale their health to the players in the arena, and group mechanics have a solo version.
• A ladder to climb. Each boss drops a sigil. Sigils unlock the next tier, and the Sovereign Unbound wants all eleven.

Gear worth showing off

Four armour sets, one per tier, built as animated 3D models. Mirewalker’s lantern swings from its crook. Rimeguard wears ice horns and a frost mantle. Emberplate’s chimney pauldrons smoke. Chronoweave’s clock-hand wings tick open behind you. Every set glows at night with its own pulse and leaves its own trail: mire prints, frost, cooling embers or drifting clock glints.

• Forge your style. Rework any piece at an altar into Engineered (redstone) or Infused (lapis). Switch back any time and keep its wear, enchantments and name. A full set in one school gives a bonus built for that tier.
• Boss weapons with real weight. The Voidrend Blade, the Glacial Warhammer, the Heartwood Axe, the Leviathan Harpoon, the Skyhook, the Bogwood Repeater, the Emberforge Gauntlet and the Mirrorglass Shield are 3D models with idle animations. Every swing leaves a trail and every hit lands with its own burst: a folding rift, shattered ice, sea spray, a thunderclap.
• Upgrades you can see. Eight finite upgrades for four weapons and four chestplates. You see the exact cost before you confirm, and removing one is free.

A story to follow

Find the Surveyor’s green-roofed camp beside a Bog Grove. Ten contacts stand outside their bosses’ arenas, each with a main quest and a side quest, across four chapters and an epilogue.

• Quest givers wear markers you can read from across a field: a gold ! for a new quest and a gold ? when one is ready to hand in.
• A proper quest window, a quest log on L, and an on-screen tracker.
• The Codex’s Next step page always tells you who to see and where.
• Your quests and rewards are yours. Joining a team never hands you someone else’s victory.

Take to the skies

Griffon roosts generate across the Overworld. Talk to a keeper to add the roost to your map, choose a destination and climb on. Flights are free. The griffon cruises at twenty blocks a second, stops at relay roosts on long routes and loads the land ahead of you. If you disconnect mid-flight, it brings you back to your last safe roost.

Three dungeons, endless runs

• The Rootcellar, mud-brick burrows around a glowing root heart.
• The Stokehold, gantries strung over a boiler pit.
• The Assize Stair, a climb through a gold atrium to a vault door: read the ledgers in order or ring the bells between the clock’s red hands, then face the Assessor.

Every party of one to four gets its own private copy. Solve two puzzle rooms, beat the guardian, and earn a credit toward that dungeon’s armour: Trailwarden, Stokewarden or Stairwarden. Loot stays with whoever earned it. A wipe pauses the run, and your party can retry from the entrance.

Get started

• Minecraft 26.3, NeoForge 26.3.0.64-beta or newer.
• GeckoLib 5.5.7 for NeoForge 26.3.
• Install on the client and the server.
• Shader packs work with Iris: the glow on bosses, weapons and armour stays lit.

The Surveyor waits at a camp beside world spawn, and the Sigil Codex opens on your next step, with coordinates, a compass direction and the distance. Take the first quest and the Surveyor hands you a map to Bogmother Hesk’s grove. Boss arenas and griffon roosts generate as new terrain generates, so start a fresh world or head somewhere you haven’t been. Start on Normal. Server owners can tune boss health, group scaling, timers and griffon speed in config/sigils-local.toml.

Modpacks: go ahead, no need to ask.

Help

Report bugs and ask questions in this project’s issues or comments. Say which mod version you run and attach logs/latest.log.

Licence, credits and AI use

The code is MIT. The art, models, textures, animations, audio and story text are all rights reserved, copyright 2026 Kaelandori. Modpacks may include the mod without asking. To reuse the assets anywhere else, ask first through this project page. The full licence text sits inside the mod’s JAR, in META-INF (LICENSE and LICENSE-ASSETS.md).

The boss music and sound effects were generated by AI (ElevenLabs) and mastered with ffmpeg. The code was written with AI assistance and is covered by automated tests. Every screenshot and trailer shot is captured in game.

Built on NeoForge and GeckoLib. DucktaleZ is an independent project and is not an official Minecraft product. It is not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.