Ariakan’s Stone Golem

An ancient guardian sleeps in the stone. Wake it, and the earth itself rises against you.

A new mob for Minecraft Java 26.3 (Fabric and NeoForge) and Minecraft Bedrock 1.26.50+ (add-on for phones, tablets, consoles and Windows).

▶ Watch the showcase video (22 s)

You find it as a mossy boulder, deep in stone caves or on rocky mountain slopes. Hit it, or mine stone right next to it, and it slowly heaves itself up: a 5½-block colossus, twice the height of an iron golem.

Dormant. It sleeps as a boulder: no movement, no sound.	Rock summon. From a distance it raises one hand; the ground beneath you crumbles…
…and stone pillars burst out of the earth, hurling you 8 blocks into the air before they sink back. Step aside in time and they miss.	The fall hurts: bring feather falling, water or quick reflexes.
Ground stomp. Up close it leans back, raises both arms and smashes the ground, throwing everything around it into the air.	Against a crowd it mixes pillars, stomps and ground slams — two fists into the ground right in front of it.

Like an iron golem, you can build a Stone Golem: four stone in a T (two stacked for the body, one on each side as arms) and a block of diamond on top, placed last. Grass and flowers next to the leg do not get in the way.

A built golem is your guardian: it never attacks players (not even when hit), never goes back to sleep, does not despawn, and hunts monsters around it with all three attacks — its rock pillars leave players alone.

• Neutral, until provoked. It only fights whoever attacked it, and settles back into a boulder after 30 seconds without a target.
• Wakes up when attacked or when someone mines stone or ore within 4 blocks.
• Three attacks: ground slam (6 hearts on Normal), telegraphed ground stomp (area damage, 8 s cooldown) and the rock summon (4–16 blocks, 10 s cooldown).
• Bring a pickaxe. Pickaxes deal double damage; swords and arrows only half. Driven by tags, so packs and other mods can change what counts.
• Immune to knockback, fall damage and drowning; invulnerable while standing up.
• Spawns rarely, one at a time: in stone caves below Y 40 and on stony mountain surfaces.
• Buildable from four stone and a block of diamond as a guardian that protects players (blocks are data-driven via #stonegolem:stone_golem_body / #stonegolem:stone_golem_head).
• Drops cobblestone, moss and, rarely (more with Looting), a pulsing Golem Core — the key to a future update.
• English and German.

Releases will be published here and on Modrinth and CurseForge.

• Fabric: install Fabric Loader and Fabric API, then put stonegolem-fabric-26.3-<version>.jar into your mods folder.
• NeoForge: put stonegolem-neoforge-26.3-<version>.jar into your mods folder.
• Bedrock: open StoneGolem-<version>.mcaddon on your device, then enable Stone Golem under Behavior Packs when creating or editing a world.

Spawn it with its spawn egg (creative inventory) or /summon stonegolem:stone_golem.

Free and open: code and assets are under the MIT license. Modpacks, videos and forks are welcome.

Requires nothing but a JDK to start Gradle; Gradle downloads JDK 25 for itself and the build (see gradle/gradle-daemon-jvm.properties).

./gradlew build                        # jars in fabric/build/libs and neoforge/build/libs
./gradlew :fabric:runClient            # or :neoforge:runClient
./gradlew :fabric:runGametest          # headless game tests (also :neoforge:runGameTestServer)
./gradlew :fabric:runClientGametest    # scripted client smoke test
./gradlew :fabric:runClientShowcase    # renders the README media (see StoneGolemShowcase)
python3 bedrock/build.py               # Bedrock add-on -> bedrock/dist/*.mcaddon

See TESTING.md for the manual checklist, ROADMAP.md for what comes next and bedrock/README.md for the Bedrock edition.

• Balancing: every Java number lives in StoneGolemBalance, every Bedrock number in bedrock/balance.json.
• Loader abstraction: IRegistrar and IPlatformHelper services (Java ServiceLoader), implemented per loader.
• Art: tools/generate_textures.py produces the first-draft textures. The model uses Blockbench-style part names (body, head, left_arm, right_arm, left_leg, right_leg); animations follow Blockbench’s Java export format.

Built on jaredlll08/MultiLoader-Template. Mod ID stonegolem, package eu.ariakan.stonegolem.