Wave Survivor

🌊 Wave Survivor

Bind the altar. Defend the Monolith. Survive the horde — or build a kingdom around it.

Wave Survivor turns Minecraft into a wave-defense game you can play solo or with friends. Bind a horde to the Runic Altar, protect the Monolith, and survive wave after wave of monsters and bosses — or switch to Kingdom mode and build a fortified realm against enemy Gates. Everything is editable in game, no file editing required.

🙏 New in 1.8.0 — Blessings Reborn, Seraph Shrine & Arenas: blessings rebuilt from the ground up, a new Seraph Shrine to upgrade your gear, eight ready-made arenas across the world (including a giant Kingdom battlefield) and upgradable legendary relics.

🆕 New in 1.8.0 — Blessings Reborn, Seraph Shrine & Arenas

🙏 Blessings, rebuilt from the ground up

• 🎲 Rarity matters: Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary levels, weights that shift towards rarer cards as the waves go on, and Luck to improve your odds
• ↻ Rerolls and bans, a family choice on reroll, and a Keep a card option
• ✨ 8 special blessings (Execution, Dawn, Magnet, Banner, Blood Link and three Pacts), ☠️ curses and 🔗 family synergies
• 👁️ Previews on cards, a My bonuses screen, a settings screen, shareable blessing packs and per-world statistics
• 🛠 A full in-game Blessings editor: categories, rarity levels, any attribute of the game or of your mods

🕊 Seraph Shrine

• 🗿 A new structure with a faith gauge from Pure to Corrupted — the statue changes with it
• 🎁 Offerings move the gauge; the statue produces shards of grace and taint (Shard → Fragment → Heart)
• ⚒ Its Forge gives weapons and armor up to 3 upgrades: 12 consecrations or 12 corruptions, with colored names, tooltips and animated slot frames
• 💀 A tainted statue calls Rootlings and a Stone Brute

🏟 Ready-made arenas

• ⚰ Necropolis of the Fallen Kings, 🔥 The Infernal Breach, 🟣 Void Islet, 🌊 Sunken Reef, ☀ Temple of Ra, ❄ Frost Bastion and ✨ Arcane Circle (needs Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks)
• 👑 Crown Vale: a 181 × 181 Kingdom arena for the Pillagers — four fortified camps, a rocky hill, a quarry, a lake and a river with fords
• 🌍 They generate naturally in the world, with their own monster spawn points, effects and reward chest; /ws arena list and /ws arena place for operators

💍 Relics, 📢 event feed & more

• ⭐ Legendary relics can now be upgraded (levels I–III) by combining two identical ones — their unique effects grow and tooltips show the real numbers
• 📜 Wave starts, bosses and Kingdom events now appear in the event feed on the left of the screen instead of the chat
• 🪲 New creatures with high-definition models: Rootling, Stone Brute and Voidmantis
• 📈 New /ws perf command to measure what a wave costs, and lighter particles near idle chests and altars

⚡ At a glance

⚔️ Classic Hordes

• 🌊 Waves that grow stronger and scale with players and difficulty
• 💀 Bosses, special waves and horde mutators
• 🔥 Breaches to close before the horde gets stronger
• 🛒 Merchants, 🎰 mystery chests and 🙏 blessings between waves
• 🔒 Horde progression: unlock the hordes one after another

🏰 Kingdom Mode

Your altar becomes a kingdom. Enemy Gates open in a ring around the Monolith, and you alternate between the Calm — gather, build, complete objectives — and the Assault.

🧱 Build your defenses

• 6 buildings with 3 levels and 3 specializations each: Archer Tower, Mage Tower, Shrine, Barracks, Gleaner Tower and the new Repair Workshop
• Walls, gates and traps — and solid foundations, or your towers collapse
• A defense sheet on every building: stats, upgrades, specializations, repair, dismantle

⚔ Hold the line

• Siege units: Rams, Sappers, Climbers and Standard-bearers
• Soldiers with orders, and a Commander who leads them with a War Cry
• A shared treasury (coins, wood, stone, iron, essence) and player roles

🗺 Scout & plan

• Calm objectives: Convoy, Champion, Buried Treasure and Purification
• A kingdom map with 3 zoom levels and a golden Kingdom Compass
• A scout report before each Assault and an Assault report after it
• Kingdom games are saved and resumed after a server restart

🌪 Chaos & Resources

Fantasy trees and ore deposits erupt mid-fight or during the Calm: harvest them before the timer runs out. Catalysts, breaches and other chaos events keep every game different.

🗿 The Runic Altar

Offer the right ingredients to seal a horde to the altar, pick your challenge, and choose blessings as the waves go by.

💍 Relics

• 🧩 21 relics in 6 families — wear several pieces of a family to unlock its set bonus
• 🎒 A dedicated Relic slot (Curios supported) — only equipped relics take effect
• ⭐ Tiers I – III, and a Forge to fuse relics into 12 legendary relics
• 🎁 Sealed Reliquaries that break open into a random relic

🌳 Renaissance

Sacrifice items and play hordes to earn Renaissance Points, then grow stronger for good:

• 🌿 A Heritage tree with 3 branches — Survivor, Merchant and Lord
• 👑 5 Renaissance ranks, each with a title, an aura and an extra relic slot
• 💪 Permanent upgrades and a Renaissance shop

🛠️ Fully Editable In Game

• A visual horde editor: waves, entities, bosses, chaos events, loot, merchants and Kingdom settings
• Starter templates, validation, wave preview and import / export as .zip
• A chest builder and a Renaissance shop editor for admins
• Collaborative editing and an in-game Codex that explains every mechanic (/ws codex)

📦 Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge 47+
• Install on both client and server
• Optional: Curios API for the dedicated relic slot · Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks for the Arcane Circle arena and spell skills

🌍 Languages

English · Français — switch with /ws lang <en/fr>

🧭 What’s next

• 🏜 More hordes and 🎵 boss music
• 🆙 Port to Minecraft 1.21 / NeoForge

💻 Source code, feedback & support

• Open source (MIT) on GitHub: yoyolegrand/wave-survivor
• Bug reports & ideas: GitHub Issues
• Also on Modrinth: modrinth.com/mod/wave-survivor
• Support the development on Patreon