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Zombie Army (26.1)

• • 3/26/26 5:06 pm • 7 logs
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Minecraft 1.15
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Minecraft 1.21
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IJAMinecraft
Lvl 90 • Overlord Wizard
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This Minecraft data pack is a little different than all my creations before. It's the first time I've dabbled in creating a basic swarm AI (artificial intelligence) in Minecraft. This army of zombies can attack peaceful and hostile mobs, climb hills, mountains and even castle walls! They can burn down forests and houses, and overcome seas, rivers and even lava flows! With 100 of those zombie soldiers, it's a real pain to defeat them once they're marching towards you!

7 Update Logs

1.4.0 : by IJAMinecraft 03/26/2026 5:06:17 pmMarch 26 @ 9:06 pm UTC

  • Minecraft Version: Java 26.1, 1.21.11
  • Release Date: March 26, 2026

  • Additions:
    • adds support for Minecraft version 26.1
    • adds a pack icon to this and previous releases
  • Changes:
    • displays particle and sound effects when a soldier destroys a non-mob entity
    • simplifies the README file of this and previous releases
    • replaces the uninstall function with a cleanup function, that still resets changes made by the data pack, like game rules and scoreboard objectives, but doesn't disable the data pack
  • Fixes:
    • fixes soldiers not dying when spawned and landing on specific waterlogged blocks, where they're supposed to, like kelp
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Janss_33PL
• 09/25/2025 1:54 pm
He/Him • Level 43 : Master Musician Dinosaur
another idea: The army can disperse and collapse into ranks
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_BOBE
• 08/26/2025 8:33 pm
• Level 58 : Grandmaster Elf
You might be the man to make the datapack of my dreams. I've always wanted to feel like my base could be raided by mobs at any moment. Or maybe every 7 days mobs would spawn and try to attack my house or something. I am not sure how your datapack works at the video you have is very very old so not sure if it has changed much. But the idea of mobs breaking blocks is exciting. Though would be nice for them to keep some of their own pathfinding. (Which I am familiar with how difficult that can be)
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IJAMinecraft
• 08/27/2025 2:19 pm
• Level 90 : Overlord Wizard
Glad you like it!

The data pack currently still works almost the same as when I published the video. I just updated it to newer Minecraft versions, cleaned-up the code and improved the performance a bit, among some other quality of life changes.

You can go here to see the full change log: https://ijaminecraft.com/datapack/zombie-army/changelog
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Janss_33PL
• 08/25/2025 11:01 am
He/Him • Level 43 : Master Musician Dinosaur
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
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Janss_33PL
• 08/10/2025 11:55 am
He/Him • Level 43 : Master Musician Dinosaur
I dream about this datapack!!! Can you do that to pillagers? please?
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IJAMinecraft
• 08/21/2025 1:25 pm
• Level 90 : Overlord Wizard
Adding an option to change the type of mob used for the soldiers is actually a nice idea! I might add that in a future update if I have time =)
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Janss_33PL
• 08/21/2025 1:46 pm
He/Him • Level 43 : Master Musician Dinosaur
THANK YOU!!!
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phuongtbt68
• 02/29/2020 4:20 am
• Level 1 : New Miner
nice datapacks, finally i have something to test my defense line in my world, it would be better if you can add the wave machanism to the game and some new type of army like siege unit or cavalry
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jGaurd
• 02/01/2020 9:41 pm
• Level 1 : New Miner
could you possibly make 5 man squads that spawn naturally?? and call them like Ancient Guardians that only know nothing but war so thats why they attack everything?
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Grenade_Man
• 01/30/2020 4:27 pm
• Level 1 : New Miner
I saw in the video that this is only for 1.15, but is it possible to make it work for 1.14.4?
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