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Zombies Improve Over time

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KNIZE_1007
Level 53 : Grandmaster Blacksmith
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Zombies Improve Over time


This datapack increases zombies's stats over time. The changes are made to be gradual, increasing very slightly each minecraft day up to day 100. Difficulty is calculated for each player separately. New players will start with weak zombies while players who have been playing for a while will have stronger zombies

NOTICE: All seperate mob improve datapacks will be discontinued, instead use the Hostile Mobs Improve Over Time datapack: https://modrinth.com/datapack/hostile-mobs-improve-over-time

Stat increase


Stats that change include:
  • Health
  • Damage
  • Reinforcement chance
  • Knockback resistance
  • Movement speed
  • Armor and armor toughness Day 50 enables all zombies to break doors Day 70~ - enables all zombies to pick up loot Day 80 - some zombies change to baby/or have leather armor Day 95 - Zombies might gain strenght and speed when near player some other stuff

Timers



Timer for difficulty is per player, and increases every minecraft day (20 minutes). sleeping does NOT forward this timer. Max difficulty is day 100+ and difficulty does not increase after that. Mobs only improve 32 blocks around players, so automatic mob farms will work fine.

Commands


If you wish to test out how hard the zombies are, use functions diff:day25, diff:day50, diff:day75, diff:100 or use command "scoreboard players set <player> Timeroo <number> . To reset your score use diff:reset, or diff:resetall to reset all of players difficulty.

Installing


like your ordinary datapack, put zip file in your datapacks folder of your world

Unistalling


use function diff:unistall and then remove your datapack from your datapacks folder

License

You are not allowed to re-publish or re-distribute this datapack in any form. You can use this in a video/stream if you give credit, and it is not allowed to take credit for its development.

Other


I am planning on making a version of this datapack for each common mob, then making a datapack consisting of all of them
(Also sorry for that clickbait-y picture :P)

Here are all the datapacks "X improve over time" I made:


https://modrinth.com/datapack/zombies-improve-overtime - Zombies

https://modrinth.com/datapack/creepers-improve-over-time - Creepers

https://modrinth.com/datapack/spiders-improve-over-time - Spiders

https://modrinth.com/datapack/skeletons-improve-over-time - Skeletons

https://modrinth.com/datapack/witches-improve-over-time - Witches

https://modrinth.com/datapack/drowned-improve-over-time - Drowned

https://modrinth.com/datapack/silverfish-improve-over-time - Silverfish

https://modrinth.com/datapack/pillagers-improve-over-time - Pillagers

https://modrinth.com/datapack/vindicators-improve-over-time - Vindicators

https://modrinth.com/mod/strays-improve-over-time - Strays

https://modrinth.com/datapack/wither-skeletons-improve-over-time - Wither Skeletons

https://modrinth.com/datapack/endermites-improve-over-time - Endermites

https://modrinth.com/datapack/ravagers-improve-over-time - Ravagers

https://modrinth.com/datapack/cave-spiders-improve-over-time - Cave spiders

All of them are compatible with eachother, and I recommend you play with all of them for the best experience.

CompatibilityMinecraft 1.19
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2 Update Logs

Zombies Improve Over time V1.2 : by KNIZE_1007 05/02/2023 12:21:39 pmMay 2, 2023 @ 4:21 pm UTC

  • Fixed difficulty per player not working properly
  • Added advancements to show which of my datapacks are being used
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Sew-ey
11/25/2025 1:52 pm
Level 15 : Journeyman Miner
Way to make it so I can just have it set at 1 difficulty the whole time or edit which specific stats i want?
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thehollow
03/26/2023 11:39 am
Level 1 : New Miner
Hi, love the data pack but I seem to be having an issue where zombies that kill villagers don't turned them into zombified villagers and just straight up kill them
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KNIZE_1007
03/26/2023 11:50 am
Level 53 : Grandmaster Blacksmith
check if you are on hard difficulty, otherwise zombies just kill villagers, or if the zombies kill the villagers with fire damage. If the issue isnt caused by either of these, let me know.
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