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[AN]Adaptive Nemesis

The dynamic difficulty balancing module specifically designed for integration packs aims to address the issue of difficulty imbalance in current mainstream integration packs, where the early game is too easy and the late game is too challenging.

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Latest stable file adaptive_nemesis-1.0.14.jar
Game version 1.21.1
Loader NeoForge

[AN]Adaptive Nemesis adaptive_nemesis-1.0.14.jar targets 1.21.1 with NeoForge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.

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Is [AN]Adaptive Nemesis required on the client, server, or both?

The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.

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Dedicated server Source doesn’t say
Loader for this release NeoForge
Required install it here Optional supported, not mandatory Not supported do not install here Source doesn’t say do not assume

The source does not explicitly classify this release as client-only or server-only.

What else does [AN]Adaptive Nemesis adaptive_nemesis-1.0.14.jar need?

adaptive_nemesis-1.0.14.jar. Change the file and its required mods may change too.

No extra mods listed for this file

This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.

3 listed on this file 15 pulled in by those mods
Epic Fight Optional for [AN]Adaptive Nemesis adaptive_nemesis-1.0.14.jar
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Matching file found Matched file: 21.17.3.1-mc1.21.1-neoforge
Apotheosis Optional for [AN]Adaptive Nemesis adaptive_nemesis-1.0.14.jar
optional
Matching file found Matched file: Apotheosis 1.21.1-8.7.0
Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks Optional for [AN]Adaptive Nemesis adaptive_nemesis-1.0.14.jar
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Matching file found Matched file: v1.21.1-3.16.2
Apothic Enchanting Needed by Apotheosis
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Matching file found Matched file: Apothic-Enchanting 1.21.1-1.6.0
Apothic Attributes Needed by Apotheosis
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Matching file found Matched file: Apothic-Attributes 1.21.1-2.10.1
Apothic Spawners Needed by Apotheosis
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Matching file found Matched file: Apothic-Spawners 1.21.1-1.4.0
Patchouli Needed by Apotheosis
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Matching file found Matched file: Patchouli-1.21.1-93-NEOFORGE.jar
Max Health Fix Needed by Apotheosis
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Matching file found Matched file: maxhealthfix-neoforge-1.21.1-21.1.4.jar
Enchantment Descriptions Needed by Apotheosis
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Matching file found Matched file: enchdesc-neoforge-1.21.1-21.1.10.jar
Placebo Needed by Apotheosis
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Matching file found Matched file: Placebo 1.21.1-9.9.2
Jade 🔍 Needed by Apotheosis
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Matching file found Matched file: [NeoForge 1.21.1] 15.10.6
Iron's Lib Needed by Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
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Matching file found Matched file: irons_lib-1.21.1-2.1.0.jar
playerAnimator Needed by Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
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Matching file found Matched file: player-animation-lib-forge-2.0.4+1.21.1.jar
GeckoLib Needed by Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
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Matching file found Matched file: NeoForge 1.21.1 4.9.2
Curios API Needed by Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
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Matching file found Matched file: curios-neoforge-9.5.1+1.21.1.jar
Bookshelf Needed by Max Health Fix
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Matching file found Matched file: bookshelf-neoforge-1.21.1-21.1.81.jar
Prickle Needed by Max Health Fix
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Matching file found Matched file: prickle-neoforge-1.21.1-21.1.11.jar

15 extra mods were pulled in by other dependencies. Indented rows show who needs each one. We only count dependency files that match this setup. A file for another loader does not fill the gap.

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About this project

What does [AN]Adaptive Nemesis add?

⚔️ Adaptive Nemesis undefined⚔️

"Your power feeds their evolution."

They weren't kidding.


🎬 What Is This?

You know the drill. You start a modpack. Early game: you're scratching zombies with a wooden stick, questioning your life choices. Late game: you're in full god gear one-shotting everything that moves, bored out of your mind.

Adaptive Nemesis breaks that loop.

It watches you. It learns. And it makes sure the world stays dangerous — no matter how strong you get.


⚔️ Core Systems

🧠 Player Strength Evaluation

The mod doesn't just look at your armor bar. It reads your entire combat profile:

What It Sees Why It Matters
🛡️ Armor & Health Tank builds don't go unpunished
⚔️ Attack Stats Glass cannons meet glass resistance
Apotheosis Gear That mythic affix? They noticed.
🔮 Iron's Spells Mana Mages get scaled against too
⚔️ Epic Fight Stamina Your combat style is on file

💡 Everything is weighted. Everything counts. And yes — you can tweak the weights in config.


📈 Dynamic Enemy Scaling

Every hostile mob that spawns gets a personal gift from the system:

Attribute Scaling Hard Cap
Health Based on nearby player strength 500%
Damage You hit hard? They hit harder. 500%
Armor Your sword will feel it. 300%
Attack Speed No more infinite stunlock. 2.0x
Movement Speed Running won't save you. 2.0x

The twist: Every mob rolls 70%~130% of the base scaling. Two zombies from the same spawn? Different personalities. Different threat levels. You'll never know which one is the problem child.

🔥 "I saw a zombie with 80 HP and laughed. Then I saw the one next to it had 240 HP and a diamond sword. I stopped laughing."

Anti-Explosion Safeguards: Base values are stored in NBT. If tags get cleared, the mod falls back to DefaultAttributes. No exponential HP inflation. No broken saves.

Equipment Scaling: Humanoid enemies can spawn with scaled gear and enchantments. The system scans ItemTags to pull from your modpack's weapon/armor pool. Dangerous enchants are blacklisted. Drops can be disabled so you don't drown in loot.


🌍 World Stage System

This is server-wide. Permanent. And it doesn't care about your feelings.

Stage How You Got Here What Changes
0 Fresh world Baseline. Enjoy it while it lasts.
1+ A player killed a Boss (Dragon, Wither, Warden…) +50% enemy strength per stage

Only player kills count. The stage is shared across all dimensions. And it only goes up.


🎚️ Adaptive Float System

The mod doesn't just scale once and call it a day. It watches your performance in real time:

You Do This The World Does This
Chain kills like a maniac Float multiplier +10% — they grow
Die. A lot. Float multiplier -15% — breathing room
AFK at your mob farm Decay kicks in. The world forgets you were scary.
Glass cannon build (high damage, low survivability) Efficiency check. Difficulty reels back.

🧠 "The system learned to read your true skill. Not just your DPS."


💀 True Damage Conversion (Iron Turtle Terminator)

Wearing 100+ armor and feeling invinc? Cute.

Your Armor What Gets Through
≤20 5% true damage
20~50 15% true damage
50~100 25% true damage
>100 35% true damage

Armor still matters. But it no longer makes you a god.


👹 Nemesis Memory System

Every player gets a personal file. The enemies remember:

Memory Type What They Learn How They Adapt
Kill Preference How you usually kill They gain resistances to your favorite method
Death Records What killed you last They start using that against you
Equipment History What gear you run They evolve counters to your build
Behavior Patterns Melee / Ranged / Magic Their AI shifts to exploit your habits

"I always opened with a fireball. Then the skeletons started spawning with Fire Resistance. Every. Single. Time."


🛡️ Newbie Protection

Not everyone starts as a legend. The mod knows:

Trigger Effect
Player strength below threshold Monster stats -30%
First death Protection extended by 10 minutes
3 deaths in a row Forced protection until you kill something

The system wants you to suffer. But it wants you to stick around to suffer more.


🐉 Boss Mechanics

Boss fights shouldn't end in two hits.

Mechanic What It Does
Damage Cap Single-hit damage capped (default 100), cap rises as Boss HP drops
Attribute Amp Boss HP ×5, damage ×3
Combat Tracking Records fight duration and total damage dealt
Phase Evolution Attack patterns shift as the fight drags on
Smart ID Recognizes Bosses by tag, type, name, or health threshold

🌩️ Invasion Event System

Sometimes the world doesn't wait for you to find trouble.

Feature Detail
Trigger Kill 25 surface undead (first time), 100 (after)
Weather Thunderstorm. Because atmosphere matters.
Waves Multi-wave assaults scaling with world stage
Direction Enemies come from North, South, East, or West
UI Boss bar tracks wave progress
Rewards Loot, XP, and effects for nearby players

Custom invasions via datapack: data/<namespace>/invasions/<name>.json


🔗 Mod Compatibility

Mod What Gets Integrated
🔮 Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks Spell power, mana, cooldowns, magic resistance
⚔️ Epic Fight Hit resistance, impact, armor breaking, combos, stamina
Apotheosis Gear quality, mythic affix tier evaluation
🐗 L2Hostility Compatibility mode skips overlapping scaling
📦 KubeJS Full event API, script extensions, config hot reload

⌨️ Commands

All /an commands. OP level 2 required.

Command What It Does
/an status Is the mod alive? What's it thinking?
/an strength [player] Full combat profile breakdown
/an difficulty Tweak the numbers
/an protection [player] Manage newbie shields
/an memory [player] Read the Nemesis file
/an scan [range] Inspect nearby scaled enemies
/an nemesis [type] Summon a personal nightmare
/an invasion trigger [type] [waves] [difficulty] Start the storm manually
/an test [module] Debug tools
/an reload Hot reload configs
/an help When you forget the above

🔧 KubeJS Integration

Script your own chaos.

Event When It Fires What You Can Do
adaptive_nemesis.entity_scale Mob spawns Override scaling multipliers per entity
adaptive_nemesis.damage_calculation True damage triggers Adjust or cancel conversion
adaptive_nemesis.player_strength_evaluation Strength recalculated Modify final score
adaptive_nemesis.nemesis_memory_update Memory milestone Custom rewards, triggers
adaptive_nemesis.world_stage_change Stage advances React to global progression
adaptive_nemesis.invasion_start Invasion begins Modify waves/difficulty or cancel
adaptive_nemesis.invasion_wave_start Each wave starts Inject custom logic
adaptive_nemesis.invasion_end Invasion ends Modify rewards based on outcome

📦 Datapack Support

No code required. Just JSON and spite.

  • data/<namespace>/world_stages/<name>.json — Stage rules, caps, invasion params
  • data/<namespace>/invasions/<name>.json — Custom invasions: waves, enemies, effects, rewards
  • data/<namespace>/nemesis/<name>.json — Nemesis profiles and behaviors

Hot-reloaded with F3+T.


🚀 Performance

Problem Solution
Entity calculation lag Regional caching + async updates
TPS drops on servers Player-list traversal + distance checks
Config reload lag Incremental sync, not full rebuild
Memory bloat On-demand loading, periodic archiving
Scaling timeout Watchdog detects and marks bad entities

⚔️ The Point

"Your power feeds their evolution."

This isn't a mod that makes the game harder. It's a mod that makes the game pay attention.

You want to feel your progression? You'll feel it. The enemies will make sure of it.

You want to coast in god gear? Not here. The world scales. It learns. It remembers.

Adaptive Nemesis doesn't nerf you. It respects you enough to stay dangerous.


⚔️ Every time you grow stronger, your Nemesis evolves. ⚔️

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