Verox' RPG Progression

📖 About:

Verox' RPG Progression (formerly Unbound World) turns Minecraft into a Terraria-style progression game. The world starts Sealed - no Nether, no diamonds, no netherite, just you against the raw Overworld. Defeating specific bosses breaks the seal on a new tier at a time, unlocking items, blocks, ores, dimensions, structures, and stronger enemies to match.

It is the core of the Verox' RPG series, built to play alongside Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks.

The Sealed World System

• World Stages: The whole world shares one progression track. Killing a stage's boss advances everyone at once - no grinding solo advancements.
• Sealed Everything: Items, tools, armor, functional blocks, and even ores can be locked behind a stage. A sealed sword won't swing. A sealed ore looks and breaks like plain stone until you've earned it.
• Sealed Bosses: Bosses are locked in turn - you can't skip ahead and cheese the Wither before you're supposed to reach him.
• Sealed Dimensions: The Nether and the End stay closed until the stage that grants access is cleared.
• Sealed Territories: Every stage claims its own structures. Enter one too early and the land itself turns against you - and nothing inside can be plundered until its boss has fallen.

Mod Features

• Full Vanilla Boss Progression: 5 ready-to-play stages out of the box - Evoker → Elder Guardian → Warden → Wither → Ender Dragon, each gating a real tier of the game (iron/gold → diamond → Nether access → netherite → the End).
• Hidden Ores: Locked ores render as stone, deepslate, or netherrack, mine like stone, and drop stone - until the world catches up. Purely visual and drop-based, the real block is never altered, so it works with any worldgen mod.
• Territories: Woodland Mansions, Ocean Monuments, Ancient Cities, Nether Fortresses, End Cities - each belongs to a stage. Sealed land slowly drains your life and tints your screen, protected structures can't be mined, built in or blown up, and a shimmering forcefield border shows exactly where a guarded lair begins.
• Escalating Threats: Hostile mobs get tougher as the world stage rises - health, damage, armor, or any other vanilla or modded attribute. Mobs inside territories get their own extra scaling, and bosses scale further with how many players are fighting them.
• Armed Enemies: From a certain stage onward, humanoid mobs start carrying real weapons and armor with enchantments - configurable per stage and mob group, and carried over into later stages automatically.
• Stage Raids: Optional raids that strike while a stage is your current goal - waves of themed enemies, a glowing leader and a map or compass to the stage's lair as a reward. Turned off by default, fully configurable per stage.
• Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks Support: With Iron's Spells installed, the progression grows to 7 stages with the Ice Spider, the Dead King and Tyros as new main bosses - spellbooks, mage gear and Iron's structures are sealed alongside the matching tiers.
• Loot Bags: Bosses drop a loot bag for every nearby player, each rolled individually - no more racing for drops. Can be turned off in the config or for single mobs via a tag.
• Fully Data-Driven: Every stage - bosses, drops, locks, territories, raids, scaling, equipment - is defined in simple JSON. Modpack authors can add, remove, or completely rebuild the progression without touching code. Works on dedicated servers out of the box.

The Progression Journal

Every player receives the Progression Journal on their first join - a real in-world book that tracks the whole journey. Open it with a right-click or the keybind (default K).

• Your Progress at a Glance: The current stage, how many seals have been broken, and every stage marked as cleared, current goal, or locked.
• Everything per Stage: Description, sealed dimensions and territories, the main boss and optional bosses, and every sealed item, block and ore - page by page.
• Boss Details: Where to find each boss and a full drop preview with chances and amounts.
• Raid Details: Every wave, its enemies and their equipment, the raid leader and the reward - all one click away.
• Never Lost: Crafted again from a Book and an Iron Ingot, and it builds itself from the loaded stage files - so it always matches your modpack's progression.

The Choice

Rush the Wither underprepared and get flattened, or take the world one seal at a time. RPG Progression doesn't hold your hand - it just makes sure you can't skip the line.

📦 Installation

Required

• NeoForge

Optional, but recommended

• AttributeFix — important for late-game scaling. Vanilla caps some attributes (like max health) well below what a heavily-scaled endgame boss can reach; AttributeFix removes that ceiling.
• Jade — shows a "Sealed" tooltip when looking at locked blocks and ores.
• Curios API — only needed if a sealed item is equipped in a Curios slot.
• Iron's Spell n' Spellbooks - supports structures, mobs, items, spells and more...

📃 Upcoming Features (in Development):

The seals are only the beginning. Here's what's planned:

Verox' RPG Progression

• Biome Territories: Sealed biomes alongside sealed structures.

The Verox' RPG Series

• Unbound Lib: The shared RPG core - critical hits, lifesteal, armor penetration, ranged attributes and more. RPG Progression's default stages already give late-game mobs crit chance and armor penetration once it's installed.
• Verox' RPG Journey: New biomes and structures for every dimension, vanilla-styled bosses and new mobs - with their own territories.
• Verox' Swords n' Axes: Swordsman and Berserker specializations with weapon skills and armor sets.
• Verox' Bows n' Daggers: Marksman and Assassin specializations, stealth and dash attacks.
• Verox' RPG Runestones: Floating runestones for travel and a party system.

📚 Documentation

For the full JSON schema reference, every stage field explained, territories, loot bag configuration and the addon API for developers, see our Wiki.

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