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 1.9.0 — Vocations, Sacred Crafting & Ruins: talent trees for every Kingdom role, a whole crafting tab at the Seraph Shrine (with the winged Seraph Armor), three ruins to explore with a new compass, a desert Kingdom, and fully rebuilt roulette chests.

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🆕 New in 1.9.0

🎓 Vocations

• Every Kingdom role now has its own mastery (levels 1–20) and a talent tree: 3 branches × 4 talents, tiers to unlock and 2 ultimates to choose from
• 108 talents and 18 ultimates in total — earn XP by surviving Assaults, closing catalysts, building, repairing…

🕊 Sacred Crafting & the Seraph Armor

• A new Crafting tab at the Seraph Shrine (or at a crafting table): blessed foods, blessed marble and tainted stone building sets, useful blocks (grace lantern, sacred fountain, votive candle, bait totem, profane obelisk, blood altar…)
• Sacred and profane gear: Dawn Blade, Taint Scythe, blessed and tainted arrows, totems of grace and taint
• The Seraph Armor: a winged, netherite-tier armor with its own 3D model and a set bonus

🏛 Ruins & the Relic Compass

• Three ruins hidden in the world: the Chapel and its bell, the Tainted Altar and its ritual, the Sealed Reliquary with its 12 Seals and the Sealed Key
• The Relic Compass points to the nearest unclaimed ruin or arena (/ws vestiges)

🏜 The desert Kingdom

• A new Kingdom horde, The Sands, with desert Gates, sandstorms, earthquakes, quicksand, mirages and oasis floods
• A second 181 × 181 battlefield, the Oasis of the Pharaohs, plus desert items (Cool Gourd, Mirage Vial, Desert Veil…)

🎰 Roulette chests, rebuilt

• Fully customizable 3D chests: tinted wood and iron, layered medallions, 21 symbols or your own drawings on a 10 × 10 grid, particles and rarity effects
• Composite keys (13 heads × 4 bits), a Key Pouch that picks keys up for you, and an editor with live preview and presets
• The Survivor's Journal: a guide with rewarded goals and a Codex search

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⚡ At a glance

🗺 12 themed hordes	Undead, Nether, End, Depths, Arcane, Frozen Peaks, Burning Sands and more — plus a tutorial
♾ Game modes	Endless, Boss Rush, Daily Challenge and village invasions
🏟 Arenas & ruins	9 arenas and 3 ruins that generate in the world, incl. two 181 × 181 Kingdom battlefields
🏰 Kingdom mode	Gates, towers, soldiers, walls, traps, a Town Hall, 9 roles and their Vocations
💍 33 relics	21 relics in 6 families with set bonuses + 12 upgradable legendary relics
🕊 Seraph Shrine	Faith gauge, offerings, a forge with 24 upgrades and a full crafting tab
🌳 Renaissance	Prestige system: Heritage tree, 5 ranks, permanent upgrades
🌪 Chaos events	Breaches, ore deposits, fantasy trees, storms, earthquakes, catalysts…
🛠 In-game editor	Hordes, waves, bosses, loot, merchants, chests, blessings — all editable
🌍 Languages	English and French

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⚔️ 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, 🎰 roulette chests and 🙏 blessings between waves
• 🔒 Horde progression: unlock the hordes one after another

🐲 Custom creatures

Each horde brings its own monsters with high-definition 3D models and dozens of boss skills, all announced visually: frost golems and snow sorcerers, mummified royal guards, sacred scarabs, scorpions, cursed jackals, sandstone colossi, the Djinn and its spirits, Rootlings, the Stone Brute, the Voidmantis…

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🗿 The Runic Altar & Blessings

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

• 🎲 Common, Rare, Epic and Legendary blessings, with Luck to improve your odds
• ↻ Rerolls, bans and a Keep a card option, special blessings, ☠️ curses and 🔗 family synergies
• 🛠 A full in-game Blessings editor (any attribute of the game or of your mods)

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🕊 The Seraph Shrine

• 🗿 A statue with a faith gauge from Pure to Corrupted — it changes with your offerings
• 🎁 It produces shards of grace and taint (Shard → Fragment → Heart)
• ⚒ Its Forge gives weapons and armor up to 3 upgrades: 12 consecrations or 12 corruptions
• 💀 A tainted statue calls Rootlings and a Stone Brute

Pure	Blessed	Neutral	Corrupted	Void

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🏟 Arenas & Ruins

• ⚰ 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)
• 👑 Two 181 × 181 Kingdom battlefields: Crown Vale and the Oasis of the Pharaohs
• 🏛 Three ruins: the Chapel, the Tainted Altar and the Sealed Reliquary
• 🌍 They generate naturally in the world, with their own spawn points, effects and reward chest; /ws arena list and /ws arena place for operators

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🏰 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 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), 9 player roles and their Vocations

🗺 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

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🌪 Chaos & Resources

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

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💍 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, which can be upgraded too
• 🎁 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

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🛠️ 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 roulette chest editor with 3D preview, a blessings editor and a Renaissance shop editor for admins
• Collaborative editing and an in-game Codex that explains every mechanic (/ws codex)

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📦 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, spell skills and armor bonuses

🌍 Languages

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

🧭 What's next

• 🌀 2.0 — The Rift: a new dimension of floating islands, fortresses to besiege and colossal Titans to bring down
• 🆙 Port to Minecraft 1.21 / NeoForge

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💻 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