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Modrinth · Minecraft mod

Spawn Spires

Addressing Minecraft's nighttime and monster spawning

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Quick answer

Which Spawn Spires release should I use?

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Latest stable file 1.0.5
Game version 1.21.1
Loader NeoForge

Spawn Spires 1.0.5 targets 1.21.1 with NeoForge. Installation on the client is optional. Installation on the dedicated server is optional. No extra mods listed for this file.

Where it goes

Is Spawn Spires required on the client, server, or both?

Installation on the client is optional. Installation on the dedicated server is optional.

Client Optional
Dedicated server Optional
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 marks this as usable on both the client and server.

Understand client and server requirements Read the Minecraft installation guide

What else does Spawn Spires 1.0.5 need?

1.0.5. 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.

This file does not list any required or optional mods.

Before you install it

Add Spawn Spires without breaking your instance.

Built for Spawn Spires 1.0.5. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.

  1. 01

    Stick to this file

    Use 1.0.5. It targets 1.21.1 with NeoForge; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.

  2. 02

    Bring the mods it needs

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

  3. 03

    Put it on the correct side

    Installation on the client is optional. Installation on the dedicated server is optional.

  4. 04

    Pick the file you checked

    Use the “Get this file” button beside 1.0.5. It opens that exact file at the source.

About this project

What does Spawn Spires add?

Spawn Spires logo and header art

Nighttime in Minecraft is flawed. Sleeping through the night is a tedious dead man's switch that must be flipped at the end of each day, or the player is at risk of being attacked and having their builds blown up by creepers.

Spawn-proofing is a partial solution, but options are very limited and require lighting or covering surfaces in blocks that mobs cannot spawn on, which may be undesirable, and phantoms will force the player to sleep regardless. This also results in night being practically nonexistent on most servers. The game actively punishes you for engaging with nighttime as a mechanic, and Spawn Spires addresses these problems.

Spawn Spires' solution

The mod divides the world into large, invisible regions, and each region contains a Spire structure that governs the hostile mob spawning within that region. If the player climbs a Spire, they can disable the Spire Heart at the top, which will stop hostile mob spawning in the Spire's region. (mob spawns below Y=0 are unaffected, hostile mobs will still spawn in deep caves.)

Left: Gameplay of minecraft - someone turns off the Spire Heart, and it snaps shut. Right - a representation of the minecraft map, divided into cells. A cell near the middle turns gray and goes from reading "Monsters can spawn here" to "Monsters cannot spawn here"

(This map does not appear in-game, it's a graphic that represents the regions and the mechanic)

Sleeping in beds will no longer skip the night, and will instead slowly heal the player. You must survive through the night until you conquer the Spire in your region. In addition, insomnia is disabled and phantoms will instead spawn around active Spires, and will not burn during daytime. If the player wants to re-enable mob spawning within a region, they can simply turn the Spire Heart back on.

Mod Compatibility

Spawning compat:

As of mod version 1.0.5, Spawn Spires works with modded monsters that spawn in darkness! if a Spire is disabled, dark-spawning monsters from any mod will no longer spawn in its region.

World generation compat:

In order to be able to generate a Spire anywhere in the overworld, this mod needs biome tags that, combined, list every biome. This means that any new modded biomes need to be explicitly listed by Spawn Spires (this also lets this mod know which Spire variant to generate per-biome).

Here are the overworld biome mods that this mod is compatible with:

If this mod tries to place a Spire in any biome from a mod not on this list, it will simply not generate. In order to affect monster spawning for the region in which the Spire failed to generate in, you will have to place your own Spire Heart via commands or creative mode.

Can I use this on a world that was created before I installed Spawn Spires?

If you want to play this mod in survival, and you want everything to work as intended, you should make a new world instead of using a world you created before installing it.

Your game won't crash or break horribly if you visit an existing world, but there will be a survival gameplay issue: You won't be able to affect mob spawning in a region if its Spire's chunk was already generated (there will be no Spire there if you already generated the chunk without the mod).

As of mod version 1.0.4, you can use the locatespire command to find where the nearest Spire should have generated. If the Spire is missing, and you still want to control mob spawns in the region, you'll have to use cheats or creative to place your own Spire Heart there.

(As with any world generation or structure mod, you should back up your world before loading it with this mod.)

Project description from Modrinth.

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