Encounters

Two kinds of encounter run in the overworld. During a thunderstorm, natural lightning bolts can summon a group of mobs at the point of impact, and a short warning precedes each strike. Active nether portals can also release several escalating waves of nether mobs into the overworld, after a brief buildup cinematic. Only one invasion runs at a time across the whole world, and a configurable cooldown gates the next one.

Each encounter type exposes its own toggles and chances. The mob pool is weighted, and each entry accepts custom SNBT in the same syntax used for summon commands, so entries can set gear and other properties. Entries that reference a mod that is not installed are skipped on load. Equipment dropping from spawned mobs is off by default. Encounters requires Fabric API and YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL), which provides the in-game configuration screen. It is published for Fabric and NeoForge for 1.21.1 only, and it runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. The code is not open source, and the mod is released under All rights reserved.