Horde Craft
by simbey
Horde Craft brings a Hordes-inspired set of creatures, villagers and raids into Minecraft survival, with its own hordling mobs and castle trading.
What it does
Horde Craft adds a dozen new entities based on the hungry red creatures of the 1994 DOS and 3DO game Horde. Three hordling types appear in the Plains village raid, and a Shaman Hordling is met in other biomes. Hordlings want to eat crops, animals and villagers, and villagers do not spawn in a world until the first Horde raid happens, so the mod sets its own pace for the early game.
Players prepare by building up a village, trading with villagers and collecting emeralds. Castles, bankers and a king offer trades, a soldier forge lets a player train a private army, and a Grimthwacker sword can be enchanted at the king's shop. A Horde can be called at a village, and a successful raid across five different biomes completes the challenge. The mod also adds a few new crops and several villager professions, and it is designed for survival play.
Horde Craft is a Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.20.4 and 1.21.8, with the 1.1.0 build for 1.21.8 as the latest file. It requires Geckolib and runs on the client and the server, so both need it. It is released under the zlib License and is not open source.
Key features
Hordling mobs
Juvenile, Piranha and Juggernaut Hordlings appear in raids, and a Shaman Hordling is found in other biomes.
Horde raids
Raids are called at a village, and a raid across five biomes is one of the goals of the mod.
Castle and village trading
Castles, bankers and a king run trades, and a lumberjack villager trades until its map is offered.
Soldiers and weapons
A soldier forge in the castle shop trains a private army, and the Grimthwacker sword can be enchanted at the king's shop.
Ring teleportation
A Ring of Teleportation becomes available in the castle shop after early progress.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
The Hordes is a server-side only Fabric mod for 1.20 – 1.21.4, open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 only, so players join without installing it. Horde Moon runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for 1.19.2 – 1.21.1 as a client and server mod, and it is not open source. Horde Moon 2 is a Fabric and NeoForge client and server mod for 1.21.1 under All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horde Craft | Fabric | 1.20.4 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2026-01-06 |
| The Hordes | Fabric | 1.20 – 1.21.4 | Server-side only | 2026-08-13 |
| Horde Moon | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-10-23 |
| Horde Moon 2 | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-08-15 |
Questions
Does Horde Craft need Geckolib?
Does Horde Craft have to be installed on the server?
Why are there no villagers at the start of a world?
Which game versions does Horde Craft support?
In the catalog
Horde Craft is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 17,695 mods support Minecraft 1.21.8.
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What the author says
Horde Craft adds a new kind of raid, a few new crops, several villager professions, and most importantly... Hordlings! The hordlings of Horde Craft are based on the hungry red creatures from the 1994 DOS/3DO game called The Horde. While they want to eat your crops, your animals, your villagers, and you, they won't…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/horde-craft
- Owner
- simbey
- Published
- 2024-06-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-01-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15