Majrusz's Progressive Difficulty
by Majrusz
With Majrusz's Progressive Difficulty, the game grows harder as a world moves through its stages, starting with Normal Mode and ending with Master Mode after the Ender Dragon falls.
What it does
The mod divides progress into three stages. Normal Mode applies from the start of a world. Expert Mode begins once the first player enters the Nether or another dimension added by other mods. Master Mode begins after the Ender Dragon is defeated. Each later stage brings new difficulty adjustments and strengthens the ones from earlier stages.
The design takes inspiration from difficulty progression in Terraria, while the scaling also follows Regional Difficulty so the result still feels like Minecraft. Majrusz Library is required, and the environment is client and server, so the server and every player run it. Files cover 1.18.2 – 1.20.1 on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the code is open source under the MIT License.
Key features
Three progression stages
Normal, Expert and Master stages each add their own set of difficulty tweaks as a world advances.
Dimension-based trigger
Expert Mode is activated by a player's first visit to a dimension such as the Nether or one added by another mod.
Dragon-based trigger
Master Mode is activated once the Ender Dragon has been defeated in the world.
Regional Difficulty scaling
Difficulty also scales with Regional Difficulty, so harder stages respond to where players explore.
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
Required by 1 mod
Use cases
Long survival worlds
A world that is played over many sessions gains harder content as the player reaches new dimensions and bosses.
Who it’s for: Players who want a survival run that becomes steadily harder, and server owners who want difficulty tied to progress rather than to a single setting.
How it compares
Dynamic Progression and Difficulty is also a client and server mod under the MIT License, open source, for 1.18.2 – 1.20.4 on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt. Spatial Difficulty is a Forge-only mod for 1.20.1 under the MIT License, open source, where the server is required and the client is optional.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Majrusz's Progressive Difficulty | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.18.2 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-04-26 |
| Dynamic Progression and Difficulty | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.18.2 – 1.20.4 | Client and server | 2024-02-24 |
| Spatial Difficulty | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server required, client optional | 2025-03-27 |
Questions
Does Majrusz's Progressive Difficulty need another mod to run?
Does the server need the mod if players already have it?
Which game versions does the mod support?
In the catalog
Majrusz's Progressive Difficulty is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This modification progressively increases the game difficulty over time. It is inspired by the similar \ mechanics in Terraria, but the difficulty also scales with Regional Difficulty to keep Minecraft style. \ A detailed description of this mod can be found on the Wiki. \ Since version 0.4.0 this mod requires a…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/majruszs-progressive-difficulty
- Owner
- Majrusz
- Published
- 2022-11-19
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-04-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15