Telos
by anmao
Telos is a NeoForge cursed-category mod that makes hostile creatures harder by changing their skills, strength, damage and the time of day.
What it does
Telos adds dozens of skills to hostile creatures, and the skill settings can be adjusted through datapacks. Its main features are a damage cap that limits how much harm creatures can deal relative to a player's maximum health, a Fighting Strength attribute that raises the base attributes of stronger creatures, and an Eternal Night feature that freezes game time in darkness. Nearby similar creatures give each other a gradual boost to movement speed and damage reduction.
Two active effects add pressure during fights. Every so often, the Fire Blast ability sends fireballs toward the player, and their explosions can break blocks in the surrounding terrain. Chaos Move periodically applies a confusion effect that makes the player move uncontrollably. Push Away knocks players back when they are within a set distance. The mod is built to raise the difficulty of Minecraft and runs on the client and the server, so both need it, with Cores required as a dependency. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license and is not open source. Files are published for NeoForge across six release versions, 1.21 – 26.3.
Key features
Damage limitation
Creature damage is capped at a set share of the player's maximum health, limiting how far a single hit can go.
Skill system
Dozens of skills are added to hostile creatures, with their values set through datapacks.
Fighting strength
Creatures with higher Fighting Strength receive higher base attributes, and the increase is configurable.
Eternal night
Game time is locked in darkness, and nearby similar creatures grow faster and hit harder as they gather.
Fire Blast and Chaos Move
Fireballs with explosions periodically strike the player, and a confusion effect periodically moves the player unpredictably.
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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
Use cases
Harder survival play
Players who want Minecraft to feel more dangerous can use the damage cap, the skill system and the night-time pressure together.
Modpacks with tougher mobs
Pack makers can pair Telos with other mob changes and tune the skills through datapacks to match the intended difficulty.
Who it’s for: Players looking for a stronger challenge in survival worlds, and server owners who want hostile creatures to behave differently from vanilla. Both the server and each player need the mod to use its features.
Questions
Does Telos need Cores?
Do players need Telos on a server that runs it?
Can the creature skills be changed?
In the catalog
Telos is one of 7,555 Cursed mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,801 Cursed mods for NeoForge. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Any questions can be asked in github or contacted as below: - Telegram - Discord
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/telos
- Owner
- anmao
- Published
- 2024-01-23
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
