UnderBeacon
by lytDARK
UnderBeacon is a survival war minigame in which two teams compete inside a shrinking border arena, and the last team alive wins.
What it does
Players start with talents and collect resources in the way vanilla survival works, then fight a close-to-vanilla PvP match. The world border shrinks over time, pushing the two teams toward each other until one side survives. The game is built around a Survival War datapack, and its height limit runs from -16 to 256.
Installation is handled through Fabric, Forge or Quilt, and the server is the side that requires the mod, while a client may join without it. Files exist for 1.20 and 1.20.1, and the latest build is 0.0.0-rc3+15+mod for 1.20.1, released on 2023-12-12 on the alpha channel. The code is under All rights reserved and is not open source. The mod is also offered as a data pack for server platforms, and the author published it on 2023-10-05.
Key features
Two-team arena war
Two teams compete in a bordered arena, and the border shrinks until a single team survives and wins.
Survival War datapack
The Survival War mode is delivered through a datapack, with version 0 and version 1 packs handled separately.
Talent-based starts
Each player begins the match with a talent, which gives a starting advantage before the PvP phase.
Accelerated farming speed
The game speeds up farming so that players can gather enough resources for the PvP phase within a session.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Private games
Players can host a match privately and play it without joining a public server.
Translated play
The author accepts advice and translation submissions, though multilingual support is still incomplete and English was added in released versions.
Who it’s for: Players who want a team-based PvP minigame on a vanilla-like survival base, and server owners who want to host arena matches with a shrinking border.
Questions
Does UnderBeacon need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders can run UnderBeacon?
Is UnderBeacon available in other languages?
In the catalog
UnderBeacon is one of 2,135 Minigame mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,454 Minigame mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Check out the latest update and latest Information on github/查看最新版本信息 Under Beacon is a kind of Survival War, i.e. PvP game that requires players to collect resources as in vanilla survival mode. Packs with Version 0 are *Survival War*s, and packs with Version 1 or greater are *Under Beacon*s.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/underbeacon
- Owner
- lytDARK
- Published
- 2023-10-05
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2023-12-12
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15