Situation: Enemies are weak; Proto has not yet appeared. The player can effectively suppress evolution through active hunting.

Goal: Remain below Phase 2 until you have secured sufficient diamonds and crafted your first Frost Aspect weapon.

Situation: Mounds begin to spawn and generate points automatically. The player must balance killing (which reduces points) against leaving enemies alive (which allows them to add points by killing other mobs).

Goal: Advance slowly; complete all infrastructure (enchanting, brewing, underground farms) before Phase 5. Once Phase 6 arrives, the game changes permanently.

Situation: Eternal night falls, Proto becomes active, and the Full Hivemind may emerge. Passive point generation (Proto +1500 every 60 seconds) now dwarfs any deduction from player kills. The player cannot meaningfully reduce total points; the only viable approach is to minimise future point sources while accepting inevitable progression.

Goal: Reach Phase 10 – the sole condition to initiate the Purification Battle. At this point, stop all point‑reducing actions; let Proto and Mounds push the phase forward naturally. Enemies at Phase 10 are at maximum strength, so ensure you have the best available equipment.

When Phase 10 is reached and you place the Beacon on the altar, the battle commences. This is the definitive confrontation – win or lose, the point system resets.

Pre‑Battle Preparations

• Confirm that all nearby Mounds are destroyed; they would otherwise generate points and summon reinforcements during the fight.
• Equip Frost Aspect V weapons – without Frostbite, the Adaptation system will render Bosses nearly immune to your attacks.
• Minimum of two players is strongly recommended; solo defence of the 20‑block radius is extremely difficult.
• Stock ample instant health potions, golden apples, and fire resistance.

Battle Phases

Outcome and Point Reset

• Victory: The world is purified. All fungal entities vanish. Evolution phase locks at 0, and infection points reset to 0. The advancement "Futile Effort" is granted.
• Defeat: The infection persists. Points remain unchanged. All altar materials are lost and must be recollected.

Final Principle: In the early game, you can influence the point flow; in the late game, you cannot. The path to victory lies not in futile attempts to reduce points, but in efficient preparation for the Purification Battle, the only event that resets the system.

Accumulate "evolution points" by killing/converting entities to advance through phases; all mob attributes scale accordingly.

Higher phases make mobs tougher, but also reward more points and challenge. The cooldown prevents rapid phase skipping.

Lists of entities that can be randomly selected for each rank:

• small – Infected humans, husks, drowned, villagers, witches, pillagers, players, hazmat, vindicators, evokers, etc.
• medium – Knights, griefer, braiomil, busser, thorn, jagd, scavenger, bloater, naiad, leaper, slasher, spitter, volatile, mephitic, gorgon, howler, stalker, brute, nuclea, protector, gargoyle, conductor, chemist, inebriater, saugling, vanguard, reaper, mound, umarmed, usurper, vigil, braurei, verva, delusioner, reconstructor, hivetumor.
• large – Inquisitor, brot, grober, wendigo, ogre, hvindicator, hevoker, proto.
• boss – Sieger, howitzer, stahl, hohlfresser, gazenbreacher, kraken, leviathan, hindenburg, verfall.
• organoids – Special entities (Mound, umarmed, usurper, vigil, braurei, verva, delusioner, reconstructor, proto, hivetumor) excluded from certain conversion mechanics.

Converts low‑health vanilla/other mobs into spore creatures.

Mobs gradually gain damage reduction against the damage type they receive.

Mobs have a chance to call reinforcements when killed or injured.

Spore mobs actively convert nearby blocks into infected variants.

Mounds are naturally spawned, upgradable structures that serve as spore outposts.

Proto and Mound entities expand infected biomes.

Point gains and penalties – include phase‑based multipliers and 60‑second intervals for periodic rewards:

Phase Point Multipliers:
phasePointMultipliers = [0.2, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 2.0]
These multiply all periodic and kill/convert points based on the current phase – higher phases yield more points.

Mounds automatically summon reinforcements based on their level (1–4).

• levelUpIntervalTicks – Upgrade interval (6000 ticks = 5 minutes)
• scanIntervalTicks – Scan interval for checking conditions (40 ticks) – even if cooldown is over, the mound won't scan every tick.
• supportConfigs – Format per level:
  level:range:minSmall:maxSmall:minMedium:maxMedium:cooldownSeconds:spawnScent(0/1)
  Examples:
  • Level 1: range 15, no small/medium, cooldown 250s, spawns Scent
  • Level 2: range 20, 1–2 small, cooldown 15s, no Scent
  • Level 3: range 30, 1–3 small + 1 medium, cooldown 15s
  • Level 4: range 40, 2–3 medium, cooldown 15s

Proto entities actively mark and maintain a set number of Mounds.

Proto possesses five active skills, with a dynamic behaviour switch based on the number of nearby large‑pool mobs.

The threshold (largePoolThreshold) determines whether Proto uses Verva‑focused skills or switches to Delusioners – now set to 7.

When Proto is killed, it can trigger a powerful counter‑attack, reviving itself and rallying nearby allies.

Overview
The Purification Battle is a defensive event triggered by the player after constructing a specific multiblock structure and placing a beacon on the designated mineral block base. The battle lasts approximately 18 minutes, divided into four phases, each spawning waves of enemies. To succeed, players must defend the beacon and remain within the holding area until the timer expires. Failure occurs if the beacon or the Purification Core is destroyed, or if no player remains in the holding area for an extended period.

Triggering the Battle
To initiate the battle, the player must build a fixed structure:

1. Place a 3×3 base of mineral blocks (iron, gold, diamond, or emerald blocks – any mix is allowed) on the ground.
2. Place a Beacon in the exact center of the base.
3. Place a World Purification Core anywhere within 8 blocks horizontally from the beacon (in any direction).
4. The core must have a direct line of sight to the sky – no solid blocks above it.
5. The area within 5 blocks horizontally from the beacon, and vertically from the beacon's feet up to 6 blocks above, must be clear of obstructions (torches are allowed). Once everything is in place, place the beacon on the base – the battle begins immediately.

Phases and Waves
The battle consists of four phases, each with its own timer. When a phase timer runs out, the next phase begins, and all remaining enemies from the previous phase are cleared from the world.

Note: All phases exclude organoids – special entities such as proto, mound, verva, usurper, etc. – from spawning.

Wave Spawning

• Mobs spawn 20 to 40 blocks away from the beacon, on solid ground where they can stand.
• A new wave spawns every minute.
• The number of mobs per wave is determined by the current difficulty (see below) and increases over time, but is capped at 30 per wave.

Holding the Area
Players must remain within a defense radius around the beacon – this radius is 20 blocks by default (configurable via playerCheckRadius).

• If at least one player is within the radius, the battle timer progresses normally.
• If no player is inside the radius, the timer pauses and a 30‑second grace period begins.
• If no player re‑enters the radius within those 30 seconds, the battle fails immediately.
• During the grace period, a warning is displayed above the inventory bar every 5 seconds.

Difficulty Calculation
The number of spawned mobs depends on the current difficulty, computed as follows:

• Base difficulty = (number of players in the holding area) / 4, with a minimum of 1.
• If keepInventory is enabled (i.e., no item drop on death), an additional +2 is added to the base.
• A world difficulty multiplier is applied:
  • Peaceful / Easy: 0.6 (though Peaceful likely prevents spawns)
  • Normal: 1.0
  • Hard: 1.4
  • Nightmare (if available): 2.0
• Final difficulty = (Base + keepInventoryBonus) × WorldMultiplier
• Extra mobs per minute = FinalDifficulty × 0.5 + 1
• Base wave size = 4
• Actual wave size = Base + Extra × (minutes elapsed since battle start), capped at 30.

All values are fully configurable in sporesrp-common.toml.

Modes and multipliers:

• simple – 0.5× (casual, default)
• normal – 1.0× (intended balance)
• hard – 1.3× (more challenging)
• nightmare – 1.7× (extreme)

Formula: Final = Base + (Base × (PhaseMultiplier − 1) × DifficultyMultiplier)

Affected attributes: Health, Attack Damage, Movement Speed, Armor, Knockback Resistance.

Usage: /sporesrp difficulty hard

• Takes effect immediately on all existing infected entities.
• Saved per world; persists across restarts.
• Requires operator permission (OP level 2).

Usage: /sporesrp info

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp addpoints <amount>

Parameters:

• <amount> – Integer ≥ 1

Example: /sporesrp addpoints 100

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp setpoints <points>

Parameters:

• <points> – Integer ≥ 0

Example: /sporesrp setpoints 500

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp setphase <phase>

Parameters:

• <phase> – Integer 0–10

Example: /sporesrp setphase 5

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp mound info

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp mound setlevel <level>

Parameters:

• <level> – Integer 1–4

Example: /sporesrp mound setlevel 3

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp fullhivemind convert

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp fullhivemind assault start [type]

Parameters:

• [type] – Optional. air (aerial) or ground. Defaults to air.

Example: /sporesrp fullhivemind assault start ground

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp fullhivemind finishmining

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp hud <state>

Parameters:

• <state> – on or off

Example: /sporesrp hud off

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp battle start [phase]

Parameters:

• [phase] – Optional starting phase (1–4). Defaults to 1.

Example: /sporesrp battle start 2

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp battle end

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp battle setphase <phase>

Parameters:

• <phase> – Integer 1–4

Example: /sporesrp battle setphase 3

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp battle victoryeffect <state>

Parameters:

• <state> – true or false

Effects:

• true – Immediately purifies the world (clears all Spore entities, removes the purification core, locks evolution phase to 0).
• false – Cancels the purification state, restoring Spore entity spawning and evolution.

Example: /sporesrp battle victoryeffect true

Permission: OP level 2

Usage: /sporesrp reset_config

Permission: OP level 2

Warning: This action is irreversible. All custom settings will be lost.

Damage per level: +2.5, +5.0, +7.5, +10.0, +12.5

Conflicts: Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods

Important: Frostbite prevents the target from using the Adaptation system (damage resistance) while active.

Conflicts: Fire Aspect

Conflicts: Flame (Bow) / Fire Aspect