RPGMood

RPGMood layers atmosphere and a sense of place on top of unmodified vanilla survival. Hostile mobs grow stronger the further players wander from spawn, entering a new region shows a title and plays a sound, and dying gets a narrative death message instead of the flat vanilla one — all without touching loot tables, crafting, or PvP balance.

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⚔ Mob Scaling

Hostile mobs gain levels based on distance from spawn, biome, nearby vanilla structures, and how many players are nearby — shown live in the mob's name (Lv. 12 Zombie).

• Health, attack damage, armor, and movement speed all scale with level
• Per-mob-type difficulty seeds (Zombie is easier than Wither Skeleton at the same distance)
• Biome and structure bonuses are fully configurable — make deserts scarier, or strongholds a real threat
• Structure-proximity checks are cached per region, so this stays cheap even with heavy mob spawning
• Fully tunable in config.yml: health/damage/armor/speed growth per level, max level cap, and every bonus source

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Zones

Crossing into a new zone shows a title/subtitle, plays a sound, and drops a short flavor line in chat a moment later.

• Biome zones — trigger when you enter a configured biome
• WorldGuard zones — trigger when you step inside a named WorldGuard region (optional integration)
• Unclaimed areas aren't left blank — every corner of the map gets a procedurally-combined name (e.g. "Elden Meadows", "the ash-choked Sunlit Barrows") built by recombining a pool of biome-appropriate adjectives and nouns, giving hundreds of unique names per biome without repeating

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Death Messages

Every death gets a narrative message instead of the vanilla one — composed, not just picked from a list:

• A core line reacts to cause of death, biome, and killer type
• Killer names get randomized synonyms (a Zombie might be called a "shambling snack" or "graveyard gremlin")
• An independent ~45% chance appends a closing flourish ("The night keeps its own score.")
• Location names get an independent descriptor prefix ("the storm-worn Elden Meadows")
• The same exact line won't fire twice in a row for the same player

Every death is also saved to the player's persistent adventure journal.

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Adventure Journal & Emotes

• /diary opens a written book listing the player's recent zone arrivals and deaths, timestamped and persisted across restarts
• /emote plays a short particle/sound effect

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Ambient Time & Weather Events

Scheduled messages and sounds tied to time-of-day (dawn, midday, dusk, midnight) and weather transitions (rain/thunder start and stop), plus chance-based flavor messages on breaking configured blocks. All fully defined in triggers.yml.

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Integrations

Both optional — RPGMood works standalone and detects these automatically at startup.

• PlaceholderAPI — %rpgmood_zone%, %rpgmood_area_danger% for scoreboards and tab list
• WorldGuard — enables region-based zones

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Admin Tools

/rpgmood info shows your current zone and the mob difficulty level a Zombie, Skeleton, and Enderman would each get at your exact location — the fastest way to sanity-check your mob_scaling tuning without waiting for a real mob to spawn.

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Installation

1. Drop rpgmood.jar into your /plugins folder
2. Restart the server
3. Done — config.yml, zones.yml, and triggers.yml generate automatically

Requirements: Paper/Spigot 1.20.4+ · Java 21+ · No required dependencies

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Links

• Full Wiki
• Source Code
• Report a Bug