Giant Mob Events

Giant Mob Events

Every few minutes, a random mob near you grows into a GIANT. Survive it, slay it, get paid.

A tiny vanilla data pack for Minecraft Java 26.3 — no mods, no resource pack, works on singleplayer and servers.

What it does

• Every 5 minutes (changeable) the pack picks a random player, finds a random hostile mob 6–48 blocks away and makes it 2.5x bigger: 3x health, +50% damage, knockback resistant, slightly slower, and it can step over full blocks.
• Everyone gets a chat alert ("A GIANT Zombie has risen near Steve!"), the player nearby gets a big red GIANT! title, a roar plays, and the mob glows for 90 seconds so you can find it.
• Giants never despawn on their own, and at most 3 are alive at once (changeable).
• Slay a giant and you get +100 XP plus a bonus drop: emeralds, iron, bottles o' enchanting, golden apples, diamonds, or (rarely) an enchanted golden apple.
• Zombies, husks, drowned, skeletons, strays, bogged, creepers, spiders, cave spiders, endermen, witches, pillagers, vindicators, piglins, zombified piglins, hoglins, wither skeletons, blazes and silverfish can all go giant. Yes, giant creepers.

Commands

Everything is in-game, no config files:

• /function giant_mob_events:help — list of commands
• /function giant_mob_events:status — giants alive + minutes until the next event
• /function giant_mob_events:spawn_now — grow a nearby mob right now
• /function giant_mob_events:shrink_all — every giant back to normal
• /scoreboard players set interval_min gme.config 5 — minutes between events
• /scoreboard players set max_giants gme.config 3 — max giants alive at once
• /scoreboard players set size_x10 gme.config 25 — giant size ×10 (25 = 2.5x, 40 = 4x)
• /scoreboard players set bonus_xp gme.config 100 — XP for slaying a giant
• /function giant_mob_events:uninstall — shrinks every giant and removes the scoreboards, then disable the pack

Install

1. Download the zip (don't unzip it).
2. Singleplayer: drop it in .minecraft/saves/<your world>/datapacks/. Server: world/datapacks/.
3. Run /reload or restart. You'll see "[Giant Mob Events] loaded" in chat.

Versions

Built and tested on Minecraft Java 26.3 (data pack format 121). Uses the vanilla scale attribute, so it needs a recent version.

Notes

• Works alongside most other data packs; it only touches mobs it tags itself.
• Good for SMPs, hardcore runs, and "the mobs keep getting bigger" challenge videos.
• Free and MIT licensed. Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Made by Prison Ship Labs. Found a bug? Leave it in the issues/comments and it'll get fixed.