The Endless Hordes

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Supported Minecraft versions
1.21.1
1.21.4

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The Endless Hordes is a mod that completely redesigns Minecraft to be a wave survival game. In it, you gather resources, build up your defenses, and face waves of orcs of increasing power until you are eventually defeated. How long can you survive?

Gather Resources:

  • As you play, supply crates will be teleported into the arena with various resources inside.
  • The more waves you survive, the better the loot in the supply crates.
  • Loot includes resources such as iron, as well as building materials such as wool, clay, and dyes.
  • Blocks such as furnaces are needed to refine some of the less common resources.

Build your Defenses:

  • You have a limited amount of time between waves, and during that time you can mine, craft, and build as you wish.
  • New recipes have been added to utilize the provided resources for defensive blocks, such as especially hard castle bricks.
  • Be careful, orcs will break down your fortress to reach you.
  • Armor has been completely redesigned and boosts your maximum health, rather than reducing damage taken.

Choose your Weapon:

  • Nine different primary melee weapon types to choose from, ranging from katanas to halberds.
  • Each melee weapon has its own attack speed, as well as different abilities, such as sweeping attacks, shield penetration, or extra reach.
  • Bows and crossbows are also valid weapon choices.
  • Later in the game, you can craft a steel worktable and an arcane workbench which allow you to improve your equipment even more.

Face the Endless Hordes:

  • Waves of orcs keep coming, no matter how many waves you defeat.
  • The more waves you manage to defeat, the more powerful the waves become, with more orcs and more powerful orc types.
  • Six different difficulty levels to challenge players of all skill levels.
  • Eleven different orc classes with different equipment and abilities.

Additional Features:

  • Each orc is randomly generated with a different visual appearance.
  • Randomly generated arena and orc waves means a different experience each round.
  • In-depth advancement tree to help with progression and provide players with goals.
  • Fully multiplayer compatible with a kill tracker to see who is the MVP of each wave.
  • Four different biomes to play through, plains, desert, snow, and jungle.
  • Some orcs have different abilities in different biomes.
  • Additional weapons and gadgets that have a variety of different uses.

Also on Curseforge: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-endless-hordes

Screenshots taken with Complementary Shaders.

Note, when hosting on a server, you may need to set the spawn protection property to 0 to allow non-operator players to interact with things in the center of the arena.

Note, due to upload limit on MCreator, I will only be posting the first version and the most recent version. Version 1.2.0 and later will still be available through the curseforge page.

Minecraft mod files
endless_hordes-1.3.0-neoforge-1.21.1.jar - The most recent version for Minecraft 1.21.1 Uploaded on: 05/23/2025 - 15:42   File size: 3.78 MB
endless_hordes-1.3.0-neoforge-1.21.4.jar - The most recent version for Minecraft 1.21.4 Uploaded on: 05/23/2025 - 15:42   File size: 3.8 MB
endless_hordes-1.0.0-neoforge-1.21.1.jar - The first version for Minecraft 1.21.1 does contain bugs, use at your own risk Uploaded on: 05/12/2025 - 15:30   File size: 1.71 MB
endless_hordes-1.0.0-neoforge-1.21.4.jar - The first version for Minecraft 1.21.4 does contain bugs, use at your own risk Uploaded on: 05/12/2025 - 15:30   File size: 1.72 MB
Changelog

Update 1.3.0 - The Elemental Update:

  • Added jungle biome arena
  • Added shovels
  • Modified crate loot
  • Added a new orc type, orc adepts, which use a different elemental attack in each biome
  • Changed warlock orbs to have a different effect and visual design in different biomes, original warlock orb has been retextured and moved to snow biome only
  • Changed orcish wand projectiles to curve if you turn while they are mid-air
  • Changed orc wizard to use a different basic attack in each biome
  • Buffed orc conjurer rockfall attack
  • Gave orc conjurer a powerful new ability with a different variant in different biomes
  • Gave orc knight a powerful new charge attack
  • Modified magic items to be repaired using lapis lazuli
  • Added poisoned spikes defense
  • Added hand fan tool
  • Added vile potion tool
  • Added fire breath spellbook weapon
  • Added poison burst spellbook weapon
  • Added wind shield spellbook tool
  • Added four new advancements
  • Slightly changed which advancements give which recipes
  • Added crafting recipes for more vanilla items, including hoppers, pistons, and wind charges
  • Gave orcs the ability to replace certain blocks when building upwards
  • Modified crates to be able to spawn in certain blocks, such as grass and snow
  • Increased orc visual variety with a new skin variant, a new hair variant, and a new clothing variant

Update 1.2.0 - The Biome Update:

  • Added desert biome arena
  • Added snow biome arena
  • Changed orcs to have different clothes in different biomes
  • Modified crate loot
  • Added katana weapon type
  • Added frost knife weapon
  • Added frost cannon weapon
  • Added north wind spellbook weapon/tool
  • Increased hit points of powerful orcs
  • Gave some powerful orcs the ability to retreat from melee combat
  • Reduced orc damage on difficulty 3 and 5
  • Increased time between waves
  • Changed the holding position of large weapons
  • Added orcish golden sword as a visual change for orc warlocks
  • Added several new advancements
  • Added a new orc skin variant
  • Added a new orc hair variant
  • Added two new orc clothes variants
  • Fixed a variety of bugs related to orc behavior, especially in multiplayer

Patch 1.1.1:

  • Added netherrack recipe
  • Added flint and steel recipe
  • Fixed a few multiplayer-specific bugs

Update 1.1.0 - The Advancement Update:

  • Added copper scatterer weapon
  • Added copper gripping pad trap
  • Added firestorm core weapon
  • Added healing spellbook tool
  • Added time freeze spellbook tool
  • Added blast orb spellbook weapon
  • Added rockfall spellbook weapon
  • Added an advancement tree with over 50 advancements
  • Added a new orc skin variant
  • Added a new orc hair variant