Darksoulsmod (Beta)

OPEN BETA (Some Features are not fully functional and will be improved in future updates) Remixing is okay, but please noncommercially and credit me and the creator of the Solaire Minecraft Skin (BeardedToaster on https://www.minecraftskins.net/) The Core Loop & Survival

Earn Souls: Defeat mobs to collect souls, which scale in value based on their maximum health and how far you've ventured from world spawn.

Campfire Leveling: Sneak and interact with a lit campfire to spend your hard-earned souls across seven core stats—Vitality, Endurance, Strength, Dexterity, Resistance, Luck, and Arcane—to customize your build from levels 1 to 99.

The Weight of Death: Die outside the Arena, and your carried souls drop into a bloodstain. Die again before recovering them, and those souls are lost forever under the "Died for nothing" achievement. Managing your risk is everything.

Humanity & Estus: Use Humanity items to restore your human shell and boost your soul gains, while your trusty Estus Flask keeps you alive, refilling only at lit campfires. (Update planned!)

Combat, Physics, & Special Mechanics

Stamina Management: Every action—attacking, sprinting, jumping, backstepping, and shield blocking—draws from a server-authoritative stamina meter. Manage it poorly, and you will become exhausted.

Advanced Combat: Master timed shield parries for ripostes, utilize the Backstep and Reach of the Vanguard enchantments, trigger massive defensive shockwaves with Bulwark's Defiance, or call down lightning strikes with Stormcaller's Grace.

Cooperative Chaos: Link up with friends using the chaining mechanic to swing back and forth over perilous drops under the achievement "Like a wrecking ball".

Dangers of the World

Elite Mobs & Distance Scaling: The further you travel from spawn, the deadlier the world gets. Face terrifying Elite variants—like Heavily armored foes, Mimics, Siphons, and Necromancers—that scale up to 6x strength.

Cursed Remains: Burn Cursed Remains at a campfire to summon a 3-day dark aura (Tenebrae incarnatae) that massively increases mob danger and soul rewards in the area.

Ashen Rain & The Skies: Watch the skies transform as you look up at a blacked-out sun and a colossal, staring eye moon, occasionally interrupted by hazardous Ashen Rain weather events.

The Arena & Endgame

The Arena Dimension: Use an Arena Token to enter a dedicated combat challenge featuring escalating waves of varied enemies, safe checkpoint rooms with campfires, and unique boss encounters.

The Sovereign of Bones: Face off against this brutal custom boss boasting 150 health, custom minion-free melee AI, a terrifying area bone attack, and exclusive progression rewards.

Sunlight Cores & Fast Travel: Place Sunlight Cores and network them with Sunlight Lanterns to unlock fast travel between checkpoints, clear away oppressive weather, and advance Solaire of Astora's legendary questline.

The mod is in Beta and everything is subject to change