Next-Generation Custom Boss Creation, Automated World Spawners & Sacrificial Altars for Minecraft Servers.
CustomBosses is an advanced, high-performance Spigot/Paper/Folia plugin designed for server owners seeking rich PvE encounters without lag, memory leaks, or brittle internal NMS code.
Built with clean, modern object-oriented architecture and pure Bukkit/Paper APIs, CustomBosses provides an interactive in-game GUI editor, 38 unique boss abilities, ranked damage contribution rewards, custom boss spawn eggs, sacrificial world altars, and three independent spawner systems.
- Description / About:
Next-Generation Custom Bosses, 38 Unique Abilities, Automated Spawners & Sacrificial Altars for Minecraft 1.21.11 to 26.3. - Website:
https://github.com/lino9999/CustomBosses - Topics / SEO Tags:
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- 🖥️ Interactive In-Game GUI Editor: Configure boss health, damage, speed, scale, custom model data, equipment, immunities, drops, and abilities visually.
- 🛡️ Stacker Plugins Compatibility: Fully compatible with WildStacker, RoseStacker, StackMob, and UltimateStacker. Bosses and their mount passengers are automatically protected from being merged into regular mob stacks.
- ⚔️ 38 Dynamic Boss Abilities: Complete ability portfolio spanning periodic AOE, targeted combat, defense retaliation, phase transformations, and on-death revenge strikes.
- 🗺️ 3 Automated Spawner Systems:
- Region Spawners: Define 3D cuboid zones using the admin wand, complete with mob caps, time-of-day constraints, and respawn intervals.
- Coordinate Spawners: Fixed position or real-world calendar date triggers (
YYYY-MM-DD). - Natural Spawners: Player proximity wilderness spawns with customizable light level ranges and distance radiuses.
- 🔮 Sacrificial Altars: World blocks featuring floating holograms that require item tributes to summon bosses.
- 🏆 Ranked Damage Contribution Rewards: Grant items and run console commands based on combat rankings (Top 1, Top 2, Top 3 damage dealers, killer, or all contributors).
- 📊 Boss Bars & Health HUD: Customizable colors (Red, Purple, Blue, Green, etc.), styles (Solid, Notched), and live health percentage formatting.
- 🥚 Boss Spawn Eggs & Admin Wand: Portable spawn eggs with custom PDC tags and an admin wand with shift-right-click quick boss spawning.
- 🧩 PlaceholderAPI Expansion: Expose live boss counts and boss health across scoreboards, tablists, and menus.
| Ability | Trigger | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Transform | Low Health | At <X% HP, triggers an invulnerability spiral animation and transforms into a next-phase boss profile. |
| Projectile Throw | Periodic | Fires targeted Fireballs, Snowballs, Arrows, or Wither Skulls towards nearby players. |
| Kill Aura | Periodic | Teleports behind the target's blind spot, strikes with sweep effects, and damages armor durability. |
| Teleport | Periodic | Proximity teleport around players with portal particle effects. |
| Vacuum Items | Periodic | Sucks up all dropped items on the ground within range and heals the boss per item absorbed. |
| Hunger Drain | Periodic | Drains the food meter of surrounding players. |
| Command Dispatch | Periodic | Executes console commands with dynamic %player%, %boss%, and coordinate placeholders. |
| Getsuga Tenshou | Periodic | Launches a charged, high-velocity dark skull with trailing particle emissions. |
| Leap Attack | Periodic | Performs a forward leaping lunge towards distant targets. |
| Web Trap | Periodic | Traps target locations in cobwebs that automatically dissolve after 4 seconds (80 ticks). |
| Vortex Pull | Periodic | Pulls all nearby players towards the boss with reverse velocity and applies damage. |
| Velocity Reversal | Periodic | Reverses player movement trajectories unexpectedly. |
| Scatter Blast | Periodic | Detonates multiple cluster explosions in radius without terrain destruction. |
| Regeneration | Periodic | Restores health to the boss accompanied by heart particles. |
| Freeze Zone | Periodic | Creates an AOE slowness aura freezing nearby entities. |
| Toxic Fog | Periodic | Spawns a noxious cloud applying poison over time. |
| Heat Wave | Periodic | Ignites surrounding players for a set duration. |
| Zeus Strike | Periodic | Summons targeted lightning strikes upon players. |
| Teleport Swap | Periodic | Swaps physical positions between the boss and a target player. |
| Power Wave | Periodic | Radial shockwave dealing knockback and equipment durability damage. |
| Soul Mark | Periodic | Marks a player with red particles; detonates for heavy true damage if they fail to escape in time. |
| Earthquake | Periodic | Shakes the ground, launching nearby players upward with block particles. |
| Freeze Attack | On Attack | Melee hits inflict slowness and freezing ticks. |
| Toss Attack | On Attack | Melee strikes toss players into the air. |
| Life Steal | On Attack | Siphons health from victims to the boss. |
| Witchcraft Attack | On Attack | Inflicts blindness and weakness curses. |
| Execute Threshold | On Attack | Instantly slays targets whose health drops below the configured threshold %. |
| Target Cleanse | On Attack | Strips all positive potion effects from the victim. |
| Thorns Armor | On Damaged | Reflects damage back to close-range attackers within 4 blocks. |
| Quick Buff | On Damaged | Applies Speed and Resistance buffs to the boss upon taking damage. |
| Counter Hit | On Damaged | Reflects a percentage of incoming damage directly back to the attacker. |
| Self Cleanse | On Damaged | Purges all negative potion effects from the boss. |
| Phoenix Immortal | On Death | Chance to resurrect with full health and a fiery explosion. |
| Shadow Clones | On Death | Duplicates into clone minions upon death. |
| Minion Spawner | On Death | Summons a horde of minion bosses to avenge their master. |
| Last Effect | On Death | Afflicts the killer with a fatal wither/slowness curse. |
| Death Explosion | On Death | Spawns primed TNT at the death site. |
| Fatal Curse | On Death | Striking death blow: instantly eliminates the killer! |
| Command | Aliases | Permission | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
/custombosses menu |
/cb menu, /cb gui |
custombosses.menu |
Opens the full in-game GUI Control Panel. |
/custombosses spawn <id> [world x y z] |
/cb spawn |
custombosses.spawn |
Spawns a custom boss at your location or target coordinates. |
/custombosses spawnegg <id> [player] [qty] |
/cb giveegg |
custombosses.egg |
Gives a boss spawn egg. |
/custombosses wand |
/cb wand |
custombosses.wand |
Receives the admin selection wand. |
/custombosses altar create <id> <boss_id> |
/cb altar |
custombosses.altar |
Creates an altar at the block you are looking at. |
/custombosses altar remove <id> |
/cb altar |
custombosses.altar |
Removes an altar and its hologram. |
/custombosses spawner create region <id> <boss_id> |
/cb spawner |
custombosses.spawner |
Creates a region spawner using current wand selection. |
/custombosses spawner remove <id> |
/cb spawner |
custombosses.spawner |
Deletes a spawner. |
/custombosses killall [boss_id] |
/cb killall |
custombosses.kill |
Removes all active bosses across all worlds. |
/custombosses list |
/cb list |
custombosses.list |
Lists all registered boss templates. |
/custombosses reload |
/cb reload |
custombosses.reload |
Reloads all configuration files and altars. |
| Placeholder | Output |
|---|---|
%custombosses_active% |
Total number of currently active bosses across all worlds |
%custombosses_total% |
Total number of registered boss profiles loaded |
%custombosses_boss_active_<boss_id>% |
Number of living instances of <boss_id> |
%custombosses_boss_health_<boss_id>% |
Current health of the active instance of <boss_id> |
- Download
CustomBosses-1.0.0.jarfrom Releases. - Place the JAR into your server's
plugins/directory. - Start the server (Requires Java 21+ and Paper/Spigot 1.21.11 to 26.3).
- Run
/cb menuin-game to start customizing bosses immediately!
- Developed and rewritten by Lino (
https://github.com/lino9999). - Licensed under the open-source MIT License.