Adventure
Bosses
Nytheria has around 40 bosses with their own boss bar from ten mods, plus 15 mini-bosses. See the full list with HP and location, how fights start, and the Boss Ultimatum rule.
Nytheria has around 40 bosses with their own boss bar from ten mods, plus 15 mini-bosses. This page is the overview: who they are, where they live, how much health they have and which quest chapter (if any) asks for them. Each group of bosses has its own page with the fights in detail.
Overview#
The wiki counts bosses by one mechanical rule: a boss is an entity that shows a boss bar to nearby players. That gives exactly 40 bosses, called tier A on this page. The 15 mini-bosses (tier B) are named, single-spawn guardians that have no boss bar but that the pack or their mod treats as a boss. Together that is 55 entities. "Mini-boss" is this wiki's own label for tier B, not a term from the mods.
Tier B uses four signals: the entity sits in a boss list of the pack (Player Difficulty, Artifacts Remastered or Boss Ultimatum), a quest asks you to kill it or collect its drop, it is a boss-tagged trial-spawner mob of 
Dungeons and Taverns, or it lives in Cataclysm's boss code package without a bar. Plain high-health mobs are not counted. Examples are the Astral Dimension's Amethyst Knight and Cataclysm's Wadjet.
Two of the 40 cannot be met in normal play. The Solar Creeper (Eternal Starlight) and the Void Shadow (AdventureZ) have no natural spawn that anyone found; only a spawn egg or a command brings them out. The other 38 have a way to meet them.
The count per mod is below. The ten sources are vanilla Minecraft and nine mods.
| Source | Tier A (boss bar) | Tier B (mini-boss) |
|---|---|---|
| L_Ender's Cataclysm (via Sporran) | 8 | 3 |
| The Twilight Forest | 8 | 0 |
| Astral Dimension (via Sporran) | 6 | 0 |
| Bosses of Mass Destruction | 4 | 0 |
| Eternal Starlight | 4 | 1 |
| The Aether | 3 | 0 |
| AdventureZ | 3 | 2 |
| Vanilla Minecraft | 2 | 2 |
| Deeper and Darker | 1 | 0 |
| Illager Invasion | 1 | 0 |
| Friends and Foes | 0 | 1 |
| Dungeons and Taverns | 0 | 6 |
| Total | 40 | 15 |
The mods behind it#
L_Ender's CataclysmAdds eight tough bosses with their own structures and gear across the Overworld, Nether and End. It runs through the Sporran compatibility layer.
The Twilight ForestAdds the Twilight Forest, a dimension of enchanted woodland with 22 biomes, 21 structures and 8 bosses, entered through a flower-ringed pool of water.
Astral DimensionAdds two magical dimensions, the Astral Dimension and Setback, with 18 biomes, 35 structures and bosses such as the Void Titan. It runs through the Sporran compatibility layer.
Bosses of Mass DestructionAdds four big bosses with their own arenas: the Night Lich, the Nether Gauntlet, the Obsidilith and the Void Blossom.
Eternal StarlightAdds Eternal Starlight, a dimension in permanent dusk with its own biomes, bosses, materials and gear, reached through the Portal Ruins.
The AetherAdds the Aether, a dimension of floating islands with its own materials, moas, accessories, three dungeons and three bosses.
AdventureZAdds around two dozen new creatures to all three dimensions, including bosses like the Blackstone Golem and The Eye, a rideable dragon and new gear.
Deeper and DarkerExpands the Deep Dark with new blocks, sculk creatures, Warden gear and the Otherside, a dark dimension reached through Ancient City portals.
Illager InvasionAdds new illagers, illager structures in several biomes, the Imbuing Table, and new items such as the Lost Candle and the Horn of Sight.
Friends&Foes (Fabric/Quilt)Adds mobs from past Minecraft mob votes, such as the Copper Golem, Glare, Moobloom, Tuff Golem, Iceologer and Wildfire.
Dungeons and TavernsAdds vanilla-style structures such as taverns, firewatch towers, illager hideouts, Nether keeps and End castles, plus new enchantments.
Boss Ultimatum (Modpack Utils Series)Bosses that keep killing players heal back up: from the third player kill on, each kill resets the boss to half health, so throwing yourself at a boss does not work.
L_Ender's Cataclysm and the Astral Dimension are NeoForge mods. They run on Fabric through 
Sporran, Navrelis's fork of Kilt, made by the Sporran Team. The Twilight Forest is a native Fabric port and does not use Sporran.
All bosses with a boss bar#
Sorted by source, then roughly by where you meet them. HP is "config" where the pack sets the number in a config file, "code" where it is the mod's built-in default (read from the mod, not from play), and "vanilla" for Minecraft's own values. The Ender Dragon's 600 HP is set by the pack's own data pack. The last column is the quest chapter that asks for the boss; "-" means no chapter does.
| Boss | Source | Where | HP | Quest chapter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ender Dragon | Vanilla | The End, main island | 600 (pack data pack) | The Far Shore |
| Wither | Vanilla | Summoned anywhere | 300 (vanilla) | Forge and Gauntlet |
| Night Lich | Bosses of Mass Destruction | Lich towers in cold Overworld biomes | 300 (config) | The City That Listens |
| Void Blossom | Bosses of Mass Destruction | Cave structure under many Overworld biomes | 350 (config) | The City That Listens |
| Nether Gauntlet | Bosses of Mass Destruction | Sealed blackstone arena in the Nether | 250 (config) | Forge and Gauntlet |
| Obsidilith | Bosses of Mass Destruction | Arena in the outer End | 300 (config) | Past the Last Island |
| Ignis | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Burning Arena, Nether wastes | 450 (code) | - |
| Netherite Monstrosity | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Soul Forge, Nether | 600 (code) | - |
| Ender Guardian | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Ruined Citadel, End | 333 (code) | - |
| The Harbinger | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Ancient Factory, underground | 390 (code) | - |
| The Leviathan | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Sunken City, deep ocean | 400 (code) | - |
| Ancient Remnant | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Cursed Pyramid, desert | 450 (code) | - |
| Maledictus | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Frosted Prison, snowy plains | 420 (code) | - |
| Scylla | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Acropolis, warm ocean | 390 (code) | - |
| Naga | The Twilight Forest | Naga Courtyard | 120 (code) | - |
| Twilight Lich | The Twilight Forest | Lich Tower | 100 (code) | - |
| Minoshroom | The Twilight Forest | Labyrinth, swamp | 120 (code) | - |
| Hydra | The Twilight Forest | Hydra Lair, fire swamp | 360 (code) | - |
| Knight Phantom | The Twilight Forest | Knight Stronghold, dark forest | 35 each (code) | - |
| Ur-Ghast | The Twilight Forest | Dark Tower | 250 (code) | - |
| Alpha Yeti | The Twilight Forest | Yeti Cave, snowy forest | 200 (code) | - |
| Snow Queen | The Twilight Forest | Aurora Palace, glacier | 200 (code) | - |
| Slider | The Aether | Bronze Dungeon | 400 (code) | Three Locked Dungeons |
| Valkyrie Queen | The Aether | Silver Dungeon | 500 (code) | Three Locked Dungeons |
| Sun Spirit | The Aether | Gold Dungeon | 500 (code) | Three Locked Dungeons |
| The Gatekeeper | Eternal Starlight | Portal Ruins | 175 (config) | The Gate That Waits |
| Starlight Golem | Eternal Starlight | Golem Forge | 200 (config) | Sky of a Million Stars |
| Lunar Monstrosity | Eternal Starlight | Not yet pinned down | 200 (config) | Sky of a Million Stars |
| Solar Creeper | Eternal Starlight | No natural spawn found | 250 (config) | - |
| Anomal | Astral Dimension | Astral Dimension | 600 (code) | - |
| Jailor | Astral Dimension | Astral Dimension | 640 (code) | - |
| Tower of Malice | Astral Dimension | Astral Dimension | 250 (code) | - |
| Void Giant | Astral Dimension | Astral Dimension | 750 (code) | - |
| Void Titan | Astral Dimension | Astral Dimension | 250 (code) | - |
| Void Visage | Astral Dimension | Astral Dimension | 450 (code) | - |
| Blackstone Golem | AdventureZ | Nether, ritual | 600 (code) | Forge and Gauntlet |
| The Eye | AdventureZ | The End, ritual | 800 (code) | Past the Last Island |
| Void Shadow | AdventureZ | No natural spawn found | 1,000 (code) | Past the Last Island |
| Stalker | Deeper and Darker | Ancient Temple, Otherside | 200 (code) | Below the Bedrock |
| Invoker | Illager Invasion | Illager Fort | 250 (code) | - |
The quest chapter column lists the chapter where a visible quest asks for the boss. It does not mean the boss is needed to finish that chapter. Details are under In the quest book.
All mini-bosses#
Mini-bosses have no boss bar, so you only notice them by their name and their drops.
| Mini-boss | Source | Where | HP | Quest chapter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warden | Vanilla | Ancient Cities | 500 (vanilla) | The City That Listens |
| Elder Guardian | Vanilla | Ocean monuments | vanilla | Sixteen Lanterns |
| Permafrost | Eternal Starlight | Golem Forge, permafrost room | 120 (config) | Sky of a Million Stars |
| Soul Reaper | AdventureZ | Soul sand valley | 120 (code) | - |
| Piglin Beast | AdventureZ | Nether, triggered while mining gold or killing piglins | 80 (code) | - |
| Wildfire | Friends and Foes | Citadel in Nether biomes | 120 (code) | - |
| Phantom boss | Dungeons and Taverns | End Castle | 200 (spawner data) | - |
| Shulker boss | Dungeons and Taverns | End Castle | 90 (spawner data) | - |
| Shulker mini boss | Dungeons and Taverns | End Castle | 60 (spawner data) | - |
| Breeze boss | Dungeons and Taverns | Lone Citadel | 150 (spawner data) | - |
| Cave spider boss | Dungeons and Taverns | Toxic Lair | 200 (spawner data) | - |
| Elder guardian boss | Dungeons and Taverns | Trident Trials Monument | 160 (spawner data) | - |
| Ender Golem | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Ruined Citadel | - | - |
| Amethyst Crab | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Sunken City, Altar of Amethyst | 200 (structure data) | - |
| Ignited Revenant | L_Ender's Cataclysm | Burning Arena | - | - |
The six Dungeons and Taverns bosses are ordinary vanilla mobs. The structure gives them extra scale and health. The Elder Guardian's 80 HP is Minecraft's own value, so the table leaves it as "vanilla".
Boss Ultimatum#
Boss Ultimatum (Modpack Utils Series) punishes throwing yourself at the same boss again and again. It covers 15 bosses: the four Bosses of Mass Destruction bosses, the Ender Dragon, the Wither, the three Aether bosses, The Eye, the Blackstone Golem, the Soul Reaper, the Piglin Beast, the Stalker and the Invoker. It does not cover Cataclysm, the Twilight Forest, the Astral Dimension, Eternal Starlight, the Void Shadow, the Warden or the Elder Guardian.
Only kills the boss makes itself count (direct_kill). Falling, lava or other mobs do not add to the counter, and each boss counts for itself.
- From the third player it kills, every further player death restores the boss to half (50 %) of its maximum health. A second entry in the config applies the same rule on Hard difficulty.
- The Ender Dragon works differently: from the second player it kills, every further player death heals it by a flat 120 HP.
Getting ready#
Most boss fights are decided before they start. A few pack-wide systems matter for every boss.
- Fight difficulty is personal.
Player Difficulty scales monsters per player. At the cap, bosses get half of each effect: 1.75 times tougher and 1.5 times damage. The Ender Dragon is not scaled. See Difficulty and player scaling. - Armor survives a bad hit.
Armor Damage Limit stops one hit from removing more than 20 % of an armor piece's maximum durability. - A totem can sit in an accessory slot.
Charm of Undying (Fabric/Forge/Quilt) lets a Totem of Undying work from the charm slot instead of your hand. - Boss bars look different. The Enhanced Boss Bars resource pack (
Enhanced Boss Bars) is enabled by default. - Ability keys share one key. Cataclysm and Twilight Forest armour and items use H in the default pack, through the Polybind wheel. See Controls.
Dying is not the end. Your items wait in a grave at the place you died. See Death, graves and respawning.
In the quest book#
The quest book asks for some bosses and ignores others. Cataclysm, the Twilight Forest and the Astral Dimension have no quests at all. Their fights are optional challenges that the pack does not track.
Chapters that ask for bosses:
- The City That Listens asks for the Night Lich, the Void Blossom and the Warden. See Part 4: The Deep.
- Forge and Gauntlet asks for the Wither, the Blackstone Golem and the Gauntlet. See Part 5: The Burning Road.
- Three Locked Dungeons asks for the Slider, the Valkyrie Queen and the Sun Spirit. See Part 6: The Sky Above.
- Below the Bedrock asks for the Stalker. See Part 7: The Listening Dark.
- The Far Shore asks for the Ender Dragon, and Past the Last Island for the Obsidilith, The Eye and the Void Shadow. See Part 8: The Far Shore.
- The Gate That Waits asks for the Gatekeeper. Sky of a Million Stars asks for the Starlight Golem, the Lunar Monstrosity and Permafrost. See Part 9: The Stars.
Titans of Nytheria is a side chapter you can open any time after the first gate. It holds 16 optional "Too ..." quests, each asking for one boss drop and paying 4 XP levels. The capstone, An Honest List, needs only one of them. See Part 10: The Last Fires.
Pages in this topic#
- Bosses of Mass Destruction - Night Lich, Void Blossom, Nether Gauntlet and Obsidilith.
- L_Ender's Cataclysm bosses - eight bosses and three mini-bosses, via Sporran.
- Twilight Forest bosses - the eight-boss ladder through the Twilight Forest.
- Other bosses and mini-bosses - Wither, Warden, AdventureZ, Invoker, Stalker and the spawner bosses.
- The End portal and the 16 eyes - how to open the way to the End.
- The Ender Dragon - the pack's rebuilt dragon fight.
See also#
- Dimensions - where each boss realm sits.
- The Aether, Eternal Starlight and the Otherside - realms with bosses described in full.
- Astral Dimension and Setback - the six Astral bosses.
- Structures and dungeons - the places that hold the arenas.
- Mobs and creatures - everything that is not a boss.
- FAQ - quick answers about boss numbers.