The Village Fights Back

## After years of being destroyed by your infection mods, the villagers decided to build their own.

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The Village Fights Back turns ordinary villages into self-organizing strongholds. At the heart of every village sits the Village Brain Node, an AI that spends the village's emeralds to arm its people, raise walls, and evolve its defenders across 4 stages, until the village can strike back at whatever threatens it, players included.

Built to stand against the harshest infection mods, the village answers with its own: a contagious counter-infection, 12 weapons, 17 new creatures (two of them bosses), 3 potions, 17 structures it raises by itself, and a whole new dimension to chase the fight into.

## The Village Brain Node

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Every village gets a Village Brain Node, a block that appears in place of the village bell at the heart of the settlement and runs the whole defense. It keeps a per-village economy: the emeralds the village earns, and the ones you donate, fund everything it does.

It evolves through 4 stages. Each stage it reaches arms and upgrades the village's villagers, guards, and iron golems with stronger gear and new abilities. Let it grow on its own over time, or feed it emeralds to push it through the stages faster.

It thinks for itself. The Brain reads the state of the village and reacts: it sends out settlers, raises walls, and builds specific structures such as golem factories, barracks, and lure towers when the situation calls for them, spending emeralds as it goes. Right-click it to open its screen anytime, showing the current stage, stored emeralds, and live villager, guard, and golem counts. A Logs tab lists the last actions the Brain took, with the day each one happened.

Where you stand with the village. The Brain keeps a reputation score for you, and everything it decides about you comes from that number. Trade, fight its enemies, and feed it emeralds to raise it; hit its people, rob its chests, or mine its metal to lower it. Reach 100 and you are a Hero of the Village; fall to -100 and every defender attacks you on sight. The score is shown in the node's screen, on the same row as its organic mass, and a Reputation tab lists the last changes and their causes. See the reputation section below for the full picture.

It protects its own. At sunset the village calls in reinforcements scaled to the Brain's current stage, and an immunity aura radiates from the node over the village's villagers, guards, and golems.

## Choose your difficulty mode

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When you enter the world, you can choose between 4 difficulty modes. Each one decides where your reputation starts and how far it is allowed to move: 1. Peaceful: you start at 200 reputation, so you are already a Hero of the Village, and your score can never fall below 0. The village will never turn on you, even if you hit a villager by accident. 2. Neutral: you start at 0, with no limit in either direction. The default behavior described above: be nice with the village and it will be nice to you. 3. Hostile: you start at -300 and your score can never rise above -100, so you are permanently an Enemy of the Village, whatever you do. 4. Nightmare: you start at -1000000 and can never rise above -500, so the village sends raiders to hunt you down every night, for good. They know exactly where you are, and can dig through blocks to reach you.

## Armed defenders and the arsenal

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The village does not run. Every villager fights, the guards carry heavier weapons, and the iron golems wield rocket launchers. They hold their ground against any hostile mob, and because targeting keys off Minecraft's own "hostile" tag, monsters from other mods are handled automatically, with no special support needed.

They fight as a unit. Defenders are immune to friendly fire and never hurt one another, and the golems only loose a rocket when no ally stands near the target, so the blast never catches their own. Golems brawl up close, launch themselves skyward on a wind charge, and fire from the top of the arc. Strike a defender yourself and it turns on you briefly before calming down, and you can read the mood on its face: a de