Skills

What are Skills?

Skills are special abilities that make your bosses dynamic and engaging. Each Boss can have unlimited skills with customizable activation delays.

Available Skills

Below is a comprehensive list of available skills that can be assigned to bosses:

🏹 Arrow

• Description: Surprises the player by shooting an arrow at them
• Features:
  • Can be configured with custom potion effects
  • Works with any mob type, not just skeletons

💣 Bomb

• Description: Spawns TNT above the player
• Features:
  • Customizable height and fuse duration
  • Option to disable block destruction for safety

😵 Confuse

• Description: Disorients the player with blindness and random rotation
• Features:
  • Customizable potion effect duration and intensity
  • Creates challenging combat scenarios

🔫 Disarm

• Description: Forces the player to drop their currently held item
• Features:
  • Creates tactical combat situations
  • Makes players improvise during fights

🌀 Enderman

• Description: Boss teleports to a random player's location
• Features:
  • Configurable search radius for potential targets
  • Creates surprising encounters

☄️ Fireball

• Description: Launches a ghast-like fireball at the player
• Features:
  • Adjustable explosion power
  • Option to disable block destruction

❄️ Freeze

• Description: Temporarily prevents player movement
• Features:
  • Customizable duration
  • Server-friendly implementation (no lag)

⚡ Lightning

• Description: Strikes the player with lightning from the sky
• Features:
  • Visual and sound effects
  • Causes fire and damage

👥 Minions

• Description: Boss spawns reinforcement mobs to assist in combat
• Features:
  • Configurable minion types and amounts
  • Creates more complex combat scenarios

💉 Steal Life

• Description: Boss absorbs a portion of the player's health
• Features:
  • Self-healing mechanism for bosses
  • Makes prolonged fights increasingly difficult

🧲 Teleport

• Description: Pulls distant players closer to the boss
• Features:
  • Adjustable radius and number of affected players
  • Prevents players from staying at a safe distance

🚀 Throw

• Description: Launches the player into the air
• Features:
  • Customizable launch power
  • Creates opportunities for fall damage

💊 Potions

• Description: Applies potion effects to the targeted player
• Features:
  • Configure multiple potion effects via the GUI menu
  • Customize type, duration, and amplifier for each effect
  • Overrides existing effects of the same type

🔥 Ignite

• Description: Sets the targeted player on fire for a configurable duration
• Features:
  • Adjustable burn duration (1 second to 3 minutes)
  • Standard Minecraft fire damage mechanics apply

🖥️ Commands

• Description: Run custom console commands at intervals without a target player
• Features:
  • No target player context — cannot use {player} variable
  • Commands run from the server console
  • Useful for global effects or broadcasts

🎯 Commands Target

• Description: Run custom commands for the player the Boss is currently targeting
• Features:
  • Full player context — {player} variable and tell commands work
  • Commands can run as console or as the player

📡 Commands Nearby

• Description: Run custom commands for all nearby players within a radius
• Features:
  • Configurable radius (1-50 blocks)
  • Max players limit (-1 for all nearby players)
  • Players sorted by distance, closest first

Advanced Configuration

Each skill can be individually configured with its own activation delay, effects, and parameters. See the configuration file for detailed options.

Extending With Custom Skills

Developer API

You can create custom skills with our API. See the Developer API page.