Overlord Mod Wiki

The Overlord mod transforms the player into a commander of the undead. Unlike standard summoned mobs, the skeletons in this mod are permanent, customizable, and feature a deep progression system. Players can create various types of skeletons, equip them with armor and weapons, level them up using milk, and issue complex AI commands.

Key features include:

• Persistent Army: Skeletons do not despawn and can be assigned to squads.
• Leveling System: Skeletons gain experience through combat or by consuming milk, increasing their health and damage.
• AI Control: Fine-tune movement and attack behaviors for individuals or entire groups.
• Customization: Apply 'Skinsuits' to protect them from sunlight or 'Muscles' to boost physical stats.

In modern versions (1.18.2 and 1.19.2), the process of raising a skeleton involves a ritual using a Casket and a Grave Marker rather than a single block interface.

The Ritual Process

1. Prepare the Site: Dig a 2x2 area in the ground.
2. Place the Casket: Craft a Casket and place it inside the 2x2 hole.
3. Set the Marker: Place a Grave Marker on top of the Casket. Ensure the grave has a clear view of the sky.
4. Add Ingredients: Right-click the Casket to add the necessary materials:
   • 64 Bones: The physical framework.
   • 2 Milk Buckets: To strengthen the bone structure.
   • Equipment: Any armor or weapons you want the skeleton to spawn with.
5. The Awakening: The skeleton will spawn automatically at Midnight (in-game time). To speed up the growth of a newly spawned skeleton, feed it additional milk.

The Overlord's Seal

Before your skeletons will obey you, you must craft an Overlord's Seal.

• Claiming: Hold the Seal and right-click. It will begin to glow, indicating it is bound to you.
• Usage: Any skeleton created while a bound Seal is in the Casket (or used on them) will recognize you as their master.

There are three primary types of skeletons you can command, each with distinct roles and stats.

Converted Skeletons

To obtain a Converted Skeleton, you must follow a process similar to curing a Zombie Villager:

1. Trap a standard vanilla Skeleton.
2. Splash it with a Potion of Weakness.
3. Feed it a Golden Apple.
4. Once cured, it will become a loyal (though non-leveling) soldier in your army.

Essential Tools

• Overlord's Seal: The primary control item. It has unlimited uses and allows you to access the army's global AI settings.
• Overlord's Stamp: A cheaper, single-use version of the Seal used to claim individual skeletons.
• Orders Wand: Used to issue commands to all nearby skeletons simultaneously. Right-click to open the mass-command GUI.
• Squad Editor: A book used to organize your skeletons into up to five distinct squads for easier management.

Consumables

• Milk Bottle: Crafted by right-clicking a cow with a glass bottle. Used to heal skeletons (Shift+Right-click) or level them up via their inventory.
• Skinsuit: Crafted from leather or phantom membranes. Applying this to a skeleton prevents them from burning in sunlight and gives them a human-like appearance.
• Muscles: Crafted from raw meat. Increases a skeleton's attack power, speed, and toughness.

AI Modes

Each skeleton (or squad) can be configured with specific movement and combat behaviors via the Overlord's Seal or Orders Wand.

Movement Modes:

• Stationary: The skeleton stays exactly where it is placed.
• Follow: The skeleton follows the player like a pet wolf.
• Wander: The skeleton moves freely within a 32-block radius of the location where the command was issued.

Attack Modes:

• Aggressive: Attacks any hostile mobs or players not in an alliance.
• Defensive: Only attacks entities that strike it or its master.
• Passive: Will not attack under any circumstances.

Leveling and Healing

Skeletons gain experience by killing mobs. However, the most efficient way to power them up is through Milk.

• Leveling: Place Milk Buckets or Milk Bottles in the skeleton's inventory. They will consume them to gain XP. Higher levels require significantly more milk.
• Healing: Skeletons do not regenerate health naturally. You must manually heal them by throwing Milk Bottles at them or Shift-right-clicking them with milk.

Augments

By placing specific blocks in the 'Augment' slot of a Skeleton Warrior's inventory, you can grant them special properties:

• Coal Block: 95% Fire Resistance.
• Obsidian: Resistance and Fire Resistance, but grants Slowness.
• Glass: 75% Magic Resistance, but increases damage taken from explosions and projectiles by 50%.
• Iron Ingot: Standard Resistance buff.

Most recipes in the Overlord mod utilize vanilla materials like bones, iron, and gold.

(Note: Recipes may vary slightly depending on the specific sub-version of 1.18.2 or 1.19.2 installed; use JEI/REI for real-time verification.)

The mod includes a built-in alliance system to prevent your skeletons from attacking your friends.

• /alliance create [name] - Creates a new alliance group.
• /alliance invite [player] - Invites another player to your alliance.
• /alliance accept [name] - Joins an alliance you were invited to.
• /alliance list - Shows all current members of your alliance.

Members of the same alliance will be ignored by each other's skeletons, allowing for massive co-op undead armies.