Yet another solo leveling inspired mod
Me with a shadow evoker
Updated UI
Shadow Ignivorous from Saint's Dragons by SaintVanWinkle
Shadow spinosaurus from Raxiores Of Raxiore by The_Raxiores
Shadow Ice Spider from Iron´s spellbooks
ShadowsZ brings the iconic necromancy of the Shadow Monarch from Solo Leveling straight into Minecraft — raise the fallen, command an army of shadows, and bend every mob you defeat into a soldier that fights for you.
As a fan of compatibility and flexibility, this mod is highly configurable: tweak max shadow count, arising difficulty, cooldowns, entity blacklists, progression, and much more. Every major system below can be switched on or off in the config, so you can play anything from a pure shadow-army sandbox to a full RPG progression run.
Shortly after joining a world, the shadows will offer you their power, accept it and the army is yours; reject it and nothing works. Until you're attuned, every shadow keybind, menu and spell stays silent.
Server owners can lock this down entirely with the shadowszRestrictPowers gamerule (see Server Tools below).
Press N to reveal the shadows of fallen entities nearby. Shift + right-click a shadow to attempt Shadow Arising:you get 3 chances to succeed. Fail all three and the shadow vanishes forever. Wild shadows despawn after 5 minutes if unclaimed.
Arising chance is calculated from the entity's max HP and your current Mana — more Mana means better odds, higher HP means a harder conversion. Fully tweakable via config.
Press B to open your army. It's a two-panel interface: a searchable roster on the left, and a detail page on the right with a live rotating 3D model of the selected shadow. From here you can:
Press Y for a shared inventory that works like an ender chest. Any loot your shadows collect is funneled straight here, so an aggressive shadow parked in a farm becomes a fully automatic item collector.
Shadows force-load their own chunks, so they keep working even when you walk away.
Shadows earn XP from kills and level up, granting points you invest in Health, Speed, Damage or Armor. Two optional systems build on top:
Enable progressMode to level the player as well. XP comes from your own kills and your shadows' kills, and every level raises how many shadows you can field at once and how many you can store.
Your level earns you a title, each granting real Iron's Spellbooks attribute bonuses:
| Title | Level | Bonuses |
|---|---|---|
| Necromancer | 1–25 | +5% Umbral spell power |
| Shadow Overlord | 26–74 | +15% spell power, +5% mana regen, +100 max mana |
| Shadow Monarch | 75+ | +25% spell power, +15% mana regen, +300 max mana |
Reach Shadow Monarch and your shadows turn from blue to deep violet, and every shadow near you gains a permanent health and armor aura.
ShadowsZ adds its own Umbral magic school to Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, with its own spell power and resistance attributes:
Form runtime teams with other players. Invite from the menu, accept with a click in chat, and party members, along with all their shadows and pets; become permanent allies who can never damage each other.
/gamerule shadowszRestrictPowers true — only operators may take the power of the shadows. Enforced server-side, so a modified client can't grant itself the power./shadowsz grant <players> — give the power of shadows./shadowsz revoke <players> — take it back. Their army is safely recalled and their roster kept intact./shadowsz levelplayer <n> and /shadowsz levelshadows <n> — grant levels for testing or events.Requires — Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
✅ Compatible with most modded entities, with dedicated support built in for:
Every compat layer is optional, none of these mods are required, and ShadowsZ runs fine without them.
Nearly everything is tunable: max simultaneous and stored shadows, arising base chance and scaling, mana difficulty and cost, shadow base strength, attack-order range, teleport cooldown, Monarch aura strength and radius, XP curves, entity blacklists, protected-entity lists, the black shadow texture, and the on/off switches for leveling, fusion, equipment and Progress Mode.