Villagers
The desperate alliance of villagers and illagers protecting their home. Ingenuity and illager militarism make a formidable army of warriors and spellcasters, backed by farmers, builders and craftsmen.
Reign of Nether — RTS in Minecraft
Minecraft reimagined as a real-time strategy game. Build your base, gather resources, train your army and fight epic battles across three factions and four game modes.
1M+ downloads Forge 1.20.1 Client + Server GPL-3.0-only
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The mod
Minecraft as an RTS
Three factions, four game modes, single player or multiplayer. Everything you see is built from vanilla Minecraft blocks, mobs and models.
Three factions
Choose your side
Each faction has its own mechanics and style. Pick the one that fits how you like to fight.
Monsters
The wild creatures of the overworld, brought together by mysterious forces. Raise the dead from graveyards, hatch spiders from nests. They shun sunlight — but once night falls, they should be feared.
Piglins
Denizens of the nether who came through the portals to expand their empire. Piglins build only on nether terrain, so wherever they expand, grass becomes nylium and stone becomes netherrack.
Four game modes
How you play
Every mode runs on the same RTS camera and controls. Pick one to see how it works.
Classic
The classic RTS experience in FFA or teams. Destroy all of your opponents’ buildings to win. On a map with a capturable beacon it becomes King of the Beacon instead: take the beacon, upgrade it and defend it.
- Setup
- FFA or teams
- Win condition
- Destroy every enemy building
Wave Survival
Survive increasingly difficult nights, solo or with allies, at the difficulty you pick before the match starts.
- Setup
- Solo or co-op
- Win condition
- Fully upgrade and defend a beacon
Sandbox
Build a custom map by freely placing units and buildings, including neutral ones. Enables cheats.
- Setup
- Solo, no rules
- Win condition
- None — build freely
Scenario
A map built in Sandbox and published with its own roles, starting positions and win conditions. Pick a role and play the match its maker designed.
- Setup
- Solo or co-op
- Win condition
- Set by the map
Official network
Where everyone plays
The official server is where the mod gets played. Start a private lobby for you and your friends, or join a game that is already filling up. Nothing to set up, nothing to host yourself.
Network online 1 online
play.reignofnether.net
192
Total players
1,097
Games played
316
Hours played
Servers by
Public and private lobbies
Make a private lobby, invite your friends and pick the map, or drop into a public one that is already filling up.
Matchmaking
Or queue up and let the server put you in a game with whoever else is looking.
Spectating
Watch a match you are not playing in, from any angle the RTS camera can reach.
Every official map
The whole map pack is already loaded, so nobody has to download anything first.
Coming later
Ranked ladder
Ranked queues, per-faction ratings and match history are still being built. Casual games on the network come first.
Community
Step through to the Discord
Find opponents, share maps, report bugs and follow development. The Discord is where matches get organised and where the mod's next version takes shape.
- Matchmaking & scrims
- Map releases
- Bug reports
Get the mod
Install in three steps
Forge 1.20.1, one jar, one keypress. Works the same for single player and for joining the network.
Step 01
Install Forge 1.20.1
Run the official Minecraft Forge installer once to add the Forge 1.20.1 profile to your launcher.
Get the Forge installer →
Step 02
Drop in the mod jar
Download the mod from Modrinth or CurseForge and move the .jar into your mods folder.
%appdata%\.minecraft\mods
~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/mods
~/.minecraft/mods
Step 03
Launch and take command
Start Minecraft on the Forge 1.20.1 profile, join a world, then switch into the RTS camera.
F12 Toggle RTS camera
Official map pack
Competitive maps for 2 to 6 players, made for Classic PvP matches.
Hosting your own?
Recommended server.properties for a dedicated server.
view-distance=25
spawn-monsters=false
spawn-npcs=false
spawn-protection=0
gamemode=spectator