Minecraft, but Kills Level You Up

Every kill is a paycheque. Chickens and cows are worth a level, zombies and skeletons two, blazes and wither skeletons four, evokers and ravagers eight. The Warden pays 50, the Wither 40, the Ender Dragon 60. Chain kills within eight seconds to build a streak worth up to five bonus levels on top of every payout. Your XP bar then doubles as a power meter: hunter ranks unlock at 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 levels and hand out hearts, resistance and strength. Every level you spend at an enchanting table is power you hand straight back, so the whole game becomes a running argument with yourself about when to cash out.

Built for Java Edition 26.3 only. Older versions read loot tables, predicates and advancements in a different format, so they list the pack as made for a newer version, and it will not work there.

How it works

• Eight self-revoking advancements listen on minecraft:player_killed_entity, one per danger tier, and each reward function revokes itself on its first line so the trigger re-arms instantly.
• Mobs are sorted by four entity_type tags covering 81 mobs, plus dedicated advancements for the Warden, the Wither, the Ender Dragon and PvP kills.
• Payouts are 1 / 2 / 4 / 8 levels by tier, 10 for a player, and 40 to 60 for a boss, handed over with experience add and announced in the action bar.
• A per-player decay timer in the tick loop keeps a streak alive for 8 seconds; every 5 chained kills adds +1 bonus level to each payout, capped at +5.
• Hunter ranks read your live XP level once a second and grant Health Boost, Resistance and Strength at 20/40/60/80/100 levels, so spending levels costs you the perks.
• A deathCount objective catches every respawn and re-applies your rank, and /trigger bkl_stats prints a hunter card with kills, levels earned and best streak.

Installing it

1. 1.Download the zip below. Do not unzip it — Minecraft reads the zip directly.
2. 2.In Minecraft, click your world, then Edit, then Open World Folder.
3. 3.Drop the zip into the datapacks folder inside that world.
4. 4.Load the world. Run /datapack list to confirm it is enabled.

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Written by MineSpecs and released under CC0 — public domain. Use it, change it, ship it in a modpack, no attribution required. Pairs well with our mods, shaders and resource packs.