Adrian, 2026-11-03: guardians get a boss health bar like the Wither's, which
also leads players to them. Every player within 128 blocks of a living
guardian sees a red bar of their own (GuardianBars): name, zone, how many
blocks away, and HP. The End boss keeps the dragon's bar.
guardian_appears_and_returns checks the bar appears and goes once beaten.
Self-tests and the island check pass.
Phase 7 approved ("Then begin with the next phase"); README status updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Phase 7 – checks for Adrian
Decided
2026-11-02: every zone guardian gets area attacks, more and harder in harder zones; the Basalt Furnace and the End get bosses; dying or leaving the arena loses the fight; area attacks hit only the player. Then: the Deep Dark gets a legendary, and every guardian should fit its zone. Groudon, Giratina and Meloetta have no model in Cobblemon 1.8.4, so Moltres, Eternatus and Regigigas stand in. Details: docs/design.md → "Phase 7".
Built so far
- Guardians reviewed: Mudsdale (Highland Meadows), Flygon (Sunscorch), Abomasnow (Frostpeak), Regigigas (Deep Dark), and Moltres for the Basalt Furnace, which had none. Morpeko, Pinsir, Scyther, Tangrowth, Swampert and Kingdra stay. Automated:
bosses_cover_every_guardian(also checks Cobblemon has a model for each). - Boss fights: a battle with a guardian (or the End boss) becomes a fight with area attacks: red or coloured particles on the ground show where an attack lands, about 1.5–2.5 seconds later it hits whoever stands inside. Circles, lines, cones and rings; harder zones get more of them. Fire, Ice and Poison bosses burn, freeze or poison. Automated:
boss_attack_shapes,boss_attacks_land_and_stop_with_the_battle. - Arena: leaving it (24 blocks; Basalt 32; End 40) or dying ends the battle as lost; the boss heals and stays. Automated:
boss_arena_leaving_loses. - The End: the Ender Dragon is gone; Eternatus appears on the main island, with the dragon's boss bar; beating it opens the exit portal and gateway, leaves the egg the first time and gives experience. Automated:
end_boss_replaces_the_dragon. - Big and tough bosses (Adrian, 2026-11-02): guardians stand about 8 blocks tall, Eternatus 15. Only HP, Defense and Sp. Def are raised (training, and the Guardian's Ward in battle doubles Defense and Sp. Def); no single attack takes more than a quarter of their HP. Guardians already in your world grow on the next check. Automated:
practice_bosses_spawn,boss_takes_a_quarter_per_attack. - Guardian boss bars (Adrian, 2026-11-03): within 128 blocks of a guardian you see a red bar like the Wither's: its name, its zone, how many blocks away it is (which leads you to it) and its HP. Automated in
guardian_appears_and_returns. - End spawns: the End is a zone (Lv 50–70) with Cobblemon's End lines: Beheeyem, Reuniclus, Metagross; Gothitelle and Sigilyph in End cities; Malamar and Unown with a Poké Snack. Automated:
end_has_spawns.
In game (Prism instance)
On the island save (or a new one), in creative or survival:
- Fight the Button Isle guardian (Morpeko,
/cobblesurvival guardianslists where they stand): red circles appear under you every few seconds; step out before they land. Close the battle screen to move (Cobblemon's own key), then go back to it. - Fight a later guardian (e.g. Flygon in Sunscorch or Swampert in the Mire): lines and cones from the boss as well.
- Walk more than 24 blocks away from a guardian during its fight: the battle ends as lost, and the guardian is at full HP again.
- Leave the End and come back without beating Eternatus: still only one (fixed 2026-11-02).
- Go to the End: no dragon; Eternatus stands south of the portal, the boss bar shows its HP. Beat it: the exit portal opens, the egg appears.
- Find Regigigas in a Deep Dark cave and Moltres in the Basalt Furnace.
- Go to the End: Eternatus is huge now (15 blocks). Fight it: no attack takes more than a quarter of its HP bar, even a super-effective one; it needs at least four hits. Its attacks are as strong as before.
- Visit a guardian (
/cobblesurvival boss <zone>spawns a practice copy next to you): about 8 blocks tall; Regigigas and Moltres stand in caves with room above them. - Walk towards a guardian's zone: within 128 blocks a red bar appears at the top ("Pinsir, guardian of Southwold (84 blocks away)"); the number drops as you get closer. In the fight the bar shows its HP; once it's beaten the bar goes.
- Walk around the End's islands for a minute: Beheeyem, Reuniclus and now and then Metagross appear, Lv 50–70 (
/cobblesurvival zoneshows "The End").
Ask Adrian
Phase 7 approved 2026-11-03 ("guardians should have a boss healthbar, like a wither … Then begin with the next phase"; the bar was built first).
- Do the attacks feel dodgeable but dangerous? All numbers are placeholders (
docs/balance.md). - Swap Moltres → Groudon, Eternatus → Giratina, Regigigas → Meloetta when Cobblemon adds their models? (one word each in
world/zones.json/tools/zone_bosses.py)