Overview

Kits are essential in Creature Combat. Choosing a kit was one of the most important inspirations for creating the map. Through the years, many kits have been added, changed and removed. Out of all kits available in V1, seven are left in the most recent release. The last time kits had a massive update was in v2.2.

Kit Tiers

There are four main Kit Tiers which are to be found in the Spawn Area. These Kit Tiers are either free or can be unlocked using Kit Keys. Each Kit Key can unlock a kit from its own Kit Tier.

Game Mode Kits

There are a total of nine Game Mode Kits, three for each Game Mode. For Creeper Mode, the kits are Tank, Blast Challenge, and Creeper. For Skeleton Mode, the kits are Shield, Projectile Challenge, and Skeleton. For Drowned Mode, the kits are Drowned Pirate, Underwater Challenge, and Drowned. These are the only kits that are unlocked from the beginning, and they are also the most challenging ones. They are designed to provide a balanced level of difficulty in Easy Mode, making the game neither too easy nor too difficult.

Tier-3 Kits

There are a total of five Tier-3 Kits: Looting, Fighter, Archer, Pro Fighter, and Pro Archer. The first three are designed to make Easy Mode relatively easier, but still challenging in Hard Mode. The last two are more challenging versions of Fighter and Archer, intended for players who excel in PvE combat. Tier-3 Kits can be unlocked by using a Common Kit Key.

Tier-2 Kits

There are a total of five Tier-2 Kits: Charge Up!, Armor of Undying, Poseidon, Witch, and Health. These kits each have something special. Charge Up! features a sword that allows you to perform a powerful charged attack when activated with the right mouse button. The charge-up is interrupted if you attack with the sword. Poseidon is slower on land than in water, and the enchantment on the trident changes from Loyalty on land to Riptide in water. Health provides an additional 10 HP and two Potions of Absorption.
These kits are designed to make Hard Mode beatable. Tier-2 Kits can be unlocked by using a Cool Kit Key.

Tier-1 Kits

There are a total of five Tier-1 Kits: Overpowered, Life & Death, SuperNova, King Midas, and Firebreather. These kits each have something special. Life & Death grants you various effects based on the armor you wear. Additionally, your weapon becomes an instakill after three kills, returning to normal attack damage afterwards. SuperNova features a Black Hole that can be thrown to pull all creatures within a 20-block radius towards it. With King Midas, certain creatures turn into golden statues that provide better effects as the number of statues increases when you are near them. Firebreather provides you with throwable torches that set creatures on fire.
These kits are designed to beat Hard Mode with ease. You can unlock Tier-3 Kits by using a Crazy Kit Key.

Colossal Kits

There are a total of 3 Colossal Kits: Secret, Star of Extinction and Custom. Secret provides you with a full set of gold armor that grants a speed boost, along with a trident with +20 Attack Damage. The armor makes it easier for you to defend against the toughest creepers. You can find this kit by locating a hole in the middle of a 3x3 pillar within the Arena and entering it.
The Star of Extinction kit can be unlocked with a Colossal Key. This kit grants you the Star of Extinction, which, upon hitting the ground, explodes and inflicts significant damage to the surrounding creatures. It is so powerful that if you "die" from a Star of Extinction explosion, you receive a new Totem of Undying in your offhand as a player.
You obtain 'Custom' when your Perfection level reaches 50. With the Custom Kit, you can design your own kit in the Kit Creator. Choose the armor, items, potions, and enchantments you want and place them in the shulker box. When you're finished, you can return to the Spawn Area where you can also activate your kit.

Themed Kits

In total, there are 5 Themed Kits: Cake, HunterOmega, FleurDraws, 4Wonders, and Tijd4Jan. These kits were unlockable during the 3 Year Anniversary Themed Update of Creature Combat. To obtain these kits, you needed to use Pies as a currency.

Removed Kits

In total, there are 30 Removed Kits: ShinyMan, Enchanted, Miner (V1), Miner (v1.2), Chain, Just a Kit, The Biggest Challenge, Gold = Useless, Sharpness I, Enderman, Ocelot, Blaze, Suspicious, Projectile Protection, Sunny, Gold, Healing, Wolf, Assassin, Challenge Mode, Health, Creator, Life, Death, Creeper+, Assassin+, With+, Challenge Mode+, Plantlife and Pyromancer. Each of these kits had their own reasons for being removed, but the most common reasons were either lack of space or because "they were deemed to be underperforming kits". That was ChatGPT's translation sugarcoding how bad these kits were. They were awful.

Note

It is possible that in the future, I will create a separate page for each individual kit, as there are a lot of them, each with their own history and facts. Only significant events about the kits will be included in the History section.

Overview

The Shop has been an important part of Creature Combat since day 1. You can buy different items with Levels in here which makes the game easier.

Items

Here are all items you can currently buy in the Shop:

Removed Shops

Over the years, several Shops have been removed: Enchanted Shop (Enchanted Books), Locked Shop (Purchasing Kits), Armor Shop (Armor), Weapon Shop (Weapons), Potion Shop (Potions), Skeleton Mode Locked Shop, Skeleton Mode Arrow Shop (Arrows), Skeleton Mode Enchanted Shop (Enchanted Books), Skeleton Mode Potion Shop (Potions), and Custom Weapons (Creating weapons with custom enchantments and attributes). Additionally, many items have been added to and removed from the Shop.

Overview

Artifacts are diamonds, emeralds and Nether Stars which you can trade for Levels in the Spawn Area. You can get these by defeating Creatures. Before Levels were used as a currency in v1.3, Artifacts were the currency.

Trade for Levels

You can trade Artifacts in the Spawn Area for Levels. Diamond Artifacts give you 5 Levels, Emerald Artifacts 10 Levels and Nether Artifacts 25 Levels. Shift-clicking the button will sell up to 10 Artifacts at once.

Removed Artifacts

Seven Artifacts have been removed from Creature Combat. Four of them were from Skeleton Mode, which included Iron Ingots, Gold Ingots, Nether Bricks, and Carved Pumpkins. These artifacts were available between versions 1.1 and 1.2 in Skeleton Mode. Three Artifacts were removed from Campfire Quest. These were Bronze Artifacts, Nautilus Artifacts, and Tear Artifacts. These artifacts were available between versions 1.1 and 2.2.

Overview

The Head Display is a spot where you can place creeper heads and wither skeleton skulls to get a reward.

Display

Before v1.3, creeper heads were used as currency, but when it was changed to Levels, they needed to serve a different purpose. This led to the creation of the Head Display. By placing four heads and/or skulls next to each other on the stairs, you can obtain one of these:

Potion of Mystery

The Potion of Mystery can give you one of these things:

Wither Skeleton Skulls

Before v2.5, there was a separate display for creeper heads and wither skeleton skulls. The Wither Skeleton Skull display allowed you to give one of these items:

Drowned Heads

In v2.1, you could collect Drowned Heads by using a Fishing Rod from the Shop to hook a Drowned and then kill it. However, in v2.2, this feature was removed, and the Drowned Heads never provided any special items.

Overview

Advancements were implemented to add extra goals to Creature Combat. There are 43 in total as of v2.4. 37 of which in the regular Advancements Pack and 6 in the Story Mode Pack.

List of Advancements

This is the entire list of all Advancements you can get in Creature Combat:

Icon	Name	Ingame description	How to get (if different)
	Creature Combat	The arena is all yours!	You'll get this one automatically
	The First Game	Load the game for the first time	Play Easy or Hard Mode for the first time
	The Tenth Game	Play Easy or Hard Mode ten times	-
	The Fiftieth Game	Play Easy or Hard Mode 50 times (and re-evaluate your life choices)	-
	Diamond Artifact!	Get your first Diamond Artifact from a creeper	Get a diamond in your inventory
	Emerald Artifact?!	Get your first Emerald Artifact from a creeper	Get an emerald in your inventory
	Nether Artifact??	Get your first Nether Star from a creeper	Get a nether star in your inventory
	Saving Diamonds	Get 16 Diamond Artifacts in your inventory at the same time	-
	Saving Emeralds	Get 16 Emerald Artifacts in your inventory at the same time	-
	Saving Nether Stars!	Get 16 Nether Artifacts in your inventory at the same time	-
	Head Champion	Display four heads in the spawn area	Place four creeper heads or wither skeleton skulls on the Head Display in the Spawn Area
	Objective Earned!	Complete an objective	-
	Stack o' gunpowder	Get 64 gunpowder in one stack in your inventory	You won't see this advancement anywhere; it was to make this objective easier to implement
	Portal Addiction	Step on a portal during Easy or Hard Mode 50 times	Step on a portal in The Arena 50 times
	Choosing is Hard	Choose your first kit	Select a kit
	I am OP	Get the kit Overpowered	Buy the kit 'Overpowered'
	A bit of Both	Get the kit Life & Death	Buy the kit 'Life & Death'
	SuperNova!	Get the kit SuperNova	Buy the kit 'SuperNova'
	King of Gold	Get the kit King Midas	Buy the kit 'King Midas'
	That Sauce Was Hot	Get the kit Firebreather	Buy the kit 'Firebreather'
	You Only Live Twice	Buy the Armor of Undying kit	-
	You Only Live 10 Times!	What an interesting thing to do with your life...	Use a Totem of Undying 10 times
	Keep it a Secret	Find the Secret Kit	Select the kit 'Secret'
	You'll get that back in two-	Why would you eat a key?	Eat a Kit Key
	Creeper Killer I	Kill 10 creepers	-
	Creeper Killer II	Kill 50 creepers	-
	Creeper Killer III	Kill 250 creepers	-
	Creeper Killer IV	Kill 1000 creepers	-
	Skeleton Killer I	Kill 10 normal skeletons	-
	Skeleton Killer II	Kill 50 normal skeletons	-
	Skeleton Killer III	Kill 150 normal skeletons	-
	Skeleton Killer IV	Kill 500 normal skeletons	-
	Drowned Killer I	Kill 10 drowned	-
	Drowned Killer II	Kill 50 drowned	-
	Drowned Killer III	Kill 250 drowned	-
	Drowned Killer IV	Kill 1000 drowned	-
	Story Mode	Fleru appreciates your help!	You'll get this one automatically
	Wake Up!	Get your fifth death to continue the story	Die five times in Story Mode
	The Truth	Find out about the truth of the arena	Hold the book about the Mob Battle Arena in your hands
	Find the Glitch	There seems to be a glitch in the map. Try to find out what it is!	Play ten times after getting 'The Truth'
	Stop the Glitch	Stop the glitch!	Play the cutscene that appears after 'Find the Glitch'
	The End	Finish the story	-

List of Removed Advancements

This is the entire list of removed Advancements you were able to get in Creature Combat:

Icon	Name	Ingame description	How to get (if different)
	Skeleton Battle	Time for something different!	You'll get this one automatically
	Ready, Set, Go!	Start your first game in Skeleton Mode	-
	Wither Skeleton Killer I	Kill 10 wither skeletons	-
	Wither Skeleton Killer II	Kill 75 wither skeletons	-
	Wither Skeleton Killer III	Kill 300 wither skeletons	-
	Deathwish	Win two levels of Arrow-Runner in the Deathroom	-
	The portal is a lie	Step on 50 portals in Skeleton Mode	Step on a portal 50 times in the Skeleton Mode Arena
	Story Mode	Following the Storyline!	Click on 'Story Mode' in the Spawn Room
	Easy Mode	Successfully finish an Easy Mode game.	-
	The Course	Finish all the parkour levels in the Death Area	Finish the last parkour level in the Deathroom
	Skeleton Mode	Successfully finish a Skeleton Mode game	-
	Campfire Quest	Get a Creeper Tear in a Campfire Quest	Get a Ghast Tear in your inventory
	Crafting Mode	Craft a key in Crafting Mode	-
	Hard Mode	Successfully finish a Hard Mode game	-
	Find the Button	Find the button and get out of the map	Get an Oak Button in your inventory
	A Big Challenge	Buy the Challenge + kit	-
	Surviving A Challenge	Wait. How did you do this?!	Survive Easy or Hard Mode with the kit 'Challenge +'
	The Power is Mine!	Buy the Creator Kit	-
	Witchcraft!	Buy the Witch + kit	-
	Drowned Champion	Display four drowned heads on the display in the spawn area	-
	Crafting Course	Start Crafting Course for the first time	-
	Kit Crafter	Craft a kit in Crafting Course	-
	You Encountered the Dummy	Start your first Dummy Arena game	-
	Creeper Champion	Display four creeper heads on the display in the spawn area	-
	Skeleton Champion	Display four skeleton skulls on the display in the spawn area	Place four wither skeleton skulls on the Head Display in the Spawn Area
	Time for a Quest?	Start a Campfire Quest for the first time	-

Overview

Objectives are tasks you'll carry out when you're playing the map. For example, killing 50 creepers will grant you a reward in the form of Levels. There are six objectives in total. You can find them on the Objectives Board in the Spawn Area, along with their reward. There is a Statistics Book which shows you your progression.

List of Objectives

Here's a list of objectives and their rewards:

Icon	Name	Reward	Added in
	Play 10 Times	30 Levels	V13
	Get 64 Gunpowder	5 Levels	v2.5
	Die 15 Times	25 Levels	v1.0
	Kill 50 Creepers	20 Levels	V13
	Kill 50 Skeletons	20 Levels	v1.2
	Kill 50 Drowned	20 Levels	v2.1

Overview

Options are... the options of the map. You can configure these with buttons and change the map that way. From (de)activating Portals to switching between day and night.

List of Options

Here's a list of options and their description

Icon	Name	Description	Added in
	Game Ends After	All Players Died/2 Minutes End the game until all players died or wait the full 2 minutes	v1.6
	Day/Night	Noon/Sunset Switches between noon and sunset	V12
	FriendlyFire	On/Off Switches between players fighting each other (On) or not (Off)	v1.2
	Portals	On/Off Switches between Portals on or off. Switched-off Portals are gray	v1.3
	Random Spawns	On/Off Switches between creatures on fixed spots or making them spawn at random locations in the Arena	v2.5
	Preferred Weapon	Sword/Axe Switches between swords and axes as weapons. Players can switch individually	v2.5

List of Removed Options

Here's the list of removed options and their descriptions:

Icon	Name	Description	Added-Removed in
	Easy/Normal/Hard Mode	Easy Mode/Normal Mode/Hard Mode Easy Mode (Absorption V), Hard Mode (Weakness I)	V2-v1.3
	Easy Artifacts	On/Off If set to on, all mobs with Artifacts will get a different color name for different Artifacts	v1.6-v2.2
	Weather	Clear/Rain Switches between sunny and rainy, without any further purpose	v1.6-v2.2
	Spawn Point	Above Arena/Deathroom Switches the spawn point between above The Arena and the Deathroom	v1.3-v2.0
	Glowing Creepers	On/Off If set to on, all creepers will get Glowing	V11-v1.3

Overview

Advanced Statistics are the statistics you can see at the end of a game. These show you how many Creatures you've defeated, how long you've survived and how often you were at Low Health. If you have won, you can also see how much health you had left at the moment the game ended and, if you had a totem, how many you used.

Player Arena

Advanced Statistics in Player Arena add a few extra lines, and this text is always in aqua. You can see how many times you've died and how many kills you have here.

Suggestions

All suggestions for the Advanced Statistics (and any other element in the map) are welcome! You can contact me in the Discord Server and I'll happily get back to you as soon as possibe!

Overview

Portals can be found in both the Spawn Area and The Arena. These teleport you to other portals of the same color. Portals in the Spawn Area lead you to specific places. Portals in The Arena send you to a random portal of the same color.

Locations

The magenta portals can be found in 3 out of the 4 corners of the Arena. The cyan portals are positioned closer to the walls. There are also a few portals in the Spawn Area. These take you up or down.

Overview

Help Buttons are buttons that provide information about certain things, like game modes, gameplay and kits. Every button with a question mark or exclamation point above is a Help Button.

Overview

Story Mode is a mode in which you follow a story where a teleportation glitch takes over the map. You and Fleru must try to stop the glitch. Please be aware that this section contains many spoilers.

The Story

The story begins with you being forced to fight monsters in the Arena against your will, until Fleru realizes that what she is doing is wrong. You decide to help her anyway. After a while, things start going wrong. Creatures begin teleporting incorrectly. At one point, Fleru suggests that you try to stop the bug by going outside the map.

When it seems like you have fixed everything, you are sent back to the Spawn Area. After starting Easy Mode, everything goes wrong and you are teleported all over the map, with charged creepers spawning all around you, only to be killed at the last moment.

Multiplayer

In multiplayer, there are a few differences. When you wake up in Fleru's lab, the other players will be standing next to the bed while one player is in the bed. Additionally, Fleru's dialogue will change slightly depending on the number of players. She will say "I really like you" in singleplayer, "I really like you two" with two players, "I really like you three" with three players, and "I really like you people" with four or more players.

Overview

Story MOde is a mode added in v1.4 to provide the map with a story. You had to unlock nearly every Game Mode through doing different things in other Game Modes. The so called "Cutscenes" were text in the chat you can read at the beginning of a game.

The Story

DeadlyRamses teleports you to the Spawn Area. You must unlock all Game Modes in the following order: 'Easy Mode', 'Skeleton Mode', 'Campfire Quest', 'Crafting Course', 'Hard Mode'. Once you have won Hard Mode, you can place the key on a block near a kind of door above the Arena in the corner. There, you can search for a button that you can place on the other side of the map. This triggers a cutscene where you and DeadlyRamses use pickaxes to remove the entire arena.

Removed

I decided to remove Story Mode from the game in v2.1. The story was not compelling enough, and a better idea for a story had come up. The plan was to introduce the new Story Mode in v2.2, but due to the prolonged development of the map, it was pushed to v2.3.

Overview

Lunch Boxes were chests where you could find different types of items, like Kit Keys, Golden Carrots, Food Coloring and more. You could buy these in the Shop.

Added and Removed

In v2.3, Lunch Boxes were added to make Creature Combat more engaging. Fleru had the idea for Loot Boxes in v2.2, but I disagreed with it. After discussing it for some time, we came up with an idea that we both liked. However, after adding the Lunch Boxes, I changed my mind because it felt too similar to Loot Boxes and it made the game more complicated than it needed to be. As a result, this gameplay feature was removed in the following update. However, some elements of Lunch Boxes remained in the game, such as Challenge Items, Safety Membranes and the Lucky Charm.

List of Items

Here's a list of all items you can get in Lunch Boxes:

Overview

The Future Updates Room is a room in which you can see which additions are planned for the next version and which might be added after.

Added

The Future Updates Room was added in v1.3 to give players a chance to see what additions may come in the next update. The Future Updates Room gets refreshed with each update. When you press a button, you can hear a sound and text appears on the screen, similar to the Help Buttons. There is space for 16 additions, but typically only 12 buttons are used.

Overview

Advanced Mode is a secret option in Creature Combat. After pressing a button outside the map, you'll get access to Fleru's Secret Room and you can use Challenge Items.

Fleru's Secret Room

To access Fleru's Secret Room, you need to step on the dark blue portal. In the room, you can choose Trails, which are particles that appear under your feet. You can also choose an Effect, which includes particles and sound effects that occur with 10% of all creature kills. Additionally, you have the option to switch Arenas. The available Arenas are 'Stripes', which have walls in only one axis, 'Houses', which feature multiple houses within the Arena, and 'Empty', which consists of just a few pillars. Lastly, you can find the kit 'Star of Extinction' in Fleru's Secret Room, which can be unlocked using a Colossal Kit Key.

Challenge Items

There are three Challenge Items that you can obtain. These are obtained through the 'Saving Diamonds', 'Saving Emeralds', and 'Saving Nether Stars' advancements. These Challenge Items add an additional challenge to the game. The blue one doubles the duration of a game, the green one gives you a random negative status effect at the beginning of a game, and the red one removes all enchantments from your armor and weapons.

Removed

Advanced Mode was removed because almost all the features found space in the Spawn Area on the Customize Stuff layer of the kits. Star of Extinction, Challenge Items, and the Mazes were relocated there. Effects didn't return, but Trails did in the form of the Toxic Trail in the Shop.

Trivia

You used to be able to buy Tijd4Jan's Head in the Armor Shop

The Shop has had many different names: Shop, Battle Shop, Weapon Shop and back to Shop again

All shops used to have different blocks as stairs

You had to buy everything with diamonds, emeralds and nether stars before Levels were currency

There was a point in time that there were nine shops: the Weapon Shop, Armor Shop, Enchanted Shop, Potion Shop, Locked Shop, Arrow Shop, Locked Shop (SKM), Potion Shop (SKM) and Custom Weapons

You used to be able to convert Artifacts with the Dust Converter in the Trade Room

Diamonds, emeralds and nether stars are since v2.3 the only Artifacts in the game

The gamerule doMobLoot was set to true in V3 so that you could pick up Artifacts, but that wasn't useful because your inventory was emptied at the end of the game

The most amount of different Artifacts in the game was 10. This was in v1.1 and v1.2

Your reward for the Creeper Display in v1.3 was a hopper named WIP (Work In Progress). This is a reference to when the hopper was first introduced in the 1.5 snapshots.

You got the same hopper in v2.1 at the Drowned Display

Creeper heads used to be currency

There are 3 advancements for the Head Display: Head Champion, Creeper Champion and Skull Champion

When 'Artifacts' were changed to 'Artefacts', the advancements were mistyped (from 'Artefact' to 'Artifact')

The advancements were not visible in the chat for a while.

'You Encountered the Dummy' was a reference to Undertale.

'The Portal is a lie' was a reference to Portal.

'The End' is named 'get_out' in the datapack.

You cannot see titles if you die 15 times. This is because of the title shown in the Deathroom ('You Died').

There were likely more Skeleton Mode objectives than just 'Kill 50 Skeletons'.

Objectives is the only feature that remains in the game from the Downstairs Area.

If you obtained a nether star, you could pick it up 7 more times to complete the objective 'Get 8 Stars'.

The original plan with Easy Artifacts was to give mobs different colored outlines, but this was removed from Minecraft in version 1.13.

You could not see rain falling if it was raining with the Weather option enabled, due to barriers placed above the Arena.

HunterOmega came up with the idea to remove the Options Room to simplify the map.

There is an idea to allow players to choose between a sword or an axe as their weapon.

The lowest recorded 'Time Alive' is 36 ticks by Fedi. Before that, it was 52 ticks by neorg313.

Skeletons and Wither Skeletons are indicated separately.

'Low Health' is measured when a player has 4 or fewer HP.

The portals in the test world for v1.3 were also magenta and cyan.

The Skeleton Mode portals were dark green and brown.

You can enable or disable portals in the options.

If a player is standing on a portal, everyone hears the sound of a teleporting Enderman.

In the 3 Year Anniversary, the Future Updates Room was changed to a 'Drink Creator'.

If you change the Game Mode to Skeleton or Drowned Mode, the Future Updates Room remains in the Creeper Mode style.

If you place a button in the Future Updates Room in a location where you sometimes find buttons and click it, you will receive the message: 'Currently not used'.

Advanced Mode is designed to make fun features like Trails, new mazes, and effects available without making the game too complicated.

You can still obtain Challenge Items without enabling Advanced Mode, but you cannot use them.

Fedi is Tijd4Jan's brother.

Story Mode was delayed twice.

If you click 'No' at the beginning of the game, you have to redo the entire cutscene.

The idea behind clicking 'No' was that you would be kicked out of the world, but that is not possible with Command Blocks or Datapacks.

DeadlyRamses is a friend of Tijd4Jan.

Story Mode (v1.4) is implemented using redstone and command blocks, rather than scoreboard objectives and datapacks.

Dummy Arena and Kit-Finder Mode did not play a role in Story Mode.

Fedi became a main character in the next Story Mode.

The WIP items in the Lunch Boxes were eventually implemented in Advanced Mode.

The idea of a Boss Bar during a game came from the v1.3 test world.

The Custom Kit would've cost a Colossal Key

Perfection is mostly inspired by Stardew Valley