The Tyrant

**The Tyrant** is a unique Wither, and serves as the primary antagonist for the first three sub-plots of New in Town.

### Spawning

The Tyrant makes three appearances, one each at the end Kingdoms, Counteroffensive, and Refugee. In Kingdoms, he appears after the portals are destroyed when the player builds their ninth functional town structure. In Refugee, he appears at the end of the invasion event. In both of these cases, he is accompanied by a custom platform of Obsidian, Netherrack, Soul Sand, and Nether Bricks. In Counteroffensive, he appears when the player summons a Wither by normal means in the Portal Factory.

### Drops

In addition to normal Wither item and Experience drops, the Tyrant also has a unique drop each time he is fought.

After his first defeat in Kingdoms, he drops a Building Permit, used for settlement construction. When killed in the Portal Factory at the end of Counteroffensive, he drops the End Invasion Plans, a unique music disc used to build an End Portal. In Refugee, he is defeated for good, and drops a Tyrant Locus, which fills the same role as the Building Permit, but for the End City.

### Behavior

**Kingdoms**

In Kingdoms, the Tyrant has 350 health, remains stationary for the entire battle, and does not shoot Wither Skulls. Instead, he has a series of custom attacks:

Wither Wave: The Tyrant will make wither summon sounds and display smoke particles before releasing a wave of souls that grants Wither to nearby players.

Wither Skulls: The Tyrant will aim a Wither Skull at the player before firing it. The skull will not damage blocks, however.

Shockwave: The Tyrant will make Wither sounds and soul particles will appear before the player is launched into the air and given the Wither effect.

The Tyrant will also say this dialogue throughout the battle, in order:

[**The Tyrant**]: Surprised to see the Lord of the Dead?

[**The Tyrant**]: Leave this land to the dying, mortal.

[**The Tyrant**]: Do not resist the embrace of death.

[**The Tyrant**]: Your desperate cling to life and society disgusts me.

[**The Tyrant**]: I will rule over this Overworld of bones.

[**The Tyrant**]: My immortality will never falter!

**Counteroffensive**

In Counteroffensive, the Tyrant has 400 health, and otherwise similar behavior to his appearance in Kingdoms, but the delay between telegraphs and attacks is shorter, and all of his attacks have higher effect potency. His skull attack summons 2 skulls, which move faster.

He has a new attack:

Portal Spikes: The Tyrant will scatter 5 traps around the arena, signaled by purple particles. Stepping into them will give you Slowness and Wither.

He also has different dialogue:

[**The Tyrant**]: Summoned me to my own Factory? A foolish mistake.

[**The Tyrant**]: I will bring stability to this underworld.

[**The Tyrant**]: Soon my portals will cover your world in fire.

[**The Tyrant**]: My soldiers are armed in the relics of your ancestors.

[**The Tyrant**]: Your resistance is as hollow as your settlement will become!

[**The Tyrant**]: Life had its chance. Now every world shall embrace death!

**Refugee**

In Refugee, the Tyrant has 500 health, and otherwise similar behavior to his appearance in Counteroffensive, but the delay between telegraphs and attacks is even shorter, and all of his attacks have higher effect potency. His skull attack summons 3 skulls that move faster, but he attacks on a slower timer. He has a new attack:

Summon Minions: The Tyrant will make Nether portal particles around him before summoning 4 Tyrant Minions, unique Skeletons with 8 health and Netherite swords.

He also has different dialogue:

[**The Tyrant**]: You have stood in my way for the last time, mortal!

[**The Tyrant**]: I have whole armies prepared to conquer this wasteland!

[**The Tyrant**]: With that cursed Dragon out of the way, this world is as defenseless as your own!

[**The Tyrant**]: Do you think you will be thanked for prolonging the suffering of the living?

[**The Tyrant**]: Only in death can all worlds be at peace.

[**The Tyrant**]: Even if I fail now, I will return again and again. You cannot kill Death Itself!