Aura Battler

Quickstart

Craft an Aura Battler at a crafting table:

Look directly at another player or a villager within about 14 blocks and use the Aura Battler. The other player must accept the challenge; a villager match begins immediately.

In the arena, try both ways to score dances:

• With an empty hand, interact with the arena floor. This triggers a dance and adds points.
• Use one of the crafted dance items for its own dance move and points.

Matches last 30 seconds. Watch the on-screen score and timer, and try to finish with more points than your opponent.

Overview

Aura Battler turns a challenge into a short dance-scoring duel. You and your opponent are teleported to a randomly selected arena and put into third person. You return to your saved location when the match ends.

What It Adds

• The Aura Battler, used to challenge a player or villager.
• Four dance-move items: Split Dance, Step Dance, Backflip Dance, and Floor Rise Dance.
• Three possible arenas: a black-concrete platform over the void, a glass chamber surrounded by water, or a red platform with distant hills.

How To Use

Use the Aura Battler while aiming at your target. Players receive an accept-or-decline prompt; villagers do not need to accept.

During a match, you can score by interacting with the floor while holding nothing, or by using a dance-move item. The empty-hand interaction must be with the arena floor, not the air:

• Black-concrete arena: interact with black concrete.
• Ocean arena: interact with glass.
• Bloodbath arena: interact with red nether bricks or redstone blocks.

Dance-move items can be used outside a match to perform their animations, but they only add match points during an active battle.

Crafting And Obtaining

Craft the four dance-move items at a crafting table:

• — Split Dance
• — Step Dance
• — Backflip Dance
• — Floor Rise Dance

Abilities And Mechanics

Each successful dance scores 1 point, plus a bonus for each piece of armor you wear. Leather armor adds 1 point per piece; chainmail, iron, gold, and copper add 2; diamond and netherite add 3.

The action bar shows both scores, armor bonuses, and the time remaining. Dance-move items have a 2-second cooldown per move.

You can fight your opponent as well as dance. In a player duel, directly killing your opponent ends the match immediately. Otherwise, when time runs out, the higher scorer wins; the lower scorer is killed after returning. A tie does not cause a score-based death.

Villagers perform dance moves, score points, and can attack nearby players. At the end of a villager match, the higher scorer wins; a tie is decided at random.

Progression And Strategy

Wear armor to boost the points earned from every dance, and keep an eye on the displayed score rather than relying on animations alone. A winning player can earn rewards based on their score: 16 cooked beef at 30 points, 8 golden apples at 50, and 4 enchanted golden apples at 75. Higher thresholds also grant the rewards for lower thresholds.