[Mod] Mobs Redo [1.34] [mobs]

[TenPlus1]

are you wearing armor ?

[FreeLikeGNU]

new mobs look great!

[LodeRunner]

TenPlus1,

Actually, yes, I am. But the armor doesn't appear to have taken any damage. I've had the same set of steel armor for a LOOONG time and it's not like I've been running from every mob I see. Falling appears to have damaged the armor, but hits from mobs don't appear to damage it. I'll try to confirm all this tonight, I if get the time.

I also confirmed that the mese shards that are ejected by the mese monster do no damage to the player. Fireballs from the DM DO damage the player, but they don't appear to damage the armor.

I know that's kind of an odd mish-mash of observations, but I've been tweaking a couple of existing mods, including this one, so I've been accumulating various information during my own testing.

Anything else I can do to help?

BTW, how does everyone pronounce "mese"? Is it "MEH-seh" (short "e" sounds) or "MEE-seh" (long "e")?

[TenPlus1]

Will have to look into damage setup for armor... and I pronounce it Mee'se :P

[ExeterDad]

and I pronounce it Mee'se :P

Me too. But I didn't invent it.

[Rochambeau]

Today I pulled the recent minetest git and now I've got an error when I try to tame cows:

"Assignment to undeclared global "tool" inside a function at .... mods/mobs/cow.lua:40".

Is it a bug in minetest dev or in the mod?

[TenPlus1]

Thankfully just an error message and taming of cows still works, will sort error and update...

[Inocudom]

Cyberpangolen uploaded these sound effects recently:
https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=9
I think they will improve this mod considerably.

[linuxman]

Is it possible for passive mobs to not despawn.
I want to make a farm. I would like passive mobs to spawn when I enter the game/area and never despawn/spawn later.

[TenPlus1]

If you tame a sheared sheep, milked cow or hog with 8 wheat they will stick around and not despawn...

Note: new sounds added to monsters, chicken and rat...

[linuxman]

Thanks! Love your mod!

[Minetestforfun]

Hi Tenplus1,

Can you add chicken to the possible tamed animals ?

I've tried to code myself this functionnality but, i met some problems with the right click action :/

Thank you :)

[afflatus]

I've got a wishlist suggestion. I have to confess I haven't looked at the api code in any depth to have an idea how this could be achieved, but I might have a go at it if this isn't a completely stupid idea ...

Fear factor

All animals and monsters have a "fear" parameter. This varies, usually according to external prompts - presence of predators, dangers like fire & water. This parameter gradually reduces in the presence of a player. Different species have different fear thresholds, domesticatable animals are high, aggressive monsters tending to 0.

Grazing and attraction

Animals should be attracted towards items on their "food" list, including other animals and players. They should attempt to consume food nodes in front of them.

This should also apply to monsters. Different species can be attracted to specific areas by stocking them with their favourite foodstuffs - no need to manually feed them, this will have the effect of replenishing their produce in the same way.

Sheep and cows should eat long grass, so you have to rotate livestock in order to allow grass to regrow; Sandmonsters should make sheep bleat and run away; You should have to protect your chickens from hungry wolves; You could build dungeons and attract monsters to guard your "treasure" ...

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if fear_param > fear threshold then
   if entity_is_food
      fight(entity)
   else
      flight(away from source of fear)
        end
else
   if entity_is_food
      eat(food)
   else
      follow(food)
        end
end

Animals with low fear (i.e. domesticated) could be made less likely to despawn, so they stay around longer. Manual feeding should still work the same, although a list should be used to allow alternatives - pigs are pretty much omnivores.

It would be great to make the follow distance just that little bit bigger.

Eggs are really spammy, but we could make some other creatures eat them. Either that or re-introduce despawning after a time as an option. Oh and is is possible not to have eggs in mid-air?

Please don't ever add V/Zombies. But birds, fish, undead and dragons would be neat. :-)

[guideahon]

Hello, i tried this on 4.11 and the only mobs that spawn are sand, tree, dirt monster and the sheep and cow, all the other mobs dont spawn

[TenPlus1]

The other mobs spawn underground in the dark caves and are found at certain levels... Oerkki can be found at -10 and below, Mese monsters at -20 and below, and Dungeon Masters at -70 and below...

[guideahon]

The other mobs spawn underground in the dark caves and are found at certain levels... Oerkki can be found at -10 and below, Mese monsters at -20 and below, and Dungeon Masters at -70 and below...

Yes, it was a problem with plantlife mod, thank you.

[guideahon]

Hi TenPlus, i'm having issues again with mapgen V7 and ethereal, Bees, Beehives, Giant Spiders, Oerkki and Dungeon Master dont spawn.
Also, can you add sound on hit_mob, like tsm_pyramids mod?
Great mod!

[TenPlus1]

Monsters and Animals spawn on specific blocks so you would either need to use v6 mapgen or a v7 mapgen mod to supply those blocks... Also note that each mob can be changed to spawn on whatever you like just by looking at code... Mobs Redo has full v6 and Ethereal v7 support...

[guideahon]

Monsters and Animals spawn on specific blocks so you would either need to use v6 mapgen or a v7 mapgen mod to supply those blocks... Also note that each mob can be changed to spawn on whatever you like just by looking at code... Mobs Redo has full v6 and Ethereal v7 support...

I traveled on an ethereal with v7 mapgen from 0 to - 1000 with no clip and i found no dungeon master, the problem was the ilumishroom, too much light, so i changed max-light of oerki and dungeon master to 5 and now there are few but they now spawn.

[TenPlus1]

Good idea, will change values and update github...

[afflatus]

Loving the latest version TenPlus1. Particularly the sounds. Thanks.
I haven't checked whether everything is spawning correctly in my highly modified game, but that's my problem.

[afflatus]

I can't place chickens in a protected area that I own - using areas mod.

[afflatus]

Fixed using placer:get_player_name()

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minetest.register_craftitem("mobs:chicken", {
   description = "Chicken",
   inventory_image = "mobs_chicken_inv.png",
   on_place = function(itemstack, placer, pointed_thing)
      if pointed_thing.above and not minetest.is_protected(pointed_thing.above, placer:get_player_name()) then
         minetest.env:add_entity(pointed_thing.above, "mobs:chicken")
         itemstack:take_item()
      end
      return itemstack
   end,
})


[TenPlus1]

This has already been fixed in the latest version of the mod on github and the forum...

[afflatus]

Great! thank you.

[Rochambeau]

Is it possible to manipulate the mobs' visual_size on the go?

I'm working on a breeding mob and would like to spawn siblings in a different size. My current code doesn't work.

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local function spawn_mobs(pos, name)
-- spawn mob
   local mob = minetest.add_entity(pos, name)
-- spawn hearts
   spawn_hearts(pos)
   -- set mob hp
   if mob then
      mob = mob:get_luaentity()
      mob.visual_size = { x = 0.5, y = 0.5},
      mob.object:set_hp( math.random(mob.hp_min, mob.hp_max) )
      mob.tamed = true
      mob.armor = mobs_exhausted
-- normalize mobs armor
      minetest.after(mobs_timer,function()
         reset(mob)
      end)
   end
end


[Nathan.S]

Have not tested but should probably be possible using a random call on the visual size, not sure how you would make them grow up though.

[guideahon]

Are you planning on adding kpg mobs? i ported them to mobs redo on my pc, but i'm still tweaking it a bit to make it better, (planning on adding sounds on mob_hit like mummys from pyramids mob) Would you like to merge after i finish?

[Echoes91]

Great work, i think this is the most funny and balanced set of mobs. Just had a glimpse, shouldn't cows and sheeps eat grass instead of wheat? It looks more realistic and those grass piles may become useful, maybe increasing the self food "refill" value to keep it balanced.

[TenPlus1]

Latest additions include settings mobs to float or sink in water... Drops on ANY death either from player, fall damage, drowning or lava... War cries and Death sounds in Api... and Spawn Eggs (admin only)...