[Mod] Mobs Redo [1.34] [mobs]

[DoyleChris]

add "technic" to depends.txt and dont forget to activate technic mod too.

I did that and i still got the same error after adding the technic lines.

[TenPlus1]

DoyleChris: When adding items for trader npc's you MUST make sure they have 15 or more items in the list.

[DoyleChris]

I took and added the uranium first, and set the likely hood to bread but didnt get it.

Then i added the cables didnt show up.

Then removed 3 items that where in there, and now i get the error.

[DoyleChris]

So i have 15 items. But i cant purchase some of the items others i can. Also they dont show how much they are.

[xeranas]

Probably not priority but it would be nice if mobs api would not require 'default' mod.

[echosa]

I keep getting this error, and rightfully so as that file does not exist:

2016-09-02 20:43:43: ERROR[Main]: Client::getMesh(): Mesh not found: "mobs_tree_monster.x"
2016-09-02 20:43:43: ERROR[Main]: GenericCAO::addToScene(): Could not load mesh mobs_tree_monster.x

[TenPlus1]

echosa: make sure you are using mobs_monsters mod from the git page, if you are using additional mobs add-ons like Creeper then you will see that error, change the .x of the mesh name to .b3d instead to fix.

[ph8jPf9M]

How can i make a mob hold an item do i need to add some code or add the item to it in blender?

[echosa]

echosa: make sure you are using mobs_monsters mod from the git page, if you are using additional mobs add-ons like Creeper then you will see that error, change the .x of the mesh name to .b3d instead to fix.

Ah, yes, that was the issue. The creeper mod is specifically referencing the .x file. Can't believe I missed that this whole time. :-/ Thanks!

[TheReaperKing]

I'm working on making a "realistic" survival mode for my students. I wanted to make it so that when you try to hunt the animals that when they get hit the first time they take off instead hanging out in the same area. Would this be difficult to do?

Also I think even if the player gets too close they could get "scared" and run off though I imagine that is harder to do. Thank you for any insight!

EDIT - To make them run away when hit I found this, I imagine I'd just change the 3 to 10 or 20

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if self.runaway_timer > 3

^ Doesn't seem to be working changing it to 30

I'm still not sure how I'd make them run away if they got too close, maybe I won't worry about that.

They won't jump if they run into a block, is there a way to make them do that? Right now I added this which seems to work okay:

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else
         do_jump(self) -- added so that mobs will jump when running away
         set_velocity(self, self.run_velocity)
         set_animation(self, "walk")

Also I was thinking it'd be neat to have the bears and wolves attack the livestock aka animals, but not the players. I found this in API:
'attacks_monsters' usually for npc's to attack monsters in area
'group_attack' true to defend same kind of mobs from attack in area

I was thinking the easiest way would be to take the 'attacks_monsters' code and make an "attacks_animals" and target it to the "animals" group. If there are any better ways please let me know. Thank you!

[TenPlus1]

Update:

- Added 'attack_animals' flag to the api so that monsters will attack animals when set to true.
- Added 'specific_attack' flag so that monsters only attack specific entities e.g. {"player", "mobs_animal:chicken"}
- Removed highlight when mob is hit to stop lag when using large textures.
- Changed runaway timer from 3 to 5 seconds.
- When using custom on_die function you MUST remove mob yourself.
- Few tweaks here and there :)

[TheReaperKing]

Wow thanks so much! That was super nice of you to make those changes. I love this mod so much by the way and the API you've created, it is so fun to read through. I also love how easy you made it to tweak mobs. I definitely want to have my students messing around with all this :)

Regarding the animals running away, I'll of course be messing with it more myself, but shouldn't changing 3 in this line to a bigger number make them run away longer?
if self.runaway_timer > 3

Perhaps I need to slow down the timer=timer+1

This is actually something I didn't like about minecraft too. Why would the animals only run away a little and then sit and chill while you kill them? Seems like it'd be more interesting to have to try to hunt them down :) It would also bring purpose to traps and such.

Thank you so much for your time and help! Take care :)
-Mike

[TenPlus1]

The runaway feature was a quick and easy addition with no great detail like turning, but I did up the limit to 5 seconds for now until I can do more.

[TheReaperKing]

Thanks! I'll look at what you did and try to make it work to what I'm trying to achieve :) I appreciate the feedback!

Edit, looking at your change I did change 3 to 30 but they still only seemed to run for a few seconds. I did update the run speed to 30 which was pretty funny, they shot across the map like a rocket but then stopped shortly after. I'll be messing with it and post if I get any interesting results.

[KCoombes]

Update:

- Added 'specific_attack' flag so that monsters only attack specific entities e.g. {"player", "mobs_animal:chicken"}

Only monsters? I was hoping cats would chase rats and dogs would chase cats....

[AnxiousInfusion]

I just spent quite some time searching around the documentation and maybe I'm just dumb but how do you change the spawn rate of mobs? I've tried everything from 1 to 9999999 and still seem to only get an occasional monster or animal. More than that, they won't spawn at all on any world which was generated before enabling the mod. Any pointers?

[TheReaperKing]

Only monsters? I was hoping cats would chase rats and dogs would chase cats....

Seems like you could just give each its own group or put cats in the monsters group which they are :) and maybe dogs in NPC, all that goodness. Or even create their own groups!

[TenPlus1]

I'm slowly working through the attack system and may end up giving animals the ability to attack other mobs as well... For now monsters have the specific attack ability whereas npc's attack monsters and players who attack that aren't the owner.

Anxious: It's not just the spawn rate you have to change, that only makes them spawn more in an area, but there is also spawn number as well which is usually set to 1 or 2 and that means only a certain amount of active objects are allowed inside that map block at any one time and if it exceeds that, dont spawn a mob. e.g. if a mob already exists, dropped items, itemframe, sign, these contain entities which can affect mob spawning. Will work on this soon also.

[azekill_DIABLO]

it can!

[cHyper]

I'm slowly working through the attack system and may end up giving animals the ability to attack other mobs as well... For now monsters have the specific attack ability whereas npc's attack monsters and players who attack that aren't the owner.

nice to hear about this feature...
+1

[TheReaperKing]

Tenplus1 hopefully people say this to you a lot, but I can't thank you enough for all your hard work on these mobs! At school we are hoping to convert some of the other minetest models people have made to be able to work with mobs redo :) They have having such a blast with them and I can't wait to play with them more myself :)

[ph8jPf9M]

add sound effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-bxheqrAWs so that each time player kills a mob in 10 seconds after killing last mob it activates. add pickups powerups that spawn randomly around the player that grant different powers.

[taikedz]

I'm slowly working through the attack system and may end up giving animals the ability to attack other mobs as well... For now monsters have the specific attack ability whereas npc's attack monsters and players who attack that aren't the owner.

I was wondering about how to work that in.... I only just saw the attack_specific set which certainly helps - was wondering also if a flee_specific would be appropriate so as to start creating a sort of predator/prey chain...

Anxious: It's not just the spawn rate you have to change, that only makes them spawn more in an area, but there is also spawn number as well which is usually set to 1 or 2 and that means only a certain amount of active objects are allowed inside that map block at any one time and if it exceeds that, dont spawn a mob. e.g. if a mob already exists, dropped items, itemframe, sign, these contain entities which can affect mob spawning. Will work on this soon also.

So I naively thought that the active objects parameter was looking for objects with same itemstring.... didn't realize this was all objects (entities).

[flummi]

Greetings to everyone,

I am new to this forum. I hope this is the right place for my problem.

After playing minecraft for a long time I switched over to minetest (has a much better performance, much better modding in my eyes - a big thank you to all those modders at this place). I am playing and testing some things i knew from minecraft now with minetest for some time. Most things I need or like to have I get sorted out by myself an searching the forum, but one thing I can't manage is building a working animal-farm:

The tamed sheeps (and the cows although) from mobs_redo keep slipping through the corners of my corral - and only there in the corners. They can't jump over the fences or slip through at any other places. They just walk around in the corral until they reach a corner. There they stand still for some moments with their backside to the corner and then slowly start sliding backwards until they are approx. half through the fence. Then they turn around and walk away - outside the corral. This seems to not happen to the sheeps from the cme creature mod.

Does anybody know how to fix this or prevent them from slidding through my fences? Keeping them in a pit or building stonewalls isn't an option ;-) And I like the sheeps from mobs_redo - especially the red one :-)

I am running:
minetest-client 0.4.14 (xeon with 8 gig RAM, xubuntu 14.04, 64 bit)
minetest-server 0.4.14 (raspberry 3 with 1 gig RAM, raspbian with up to 3-4 players simultan)
mobs_redo 1.31
fences 1.0

and some more mods like inventory_plus, hunger, adv_spawning, ambience, bushes, cavestuff, ... but I think they don't matter.

I feel like it is a problem with the moving-algorithm from mobs-redo in conjunction with the collisionboxes of the sheep (and the fence?). But I don't know how to investigate it further or solve the problem. If anyone has an idea or hint how to fix this, I would be glad.

Thanks in advance

Flummi

[TenPlus1]

Update:

- Added 'mob_difficulty' setting in minetest.conf (defaults to 1.0) which multiplies mob health and damage when hit.

[azekill_DIABLO]

+1

[ErrorNull]

Update:

- Added 'mob_difficulty' setting in minetest.conf (defaults to 1.0) which multiplies mob health and damage when hit.

very great addition.

[BrunoMine]

I wish I could customize some features of the animal mobs:

• Disable some animals
• Disable some items (or at least its crafts)
• Set the frequency of spawn of specific animals

What is the way to do this?

[TheReaperKing]

#1 You could just comment out the animals you don't want in via the init.lua
#2 You could also comment out the items you don't want.
#3 I'm not sure about #3 besides using the spawners.

[BrunoMine]

I like to keep my mod fully updated with the original repository development. I believe the best way to do this is by minetest.conf. I realize that mobs_redo has some variables, but mobs_animals do not allow it.

Maybe the animals should be separated per mods. This would avoid the unnecessary load memory media on the server.