FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

So a while back I made a penguin for a certain somebody, and was suggested that I create a mod for it. I don't really care for mods that only add one thing, so I thought I should do something different, so I made a walrus and now present the arctic life mod.


With time, and your suggestions, I'll add more animals and things you'd expect to find in snowy biomes.

Graphics and models mostly by me. (CC by SA 4.0)
depends on tenplus1's mob api and default.

Download: https://github.com/NathanSalapat/arctic ... master.zip
Browse code: https://github.com/NathanSalapat/arctic_life

I think adding maybe polar bears, and arctic foxes could be cool. I'm not sure how you could do this, or if it's even possible, but maybe make them more aggressive if you make too many movements near them. As for the foxes, I'd assume they'd just run away if you got too close. Not sure if any of those things are possible to do with Minetest though. Love the idea of an arctic themed mod btw.

The polar bears could be set to aggressive so they'd attack if you got close. There is a mob dynamic option, that I could use on arctic foxes that would make them all attack when you attack one of them.

Yeah, that sounds good. Also, would it be possible to have the foxes and bears only spawn in caves at night? Kind of like they're taking shelter in the cave.

Nathan.S wrote:So a while back I made a penguin for a certain somebody, and was suggested that I create a mod for it. I don't really care for mods that only add one thing, so I thought I should do something different, so I made a walrus and now present the arctic life mod.


With time, and your suggestions, I'll add more animals and things you'd expect to find in snowy biomes.

Graphics and models mostly by me.
depends on tenplus1's mob api.

Download: https://github.com/NathanSalapat/arctic ... master.zip
Browse code: https://github.com/NathanSalapat/arctic_life

the models are amazing but i think the textures are a bit too hihg res

I could have the bears and foxes spawn at night, but I don't know about getting them to spawn in caves, but I could look into it.

Toby, you're welcome to make lower resolution textures, though not going to lie, the walrus texture is kinda a mess.

Nice work Nathan!
I second the suggestion for the polar bear. I'm thinking your mod can't complete without one.
A caribou (reindeer) would be cool as well. I can't really think of any other arctic animals to suggest as they are a bit obscure and seem like they would be hard to implement (narwal, puffin, harp seal, orca, wolverine etc.)

oh ya, I forgot, I want to do a seal as well, will swim in the water, and not go on land. The walrus stays on land, though it can go in water I guess, as I set it to not take damage from water.

Hadn't though of caribou, I think there might already be one of those in another mod, but no reason that I can't make my own version. :D

Wolverine could be really fun, when you tame them and unleash them on your enemies. *evil laugh*

I have my Saturdays back, and will have a bunch of days off in the upcoming week for Christmas, so I'll see if I can't get a few more animals.

SuperTux comes to Minetest xD

Super! License?

awesome! the walrus is a bit small though...

Nathan.S wrote:I could have the bears and foxes spawn at night, but I don't know about getting them to spawn in caves, but I could look into it.

Toby, you're welcome to make lower resolution textures, though not going to lie, the walrus texture is kinda a mess.

I probably won't be able to do that the mapping is probably impossible

nice mod!
what about seals?

Martin_Devil license is CC by SA 4.0, update first post with that information.

azekill_DIABLO, yes the walrus is a bit on the small side, I will probably tweak that around a bit to make it larger.

DS-minetest I plan on adding in seals when I get time.

Nice mobs!But i think penguins and walruses are too small in the screenshot in first post

Please specify the mod dependencies in the thead. Especially which mobs mod you use, ideally with link to the thread, since this is very important. The modname “mobs” is ambigious because ignorant modders used/abused this name multiple times despite being different mods.

Nice addition Nathan :) I can see this mod having more additions before long :P

Wuzzy: ignorant ?

Yes, because they deliberately choose the same shortname, even if it obviously causes many problems. Thankfully, I haven't seen any new mod called “mobs” lately. Maybe the community learned. :-)

Andrey some penguins are small and some are big, maybe I chose a small kind. :D
I do agree on the walrus I will make them larger.

Wuzzy the mod requires mobs_redo from tenplus1 and default, but I'll update the OP.

Wuzzy: from what I've seen Pilzadam's Simple Mobs uses [mobs] and since Mobs Redo is a drop-in replacement with full compatibility for simple mobs it has to use same [mobs] name.

Thanks, Nathan S. I shut up about mod names now since this is off-topic.

Small update, walrus is larger, and has some sounds.

The penguins are very cute. Thanks for the mod! Hope to actually meet any walrusses on a server somewhere as well.