[Mod] Simple Mobs [mobs]

[ZacAttack]

Sorry - I get a failed to run init.lua

change name of file to "mobs"

[Nicksahere]

Idk what it is but this mod spawns a ton, I mean a TON! I really need help, they lag up my game terribly

[PilzAdam]

Idk what it is but this mod spawns a ton, I mean a TON! I really need help, they lag up my game terribly

I noticed that too. In the latest dev version fo the Minetest engine huge piles of mobs spawn. That is not intentional.

[Sokomine]

Sheep in a deep valley seemed to reproduce fast:

Might be a client/network bug as after relogin the number of sheep was decresed a bit. In general, lots of mobs gather in pits. Their jumping is too random to "escape" and reach higher ground most of the time.

[kaeza]

Sheep in a deep valley seemed to reproduce fast:
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Might be a client/network bug as after relogin the number of sheep was decresed a bit. In general, lots of mobs gather in pits. Their jumping is too random to "escape" and reach higher ground most of the time.

This also happens with MOBF. It may be that entity duplication bug.
Edit: as a side note, when posting images hosted in ompldr, change the first char in the filename from 't' ("thumbnail") to 'v' ("view"). In your case, http://ompldr.org/taWNrNg becomes http://ompldr.org/vaWNrNg

[Sokomine]

Thanks for the hint with ompldr. I used zimg.eu before, but that seems to be down. The smaller preview image isn't entirely bad; it may help load the page. The "post your screenshots"-thread is close to unreadable for me with its many images.

The sheep in this case might very well have been that entity dublication bug. Some more sheep might have fallen in from the hills around that valley, but not that many.

It's great that entity-entity-collusion is now part of the game so animals no longer wander through each other. That improves the game a lot!

[12Me21]

You should add cats

[Sokomine]

Feel free to do a cat model! There are many animals which could be part of MT and for which we don't have a model yet

[Pavel_S]

Update UVmap of sand_monster.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mrkwk79n5hpxlb2/LemVb1jZIr

[PenguinDad]

I have a problem.
When I kill a rat I have no rat in my inventory.

[PilzAdam]

I have a problem.
When I kill a rat I have no rat in my inventory.

Try rightclicking the rat.

[12Me21]

Feel free to do a cat model! There are many animals which could be part of MT and for which we don't have a model yet

I don't know how to make models.

[PenguinDad]

Try rightclicking the rat.

Thanks and you shave a sheep with the same procedure.

[Mossmanikin]

Like it!
Love the sheep, remind me so much of Minecraft.

[jojoa1997]

Maybe shears should be added for shearing sheep.

[BrandonReese]

I had to remove simple mobs from my server. Mobs piled up in low lying areas and were lagging my server like crazy. I know you check how many mobs are in an area when spawning, is it possible to check for the number of mobs in a certain area periodically and start removing mobs if the density to is too high. On my map at one point there were 15+ rats and stone monsters in about a 5x5 area.

[Sokomine]

I'm afraid that's one of the points where mobf is more complex than mobs and where mobs would have to become less simple if checking would be included.

I've encountered the problem as well; on one server with mobs installed, i just fenced off an area that was sourrounded on all other sides by high cliffs. Withhin very short time, lots of sheep had gathered down there. I hope animal right activists will never come there because they'd certainly complain! Sometimes, sheep stack two or three sheep high in certain areas.

[Linxx]

is there a way to make the mod just spawn small patches of mobs? or it's not possible at the moment?

[Michael Eh?]

well I can say i hate this mod... the spawn rate is TOO frickin' high. Also how do we sheer sheep?

Also mice (rats) need to die when encountering water/lava.

How about a mousetrap? 1 steel, 1 wood for 12 traps. Mouse crosses the trap... SNAP! Gone.
The trap would then need to be picked up and place again to reset the trap.

Sheep look like pigs with a hoodie. the snout needs to be longer. :P

Admin controls to /mobpurge [mobname], /mobstop/start [mobname] and something to control gen rate and exclusion zones.

[Zeg9]

This worked great until some recent update... At the moment it has became kinda unusable due to the spawning problem :/

[Casimir]

Sheep look like pigs with a hoodie.

http://www.planetminecraft.com/skin/pig-with-hoodie-1965951/

[thefamilygrog66]

With some help from Kaeza, I've added a few lines of code to the api.lua file in order to give the mobs a defined life-span, in this case 10 minutes (600 seconds); when each mob reaches that age, it simply disappears.

While not the best solution, it's probably the simplest, and it definitely helps with keeping the mob population under control, thus preventing (or at least reducing) server lag.

On line 30, I added:

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deathtimer = 0,

And then around line 145 (i.e. in the on_step function), I added:

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self.deathtimer = self.deathtimer+dtime
if self.deathtimer > 600 then
    self.object:remove()
end

That's it!

If you want mobs to live longer/shorter, simply change the 600 to the number of seconds you prefer.

[PilzAdam]

With some help from Kaeza, I've added a few lines of code to the api.lua file in order to give the mobs a defined life-span, in this case 10 minutes (600 seconds); when each mob reaches that age, it simply disappears.

While not the best solution, it's probably the simplest, and it definitely helps with keeping the mob population under control, thus preventing (or at least reducing) server lag.

On line 30, I added:

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deathtimer = 0,

And then around line 145 (i.e. in the on_step function), I added:

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self.deathtimer = self.deathtimer+dtime
if self.deathtimer > 600 then
    self.object:remove()
end

That's it!

If you want mobs to live longer/shorter, simply change the 600 to the number of seconds you prefer.

I added a lifetimer here: https://github.com/PilzAdam/mobs/commit/3ea8fb5d768403718a4c0fc5e412540709e94d3d
Someone needs to test this.

[Inocudom]

With some help from Kaeza, I've added a few lines of code to the api.lua file in order to give the mobs a defined life-span, in this case 10 minutes (600 seconds); when each mob reaches that age, it simply disappears.

While not the best solution, it's probably the simplest, and it definitely helps with keeping the mob population under control, thus preventing (or at least reducing) server lag.

On line 30, I added:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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deathtimer = 0,

And then around line 145 (i.e. in the on_step function), I added:

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

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self.deathtimer = self.deathtimer+dtime
if self.deathtimer > 600 then
    self.object:remove()
end

That's it!

If you want mobs to live longer/shorter, simply change the 600 to the number of seconds you prefer.

I added a lifetimer here: https://github.com/PilzAdam/mobs/commit/3ea8fb5d768403718a4c0fc5e412540709e94d3d
Someone needs to test this.

Good idea, PilzAdam. If this new bit of code works out, animals_modpack could find it to be useful as well. Perhaps cheese for mice and hay bundles for sheep could be used to keep them alive for a longer period of time?

[Sokomine]

That may help with lag on servers. Unfortionately, keeping simple mobs as farm animals will become even more difficult then. It already is more a matter of chance right now because the mobs cannot be caught and placed by players. Maybe that rat trap could be extended to sheep and deer so that they could be caught in a cage and carried arround, much like the lasso-catching in mobf.

[thefamilygrog66]

That may help with lag on servers. Unfortionately, keeping simple mobs as farm animals will become even more difficult then. It already is more a matter of chance right now because the mobs cannot be caught and placed by players. Maybe that rat trap could be extended to sheep and deer so that they could be caught in a cage and carried arround, much like the lasso-catching in mobf.

I agree that a method to transport sheep, as well as a way to "tag" them as being domesticated (and therefore not die after 10 minutes), would be very helpful to add to the mod.

[PilzAdam]

Ok, update: https://github.com/PilzAdam/mobs/commit/853e981992d6acd5276bbcd1ca0201649a6e7f73
Sheeps follow you when you hold wheat now. If you feed them with it, they are marked as tamed and will not despawn.
Also some wheat regrows their wool.

[Sokomine]

Sounds fine!

[Mossmanikin]

Love the update!

Only one thing: isn't the wheat meant to disappear when you feed the sheep?
When I feed them it stays in my inventory...

[PilzAdam]

Love the update!

Only one thing: isn't the wheat meant to disappear when you feed the sheep?
When I feed them it stays in my inventory...

It was a bug in the engine, fixed here: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/e464f193566b3c4173b44d3bf6c82aa032d9fed7