[Mod] MOB Framework [2.1.2] [mobf] self defence? (Page 25 of 43)

Dude that's just sick.

How about big, big animals like dinosaurs or some sort of dragons?
You know, few giant creatures that travel the world and that could only be killed with special traps or so.

It seems to work well now - no more crashes and the animals behave (mostly - I still saw quite a lot of sheep committing suicide by jumping off cliffs). The amount of animals is good as well - many chicken and sheep, few cows and deers. Fishes work well. Gulls in the sky are a very nice sight. Finally I may keep the mod running and enjoy the animals :-) I didn't see a wolf, but maybe they where hiding.

@Ragnarok

Most animals will only get spawned on mapgen. Animal abm spawning most likely was cause of lag complains with this modpack.

Vombies fish and gulls still spawn with old mechanisms e.g. at night because their spawning mechanism hasn't been changed. I guess there will still remain some lag at night.

If you need more animals try breeding them. And if this still ain't enough probably I'll add a secondary spawning mechanism (to be enabled/disabled per config file setting)
Setting really low chances to reduce lag. This way you could get at least some animals in already generated areas.

is it possible to register a callback on mob death? i'd like to do something whenever each player kills an animal/monster.

cool, but i'd like to use a global callback register function that lets any mod register a callback for a killing event. It's the same idea as registering a callback for each node that gets dug:

minetest.register_on_dignode(function(pos, node, player)
    local name = player:get_player_name()
    gainxp(name, "digging", 1)
end)

you can look at the string value of node.name, and do cool stuff with that. it would be good to be able to access the specific mob's max hp and damage per attack with attack rate, or damage per second. this is so that another mod knows how strong this monster is. thanks, and great mod!

yes. Ideally, there could be any number of registered functions by different mods. (or even multiple ones by the same mod.) I think this could be done by adding a reference to the to-be-called function in a table that is in your mob mod. Then when a mob dies, all of those functions get called, with the appropriate parameters.

the purpose is for expanding upon the xp mod that me and my friends are making. if a callback becomes available, then we could give the player experience points when they kill a monster or an animal. Here's the current progress:

https://gitorious.org/minetest-xpmod/xp

I see what you say about the danger of changing variables used by another mod, but that is par for the course, i believe. i think we both know that if any mod is poorly written, it can cause the game to crash, or cause other problems. so, maybe you could make a note in the documentation, and know that mods that cause problems will have to be skipped by those choosing mods for their server, as always.

I'm not sure what you have in mind for possible mod <-> mod interfaces, but either way, I'd like to know whatever route you choose in the end.

thanks.

thanks, sapier! : )

NICE!

my friend and i have tested this out a bit. he found that you can only kill mobs and other players if you're moving around. otherwise, each attack does zero damage. we both think this is silly, but i think that this is celeron's choice (or bug).

also, you might need a better weapon than the one you're using, like a sword.