Adds a shadow-looking Non Playing Character.
Code License: EUPL v1.2 or later.
Textures license: CC-BY-SA v4.0 or later.
Depends: default (found in Minetest Game), mobs (Mobs Redo)
Advanced settings:
Settings -> All settings -> Mods -> mobs_umbra
Description:
Spoiler
My new mob: "Umbra" (Latin for "shadow").
It is an NPC, it spawns from -300 and below, and attacks (chance 25%) monsters, animals, and players.
If killed, it spawns up to 5 gold lumps, the chance is 1 on 75.
Rarely drops an unique item.
It seems rather "average", but actually I believe it is not.
It has 20 hit points, the melee damage is randomly chosen at spawn time: it ranges from 1 (bare hands) to 6 (steel sword). So far, just like another player.
The fight stile is "dogshoot", meaning that it will either use melee or ranged attacks.
It shoots a projectile which deals (2 * mob_difficulty) hit points of damage; i.e. 1 heart if Mobs Redo's difficulty is 1, 2 hearts if mobs' difficulty is 2 and so on.
It does not end here.
On impact, the projectile creates a cube of darkness around the impact point.
This is made of N black cubes, which are like air but do not allow to see while into them.
The cube of darkness by default is 5x5x5 nodes, but this can be changed via the mods' options. Of course it will vanish after some time (20 secs by default).
Yes, node timers, and yes I have tried using a VoxelManip to artificially create darkness... you would dislike it way more than node timers.
It does not end here, yet.
The cube of darkness is meant to temporarily blind the target, but it can be set to also damage it.
This feature is disabled by default, because each node belonging to the cube would deal its own damage, be it just 1 hit point per second. Now imagine walking into, say, five or six nodes like these while being attacked by the mob.
Given all of the above, the default settings are kind of low profile: the mob can't be seen until reaching a depth of -300, the spawn rate is quite low meaning that you will seldom encounter it. And anyway it is not a monster: it will attack you only if provoked.
The mod comes with a spawner egg named "Umbra", but I suggest using /spawnentity mobs:umbra instead. The former method seems to make the mob ignore attacks.
Ah well, too much talking. Try it, see for yourself what an Umbra is.
It is an NPC, it spawns from -300 and below, and attacks (chance 25%) monsters, animals, and players.
If killed, it spawns up to 5 gold lumps, the chance is 1 on 75.
Rarely drops an unique item.
It seems rather "average", but actually I believe it is not.
It has 20 hit points, the melee damage is randomly chosen at spawn time: it ranges from 1 (bare hands) to 6 (steel sword). So far, just like another player.
The fight stile is "dogshoot", meaning that it will either use melee or ranged attacks.
It shoots a projectile which deals (2 * mob_difficulty) hit points of damage; i.e. 1 heart if Mobs Redo's difficulty is 1, 2 hearts if mobs' difficulty is 2 and so on.
It does not end here.
On impact, the projectile creates a cube of darkness around the impact point.
This is made of N black cubes, which are like air but do not allow to see while into them.
The cube of darkness by default is 5x5x5 nodes, but this can be changed via the mods' options. Of course it will vanish after some time (20 secs by default).
Yes, node timers, and yes I have tried using a VoxelManip to artificially create darkness... you would dislike it way more than node timers.
It does not end here, yet.
The cube of darkness is meant to temporarily blind the target, but it can be set to also damage it.
This feature is disabled by default, because each node belonging to the cube would deal its own damage, be it just 1 hit point per second. Now imagine walking into, say, five or six nodes like these while being attacked by the mob.
Given all of the above, the default settings are kind of low profile: the mob can't be seen until reaching a depth of -300, the spawn rate is quite low meaning that you will seldom encounter it. And anyway it is not a monster: it will attack you only if provoked.
The mod comes with a spawner egg named "Umbra", but I suggest using /spawnentity mobs:umbra instead. The former method seems to make the mob ignore attacks.
Ah well, too much talking. Try it, see for yourself what an Umbra is.
Archives: .zip .tar.gz
Source code: Codeberg
Installation
Unzip the archive, rename the folder to mobs_umbra and place it in
../minetest/mods/
If you only want this to be used in a single world, place it in
../minetest/worlds/WORLD_NAME/worldmods/
GNU+Linux - If you use a system-wide installation place it in
~/.minetest/mods/
For further information or help see:
https://wiki.minetest.net/Help:Installing_Mods
