[Mod] Mobs Redo [1.61] [mobs]

[TenPlus1]

Mobs Redo - Animals, Monsters and NPC's have a new spawn.lua check added for custom spawing of mobs, a spawn_exmaple.lua file has been added for each.

[Steamed_Punk]

After going over what you said, i just don't know what else to try and because nobody else seems to be having this issue I can only assume that I am either not doing something or I have done something wrong.
I don't want to start a game of tennis here and distract from the main topic just because I can't figure this out. I just don't know what else to do. I know they are in there because I can spawn them in creative.
I am now creating new flat maps, with a fresh download and install of the mods from your notabug holder and still nothing to farm. I walked for a full MT week (no bed) standing still at night and didn't cross a single animal
I am sick of eating only apples and mushrooms :D :D

[TenPlus1]

I sat on map for 10 minutes and spawned 2 sheep, 1 cow and a panda... Go to a green grass area, place lots of actual grass on top of it (the stuff you get wheat seeds from) and stand up to 12 blocks away and wait, animals should spawn, failing that something is interfering... Also for food items Farming Redo adds a ton of new noms :P

[Steamed_Punk]

The only mods I have active now are mobs_redo and mobs_animal, I am on a new flat map and on an open (as far as the eye can see in all directions) green grass area. Just next to me is a 2 block deep sandy pit that I filled with water and surrounded with papyrus hoping for a panda.
On the grassy area on approximately 75x75 blocks i started to add lots of grass. Retreated 12 blocks and waited a night. The next morning a sheep appeared. It cutely followed and nudged me. I did a quick 360° to see if there were any more (as I still have the mob_chance_multiplier set to 20) and the sheep had disappeared. Nothing else for another 2 days, so I made the grass area even larger. At this point I quit and came back without creative mode. Almost instantly a cow appeared. I then did another 360° and the cow disappeared. Nothing else for another 5 nights and days. I moved about 400 blocks away and started adding grass again. Nothing for another week.

Like I said only mobs_redo and mobs_animal are enabled.

Here I was about to submit this message, but for some reason decided to have a quick look at the debug. I can see where i have placed the grass etc and on a couple of the outputs i saw this, but nothing for the sheep.

2020-09-22 16:21:54: WARNING[Main]: Irrlicht: Could not open file of texture: mobs_cow_map.png

I just went further back in the debug (1 hour, same grass map) and found this as well

2020-09-22 15:35:18: WARNING[Main]: Irrlicht: Could not open file of texture: mobs_chicken_white.png

[jas]

Those Irrlicht warnings are not related. Did you have grass_n atop default:dirt_with_grass? Perhaps the ABMs for animal spawning only check for the latter.

[Steamed_Punk]

Those Irrlicht warnings are not related. Did you have grass_n atop default:dirt_with_grass? Perhaps the ABMs for animal spawning only check for the latter.

Hi Jas and yes I am on default dirt. On the other hand I don't know what ABM's are.

[TenPlus1]

Ignore the texture warnings, I would test on a v7 map if possible for a more accurate world (flat limits decorations), and ABM's are little timers that go off in the background for spawning mobs on certain blocks.

[Steamed_Punk]

Ignore the texture warnings, I would test on a v7 map if possible for a more accurate world (flat limits decorations), and ABM's are little timers that go off in the background for spawning mobs on certain blocks.

Ok , new v7 map, mobs_redo and animals only. Started on an large open grassy hills, walked around for a full MT day and reached a new biome. Hung around for ten minutes and not a single animal. I am completely at a loss. I have absolutely no idea what else to try.

Looks like i can't play minetest. :(

yep a bit peeved off.

[Steamed_Punk]

I have just uninstalled MT and the .minetest folder and downloaded the game and both mods. Absolutely nothing else in there. I launched a new creative v7 map with the 2 mods. I started in a massive apple tree, flat'ish zone. Walked a bit to find a patch with grass and just before the end of the day I saw a solitary cow. Night came, slept and the cow was gone. hung around a sheep appeared and then a kitten. Quit and launched without creative, both gone.
I will now give it a thorough test as a player and try to build a farm. if i can find 2 cows close enough :D

[Steamed_Punk]

I have got cereals growing and pens built. I enticed a sheep towards a pen, it refused to go through the gate. I broke the gate it came in I rebuilt the gate. Saw a cow, enticed it about 70 blocks turned to align with gate, turned back and the cow was gone and so was the sheep in the other pen.
The kitten is still hanging around.

[TenPlus1]

mobs eventually despawn unless they have been tamed.

[Steamed_Punk]

Thank you for your patience, and sorry for the unnecessary scare.

I have managed to get a cow in a pen and a sheep in another, I quit and came back and they are still there....for the first time :D As you clearly stated, tame them :D It looks like things are back on track. On the other hand the de-spawn is super fast. No exaggeration here, Look away and back they are gone instantly.

Just a couple of things before I wrap this up.
1) Do you have a guide for taming the different animals, foods used?
2) Fences and gates are different in MT, damn (tamed) cow jumped out and legged it. Got him back again and built the fences up a row. Is 2 high fences the only way of keeping them locked in.
3) Neither would go through the gate into the pen, it doesn't seem wide enough when open :(

[TenPlus1]

Bunny (Carrot x 4), Chicken (Seeds x 8), Cow (Grains x 8), Kitten (Fish x 4), Panda (Bamboo x 20), Penguin (Fish x 4), Sheep (Grains, Grass x 8), Warthog (Apple, Potato x 8)

Mobs are supposed to stop near a fence or gate but sometimes due to server lag it can get over it, so mobs redo has it's own mob fence tops and mob fences you can craft as a double height protection to stop this.

Mobs have different collisionboxes, some fit in single node doors/gates some dont.

[Steamed_Punk]

Thank you very much!

[Nathan.S]

Maybe I'm just missing something, but is there an avoid option for mobs. I know of the stay_near option. I want to add scarecrows to my game, which will make animals stay away, but I don't see an option for that already.

[Ignaramico]

Maybe I'm just missing something, but is there an avoid option for mobs. I know of the stay_near option. I want to add scarecrows to my game, which will make animals stay away, but I don't see an option for that already.

Have you checked the mobs than run from the player?, like the bunnies/chickens/beaver?, something like making the scarecrow count as a run away from entity.

[Nathan.S]

I wonder if that works for nodes, I should try it out. Thanks for the suggestion.
Edit: doesn't look like that works at all.

[Nordal]

@TenPlus1, the spawn eggs for NPC's are shown only in creative mode. As I play adventure mode I cannot spawn NPC's. Only way is to switch every time between modes. May I overlook a simpler and more comfortable way?

Mobs Redo - Animals, Monsters and NPC's have a new spawn.lua check added for custom spawing of mobs, a spawn_exmaple.lua file has been added for each.

Good Idea to customize the mob spawning! Thank you.

[TenPlus1]

I've seen mods that will generate houses and villages into a minetest world so will look into spawning npc's onto a specific block used in those builds to bring them into the world :)

For now npc's have a low chance of spawning onto a brick block near grass.

[isaiah658]

Is there any way to control the distance that the name tag can be seen by the player? I wish I could have it only show up either when hovering over a mob or when the player is within X amount of blocks.

Can I please get an answer to this? Yes? No?

[jas]

isaiah658, you could frequently poll the user's pointed thing and, if the entity is pointed, only display the nametag under this condition.

[Nordal]

I've seen mods that will generate houses and villages into a minetest world so will look into spawning npc's onto a specific block used in those builds to bring them into the world :)

For now npc's have a low chance of spawning onto a brick block near grass.

Uuuuh. I just have to make my custom spawn def to get independent of using eggs... But how do I have to do that: Change values of the existing defs in "spawn_example.lua" or add a new file called "spawn_npc.lua" or "spawn_trader.lua" or similar? The name "example" irritates me, if it's ment analogous to "minetest.conf.example", which is really just an example. The decicive config file is "minetest.conf". It would be nice if you wrote a short explanation into readme.md.

[TenPlus1]

Rename spawn_example.lua to spawn.lua and it will automatically use the custom spawns for that mod, animals, monsters and npc each have their own files.

Personally I find that minetest.conf is already cluttered with api settings and try not to add to the mess when a separate file can be used.

[isaiah658]

Thank you jas! I will look into that more.

[Nordal]

Rename spawn_example.lua to spawn.lua and it will automatically use the custom spawns for that mod, animals, monsters and npc each have their own files.

Thank you for the explanation!

Personally I find that minetest.conf is already cluttered with api settings and try not to add to the mess when a separate file can be used.

Yes, I share your opinion. I wanted to say something else, but my English is obviously not always clear. The matter has resolved itself.