Aliens Vs Predator: Resurrection - Aliens

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• The jar has a new name: avp_alien-resurrection-<loader>-1.21.1-0.2.8.jar. If you install by hand, delete the old avp_alien-... jar first, or the game finds the mod twice and will not start. The CurseForge and Modrinth apps handle this for you.
• Needs BLib 0.3.12. Update BLib, AVP Human and AVP Predator at the same time.

Game Breaking Changes

None this release. No blocks, items or entities are removed, and world loading is unchanged.

New

BLOCKS

• Resin, nether resin, aberrant resin, irradiated resin and chitin signs and hanging signs.
• Basalt and netherrack stairs, slabs and walls. Burnt or frozen resin now keeps its shape when it converts.

CHESTBURSTER COCOON

• Chestbursters no longer grow into adolescents: they cocoon in place and the adult emerges. Applies to normal, royal and predalien chestbursters. Runner and spitter hosts still burst adolescents directly.
• A newborn chestburster is covered in its host's blood, tinted by blood type, fading over time.
• A chestburster set to become a boiler now has its own boiler look.

EGGS

• Carry eggs by hand. An untied egg can open on the way and hug the carrier, unless they are already a host or wear the right helmet. With Carry On installed, our egg carrying takes over for eggs.
• Tie eggs shut with a lead or a capture cord.
• Freeze eggs with cryo: a frozen egg cannot open until it thaws. Nether eggs die to cryo.

CAPTURE

• Capture chains in five metals: steel, titanium, ferroaluminum, aluminum and composite.
• Captive queen rules: a chained or inhibited queen holds no territory and never founds while held. A freed queen gets a grace period and a way home.
• New chain messages: anchor too far, no room for more chains, and the queen breaking her shackles.

HIVES

• Interior vent travel: xenomorphs move through their own hive's vents instead of digging its walls.
• Daughter hive siting: a founder moves to a dry spot at a legal depth before digging.
• Retaliation: xenomorphs fight back against other mods' xenomorphs as a rival strain.
• Host mercy: an embryo carrier that hits a xenomorph is attacked. One that attacks a queen, empress or harbinger brings the whole hive down on it.
• Hives no longer rebuild resin a player placed after the player breaks it.

COMPATIBILITY

• Point Blank gun damage now matches AVP: Human's guns, like TACZ.
• AVP: Predator nets: netted xenomorphs are dragged limp, with escape chances by size.
• Stellaris and Ad Astra: xenomorph strains are immune to the hazards their strain should shrug off.
• ReMorphed / Walkers: morphs into our mobs now animate.
• Taller worlds (height mods) and the Superflat Dimension mod: hives respect the world's real height.
• AVP: Human resonator: its field slows xenomorphs and puts them to sleep.

GAME RULES

• gunBalancing: scale TACZ and Point Blank damage to match AVP: Human's guns.
• blockNaturalQueenSpawns: stop wild queens spawning naturally.
• hiveBlocksMobSpawns: stop animals and monsters spawning naturally inside hives.
• avpAlienHivesBreedPredaliens and avpAlienTotemsPreventChestbursterDeath now have proper names in the game rule screen.

Changes

PERFORMANCE

• Eggs far from any player (64 blocks) do their heavy mob tick once a second. Hatching and pickup still run every tick. Large egg rooms cost far less.
• Hive building, raids, parties, vents and recovery never load chunks any more. This removes long freezes in worlds with heavy world generation.
• Distant xenomorphs update their animations less often.
• Short caches for host scans, the carrier's surround check and the hive's egg count.
• Hive rallying runs at most twice a second, and hive timed jobs are spread across ticks.

COMBAT AND AI

• Xenomorphs give up a chase they keep failing, and wait longer before giving up on a target above them.
• Xenomorphs dig a staircase up toward a target above them, where they may break blocks.
• Xenomorphs plan leaps across gaps: runners, prowlers and bursters 6 blocks (9 with a run-up), drones, warriors, spitters and predaliens 4 (7), heavy castes and royals 3 (5). Boilers and juveniles do not leap.
• The warden is the one mob that can finish a downed queen.

STRAINS

• Fire does double damage to normal, aberrant and irradiated xenomorphs. Irradiated xenos on fire under 10% health may explode.
• Nether xenomorphs take double damage from cold. Under 10% health from cold they freeze or explode.
• Irradiated xenomorphs are immune to cryo.

QUEENS AND HIVES

• Hand-placed, wild and daughter queens each sleep for their own length before founding.
• Queens never dig on flat worlds.
• A hive with a living queen never migrates, and empress-led hives never lose territory to decay.
• Overflow eggs are always banked instead of destroyed.
• An empress lays her eggs in a ring around her, like a queen.
• Unloaded hives earn more biomass and grow drones and runners (up to 50 members), but stay below the size needed to found daughters.
• A hive waits 2 Minecraft days before replacing burnt or frozen resin, paused while it fights inside its territory. Burning more resin resets the wait.
• Old-world queens (from before the queen lifecycle) now really sleep: off their egg sack, no egg growth and no boss bar, until a player hits them or a command wakes them.

BUILD-FREE MODE

• Egg and jelly clusters sit on the real ground with 4 blocks of headroom.
• Hosts are webbed in place beside the egg clusters.
• Vent spacing rules, with four new config settings.
• A queen standing in a queenless hive of her own strain takes its throne.

POISON JELLY

• A queen forced to settle with poison jelly settles at once, with no five minute wait.
• Clear refusal messages when she cannot: held captive, downed, or already ruling a hive.

Bug Fixes

HIVES

• Daughter hives no longer build on the surface or found over oceans.
• Party members are no longer banked twice, and logging out no longer counts as dying.
• Parties no longer appear before their vent is dug.
• Hives that could not draw from their bank are no longer treated as empty or dying.
• Floating resin veins and webs in hive rooms no longer grow back after being broken.
• Fixed a crash in hive decoration growth.
• Drones no longer delete eggs around an empress.
• A captured player is no longer killed the moment they are webbed into a host spot.
• Xenomorphs no longer dig through their own hive's walls.
• Unloaded hive biomass, land and births are now saved.
• A promoted queen no longer keeps her old legacy hive record.
• Killing an old-world queen now lets her sleeping hive decay normally.

BUILD-FREE MODE

• Clusters no longer overwrite blocks deep under the queen.
• Queens, eggs, guards and returning members no longer appear inside rock.
• Hosts now find a spot, receive an egg and are collected inside the hive.
• Fixed a large server stall while a carrier held a host.
• Surface and shallow queens can found in found-in-place mode.
• Drones no longer place vents without limit.
• A refused queen no longer repeats her message and particles forever.

MOBS AND ITEMS

• Xenomorphs are no longer immune to TACZ guns.
• Queens can no longer be pulled by fishing rods.
• The warrior plays its carry animation.
• The Silver Smile music disc shows its proper name.

Removed

Nothing.