Aliens Vs Predator: Resurrection - Predators

avp_predator 0.1.5

READ THIS FIRST — the yautja entity has been renamed

avp_predator:yautja is now avp_predator:yautja_jungle, and its spawn egg with it. This is the first of several predator types, and renaming while there is exactly ONE is far cheaper than renaming later.

A migration handles it. Existing yautja in your worlds and existing spawn eggs in your chests carry over on load and are rewritten to the new id. You do not need to do anything.

Game Breaking Changes

None, because the rename is migrated. Without that migration this release WOULD have deleted every yautja in every world and every spawn egg in storage — that is what a bare registry rename does. Nothing else here removes items, loot, structures, blocks or entities, and world loading is unchanged.

New

THE CLOAKING DEVICE

A held item that turns you into a refractive shimmer rather than simply switching your model off.

• Left click while holding it to toggle. "Cloak activated" in blue, "Cloak overloaded" in red on the cooldown
• The cloak is NOT vanilla invisibility. Vanilla leaves your armour fully drawn and still lets mobs spot you at 70% of normal range when you are armoured — both wrong for a cloak
• Body AND armour go faint together, with a rippling distortion that sweeps down you and bends the world behind
• Mobs cannot acquire you while it is up
• It must stay in your inventory. Drop it or stash it in a chest and the field drops
• Persists across relog, and so does the 60 second overload — you cannot relog to skip it

CRAFTING IT

V V V     V = veritanium shard
N C N     N = nether star
V V V     C = conduit

Two nether stars and a conduit — two wither fights and an ocean monument. Steep on purpose: the cloak makes you unacquirable by every mob that hunts by sight, so it is priced as the strongest utility item in the mod rather than as a mining trip.

The recipe is an ordinary JSON, so a datapack can change or remove it without touching the mod.

WHAT BREAKS THE CLOAK

• Four hearts of accumulated damage collapses the field and starts the overload. Chip damage is survivable; starvation, poison, wither and drowning never count
• Landing a MELEE hit drops it for 2 seconds, then it re-engages for free. Ranged attacks do not. The window is a tell, not a punishment
• Water and rain short it out — you become fully visible with charged-creeper arcing over you, and a looping electrical crackle
• Ten CONTINUOUS seconds wet burns the device out entirely. Quick crossings and accidental falls are free; bouncing in and out of water does not dodge it
• A "Cloaked" status icon shows while it is engaged, since in first person there is otherwise nothing to see

WHO SEES THROUGH IT

• Xenomorphs. They have no eyes for a refractive field to fool, so a cloaked hunter reads to them exactly as an uncloaked one
• Anything hunting by sound. The warden never tests visibility at all, and sculk sensors and shriekers listen to vibrations the cloak does not suppress
• Thermal vision CANNOT see a cloaked predator — the field is a heat barrier. But it leaks an EM signature, so EM can. Uncloaked predators are the reverse: thermal yes, EM no
• Other predators cannot see each other cloaked by eye

THE YAUTJA CLOAKS ITSELF

• It engages when dry and not on cooldown, under the same rules as the player's device
• Shorted out by water, it will NOT try again until it is dry and the rain has stopped

PURSUERS LOSE TRACK OF YOU

Mobs already hunting you when the cloak comes back up no longer track you perfectly. Each one is handed the spot it last saw you and keeps hunting THAT — it walks there, finds nothing and gives up. Break away and it never reaches you; stand still and it walks into you.

Going invisible does not make them forget you. It makes them lose you.

JUNGLE YAUTJA BODY VARIANTS

• Three markings: normal, tiger and brush. Even roll on spawn
• All three share one armour set and one armour texture
• /summon avp_predator:yautja_jungle ~ ~ ~ {Variant:"tiger"} picks one. A summon that names a variant is never re-rolled

Changes

• Every yautja asset renamed to yautja_jungle: model, animations, body textures, armour texture, spawn egg
• The entity is now "Jungle Yautja" everywhere, including its spawn egg and both config options
• A new 27-clip animation set ships with the model — stalking, crawling, climbing, an evade roll, a grapple spin, the shoulder caster, three melee attacks and three throws. THE CLIPS ARE PRESENT BUT NOT YET DRIVEN; nothing triggers them. That is the AI pass, next release

Bug Fixes

MUD NEVER WORKED

Mud is supposed to hide you from thermal. It has never once done so on any mob.

• Vanilla only sends mob-effect packets to an entity's passengers, so an observer's client saw an empty effect list on every muddy mob and the thermal check read nothing. Mud is now broadcast explicitly
• The mud screen overlay now thins as the mud dries instead of sitting at one opacity
• Rain and shallow water wash mud off at double speed. Full submersion still removes it instantly

PREDATOR ARMOUR RENDERED AS MAGENTA BLOCKS

• The armour material is named "veritanium", and 1.21.1 derives vanilla layer texture paths from the material name — so the game looked for veritanium_layer_1.png and _2.png, which the mod never shipped. Vanilla's armour pass then drew the missing-texture magenta OVER the correct model. Both files now ship
• This is why swapping one armour piece changed how another rendered: layer_1 covers helmet, chest and boots while layer_2 covers leggings, so they are separate draws

OTHER

• A stray Windows shortcut file was being shipped inside the jar
• The spawn egg had no texture and neither did its creative tab icon

Removed

Verified against the 0.1.4 release jar rather than from memory. Seven files are gone, all of them replaced or junk:

• The five old yautja assets — geo model, animation, body texture, armour texture and spawn egg icon — each replaced by its yautja_jungle equivalent
• The stale yautja_spawn_egg item model, replaced by yautja_jungle_spawn_egg
• sounds/vision/vision - Shortcut.lnk, a Windows shortcut committed by accident