Animalia 0.4.0

Animalia 0.4.0 introduces the Rhinoceros and delivers a major behavior, combat, movement, and animation pass for the existing animals.

Added

Rhinoceros

• Added the Rhinoceros as a new very rare savanna animal, complete with adult and calf models, animations, textures, sounds, and a spawn egg.

• Rhinoceroses naturally spawn in Savannas, Savanna Plateaus, and Windswept Savannas with a default spawn weight of 1 and group size of 1-2.

• Natural groups have a chance to include a calf when an adult is already nearby.

• Added age-scaled attributes:

  • Adults have 180 HP, 12 Armor, and 10 melee damage with a horn or 8 without it.
  • Calves have 54 HP, 3.6 Armor, and 3 melee damage.

• Rhinoceroses passively restore 3 HP every 15 seconds and take 50% less direct arrow damage.

• Added feeding, healing, temptation, growth, and breeding interactions using Short Grass, Tall Grass, and Hay Bales.

• Added neutral behavior. Rhinoceroses do not hunt players, but adults retaliate when attacked and protect nearby calves.

• Calves never attack first but can retaliate after taking damage.

• Added poor eyesight:

  • Nearby threats are always detected.
  • Beyond roughly 6 blocks, sneaking or remaining sufficiently still can prevent an adult from noticing a player near a calf.
  • Poor eyesight does not suppress retaliation after the Rhinoceros or a calf has been attacked.

• Added an animation-synchronized ordinary melee attack.

• Adult melee deals strong horizontal and vertical knockback. Calf attacks deal damage without custom knockback.

• Added a committed ram attack:

  • A newly acquired distant target can trigger a preparation animation before the ram.
  • During an active chase, approximately 4 seconds of uninterrupted running can trigger a ram at any distance.
  • Ram steering is limited, forcing the Rhinoceros to follow a wide turning arc instead of using normal pathfinding.
  • Ram damage is 20 with a horn and 12 without it.
  • Every non-Rhinoceros creature intersected during the ram can be damaged and knocked aside.
  • Hitting another creature does not end the ram before the main target is reached or passed.
  • Ram has a 15-second cooldown.

• Added ram block destruction, controlled through the animalia:rhinoceros_breakable block tag.

• With mob griefing enabled, a ram can destroy selected leaves, glass, crops, plants, wooden barriers, signs, shelves, composters, beehives, campfires, ice, dripstone, bone blocks, Nether growth, and other fragile obstacles.

• Rammed blocks use their normal loot tables instead of being silently deleted.

• Empty barrels can be destroyed, while filled or unresolved loot-table barrels remain protected.

• Added hard-wall collisions:

  • A solid collision deals 10 damage to the Rhinoceros.
  • The Rhinoceros is pushed backward and stunned for 2.5 seconds.
  • Its horn breaks off if it still has one.
  • Five animated dizzy stars orbit the head during recovery.

• Added animation-timed dust particles under the Rhinoceros’s feet while running and ramming.

• Added living horn removal:

  • Any tool supporting the Forge axe-strip action can remove the horn from an adult.
  • Damageable axes lose 3 durability.
  • Non-damageable modded axes remain compatible.
  • The detached horn drops from the visible horn position on the head.

• After manually removing a horn, the player has a 0.75-second grace period to feed the Rhinoceros and prevent retaliation.

• Feeding cannot pacify a Rhinoceros that was already attacking.

• Added three placeable Rhinoceros decorations:

  • Rhinoceros Horn
  • Decorated Rhinoceros Horn
  • Rhinoceros Figurine

• A Decorated Rhinoceros Horn can be crafted from one horn, one Gold Ingot, and three Gold Nuggets.

• A Rhinoceros Figurine can be carved from a horn using a Stonecutter.

• Normal and decorated horn blocks deal stalagmite-style damage to entities that land on them. The figurine remains harmless.

• Added a dedicated advancement branch:

  • Red Book
  • This Is Unicorn!
  • Horn No More
  • And No Poaching!
  • Souvenir
  • Piercing

• Red Book is an extensible advancement for discovering very rare Animalia creatures. The Rhinoceros is its first qualifying animal.

• Added grouped idle, damage, death, attack, and footstep sounds.

• Rhinoceros footsteps are synchronized with the authored walk, run, and ram animations.

• Added dedicated swimming, preparation, attack, ram, wall-impact, and recovery animations.

Changed

Rhinoceros

• Calves now follow the edge of an adult’s hitbox instead of trying to reach its center.
• Improved held-food following for large hitboxes. Open terrain uses direct pursuit, while obstacles fall back to pathfinding.
• Repeated healing interactions now consistently display the player’s hand swing.
• Calm Rhinoceroses avoid voluntarily entering water.
• A calm Rhinoceros stranded in water searches for a safe route back to land.
• Replaced vanilla water jumping with controlled vertical swim movement.
• Adults and calves now maintain a stable surface height instead of repeatedly bobbing or launching upward.
• Calves retain their shore target until they are fully grounded and out of the water.
• Water locomotion always uses the swimming animation.
• Rams cannot begin or continue in water.
• Improved ram target-pass detection so the Rhinoceros stops shortly after overtaking its target.
• Improved ram contact detection against creatures and walls.
• Ordinary melee no longer stops the Rhinoceros’s pursuit movement.
• Rhinoceroses can now turn toward retained targets that are too close for normal chase navigation.
• Hippopotamuses now ignore Rhinoceroses during territorial animal scans.
• Finalized the Rhinoceros spawn egg colors to #cbc6bd with #686158 spots.

Crocodile

• Ordinary melee damage is now synchronized with the adult and baby attack animations.

• Adult and baby hits are committed at approximately 0.20 seconds into their attack.

• Bite reach now accounts for target size, allowing Crocodiles to damage large animals such as Rhinoceroses reliably.

• Crocodiles continue advancing during the short committed attack instead of losing all movement.

• Simplified movement and rotation ownership to reduce sideways snapping during pursuit.

• Improved pursuit of jumping targets and targets moving across uneven terrain.

• Reduced unnecessary path recalculation in water and during land pursuit.

• Added dedicated calm surface-water wandering instead of using three-dimensional amphibious random paths.

• Runtime head movement now uses the dedicated head_look bone instead of overriding authored neck animations.

• Baby Crocodiles also support the dedicated runtime head-look layer.

• Improved death-roll positioning:

  • The target is held at the authored center of the Crocodile’s jaws.
  • The target faces opposite the Crocodile.
  • The target model rotates with the death roll.
  • A captured player’s first- and third-person camera follows the same roll direction.

• Death-roll ownership is now exclusive. Multiple Crocodiles may bite the same target, but only one can maintain the death roll.

• The player’s existing Shift escape remains available during the death roll.

• Each Crocodile egg in a clutch now stores and renders its own crack stage.

• Jumping on a clutch still damages every egg, but newly added eggs begin undamaged without resetting or copying the appearance of older eggs.

• Teeth released by the large-feeding animation now spawn from the authored mouth position at the correct animation moment.

• Adjusted the baby Crocodile’s surface-water posture.

Hippopotamus

• Bite, stomp, and food consumption now use synchronized action timelines owned by the Hippopotamus itself.

• Bite damage is applied approximately 0.25 seconds into the animation instead of at attack start.

• Stomp damage, sound, and particles now occur together at the authored impact.

• Grass, Seagrass, and Melon Blocks are consumed at the appropriate point in their eating animations.

• Hippopotamuses continue moving during short bite actions instead of pausing unnaturally.

• Improved close-range pursuit so a Hippopotamus no longer turns away when nearly touching its target.

• Improved held-food following against moving players.

• Open visible terrain uses direct pursuit, while obstacles continue to use pathfinding.

• Player-placed pacification melons now require real hitbox-to-block contact before being eaten.

• The final approach to a melon uses a short collision-aware movement phase after the main path is completed.

• Reworked the territorial warning transition:

  • The mouth-opening animation plays once.
  • The Hippopotamus then holds the aggressive open-mouth pose.
  • Leaving the warning state cleanly stops the held pose.

Jaguar

• Rebuilt the Jaguar’s action-animation runtime around a single synchronized action state.

• Updated attack, bite, and sniff to behave as sparse action overlays.

• Locomotion remains active underneath attack, bite, and sniff, allowing unkeyed body parts to continue their walk or run cycle.

• Full-body pounce, airborne, and landing actions still take control of locomotion when required.

• Ordinary melee damage is now synchronized with the authored actions:

  • Bite damage occurs at approximately 0.25 seconds.
  • Attack damage occurs at approximately 0.30 seconds.
  • Each action can apply damage only once to its committed target.

• Runtime head tracking now affects only the dedicated head_look bone.

• Head tracking is limited to calm, stationary land poses and is explicitly reset during movement, swimming, combat, and action animations.

• Authored neck and head bones are no longer reset or modified by runtime look code.

• Babies cannot enter adult-only animation phases that are absent from their animation file.

• Baby-specific pounce and jump phases remain supported.

• Improved visible land pursuit and removed competing direction updates during chase.

• Improved raw-meat following against moving players.

• Accepted damage now triggers retaliation on the server for both adults and babies.

• Feeding by the attacker no longer forgives an active retaliation target.

• Pounce damage is now bound to the target selected at launch for the full 1.25-second hit window.

• Improved water pursuit, shoreline searches, and return-to-land behavior.

• Water and shoreline searches are now bounded and cached to reduce unnecessary repeated work.

Fixed

Rhinoceros

• Fixed ram hits sometimes failing even when the Rhinoceros visibly intersected a creature.
• Fixed the Rhinoceros sliding through a valid ram target without applying damage.
• Increased the Rhinoceros’s recoil after successful hard collisions.
• Fixed ram ending too early after colliding with unrelated creatures.
• Fixed the Rhinoceros continuing too far after already passing its target.
• Fixed false hard-wall impacts inside multiple layers of breakable blocks.
• Breakable blocks intersecting the Rhinoceros’s current and forward ram volume are now cleared before solid-wall classification.
• Fixed water movement repeatedly applying vanilla jump impulses.
• Fixed calves losing their shore-exit goal before fully reaching land.
• Fixed land-running animations appearing while submerged.
• Fixed calves applying adult horizontal and vertical melee knockback.
• Fixed a point-blank retaliation deadlock where an attacking Crocodile could remain too close for chase movement but outside the Rhinoceros’s melee-facing angle.
• Fixed raw and decorated horn models rendering with the black-and-purple missing-texture appearance.
• Replaced coarse decoration collision boxes with rotated compound shapes based on the supplied Blockbench geometry.
• Fixed the horn drop appearing at the Rhinoceros’s generic loot position after manual removal.

Crocodile

• Fixed damage being applied before the visible bite reached its impact.
• Fixed attacks beginning against large targets but failing the final hit because of a smaller secondary range check.
• Fixed lateral snapping when pursuing jumping players.
• Fixed calm Crocodiles spinning around their horizontal axis position while attempting to wander in water.
• Fixed runtime head movement interfering with authored neck animation.
• Fixed death-roll victims being held outside the center of the jaws.
• Fixed the victim and player camera rotating in the wrong direction.
• Fixed two Crocodiles simultaneously holding and teleporting the same death-roll target.
• Fixed shared clutch damage visuals causing every Crocodile egg to display the same crack texture.
• Fixed adding a fresh egg changing the visible damage state of existing eggs.

Hippopotamus

• Fixed bite damage occurring before the mouth reached the authored impact pose.
• Fixed stomp effects sometimes failing when the executing goal did not update on the exact impact frame.
• Fixed Hippopotamuses stopping several blocks away from a pacification melon and remaining stuck in the food-seeking state.
• Fixed unstable sideways turns while following a moving food holder.
• Fixed close-range pursuit turning away from the target and allowing it to escape without taking damage.
• Fixed the warning-opening animation repeatedly restarting.
• Fixed the transition from idle to the aggressive stance being authored and interpreted as a loop.
• Fixed the Hippopotamus repeatedly opening and closing its mouth instead of holding the warning pose.

Jaguar

• Fixed melee damage occurring before the visible bite or strike.
• Fixed attack completion restarting the running animation from its first pose and producing a backward head snap.
• Fixed authored neck animation being overwritten by runtime head movement.
• Fixed sideways head rotation remaining visible during movement, pounce preparation, or combat.
• Fixed overlapping action booleans requesting incompatible animations at the same time.
• Fixed locomotion being unnecessarily suppressed during sparse bite and attack animations.
• Fixed babies entering unsupported roar, flight, upward, reversal, or fall phases.
• Fixed pounce damage using an unbound timer that could affect the wrong target.
• Fixed raw-meat trust incorrectly suppressing retaliation in some adult and baby interactions.
• Fixed competing chase-direction updates causing unstable movement.
• Fixed excessive or repeated shoreline searches during water exit behavior.

The mod version has been increased from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0.