Biology Dictionary

Introduction

Biology Dictionary is a utility Minecraft mod for viewing detailed information about mobs and modifying certain mob properties. This mod does not add any new blocks/entities, and can be safely uninstalled/reinstalled at any time, or when upgrading Minecraft versions.

Strictly speaking, this mod adds a book item. However, the book is implemented using a writable book + NBT (now called "components"). After uninstalling the mod, it becomes a regular writable book. Reinstalling the mod will restore its functionality.

This mod was originally designed to enhance the experience for technical survival players, for example:

• Highlight entities within 100 meters to easily find rare mobs like parrots and pandas
• View horse jump/speed stats to quickly find high-performance horses
• View items that can attract/feed mobs for easier taming and breeding
• View villager work sites to help locate trading halls
• Block mobs from/force instant teleport through nether portals for easier mob transport
• Mute entities to avoid revealing decoration builds (e.g., chicken swings made with leads)
• Prevent baby animals from growing up to keep them cute (conveniently, 26.1 Snapshot 2 implemented better baby animals, making this feature even more useful!)
• Modify villager inventory items (presented as "stealing") for automatic farm designs
• Remove mob AI and make invincible for NPCs or decoration builds
• View honey and bee information in bee hives
• And much more

However, technical survival players sometimes don't care about mod aesthetics. I still hope this mod can be as immersive as possible and blend into vanilla game mechanics, so I added some lightweight settings and created a relatively immersive UI. Players need to pay a reasonable cost to modify entity properties.

But my pixel art skills aren't great. Contributions to improve Biology Dictionary's UI are welcome!

This mod currently supports Fabric, Forge and NeoForge loaders.

• Fabric versions depends on Fabric API and Cloth Config API.
• Forge and NeoForge versions depends on Architectury API and Cloth Config API.

Detailed Features and Settings

This mod is a complete restructure of Bole, as I wasn't satisfied with the previous implementation. Biology Dictionary is essentially a full rewrite of Bole without adding too many new features.

Obtaining and Using Biology Dictionary

How to Obtain Biology Dictionary Item

• In Creative mode, find it at the end of the "Tools & Utilities" category
• In Survival mode, buy it from Wandering Traders. As game time progresses, the sale probability gradually decreases from 100% to a stable 20%

This design means you can find it everywhere when you start without emeralds, but once you're rich enough, it becomes rare hehe

How to Open Biology Dictionary Screen

• In Creative mode, simply use the hotkey (default ~) to open the Biology Dictionary screen
• In Survival mode:
  • If you don't have Biology Dictionary in your inventory, you cannot open the screen
  • If you have the book:
  • Right-click the book to open
  • You can also use the hotkey to open

Screens for Different Targets

• Aiming at an entity opens that entity's detail page
• Aiming at a bee hive opens the bee hive page
• Aiming at other blocks or air opens the main menu

All Supported Properties Display/Modification

The following lists all supported property display and modification features by entity class hierarchy:

• Entity
  • Entity model display (rotatable)
  • Air/oxygen value display
  • Bounding box size display
  • Invulnerable state toggle (Creative mode only)
  • Leashable status display
  • Portal cooldown lock (prevent/allow teleportation)
  • Mute toggle
  • LivingEntity
  • Health value display
  • Status effects display
  • Movement speed display (m/s)
  • Jump strength display (m)
  • Inventory viewing/stealing
  • Mob
    • AI toggle
    • Persistence display/modify (prevent natural despawning)
    • Tempt items display
    • AgeableMob
    • Growth progress display/lock as baby
    • Breeding cooldown display/prevent breeding
    • Animal
      • Breedable food items display
      • In-love status display
      • Bee
      • Hive location display/locate
      • Clear hive memory
      • Dolphin
      • Skin moistness display
      • Goat
      • Screaming goat status display
      • Panda
      • Main gene display/modify
      • Hidden gene display/modify
      • Sheep
      • Force eat grass (shearing)
      • Villager
      • Job site location display/locate
      • Daily restock count display/force restock
      • Schedule display
      • Villager type display/modify
      • WanderingTrader
      • Despawn delay display/retain
      • Horse
      • Color and markings display/modify
  • OwnableEntity (tamable mobs like wolves, cats, parrots, etc.)
  • Owner info display/gift pet