Birds Nests is a simple mod that adds a pseudo-random reward event from chopping trees.
Essentially, it's my more realistic take on chance cubes.
How it works is every so often, a nest will drop from leaves.
Right click the nest to get what's inside.
Nests will drop the kinds of things you might expect to find, eggs, feathers, shiny things birds find on the ground, things they eat.
The possible drops are below from the most to least common and stack sizes show the maximum number of that item possible from a nest by default.
Very Configurable!
Nest's should drop from any generated leaf block, modded or vanilla.
Nests now drop from decaying leaves! However at an 80% drop rate compared to breaking by hand (configurable of course) Leaf decay drops can also be completely disabled.
Support (MC v <1.12):
I have included support for dropping kernels from my other mod, Simple Corn
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/simple-corn
As well as the seeds and silkworms from Ex Nihilo Omnia
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/ex-nihilo-omnia
How to add your own drops (1.12+)
Use Craft Tweaker to edit the loot table, or:
1) Download the helper zip under the additional files for the 1.12 jar or create them yourself below
2) Create a new folder or extract the zip to the "data" folder in the world you want to change drops for.
Something like "saves\New_World\data\..."
3) If you downloaded the zip with these folders from here, skip this step. Create the "data\loot_tables\birdsnests" directories and copy from my github or create a new "nest_loot.json" in that folder.
4) Edit the "nest_loot.json" in "data\loot_tables\birdsnests" with your custom loot.
*Note that this table replaces the default table so if you want to keep the default items, keep them in the file and add yours to the end.
*These loot tables will obviously be on a per- world basis. Sorry if this is a hassle, but it's a restriction by Mojang's code right now.
*If you do not know how to edit a loot table, you can find some info here: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Loot_table
There's a 32x texture pack listed as for Minecraft Version 1.0.0. This is just to prevent conflicts with the curse launcher and works on all versions of Birds Nests. Download if you'd like to.
Most versions have 32x textures that can be enabled by config!
I hope you enjoy!
Please leave any feedback or bugs you may have
Other User's mods in this style:
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/tumbleweed
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/magic-clover
https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/ex-nihilo-omnia
Check Out My Other Mods!:
I'm not sure about the fortune mechanic, but I don't think so. It's something i'll look into for sure, thanks! (The mod will tell you when there's a new version, too!)
The weight is 24 so roughly 1/24 or in testing one every other normal sized tree. Of course, if you lower the number in the config to say 15, you'd get them more frequently!
I'm saying you can expect 1 or two per two trees, but not necesserally one per tree.
my system is a bit different from minecraft's random system. Have you played with my mod yet? I think it's balanced just fine. The rewards have a higher chance than you might expect because nests are already not suuper common. I tried it with more rare numbers but you'd have to get like 100 nests before you got some redstone or a diamond. Pretty long time IMO if you needed to chop like 150-200 trees...so if we simplify it to 1/24 for a nest and say 1/6 for an egg, you actually have a 1/144 chance for an egg. Nests are evaluated per leaf block, drops are evaluated for each nest
I would really not worry too much about what numbers mean and just see how you think it's balanced for your playing style and adjust accordingly.
Ah, alright, honestly I hadn't played it yet, I actually saw it and wanted to get a bit more info on how things worked, balance wise, so I could bring it up to the attention of a server that I'm on because it would be a fun little addition to it, that doesn't add a whole bunch, but makes things a little easier (especially since WAILA and the Nether don't like to play along, getting blaze powder from the nests would be really nice)
Also, would it be possible to make prismarine shards drop as well? instead of [i]just[/i]crystals?
I know its planned, but could you also look into maybe having the nests drop nearly broken armor? I mean, who's going to wear a pair of chainmail boots that are nearly broken, I'd rather toss them out. Things like that would be kinda cool to see, with enchanted things being even rarer
Yeah, I'll probably do shards when I add biome support. Ocean birds would find fish or prismarine shards more often
I'm not going to add armor by default. I do enjoy a certain amount of realism in my world and I just can't see how a bird would collect a huge piece of iron armor and bring it to its' nest. When I add support to add your own items, you could do this. What I do have planned though is things like crooks or a fortune axe would give you more nests or drops.
you could add chain/cloth(leather renamed maybe?) armor to "mountain" type birds, because those ones would be large, and tree's aren't that common in "tall" biomes because of how generation works, but your mod, just a suggestion (might try to add it in that way)
still love the mod :D