Create: Hogtied

Ropes, hanging and an RDR2-style lasso for Create Aeronautics.

Tie mobs and bodies to rope points, tow them behind your ships, string them up, or rope them in with a lasso you wind up and throw yourself. Catch mobs, catch dropped items, and catch other players.

Ropes

Tie things to rope points: Rope Connectors, Rope Winches, Create Deep Seas anchors (on moving ships too), and any fence.

• Mobs: right-click a mob with a Rope Coupling or Steel Cable, then right-click a rope point (or the other way round). Anything that can take a lead works, vanilla or modded. (mob does not have to be captured with a lasso)
• Towing: tie a mob to a ship and the ship drags it along. Rope Winches reel tied ropes in and out. (currently broken from a bug on deep seas end)

• Bodies (with Vaskars Remains): drag a body as usual with a rope in your inventory and right-click a rope point. It stays a limp ragdoll, floats in water until the rope pulls tight, and follows its rope point wherever it goes. Untied bodies bob up to the surface, and loose ragdolls can be grabbed with sneak + empty hand.
• Cutting: right-click a rope anywhere along it, or its rope point, with a wrench, shears, or a Farmer's Delight knife or Epic Fight dagger.

Hanging

Anything left dangling from a rope point above it slowly chokes. With Vaskars Remains, whoever dies that way stays hanging, as a ragdoll on the same rope, until someone cuts it down.

🤠 The Lasso

Crafted from three Rope Couplings and a Lead.

1. Raise: hold right-click. The lasso stays up as long as you hold it.
2. Wind up: hold left-click to spin the loop over your head. The longer you wind, the farther it flies.
3. Throw: let go of left-click. Whatever is inside the loop when it lands is caught: mobs, players or dropped items. Items reel back in automatically, but mobs/players stand immobilized.

1. Reel in: hold left-click again to pull them off their feet and drag them in, hand over hand. The rope catches on block edges, so it can't pass through walls or floors.
2. Tie off: sneak + left-click a rope point (rope connectors, winches, fences, anchors from Deep Seas) and the lasso becomes the tie.
3. Let go: release right-click.

Caught creatures can barely move and get dragged along like a lead. With Sable Ragdolls installed, anything you pull down goes fully ragdoll.

Getting caught

Caught players can't attack, use items or open their inventory, and their hotbar is locked. Once they're pulled down they can:

• Spam left-click to wriggle free (a bar shows how close they are), or
• Left-click with something sharp in hand to cut loose at once: shears, Farmer's Delight knives, Epic Fight daggers, or anything you add.

Catching players can be switched off in the server config. Bosses and creative-mode players can't be caught.

Configuration

Everything lives in hogtied-server.toml: catching players on/off, lasso range and throw speed, clicks needed to wriggle free, how hard reeling pulls a ragdoll, how long a released captive stays down, hanging damage, and extra cutting tools. Item tags:

• hogtied:tie_ropes: items that tie a rope.
• hogtied:removes_rope: items that take a rope off.
• hogtied:cuts_rope: sharp things that cut a captive free and cut ropes.
• hogtied:lasso_immune: mobs the lasso can't catch.

Requirements

• Required: Create, Create Aeronautics, Sable
• Optional: Vaskars Remains (bodies), Create Deep Seas (anchors), Sable Ragdolls (ragdolled captives)
• Incompatible: Create: Towed. Hogtied replaces it and includes its mob towing.

Credits

Rope towing is based on Create: Towed by JxstFeli (MIT). Built on Create, Create Aeronautics and Sable; not affiliated with any of them.