Description
A small mod that allows tweaking some aspects of Creeper or other explosions.
The most common and useful tweak is probably the one where all the blocks destroyed by Creeper explosions will always drop as items.
No more partially filled Creeper holes!
Note: Does not currently work with Sponge, because the Forge Explosion events don't get fired with Sponge installed.
Configuration
The mod is entirely configured through the config file, which is at .minecraft/config/environmentalcreepers.cfg (in 1.14+ it's a *.toml file instead).
In the later versions there is now one command: /environmentalcreepers-reload to reload the config file from disk in-game, without having to relog or restart the server to read the file. In single player you can also use the in-game config GUI for changing the configs (not implemented yet as of writing this in Forge 1.14.4+).
The following configuration options are available. The mod handles Creeper exposions separately from all other explosions, so that you can only enable the tweaks for Creepers, if that is the only change you are looking for.
- creeperChainReactionChance: The chance (per each target Creeper within range) that a chain reaction occurs, if enableCreeperExplosionChainReaction is true. Range: 0.0 - 1.0
- creeperChainReactionMaxDistance: The maximum distance within which a Creeper can ignite other Creepers
- creeperExplosionBlockDropChance: The chance that a block destroyed by a Creeper explosion will drop as an item. Range 0.0 ... 1.0, where 1.0 means that the block always drops as an item.
- creeperExplosionStrengthCharged: The strength of Charged Creeper explosions. The default in vanilla is 6.0 (double of normal Creepers).
- creeperExplosionStrengthNormal: The strength of normal Creeper explosions. The default in vanilla is 3.0.
- disableCreeperExplosionBlockDamage: This completely disables Creeper explosions from destroying blocks
- disableCreeperExplosionCompletely: This prevents Creepers from exploding completely. They just swell up.
- disableCreeperExplosionItemDamage: This prevents Creeper explosions from destroying items on the ground
- disableOtherExplosionBlockDamage: This completely disables other explosions except for Creepers from destroying blocks
- disableOtherExplosionItemDamage: This prevents other types of explosions except for Creepers from destroying items on the ground
- enableCreeperExplosionChainReaction: If enabled, then a Creeper explosion can ignite other Creepers within range
- modifyCreeperExplosionDropChance: This enables the item drop chance modification for Creeper explosions
- modifyCreeperExplosionStrength: Enable modifying the explosion strength of Creeper explosions. Without this, the explosion strength values described above do nothing.
- modifyOtherExplosionDropChance: This enables the item drop chance modification for every other explosion except for Creepers
- otherExplosionBlockDropChance: Same as creeperExplosionBlockDropChance, but for all other explosions except Creepers
Mod packs/permissions
- Mod packs: go ahead!
- Re-hosting the mod file otherwise is not cool, mmkay?
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I don't know how to interact with a .toml file, so It'd be nice to know what state all these values are in when first installed.
In reply to sinandlove:
It's just a simple config file. You can make a backup copy of it before editing it, or you can just delete it and let a new one be generated if you think you want to reset back to default values. It's mostly just boolean options (true/false) to turn features on/off and some numbers to control how certain things work.
In reply to sinandlove:
Well it's not raw code, it's just a config file. A boolean is just a term for a value that can be in just two different values, either true or false (= on or off). In this case it's basically a config option that either enables or disables a given feature of the mod. For example if you want creepers to never destroy any blocks, you would set the disableCreeperExplosionBlockDamage option to true, enabling that feature, which then prevents creepers from blowing up any blocks.
In reply to masady:
okay, but I still don't know how to access that particular file without unzipping the mod into a state where it won't function.
In reply to sinandlove:
All mod config files are usually inside the .minecraft/config/ directory inside your minecraft instance. Often this would be the default vanilla launcher location inside (on Windows) %AppData%/Roaming/.minecraft. And in fact there isn't even a config file inside the mod jar, it just gets generated at run-time if there isn't one yet in the config directory. So basically just start the game at least once with the mod, so that the config file gets geenrated, and then you can open the file .minecraft/config/environmentalcreepers.toml in a text editor and change the values. And if you want to test the changes easily, you can just save the changes and then run the /environmentalcreeper-reload command to reload the config values from the file.
In reply to masady:
Okay, I've got the config file open. Can you give me an example of what I should be doing if I want to set all explosions to always drop all blocks they break? it says I should set those values to 1.0, but they were already at 1.0, and I've already found that creepers still don't drop all the blocks they break.
In reply to sinandlove:
You need to also set both modifyCreeperExplosionDropChance and modifyOtherExplosionDropChance to true to enable the code that modifies the drop chances.
In reply to masady:
got it. everything seems to be working now!
The commands won't work on single player if I use the version 1.15.2?
In reply to shenzi_swan:
There is just the reload command in any case. But all the features should work just fine in single player all the same as on a server. In 1.14+ you currently just need to change the config values in the config file at .minecraft/config/environmentalcreepers.toml and then you can use the /environmentalcreepers-reload command in-game to reload the config values from the file.
In reply to masady:
Thnk you! I'll try it out! But how can I change the config values?
I don't have any creepers spawning after several hours of play on the latest 1.15.2 version, I'm using Biomes O' Plenty.
Modlist: https://pastebin.com/NzYGdLsW
In reply to mo_shark:
This mod shouldn't have anything to do with mob spawning, only with any explosions.
Does this work with creepers added by other mods? Ex. creepers from PrimitiveMobs?
In reply to Skulgan:
I don't actually know, but if they extend the vanilla creeper class and use normal vanilla type explosions, then it should. Try it out to find out.
So where is this config file? I'm using sponge.
In reply to Lt_Ballzacki:
It should be in config/environmentalcreepers.<cfg | toml>. However I have no idea if the mod still works with Sponge, at some point in the past Sponge would mess with the Forge explosion events somehow so that this mod wouldn't wok under Sponge.
1.12.2 [environmentalcreepers]: Invalid entity class name (class not found): 'appeng.entity.EntitySingularity' Help?
In reply to mixheart:
That is just a warning, you can either ignore it, or remove that entity from the config. The mod adds that entity from AE2 to the blacklist by default (because they should be left to handle their own explosion stuff), but if you don't have AE2 installed, then it can't find the entity when reading the config.