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Infested!

This mod adds a variety of content relating to insects and spiders, expanding the role and function of vanilla Spiders and Silverfish, and adding a number of completely new insect mobs. This mod also adds new armors obtainable via craftable Armor Trims, new enchantments, a new potion recipe for the Resistance effect, and new pets and minions.

All of the content added by Infested. All the mobs that are added or have their roles expanded by this mod.

Features

New Mobs

Mantis

Mantises can be found in forest biomes, while their cousin, the Orchid Mantis, can be found in cherry blossom biomes. These insects are neutral to the player, but prey upon most arthropods. When a mantis sets its eyes on a target, it will enter an Ambush, turning it invisible as it slowly creeps up on its prey, before a devastating strike that leaves the victim stunned. When a mantis slays an arthropod target, it will eat it, causing it to regain health.

A mantis can be tamed with spider eye, or bred by feeding it fermented spider eye, and will drop Chitin upon death. Mantises may also drop Mantis Claws, which can be brewed into a potion that will grant you their Ambushing ability, or a special weapon. Mantises can be given special names to give them a skin that references a Godzilla Kaiju.

The lineup of mantises with their default and special skins.

Grubs and Crimson Beetles

In Nether Wastes, you might come across tiny fanged larvae in pursuit of Zombified Piglins. When these grubs hit their target, they will inflict it with a Parasitic Infection, eating away at the Zombified Piglin until the grub completes its metamorphosis into a Crimson Beetle. Fully mature beetles can be found commonly in Crimson Forests.

Grubs can be a nutritious source of food within the Nether, and are dropped by Grubs and beetles (along with Chitin in the beetle's case.) Adult Crimson Beetles are neutral, and can be bred with Rotten Flesh to produce a clutch of grubs. If an uncooked grub is fed to any arthropod entity tamed by you, it will restore a good portion of their health.

Loot Beetles

You may come across tiny, skittish insects when you break certain blocks. These insects are called Loot Beetles, and have several variants.

Harvest Beetle: Found by breaking grasses, ferns, and shrubs. They drop crops and seeds.
Jewel Beetles: Found deep underground by breaking deepslate ores. They drop raw ores and gemstones.
Chorus Beetle: Found rarely by breaking Endstone. Drops a Shulker Shell.
Ancient Debreetle: Found exceedingly rarely by breaking Netherrack. Drops a Netherite Scrap.

Loot Beetles will run away quickly, and despawn after ten seconds, so hunt them down as quickly as you can! You can adjust the rate at which they spawn via config.

Tamed Spiders, Silverfish, and Bees

Rarely, Spiders, Bees, and Silverfish may drop new egg items. These can also be obtained through brewing, or by breaking certain blocks (bee nests and hives for bee eggs, infested blocks for sivlerfish eggs.) Bee and Silverfish eggs can be used to spawn temporary minions, that will fight for you. Silverfish aren't very strong, but they can distract your enemies and a large swarm of them can easily protect you from many enemies. Bees will attack once with a powerful sting that inflicts a serious poison, before dying.

Spider Eggs, however, will spawn a persistent ally. While a Tamed Spider does not have as much health as a tamed Wolf, it makes up for it with its ability to inflict potion effects on your foes. By default, the effect is poison, but feeding it items that can be used to brew certain negative potions (and some others) can change the effect. You can also personalize your spider by using dye to change the color of its eyes. You can also equip your tamed spiders with Spider Armor, which behaves similarly to Wolf Armor.

A lineup of all the possible eye colors of tamed spiders, during the day.

A lineup of all the possible eye colors of tamed spiders, during the night, showing off the glowing textures.

Brilliant Beetles

Based on the mob of the same name from Minecraft Legends, the Brilliant Beetle is a tameable mount that, while slower than a horse, is capable of scaling walls and slowly gliding to the ground.

The Brilliant Beetle can be found in Jungle Biomes, bred with Cookies, and tamed using Cocoa Beans. Like other mobs from this mod, it can be commanded to Stay, Follow, or Wander. However, you'll need to sneak-right-click to change its command, as right clicking normally will just cause you to mount it. If you feed it a bowl of Bug Stew, you can give it the Speed Effect for one minute.

Other Features

Equipment

Infested also adds new armors and weapons, obtainable by crafting special armor trims using mod items, and using them with leather and wooden tools in a smithing table.

Chitin Armor - This armor comes with some built in toughness and knockback resistance. While wearing the full set, you can sneak to give yourself the Ambush effect, slowing you down, making you invisible, and causing your next strike to deal increased damage and stun the target. This armor comes with one level of the Infested and Parasitoid enchantments (see below.)
Mantis Sickle - A weapon styled on the Mantis. If you are missing health or hunger when you slay an enemy with this weapon, you will consume your enemy to be healed and/or fed. This weapon also increases the damage you deal in an Ambush. Try holding another Mantis Sickle in the offhand to double these benefits.
Spider Armor - This armor grants the wearer night vision, and also increases damage you deal to targets trapped in cobwebs. You can also create your own temporary Cobweb Traps that can be placed down and will disappear after a short time, by shift-right-clicking the ground while wearing the full set. You won't be impeded by these traps as long as you're wearing the Spider Boots. Additionally, slaying an enemy that is slowed by cobwebs or the Slowness effect will spawn a temporary Spider Minion.
Spider Sica - A dagger styled after Spiders. This weapon has a 1/3 chance to poison a target on a hit, which increases by 10% for each piece of the Spider Set you wear. Wearing the full set will amplify the poison to poison II. Damage dealt by this dagger is increased at night.
Bee Armor - This armor gives the wearer the Jump Boost effect, and also allows you to crouch to give yourself Slow Falling. This armor synergizes well with Swarm Cells, with each piece that you wear increasing the number of minions you can have out at a given time.
Stinger Poniard - A rapier styled after Bees. This weapon comes with a free level of the Parasitoid enchantment, and for every piece of the Bee Set you wear, it has a stacking chance to summon a temporary bee minion when you strike an enemy.

Swarm Cells

A new tool type that can be used as a reusable source of minions.

These items can be used to generate a number of minion mobs, up to the maximum amount for the specific swarm cell you're using. If you try to generate more than that maximum, it will fail, even if the minions you currently have out are from a different type of swarm cell. These minions will stay with you until they die, or you dismiss them by using the item on them. You can crouch-use a swarm cell to set it to an 'automatic' mode that will slowly replenish your minions as long as you have it in your inventory.

There are currently three types of Swarm Cells, one for bees, one for silverfish, and one for spiders.

Spider Alchemy

By brewing Spider Eggs with certain ingredients, you can transform them into Elemental Spider eggs, infused with one of five special abilities which range from igniting foes to causing them to randomly attack each other. By default, Elemental Spiders will jump at targets and detonate on a hit, but you can brew them further to transform them into living landmines or more persistent 'cloaked' spiders that apply their effect on each hit.

Enchantments

Four new enchantments are added:

Infested: Applicable to shields and chest armor. When you are hit with an attack, you will spawn a friendly silverfish to assist you for a short time. Wearing the Spider chest armor will replace the silverfish with Spiders.
Parasitoid: Applicable to weapons. When you slay an enemy with an attack, a friendly silverfish will hatch from it, assisting you for a short time. Wearing the Spider chest armor will replace the silverfish with Spiders.
Ensnaring Strike: Applicable to weapons. Consumes slightly more durability to temporarily ensnare hit enemies in cobwebs, slowing them down.
Conjured Swarm: Applicable to swarm cells. Instead of consuming durability to spawn mobs, the swarm cell will consume your experience points.

New Blocks

Certain mobs from this mod will drop Chitin on death. This material can be crafted into the Chitin Armor trim, used to brew potions of resistance, or crafted into a new set of blocks.

Additionally, this mod adds three new redstone blocks, the Spinneret, Spider Trap and the Silverfish Trap. The Spinneret will cover blocks above it in temporary Cobweb traps when activated, and the Silverfish Trap will crumble, releasing between 5-8 Attack Silverfish that will go after anything they perceive as a threat, including you. The Spider Trap does much the same, but only released 3-5 more powerful Attack Spiders, that leave behind Cobweb Traps on death.

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Infested: Swarms and Spiders