Living Decks
Walkable, buildable decks on the backs of giant creatures that carry you, your blocks, chests and mobs as they walk, turn and animate.
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What's new
0.0.1-beta14 – First public alpha
The first public version of Living Decks: walkable, buildable decks on the backs of giant creatures. This is an early test version, so back up your worlds.
Requirements
- NeoForge 26.1.2 (26.1.2.122+), on client and server
- A mod or data pack that gives creatures a deck (Living Decks adds none of its own)
- Optional: GeckoLib 5.5.2+ on the client, so decks follow the animated body
What's in it
Decks
- Stand and walk on the deck. It carries you, mobs, animals and items while the creature walks, turns, tilts and animates, and your view turns with it.
- GeckoLib creatures: the deck follows a bone of the model, no code needed.
- Projectiles hit the deck, and a hit on the deck hurts the creature.
- When the creature dies, everyone on its deck gets Slow Falling.
Building
- Place and break blocks with the normal rules, Survival mining with cracks and drops.
- Doors, trapdoors and fence gates open, ladders and vines can be climbed, spawn eggs work.
- Workstations, anvil, chests (also double and copper), barrels, banners and lecterns, usable while the creature walks.
- Creatures can spawn with a build on their back (structure file, chests with loot tables).
Platform saddle
- A deck can require a saddle, inspired by ARK: no saddle, no deck.
- Right-click to put it on, shears to take it off once the deck is empty. It drops when the creature dies.
- Recipe for the Platform Saddle: 3 planks on top, below them leather, saddle, leather.
Performance
- Deck blocks are drawn as a finished mesh on the graphics card, light updates once per tick.
- Banner patterns are merged into one texture. Chests, banners and lecterns are only drawn when in view.
- The mesh, the banner merge and the culling can each be switched off in
config/livingdecks-client.toml.
For mod authors and data packs
- One JSON file per creature:
data/<namespace>/livingdecks/decks/<name>.json - IMC messages and
LivingDecksApifor body poses, access rules and the saddle - F3+B shows a deck's collision shapes,
/reloadapplies changes.
Known limits
- No redstone, liquids or falling blocks on decks. Furnaces, hoppers, signs, beds and some other blocks can't be placed yet.
- Not tested on a dedicated server or with shader packs yet.
This mod has no additional files