This mod is a simple but very configurable mod that is designed to work with The Lost Cities (https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/the-lost-cities). It makes buildings a lot more challenging by spawning additional and stronger mobs in them. There is a big chance that a building is 'haunted'. If it is haunted then there very strong vanilla mobs will spawn (boosted for damage and health) until the player manages to kill a specific number of them at which point the building is considered 'cleared'. The mobs spawn when the player is in the building but regardless of lighting level so it doesn't help to light up the building (can be disabled with config).
This mod is very configurable. You can control what kind of mobs can spawn this way, how many can spawn, the kind of armor and weapons they get. How strong they are and so on.
Note that this mod is server-side only.
Feel free to use this mod in any modpack you want.
Some recommendations for both people coming to the mod and maybe the developer as well. Also some notes for those who use modpacks.
For Starters: Tinkers Construct weaponry does not play well with the kill count. As someone also commented (and I decided to test) I killed ~20 of the "haunted" elite mobs and got no messages, I switched to a (heavily enchanted) diamond sword so I could kill them faster and it only took 14 mobs before the building was cleansed. At 7 mobs I got the "You're halfway there" message.
I only tested TiCo but I'm sure other mods weapons may not end up playing well either if they don't obey the basic minecraft sword/bow mechanics.
Some recommendations for those trying to the mod out.
Due to the mob difficulty (and the resulting issues with Tico weapons) I'd honestly recommend tuning the mobs down in these config lines.
# The maximum health bonus that the mob will get [range: 0.01 ~ 10000.0, default: 5.0]
S:maxHealthBonus=2.0
I put mine down to 2 because spawning with 50 hearts in diamond level protection trying to kill them with a diamond sword was relatively boring or annoying depending on the mob.
You can also (I believe) reduce the amount of mobs it takes to clear a haunted building here.
# The maximum amount of mobs that are spawned by a haunted building [range: 1 ~ 10000, default: 50]
I:maxMobs=50
# The minimum amount of mobs that are spawned by a haunted building [range: 1 ~ 10000, default: 10]
I:minMobs=10
I'd also recommend turning down the haunted chance to 40 or 50% and here is why:
I have yet to get any notable or worthwhile rewards from the chests in haunted buildings that were worth the struggle. While the mechanics are interesting I'd honestly have better luck going out mining and I'd get a better haul. The difficulty of the mobs doesn't equal the reward and (for the most part) the reason I even cleared the buildings to begin with was I wanted to use a cluster of 5 of them as a base.
Overall I really like the mod, it's a nice addition if you are looking for a way to spice up Lost Cities but it's not a really good plug-n-play mod and needs some configuration beforehand (either with reducing haunted building chance, mob strength/hp or some way of increasing the value of rewards or some way increasing the quantity of chests that spawn in a haunted building).
could you explain the syntax for adding mobs/loot to the config?
so there's like
.3=minecraft:skeleton
.2=minecraft:husk
.1=minecraft:witch
Not sure what the .1 and .2 and .3 are supposed to represent? this like chance or rarity?
In reply to Shivaxi:
Use class editor, copy class files desktop edit them.
Note that this is per building. i.e. you have to kill a certain number of mobs for every building that is haunted. And keep in mind that the building that counts is the one where the mob spawned. Even if you kill it elsewhere. Also how are you killing them? They must be player killed
In reply to McJty:
I was killing them myself and i was waiting on the spawners to spawn them. I was thinking maybe its the fact im killing them with a tinkers sword from tinkers construct? does it need to be something from vanilla minecraft ?
In reply to Keveyy80995:
Spawners? Lost Souls mobs don't spawn from monster spawners. They spawn in haunted buildings and don't need a spawner. They are also extra strong. Stronger then the monsters that come out of a spawner
In reply to McJty:
Ok makes more sense, so is there suppose to be spawners in the building also spawning regular monsters as well? still can not believe i was in a haunted building for 15 mins and killed everything and didn't run into one but it could have left the building to another or something i assume. also do you know the spawn rate of those? thank you for your help and response time as well <3
So I have this mod installed correctly and i have the cities set to rarecities in the config for lost cities, they are not so very rare given the name though but regardless the cities spawn correctly and the mobs are too some with armor and ect but no matter how many mobs I kill and I killed 100 it never lets me open the chest just says not safe enough and i have not messed with the config in lost souls. please help
No because this mod is server-side only. However you do get a message when you are halfway and also when it is done
In reply to McJty:
Ok, thank you, if you can prove how many monsters I tried to kill in the conversation, it is just because I think the monster is too strong, I can't clear the "haunted" immediately, and in more cases I am besieged.
I hope that there is a HUD in the game that shows how many monsters need to be defeated in the building, and then the building eliminates "haunted".
That 80% chance of a building being haunted seems... excessive. Just from my first brush with your enhanced mobs, that would seem to turn the game into a combat-heavy "reclaim the city".
Do you need blocklancher
How do i install
how do i play it?
i was starting its then showed a error about one of the mod
Hello! so I have an issue that I can't quite pinpoint. I only want zombies to spawn with this mod and I don't want them to wear vanilla armor. I used Badmobs to disable other spawns which seems to have worked fine, however, I removed all forms of armor from the config file and simply left the "null" statement assuming that would only allow zombies without armor to spawn, but since doing that my game crashes every time I enter a haunted building. What am I doing wrong?
I see there are no 1.10 versions, wondering if you are considering releasing one? (as lost cities supports it). Want to use this with conquest reforged which only supports 1.10.2..