Mosquitoes Reforged
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Adds buzzing mosquitoes and leaping ticks as physical 3D mobs and interactive first-person pests, complete with swatting, armor defense, and livestock parasitism.
"Just when you thought the wild was peaceful..."
Mosquitoes Reforged is a full-featured, expanded 1.12.2 Forge downport and overhaul of vemerion's Mosquitoes (GitHub).
While the original modern versions treated mosquitoes and ticks solely as a first-person screen mini-game, Mosquitoes Reforged reimagines them as real, physical entities in the 3D Minecraft world with leaping attacks, livestock parasitism, environmental spawning logic, and armor protection, while still keeping the beloved first-person swatting mini-game fully intact!
| Feature | Original 1.16 Mod | Mosquitoes Reforged (1.12.2) |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Mobs | None (First-person HUD only) | Full 3D Mobs: Buzzing mosquitoes and stealthy ticks spawn in your world! |
| Livestock & Villagers | Unaffected | Targeted: Ticks leap onto and ride cows, sheep, pigs, and villagers, slowly draining their health. |
| Tweezers & Veterinary Care | Self-use only with strict timer | Hold indefinitely + active left-click pinch! You can also pluck ticks off animals and friends! |
| Swatter Combat | Right-click RNG kill timer | 3D Shield & Swat: Holding right-click swats physical mosquitoes within 3 blocks. Left-clicking smacks them on screen or in melee! |
| Armor Mechanics | Armor gave no protection | Deflection Chance: Armor reduces bite damage and tick latching (up to 5x with full armor) with audible clinks! |
| Spawning Ecology | Caves & Dimensions infested | Overworld Surface Only (Y ≥ 50): No mosquitoes deep underground in caves. Heavy night and swamp/water weighting. |
| Modded Foliage | Vanilla tall grass only | Universal Support: Native integration with Biomes O' Plenty, Dynamic Trees, Botania, Pam's HarvestCraft, etc. |
| Insect Scaling | Large bird-sized HUD insects | 8x Smaller Scale: Pixel-accurate, realistic insect proportions that track your camera view! |
| Audio Realism | Single looping clip | Dynamic Crossfaded Audio: Seamless 4-clip buzz array with realistic pitch shifts and no abrupt looping. |
- Natural Spawning: Swarms gather in swamps, near rivers and lakes, and emerge across surface biomes when dusk falls.
- Flight AI: Flies chaotically with sudden darts and high-speed pursuits.
- Biting & Malaria: Bypasses armor if it hits bare skin. Mosquitoes can infect players with Malaria, periodically triggering nausea, blindness, slowness, and poison.
- Defense: Equip full armor to deflect bites, or craft a swatter!
- Lurking in Foliage: Ticks hide in bushes, ferns, and tall grass.
- Leaping Attack: When prey approaches, ticks pounce through the air to latch onto their target!
- Parasitism: If a tick touches you or an animal (cow, sheep, pig, horse, villager), it latches onto their skin/fur and drains blood.
- Removal: Use your Tick Tweezers to safely pluck them off yourself, your friends, or your livestock.
- Citronella Flower: Naturally generates across savannas, deserts, badlands, and mesas. Can be picked and replanted on sand, hardened clay, farmland, or grass.
- Citronella Oil: Brew Citronella into Awkward Potions to produce Citronella Oil (20:00 or extended 40:00). Physical mosquitoes flee from protected players, and HUD swarms disperse immediately!
- Malaria Cure: Brew a Mosquito Wing into an Awkward Potion to immediately cure the Malaria disease.
- Mosquito Swatter: 6x Cobwebs (top two rows) + 1x Stick (bottom center).
- Tick Tweezers: 6x Iron Ingots formed in a U-shape.
- Spawn Eggs: Included in Creative Menu for mapmakers and testing!
- Modpacks: You are 100% free to include Mosquitoes Reforged in any public or private modpack!
- Compatibility: Works out of the box with standard Forge
14.23.5.2847+and Cleanroom 1.12.2.
- Original Mod on CurseForge: Mosquitoes! by vemerion
- Original Creator: vemerion
- Original Source Code: vemerion/Mosquitoes on GitHub
- Original License: MIT License (Open Source) (Permits free use, modification, and redistribution)
- Ported & Overhauled by: Brilliafy
Mosquitoes Reforged Team
