The Monster Manual of Minecraft!
Various Oddities provides a colourful and diverse selection of mobs to populate your world, complete with config and customisation options to fine tune them for regular play or for adventure maps!
Especially built to be compatible with (but not at all dependent on) Custom NPCs by Noppes, so you can give your NPCs some glorious visuals to make them feel more at home in whatever setting you require!
Mobs currently included:
- Kobolds, everyone's favourite first-dungeon critter
- the Uberwidren, a realisation of the question of what the Wither would look like if Steve was actually any good at summoning it, perfect for a dramatic boss encounter!
- Trolls, big ugly dudes who will heal most damage naturally over time
- Ogres, similar-but-distinct big ugly dudes
- Goblins, everyone's other favourite first-dungeon critter. Fond of 10' x 10' rooms with a single chest.
- Pegasi & Flying Donkeys, for all your terrain-traversing convenience
- Mimics, the treasure chest that bites back!
- Gryphons, a tasteful travel option for your trip to Stormwind City
- Monkeys, now with 100% less poop!
- Giant Crabs, enemy or otherwise
- Floating Skulls and Disembodied Heads, spoopy!
- Rats, to ravage your crops!
- Bulettes, the terrifying land shark!
- Scorpions, to sting you a little and sting you a lot!
- Ravens, scarecrows not included
- A full upgrade and rework of Giants, both living or un-deceased!
Mobs coming soon:
- Collossi
- Whales
- Raptors
- Gargoyles
- And many more!
Modpacks
You absolutely have permission to use this mod in your pack.
Support
New oddities and features are frequently teased and spoiled on my Twitter and are occasionally developed live on stream over on Twitch. Various Oddities, and all my other projects, are supported by all the wonderful people supporting me on Patreon.
Even with natural spawning on, it seems that some of the mobs aren't spawning. Giants for example, I can't find anywhere in my world, even when I changed the spawn weight to 100 and looked on plains biomes. So far the only mobs i've encountered in this mod naturally were kobolds and monkeys, everything else I can't find.
In reply to pxam:
Please post an Issue in the tab with your full mobs config and which version you're using
I keep getting an error trying to load this mod, I've tried it just itself to make sure it was it and I'm getting the same error, where can I send you the message it is giving me?
In reply to Arctic90x:
The issues tab.
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
I posted it so you can see.
Does the varodd_mobs.cfg file accept BiomeDict entries? Or do I have to enter each modded biome individually?
In reply to themadboxer:
There's currently no compatibility with the Biome Dictionary, but this is likely to change in later versions when I overhaul the spawn settings section of the config.
This is a fantastic mod! Keep up the good work! I can't wait to see what else you add.
How do you create potions with the new effects that are added by this mod, like swim boost? Neither commands like /give @p potion 1 0 {Potion:"varodd:swim_boost"} nor specifying new potion recipes using CraftTweaker (the result is pink, uncraftable potions) is working
As for another glitch, using:
/give @p potion 1 0 {Potion:"minecraft:water",CustomPotionEffects: [{Id:99,Duration:2147483647}],display:{Name:"Test Pot"}}
to generate a swim boost pot reveals that even if you use one, it won't have any effect. It'll say you're under the effects of a swim boost pot, but when you enter water and move around, nothing happens unfortunately
Also, is the frog hat's description supposed to say "A friendly boy..."?
In reply to TheCutestGuy:
The lack of functioning Swim Boost is a known bug and has been rectified.
And yes, the frog hat is a friend.
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
Oh, what I meant about the frog hat's description is that it's inconsistent compared to the other two, similar helmets. It's the only one that doesn't end with an ellipsis (...) and it has a typo in it: instead of saying "A friendly boy" it says "A friend and boy" which sounds grammatically awkward. (I hope that doesn't come across as rude!)
In reply to TheCutestGuy:
Ah, no! That is entirely precise, it's an old bit of Tumblr memery, apologies for the confusion :D
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
Oh, I see! It might just be my OCD talking, but is there any chance that an ellipsis will be added for consistency, and after looking up the meme, fidelity to the meme itself as well? (Coincidentally it also ended with a "..." just like the other 2 helmets)
Is there an easy way for players to tweak the appearance of kobolds? Don't get me wrong, they're great, but they really stand out from everything around them no matter what environment they're in, so I was hoping to desaturate & darken their color palettes
And is there a tutorial or something regarding the alchemy and magic systems? There's nothing about them on the wiki aside from a couple of blank entries, and I'm not sure if I want them to be enabled since I have no clue what they do
In reply to TheCutestGuy:
You can retexture them using a resource pack, there's no means of altering their textures in such a fashion in-game however.
Alchemy and magic is due to be added to the wiki shortly, it's seen a LOT of development recently so the wiki is a little behind.
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
Cool, that's good to know. And when it comes to getting mobs to spawn in another dimension, how can I reference them in a config file? For example, I can reference blazes using "minecraft:blaze". Should I use "varodd:mobNameHere" or what?
In reply to TheCutestGuy:
In terms of the VO config, there's no distinction based on dimension. For instance, the End is just one colossal minecraft:sky biome and the Nether is one massive minecraft:hell biome. So we'd just put one or both of those in to the spawn settings for an oddity to spawn there.
Otherwise if you're setting up spawns in a different dimension using another mod's config, you would (presumably) use the namespace reference to the oddity in question. For instance, varodd:kobold, varodd:goblin, varodd:giant_crab, etc.
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
Ty! This is a great mod and I'm really looking forward to learning more about it, especially the magic and alchemy
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
I think I've found a glitch: end golems can attack players, but their projectile is completely invisible.
In reply to TheCutestGuy:
This isn't a glitch, their attack is a laser-style attack. It functions similarly to that of the Guardians.