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.
I can't seem to get a few mobs to spawn in my world naturally: Giant Zombie, Ogre, Scorpions, and rats. I've played with spawn rate settings and have set some to 200+ but still haven't seen any. Is there something i am doing wrong, perhaps?
In reply to Darkfiend009:
Please open a new Issue with your full mob config included
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
Sure thing, i've added it! I just didn't want to open one if i was doing something wrong. So i wanted to check first. :)
In reply to Darkfiend009:
As a rule of thumb it's best to open an issue, because then it's something that might help refine the code for everybody instead of chatter in the comments that might give the impression it's buggy as all heck :D
Just wanted to say, your mod is awesomesauce
Is it possible to disable the dead body on the ground when a player or an animal is killed?
Or just to allow the loot to be given, because i lose some or all the loot from the body.
In reply to EmperorLazarus:
There's a gamerule to deactivate it per-world, and the upcoming bug fix patch also includes a global config option to control corpse spawning.
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
Thanks, will wait for the config file.
Will add back the mod in next update, this is an amazing mod btw.
I'm getting a crash when trying to use an Open Blocks elevator with this mod. When I apply a red stone signal to the elevator which triggers the movement the game crashes with this log:
https://paste.dimdev.org/hijarikixi.mccrash
In reply to complicitsalami:
This is a known bug in version 5.0 related to chat messages, a bug fix patch is under way.
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
Awesome thanks!
Would it be possible for you to make a mod that's just the mobs? The extra features are nice but don't seem to play well with what I already have in use, and this mod has most of the content in the mobs anyway. I've seen some problems with the corpses as already mentioned, plus something making chat go haywire with some of the magic functionalities in here for doing silencing. (players can't type as they're silenced I assume, or something along those lines - commands work fine. Probably a mod conflict of some kind.)
In reply to S017:
There is in fact a config option (Eggs-only Mode, in items under general settings) that removes virtually everything but the mobs. Otherwise there's a small update in the works to fix bugs reported following the version 5 release, which includes additional config options for corpses and the silenced chat glitch.
In reply to Lyinginbedmon:
Alright, thanks! Sounds good, hope the update comes soon so I can put it back in action then.
In the config file can there be a way to disable ice and fire dragon corpses from this mod, because ice and fire already has there corpses and the corpses which come from this mod are just still dragon models which are unable to have their inventory's accessed, are hard to get rid of and just look a bit odd
In reply to XxAcxitElxX:
There's a gamerule to prevent corpses spawning (though v5.0 suffers from some unreliability with it) and I'm working on a quick bug fixing update that will also add a config setting to disable corpses globally. I can see about adding a corpse blacklist for specific mobs to the config as well.
Hey, looking forward to checking out the new update! Had a quick question - I already use electroblobs wizardry and I saw in the changelog some spells and such are added - would you recommend using that in tandem with VO or only VO? Thanks!
In reply to mPlaysStuff:
Since Electroblob focuses entirely on wizardry, whilst VO includes it as one potential route, if you're looking for a Thaumcraft-esque experience definitely invest more into Electroblob. VO has spells as a fun and convenient sub-section, but it doesn't have much of a progression at present.
In general if you want a certain thing, like magic, it's best to choose a mod that focuses on it instead of a mod that includes it as a small module :P
Can you add a config to disable corpses?
In reply to ricemyeli:
Certainly, for the time being the corpseSpawn gamerule can disable them but it's experiencing a mild unreliability bug currently.