Spawning
Spawning in Matcha Flavoured follows vanilla rules, with three layers of changes: the biome spawn lists are edited so that husks appear everywhere, a check run on every new hostile mob keeps everything but the undead off the open surface of the Overworld, and several hostile mobs' attributes are adjusted for the difficulty. After the Ender Dragon is killed, the surface becomes safe from hostile mobs altogether; see Surface.
Biome spawn lists
The pack overrides the spawn lists of the Overworld biomes.[1] Compared to vanilla:
- Husks are added to every Overworld biome that spawns monsters, with weight 75 in groups of 1–2. In deserts, where husks already spawned, their vanilla weight of 80 in groups of 4 becomes 75 in groups of 1–2.
- Zombies have weight 100 in almost every biome (vanilla uses 90 or 95). In deserts, zombie weight goes from 19 to 100. Cherry groves spawn zombies in groups of 1–4 instead of 4.
- The pale garden spawns no monsters at all.
- Cats spawn as creatures in jungles and sparse jungles, with weight 35 in groups of 1–2.[2]
The Hell and End biomes keep their vanilla spawn lists.
Other changes to natural spawning:
- Phantoms never spawn, because the
spawn_phantomsgame rule is turned off.[3] - Pillager patrols can't spawn until 360,000 ticks have passed on the Overworld clock, 5 of the pack's longer days (vanilla waits 5 days of 24,000 ticks).[4]
- Monster rooms spawn their spawners from structure templates, and the mobs from these spawners drop nothing. See Spawner.
Surface check
Every tick, the pack looks for "mundane hostile" mobs it hasn't checked yet: zombies, husks, drowned, zombie villagers, skeletons, strays, bogged, parched, creepers, spiders, cave spiders, slimes, endermen, witches and silverfish.[5] Each one is checked once and then tagged so it isn't checked again.[6] The check applies to any way the mob appeared, including spawners, spawn eggs and zombie reinforcements, not only natural spawns.
Before the Ender Dragon has been killed, the following mobs are removed as soon as they appear:[7]
- In the Overworld, any listed mob that is not undead and can see the sky. Only zombies, husks, drowned, zombie villagers, skeletons, strays, bogged and parched can appear under the open sky.
- Any creeper that can see the sky, even inside trial chambers or an abbey, and any creeper at Y=63 or above unless it is inside one of those structures.[8] Unlike the other checks, this one doesn't test the dimension, so creepers at Y=63 or above are also removed in Hell and the End.[7] Creepers are therefore limited to caves below sea level.
- A husk riding a camel husk is replaced by a new husk on foot, leaving the camel husk alone.[9] Since 1.12.9 the function is also meant to remove camel husks outside deserts, but it moves the old husk instead, so they stay (see Known bugs).[10]
After the dragon has been killed, a stricter check replaces this one. See Surface.
Removed mobs are teleported 1,000 blocks down and then killed, so they drop nothing and leave no trace.[7]
Because the check tests whether the mob can see the sky rather than its light level, spiders, endermen, witches and the other non-undead mobs can still appear on the surface wherever the sky is blocked, for example under dense leaves or overhangs. Creepers can't, because of their additional height limit.
Mob modifications
Each mob that passes the surface check is modified according to the difficulty the pack read when the world loaded:[11]
- On every difficulty, skeletons, creepers, cave spiders, silverfish and baby zombies get new health values. The pack also tries to set the mob's equipment drop chances to 0, but the command picks the listed mob nearest the world spawn point instead of the mob being checked, because the check doesn't run at the mob's position. Most mobs therefore keep their vanilla chance of dropping the armor and weapons they spawn with.[12]
- On Normal and Hard, zombies become fast strikers, husks become slow, heavily armored tanks, spiders jump high and leave cobwebs, and skeletons get a Punch bow.
This happens in every dimension, not just the Overworld.
History
| 0.4-alpha | Cave spiders fast with 2 hearts; creepers have 8 hearts. |
|---|---|
| 0.5-alpha | Overworld mobs no longer drop equipment they're holding. |
| 0.6-alpha | Hostile mob spawning reworked: only the undead spawn in open areas in the Overworld; after the dragon is killed, no hostile mobs spawn above sea level or in open areas. |
| 1.10 | Creepers no longer spawn in forests, only underground. Husks spawn in all biomes. The pale garden no longer spawns hostile mobs. Spawn rate of monster rooms increased. |
| 1.12 | Husk spawn weight lowered from 80 to 50. |
| 1.12.1-alpha | |
| 1.12.2 | Mobs spawned from spawners no longer drop anything. |
Trivia
- The developer's reasoning: "Creepers and spiders, they prefer living in caves or forests", while "only undead spawn on the surface now", which together with fast zombies makes night "a really risky proposition".[13]
- The 1.12.1-alpha notes say drowned need Y=43, but the current code uses Y=63, the same height as the other surface rules.[14]
See also
References
- ↑
biome/plains.json - ↑
biome/jungle.json - ↑
setup/gamerules.mcfunction - ↑
timeline/early game.json - ↑
entity type/mundane hostiles.json - ↑
spawn mechanic/ticking.mcfunction - ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2
spawn mechanic/check mob spawn.mcfunction - ↑
predicate/surface spawn.json - ↑
spawn mechanic/remove camel husk jockey.mcfunction - ↑
predicate/in desert.json - ↑
spawn mechanic/modify mob.mcfunction - ↑
spawn mechanic/clear drop chances.mcfunction - ↑ Klei Wright, "Minecraft punishes casual players. I made a datapack to fix it." (YouTube): "On top of that, only undead spawn on the surface now. Creepers and spiders, they prefer living in caves or forests"
- ↑
predicate/drowned surface spawn.json
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