Zombie Improvements
This mod improves zombie leader and reinforcement mechanics and fixes a few bugs with them.
What?
If you didn't even know these were a thing, here's a rundown from the Minecraft wiki:
On all difficulty levels, damaged zombie mobs (including husks, drowned and even zombified piglins) call all other zombies within a 67×21×67 to 111×21×111 area centered on the attacked zombie to target the attacker.
In Hard difficulty, zombies can spawn additional zombies to "help" when damaged. Each zombie has a "likeliness to call reinforcements" statistic ranging from 0–10%, and "leader" zombies (0–5% depending on regional difficulty) get a bonus of 50–75 percentage points to the stat.
On Hard difficulty, zombies have a 5% chance to spawn as leaders. Leader zombies can spawn other zombies as reinforcements.
So what does this mod do?
There are a few issues with these mechanics:
- You can't tell if the zombie you're attacking is a leader or not.
- There is no visual/audio cue when zombies spawn additional reinforcements.
- There are a few bugs which make these mechanics less relevant.
This mod alleviates all of these issues by:
- Adding a red aura effect around leader zombies, identical to the charged creeper effect, but red color.
- Adding unique textures and sounds for leader zombies.
- Increasing the size of zombies that are leaders.
- Adding a sound that plays when a zombie spawns in additional reinforcements. The sound that will be played is the block breaking sound of the block the freshly spawned zombie is standing on, played 5 times in a span of 2 seconds.
- Appending a "Leader" prefix to the name of the leader mob.
- Fixing two vanilla bugs, namely MC-219981 and (1.21.1 only) MC-14800.
There's also a few additional tweaks:
- Configure the attack damage of leader zombies. By default, it's slightly increased compared to normal zombies.
- Configure the spawn chance for leader zombies.
- Allow only leader zombies to spawn additional reinforcements.
- Prevent mob spawners from spawning leaders.
- Prevent zombies spawned by mob spawners from spawning additional reinforcements.
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- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Added Fabric 26.3 version.
- Added NeoForge 26.2 version.
- Added Fabric 26.3 version.
- Added NeoForge 26.2 version.
- Relaxed MC version requirement so that I don't have to upload a new file every time MC gets a hotfix. No functional changes to the mod.
- Relaxed MC version requirement so that I don't have to upload a new file every time MC gets a hotfix. No functional changes to the mod.
- Updated to Minecraft 26.1.
- Updated to Minecraft 26.1.
- Added option "Increased leader damage": Slightly increases damage dealt by leader zombies. Enabled by default. Damage amount is configurable.
- Added option "Leader size increase": Increases the size of leader zombies. Default incrase is 0.125.
- Added option "Unique texture for leaders": Gives leader zombies a unique texture. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Unique sounds for leaders": Gives leader zombies unique sounds. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Add 'Leader' prefix to name": Appends a "Leader" prefix to the name of the leader zombie. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Increased leader damage": Slightly increases damage dealt by leader zombies. Enabled by default. Damage amount is configurable.
- Added option "Leader size increase": Increases the size of leader zombies. Default incrase is 0.125.
- Added option "Unique texture for leaders": Gives leader zombies a unique texture. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Unique sounds for leaders": Gives leader zombies unique sounds. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Add 'Leader' prefix to name": Appends a "Leader" prefix to the name of the leader zombie. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Increased leader damage": Slightly increases damage dealt by leader zombies. Enabled by default. Damage amount is configurable.
- Added option "Leader size increase": Increases the size of leader zombies. Default incrase is 0.125.
- Added option "Unique texture for leaders": Gives leader zombies a unique texture. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Unique sounds for leaders": Gives leader zombies unique sounds. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Add 'Leader' prefix to name": Appends a "Leader" prefix to the name of the leader zombie. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Increased leader damage": Slightly increases damage dealt by leader zombies. Enabled by default. Damage amount is configurable.
- Added option "Leader size increase": Increases the size of leader zombies. Default incrase is 0.125.
- Added option "Unique texture for leaders": Gives leader zombies a unique texture. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Unique sounds for leaders": Gives leader zombies unique sounds. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Add 'Leader' prefix to name": Appends a "Leader" prefix to the name of the leader zombie. Enabled by default.
- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.11.
- Reworked leader data to use data attachments to increase stability.
- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.11.
- Reworked leader data to use data attachments to increase stability.
- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.11.
- Reworked leader data to use data attachments to increase stability.
- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.11.
- Reworked leader data to use data attachments to increase stability.
- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.11.
- Reworked leader data to use data attachments to increase stability.
- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.11.
- Reworked leader data to use data attachments to increase stability.
- Added support for NeoForge 1.21.1 and 1.21.10.
- Added a config option to adjust the volume of the reinforcement spawn sounds.
- Added a config option to adjust the maximum spawn chance of leader zombies.
- Internal changes. This should not affect anything in the mod in any way. Please report any bugs or discrepancies at the issue tracker.
- Added support for NeoForge 1.21.1 and 1.21.10.
- Added a config option to adjust the volume of the reinforcement spawn sounds.
- Added a config option to adjust the maximum spawn chance of leader zombies.
- Internal changes. This should not affect anything in the mod in any way. Please report any bugs or discrepancies at the issue tracker.
- Added support for NeoForge 1.21.1 and 1.21.10.
- Added a config option to adjust the volume of the reinforcement spawn sounds.
- Added a config option to adjust the maximum spawn chance of leader zombies.
- Internal changes. This should not affect anything in the mod in any way. Please report any bugs or discrepancies at the issue tracker.
- Added support for NeoForge 1.21.1 and 1.21.10.
- Added a config option to adjust the volume of the reinforcement spawn sounds.
- Added a config option to adjust the maximum spawn chance of leader zombies.
- Internal changes. This should not affect anything in the mod in any way. Please report any bugs or discrepancies at the issue tracker.
- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.10.
- Prevent crash when other mods spawn an entity of type null (how)