Custom Mobs

[Thaumcraft4Lyfe]

I think a new feature should be added: Custom Mobs. These could be equipped with armor, wear a block or player head as a hat, be equipped with different weapons, and support custom health, damage, and abilities.

This could potentially work by adding a new config file, a custom-mobs.yml. This would allow you to define a new mob, in a format similar to this: (Just an example)

<mobname>:
  mob: <the type of mob it is>
  name: <display name>
  health: <hp>
  damage: <default dmg on hit>
  armor: <any armor it is wearing, uses a format similar to class armor>
  hat: <if there is no helmet defined, you can equip a block or playerhead by stating the name of the player or the block/item id>
  holding: <a weapon or item it is holding>
  holding-enchants: <any enchantments you want it to be holding, formatted like name:level>
  abilities: <This would allow you to select boss abilities for this mob to cast. Certain abilities, like the ones that teleport players would not work>
  cooldown: <the time in between abilities>    

When selecting a mob type in the wave setup, you would use "custom:" instead.

This would allow for a new range of possibilities. I think it would fit well in this plugin. Thanks.

[garbagemule]

We need lots of ideas and feedback on this before we can even attempt a stab at this.

Also ties in really well with the rework of monster spawning/managing.

[mibby]

Perhaps add support for hooking into MythicMobs & Boss for custom mob spawns? I personally use the latter plugin.

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/%E2%9A%94-mythicmobs-free-version-%E2%96%BAthe-1-custom-mob-creator%E2%97%84.5702/ https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/%E2%98%9B-boss-unbelievable-custom-monsters.46497/

[garbagemule]

MythicMobs support is already tracked on #362

While I like the idea of combining plugins for a more fine-tuned experience, direct plugin integration is high maintenance and usually reduces to some sort of lowest common denominator, where a really great feature of one of the plugins isn't available when combining with the other plugin. I think MythicMobs and Boss are cool plugins in their own right, but they are not designed to be used in a minigame setting. Of the two, MythicMobs is by far the most elaborate, and integration does have some potential that might be worth exploring in the sessions/mobs rework. Boss, on the other hand, is technically just MobArena bosses with a small amount of customization.

MobArena is about mobs and arenas. Those two should be what it does well and on its own. A rework of these core concepts is long overdue, but we have also learned a lot over the years, both about the Minecraft/MobArena landscape, and as contributors to the project. My envisioned rework of mobs and sessions should expand the experience in the direction of complex "encounters", rather than having a hard focus on individual mobs and set-in-stone wave progressions.