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[DrZhark]

DrZhark's Custom Mob Spawner

Minecraft 1.8 changed drastically the way the vanilla mobs are spawned. The animals no longer despawn and their spawn is based on the biome seed. In other words, the randomness of spawning was removed. There are several mods that relied on the prior mob spawning method to add custom mobs to the game, like Mo'Creatures, More Creeps and Weirdos, Humans+ and many more.

I have developed a Tool called 'CustomSpawner' that offers modders the ability to have their custom mobs spawned in a similar way than Minecraft prior to 1.8. Every mod will have its individual spawning list, so other mods won't interfere with the spawning settings.

Download the Mod:

-CustomMobSpawner v2.2.2 Mirror (For Minecraft 1.5.2)


Previous versions:

Spoiler:

-CustomMobSpawner v1.12.5 Mirror (For Minecraft 1.5.1)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.12.2 Mirror (For Minecraft 1.5.1)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.11 Mirror (For Minecraft 1.4.7)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.10.0 Mirror (For Minecraft 1.4.6)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.9.0 Mirror (For Minecraft 1.4.5)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.7.1 (For Minecraft 1.4.2) *this version increases spawn frequencies

-CustomMobSpawner v1.7 (For Minecraft 1.4.2)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.6 (For Minecraft 1.3.2)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.5.1 (For Minecraft 1.2.5)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.5 (For Minecraft 1.2.5)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.4.3 mirror (For Minecraft 1.2.5)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.4.2 mirror (For Minecraft 1.2.4)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.4.1 mirror (For Minecraft 1.2.3)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.4 (For Minecraft 1.1)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.3 (For Minecraft 1.0)

-CustomMobSpawner v1.1 (For Minecraft Beta 1.8.1)

For users:
Just download the .zip file and put it into the /.minecraf/mods/ folder

For Modders:

Spoiler:

Please don't modify or supply the CustomSpawner file with your mod, redirect users to this thread or put the
http://adf.ly/Duxfb link in your own thread. Thanks!

You have to create an instance of the CustomSpawner class, and specify the limits for Mobs, Animals and Aquatic mobs. Then you add the custom spawns in a similar way as Risugami's ModLoader. However you only need to specify the weighted random frequency 'freq'.

You can see how is done by looking at this example: I will post an updated version for CustomSpawner 1.6 shortly, the current one is outdated

If you have any questions, post in this thread.

package net.minecraft.src;

import java.util.Map;

import net.minecraft.client.Minecraft;

public class mod_example extends BaseMod
{
		
		
	public mod_example()
	{
		ModLoader.SetInGameHook(this, true, false); //sets the hook to use OnTickInGame
				
		ModLoader.RegisterEntityID(MyMob.class, "MyMob", ModLoader.getUniqueEntityId());
		ModLoader.RegisterEntityID(MyAnimalMob.class, "MyAnimalMob", ModLoader.getUniqueEntityId());
		ModLoader.RegisterEntityID(MyAquaticMob.class, "MyAquaticMob", ModLoader.getUniqueEntityId());
				
		myCustomSpawner = new CustomSpawner(); //initializes the instance of the spawner
				
		myCustomSpawner.setMaxMobs(50); //sets the maximum number of custom mobs
		myCustomSpawner.setMaxAnimals(40); //sets the maximum number of custom peaceful mobs
		myCustomSpawner.setMaxAquatic(30); //sets the maximum number of custom aquatic mobs			

		int freq = 10;
		//freq is a weighted random choice. It depends on the other freqs of the list.
		//The higher this number, the higher the chance of that particular mob to spawn
		
		//adds MyAnimalMob to the three specified biomes
		myCustomSpawner.AddCustomSpawn(MyAnimalMob.class, freq, EnumCreatureType.creature, new BiomeGenBase[] {
		 BiomeGenBase.forest, BiomeGenBase.plains, BiomeGenBase.taiga });

		//adds 'MyAnimalMob' to all the biomes except Hell and Sky
		myCustomSpawner.AddCustomSpawn(MyAnimalMob.class, freq, EnumCreatureType.creature);

		//adds 'MyMob' to Hell
		myCustomSpawner.AddCustomSpawn(MyMob.class, freq, EnumCreatureType.monster, new BiomeGenBase[] { BiomeGenBase.hell });
		
		//adds 'MyMob' to all biomes except Hell and Sky
		myCustomSpawner.AddCustomSpawn(MyMob.class, freq, EnumCreatureType.monster);

		//adds 'MyAquaticMob' to the Ocean and River biomes
		myCustomSpawner.AddCustomSpawn(MyAquaticMob.class, freq, EnumCreatureType.waterCreature, new BiomeGenBase[] {
			BiomeGenBase.ocean, BiomeGenBase.river });
		
		//this overwrites the frequency of the MyAquaticMob in the river biome only:
		myCustomSpawner.AddCustomSpawn(MyAquaticMob.class, 5, EnumCreatureType.waterCreature, new BiomeGenBase[] {
				BiomeGenBase.river });
		
		//this removes MyAnimalMob from the biome plains
		myCustomSpawner.RemoveCustomSpawn(MyAnimalMob.class, EnumCreatureType.creature, new BiomeGenBase[] {
				BiomeGenBase.plains });
		
		//and this removes MyAnimalMob from all the biomes
		myCustomSpawner.RemoveCustomSpawn(MyAnimalMob.class, EnumCreatureType.creature);
				
	}

		
	public boolean OnTickInGame(float f, Minecraft minecraft)
	{
		if (mc.theWorld.worldInfo.getWorldTime() % 100L == 0L)
		//how often to perform this code? change 100L. the higher the number, the less frequent
		{
				//this code randomly spawns custom mobs based on the lists and maxNumbers populated above
				//this is what you would normally need to make your mod behave like it did on Minecraft 1.7
				myCustomSpawner.doCustomSpawning(mc.theWorld, mc.gameSettings.difficulty > 0, true);
			//the settings here are: the current world, spawns mobs, spawns peaceful creatures
				
				//this code will randomly spawn MyAnimalMob up to 15 times
				myCustomSpawner.doSpecificSpawning(mc.theWorld, MyAnimalMob.class, 15, EnumCreatureType.creature);
				
				//There are also methods to despawn vanilla creatures:
				//this code reactivates the despawning of vanilla creatures as in Minecraft 1.7
				int despawned = myCustomSpawner.despawnMob(mc.theWorld);
				System.out.println("despawned " + despawned + " vanilla mobs");
				
				//the despawnMob method, checks the distance of the mob to the player or the 'age' of the mob
				//and will despawn vanilla animals that are far away from the player or old enough
				
				//this one despawns wolves, it will ignore tamed wolves, the ones who are near the player and the ones who are not 'old' enough
				myCustomSpawner.despawnMob(mc.theWorld, EntityWolf.class);
				
				//or you can provide a list:
				myCustomSpawner.despawnMob(mc.theWorld, EntityChicken.class, EntitySheep.class);
				
				//you can also count the number of a particular entity, and despawn but keeping a minimum number of creatures:
				if(mc.theWorld.countEntities(EntitySheep.class) >10)
						{
								int y = myCustomSpawner.despawnMobWithMinimum(mc.theWorld, EntitySheep.class, 10);
								System.out.println("despawning " + y + " sheep");
						}
				//the above code counts the number of sheep, if the number is greater than 10, it will
				//despawn sheep while leaving 10 alive.
		}
		
		
		
		return true;
	}
		
	public void AddRenderer(Map map)
	{
		map.put(MyMob.class, new RenderMyMob(new ModelMyMob(), 0.5F));
		map.put(MyAnimalMob.class, new RenderMyAnimalMob(new ModelMyAnimalMob(), 0.5F));
		map.put(MyAquaticMob.class, new RenderMyAquaticMob(new ModelMyAquaticMob(), 0.5F));
	}

	public String Version()
	{
		return "1.0";
	}
		
	private static CustomSpawner myCustomSpawner;
	public static Minecraft mc = ModLoader.getMinecraftInstance();
}

Also, don't forget to add this override to your EntityAnimals, so they despawn.

@Override
	protected boolean canDespawn()
	{
		return true;
	}

[linkey11]

Yay! Nice workaround.

[MisterFiber]

Awesome, this will surely be very helpful to users, and modders alike.

[irish_brigid]

Yay! Happy dance!

[Builder4Free]

You still continue to amaze me with your mods... Awesome!

[Torojima]

has there been any change on how a mob renderer is added from 1.1 to 1.2.3?

I'm looking at the code of a mod which adds new mobs via your custom mob spawner. The AddRenderer Method looks like described here, still the mob is added with the standard default model instead of the custom made one ...

Any idea where to look for a clue?

[Torojima]

----------
I had some time and investigated the model functionality, so I can state a more precise question

In the example there is this method:

Quote

public void AddRenderer(Map map)
{
map.put(MyMob.class, new RenderMyMob(new ModelMyMob(), 0.5F));
map.put(MyAnimalMob.class, new RenderMyAnimalMob(new ModelMyAnimalMob(), 0.5F));
map.put(MyAquaticMob.class, new RenderMyAquaticMob(new ModelMyAquaticMob(), 0.5F));
}

and it looks like this is the point where the respective models are added. Thus, this is the place where the mod in question is not working as expected, since the models for the new mobs are not added (skin and entities are tho)...
when will this method be called? And from where?

[The_Global]

Dude your Mo' Creatures is SO cking hard to install! I'm trying right now.

[Torojima]

found it ...
AddRenderer
has to be changed to
addRenderer
... tiny detail, big impact

[Tacos4ever]

Took me a while to find the 1.2.3 link .

The_Global, on 14 March 2012 - 09:09 PM, said:

Dude your Mo' Creatures is SO cking hard to install! I'm trying right now.

To me its the easiest. Its just different from alot of other mods. You just have to remember to download all the mods needed. Like this, modloader, audiomod, and Gui API.

[frumpy4]

The_Global, on 14 March 2012 - 09:09 PM, said:

Dude your Mo' Creatures is SO cking hard to install! I'm trying right now.

Why dont you post this in the Mo' Creatures thread..

[DrZhark]

Torojima, on 15 March 2012 - 12:52 AM, said:

found it ...
AddRenderer
has to be changed to
addRenderer
... tiny detail, big impact

I'm sorry I didn't answer before. Modloader changed the caps for its methods to the camel caps.
I've updated the custom spawner, to squash some bugs, it works fine on version 1.4.1

[Torojima]

DrZhark, on 20 March 2012 - 05:24 AM, said:

I'm sorry I didn't answer before. Modloader changed the caps for its methods to the camel caps.
I've updated the custom spawner, to squash some bugs, it works fine on version 1.4.1

have downloaded it from the Mo'Creatures page will continue to post there.

[SSmaniacSS]

Does this work on 1.2.4 yet?

[DieKelpi]

Yes there it is before, I didn't found it xD
It's funny, that some people thinks, that is the same like "SpawnerGUI"
I think, they know nothing ;-)

[tube79]

Is this mod working in smp too?

[juan120]

Just as a part of my OCD you misspelled minecraft in the /.minecraf/mods

[dogcat]

I need 1.2.5! I Have 1.2.5 Mo's Creatures, TooManyItems, and all Mo's Creatures requirements except this (Audio and GUI API). Please make it soon and post it! I don't really want to downgrade because 1.2.5 is alot better than 1.2.4! Please!!!

[matt1337c]

dogcat, on 07 April 2012 - 01:58 AM, said:

I need 1.2.5! I Have 1.2.5 Mo's Creatures, TooManyItems, and all Mo's Creatures requirements except this (Audio and GUI API). Please make it soon and post it! I don't really want to downgrade because 1.2.5 is alot better than 1.2.4! Please!!!

I'm using this with 1.2.5 and have yet to experience any problems. You should just go ahead and download it.

[Darkdealer]

im using 1.2.5 here also but it seems i cannot find a Custom mob spawner 1.2.5 so i cannot play Mo creatures anyone able to help me out?