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Quote from godzirrah»

anyone know how to get cursed earth from extra utilities to work with JAS?

I don't think anyone has done that yet

Can I install this server side only, or is this required client-side as well?

entity.ai.attributes.RangedAttribute



i dont know, but probably its not spawn(jas) problem its entity properties problem

Quote from Crudedragos»

obj.countEntitiesInRange is the solution, but it previously did not accept wildcard '*'. count.getLocalEntityTypeCount would be counting all the entities in loaded chunks; I don't think it fulfills your requirement.

You have awesomeness in your very being. =D

Hello,

This post is to present some clarity on using spawn tags for the block type upon creatures spawn.

For those that use biomes that have top blocks other than minecraft:grass and want to spawn mobs like chickens that can only spawn on grass
blocks, as set by vanilla behavior, you may notice that these chickens won't spawn. Even setting block() function the Creature Type.cfg spawn
tag doesn't help. This must be provided in a spawn tag in the Entity Handler.

For a glacier in Biomes O'Plenty, the primary top block is BiomesOPlenty:hardIce. Normally chickens, for instance, will not spawn here even if given a weight.

In the Entity Handler folder and in the file, vanilla.cfg,

This allows the chickens to spawn on the hardice on the glacier as well as the vanilla grass block.

Alternatively, one could use blockfoot() but I didn't test this function.

Also, the spawn tag can be placed in the spawn list entry but care should be taken when chaining these kinds of tags in both entity handler and spawn
list.

It seems that many of the MoCreatures' mobs have block conditions that need to be overwritten in the entity handler or spawnlist entry.

Long story short, these block() functions must not be placed in the CreatureType spawn tags but rather in the creature specific.

Crudedragos mentioned in a past reply that "lava" as a spawn medium is not implemented yet.

Quote from Templari0n»

For getting NBT data, I found this tool extremely handy:

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1286750-in-game-nbtedit-edit-mob-spawners-attributes-in

If you read the later parts of discussion someone made a working version for 1.7.10

Thanks for practical examples! I will be trying these when getting back to home.

[UPDATE]: Yess! It works!

Yep I use NBTEdit as well, I posted the Ogres because it still took me some time to edit/note the values, may as well save someone else 10 minutes...

Mo'Creatures Bear TypeInts:

1-Grizzly

2-Black bear

3-Panda

4-Polar bear

Quote from LunariusH»

Silly question, is it possible to set a time that certain creatures despawn? Say for instance I wanted most birds to despawn at night (Since I can't have them alight on trees and 'nest'), can that be done?

Yes, you can do this using light levels. In the /WorldSettings/DEFAULT/EntityHandlers, in the appropriate config file for whatever mod you're using, set a despawn tag. Here is an example using a vanilla cow:

With the above example, cows will despawn if the light level is 7 or less. This should work similarly for birds. I tested it with Cow since I'm not sure which mod bird you're using, but it will work the same for any JAS-spawnable entity.

Note that with this example, the cows won't despawn if you're right on top of them. I believe you have to be outside the despawn range in order for them to despawn. Also, they don't seem to despawn right away. They are despawnable, however, and should despawn eventually.

Quote from Isabelxxx»

Crudedragos mentioned in a past reply that "lava" as a spawn medium is not implemented yet.

That's the problem I mentioned with the mod; you have to look to an entire 96 pages thread to -maybe- find how some thing works.

[...]

The mod is great, the possibilities are even better, it's not that things are difficult to configure once you get how it works but the lack of info about how to configure it.

You're more than welcome to help write the documentation with your findings.

Personally I think it's enough to code the mod and write basic docs as has been done. Nobody's getting paid to do any more, it's a collaborative effort; if your forté is writing docs, I'd just go ahead and update the wiki.

(I don't feel I know enough about what I'm doing to jump in just yet--it's a matter of time for me.)

Quote from Isabelxxx»

LunariusH
Have seen in previous post an example about using despawn tags to force it with some condition.
Mayebe there is another way related to time, but you can use the light level as condition. low light --> despawn.

lgcy.light(int minLight, int maxLight)

Use this info to set the range you want:
minecraft.gamepedia.com/Light

Quote from LavaSlayer»

Yes, you can do this using light levels. In the /WorldSettings/DEFAULT/EntityHandlers, in the appropriate config file for whatever mod you're using, set a despawn tag. Here is an example using a vanilla cow:

"Cow": {
"Type-Enabled": "CREATURE-true",
"Despawn Tags": "obj.light>7",
"Contents": [
"Cow"
]

With the above example, cows will despawn if the light level is 7 or less. This should work similarly for birds. I tested it with Cow since I'm not sure which mod bird you're using, but it will work the same for any JAS-spawnable entity.

Regarding the above, can it be confirmed if the Despawn Tags are used to force despawning of an entity, or do they just enable it? My understanding is they work like the Spawn Tag, e.g. "Spawn the mob unless this condition is true"

So "Despawn Tags" --> "Despawn the mob when it's eligible unless this condition is true"

As far as I understand the current settings, the despawn cycle runs every X ticks and entities are checked for eligibility to despawn based on age and range from the player.

Hey, I'd just like to say thank you for making this. It's made my life so much easier and i just cant describe how much I love it. How ive got my game would have been impossible without this.

Hello,

The use of the "Despawn Tags" make the mob available for despawning. It doesn't force them to despawn and they may hang around for quite a while if the player stays within the range of them. This is what the "InstantDespawn Tags" are for. For the same Cow that is mentioned in Lavaslayer's example, (in the Entity Handler folder in vanilla.cfg)

This was tested in JAS v0.16.18. The results were spawned cattle would be set to despawnable when the time was set to night, as evidenced by a /jas composition. A moment or so later, the cattle would disappear altogether. During the night, this would even cause summoned cattle to despawn in a moment or two regardless of distance to the player.

I hope this helps anyone having troubles getting this to work.

Hello again,

This is an example "Spawn Tag" for Cow in order to have it spawn on Biomes O' Plenty blocks, podzol and others.

This covers a wide gambit of the blocks but not all of them. The (longish) integer array is the meta data value for the biome string array in respective order.

In the CreatureType.cfg, replacing !sky() in favor of !ground() in the "Spawn Tags" for CREATURES will allow them to spawn under trees (possibly in other surprising places...) The above was in JAS v0.16.18 tested and found generally working, but not tested exhaustively.

i think problem in RWG alpha, but its not CC thread, its JAS thread

Quote from AnvilPuncher»

Hello,

The use of the "Despawn Tags" make the mob available for despawning. It doesn't force them to despawn and they may hang around for quite a while if the player stays within the range of them. This is what the "InstantDespawn Tags" are for. For the same Cow that is mentioned in Lavaslayer's example, (in the Entity Handler folder in vanilla.cfg)

"Cow": {
"Type-Enabled": "CREATURE-true",
"Despawn Tags": "obj.light>7",
"InstantDespawn Tags": "obj.light>7",
"Contents": [
"Cow"
]
},

This was tested in JAS v0.16.18. The results were spawned cattle would be set to despawnable when the time was set to night, as evidenced by a /jas composition. A moment or so later, the cattle would disappear altogether. During the night, this would even cause summoned cattle to despawn in a moment or two regardless of distance to the player.

I hope this helps anyone having troubles getting this to work.

Thanks for that

**Edit, hate the forum editor

Personal experience, people who want to farm mobs (i.e. with fences) will want to check obj.torchlight as well or they might end up with an insta-despawning farm...

Quote from Isabelxxx»

It was pretty obvious I was going to receive an answer like that.

The same is pretty obvious users and other authors will simply use the mod more if the mechanics are better explained. That's my statement.

I'm not requesting anything; just pointing to the most weak thing of this work.

Example:

Linux is great but don't tell me you can make a public release of linux and then expect the user has to learn how the code works without documentation because you have done enough creating a new SO... then it has no use.

Have already said I will gladly upload my own files once I get them working; have spent my time using this mod, learning the code and its flaws and then writing an honest critic about it AFTER using it. No one is being paid. Wheter the author wants to improve and read critics it's his problem.

I think the author is already somewhat aware that documentation is key or he wouldn't even have bothered updating the Tags page to reflect syntax for the new MVEL system.

Now since you mentioned you were going to pitch in, problem solved--just like with Linux, where a large community pitches in to write, update and translate all those docs...!

(You'd probably be the first person to contribute to the Wiki recently except for the dev, kudos on that!)

Question:

What does obj.light return precisely--is it skylight (meaning, location-independent--a zombie under a tree at noon would receive 15)

Or is it the actual light at the block the entity is on--meaning a zombie under a tree would receive 8,9,10 etc.?

Thanks!