Zombies are simply too generic. This plugin would mainly focus on spicing them up a bit. It would be a great improvement for survival servers to have something that would spice them up a bit. A few things the options file should have: Zombie Spawnrate: (Default at 1) Can break through: (Item ID's here) Block Breaking Speed: Attack Damage: Movement Speed: If anyone could make this, I would be extremely grateful, - Monkah
Haha, my server is trying to replicate that, and then just add zombies in there to freak everyone out at night. I hope someone takes the request.
It'll be forever before Notch implements Realistic at this rate. It took him a month to release some dogs that I thought were fun for 10min before they started jumping up and down so fast they were vibrating, yapping and jumping into lava all because I was busy building something. In the end I put my furry companion down. I would like to see a mobspawn-variable plugin, I can't imagine it would be too hard. It would be interesting being able to crank the zombie spawn up high (and not tell the players on my server beforehand). >:-D
Among many other things, MobControl can control the spawn rates. http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/mech-mobcontrol-v1-8-02-control-those-mobs-531.4828/
Oooooh, thx, looks interesting, although apparently doesn't work on 617. I'll give it a go. Thanks very much!
@Monkah I was more addressing KeithGB's request for a 'mobspawn-variable plugin'. Unfortunately, I do not know of any plugins that allows mobs to break through blocks.
Ok. Zombies can't hit blocks, so they can't break. What I could do is that if they stay next to a block for a specific time the block breaks? Problem is not a lot of events related to mobs. I'll see about this.
@retsrif You can also check to see if the zombie has a player target (with getTarget() ). If they don't, then do not worry about the zombie.
Well mobs have a vector location. Take their block location, and the direction they are facing. Add 0.5 to that value, and that should be the block they are trying to move through.
Wish the term wasn't ending soon, or else I would try this out. More I think about it, the more feasible it seems.
@retsrif I do not see one, and since I have never messed with the Entities I am unsure if there is a work-around. But, I see there is the onEntityTarget() method. Maybe you can listen for zombies to target a player. When they do, periodically check in on them (perhaps once or twice a second). This check would get their position (to see if they have not moved/being blocked by a block), and also would see if they stopped targeting. If they have stopped, then no longer check in on them (also do this when they die).
@ssell yes that would work... maybe a formula according to the strength of the block too... if i can get that...
@retsrif If you can not get the block durability, perhaps just use a config file. This will allow the users to specify what blocks they want the zombies to be able to break, as well as setting how long it takes to break. Since you are already checking in on the zombies periodically, every check you can increment a counter (unless they have moved away from the block that 'they are breaking down'). Once this counter has reached a threshold (as specified by the user in the config), destroy the block.
Actually i was think that whenever a zombie targets a player, i thought i would start a scheduler that would allow me to check if the zombie is still next to the block
Thats why I put the idea of a config file up in the first post. It provides freedom and less worries about what would be breakable, etc.
Hey, hows the plugin going? Prehaps the abillity to climb walls too? EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
I've taken some of this up, check out zombieattack. Link in my sig. More than happy to add in additional features!
