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Unfortunately i have to re-code most of my 15.000 lines i've already done because most of the stuff relates to items and since you changed a lot at handling items, i have to do it all over :(

Since that's not enough, you totally overcomplicated the code! Again, much things that work for (for example) an armour position on a mob, dont work on its item held in hand and vice versa.

I dont get the "meta" stuff, why did you have to do that so complicated? You almost tripled the code for things that arent different to the code from MM 2.7 :(

Ah yeah, i can manage to have mobs held enchanted items in their hands (and let them drop those). Unfortunately (just like i said before), the same code just DOESNT work for armour... wtf! :( This once was so easy and now i'm back at the total beginning.

EDIT: Sorry, i know i shouldnt complain so much because you still do a lot of work to your plugin and it still delivers! But i dont understand, why you explain things on your item formatting page, that just dont work (and they didnt in 2.7 also). What i mean is the "item damage" when it really comes to how much the dropped item should be damaged.

        - Position: HAND
          CustomItem:
            type: DIAMOND_SPADE
            meta:
              ==: ItemMeta
              meta-type: UNSPECIFIC
              display-name: '&aShadowDog''s &bShovel'
              enchants:
                DURABILITY: 3
                SILK_TOUCH: 1
              repair-cost: 0
              damage: 1000
              damage-max: 1000

Guess what: The damage i set doesnt make any difference to "0" or to "500" or whatever :(

EDIT2: Oh man... it's getting worse and worse the more i try to get through this new syntax. I cant get ANY drops (that are not equipped to the mob) at all. Your examples from the abilities.yml dont work at all.

MobAbilities:
  ZOMBIE:
    DropSet:
    - Chance: 1
      Replace: true
      Drops:
      - type: 367
        amount: 1
        amount-max: 3
      - type: IRON_SWORD
        amount: -1
        amount-max: 1
        damage: 20
        meta:
          ==: ItemMeta
          meta-type: UNSPECIFIC
          enchants:
            FIRE_ASPECT: 2
          repair-cost: 2

This here for example... just doesnt work. Whats way worse than the fact that its not working is, that it's not even prompted in the console anymore! Now i can just take lucky guesses on what's wrong in the config. What's kinda strange is the fact that in your generated abilities.yml, the MobAbilities has a default "Drops: []" but in your description of the same file (just like i copied above) you say something about "DropSet" with the subcategory "Drops"... this isnt understandable at all :(

Ah yes and i cant get the drops to work neither in MobAbilities as a "DropSet", nor in "AbilitySets" as the Drops with the chancelist as i was used to from 2.7 :(

Sorry again for all the complains but i'm really disappointed at the moment since i put over 4 weeks of coding to my old config and i would really appreciate to have all my old stuff working on the MM 2.8 (and maybe above) because of the new features and hopefully because of future minecraft/bukkit compatibility.

EDIT3: (call me mr. edit'alot :D) Okay, i managed to get my first drop. Who would've thought, that i have to put the stuff you clearly stated under "MobAbilities" under "AbilitySets" to get it to work.. what a relief! LOL :) The other complains are still important to me ;)

Cya, DJMadMax

Wow nice, can't wait for this feature =)

@ShadowDog007

Ah, okay... i already checked that with the item_hand, like that a lot! Also the possibility of giving mobs enchanted armour AND Item_hand, thats great!

DropSets, okay.. have to check on that one! Hopefully it means, that i can have different dropsets and choose between them for each mobtype/abilityset, that would be great. Therefore i wouldnt have to "repeat" the whole droplist for each "zombietype" over and over as i do it right now.

Cya, DJMadMax

Hey, mob spawning bound to WG regions. :D I want to have many spots in my world with different mobs with lvls (rpg srv). Don't know if make sense - maybe AbilitySets sets too (active when in defined region(s)).

@ShadowDog007

Hey, great that you're still maintaining your awesome plugin! :) Is there an example file on what exactly changed to the handling of item abilities between the last and the current version of MM?

Hope it's not too different since i've added over 15.000 lines of code to my current config (and still a long way to go ahead of me ^).

Cya, DJMadMax

I need it with WG region not world based. =) Do you plan to implement WG regions soon or anytime?

Will delete all plugins except mobmanager, worldedit, servermonitor and multiverse, maybe there is an issue with another plugin.. otherwise I have no idea. I see there is the source code, so we are allowed to extend your code? Maybe I implement worldguard regions =)

Hmm there are total of 88 entities in the world (only world loaded) and 44 living entities. Next to me are 20 of this entities (yea zombies) and then it starts to drop (atm 13 tps). Spigot is up to date. Maybe 20 monsters are to much in a chunk? Will try to decrease it. Thx for the answer.

WOW thanks ShadowDog007. Talk about fast action, I didn't mean for you to start working on an update. Just had an idea about duplicating a weapon, for another plugin, as a possible drop. As far as the potion ,as I thought, I was doing something wrong. :) Thanks for the help, and thank you for the great plugin. BTW last night was the first time I died from a mob attack, thanks to your plugin: It was great, well not dying of course but having enough mobs who are tough enough to be that much of a challenge is.

I have tested it in all types of conditions. I don't see what it would have to do with my problem, though.

I CAN get mobs to spawn on death if I use a single chance in the list, in which it spawns 100% of the time on death.

Once I add a second single chance to the list, in this case I'm using MobType: NONE to create a 50% chance of spawn, I get 0% spawns on death. There are no errors or indications that anything has been wrongly configured.

I have duplicated this behaviour on both my live server (which has multiple other plugins) and a local server which only has MobManager running (to check for plugin conflicts).

Sorry one more little item I wanted to ask, does MM support Name and Lore keys for the armour, Item_Hand or Drops? I didn't see the keys in the documentation but I figured I would ask to see if it is possible.

Great plugin, it has definitely removed lag from my server and now we have more mobs to fight than we know what to do with at times. ;) This especially heartening because we almost couldn’t find mobs when the server was first brought up. Two quick questions: First I run the Angry Wolf plugin, I know I can control anger with MM but I really like the Hell Hound options in Angry Wolf. So my question since I would still like MM to clean up the wolfs when needed do I ignore – wolf or do I disable - wolf? Of course if I sit down and figure out how to customize this in an Ability Set it would make this question mute and allow me to remove one more unnecessary plugin.

Question two which could be more complex; I am trying to get a mob to drop a specific Potion: Potion of Swiftness Extended. I’m trying to work out the ID and DV most sources give the ID of 373:8258. I was trying to follow the Data ID info you provided but my math doesn’t seem to add up. Could you provide a little more detail on ID and Data value and how to set this up. Thanks for any help and thank you for the plugin.