Bukkit

Is it possible in anyway to use this in conjunction with Heroes?

@blainicus

Okay, i added multiverse-core, but i dont have a plugin.yml anywhere, and i still cant have the plugin on multiple worlds

@blainicus

So I can just change "bonus naturalistic spawns" max Y in the beginning of the config file and not worry about the individual spawn heights in Natural?

Thanks a heap!

Additionally: We have yet to run into the "fake" skeletons that you can hurt once but otherwise cannot interact with. I think the 1.2.5 and your update had fixed this weird bug. Will let you know if we run into them again.

soooo.... i try to add this plugin to more that just 1 world by typing
- Nastycraft
- Nastycraft_nether
- Nastycraft_the_end
- Maxiworld
- Planetoids

but when i have more that 1 world listed int he config the plugin doesnt work, only with 1 world, is it possible to add it to multiple worlds?

@blainicus

Erm, what you said was not very clear.

There are two separate areas that ask if you can spawn Naturalistic Bonus Spawns and two different areas that ask the "Chance".

The first one, earlier is:

Naturalistic Bonus Spawns: Creeper: spawn: true chance: 16.0

The one later on, past the adv mob properties is:

Natural: Creeper: spawn: true spawncount: 1 spawnchance: 16.0 spawnymin: 1 spawnymax: 128 replacement: Creeper

So, what is what? Does this mean that I can disable Natural bonus mobs in general, and use the "Natural:" things to edit the mob spawns or if they spawn at all, the "vanilla" monster spawns? (IE: At the very top I have "Enable natural passive spawns?: false", and the "Natural:" section would edit this class of mobs?)

Of course, I can only use Naturalistic Bonus Mobs to set mobs to spawn at light level of 0-5, so I want to keep that false regardless...

I currently have creepers at 16.0, and Ender/Skele/Spider/Zombie at 21.0 in both Naturalistic Bonus Spawns section as well as in the Natural: section since I was a bit confused.

Also, do I need to change the "max y" values everywhere to 256 so they spawn in places above the old world height?

Hey buddy, remember me? Great job on the update, I said I'd donate again if all goes well :P

With your new spawning chance/etc I'm confused. Your config sorta needs to get cleaned up because it's a bit of a mess now IMO.

I wanted to do 2 things: Make monsters spawn from light 0-5 and make creepers spawn LESS than other mobs. Before, you told me to set naturalistic spawns to true for just my main world, but the new spawn boolean stuff is confusing. So the lines:

Naturalistic Bonus Spawns: Creeper: spawn: true chance: 16.0

No longer matter, correct? This just sets if a creeper can spawn at all?

To change the chance, down below the mob editing do I change the %?

IE:

Natural: Creeper: spawn: true spawncount: 1 spawnchance: 16.0 spawnymin: 1 spawnymax: 128 replacement: Creeper

I noticed each of these are set to spawn: true, and that just means its possible to spawn in the world at all, correct? Versus the first copy-paste which was will this mob spawn in naturalistic spawns?

Should I increase y to 256 since that's the new height? Should I do that way up top in the "naturalistic mobs" place, or down below where I posted?

What is: "Use new event system?: true"? I'm assuming turning to false would break it?

Thanks buddy! Next paycheck you be getting the second half I promised when everything is set up! :D

Okay so i'm trying to set it up to where only Zombies, Chickens, and Pigs spawn. I'm certain the spawning is working and i also have custom hp and damage working. But then i try to set custom drops and that is where it gives me the error:

[INFO] Monster Apocalypse: Error adding drop to drop list of Zombie, check your drops for errors

I tryed to add zombie's dropping 2 string with a 5% chance, and here is my config with that setting: https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/config.yml?w=01915047 So is " - STRING:2:5" a wrong format or....what? So what am i doing wrong? Also, if you could give me some sort of example on how to set up multiple drops, it would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: So i just killed a zombie and it dropped string but i got the error in the log so does that not mean anything or? Another update, i tried setting up multiple drops right after this with all the drop percents adding up to around 100.7 percent and then it didnt work and everytime i went to kill a zombie, i got a list of errors that spammed the console.

Alrght, so I'm trying to keep this under wraps, however I need a hand in a specific aspect of what I'm doing:

Is it possible to have multiple areas of zombies, with different spawn specifications?

like "Starter zone" -- regular zombies, nothing fancy
right outside the "Starter zone" -- have stronger zombies, and more of them.
maybe some giants? (I think it's from "Spawner plugin" or something)
And a super zombie (100hp 5 hearts a pop) as a mini boss --
note: no worries about the other mobs, if I can get this information, as a Rosetta stone so to speak, I'll be able to build from there :)

Hi blainicus, thanks for the update! please put your update in your recent files section too b/c i almost thought it wasnt updated since I just come to your page real fast to check. Thank you so much for this awesome support! :D

@blainicus

After doing some considerably more controlled testing I definitely think that there are some issue with the bonus chances (unless I am doing something wrong, of course). Here are my observations with screenshots, followed by the test setup.

By default, all bonus mobs are set to false, with a chance of 100.0. If you leave these all at default, and just change two or more mob types to true, and change the true mob's chances to add to 100.5, you will always get a near even distribution.

Screenshot (zombies true, 99.5, pigzombies true, 1.0, all others set to false, 100.0)

If you go through and change all of the false mobs chances to 0.0, and have two or more mob types set to true, with chances that add up to 100.5, you will always get 100% of the mob type with the first name when sorted alphabetically, and no other mobs.

Screenshot (endermen true, 5%, pigzombie true, 5%, spider true, 90.5%, all others set to false, 0.0)

Test setup (same for all tests):

Local bukkit server, running 1.2.4.
Mods installed: worldguard, worldedit, permissionsex, monsterapocalypse
World set to FLAT, used worldedit to change an 800 block radius of the floor to stone for better contrast
World cleared of monsters using the //butcher command in worldedit prior to each test.

MA Config (the relevant bits are below. the bonus chances are in my observations. defaults for everything else):

Always night: true
Enable natural hostile spawns?: false
Enable natural passive spawns?: false
Enable spawn points?: false
Enable bonus spawns?: true
Enable naturalistic bonus spawns?: false
Enable spawning changes?: true
Bonus monsters per player: 100
Percent chance of spawning a monster in bonus waves: 100.0
Bonus spawn Y offset: 0
Bonus spawn period: 30000

Edit: Here is a link to the full config to illustrate the second observation, if you want to see it: config.yml

Thanks for the response Blainicus. It should look like this, yes?

Worlds: - world, world_nether

I've tried with and without the space between worlds, with no avail.

@blainicus

In all cases of testing I've had my chance values add up to 100.0. I will test some more and see how it behaves at 100.5 ...

I'm unable to get multiple drops to work with v7.0.  Has anyone else experienced this issue?

This is fine:
  Zombie:
    drops:
    - APPLE:1:1.0
    Overwrite?: true

or this:
  Zombie:
    drops:
    - ARROW:1:15.0
    Overwrite?: true

but together

  Zombie:
    drops:
    - APPLE:1:1.0
    - ARROW:1:15.0
    Overwrite?: true

generates this error on the console:

19:22:55 [INFO] [Monster Apocalypse] Enabling Monster Apocalypse v<0.0.1>
19:22:55 [INFO] Monster Apocalypse: Error adding drop to drop list of Zombie, check your drops for errors.
19:22:55 [INFO] Monster Apocalypse: Error adding drop to drop list of Zombie, check your drops for errors.
19:22:55 [INFO] Monster Apocalypse enabled.