Bukkit

can someone make me a Creeper Apocalypse Config as im having problems doing the config

My config is set up nicely but I just got a weird error message and crash. Crash file paste http://pastebin.com/UV4Thy8i console error http://pastebin.com/Utjjk1da weird part crash report says nothing about MA but the console does.

Ok, im looking for the config that you guys used in the 5th video, because i'm having trouble configuring it. If you could post it somewhere, that would be great.

@Undectectable

I'm also having this same issue (random silverfish). It's only a guess but I think it has something to do with the zombie piling because I noticed it more when I decreased the pile time

Also sorry about this, but a lot of players have reported seeing silverfish at their feet, the silverfish dont do anything and kind of disappear and reappear. Im not sure if thats from this plugin or another one? Thanks

Hi, did you remove the abillity to allow zombies seeing through walls? Only i cant find it in my config anywhere. Thanks for any help

Hey I run a server for my friends/guild. I use mcpc-plus-1.4.7-R1.1-SNAPSHOT-f534-225 so i can get mods and what not on my server. I tried using this plugin but nothing spawned. I am guessing it is incompatible? Thanks

@Irta643

I'm kicking myself for not seeing it earlier: what you need to do is set the naturalistic bonus spawns to "false" for all passive mobs. The pic you posted is what made me realize the problem. Try setting the pigs and chickens (and slimes) to false and see what happens.

Ok i got it working, i just couldn't tell.
Its not spawning anything much at all.
Monster Arena might be more useful, just set it up outdoors, its mental when it gets going.

@rpundurs

Meh, don't see much difference, although you were right. I ran through cave after cave and passed through at least 5 ravines, I counted 15 pigs, 4 villagers, 8 chickens and 9 slimes. Not a single hostile mob (except for the slimes). I mean really >.> Chickens and pigs (who aren't supposed to spawn underground but do it anyway because of naturalistic spawns) are seen more often than the actual mobs? Then suddenly, after like 15 minutes of running through complete darkness, like 50 zombies, 10ish skeletons and 4 creepers just pour out of a tiny hole from above me (I was in a ravine at that time). I dug up to get some action and challenge (I was actually having fun for a while), but they were gone/had stopped spawning.

This is the base I'm talking about and after waiting for like 10 minutes ONE lonely skeleton appears.

And it's funny because usually there are more Wither Skeletons)/general spawn rate is higher for them) than any other mob.

Usually this is what I encounter in my journeys underground. And quite frankly it is disappointing as hell.

Can anyone post their config file which is working (I.e. spawns TONS OF MOBS everywhere)?

Bobby can u show me your config for the plugin? because I need someone's who has it set up properly.

@rpundurs

But I can't multiply amount of mobs anyway.

Amazing plug in, it already has added a lot of fun for my friends and me.

I have a feature request: Can you add some conditions to torches that can/can't be removed by zombies?

I love the idea of zombies being able to clear poorly placed torches (particularly ones scattered on the ground), but if I enable it as is zombies can clear entire caves of torches (making players get lost underground).

The 2 conditions that come to mind would be able to say either: 1. Only let zombies remove torches above a certain y value 2. Only let zombies remove torches if they have a sunlight level below 14 (sunlight level being the sl value from the debug screen that shows how much sunlight would hit that block day or night)

These would be amazing changes that could add a lot to the survival aspect of the game so thanks for considering it.

@Irta643

Hroom. I have my config set up to be a little less generous than yours, but I get plenty of mobs. Some things to consider... - Are the light levels too high in the area you want the mobs to spawn? Do you have another plugin altering mob spawns or restricting them from regions? I'm guessing that this is a global problem though. - Try decreasing the maximum distances to ensure that mobs that are spawned are spawned close to you. When you're underground, you're gonna get a lot of zombies spawning in the caves and tunnels surrounding you that have no way to get at you and will therefore turn into dirt pretty quickly. While they're still alive, though, they cut down on the spawns around you, since they count against the "bonus mobs per player." - If that doesn't work, try raising the hard cap on global spawns. It's a long shot but is possible. Also you can try raising "Number of mobs to spawn in a spot if found" above 1.

Otherwise, your config is set up such that I'd expect it to be working.

A small issue I noticed: Your "attackable blocks" list doesn't use the Bukkit material enums, so will not be recognized by MA. "SANDSTONE_SLAB" for instance does not exist in the enums.

@rpundurs

http://pastie.org/6382329

Keep in mind I have no idea what some of the stuff does :F As you see, I set the zombie natural spawncount (towards the bottom) to 7, just because it feels like zombies doesn't spawn at an increased rate, so instead I made more of them spawn at a time.

@Irta643

Post your full config on pastie.org and I'll take a look at it and offer what advice I can. :)

@Waterdust2000

These settings should replicate vanilla mob aggro during daylight hours...

Use daytime mega-aggro range?: true Daytime Mega-aggro range: 16 Daytime Mega-aggro range Y: [whatever you like; probably 16]

@Undectectable

I think the flag you want to set to prevent zombie block breakage is "build:DENY." It works for me!

Hi, I love the plugin so cheers. I was just checking that setting check for enderman-grief to true should mean that a region from worldguard with the flag enderman-grief: deny stops zombies breaking blocks? Just because it doesn't on my server. Thanks in advance

Ok, I'm pretty new to this whole bukkit thing, configuring it and fixing so that it works. I think I've got hang of the basics, but I still really can't figure out how to get it to work the way I want it to.

So basically, I think the game is far too easy, you can run through entire cavesystems with stone swords and pickaxes, never putting out at torch and just mining along the way, maybe a skeleton or two will be blocking your way that you have to kill, but that's about it. So I tried cranking up the difficulty so that you'd have to actually fight your way through the caves, hordes of monsters pounding upon the walls to your village and so on. The mega-aggro is great, although I'm still having problems with the spawncount.

How would I set all the different values so that there would be lots of zombies, skeletons, creepers and so on? I've turned the Naturalistic spawn and bonus spawns on, as well as set the Natural spawncount for zombies to 7 (and the respective values for other mobs), but there are not that many mobs spawning either way. I would like them to siege my village, swarm me in the caves and so forth, I've had some really fun experiences on my server where I have secretly set up spawnpoints around caves that would spawn like 40 different mobs every 120 seconds, so that whoever was down there would have to build tiny fortyfications in the caves (zombies' ability to break walls is awesome!) to survive (the turrets mode is awesome for this and it helps if you lack in players to defend your crucial buildings etc). Sometimes the zombies take a questionable route to get to you (e.g they have dug a staircase up to you - like one block left untill they reach you - you move a little bit and suddenly they abandon that staircase and start building a new one on the opposite side of the 8 block area) then again, I have no idea how hard it is to code AI (and I'm pretty sure it's hard) but just something I would throw out there =)

TL;DR this plugin is awesome, the game without it is too easy but I'm screwing up somewhere in the config. How do I make (a lot) more mobs spawn? Like sieges on my village during the night and hordes of zombies in the caves.

@Waterdust2000

A1: That means they spawn only on grass.

A2: WitherSkull is the enum for the projectile entity shot by the Wither boss. It does not in fact refer to the Wither Skeleton mob, and I'm not sure myself how to get MA to handle Wither Skeletons (or Charged Creepers or pink sheep or any other mob with an additional data value). If someone can figure it out I'd love them forever. Here's the enum for WitherSkull in case anyone cares.

A3: No, as far as I know it disables their ability to attack blocks entirely. I don't know if that includes vanilla door-breaking behavior.

A4: Yes.

A5: As far as I can tell, you can alter the relative spawning rates of mobs within a given biome by changing the percentages under the "Natural" header. So, for instance, if you wanted 8 skeletons for every 10 zombies, you'd keep zombies at 100.0 and change skeletons to 80.0. For normal overworld biomes the relevant spawn percentages are Zombie, Skeleton, Enderman, Spider, and Creeper; I've played around with other mobs but I can't get them to spawn outside their appropriate biome and can't tell what effect, if any, their set percentage has on the ratio of mobs that *do* spawn.

I hope that helped! :D