Changelog

[1.5.11] - 2025-09-05

Added

• Option for spawn.distance to spawn mobs around the player in a ring pattern
• Conditional option for can-see-sky to check mob's spawn location to ensure it can see the sky or not
• Conditional option for is-baby to check if mob spawning in is a baby or not
• Conditional option for cool-down to pause the rule after a successful spawn event
• Admin command for show-config to send a chat message with clickable link to open the current config

Fixed

• Conditional options for light-block/sky reading in "light_" instead of "light-"
• Modded entities not working with "control" type if mod is loaded after Mob Control
• Loot quantities using minimum value instead of a random range
• Conditional option for follow-range not using # of blocks for metric

[1.5.10] - 2025-08-13

Fixed

• Spawners to spawn in air to mimic vanilla spawners
• Crash with frogs due to null set.attack
• Skeletons using melee instead of range attack

[1.5.9] - 2025-08-09

Removed

• Conditional option for light (replaced with light-sky & light-block)

Added

• Conditional options for light-sky & light-block to better control mob spawns
• Support SNBT on items (slots / loot)
• Ability to define drop probability on slot items (armor / weapons)
• AI for non-standard mobs (bats / frogs) to attack other mobs / player
• Relaxed configuration reader to be more lenient on string data
• Expanded and cleaned up TOML documentation (default config)

Fixed

• Spawners to follow vanilla logic when not setting distance

[1.5.8] - 2025-07-11

Fixed

• Generation checks causing mobs to not spawn
• Run option being ignored

[1.5.7] - 2025-07-03

Fixed

• Options for time-of-day and light ignoring the ending value in a range
• Option for time-of-day not accounting for the time to be additive
• Blocked ender dragon soft lock detection being called on a control rule type
• Soft lock due to converting ender dragon to another mob and then killing it
• Spawn placement checks for at-y and distance-y

[1.5.6] - 2025-06-29

Fixed

• Despawning mobs due to unnecessary subsequent rule check

[1.5.5] - 2025-06-17

Added

• Improved climb, break block, and place block AI
• Check for soft lock with boss fight on end dimension if ender dragon isn't allowed to spawn
• Check to add rule to mobs bypassing checks or remove mob if needed
• Spawn mob as another type of mob using option spawn.convert
• Lenient parsing on mob names to allow delimited strings as an array

Fixed

• Config for set.follow-range was being ignored
• Issue with shulker mobs bypassing rules
• Interaction animation playing when right-clicking on mobs with no ability to interact

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[1.5.4] - 2025-06-09

Added

• More improvements on spawn placement checks
• Ability to run checks for obstructions via spawn.additional-checks parameter
• Improved set.can-lead to allow more mobs

Fixed

• Refresh mob size when spawning to avoid suffocating small mobs in single block spaces
• Cleaned up default set settings
• Mobs not taking fall damage

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[1.5.3] - 2025-05-30

Fixed

• Natural spawning not setting attributes

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[1.5.2] - 2025-05-30

Added

• New admin force-summon command to summon mobs ignoring rules
• Optional rule argument added to force-summon command to apply any named rule to any mob summoned
• Mobs have the ability to be hostile when attacked, and if one or multiple mobs attack (set.on-hurt)
• Mobs have the ability to be hostile towards the player or other mobs with a list, which can make mobs passive towards players if not in the list (set.attack)
• Give the ability to lead mobs
• Give the ability to set more attributes: set.flying-speed, set.follow-range, set.knockback, set.movement-speed, set.size
• Give mobs a name with set.name and always show the name with set.name-always-shown
• Better spawn placement checks for ground based mobs

Fixed

• Default repeat to [200,800] when not provided and type is spawner
• Skip rule when spawn.count is set to zero
• Spawning mobs issue with invalid mobs (typos / non-existent)

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[1.5.1] - 2025-05-23

Added

• Biome tag checks to rules
• Biome tag list to stats command
• Rule at end of default config to allow all mobs

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[1.5.0] - 2025-05-21

Added

• Block spawning of any mob
• Increase the spawn rate of any mob
• Control which dimensions a mob will spawn
• Control which biomes a mob will spawn
• Control which structures a mob will spawn
• Spawn mobs on certain days
• Spawn mobs in certain weather
• Spawn mobs at certain times of the day
• Spawn mobs at certain light levels
• Define how many mobs per mob
• Define how many mobs per player
• Define how many mobs spawn per condition
• Set the distance a mob will spawn from a player
• Control the y-axis
• Set the mobs loot drops
• Give the mobs armor and weapons
• Give mobs the ability to break blocks
• Give mobs the ability to climb
• Give mobs the ability to pillar up
• Give mobs the ability to plant trees
• Give mobs the ability to plant flowers
• Give mobs the ability to cut grass
• Give mobs the ability to eat plants
• Make eating plants heal mobs
• Set the amount of damage a mob will do
• Make mobs burn in the sun or not
• Initial release