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Denied Don't Blink... (New Mobs?)

Discussion in 'Suggest + Report Bugs + Get Help' started by CaptainCalamity, 28 March 2013.

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  1. CaptainCalamity

    CaptainCalamity The Good Captain

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    Since this is already a modded server and all, how difficult/practical would it be to add player created mobs? Specifically, I'd like to see the Weeping Angel mod added. These and/or other player created mobs would add new challenge to exploring. At this point, simple lava is far more dangerous than any vanilla mobs.
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    #1 CaptainCalamity, 28 March 2013
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  2. buttonsinpjs

    buttonsinpjs Active Member

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    In general, mods that add more creatures/animals/mobs to the game can cause excessive server lag. But this mod has such a low spawn chance, 2%, I don't think it would be a problem. Also add to this the server disabling mob spawning, the actual chance of encountering an Angel would be legendary.

    I am neither for or against this mod, I just wanted to point out that it would probably not impact the server's overall performance.
     
    #2 buttonsinpjs, 28 March 2013
  3. Neonbeta

    Neonbeta Person who did stuff and things

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    Hmm....

    Even though I do agree with buttons 100%, i an a little weary about the spawn rate. The last time i played with it, the spawn rates were buggy as hell, and made them spawn more then any normal animals ten-fold. If that has been fixed, i would love to see this mod added.
     
    #3 Neonbeta, 28 March 2013
  4. gknova61

    gknova61 Farbes Lover

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    The theme of this server believe it or not is more Industrial. The only reason Thaumcraft was added was simply because it was Thaumcraft gone SMP :p
     
    #4 gknova61, 30 March 2013
  5. xXMadNessXx

    xXMadNessXx Beware of the MadNess

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    Good thing that weeping angels aren't really magical, more of science fiction, so they DO fit.
     
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  6. gknova61

    gknova61 Farbes Lover

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    One word: Wat
     
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  7. fxstriker

    fxstriker Good Bye skcraft.

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    Um .... weeping angels .... NOPE no thanks :eek:
     
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  8. CaptainCalamity

    CaptainCalamity The Good Captain

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    Exactly.
    Do you even Doctor Who?
     
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  9. gknova61

    gknova61 Farbes Lover

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    No, I don't watch Dr. Who.
     
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  10. fxstriker

    fxstriker Good Bye skcraft.

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    i don't watch dr. who but i have heard all about the creepy weeping angels,
    they are much like the enderman except if you look away they get you
     
    #10 fxstriker, 30 March 2013
  11. Neonbeta

    Neonbeta Person who did stuff and things

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    Weeping angels' only scary factor, is only in the TV series. In the actual game, they are easier then endermen IMO
     
    #11 Neonbeta, 30 March 2013
  12. CaptainCalamity

    CaptainCalamity The Good Captain

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    [​IMG]
     
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  13. leo389

    leo389 Demon Ted/Watainiac

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    Want a real enemy, find a Dalek mod...
     
    #13 leo389, 31 March 2013
  14. Sleeeper

    Sleeeper Sleeeper

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  15. Chaeris

    Chaeris Active Member

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    If anyone wnats to make his own mobs for the server.
    For the model design of the mob, use this:

    http://techne.zeux.me/

    Absolutely perfect modeler, really simple to use!
     
    #15 Chaeris, 2 April 2013
  16. Demenzia

    Demenzia *boop*

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    Test mo creatures. :p
     
    #16 Demenzia, 13 April 2013
  17. Overloaderdave

    Overloaderdave the most n00bish person ever

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    NNNNOOOOOO!!!
    dont do mocreatures, because its mobs... lets say they spawn about 500 billion zebras with all extra LIMBS for the manes. client lag to the death.
     
    #17 Overloaderdave, 27 April 2013
  18. sk89q

    sk89q Administrator
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    The problem with adding mods is that 95% of the mobs are not interacted with, and they they consume more than CPU than blocks. So you're losing a lot (CPU) while gaining fairly a little (the novelty of a few mobs).

    Though with the Weeping Angels, s/he has some extremely strict distribution guidelines.
     
    #18 sk89q, 29 April 2013
  19. gknova61

    gknova61 Farbes Lover

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    While we're on the topic of mobs, why is it that pretty much everyone is turned off except for the ones that possibly cause the most lag? That being Squids & Wisps. Wisp spawning is boundless and I've had up to 400 spawn in a little glass case built around a corrupt node. There's another 200 Wisps just north, and west of my house. I also heard that Squids at Button's base are accumulating by the 100s.
     
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  20. sk89q

    sk89q Administrator
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    The other mobs are not turned off, surely no more than squid. Squid spawning is disabled in the configuration of the server we use, but whether this makes a difference is another matter.

    There's no setting to disable wisps last I checked.

    All the crappy mobs that no one wants are the hardest to disable and they take more work to disable them.

    It's also worthy to note that each mob takes like 0.5 to 1% of total CPU. Therefore to disable one type of mob only nets us a 1% improvement. That's also the case with the blocks --a BC laser might take 2-4% of CPU. Literally everything takes like 1-4% of CPU (except with AE sometimes), making CPU usage reduction practically impossible.
     
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