gdarai
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6 years ago Actually the tweaking would not be that big... only mod which will interract with this is Mob Properties. Oh... and Biome Tweaker... I don't remember what will have precedns in mob spawning... we have to test it. (Mob Properties has issues of it's own... but is so unique mod that I learned to work with it rather than getting rid of it.) Consciering... :o) And did not forget. :o) Thanks for starting the issue, at least we can track the observed behavior here.
OlorinCZ
This proposed change is a BIG one and I'm well aware of it and it mostly stems from my unending hate of aquacreepers, but it is a thing I would very much like to see before the modpack leaves beta: The inclusion of Mo'Creatures.
Darai said he was considering adding it in the first place but he ran into some weird issues with the spawning. One of the thoughts of the modpack is to make water travel unsafe, thus forcing player into exploring Davinci ships. In the current build this is done by aquacreepers. Mo's has sharks which can do exactly the same and more: Sharks do not explode (!!!); do not jump out of the water; do not atack you while riding the ship and they will still eat your face when you try to swim amongst them. The mod seems very configurable and unwanted mobs can be just cut off.
To test the spawning and compatibility issues I downloaded Mo'creatures and it's prequisite Custom Mob Spawner from the official website and I started a new game. All of the spawns seemed normal; maybe a bit too frequent (which can be tweaked), but nothing out of place:
This scanned the modpack and created the appropriate config files in the config folder. Using the guide from mod's website I tweaked them a bit to test the functionality. I disabled a wide wariety of mobs, changed some spawning frequencies and, more importanly, pumped up the shark spawn rate to really disencourage swimming.
As far as I can tell the changes did exactly what I wanted to do. During my flightover in creative, I have not seen single one disabled creature and the sea was full of sharks, so everything seems to work just fine on my end.
To conclude this: Pros:
Cons:
Possible issues: CMS overwrites vanilla spawning and thus may interfere with other mob changing mods. However the config files seem to react to the mods installed and to allow spawning via CMS. So far I have only tested it in the overworld and it seems to be working without problems. Also roguelike dungeons use spawners instead of vanilla spawning methods so there is no interference. If there are other features of the modpack this can interfere with, I'm not familiar with them yet so I cannot test it further.
Please consider this.