Buff Mobs

BuffMobs

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Transform your Minecraft experience with progressive, customizable mob scaling that keeps the challenge fresh!

📋 Overview

BuffMobs is a comprehensive mod that intelligently buffs hostile and neutral mobs to provide a more challenging and engaging survival experience. Whether you want tougher early-game encounters or exponentially scaling late-game difficulty, BuffMobs has you covered with its flexible configuration system.

✨ Key Features

🏹 Smart Ranged Combat System

• Ranged mobs (Skeletons, Pillagers, etc.) dynamically switch to melee weapons when players get too close
• Automatic weapon generation with enchantments based on difficulty and dimension
• Weapon tier progression from stone to netherite over in-game days
• Configurable trigger distance and behavior mode (MELEE, KITE, or RANDOM per mob)

🌍 Dimension-Specific Scaling

• Configure unique multipliers for different dimensions
• Perfect for modded dimensions - make the Nether truly hellish!
• Independent scaling for health, damage, speed, armor, and more
• Up to 5 configurable dimension slots, plus optional fixed max health overrides per dimension

📅 Progressive Day Scaling

• Mobs get stronger as your world ages
• Configurable intervals (default: every 7 days)
• Optional chat notifications to track scaling progression
• Maximum scaling caps prevent infinite difficulty spikes

⚔️ Comprehensive Attribute Buffing

• Health Multiplier: Tankier mobs that survive longer
• Damage Multiplier: Hits that actually hurt
• Attack Speed: Faster, more aggressive combat
• Movement Speed: No more slow zombie walks
• Armor & Toughness: Damage reduction for elite encounters

🧪 Potion Effect System

• Apply Strength, Speed, Resistance, and Regeneration to mobs
• Infinite duration effects that refresh automatically
• Visual effect control for performance optimization
• Smart undead detection (no regeneration for zombies/skeletons)

👑 Elite Mobs

• Rare elite variants with bonus health and damage multipliers
• Fully customizable names: roguelike generated prefixes/suffixes (translatable) or translatable title prefixes
• Custom or random name colors, per-mob particle effects, and nearby player notifications
• Bonus XP and extra loot rolls on death, stacking on top of Loot & XP Scaling

🎭 Elemental Traits

• Each mob has a chance to roll one of six traits: FLAME, FROST, TOXIC, VOLTAIC, VAMPIRIC, or ARMORED
• On-hit effects: ignite, slow, poison, chain lightning, lifesteal, or permanent armor bonuses
• Passive immunities (fire, freeze, lightning, poison, wither) and per-trait particle visuals
• Fully weighted random selection with configurable chances and per-trait tuning

💀 Special Abilities

• Per-mob abilities assigned via ID mapping (modid:mob_id:ability_id)
• DEATHRATTLE: explodes, leaves a poison cloud, or summons minions on death (or random per death)
• LASTSTAND: triggers a Resistance buff once per life when HP drops below a threshold
• TELEPORT: blinks behind the attacker when damaged (safe destination checks included)
• SUMMON: periodically spawns minions while in combat, with alive-count caps

🧪 Combat Draft

• Hostile/neutral mobs drink a regeneration potion when their health gets low
• Undead variants instead receive Absorption and instant healing
• Configurable health threshold, cooldown, regen level, duration, and max uses per life
• Whitelist/blacklist filtering for full pack control

🌙 Blood Moon

• Periodic night event that boosts all mob scaling with an extra multiplier
• Optional glowing mobs and approximate spawn duplication during the event
• Doubles XP and extra loot rolls when combined with Loot & XP Scaling
• Global chat notifications and per-world cycle tracking, fully logical (never changes world time)

🧠 Adaptive Difficulty

• Difficulty adjusts dynamically based on player performance
• Player deaths increase the multiplier; buffed mob kills reduce it
• Configurable step sizes, reduction rates, and maximum bonus cap
• Layered on top of day scaling and Blood Moon multipliers

🛡️ Mob Armor

• Generated armor sets with tier progression (leather → gold → iron → diamond → netherite)
• Full-set or random-pieces mode, per-slot chances, and mixed-tier rolls
• Full enchantment support (protection, thorns, respiration, depth strider, frost walker, etc.) with unlock days and max levels
• Optional curse application (Binding, Vanishing) with configurable chance and unlock day

🎲 Mob Presets

• Assign stat presets to specific mobs via modid:mob_id:preset_name mappings
• Five configurable preset slots with per-preset health, damage, speed, attack speed, armor, and toughness
• Optional dimension scaling override so preset mobs ignore dimension multipliers

👥 Group Behavior

• Passive Mob Aggression: makes passive mobs fight back (OFF, NEUTRAL, or HOSTILE) with configurable damage scaling
• Pack Aggression: nearby same-type mobs join the fight when a buffed mob is attacked by a player, with per-mob cooldowns
• Smart goal injection that preserves vanilla AI where possible

💎 Loot & XP Scaling

• XP drops scale with the mob's effective buff multiplier (attributes, dimension, presets, day, adaptive)
• Extra loot rolls granted based on scaling strength, with configurable caps
• Doubled during a Blood Moon when enabled
• Elite bonus rewards stack on top for a proper endgame payoff

🎨 Visual Feedback

• Color-coded particle effects for different buff types and traits
• Enchantment table particles for Elite mobs and magical variants
• Per-trait and per-elite particle configuration (including RANDOM and NONE)
• Toggleable visual effects for performance optimization

🎯 Advanced Filtering System

• Mob Filtering: Whitelist/blacklist specific mobs
• Mod ID Filtering: Target mobs from specific mods
• Dimension Filtering: Enable/disable per dimension
• Respects vanilla mob categories (only affects hostile/neutral mobs)

🛠️ Commands

• /buffmobs debug — inspect the nearest buffed mob (stats, traits, abilities, effects, preset info)
• /buffmobs info — show current config state and initialized mob count
• /buffmobs presets — list active presets and mob mappings
• /buffmobs reload — reapply buffs to all currently loaded mobs
• /buffmobs reset <all|scaling|adaptive|bloodmoon|mobs> — reset progression with a confirmation step

⚙️ Configuration Highlights

Easy Setup: Works out of the box with sensible defaults Highly Customizable: Every feature can be fine-tuned or disabled Performance Friendly: Efficient algorithms with minimal server impact Modpack Ready: Extensive filtering options for mod compatibility

Example Configurations

Hardcore Survival: High multipliers with fast day scaling and Blood Moons Balanced Challenge: Moderate buffs with dimension-specific tweaks and adaptive difficulty
Boss Preparation: Preset-driven bosses with elite variants and Mob Armor PvP Server: Disable harmful effects, focus on attribute scaling and reset commands for seasonal wipes

🔧 Technical Details

• Server-Side: Core logic runs server-side for multiplayer compatibility
• Client Effects: Visual effects handled client-side for smooth performance
• Memory Efficient: Uses WeakHashMap-style caching and optimized tick handling
• Error Resilient: Comprehensive error handling prevents crashes
• Data Persistence: World-scoped saved data tracks day offsets, Blood Moon cycles, and adaptive counters across restarts
• Reset Friendly: A full reset manager can reinitialize all loaded mobs and clear every cache without a server restart

🎮 Perfect For

• Players seeking progressive difficulty scaling
• Modpack developers wanting customizable mob enhancement
• Servers needing balanced late-game challenge
• Anyone tired of trivial mob encounters after early game

📦 Available For

• Fabric: Full feature parity with Fabric API integration
• NeoForge: Complete NeoForge implementation with advanced features
• Both versions maintain identical functionality and configuration options

Ready to face truly challenging mobs? Download BuffMobs and experience Minecraft combat like never before!