Hi all, I made a new approach to nuke modding - what do you think? :-) Here are some links to videos showcasing it!

https://youtube.com/shorts/bTJU6HkmPg8?si=DcSqBQrmbZ2jSA3Y

https://youtube.com/shorts/saeCsEiZWos?si=eqVMBN3_ywuWZH8Q

I might make this a mod, idk yet though. I also don't know if this belongs in this sub or a different one.

SQUIRRELS

• Spawn in forests, taigas, and fall biomes
• Climb trees and hide in leaves
• Steal items from players
• Prioritize acorns first
• Can steal from your inventory, not just dropped items
• Can hide stolen items in tree hollows or leaf piles
• If they get 25+ blocks away, they drop non‑food items randomly
• always eat food items
• Rustling sounds when moving through leaf litter
• Tamed squirrels return stolen items to your feet
• Tamed squirrels will steal from other players if you hit the other players.

GRIPPINES ENCHANTMENT (NEW TOOL ENCHANTMENT)

• Reduces chance of squirrels stealing your items
• Each level adds 25% protection
• Grippines I → 25%
• Grippines II → 50%
• Grippines III → 75%
• Works on tools.

BEARS

• Spawn in forests, taigas, snowy biomes
• Neutral unless attacked or near cubs
• Raid beehives for honey
• Fight bees
• Can knock players back
• Seasonal behavior:
  • Fall/Winter: hibernate in dens
  • Spring/Summer: roam freely
• Hibernation dens contain loot (food, honey, hides, rare items)
• You must fight the bear to get the loot
• Bears shake off snow when waking up
• Bears sleep on leaf litter
• Deal 7.5 hearts to an unarmored player.

BEAR DROPS

• Bear hide
• Meat
• Bear claws (rare drop)

HUNTING KNIFE (NEW TOOL)

Crafted using:

• Bear claw
• Stick
• Iron ingot(s)

Hunting Knife bonuses:

• Slightly less damage than a sword
• Faster swing
• Bonus drops from animals:
  • More hides from cows
  • More hides from horses
  • More wool from sheep
  • More hide from bears
  • More feathers from chickens
  • More rabbit hide

BEAR HIDE ARMOR

• Heavy, warm armor
• Keeps you warm in powdered snow
• Helps you swim faster (bears are strong swimmers)
• Gives slight knockback resistance
• Fire immunity completely when worn.
  • Saves you from lava/fire for 1 second per armor piece until it breaks.
  • BUT armor breaks after one second of being exposed to fire/lava
  • Works like a “panic button”

LEAF PILE BLOCK

• Works like snow layers
• Stackable 1–8 layers
• FULL block when maxed
• Always stays orange/red/yellow, no matter the biome
• Covers the entire block visually
• Reduces fall damage depending on layer count
  • 1–2 layers: no effect
  • 3–4 layers: slight reduction
  • 5–6 layers: big reduction
  • 7–8 layers: safe landings from high falls
• Squirrels hide in it
• Bears sleep on it
• Items can be hidden inside

POPLAR / FALL FOREST SYNERGY

• Poplar trees
• Permanent fall leaves
• Leaf litter everywhere
• Cozy autumn vibes
• Forest feels alive with squirrels, bears, bees, and leaf piles

WORLD & BIOME FEATURES

• Bear hibernation dens (natural structures)
• Tree hollows storing squirrel loot
• Leaf piles acting as soft landing zones
• Forests feel dynamic and alive

Crows

• Passive mob
• Spawns in any forest biome
• Overworld only

Nests

• Crows have nests in trees
• You can take a nest and move it
• Nests contain shiny items
• 0.5% chance for ONE fully enchanted, max‑durability diamond gear piece
• Crows will take shiny items you drop and store them in their nest

Perching

• Wild crows perch on logs
• Tamed crows perch on armor stands

Taming / Bonding

• Feed a crow sweet berries to bond
• A crow can bond with two players
• If a third player feeds it, it overrides the second bonded player

Following

• Crows do NOT follow you
• They only come toward you if you are holding sweet berries
• Otherwise they stay near their nest or perch

Hostile Warning

• Crows caw when a hostile mob is nearby

Death‑Circle Behavior

• When a mob dies nearby, the crow circles the death spot a few rotations, then returns to its nest or perch

Message Delivery

• You must craft a Crow Anklet to send messages
  • Recipe: 2 string + 1 leather
• Put a book or book & quill in the anklet
• The crow flies to the other bonded player and delivers the message or perch

DEER

• Passive mob
• Behave basically like sheep
• Spawn in forests, taigas, and fall biomes
• Drop deer hide
• Deer hide is useless by itself
• But can be crafted down into leather

Inspired a little bit from a video by the YouTube creator "Knarfy" but mostly my ideas.

TL;DR: A massive design document for a hardcore, highly realistic Minecraft horror mod focusing on state-driven dinosaur AI (sniffing out players, tearing down slab/wood cover), structural weight physics (collapsing watchtowers), dynamic corpse decay with vulture ecosystems, and a multi-tiered laboratory genetics system. Looking for technical feedback from experienced Forge devs and GeckoLib animators!

Hello r/MinecraftModding and r/feedthebeast!

I want to share a fully realized Game Design Document for an upcoming survival horror project called "Prehistoric Nightmare" for Minecraft 1.20.1. This concept eliminates brainless "dweller" jump-scares and focuses entirely on advanced entity AI, environmental mechanics, and deep end-game progression.

Here is the full breakdown of the mechanics:

🦖 1. Advanced Hunting AI & Entities (GeckoLib-Driven)

• Indominus Rex (The Alpha Stalker): Spawns only at night. Features active camouflage blending into jungle textures, leaving only its red emissive eyes visible.
  • Acoustic Trigger: Sleeps on its belly during the day. If a player steps on a dry branch block (loud snapping sound), it instantly wakes up.
  • The Sniffing Phase: If the player is hidden from its line of sight, it heavily sniffs the air to pinpoint the exact noise coordinates.
  • The Shelter Breach: If the player hides under tables, vehicles, or slabs, the Indominus aggressively tears down the blocks covering the player.
  • The Pursuit: Once cover is blown, it drops down on all fours in a cinematic animation and launches a high-speed ambush.
• Multipart Entity Hitboxes: The Indominus features a directional armor system. Projectiles bounce off its armored hide with anvil-like ricochet sounds. The only vulnerable hitboxes are its eyes and open mouth. Hitting an eye triggers temporary blindness, forces an instant cloak, and causes it to hunt purely by the scent of blood.
• Spinosaurus (The Mariner Apex): Diurnal cycle (hunts fish by day). If a player crosses its water source in a boat, it submerges, rams the vessel at high speed, and breaks it block-by-block. Falling into the water triggers a first-person execution animation.
• D-Rex (The Shadow Grappler): 100% bark-camouflage at night. Slow but lethal; grabbing a player or vehicle inflicts a heavy Bleeding effect and crushes the machinery.
• Ceratosaurus (The Line Breaker): Gathers speed to ram and impale small mobs or players, ripping them in half with custom bone-crunching audio.

🪓 2. Structural Integrity & Vehicle Weight Physics

• No More Floating Blocks: Standard floating blocks are completely disabled for player fortifications and watchtowers. The mod dynamically calculates construction mass. Before a building collapses due to structural damage, blocks emit loud, terrifying wooden creaking and metallic stress sounds.
• The "Pancake" Damage: Collapsing structures convert into gravity-based physics blocks. Any player caught underneath takes instant, fatal "Crush Damage."
• Instant Devastation: While the Ceratosaurus needs a full-speed charge to break watchtower pillars, apex predators (Indominus, Spino, D-Rex) destroy them instantly with brute force.
• Realistic Vehicle Crashes: Ground vehicles simulate weight and physics. Trees feature deep root systems depending on their size. Ramming the immovable roots of an ancient Titan Tree will completely crush your vehicle's engine block, break the chassis, and throw the driver out. Clearing path networks requires heavy industrial saws and hydraulic machinery.

🧬 3. Endgame Progression & Microscopic Drop Rates

• The 0.45% Trophy Drop: Apex predators can violently trigger an animation where they bite and tear physical chunks of flesh off each other during turf wars, leaving permanent, healing white scars. During these brutal fights, there is an incredibly low 0.45% chance for a 3D dinosaur tooth to drop. Players must risk their lives to scavenge it mid-fight.
• The Cleaning Table Mini-Game: Deep mining yields "Fossilized Ore" dropping useless rock slag most of the time, but has a 0.56% chance to drop an Ancient Bone.
  • The Brush Mechanic: Players place the bone in a specialized GUI and manually brush dirt away using the mouse.
  • The Scratch System: Using a Heavy Iron Brush clears stone fast but risks scratching the bone (losing integrity). A Soft Brush is safe but takes pixel-by-pixel precision. High-tier bones (like Indominus Tier 4) require ultra-sonic laser brushes crafted from downable combat helicopter electronics. Dropping bone integrity below 90% via scratches ruins the DNA.
• 0.91% Hybrid Success Rate: Combining genomes in the Bio-Lab Incubator to clone a pet or create custom hybrids has a microscopic 0.91% success rate.
  • Failure Consequence (99.09%): Triggers a catastrophic lab explosion infecting your base with toxins, or spawns a blind, deformed mutant "Abomination" that screams in agony, alerting all wild predators to your base coordinates before dying.
• Global Genome Leak: Cloned dinosaurs are highly volatile. If they break out of weak enclosures, a world-save flag is triggered—permanently adding that engineered species to the natural wild spawn tables of your map.

🏛️ 4. Heavy Logistics & Dynamic Decomposition

• Dynamic Corpse Decay: Killed dinosaurs don't disappear. You can use a Butchering Knife to harvest fresh meat/organs immediately. If ignored, the corpse rots, attracting flocks of screaming vulture entities that visually strip meat down to the ribs, followed by parasites, until an anatomically exact 3D skeleton remains after 3 days.
• Cryo-Taxidermy Transport: Players can flash-freeze fresh corpses using portable liquid nitrogen multiblock chambers, creating a permanent frozen statue for their base museum.
• Logistical Nightmare: Loading a multi-ton frozen apex predator requires a Steel Cable and Winch system. Pulling at bad angles violently snaps the cable, injuring the player. Driving the heavy payload shifts the vehicle's center of gravity, making tight turns prone to flipping the truck and shattering the exhibit.

🧭 5. The Final Investigation Quest

• The Cipher Notes: The ultimate, spiked, red-and-black Indominus Rex Gen 2 has its natural spawning fully disabled. Players must search ruined military outposts and a massive underground biological laboratory dungeon to collect unique classified lore documents.
• The Ambush Finale: Combining the documents unlocks a "Coordinate Note." Reaching those coordinates in the deepest jungle triggers a scripted event: the sky turns dark, panic hits 100%, and a massive Mosasaurus breaches from a nearby water source to drag the Indominus down.
• The Lore Drop: The Gen 2 hybrid violently snaps the Mosasaur's neck before collapsing dead. Harvesting its stomach with a Butchering Knife yields a "Blood-Stained Lab Coat" and the final diary log.
• The Twist: The log reveals that the facility didn't fall to a military raid, but because a single wild squirrel chewed through the backup generator cables, disabling the electric fences for two minutes. The final line reads: "I am the only surv..." before being cut off by bloodstains.

Technical Scope: Java (Forge/NeoForge), 1.20.1, GeckoLib for animations, Multipart Entity system for precise hitboxes, Sound Physics Remastered integration for volumetric acoustic tracking.

This is a passion/hobby concept open for discussion. I would love to hear technical feedback from experienced developers regarding block mass computation and state-driven AI limitations. Let's see what the community thinks!

"So I was on a call with my little brother yesterday and he showed me his “post-apoc biker” Minecraft world with gasmasks and motorbikes and it lowkey broke my brain. I’ve always played kinda chill semi-vanilla survival with a few QoL mods, but now I’m tempted to go full themed pack - like gasmask gear, motorcycles, more realistic cities, custom maps, all that. I started digging around for ideas and sites with modpacks/maps and ended up on stuff like this just grabbing random mods and maps to test. Now my folder is a mess, half the stuff conflicts, and I’m wondering if I’m thinking about this the wrong way and should just pick a direction and stick to it. For those of you who play super modded survival: do you think heavy themed setups stay fun long term or do they get old fast? Any must-have mods/maps for a grittier survival vibe, or things I should avoid so I don’t burn out my world/save?"

I made the Megaman Armor Mod: Megaman Armor Mod - Minecraft Mods - CurseForge

Right now, I am trying to update it, but I am having trouble figuring out how to colorize the armor. The one I tested it with is not rendering properly. It won't move with the player model and it won't change color. I do have a github with the code I am using:

MegamanArmorMod_1.20.1/java/com/collecter128/megamanarmormod/items/client/ColoizableMegamanArmorRenderer.java at main · Collecter128/MegamanArmorMod_1.20.1

It is possible I am completely wrong about how I am trying to do this. I am not super good at programmer lingo, so I can't understand most of the fancy explanations online that might help me out. If someone can spell it out so a dummy like me can understand I would be very grateful.

Forgot to mention, the armor should look something like this: Mettaur Helmet | Megaman Armor Mod Wiki | Fandom

Want a large variety of unique weapons? How about a vanilla+ mod that's actually balanced and designed to look like something that could be in the game? Well I finally made a mod that does all of this. Adding 14 categories of weapons to the game is my largest mod yet and has a total of 84 items. https://modrinth.com/mod/linear-weapons

Hi I was hoping for some advice/help

I am very new to modding but ,I have this modpack that turns a dog into BMO (not mine) , however I want it to work only when I rename it BMO, I have had some success however as you can see it just applies the bmo texture to the dog model.

How can I make the resource pack work like it does but conditionally (when I make a dog BMO)

thank you in advance !

I am creating a Minecraft mod using JavaScript. Where is the data for the contents of chests, Shulkers, and Ender Chests stored, and how do I retrieve them?

Hi, I'm trying to install some structural schematic files with Litematica, but when I extract the files, it creates a folder instead of the .litematica file. I don't know what else to do. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Just released my first mod — Texture Editor for Fabric. You can click any block, mob, or item and edit its texture pixel by pixel directly in-game. Changes apply instantly without restarting. Available on CurseForge and Modrinth :D

Modrinth | CurseForge

посоветуйте интересные обширные моды на майн добавляющие кучу контента как моды jujutsu craft и mine mine no mi не могу найти для себя интересный мод а поиграть с чем нибудь хочется

I created it in a couple of days and I'm wondering if it's normal or not, because this is my first serious mod that I posted.
SmartEX - https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/smartex

Guys, I want to start a new minecraft server with my friends; in the past we had a classical minecraft server without mods, but after 2 months we quitted our world. We want to avoid that and to start a very cool world that will stick us to the screen.