SmartMobs - Intelligent Enhanced Mobs System

SmartMobs is an innovative Minecraft plugin that transforms ordinary hostile mobs into challenging opponents while maintaining the vanilla aesthetic of the game. The plugin not only increases mob stats but also grants some of them unique abilities, making every encounter with monsters a unique challenge.

🌟 Key Features

🎯 Natural Mob Evolution

Two development tiers: Hardened and Elite (configurable spawn chances)
Unique thematic names for each mob type
Logical progression from simple mutations to advanced evolutionary forms
Ability to automatically increase the spawn chance of enhanced mobs based on distance from the world spawn.

⚡ Smart Abilities

Skeletons: Increased firing rate, triple shot for elites
Creepers: Faster fuse, charged form for elites
Spiders: Web trap, enhanced jump, poisonous bite for elites
Endermen: Improved teleportation, water resistance
And many other unique abilities for each mob type

🛠️ Full Customization

Enable/disable individual mob types
Customize spawn probabilities
Configure difficulty scaling
Adjust health, damage, and speed multipliers
Custom names and colors for each mob
Flexible configuration of special abilities

🎮 Preservation of Vanilla Spirit

Natural names that harmonize with Minecraft lore
Balanced difficulty, not artificial enhancement
Integration into the existing mob ecosystem
Names only displayed when looking at the mob

🚀 Performance Optimization

Efficient mob processing on spawn
Smart system of checks and fast event filtering
Minimal impact on server performance

📋 Supported Mobs

The plugin covers all major hostile Minecraft mobs:

Normal Mob	Hardened	Elite
Zombie	Rotting Wanderer	Corrupted Vagabond
Skeleton	Eternal Sentinel	Bony Echo
Creeper	Scorching Visitor	Thunderous Rupture
Spider	Silken Assassin	Web Sovereign
Enderman	Abyssal Drifter	Spatial Rift
Witch	Swamp Potionmaster	Shadow Sorceress
Phantom	Nightmare	Ethereal Scream
Blaze	Fire Spirit	Hellfire Core
Ghast	Misty Phantom	Celestial Lament
And 25+ more mob types!

🚀 Installation

Download the latest release
Place the .jar file in your server's plugins/ folder
Restart the server
Configure the settings in plugins/SmartMobs/config.yml
Use /smartmobs reload to apply changes

⚙️ Configuration

The plugin uses a flexible YAML configuration system. Main settings:

# SmartMobs Settings
# Plugin messages
messages:
  # General messages
  no-permission: "<red>❌ You don't have permission to use this command."
  only-players: "<red>❌ Only players can spawn mobs."
  unknown-subcommand: "<red>❌ Unknown subcommand."

  # Spawn command
  spawn-usage: "<yellow>Usage: /smartmobs spawn <mob> <hardened|elite>"
  spawn-no-permission: "<red>❌ You don't have permission to spawn mobs."
  spawn-mob-disabled: "<red>❌ Mob <white>{mob}</white> is disabled in config."
  spawn-unknown-mob: "<red>❌ Unknown mob type: <white>{mob}"
  spawn-not-living: "<red>❌ This type is not a living entity."
  spawn-unknown-variant: "<red>❌ Unknown variant: <white>{variant}"
  spawn-success: "<green>✔ Spawned <yellow>{variant}</yellow> <gray>{mob}</gray>."

  # Reload command
  reload-no-permission: "<red>❌ You don't have permission to reload the plugin."
  reload-success: "<green>✔ SmartMobs config reloaded."

# Spawn chances for different mob types
chances:
  hardened: 0.05 # Initial chance for hardened mob spawn
  elite: 0.01 # Initial chance for elite mob spawn
  radius-complication: true # Whether to increase mob difficulty based on distance from spawn
  world-radius: 10000 # World radius up to which difficulty scaling occurs
  radius-levels:
    - from: 0.0 # zone start (0 = spawn)
      to: 0.33 # zone end (0.33 = one third of world-radius)
      hardened: 0.5 # hardened chance at zone end
      elite: 0.05 # elite chance at zone end
    - from: 0.33
      to: 0.66
      hardened: 0.5
      elite: 0.5
    - from: 0.66
      to: 1.0
      hardened: 0.2
      elite: 0.8

# Enable/disable modifications for each mob
enabled-mobs:
  # OVERWORLD - Neutral and passive
  wolf: true
  bee: true
  iron_golem: true
  snow_golem: true
  rabbit: true

  # Individual names for each mob type
  display-names:
    # Overworld - neutral
    wolf: "<gray>Moon Predator"
    bee: "<yellow>Buzzing Killer"
    iron_golem: "<gray>Steel Guardian"
    snow_golem: "<white>Frost Golem"
    rabbit: "<gold>Killer Rabbit"
  # ... and so on for all mobs

# Base characteristics for hardened mobs
hardened:
  hp-multiplier: 1.25
  damage-multiplier: 1.25
  knockback-resistance: 0.5
  name-visible: true

# Base characteristics for elite mobs
elite:
  hp-multiplier: 1.5
  damage-multiplier: 1.5
  speed-multiplier: 1.4
  knockback-resistance: 0.8
  name-visible: true
  strength:
    enabled: true
    level: 0

  # Individual names for each mob type
  display-names:
    # Overworld - neutral
    wolf: "<dark_gray>Shadow Wolf"
    bee: "<red>Poisonous Hive Threat"
    iron_golem: "<dark_gray>Iron Colossus"
    snow_golem: "<white>Ice Colossus"
    rabbit: "<red>Elite Killer Rabbit"

# Specific abilities for different mobs
special-abilities:
  rabbit:
    hardened:
      killer: true
    elite:
      killer: true
      jump-strength: 1.5

  skeleton:
    hardened:
      arrow-speed-multiplier: 1.4
      attack-speed: 1.4
    elite:
      arrow-speed-multiplier: 1.8
      attack-speed: 1.8
      triple-shot: true
    # ... and so on for other mobs

🎮 Commands

/smartmobs - show plugin help
/smartmobs reload - reload configuration (requires smartmobs.reload permission)
/smartmobs spawn <mob> <hardened|elite> - manually spawn an enhanced mob (requires smartmobs.spawn permission)

Idea

The idea was taken from dottaik98, but he did not implement half of the stated functionality, so I had to write everything from scratch.

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