C version improves the Voidlasher wing texture, modifies a few mechanics with Beetle Bulwarks, and fixes an issue where the highest scarab you have in your inventory would always spawn whenever a probability occurs to make any scarab spawn from the ones you have sealed. E.g. If you had 10 brown sealed scarabs and 1 gold sealed scarab, a gold one would spawn every time if it is not cooling down. Now it will spawn the brown ones and the gold one will correctly have a truly separate 1 in 10 chance. Beetle Bulwarks will also be less likely to fly immediately after spawning near a player.
B version is a hotfix for the Arthropod Antenna recipe, plus adds some variation to the Beetle Bulwark strengths depending on variant.
Beetle Rhino renamed to Beetle Bulwark - Now has many variants, of which the rhino beetle is just one. It can now be a ladybird, a rhino beetle, a stag beetle, or a scarab. There are six different colours of scarab, varying in rarity. Here’s all the beetle probabilities: Beetle Probability 1 in x Chance scarab brown 50% 1 in 2 ladybird 25% 1 in 4 rhino beetle 12.5% 1 in 8 stag beetle 8.33% 1 in 12 scarab green 5.56% 1 in 18 scarab green/gold 2.78% 1 in 36 scarab iridescent 1.39% 1 in 72 scarab purple gem 0.93% 1 in 108 scarab gold gem 0.46% 1 in 216 You can pick up any scarab beetles by killing them, storing them in your inventory to be able to place down again at any time. Size and colour is preserved. However, the real functional element is a new ability to “Seal” scarabs using a new “Scarab Seal” item crafted from a Chitin and four ectoplasm. Craft a Scarab Seal with any picked up scarab to create a sealed version. When the sealed version is in your inventory, it has a 1 in 10 chance to appear every time you take a hit from any mob. Each time it appears, it stays for a while before disappearing, following you around and attacking mobs that target you (the scarab is stronger if it is a rarer type, with the gold version also slowing enemies that it attacks). Scarabs also “absorb” damage for you while they are present, but disappear in the process - A bit like the beetle armour from Terraria. Again, the rarer the scarab type, the higher level of damage resistance they will give you while present. They cooldown after use, and you can have one at a time of each colour. The 1 in 10 chance to spawn per hit can amplify if you have more of the same type of sealed scarab, from 1 in 10 to a 10 in 10 chance (if you have 10) so that they will spawn every time, unless on cooldown. The gold scarab gives you resistance level 4 until you’ve taken a hit, making it a powerful ally. Rarer scarab summons fly faster and have more attack damage too. If somehow you can obtain 10 of each sealed beetle type, then six will spawn around you each time you get hit, unless cooling down.
Neutral wall-climbing mobs like ants and Spider Flats can now randomly decide to stop climbing the wall, rather than staying there indefinitely unless they despawn. This includes ant arsonists, spider flats, spider jumps, long legs variants, silverfish spectres, and roach riverspawns. For hostile mobs, the mechanic works wall already because they lurk there until a player comes nearby, then jump off to attack. The new probability of dropping down equates to a 1 in 5000 chance per tick, so approximately once every 4 minutes.
All items ordered more logically in creative slots. Increased silverfish spectre biome-specific spawn rate.
Locust sounds are now more localised, rather than spreading out over wide distances. Fixed potential localisation issues for all other sounds.
Voidlasher can no longer destroy items with its black spiralling shield.
Added config option to disable the initial welcome message upon first creating a world.
Added new temporary method for accessing the upcoming Crawling dimension. Requires sacrificing an abyssal crystal, a fire opal, and a Void Geode. Simply right click a block of bedrock with at least one of each of these items in your inventory, and they will be consumed to place a “Crawling barrier” block there. Right clicking this crawling barrier teleports you to the dimension. To leave the dimension, right click the same block while there (widespread at Y=50)
Added additional checks to hopefully ensure that Crab Constrictors don’t spawn anywhere near each other, while also removing a mechanism that could potentially cause server issues.
Fixed some remaining issues with the Goliath and Prowler animations
Many improvements to the upcoming Crawling dimension. Still a major work in progress, and will be for the next few months.
Various other improvements and fixes.
V3.1.6b changelog
New superweapon added - The Vortex Devastator. Like the recent “Judgement Blaster”, this superweapon makes for a combination of multiple weaker weapons. Two force gauntlets combine with a Spectral ingot to produce the Vortex Devastator. A weapon enabling you to make huge leaps in any direction (forwards, sideways, backwards), or fire vortex blasts that deal devastating damage. Moreover, with the weapon you can crouch to activate a vortex shield that recharges for a few seconds each time it blocks an attack.
All Spider Moth boss stalking variants can now spawn through the randomised spawning system, meaning you can be stalked absolutely anywhere in the overworld. However, other bosses will only naturally spawn in vanilla nether and end dimensions.
New Draconic Voidlasher stalking variant added that flies after you, teleporting around randomly, and comes with a new unique animation.
Changed umbral shard recipe to include a Chitin instead of a Scorch Charge like the infernal shard.
Added abilities of all sets to upcoming Eternal Armour set that will be necessary to fight an ultimate boss.
Fixed Scorch Charge name.
Added new dimension "The Crawling". Currently in very early beta stages. In the 1.19.2 version, you can access it by holding a scorch charge in each hand and right clicking a block of ancient debris. These blocks also spawn in The Crawling for now, enabling you to get back. Or in any other Minecraft version of the mod, there’s a specific portal block you can get with /give or /fill. This will be transitioned to the same method as the 1.19.2 version in the next update.
Various other improvements - b version fixes an issue with Voidlasher spawning and adds an extra alternative recipe for the Judgement Blaster (instead of needing two hypnotic hellblasters, you can alternatively use a one hypnotic hellblaster and one vengeful voidseeker in the recipe
3.1.2 reduces the Crab Constrictor spawning chances by 4x and limits its spawns further from the player.
3.1.1 fixes missing Spectral Shard/ingot and adjusts the Spectral Shard recipe to include an abyssal crystal.
In addition to yesterday’s massive 3.1 update:
TWO NEW MINIBOSSES, ANY-BIOME SPAWNING SYSTEM, AND MUCH MORE!
Biggest change is a brand new additional randomised spawning system that supports all biomes and dimensions where any arthropods spawn. New special spawn egg added that spawns a completely random ArPhEx mob, with the exclusion of the spider sea+centipede evictor+upcoming/non-spawning entities like the “crab constrictor”, since they use their own spawning systems. It is less likely to spawn mobs that spawn less commonly, such as the minibosses and butterfly giant. These special spawns can now occur naturally whenever an arthropod of ANY KIND spawns! So now, whenever any arthropod mob from any mod (or vanilla arthropod) spawns, there is a 1/50 chance (configurable) to spawn one of these randomisers, and you will get a random ArPhEx mob as well. However, randomisers will only spawn if there is enough space for their largest included mobs (Spider Prowler + Spider Widow, now called Snatcher), or for bosses it checks that the dimension and configuration condition (and space) is suitable as well (still dimension-limited unless spawned directly). Therefore, you can easily prevent them from clogging up mob farms by simply not allowing enough room for these large miniboss arthropods to spawn. With the configuration options, you can tweak this however you want, disabling the additional spawn system entirely if desired (choose a zero or negative value).
Another major miniboss implemented, the new strongest miniboss of all!, bridging the gap between minibosses and bosses, while providing a major element of thalassophobia. The enormous “Crab Constrictor” can appear in oceans, spawning near fish when there is enough space. Based on a giant Japanese spider crab, it possesses very long arms that it can use to reach out and grab you from a distance, then pull you down into the depths of the ocean where it can then finish you off. This monstrous creature is difficult to kill, since it has a long attack range and ranged weapons would be useless in water. The best option is to lure it onto the surface somehow if you want to kill it and take the new “Crushing Claw” item as a reward. This new item provides an ability to grab a nearby enemy and hold them in place, dealing continuous damage simultaneously: Like a short range force gauntlet that deals continuous damage and works on one mob at a time. The new Solifuge Skulker is another brand new highly formidable miniboss, but it is weaker than the other minibosses. It has multiple unique attributes, like searching for darker areas and staying in them, getting faster and faster as it gets lower on health, and attacking various enemies like Scorpion Strikers and sheep. This one has a truly realistic and creepy design, dropping void geode shards on death (9 required for a full void geode)! Renamed Spider Widow to Spider Snatcher for consistency, and finally split the Sun Scorpion into two mobs. The previous mob is now the “Scorpion Striker”, with a tweaked design that looks more like a regular scorpion, plus improved creepy eyes.
A third new armour set added, taking advantage of both the Abyssal Crystal and Void Geode. Updated the designs of both existing pairs of armour, plus changed the recipe for the Umbral Shard to include Chitin instead of a Scorch Shard
With this comes a new “Spectral Shard” and “Spectral Ingot”. The new Spectral Shard uses a new “Ectoplasm” item for crafting, dropped by Silverfish Spectres. Ectoplasm also now needed to craft the Thunder Sensor, now renamed to Weather Sensor and given a right-click ability to toggle between thunder and rain-only detection.
Umbral helmet now gives the crouch-triggered levitation immunity instead of the leggings, along with immunity to poison - the new Spectral Helmet takes the blindness and nausea immunity instead. Spectral Chestplate gives you an absorption effect every 10 seconds, providing you with two extra hearts that can regenerate even without food! Spectral Leggings provide a powerful sneak-triggered rechargeable ability to give all nearby entities strong slowness while gaining a burst of invisibility yourself. Spectral Boots give you a spectral walking ability - you can walk on liquids and non-solid objects (unless crouching). Set bonuses include lifesteal abilities (the more damage you deal to enemies, the more your health will regenerate), plus total immunity to weak attacks like the other two armour sets. Still planning one more ultimate armour set that will combine the abilities of all three existing ones, plus give a chance to take no damage from any given attack.
Added a splash text that appears when you first start a world, providing a link to the brand new ArPhEx wiki for convenience.
Ascendant Staff now fires levitation projectiles on left click. Ethereal Staff mob-hit ability changed. Now instead of knocking mobs down into the floor, it teleports mobs to a portal if you have one summoned by previously hitting a block.
Abyssal Blade and Abyss Ascendant can now do sweep attacks like other swords. The Abyssal Pickaxe can now only mine a second block at a time if the block is the same kind of block as the main one you mined, thus preventing situations where you mine a block of stone and the obsidian above it breaks instantly.
Spider Larvae can now place new “Small Web” entities between blocks. These webs can despawn, so they won’t clutter up the world, but otherwise act like regular webs and can trap flying mobs for larvae to eat.
Fixed issues with Voidlasher animation sequencing by allowing them to play at all times (worthy tradeoff).
Balance changes to Scorpioid and Voidlasher. Both now easier to defeat, but the Voidlasher’s black barrier is buffed.
Spider Lurkers (sea spiders) are now much slower out of water
Added another kind of spider web entities similar to the giant web. These small ones are just like the vanilla cobweb blocks, but they are temporary and can despawn. Placed occasionally by Spider Larvae mobs when they’re on a wall.
Improved Centipede Evictor hitbox, managed to make it work without being a cube.
New second black texture variant added for the Fly Festerer
New rare dancing peacock variant added to the Spider Jump (realistic)
Fixed major issue with potentially being unable to load worlds twice in one session after encountering certain mobs.
Fixed potential crash issue with the ethereal staff.
Significant stability and performance improvements
Flamethrowers can no longer be used for long periods underwater. Now if you’re underwater they can only be used for shorter bursts, but do the same non-fire damage still. The voidseeker homing projectiles now aim slightly higher to prevent hitting the floor so often. Many other improvements
Added missing Chaos Gauntlet and Block of Void Geode recipes. Fixed Fly Flesh block name and added descriptions to scorpion flesh + fly flesh blocks.
In addition to today’s earlier major update:
ArPhEx 3.0 update - Now available for 1.20.4 NeoForge!
NO DIMENSION IS SAFE - This major new update includes the next full dweller boss, plus five crazy tools that could each be full mods in themselves! A new armour set, plus existing items received further refinements. And one dangerous new regular mob, the Dragonfly Dreadnought.
DRACONIC VOIDLASHER The final standard dweller boss has arrived to torment the end dimension (one more wither-storm-like boss coming next). A monstrous hybrid between a whip scorpion and a dragonfly, it stalks you across the end dimension with teleportation abilities making it even harder to escape. Summonable with a new “block of fly flesh”, using materials now dropped by Long Legs Fly, Dragonfly Dreadnought, and Moth Moonchaser mobs. It won’t spawn near the ender-dragon, so it shouldn’t be a problem until you have beaten that boss fight, in addition to warding off the Spider Moth a few times. It may sound similar to the existing Scorpioid, but they are very different. The Voidlasher has an intricate system for teleporting in different situations. The lower its health is during the fight, the more frequently it teleports to nearby locations that enable it to be on the ground and do not obstruct its hotbox. When it is stalking you, it will teleport closer, somewhere around the midpoint between you and it. Therefore, if you stayed in the same place, it would teleport closer each time until it is close enough to trigger the full attack sequence, where it teleports around you. It can also teleport idly when not being attacked, mimicking enderman mobs. It has a multi-stage boss fight where it can alternate between five modes, along with using multiple continuous powers. Mode 1: Firing homing projectiles that make you vulnerable to its telekinesis. They follow you slowly, and if you let them hit you, then you are vulnerable for 9 seconds, and it will either throw you high into the air or thrash you around randomly, dealing kinetic damage. Mode 2: Cloning itself into five copies, switching place with them randomly every few seconds so you don’t know which one is the real one (fakes disappear when hit) - plus, all of them can siphon life from a distance and give it to the real one. Mode 3: Chaos control mode where it randomly adds temporary chaos control and chaos target effects to nearby entities, causing them to fight each other. If multiple are attacking the voidlasher, it causes them to temporarily turn on each other instead. Mode 4: Force pull mode sucks in all nearby entities, lifting them into the air towards the voidlasher, while it also levitates itself. If you don’t escape, it can give wither effects to entities that get close. Mode 5: Throws deadly “void spears” at enemies that deal heavy damage, cutting through armour and even projectile immunity.
Continuous powers: Dangerous swirling black energy repels/damages, slows, and blinds attackers. Plus, even if you get past its telekinetic powers to attack it, it can still use its deadly whips to attack you directly, or repulse you back. Total immunity to ranged attacks, freezing projectiles midair and slowing all nearby mobs significantly except for the one it is targeting for attack. It teleports around occasionally, similar to an enderman. When it gets low in health, its movement speed increases, along with its rate of teleportation. Like the Spider Moth, this boss and its stalking mechanism all comes in a single entity version. Like both other stalker bosses, it also has some creepy giant variants that can stalk you across the end dimension. Drops “Void Geode” item on death, used to craft extremely powerful and useful items.
Brand new dangerous Dragonfly Dreadnought mob added, approximately serving as an airborne equivalent of the Spider Goliath - dropping Fly Flesh blocks. In upcoming updates, I am planning to add giant scorpion and giant spider crab minibosses.
Fly Appendages now dropped by Long Legs Fly and Moth Moonchaser mobs, craftable into blocks of mangled fly flesh (used for the Voidlasher’s summoning structure).
Now, the five new major items all available to craft ingame!:
- Force Gauntlet (a new primary item from the draconic voidlasher’s Void Geode, providing numerous powerful telekinesis/force abilities. These abilities work more effectively on weaker mobs, requiring less frequent cooldowns.
- Chaos Gauntlet (the second new primary Void Geode item, providing (temporary) abilities to force mobs to fight each other instead of attacking you.
- Vengeful Voidseeker (a new void-upgraded version of the formic fireblaster that fires homing void projectiles, or manually controllable if crouching)
- Vitality Viewfinder (enables you to scan nearby mobs or players to get their current health percentage and maximum health points, plus if you hit an entity with it in either hand slot, it will tell you the damage of your weapon.
- Block of Void Geode (acts like a totem of undying for nearby players, teleporting you away from any attack that would have killed you, with cooldown) Plus an armour-set!: Brand new Umbral Armour implemented as an alternative to the Infernal set!: Armour capable of repelling the endless void. Boots provide Immunity from falling into the void, instead levitating out to any safe location. Leggings provide jump boost, especially when sneaking, plus levitation immunity when sneaking. Chestplate provides a 50% chance to teleport away from attacks that would have otherwise killed you (with cooldown). Helmet provides immunity to blindness and nausea (infernal helmet now instead provides immunity to weakness and slowness). Set bonuses: Void shield - an automatic form of protection that harms and repels attacking mobs. Plus complete immunity to weak attacks like the infernal set, unbreakable and enchantable.
Spider Brood abdomen model significantly improved, with more realistic baby spiders. Millipede animations and textures improved.
Fixed issue where Moth Moonchaser and Butterfly Bewitchers were spawning excessively and unaffected by config settings. Fixed issue where Spider Moth could rarely spawn in the nether, and reduced the amount of my mobs that can spawn in the nether in general for enhanced performance.
Renamed Sling Web to Silk Slinger for consistency.
New advancements added for the new items/objectives.
Tons of other improvements.
ArPhEx 2.4.5
Maggots renamed to Maggot Larvae for consistency. Water Roaches renamed to Roach Riverspawn for consistency. Improved running animation and textures. In future I plan to split Sun Scorpions into scorpions and sun spiders, rather than having a hybrid, so I’ll keep the name for now. Bloodworms will have a unique name format to represent them not actually being arthropods.
Millipede Marauder now targets various other creatures (as its name suggests), but not the player unless attacked.
Giant butterflies can now regenerate health slowly.
Fixed Abyssal Crystal Block name
Along with previous recent updates:
Fixes to butterfly animations.
Hotfix, placeholder entity for upcoming Draconic Voidlasher was spawning in the end - now won’t happen. Butterfly Bewitcher regular version now has just 15 health, instead of 50 like the giant version. Advancement fixes
Arphex 2.4
Brand new “Moth Moonchaser” entities added! They follow light (moving to higher light level areas or following players holding torches/lanterns). They eat carpets, both as a taming ingredient and randomly if they touch a carpet block. Tameable with carpets, plus capable of reproducing on their own to increase their population. Finally non-spider moths!
Brand new “Butterfly Bewitcher” entities added! These come in two size variants and 10 texture variants, some rarer than others. The uncommon giant butterflies are tameable and rideable! Additionally, these butterflies “bewitch” nearby entities, giving slowness. Tamed giant butterflies only give the effect when being ridden, and not to their owner.
Brand new “Millipede Marauder” added! They are neutral mobs with a special realistic ability to gain a strong resistance effect when not moving (curled into a ball). On death they drop Chitin, now a requirement in the Formic Fireblaster recipe. Plus, Rhino Beetles now drop Chitin instead of redstone.
Spider Moth Larvae now despawns upon killing a player. It was already supposed to do so.
Scorpioid now has a shadow clone form like the Spider Moth, haunting the nether. Unlike the Spider Moth, these do not stand still. They move towards you slowly.
Fire Ant glands are now edible for 10 seconds of fire resistance, like they’re supposed to be.
Ethereal Staff can now pull you downwards if you crouch while using it.
Ascendant Staff now has a new model, while the Ethereal Staff still uses the previous one, differentiating them further.
Various major improvements to both upcoming gauntlets. Upcoming Chaos Gauntlet item now also has its own unique model/texture.
Removed Dweller from Spider Moth name, just Spider Moth now for consistency.
Improved Spider Goliath and Spider Funnel attack animations and made the aggressive poses activate separately, borrowing mechanics from the new Spider Prowler.
Attack animations added for Beetle Rhino, Spider Goliath, Spider Funnel, Ant Arsonist, Centipede Stalker, and Bloodworm, with some also getting improved walking animations.
Improved some locust mechanics.
Various item names and descriptions fixed.
ArPhEx update 2.3.3
Spider Brood now acts more like the Widow, avoiding you while it attacks from a distance. Slightly buffed health too.
Significantly improved the upcoming Chaos Gauntlet, but it is still not ready and lacks its own design.
Previous major updates from the last few days:
Bucket of locusts added. You can feed buckets of locusts to spider Goliaths, and spiderflat/spiderjump pets will now also eat individual locusts you feed them. Buckets of locusts could be used for biological warfare, destroying your enemies’ farms.
Spawn biomes refined. Silverfish spectres and sky stalking moth variant now biome-limited like all other mobs.
Sun scorpions and centipede stalkers can no longer appear in dungeon spawners (too powerful).
Added upcoming Chaos Gauntlet item - You can try it out now! Gives you the power to force one mob to target another mob for a set period of time. Affects stronger mobs less.
Various other small improvements on top of yesterday’s enormous update:
Another major update, adding tons of improvements that I’ve been wanting to implement for a while:
At long last, I have implemented a spawnrate config control for all non-boss mobs, including minibosses! (stalker bosses already have one) Now you can set them all to spawn up to sixteen times more frequently than before, or go in the other direction to make them as rare as you want. Additionally, they are all twice as common now by default!
AND
New difficulty config option added that affects ALL living mobs from this mod, including the bosses, minibosses, and regular arthropods. Default option 0 stays as it is now, -1 gives them all a permanent weakness effect, or +1 gives them all a permanent strength effect. Ranged attacks will be affected too. Higher positive or negative values increase the level of strength or weakness. No more complaints about difficulty needed!
Tameable “Spider Jump” jumping spiders added! Intelligent friendly spiders, tameable and storable in the same way as the Spider Flat. As expected, they jump while attacking opponents, disorienting them. They can jump off the ground, or jump off walls.
New “Fly Fester” mobs added - regular flies (bluebottles) that simply fly around chaotically, occasionally landing. They can spawn naturally or maggots can turn into them randomly. Like maggots, they give poison on contact. 50% chance to completely dodge any attack.
Major improvements to the Spider Moth fight - Added additional flying mode to the Spider Moth, where it hovers in the air above, waiting to strike at any moment. This actually gives you a period of respite to regenerate health, but the larvae and ghosts will still pose a problem. Fixed small animation issues with the main fly/run animations.
Also improved the Scorpioid Bloodluster fight, giving it a new ability to keep away at a close distance to use ranged attacks for short periods of time. Additionally, it should now crawl through walls more reliably.
Spider Prowler can now spawn in lush caves in addition to jungles. If it can’t see the sky on spawn, it will jump up and cling onto the ceiling! Jumps down if you come near. Spider Prowler will now trigger if you get too close when it’s in a defensive posture.
You can now fly unlimited distances by holding the Ascendant Staff in one hand and the Ethereal Staff in the other.
Spider Widow can now attack villagers, and leaves cocoons around as another variation of the giant webs. Killing a giant web/cocoon now spawns a bunch of larvae. Significantly improved the web mechanics, e.g. spiders no longer affected.
Started work on the third (end) dweller boss (whip scorpion dragonfly hybrid), producing a “Force Gauntlet” item that will be obtainable, crafted with a “Void Geode”. You can try it out now! It gives you telekinetic powers, inspired by Star Wars and demon/poltergeist characters with similar abilities. Simply look at any living entity or item and hold right click with it to pick them up and control them. If you crouch while holding them, it pulls them towards you. Hit a block to create a repulsion shockwave, pushing all nearby entities back - again, the more max health the entity has, the less it pushes them. The ultimate tool for transporting mobs… or throwing them into orbit! The other void-geode-based item may give you the ability to literally force mobs to fight for you, turning them on each other. Enemies become friends. With the Force Gauntlet, the more max health the entity has, the less time you will be able to control them in one go before having to cooldown (unless you’re in creative mode). With the other item, the more max health the entity has, the less time it will be forced to fight for you.
Fixed issue with Spider Prowler animation flickering while posturing aggressively. Improved animations/texture further.
Ethereal Staff melee ability nerfed. Now only knocks mobs down into the ground if they have less than 100 max health.
Locusts now give you the hunger effect if you’re nearby, and should now be significantly less likely to cause lag thanks to other improvements.
Fixed issue with Spider Brood leg texture
Fixed rare issue where flamethrowers could activate spontaneously.
Fixed outdated item descriptions.
Many more improvements.
Changed the flamethrower functions, switching out the animations for more server compatibility.
New addition: Block of Abyssal Crystal. Gives you Strength 2 when standing nearby.
Buffed the mining speed of the Abyssal Pickaxe
Added attack animation for LongLegsFly
If widow spider projectile attack deals no damage, it will no longer give the webbed effect. This prevents the widow from continuously targeting with projectiles if you are immune to projectiles (blocking or otherwise). Fixed small issue with the missing legs low health texture.
Opal block tag updated
A major 2.0 version update for the mod, finally introducing another main stalker boss!
MAJOR UPDATE INTRODUCES A WHOLE NEW “DWELLER” BOSS - SCORPIOID BLOODLUSTER - A NETHER-EXCLUSIVE SCORPION-MOSQUITO HYBRID (Spider Moth is now overworld-exclusive, and the final upcoming boss will be end-exclusive)\
…It is extremely formidable - comparable to the Spider Moth!
Countless other changes and improvements.
Like the Spider Moth, this new demonic entity aims for maximum creepiness, using a wide range of mechanics to terrorise you until you run away back to the overworld. It can traverse through walls like the Spider Moth, but doesn’t even need minions to do so. It slowly crawls through the wall. It flies by default, unlike the Spider Moth, but can also crawl on the ground. When stalking you, it can suddenly teleport nearer.
Since overworld weather timing is preserved while in the nether, I used them to control the spawning of this new entity. It can spawn in any vanilla nether biome during rain and thunderstorm cycles.
The Spider Moth screen flash is no longer global for the server, so it will only show to nearby players. Scorpioid has its own too, working the same way.
New “Fire Opal” item drops from the scorpioid on death, used to craft three new items: “Ascendant Staff”, “Ethereal Staff”, and “Block of Fire Opal”. Ascendant Staff provides levitation abilities and attacks, Ethereal Staff enables walking through walls and suffocating enemies in the ground, and Block of Fire Opal gives you saturation when near to it, meaning you won’t need to eat. Sun Scorpions can rarely drop an Fire Opal Shard on death. Four of these craft into a full Fire Opal.
Significant balance changes
Sun Scorpion has revamped walking animation and major texture improvements. Larvae versions now match with the variant of the nearest full size Sun Scorpion. Centipede Stalker has faster walking animations.
Centipede Stalkers and Sun Scorpions buffed substantially (plus both are now larger in size), and both drop a new “Venomous Appendage” item required for crafting the “Dagger of Dissolution”. Sun Scorpions are rarer now, and give the necrosis effect on hit.
Fixed an issue where the “pure_stalking” and “rush_scare” entities can spawn in any dimensions/biomes, now limited to overworld.
Both the Venomous Appendage and Necrotic Fang items can now be used to brew potions of necrosis. All forms of the potion are possible now, along with arrows of necrosis.
Hornet Harbinger Giant significantly buffed.
Spider Goliath has a slightly longer attack range now.
Block of Mangled Scorpion Flesh added, crafted with four venomous appendages. Summoning structure added for Scorpioid. The same as the Spider Moth one, but use the mangled scorpion flesh block instead of spider flesh.
Many more improvements.
Many new changes implemented, including improvements/bugfixes to existing mobs, a new mosquito mob, plus incomplete upcoming items and mob versions now available through cheats.
Now available on Modrinth!
