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Infested!

This mod adds a variety of content relating to insects and spiders, expanding the role and function of vanilla Spiders and Silverfish, and adding a number of completely new insect mobs. This mod also adds new armors obtainable via craftable Armor Trims, three new enchantments, a new potion recipe for the Resistance effect, and new pets and minions.

Features

New Mobs

Mantis

Mantises can be found in forest biomes, while their cousin, the Orchid Mantis, can be found in flower and cherry blossom biomes. These insects are neutral to the player, but prey upon most arthropods. When a mantis sets its eyes on a target, it will enter an Ambush, turning it invisible as it slowly creeps up on its prey, before a devastating strike that leaves the victim stunned. When a mantis slays an arthropod target, it will eat it, causing it to regain health.

A mantis can be tamed with spider eye, or bred by feeding it fermented spider eye, and will drop Chitin upon death.

Grubs and Crimson Beetles

In Nether Wastes, you might come across tiny fanged larvae in pursuit of Zombified Piglins. When these grubs hit their target, they will inflict it with a Parasitic Infection, eating away at the Zombified Piglin until the grub completes its metamorphosis into a Crimson Beetle. Fully mature beetles can be found commonly in Crimson Forests.

Grubs can be a nutritious source of food within the Nether, and are dropped by Grubs and beetles (along with Chitin in the beetle's case.) While the beetle is neutral, it can be bred with rotten flesh to produce a clutch of Grubs, that can be harvested at leisure. If an uncooked grub is fed to any arthropod entity tamed by you, it will restore a good portion of their health. This should even work on tamed arthropods from other mods!

Jewel Beetles

You may come across tiny, skittish insects when you break certain blocks. These insects are the Jewel Beetles, and have four variants.

• Harvest Beetle: Found by breaking grasses, ferns, and shrubs. They drop crops and seeds.
• Jewel Beetles: The type species, found deep underground by breaking deepslate ores. They drop raw ores and gemstones.
• Chorus Beetle: Found by breaking Endstone. Drops a Shulker Shell.
• Ancient Debreetle: Found exceedingly rarely by breaking Netherrack. Drops a Netherite Scrap.

Jewel Beetles will run away quickly, and despawn after ten seconds, so hunt them down as quickly as you can! You can disable their spawning via gamerule.

Tamed Spiders and Silverfish

Rarely, spiders and silverfish will drop their eggs (silverfish eggs may also drop from infested blocks.) These eggs can be used to spawn a friendly variant of the mob. Using Silverfish Eggs will spawn two friendly silverfish, although they won't stay with you for very long before going off to join a wild colony. Spider Eggs, however, will spawn a persistent ally. While it does not have as much health as a tamed Wolf, it makes up for it with its ability to inflict potion effects on your foes. By default, the effect is poison, but feeding it items that can be used to brew negative potions (and some others) can change the effect. You can also personalize your spider by using dye to change the color of its eyes.

Brilliant Beetles

Based on the mob of the same name from Minecraft Legends, the Brilliant Beetle is a tameable mount that, while slower than a horse, is capable of scaling walls and slowly gliding to the ground.

The Brilliant Beetle can be found in Jungle Biomes, bred with Cookies, and tamed using Cocoa Beans. Like other mobs from this mod, it can be commanded to Stay, Follow, or Wander. However, you'll need to sneak-right-click to change its command, as right clicking normally will just cause you to mount it. If you feed it a bowl of Bug Stew, you can give it the Speed Effect for one minute.

Other Features

Armors

Infested also adds two new armors, the Spider and Chitin Armors.

• The Spider Armor will grant you night vision, as well as causing you to deal bonus damage to entities trapped in cobwebs. Additionally, you can create your own temporary cobweb traps, by shift right clicking on the ground when wearing the full set to give yourself four, or by being hit while wearing the armor. You can move freely through these traps while wearing the Spider Boots. Slaying an enemy in cobwebs while holding a weapon will spawn a Spider Minion for thirty seconds.
• The Chitin Armor grants some additional armor toughness, as well as allowing you to mimic the Ambush ability of the Mantis. Sneak while wearing the full armor set to go invisible and slow yourself down, dealing more damage to the first entity you hit before the effect expires. This armor also grants one level of the Parasitioid and Infested enchantments.

Enchantments

Three new enchantments are added:

• Infested: Applicable to shields and chest armor. When you are hit with an attack, you will spawn a friendly silverfish to assist you for a short time. Wearing the Spider chest armor will replace the silverfish with Spiders.
• Parasitoid: Applicable to weapons. When you slay an enemy with an attack, a friendly silverfish will hatch from it, assisting you for a short time. Wearing the Spider chest armor will replace the silverfish with Spiders.
• Ensnaring Strike: Applicable to weapons. Consumes slightly more durability to temporarily ensnare hit enemies in cobwebs, slowing them down.

New Blocks

Certain mobs from this mod will drop Chitin on death. This material can be crafted into the Chitin Armor trim, used to brew potions of resistance, or crafted into a new set of blocks.

Additionally, this mod adds three new redstone blocks, the Spinneret, Spider Trap and the Silverfish Trap. The Spinneret will cover blocks above it in temporary Cobweb traps when activated, and the Silverfish Trap will crumble, releasing between 5-8 Attack Silverfish that will go after anything they perceive as a threat, including you. The Spider Trap does much the same, but only released 3-5 more powerful Attack Spiders, that leave behind Cobweb Traps on death.