projectzulu/justanotherspawner

JAS is a Minecraft mod which implements a custom spawning system that function in parallel to the default one.

justanotherspawner's Issues

Universal Creature CFG Option

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v072/page__st__300#entry22654555

• May be best to be default option

Add creatureType subcategory to spawnlistentry

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v020/page__st__20#entry21876051

Creatures listed in a given spawnlist entry category, whether by biome or by entity name should be sub sorted by type.

Additional Tag: Difficulty

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v060/page__st__200#entry22320072

Create tag for min despawn time

Add a GUI

Creature Toggle Option to disable doMobSpawning Gamerule by default for new Worlds

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1468127-151forgebuffarmor-bar-mods-project-zulu-better-overworld-v1020-extrabiomesxl-support-update-gui-mob-spawner/page__st__920#entry21713269

EntityCap Count should occur on the pack level, not the individual

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v041/page__st__80#entry21975344

Additional Tag: Is on Top/Fill block

Simple enough. Checks if entity is on the Top block or fill block as listed in the current biome.

Could be useful to use as above ground check. Essentially could auto implement the vanilla grass checks, but change for biome: deserts sand, EX Mountain Ridge would be red rock.

Need to test snow biomes to determine if snow coverings would interfere. Should not vanilla animals already spawn there iirc.

JAS Should only be required server side

Height Tag

Proper Parsing to Allow for && and || Spawn / Despawn Conditions

SpawnListEntries should generate even if

It's a waste of time to need to join a world multiple times to generate entries. Just generate them by default all at once.

Allow adding additional Entity Categories via Config

Biome Groupings

Should Be Defined in their own file. One line defines all biome groups. Which generates options in the rest of the Config for each entry.

In most places, such as Configuration, biomeGroups would replace Biomes: behaving identically to current biomes and contain a "biome group name" and biome list.

The exception would be SpawnLists which would still need to be done per Biome. A biomeName to list would be required to get the spawnLists for each biome grouping.

blockRange is not considered a valid tag for Spawning

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v072/page__st__300#entry22684339

Enabling Debug Mode Crashes Game

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v050/page__st__100#entry22080013

JAS Command To Reload Configuration Files

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v060/page__st__180#entry22312812

Additional Tag: Torch Light

Light level independent of day.

Use Case: To Forbid entities from spawning in villages but still able to spawn during day time.

Allow enabling entity spaw reporting indepent of debugMode.

Should be toggleable

Additional Optional Parameter: Can See Sky

Additional Time Tag

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v060/page__st__200#entry22320072

Months Days, Seconds, Ticks

Search for Neaby Entity Name in same vein as 'players' tag

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v081/#entry22753430

Additional ForceDespawn Modes

• ForceDespawn when not near specifiedBlock. Block should be toggleable. Possible Multiple Blocks.
• ForceDespawn when invalid light level. Should be able to choose equality, less than, or greater than.

Creature Despawning Distance from player should be configurable

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v030/page__st__60#entry21922225

Global option as well as tag.

Default World SaveName option

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v082/page__st__340#entry22786652

Negative Options

It would be useful to set the negative of the optional settings. For example, settings entities to NOT despawn.

Possible just use a negative flag that reverses all the regular rules.

Monsters spawnlist still spawn during peaceful

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v041/page__st__80#entry21975344

Biome Group Inheritance

Restrict biomes available to a subset of all biomes that are not enabled in parent.

ParentalClass
{
  Forest = true;
  Beach = true;
  Ocean = true;
  Taiga = false;
  Desert = false;
  // ParentalClass Contains Forest, Beach, and Ocean
}

ChildClass
{
  Taiga = true;
  Desert = false;
  // ChildClass Conains Forest, Beach, Ocean, and Taiga
}

Arithmetic could be useful.

ParentalClass
{
   Biomes = ALL;
   // ParentalClass Conains All Biomes
}

ChildClass
{
   Parent = ParentalClass;
   Biomes = !Forest
   // ChildClass Conains All Biomes except Forest
}

Add Config Option to Clear Spawnlists on ServerStart

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v020/page__st__20#entry21881389

Would fully stop chunk spawning. Might as well make it clear all of them. Should still do #1

Implement Custom LivingHandler loaded outside CreatureHandlerRegistry

Their is currently a method that creates a list of Class<? extends LivingHandler> to be loaded but it is never done

Custom Spawn Configuration

Along with Optional parameters for Force Despawn #4 additional parsing commands should be added for common spawn configurations. They should be in the form of additive restrictions, off until enabled and then applied indiscriminately.

• LightLevel
• Ground Block (i.e. Grass)
• Material - i.e. Air vs Water

BiomeGroup Reorganization

• Default biomegroups should be immutable
  • Groups should be disableable by removing biomes.
• allBiomeList should instead define
• Provide configurable ability to map package names to convenient short form i.e. net.minecraft.world.biome.BiomeGenBeach.Beach=Beach

Biome SpawnLists are null on world Creation

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v050/page__st__120#entry22092784

Appears some mod is nulling them. Works fine with just JAS. Just include a null check.

Additional Tag: getCanSpawnHere

Tag that triggers the entities default spawn method to be triggered.

JAS loads after some mods and doesn't clear their vanilla spawns

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v072/page__st__280#entry22631931

Tag: Write NBT data

Unlike regular tags. NBT would not evaluate, it would write to entity NBT.

Entity Category shoud use Tags

Additional Tag: Alterantive Sky Check Ignore Top Blocks

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v060/page__st__220#entry22347624

Either Ignore Certain Blocks or Ignore top X blocks.

Feature Request : New Tag , DistanceFromSpawn

Be awesome for worlds where mobs are supposed to get more difficult as you explore.

I'm not sure how the game saves where the "world spawn" is but if it would be possible to check against it to make sure your current x,z is a certain distance from it before spawning, would be great.
No need for y calculations as far as I can tell.

Individual Creature Cap

During Counting, the amount of each type in the loaded Entity list should be counted when counting entities for type. If its higher than the Entity specific cap, it would exit as if the entity could not be spawned.

If performance was ever a concern, CreatureType may need to implement a Cache that's refreshed on the order of seconds (or every X cycles). Though since the discussion on Entity cache for the vanilla system this shouldn't cost that much more. A global toggle to disable creatureSpecific caps would likely be a better compromise for those it would be a problem for.

Additional Tag: Nearby Players

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v060/page__st__200#entry22320072

Biome Handler for 'Structure Spawns'

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1721480-mob-spawning-observations-and-tests/page__st__140#entry21777563

Spawns from the Chunk provider are not called, for obvious reasons. For those biomes that require it, a BiomeHandler should be created and called with the biome instance.

An interface with a few required methods to generalize the configuration and calls are required

• List of structure spawn types
• List of spawnables dependent on supplied type
• If the coords are a particular type

Fix counting issue with vanilla spawner. Count should take into account entities spawned after initial count.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v030/page__st__60#entry21922225

Empty Creature Spawn List is fireing after world generation

On World start this will cause some entities to be able to spawn before the SpawnLists are Cleared.

Entities should always force despawn if >128

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v030/page__st__60#entry21924301

Improve Parser to Allow SortByBiome to remember previous data

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v072/page__st__300#entry22691692

1. Save Config File with sorting property, sortedBy
2. read/write as usual with Config using sortedByProperty
3. if(sortedBy != global_sortBy)
   1. File.Delete() + File.Create()
   2. Save settings to file

Be able to set save name for configuration saving independent of world name

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-14715-just-another-spawner-jas-v060/page__st__220#entry22360838

I'll keep it in mind for future refactors. Being able to set the save-world name would be useful.

SpawnListEntry Tags?

Example,

Time tag http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1721480-mob-spawning-observations-and-tests-updated-42613/page__st__240#entry22271338

Would be useful coupled with an NBT Writing tag. Allows separating of individual entities from entity-group Entities. Such as MoC BigCats or HorseMob

Instant Despawn Distance should be Configurable

Cache EntityCount

CustomSpawner entity count should be caches. Particularly as counting is done as entities are spawned, we don't need to update as often. updates still needed to catch entities spawned by other means.