Zombie Improvements
This mod improves zombie leader and reinforcement mechanics and fixes a few bugs with them.
What?
If you didn't even know these were a thing, here's a rundown from the Minecraft wiki:
On all difficulty levels, damaged zombie mobs (including husks, drowned and even zombified piglins) call all other zombies within a 67×21×67 to 111×21×111 area centered on the attacked zombie to target the attacker.
In Hard difficulty, zombies can spawn additional zombies to "help" when damaged. Each zombie has a "likeliness to call reinforcements" statistic ranging from 0–10%, and "leader" zombies (0–5% depending on regional difficulty) get a bonus of 50–75 percentage points to the stat.
On Hard difficulty, zombies have a 5% chance to spawn as leaders. Leader zombies can spawn other zombies as reinforcements.
So what does this mod do?
There are a few issues with these mechanics:
- You can't tell if the zombie you're attacking is a leader or not.
- There is no visual/audio cue when zombies spawn additional reinforcements.
- There are a few bugs which make these mechanics less relevant.
This mod alleviates all of these issues by:
- Adding a red aura effect around leader zombies, identical to the charged creeper effect, but red color.
- Adding unique textures and sounds for leader zombies.
- Increasing the size of zombies that are leaders.
- Adding a sound that plays when a zombie spawns in additional reinforcements. The sound that will be played is the block breaking sound of the block the freshly spawned zombie is standing on, played 5 times in a span of 2 seconds.
- Appending a "Leader" prefix to the name of the leader mob.
- Fixing two vanilla bugs, namely MC-219981 and (1.21.1 only) MC-14800.
There's also a few additional tweaks:
- Configure the attack damage of leader zombies. By default, it's slightly increased compared to normal zombies.
- Configure the spawn chance for leader zombies.
- Allow only leader zombies to spawn additional reinforcements.
- Prevent mob spawners from spawning leaders.
- Prevent zombies spawned by mob spawners from spawning additional reinforcements.
How to Install Zombie Improvements (Mod)
Zombie Improvements by pajic is verified for Fabric, Neoforge across Minecraft versions 1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 1.21.8, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2 (latest release: 1.2.3+26.1.2, file size: 164 KB). Follow the steps below to install it safely from ModCraft.tv:
- Click the Download button above and select your Minecraft version (1.21, 1.21.1, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 1.21.8, 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2) and platform (Fabric, Neoforge).
- Make sure you have the compatible loader or environment installed for Fabric, Neoforge.
- Move the downloaded Zombie Improvements file into your Minecraft
.minecraft/modsfolder and launch the game.
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- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Leader husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins now have unique sounds.
- Added a leader texture for baby zombies, fixing holes in the texture of baby leader zombies.
- Added leader textures for husks, drowned, zombie villagers and zombified piglins.
- The leader aura is now drawn slightly larger than the mob, making it visible on zombified piglins.
- Fixed leader zombie villagers having a farmer hat in their aura.
- Added NeoForge 26.3 version.
- Added Fabric 26.3 version.
- Added NeoForge 26.2 version.
- Added Fabric 26.3 version.
- Added NeoForge 26.2 version.
- Relaxed MC version requirement so that I don't have to upload a new file every time MC gets a hotfix. No functional changes to the mod.
- Relaxed MC version requirement so that I don't have to upload a new file every time MC gets a hotfix. No functional changes to the mod.
- Updated to Minecraft 26.1.
- Updated to Minecraft 26.1.
- Added option "Increased leader damage": Slightly increases damage dealt by leader zombies. Enabled by default. Damage amount is configurable.
- Added option "Leader size increase": Increases the size of leader zombies. Default incrase is 0.125.
- Added option "Unique texture for leaders": Gives leader zombies a unique texture. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Unique sounds for leaders": Gives leader zombies unique sounds. Enabled by default.
- Added option "Add 'Leader' prefix to name": Appends a "Leader" prefix to the name of the leader zombie. Enabled by default.