Sunday 21 October 2012

Mobs Reborn

A while a go I finished my first mod, Mobs Reborn, but until recently I didn't know where to put it. It's now available for download at http://www.planetminecraft.com/mod/mobs-reborn/

The mod adds recipes to allow you to basically bring mobs back to life using what it drops on death, particularly useful if you've developed some emotional attachment to your pet and want to bring it back to life.

To explain, you do this by combining what the mob should normally drop with soul sand (to give it life) and implanting it into an egg to hatch. Zombies, Zombie Pigmen and Skeletons aren't living organisms, so you use sand instead of soul sand. Some mobs are particularly rare and useful like Ocelots and Mooshrooms, so they have more expensive/ complex crafting recipes.

The mod currently supports pigs, cows, squid, wolves, sheep, chickens, slimes, zombies, skeletons, blaze, endermen, villagers, mooshrooms, silverfish, ocelots, creepers, ghast, spiders, magma cubes, cave spiders and zombie pigmen.

To install the mod, just drag and drop the  828 byte .dat file into your Minecraft .jar and you're done! It's extremely compact and does only what it's supposed to.

Below are high-quality transparent PNG images of all the recipes added by Mobs Reborn.

























Saturday 13 October 2012

Compact Combo Lock (Keypad GUI)

When I say compact, I don't mean small, but it's very compact for what it does. The dimensions are 14W x 23L x 10H where length L (23) is the front of the device. All the parts are labelled with signs so you can move, add and remove sections as you wish. 

The concept is that you have to press each of the nine buttons in the right order, then the 'enter' button in order to emit a signal (which stays on via memory cell). I'm using it in my adventure map to open a door, but you could just as well have an overkill light switch in your over sized house.


The original idea came from AntVenom in his video "
The Redstone Experiment : Compact Combination Locks" but he only released it as a world download, with some of it underground, half made on dirt and already specialized to open a little iron cell.

This is probably what everyone actually wanted, which is a neatened, even more compact, non-specialised SCHEMATIC file for MCEdit which is built from scratch with reference to the original.


The default unlock code is labelled on the device and not here for security.