Harder Spawners

This mod allows you to prevent players from rushing and lighting spawners to shut them down easily.  This makes dungeons harder and more exciting.

This mod also provides you the option to change the behavior of standard spawners so that they have a less reliable life span and may even explode.

Default Configuration

Note: As of 1.16.2 version, the configuration file has been moved to the config folder.  Remove old config files from "serverConfig" folder.

Spawners will last an average of 250 spawns ( about 4 hours) before failing.  You can increase or reduce this.  Keep in mind spawners will run when players are a dungeon level above them in multi level dungeons.

By Default, animal spawners will not fail.

By default, Spawners will explode a third of the time when they fail.  You can increase or reduce this.

By default, the spawner will break any bright block placed near it and block placing any bright liquid near it (with a extinguishing sound effect).

Revenge Levels

1-3 Poison 1-3

4-6 Wither 1-3

7-11 Wither 1-5 + Blindness

Configuration

["Spawners Spawn in Light Control Values"]

["Spawners Spawn in Light Control Values"]

#Debug Level: 0 = Off, 1 = Log, 2 = Chat+Log #Range: 0 ~ 2 debugLevel = 0

#Spawner Break Speed Modifier: 0 = Off, 1 = 50% slower, 2-11 times slower. #Range: 0 ~ 11

spawnerBreakSpeedMultiplier = 4

#Spawner Revenge Level: 0 = Off, Over 1 spawner takes revenge on player. #Range: 0 ~ 11

spawnerRevengeLevel = 1

#Explode percentage when Spawners Break #Range: 0.0 ~ 100.0

spawnersExplodePercentage = 33.0

["No Break Mobs Values 6464"]

#Trail Block String 6464 defaultNoBreakMobsActual =  ( Note: "break" here refers to the spawner failing not to breaking the spawner )

"harderspawners:default,0.2;

minecraft:pig,0.0;

minecraft:cow,0.0;

minecraft:sheep,0.0;

minecraft:parrot,0.0;

minecraft:blaze,0.0;"

Format: Name, % chance of breaking.  So the default is 0.2 which is 0.2% (1/500).  If you set it to 2.0 that would be 2%.

Example: Of setting a blaze spawner to break once every 5,000 spawners (about 80 hours average but random so could happen on any given spawn)

minecraft:blaze,0.02;"

Add option to allow players to still light spawners to shut them down.

There will not be a 1.12 version of this mod.  There are lots of awesome spawner control mods there.  But I wanted  some kind of spawner control mod for our Two Guys Modpack which is 1.16.1 so I had to write one now.

I hope to have a  Fabric version of this mod soon after I start working with Fabric.

Your suggestions welcome!

Note: There are some sneaky loopholes allowing clever players to still build mob farms- it's just harder.  So if you set all the failure chances to zero and only use it stop easy light placement. There are still ways around it.  12/16- Some of these sneaky loopholes and mods that directly setblock are addressed in the new release.

Possible Features (currently on hold)

User option to make Spawner's have higher resistance to explosions.  ( still hoping for this one but it's going to be a while).

Some kind of "Spawner Reinforcing Block" that will prevent the Spawners from failing.   

* One type would lower the chance of failure.  The reinforcing block would be consumed when prevents spawner failure.  You can control the reinforcing block is available or not.  

* One type would lower the chance of explosions.  The dampening block would turn to water when an explosion was going to occur anyway.  You can control if the dampening block is available or not.

* The reinforcing blocks would need to be placed right next to the spawner to reinforce it so you could use up to six.

If you make them available, the reinforcing blocks be expensive– diamonds, emeralds and require rare ingredients Blue Ice, Netherite Alloy.  And optional mod:item ingredients.

I'm working in this mod again after spending a month bringing all mods to 1.16.4 and month on "Redstone Magic".   The above features are scheduled now.

I'll be taking a stab at 15.2 as soon as the reinforcing blocks are in.  I was able to push this back to 1.16.1 in the most recent version so 1.16.1 to 1.16.4 are all covered.

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