PCraft Revorn: 3.0.0pre2 | Basaltmite Playtest

Heya! This took me a little to wrap up, I had some unexpected issues. This update brings a new pred, some new items, and an expansion to the Silverfish's features. I'm quite overtired at the time of writing this so let me know if there's any glaring issues with the update.

If you want to get into the meat of the update, scroll down to the notes below, but I'll quickly summarize the new features here.

The Basaltmite is a long diverged variant of the Silverfish that are still freshly mutating in the overworld. They survive off of eating Basalt and little pieces of Ancient Debris in the stone. They are a defensive mob with a personal bubble, meaning they'll only attack if you get too close, but sneaking will allow you to get closer than normal. They can be fed all of the nether ores as well as Ancient Debris, which brings a special Netherite Plate growing feature.

The config has new options as well as the ability to set each pred's male chance individually. The Silverfish now drops Plates by chance when it gains weight which can craft a new armor set or brew resistance potions. Additionally, tamed Piglin Royal Knights should no longer try to attack Piglin Royals and get themselves killed in the process, and Piglin Royals have had bartering simplified, replacing attunded binding rings with just using gold ingots to signify giving up a mob as prey.

As for the full version notes:

New Pred: The Basaltmite

• Spawns in Basalt Deltas in the Nether

• Neutral/Defensive Mob with 5 aggro conditions, most only make it try to scare you off with a short chase

  • Being attacked

  • Entering its personal space without sneaking (3.4 block radius); 3 second aggro

  • Getting too close while sneaking (1.2 block radius); 5 second aggro

  • Mining Basalt while it can see (16 block radius); 10 second aggro

  • Trying to remove a grown plate without it being distracted by eating an ore or being under glowberry high; 5 second aggro

• Natural Debris Armor

  • Can only be damaged by swords and pickaxes, swords must do at least 7 damage (normal diamond attack or crits only from lower swords)

• Can be fed 5 blocks: Nether Quartz Ore, Nether Gold Ore, Gilded Blackstone, Basalt, Ancient Debris

  • Basalt does not reward anything, but it is good for distracting the Basaltmite for plate removal

  • Ancient Debris begins it growing a Basaltmite Plate in its chest

• Basaltmite Plate

  • Will grow 3 after being fed Ancient Debris, takes 3.5 minutes to grow one and the timer on the next won't begin until the previous one has been removed

  • Plates are harvested by right clicking with a pickaxe, though the Basaltmite must either be under Glowberry High or currently distracted with eating an ore in order to remove the Plate, otherwise it won't work and the Basaltmite will aggro for 5 seconds

  • 3.5% chance for them to spawn with a single plate already in their chest

  • 2 can be crafted to make 1 Netherite Scrap, meaning it gives 50% more netherite as the Basaltmite will grow 3 plates

New Items

• Silverfish Plate

  • Drops from Silverfish when they gain weight, 20% chance for first wg and 100% for second wg

  • Used as a brewing ingredient to make potions of Resistance

• Silverfish Plating Armor

  • Armor value of iron, somewhat better durability

  • 0.5 armor toughness, 5% kb resist, and 7.5% projectile damage reduction per piece

  • Crafted by upgrading chain armor with a Silverfish Plate in smithing table (uses leather in template slot)

• Basaltmite Plate

  • Harvested from Basaltmites (read its section)

  • 2 can be used to craft 1 Netherite Scrap

• Basaltmite Plated Soles

  • Crafted from 2 Basaltmite Plates and 4 Weeping Vines

  • Goes in feet Curios slot, prevents damage from standing on magma blocks and campfires

• Pred Guidebook

  • Currently Creative only and unfinished, shows the mod's preds and will give descriptions in the future

PCraft Config File Changes

• Changed config section "(beta) Pred Mechanics" to "Male Pred Chances"

• Changed "malePredChance" variable to "globalMalePredChance", which will now be an automatic override for the new per-pred options

• Added malePredChance variants for each pred with gendered variants, allowing you to make the chance differ for each species if you'd like. These will only take effect if "globalMalePredChance" is set to -1

  • "piglinRoyalKnightMalePredChance", "piglinRoyalMalePredChance", "silverfishMalePredChance", "basaltmiteMalePredChance"

• Added new "Pred Mechanics" section

  • Includes "maxSilverfishFullness", "silverfishFullnessGained", "maxBasaltmiteFullness", "basaltmiteFullnessGained", "basaltmiteScaleGenerationRate", and "basaltmiteScaleSpawnChance"

Silverfish

• Updated the Silverfish's stomach textures to better match the rest of the model

• Will now target Villagers, Pillagers, Vindicators, and Witches if not under the glowberry high effect

• Drops a Silverfish Scale with a 20% chance at first WG and with a 100% chance at 2nd WG

• Silverfish gains 10 extra max fullness with each WG

• Can now be fed without glowberry high if the player is in creative mode

Piglin Royal

• Piglin Royals will now no longer give the player Attunded Binding Rings

• Removed all function of Attuned Binding Rings

• Piglin Royal Bartering is now done by right clicking with a gold ingot, cutting out the middleman

Piglin Royal Knight

• Piglin Royal Knights will now avoid attacking a Piglin Royal (even if tamed), and in the rare case they are somehow able to attack a Royal, they should not be able to do any damage.