Primitive Mobs Mod Wiki

Primitive Mobs is a content-heavy mod developed by Daveyx0 that focuses on expanding the Minecraft bestiary with entities that feel native to the game's original aesthetic. It introduces over 15 unique mobs, ranging from helpful traveling merchants and tameable chameleons to terrifying bosses like the Summoner. Many of the creatures are spiritual successors to KodaichiZero's classic mods, such as the Rocket Creeper and Grove Sprite.

Key features include:

• Dynamic Behaviors: Mobs that steal items, buff their allies, or change form based on health.
• Taming & Pets: Raise your own army of baby spiders, support creepers, or color-changing chameleons.
• Unique Loot: Items like the Goblin Mace, Wonder Sap, and Camouflage Armor that provide new gameplay mechanics.
• Customization: Extensive configuration options for spawn rates and loot tables via the Multi Mob Library dependency.

These creatures generally do not attack the player and often provide benefits through trading, guidance, or unique drops.

Chameleon

• Health: 10
• Spawn: Plains and Forest biomes.
• Behavior: Changes its skin color to match the block it is currently standing on.
• Taming: Can be tamed using Melons. Once tamed, it will follow the player and can be made to sit by right-clicking with an empty hand.
• Drops: Camouflage Dye.

Dodo

• Health: 12
• Spawn: Beaches and warm biomes.
• Behavior: Flightless birds that wander aimlessly. They occasionally lay Dodo Eggs.
• Drops: Raw Dodo (high saturation food), Feathers.

Traveling Merchant

• Health: 20
• Behavior: A wandering villager variant that spawns randomly in the world. He offers unique trades that are often more valuable or rarer than standard village trades. He will follow players holding Emeralds.
• Special: Can be made to settle permanently by right-clicking him with an Emerald Block.

Lost Miner

• Health: 20
• Spawn: Underground in caves.
• Behavior: Found crying in the dark. If a player leads him to the surface (above Y=60), he will reward the player with Emeralds and may transform into a permanent villager with a unique Miner profession.

Filch Lizard

• Health: 8
• Behavior: These small lizards are attracted to "shiny" items (Gold, Diamonds, etc.). They will sneak up and steal an item from the player's inventory.
• Interaction: Hitting them once causes them to drop the stolen item and flee. They sometimes spawn already holding a rare item.

Neutral mobs only attack if provoked or under specific environmental conditions.

Grove Sprite

• Health: 20
• Spawn: Near trees in Forest biomes.
• Behavior: Associated with specific tree types. They are peaceful unless the player cuts down trees near them.
• Interaction: Using Bonemeal on a Grove Sprite will cause it to produce Wonder Sap.
• Drops: Wonder Sap (matches the tree type it was associated with).

Sheepman

• Health: 20
• Spawn: The Nether.
• Behavior: Humanoid sheep that wander the Nether wastes. They are neutral but will defend themselves if attacked.
• Sheepman Smith: A rare variant that can repair the player's equipment in exchange for Gold Nuggets.

Haunted Tool

• Health: Varies (based on material)
• Behavior: Enchanted, floating tools (Swords, Pickaxes, Axes, etc.) that spawn in dark areas. They remain stationary until a player gets close, at which point they attack.
• Drops: The tool they represent (often with full durability).

These mobs are aggressive and will attack players on sight.

The Creeper Variants

Mimic

• Health: 40
• Behavior: Disguises itself as a standard wooden chest in dungeons and caves. When a player attempts to open it, it reveals its teeth and attacks.
• Drops: Mimic Orb, various chest loot.

Brain Slime

• Health: 10
• Behavior: Small, sticky slimes that attempt to jump onto the player's head. Once attached, they deal continuous damage and are difficult to remove without hitting yourself or using water.

Skeleton Warrior

• Health: 25
• Behavior: A smarter skeleton that does not burn in sunlight. It uses a Bow at long range but will instantly switch to a Sword if the player gets close.

Mother Spider & Baby Spiders

• Behavior: The Mother Spider is a large arachnid that spawns several Baby Spiders to protect her. Attacking the babies enrages the mother, increasing her speed and damage.
• Taming: The Mother Spider occasionally drops a Spider Egg. Throwing this egg spawns a tamed Baby Spider that fights for the player. Feed it 5 Fermented Spider Eyes to grow it into a rideable adult mount.

Void Eye

• Health: 40
• Behavior: A mysterious, teleporting eye found in dark places. It deals armor-piercing damage and is highly resistant to knockback.

Lily Lurker

• Health: 15
• Spawn: Swamps.
• Behavior: Disguised as a lily pad on the water's surface. It lunges at players who swim nearby.
• Drops: Ball of Tar.

The Summoner is a powerful mini-boss that appears as a hooded villager. He is initially neutral and can be traded with for spawn eggs using Emeralds or Gold Ingots.

The Fight: To initiate the boss fight, the player must give the Summoner an Eye of Ender. This reveals his true form and begins a three-phase battle:

1. Phase 1: He summons waves of Skeletons and Zombies to defend himself.
2. Phase 2 (Below 60 HP): He summons four Haunted Diamond Swords and a Support Creeper to buff them.
3. Phase 3 (Below 20 HP): He summons Festive Creepers and creates a blinding smoke screen while regenerating health.

Drops:

• Large quantities of Emeralds and Diamonds.
• Mystery Egg: When used, it hatches into a tamed Support Creeper that follows the player and provides permanent buffs like Strength, Speed, and Fire Resistance.

Primitive Mobs adds several utility items derived from its unique entities.

Camouflage Armor

Crafted by combining Leather Armor pieces with Camouflage Dye (dropped by Chameleons).

• Properties: The armor changes color to match the environment.
• Set Bonus: Wearing a full set significantly reduces the detection range of hostile mobs, allowing for stealthy movement.

Wonder Sap

Dropped by Grove Sprites or obtained by using Bonemeal on them.

• Usage: Right-clicking a log with Wonder Sap will convert it into a different type of log (e.g., Oak to Birch). This is highly useful for builders looking for specific wood types.

Goblin Mace

Dropped by Goblins.

• Special Ability: Each hit has a chance to reduce the durability of one of the opponent's armor pieces by 10%.

Ball of Tar

Dropped by Lily Lurkers.

• Usage: Can be thrown like a snowball to apply a powerful Slowness effect to mobs.

Mimic Orb

Dropped by Mimics.

• Usage: Right-clicking a standard chest with this orb will transform it into a Mimic Chest that protects your loot from other players or entities.

Taming Mechanics

Several mobs in the mod can be tamed to serve as companions:

• Chameleons: Tame with Melons.
• Baby Spiders: Hatch from Spider Eggs; grow with Fermented Spider Eyes.
• Treasure Slimes: Rare white variants can be tamed with Slimeballs. They can hold an item inside them, which determines their color.
• Support Creepers: Obtained only by defeating the Summoner and hatching the Mystery Egg.

Configuration

Primitive Mobs utilizes the Multi Mob Library for its spawning system. Players can edit the primitivemobs.cfg file to:

• Enable or disable specific mobs.
• Adjust spawn rates and group sizes.
• Customize the loot tables for Treasure Slimes and Haunted Tools.
• Toggle whether the Miner profession appears in vanilla villages.