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Infested!

This mod adds a variety of content relating to insects and spiders, expanding the role and function of vanilla Spiders and Silverfish, and adding two (technically four) completely new insect mobs. This mod also adds new armors obtainable via craftable Armor Trims, three new enchantments, a new potion recipe for the Resistance effect, and three pets/minions.

Features

New Mobs

Mantis

Mantises can be found in forest biomes, while their cousin, the Orchid Mantis, can be found in flower and cherry blossom biomes. These insects are neutral to the player, but preys upon most arthropods. When a mantis sets its eyes on a target, it will enter an Ambush, turning it invisible as it slowly creeps up on its prey, before a devastating strike that leaves the victim stunned. When a mantis slays an arthropod target, it will eat it, causing it to regain health.

A mantis can be tamed or bred by feeding it spider eye, and will drop Chitin upon death.

Grubs and Beetles

In Nether Wastes, you might come across tiny fanged larvae in pursuit of Zombified Piglins. When these grubs hit their target, they will inflict it with a Parasitic Infection, eating away at the Zomfified Piglin until it completes its metamorphosis into a Beetle. Fully mature beetles can be found commonly in Crimson Forests.

Grubs can be a nutritious source of food within the Nether, and are dropped by Grubs and Beetles (along with Chitin in the Beetle's case.) While the Beetle is neutral, it can be bred with rotten flesh to produce a clutch of Grubs, that can be harvested at leisure. If an uncooked grub is fed to any arthropod entity tamed by you, it will restore a good portion of their health.

Jewel Beetles

You may come across tiny, skittish insects when you break certain blocks. These insects are the Jewel Beetles, and have four variants.

• Harvest Beetle: Found by breaking grasses, ferns, and shrubs. They drop crops and seeds.
• Jewel Beetles: The type species, found deep underground by breaking deepslate ores. They drop raw ores and gemstones.
• Chorus Beetle: Found by breaking Endstone. Drops a Shulker Shell.
• Ancient Debreetle: Found exceedingly rarely by breaking Netherrack. Drops a Netherite Scrap.

Jewel Beetles will run away quickly, and despawn after ten seconds, so hunt them down as quickly as you can! You can disable their spawning via gamerule.

Tamed Spiders and Silverfish

Rarely, spiders and silverfish will drop their eggs (silverfish eggs may also drop from infested blocks.) These eggs can be used to spawn a friendly variant of the mob. Using Silverfish Eggs will spawn two friendly silverfish, although they won't stay with you for very long before going off to join a wild colony. Spider Eggs, however, will spawn a persistent ally. While it does not have as much health as a tamed Wolf, it makes up for it with its ability to inflict potion effects on your foes. By default, the effect is poison, but feeding it items that can be used to brew negative potions can change the effect. You can also personalize your spider by using dye to change the color of its eyes. (The eye-dyeing feature is slightly bugged, and leaving and rejoining the world may clear the color. To make up for this, the dye will not be consumed on use.)

Other Features

Armors

Infested also adds two new armors, the Spider and Chitin Armors.

• The Spider Armor will grant you night vision, as well as causing you to deal bonus damage to entities trapped in cobwebs. Additionally, you can create your own temporary cobweb traps, by shift right clicking on the ground when wearing the full set to give yourself four, or by being hit while wearing the armor. You can move freely through these traps while wearing the Spider Boots.
• The Chitin Armor grants some additional armor toughness, as well as allowing you to mimic the Ambush ability of the Mantis. Sneak while wearing the full armor set to go invisible and slow yourself down, dealing more damage to the first entity you hit before the effect expires. This armor also grants one level of the Parasitioid and Infested enchantments. Enchantments

Enchantments

Three new enchantments are added:

• Infested: Applicable to shields and chest armor. When you are hit with an attack, you will spawn a friendly silverfish to assist you for a short time.
• Parasitoid: Applicable to weapons. When you slay an enemy with an attack, a friendly silverfish will hatch from it, assisting you for a short time.
• Ensnaring Strike: Applicable to weapons. Consumes slightly more durability to temporarily ensnare hit enemies in cobwebs, slowing them down.

New Blocks

Certain mobs from this mod will drop Chitin on death. This material can be crafted into the Chitin Armor trim, used to brew potions of resistance, or crafted into a new set of blocks.

Additionally, this mod adds two new redstone blocks, the Spinneret and the Silverfish Trap. The Spinneret will cover blocks above it in temporary Cobweb traps when activated, and the Silverfish Trap will crumble, releasing between 5-8 Attack Silverfish that will go after anything they percieve as a threat, including you. There is a gamerule to disable Silverfish Traps, in case of entity spam.