Plants & Zombies

Changes / Additions

• Added Pumpkin Plant.
  • Can be obtained as rewards for the Zomboween special wave or from carving pumpkins.
  • When applied to a plant, it will completely tank any given damage until destroyed.
• Updated Seed Mutation chances:

  - Peashooter: 50% Electric Peashooter seeds during Thunderstorms.
  - Peashooter: 50% Fire Peashooter seeds while in hot biomes.
  - Peashooter: 10% Repeater seeds anywhere.
  - Electric Peashooter: 15% Peashooter seeds during Clear/Rainy weather.
  - Fire Peashooter: 15% Peashooter seeds while NOT in hot biomes.
  - Repeater: No longer has a mutation (always drops repeater).
  - Melon Pult: 33.3% Winter Melon seeds in cold biomes.
  - Winter Melon: 15% Melon Pult while NOT in cold biomes.
  - Wallnut: 8% Explode-o-Nut seeds anywhere.
  - Explode-o-Nut: 20% Wallnut seeds anywhere.

• Added "Zomboween" special wave.
  • Has a chance to occur 2 weeks before and 1 day after October 31st.
  • Can happen within waves 4–11.
• Added a Boss Bar during boss waves.
  • If a Boss is not defeated by the end of a boss wave, the raid will be lost.
• Reworked the Digger Zombie's behavior.
  • When 16–40 blocks away from its target, The Digger Zombie will attempt to tunnel into the ground closer to its target.
• Added Vampire Browncoat variant.
  • Has a chance to appear during Halloween season.
• Balloon Zombies can drop balloons when killed.
• Unleashed Balloons will pop after 2 minutes.
• Hypnotized mobs will now target non-hypnotized mobs of the same type as well as other enemies.
• Reduced how often and how many graves the grave digger will dig.
• During a raid, the center flag will display a beacon beam while far away.
• Plants will now only snap onto blocks that they can survive on.
• Plant and Brainz Flags can only be placed while holding shift.
• Plant and Zombie projectiles are now ignored by:
  • Armor Stands
  • Boats
  • Minecarts
  • Item Frames
• The Skillet item from Farmer's Delight can now be equipped on your head.
• Added nametag ester eggs for the Sunflower (Vampire) and Fire Peashooter (Blaze).

Fixes / Technical Changes

• Reduced Grave Digger spawn chance during raids.
• Plants and Zombies no longer pop their own balloons.
• Zombie Robots built by the Engineer will vanish at the end of the raid.
• Reduced the range for Robo Zombie.
• Raid zombies will no longer spawn on top of trees.
• Optimized zombie pathfinding during raids.
• Optimized some checks on idle plants.
• Puff Shrooms, Sun Shrooms, and Scaredy Shrooms now spawn again. :,)
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to hang when processing certain plants while saving.
• Added a new server config option: graveStoneActivationRange.
  • Sets the range at which Gravestone can spawn zombies. The default value is 24.0
• Added a new server config option: pumpkinArmorAmount.
  • Sets the amount of pumpkin armor gets applied. The default value is 35.
• Updated seed packet mutations to accept an item as a result:
  • The result field either accept and entity_type or and object:
    • item - an item id
    • count - a value range. Defaults to { "min": 1, "max": 1 } (optional)

Example files:

{
  "mutations": [
    {
      "biome": "minecraft:forest",
      "chance": 1.0,
      "result": {
        "item": "minecraft:apple"
      }
    },
    {
      "chance": 0.5,
      "result": {
        "item": "minecraft:emerald",
        "count": {
          "min": 2,
          "max": 8
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}