Ragdoll Deaths

Dead mobs are now real physics bodies instead of playing a fixed animation.

• Physics bodies. A dying mob becomes rigid parts joined at its joints. It falls, tumbles, slides and comes to rest on whatever blocks are there: stairs, slabs, fences, walls. Armor and held items follow.
• The killing blow matters. Melee hits knock the body back; Knockback, sprint hits and Punch throw it further. Arrows hit the part they pass through. Creepers and TNT fling bodies away and walls block the blast. A mace smash drives the body down.
• Dying muscles. For about a second and a half the body braces and reaches, then goes limp.
• Water and lava. Bodies float and drift with the current; soul sand bubble columns lift them fast, magma ones slowly. Lava burns black exactly the pixels that touched it.
• Materials. Bodies slide far on ice, bounce on slime, hang in cobwebs and sink into powder snow.
• Special mobs. Skeletons break apart, a snow golem's pumpkin rolls off, blaze and breeze rods drop free, spiders flip and curl.
• Sounds and dust. Thuds, splashes and bone clatter, heard only by you.
• Settings. A new Physics section; turning Physics Bodies off brings back the 1.0 animations.
• Fixed: on 26.1.x a render hook did not apply, so limb and armor posing could fail.