SLT's Redstone Golems [26.3+]

OptiFine or Entity Model Features is required for custom entity models.

The Redstone Golems & Monstrosities from Minecraft Dungeons, brought into Minecraft!

This datapack introduces fully animated Redstone Golems, massive Redstone Monstrosities, and swarming Redstone Cubes to challenge players, and mobs alike.

All explosive attacks caused by these entities deal zero terrain damage, keeping the landscape intact.

Golems

1. Redstone Golem

• Spawning: Illager-made variants are summoned during raids alongside Ravagers. Players can also manually construct their own friendly versions.
• Health:
  • Illager Variant: 240 HP
  • Player-Constructed Variant: 720 HP
• Abilities:
  • Ground Slam: Deals damage and knockback to all nearby entities.
  • Scatter Mines: Scatters 14 mines around itself that explode on contact.
  • Pursuit: If a target is far away, it will move at nearly player-sprinting speed.
• Vulnerability: While scattering mines, the Redstone Golem becomes temporarily inactive for a few seconds, leaving it open to close-ranged attacks.
• Visual Damage: Inspect the redstone core on its back. The more cracks that appear in the core, the lower the health of the Redstone Golem.
• Loot Drops: Cobblestone, Redstone, and Netherite Ingots.
• How to Build: Watch the video tutorial below.

This is an older showcase video, but the assembly mechanics remain exactly the same.

2. Redstone Monstrosity

• Spawning: Illager variants have a 10% chance to spawn during raids. Player-made variants cannot be built in survival yet, but can be spawned via commands: /function srg:summon/redstone_monstrosity.
• Health:
  • Illager Variant: 600 HP
  • Player-Constructed Variant: 1800 HP
• Abilities:
  • Ground Slam: Deals massive damage and extreme knockback to all nearby entities.
  • Minions: Spawns 12 Redstone Cubes that chases its target. It will only summon a new wave once the previous batch is completely killed.
  • Explosive Projectiles: Occasionally spits out 8 explosive projectiles.
  • Charge: Inspired by Minecraft Dungeons II, if a target is far away, it will charge forward at extreme speeds surrounded by glowing red particles, damaging all entities in its path.
• Vulnerability: All ability attacks except for the charge temporarily deactivates the Monstrosity for a few seconds, leaving it open to close-ranged attacks.
• Loot Drops: Cobblestone, Redstone, Iron Ingots, Redstone Blocks, and Netherite Ingots.

3. Redstone Cubes

• Health: 10 HP.
• Behavior: Rolls after their summoner's target. If no targets exist, they will closely follow their parent Redstone Monstrosity.
• Lifespan: Once the parent Redstone Monstrosity dies, all connected Redstone Cubes will die.
• Loot Drops: Redstone.

All of these golems are fire resistant, lava and fire will not harm them.

Technical Information

• Base Mobs: Redstone Golems and Monstrosities utilize the Iron Golem base. As an unintended side effect, they can be repaired using Iron Ingots. Redstone Cubes utilize a Wolf base, but breeding Redstone Cubes is disabled. Standard vanilla Iron Golem and Wolf behaviour remain completely untouched.
• Better Animations: Utilizing CEM animation, golems no longer use the awkward Iron Golem arm flinging, and the Redstone Cubes have a rolling animation.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. Q: OptiFine? There is no OptiFine version available for the Minecraft version yet.

A: This datapack was developed using the Entity Model Features (EMF) mod on version 26.3. Because OptiFine takes months to catch up to modern versions, EMF is highly recommended for the best experience. However, the resource pack uses the standard OptiFine format, meaning it will hopefully still be compatible with OptiFine once it updates.

2. Q: Can these golems render without EMF or OptiFine installed?

A: No. Custom rendering requires either EMF or Optifine. Creating fully vanilla mob models using hundreds of item displays is incredibly complex, performance-heavy, and causes severe server lag, so a purely vanilla resource pack is not planned.

Suggestions Or Questions

Head over to the PlanetMinecraft project page if you want to ask questions or leave suggestions on:

• Ideas for constructing a player-made Redstone Monstrosity.
• Ideas for showing damage on the Redstone Monstrosity.
• Other ideas or requests.

Thanks

• Венец Творения - A massive thank you for providing textures of the Redstone and Obsidian Monstrosities.

About The Project

SLT's Redstone Golems is a complete overhaul of the original datapack created 3 years ago. Remade in just 3 days, this version provides unique custom animations. Features like rolling Redstone Cubes and separate animations for attacks really make these golems feel like real Minecraft Dungeons mobs rather than just reskinned vanilla Iron Golems.

If you enjoy this overhaul, please share the datapack with your friends.