Stargate Replicators Mod

Version 1.1.0

• Block Consumption: Replicators now actively eat breakable blocks in the world to gather materials.
• Asexual Reproduction: Upon consuming 10 blocks, a Replicator will instantly multiply and spawn an exact clone of itself.
• Safe Eating Protocol: To prevent server crashes and griefing, Replicators are hard-coded to ignore fluids, unbreakable blocks (like bedrock), and complex blocks containing data (like machines and chests).
• Wall Climbing: Replicators can now pathfind and scurry straight up vertical walls, just like spiders.
• Aquatic Survival: By overriding their air supply mechanics, Replicators can now survive indefinitely underwater without drowning.
• Permanent Infestation: The removeWhenFarAway method was overridden so Replicators will never naturally despawn, making them a permanent threat until hunted down.

⚔️ Combat & Swarm Intelligence

• Shatter & Rebuild: When hit by physical weapons, Replicators shatter into their base crafting components (iron and diamond), and the remaining "ghost" will rebuild itself if the items are not collected.
• Electric Immunity: Replicators are completely invulnerable to lightning and electrical damage.
• Pack Dynamics: A custom GroupUpGoal was added so they naturally break off into small, roaming clusters of up to five bugs while searching for resources.
• Hive-Mind Defense: Attacking a single peaceful Replicator instantly alerts the entire nearby pack to retaliate and swarm the attacker.
• Critical Mass Aggression: Once the swarm reaches 20 or more members in an area, they enter a highly aggressive state, hunting players and mobs on sight.
• Acid Spit: Replicators can now shoot projectiles (using the LlamaSpit entity) and apply poison to targets from a distance before closing in for a melee bite.

🎨 Rendering & Audio

• Model Geometry: Fixed the "shadow-only" bug by successfully linking the Blockbench geometry export and scaling it properly to a 32x32 texture.
• Hierarchy Fixes: Updated the ReplicatorModel to correctly render from the root instead of looking for a missing bone child, fixing the "single stick" glitch.
• Custom Sounds: Implemented a ModSounds registry and a sounds.json file to allow the Replicators to play custom .ogg audio files for ambient and hurt noises.

⚙️ Under the Hood & Items

• Craftable Origins: Added a JSON crafting recipe allowing players to craft a Replicator Spawn Egg using 8 Iron Ingots and 1 Diamond.
• Custom Blacklist: Implemented a JSON block tag (replicator_blacklist) so server admins and modpack makers can specify exactly which blocks the Replicators are not allowed to eat.
• Translation Support: Added an en_us.json language file to properly translate the spawn egg's name and fix raw text death messages.
• Lag Prevention (Tick Staggering): Desynced the AI math processing so the Replicators take turns calculating their logic on different frames, eliminating CPU spikes.
• Population Control: Added a hard cap that stops reproduction once there are 60 Replicators in a localized area, preventing exponential memory crashes.
• Build Name Update: Updated the build.gradle file so the final compiled mod exports cleanly as StargateReplicators.jar instead of the default example mod name.