ZombiesEverywhere

V1.4.0 Changelog

Fixes

1. Zombie AI architecture overhaul: zombies used to twitch and jitter in some situations; their behavior is now far more consistent and noticeably more aggressive. Improved zombie intelligence:

   • Burning Zombies no longer join melee after stage 3 - they keep their distance and harass the target instead, with a chance to knock it back if it gets too close.
   • After stage 3, Summoner Zombies try to stay out of the player's sight - hiding behind blocks, behind other zombies or behind the player - and summon reinforcements from the shadows.
   • Zombies coordinate their tactics much more smoothly and tightly.

2. Reworked how Corruption Gates are placed and how they spawn zombies, cutting pointless performance cost and network traffic.

3. Improved zombie swimming physics and fixed behavior issues in water.

4. Performance: optimized hot code paths for more stable TPS.

5. Fixed the kill feed not recognizing gun icons when the "TaCZ 1.21.1 NeoForge Port" mod is installed - the HUD now shows the gun used for the kill correctly.

6. Updated the default zombie spawn configuration for performance reasons.

New

1. Infection system upgrade:

   • Infection Resistance: every point reduces the chance of an infection being applied by 2%.
   • All entities start at 0.

2. Corruption Star upgrade: While an entity holds a Corruption Star it gains the matching effects (with several stars, the one holding the most energy counts):

   • At 0-40% corruption energy the holder suffers the Corruption Curse. At full strength (empty star) it causes:

     1. -40% max health.
     2. +32% food exhaustion.
     3. +32% damage taken.
     4. -24% mining speed. Every bit of extra energy weakens the curse by one tier.

   • From 50% corruption energy the holder gains the Corruption Blessing. At full strength it grants:

     1. +25% damage.
     2. +10 infection resistance.
     3. +150% mining speed.
     4. -20% damage taken. The lowest blessing tier starts at 50% of the star's cap; more energy means a stronger blessing, and a completely full star reaches the top tier.

   • While the Corruption Star is completely full:

     1. +25% extra damage.
     2. +5 extra infection resistance.
     3. +10% extra final damage reduction.
     4. +50% extra mining speed.
     5. +1 Luck.
     6. +20% extra movement speed.

3. Curios API integration: with Curios API installed, the Corruption Star also works as a charm accessory. Also integrated with Touhou Little Maid - maids are compatible with nearly every Corruption Star mechanic.

4. Configuration improvements:

   • Cloth Config integration for a much better in-game config screen.
   • New config preset system:
     • Players can now load and export their own full config.
     • Presets live in config/ZombiesEverywhere/presets/.
     • Four initial difficulty presets ship with the mod: Easy, Standard, Hard and Hell. They mainly tune Corruption Gate spawning and the day-based zombie growth.
     • Note: the higher the difficulty, the heavier the performance cost - choose carefully.
     • Preset command: /zombieseverywhere preset [list | xxxx]

5. To make the Corruption Curse's faster food exhaustion possible, the mod now ships a Mixin. If you run into related problems, try turning it off in the TOML config.

6. To avoid the huge pile of dropped items (and the entity lag it causes) during hordes: New automatic loot pickup:

   • The mod adds its own bag (a button in the E-key inventory screen in survival; the B key opens it by default too). It offers high stack sizes and is take-only - items can be taken out but never put in. Loot from the mod's zombies killed by the player goes straight into this bag instead of dropping on the ground.
   • By default it only covers kills of this mod's zombies. The mod also offers collection for everything the player kills - configure it in the loot drop section.
   • With keep-inventory enabled, the bag's item count is halved as a penalty.
   • The bag is a separate data attachment, so the vanilla /clear command cannot touch it. Use /zombieseverywhere bag [count|clear] instead.
   • The mod also provides a block (pointing at the bound player's loot bag) as an interactable container, so hoppers and similar blocks can move items.
   • Note: this is a compromise for performance. It is convenient, but it can noticeably change the game for hardcore players, so there is a config switch; it is enabled by default.

7. New in-game guide (requires Patchouli):

   • With Patchouli installed, a guide book is generated automatically the first time you join a world.

8. New Corruption Gate suppression:

   • New block: Corruption Core.
   • Crafted with a Corruption Star (spending corruption energy), Corrupted Blood and a Nether Star.
   • Place it and right-click to open its screen: rename it, browse every Corruption Core you have placed, and put a Corruption Star into the input slot to convert its corruption energy into suppression energy, which suppresses Corruption Gate spawning. Amethyst Shards can be used to charge it as well.
   • Every gate it suppresses costs a certain amount of suppression energy.