Modpack: Astral Engineering 2.2.2, MC 1.16.5
Forge 36.2.31
AlexsMobs alexsmobs-1.12.1

Issue: Mimicubes can be exploited to duplicate vast amount of items, breaking game balance.

To Duplicate: Get a shulker box, place your favorite items you want duplicated into it, then pick it up and place it in your off-hand. Next, get a sword with the Disarming enchantment (the higher level the better). Then find a mimicube (in the End Cities) and attack it to make it duplicate your weapon/off-hand, then kill it.

It's not 100% guaranteed, but Disarming will eventually cause the mimicube to drop the duplicated box, and this box will have its entire contents duplicated. With several iterations, this can easily break the game balance in any modpack this mob and the Disarming (or similar) enchantment/skill is present.

The current solution available is to simply disable the mob in the config, but is there a way to limit what mimicubes can copy to eliminate the obvious exploit?

Thanks.

The Disarming enchantment isn't vanilla, so it's likely a mod interaction with the mod introducing the Disarming enchantment and less a problem with this mod per se.

I will still ask for consideration of adding a blacklist/whitelist in the config to deny duplication of certain items, as that would certainly preserve the original intended function of the mob no matter what other mod is added to the modpack that Alex's Mobs is already present.

Thanks for your time and thanks for a great animals mod!

This is still unresolved and causing issues in my pack. If this could be addressed before 1.16 support is dropped, that would be great. Thanks!