Haunted Harvest
Haunted harvest tweaks the villager AI by adding many intricate and thought out Halloween related tasks and events with the aim to bring more life to villages during the spooky season. Its main features are trick or treating, and pumpkin decoration for villages.
Trick or Treating
- Baby villagers will now wear a mask at night. They can have 8 possible masks: creeper, pumpkin, zombie, illager, piglin, skeleton, enderman and spider
- Baby villagers will go door to door once night sets and will start trick or treating
Once a villager interacts with an adult one of 3 things can happen:
- The adult will give the kid a random candy (which also includes some from other mods like supplementaries) and the kid will then visit another villager
- The adult might not have any candy and give the kit some coal
- The kid's spooky costume might scare off the adult
- If a kid doesn't receive any candy from an adult for whatever reason, he will take out some eggs... You know what's next
Witches interactions
- If a baby villager is unfortunate enough to encounter a Witch during its night walk he will try to interact with her and ask her candy. Here 3 things can happen:
- The witch will spook and scare off the children
- The witch will give the kid a rotten apple
- More rarely the witch will give out a special Grim Apple to the unlucky trick or treater
Eating candy and new food
- During the day (and their play time so from 3000 ingame time) kids will actually start eating all the candies that they have collected. Doing so will decrease their age a little and heal them.
This means that they will be able to trick or treat for more nights in a row!
- Rotten apples are a new food that has been added. It's similar to rotten flesh and can rarely drop from oak and dark oak leaves. It can be combined with many other nasty ingredients to make a Grim Apple
- Grim apples are a more evil version of rotten apples and can be seen as the opposite of a golden apple. They will give all sorts of negative effects when consumed
If a kid has a grim apple in its inventory he will consume as with any other food it receives but doing so will actually start converting it into a witch so be careful!
- Finally as a bonus,
Village decorations
- During Halloween season (from the 20th of october to 10th of november, Adult villagers will begin placing 1 pumpkin each around the village. Note that they cannot do so in their work time and in suitable location, that is on grass or sand and above y=64.
- Baby villagers can take out some shears and carve any pumpkin they see. This again happens during their play time so for example at time 3000.
- At night baby villagers will try to light up the last pumpkin they carved
- At the end of season (after the 10th of november or whatever is set in the configs) Adult villagers will try to remove all the pumpkins they have placed down. Also note that all of this is supposed to occur rarely so to gradually fill up a village
Extra
- Baby villagers will no longer be targeted by hostile mobs. This means they'll be able to roam out at night without fear of getting killed
- Player thrown eggs can splatter, just like the ones thrown by trick or treaters
- Witches now have an increase chance to spawn in villages
- The mod is pretty customizable and you have many options in the configs such as having it active year round or only during a certain period. By default it's trick or treating is always on and pumpkin placement only between October 1th and November 10th.
- The mod is meant to be included in every modpack since it can be set to seasonal mode and thus only be active during the selected period. Doing so will completely remove every feature of the mod from the ground up for maximum compatibility for the rest of the year, except for rotten apples and egg splattering
- Serene Seasons compatibility allows the mod to only be enabled during certain seasons
Note that pumpkins placements is tied to MobGriefing. Given the fact that villagers can't breed either with griefing off (cause they can't pickup food), this means that if you have mob griefing off the mod will effectively be entirely disabled
Hope you enjoy this mod!
Happy Halloween!