Care For Them¶
Care For Them is a Minecraft mod that introduces the Xoonglin, a new mob which players need to provide for. Xoonglins have a multitude of needs that, once satisfied, will give them plenty of happiness. However, if they can't satisfy them, they will become unhappy and could even die.
Rationale¶
The original idea for this mod came from the realization that many mods and modpacks are oriented into creating large factories full of processes for producing lots of resources, but there are very few ways to spend those products. The needs in the Minecraft world are very limited, and can be satisfied with just a bit of manual labour. For big factories to make sense, we also need a big population that consumes whatever comes from the factories.
Features¶
- Xoonglins, new mobs that will expect the player to provide for their needs.
- Xoonglins have needs, which can be of different kinds. They always need a physical home where to live and some items to be periodically delivered to their homes.
- Each Xoonglin belongs to a social class. Each of these has a different set of social needs. If their needs are satisfied and their happiness increases, they can upgrade to higher classes; however, if they get unhappy, they can demote to a lower class.
- The leader staff can be used to designate a home (by right-clicking on doors while crouching), detect structures (by right-clicking on a structure's key block, again to check a registered one) or know the current state of a Xoonglin.
- The first Xoonglins will spawn spontaneously, but from then on, they will mate to increase their population. However, they will always respect a given social structure (a relation to the number of Xoonglins of each class).
- You can compete with other players for getting the biggest and happiest Xoonglin
population. The commands
\happinessLadder,\populationLadderand\socialstructuregive rankings and information on your Xoonglins. - The social classes, needs, structures and jobs are fully configurable and customizable via datapacks, so it's possible to build a tailored experience for any modpack.
- Jobs: Xoonglins can be assigned jobs through their social class. Each social class can have multiple possible jobs, and each Xoonglin will randomly pick one. The player can manually change the job of a Xoonglin among the available ones.
- Structures: Buildings in the world can be recognized and validated by the mod. Homes are a special type of structure, but other structure types (workshops, farms, monuments, multi-storey buildings) can also be defined and used by jobs and needs.
- Rituals: Xoonglins with the officiant job can perform rituals — or any kind of configurable ceremony or event — that other Xoonglins attend and get happiness from.
- Equipment: Xoonglins can wear items and armor in any equipment slot, driven by equipment needs.
- Social Class Browser: Press
Vto open an interactive screen showing the full social class hierarchy as a visual graph, with clickable nodes to view each class's needs, stats, and upgrade/downgrade conditions. - Jade integration: If Jade is installed, looking at a Xoonglin shows its class, job and happiness; its leader also sees its most pressing need.