Suspicious Zombification

This mod was created during SpookyJam 2021! Suspicious Zombification is about turning animals into zombies, fighting the zombie curse, eating suspicious pies, and utilizing their effects.

Zombified Animals

Currently there are four types of zombified animals, and the vanilla zombie horse also works similarly to these custom animals. They can be created by spawning in a zombie cove, feeding a normal animal suspicious pumpkin pie with rotten flesh, or converting them while having the zombie curse. If a zombified animal kills its vanilla counterpart, it converts into a zombified animal similarly to how villagers turn into zombie villagers when killed. Each zombified animal can drop rotten flesh upon death and rarely some items from its vanilla counterpart. They don't burn in sunlight and don't despawn in peaceful mode. They don't attack on their own but will retaliate. Zombified animals can be cured by giving them the weakness effect and then feeding them suspicious pumpkin pie with a golden apple. They can also be bred by feeding them suspicious pumpkin pie containing the flesh of their vanilla counterpart. Example: Breeding zombified sheep requires suspicious pumpkin pie with raw mutton as an ingredient.

Zombified Chicken - It lays rotten eggs.

Zombified Cow - It can be milked to get spoiled milk.

Zombified Pig - Can be ridden with a porkchop on a stick.

Zombified Sheep - It can be dyed like normal sheep and sheared to receive rotten wool.

Zombified Cat - It comes in all kinds of types and gifts its owner candies in the morning.

Trophies

Trophies are very valuable to zombies. Stealing them is probably not a good idea. But they look so good!

Zombie Cove

A structure that randomly spawns on the surface. Zombies have called it home and are living a peaceful life. You shouldn't interfere or steal from them. If you're cursed by zombies, it's advised to be careful not to decompose too many living souls. Your only way out is the suspicious ritual.

Suspicious Ritual

The suspicious ritual is the only way to get rid of the zombie curse. The structure can sometimes be found in the cellar of a zombie cove but can also be built manually. For the ritual to work, it must be nighttime, and a zombified animal must be inside the ritual structure and leashed to the fence in the middle. Initiating the suspicious ritual is as simple as standing inside the ritual structure, drinking a weakness potion, and eating suspicious pumpkin pie with a golden apple. Upon completion, you'll be granted zombie grace, which will make zombie mobs (drowned, husks, zombies, zoglins, etc.) ignore you for a certain amount of time.

Here's how to build the suspicious ritual. The chiseled stone bricks are mandatory; any other stone bricks can be normal, mossy, or cracked. There are stone bricks under each of the four pumpkins in the corners of the structure. You can use any wooden fence in the middle. The trophy atop the wooden fence can be either a carrot, potato, or iron ingot trophy.

Candies

There are several types of candy that can be used in crafting suspicious pumpkin pies or eaten alone. They'll give various effects when eaten. You can find them in zombie coves. If you have a tamed zombified cat, it will gift you a random candy in the morning. Additionally, there's a small chance for normal cats to gift candies to the player in the morning.

Suspicious Pumpkin Pie

Suspicious pumpkin pie is similar to vanilla suspicious stew, with one key difference. It's crafted using candies instead of flowers, as well as some other questionable items. Eating such a pie will yield different results depending on the ingredient used, some good, some bad. Craft a suspicious pumpkin pie with pumpkin, sugar, and an egg, plus one of the following ingredients depending on the effect you want to achieve when the pie is eaten. Example of how to craft a suspicious pumpkin pie with a honey candy:

Suspicious pumpkin pies can grant vanilla effects not given by suspicious stew, as well as several new ones (see below). You'll have to experiment for the exact effect list!

Valid ingredients: Caramel Candy, Chocolate Cream Candy, Cinnamon Candy, Honey Candy, Melon Candy, Peppermint Candy, Pumpkin Candy, Vanilla Cream Candy, Spoiled Milk Bucket, Rotten Egg, Rotten Wool, Golden Apple, Rotten Flesh, Raw Chicken, Feather, Beef, Leather, Porkchop, Mutton, Gunpowder.

Additionally, candies from the Trick or Treat mod can be used as ingredients. Eating a suspicious pumpkin pie with a candy from that mod will yield a slightly longer effect than eating the candy itself would (where applicable).

Effects

These effects can be received when eating the respective suspicious pumpkin pie.

• Amplifying: Increases the level of every other effect the player currently has. For example: Jump Boost I becomes Jump Boost II
• Stench: Makes you smell so bad that entities nearby will feel sick.
• Cushion: Will reduce fall damage and knockback effect.
• Decomposing: Will slowly decompose the entity. If it can be zombified, it will convert to its zombified form after the effect wears off. If not, death is inevitable.

Configuration

There are several configuration options that allow disabling certain features players cannot control through gameplay:

• Disable zombified animals being able to zombify their prey on Normal and Hard difficulty
• Disable zombified cats giving morning gifts
• Disable players with the Zombie Curse effect zombifying animals in their range