Zombie Improvements
This mod significantly enhances zombie leader and reinforcement mechanics and fixes several related bugs.
What are zombie leaders and reinforcements?
You might not even know these mechanics exist in the base game. Here's an explanation from the Minecraft wiki:
On all difficulty levels, damaged zombie mobs (including husks, drowned, and even zombified piglins) call all other zombies within a 67×21×67 to 111×21×111 area centered on the attacked zombie to target the attacker.
On Hard difficulty, zombies can summon additional allies as reinforcements when damaged. Each zombie has a "reinforcement call chance" ranging from 0% to 10%, while leader zombies (0–5% depending on regional difficulty) receive a bonus of 50 to 75 percentage points to this stat.
What does this mod do?
The original mechanics have several issues:
- No way to tell if the zombie you're attacking is a leader
- Missing visual and audio cues when additional reinforcements spawn
- Some bugs make these mechanics less impactful
The mod addresses all these problems by:
- Adding a red aura effect around leader zombies, similar to the charged creeper effect but in red color
- Playing a sound when a zombie calls for reinforcements - this is the breaking sound of the block where the new zombie appears, repeated 5 times over 2 seconds
- Fixing two vanilla bugs: MC-219981 and (version 1.21.1 only) MC-14800
Additional settings, disabled by default:
- Allow only leader zombies to call reinforcements
- Prevent mob spawners from creating leaders
- Stop zombies spawned from mob spawners from calling additional reinforcements
