SPRIG - Symbiotic.Plant.Rearing.Independent.Golem.

SPRIG - Symbiotic.Plant.Rearing.Independent.Golem.

Hello. This is technically my first mod for Hytale. I decided to make a new friendly mob for the game that wanders the player's base and takes care of special crops for the player. Originally, I wanted a custom UI and a bunch of features that would require plugin coding. But in the end, a lot of features I just could not do in the time frame by myself. Unfortunately, I could not get anyone to team up with.

Anyway, 7 Energy drinks, 4 bottles of cola, and only 6 hours of sleep total, here is what I have. One big disappointment is being unable to figure out how to get a custom ORE block to spawn in the world. So, to get started, please just use the /give Sprig_Base command.

Placing the custom ore block down, you can then mine it with a pickaxe, and it will drop a dead SPRIG. You can take him home, and once at home, place him down and feed him a single Essence of Life (You can get this by doing /give Ingredient_Life_Essence) and watch as he magically awakens and all the beautiful green colour comes back. He will then explore your base and wander around.

And that’s it. I tried to add more animations, and some cool tracking of the player and scanning the area for water and animal dung for planting, but I had such a struggle learning to code and use the asset editor within the time I had left after all the modelling, etc.

I know this doesn’t sound like a mod that took a lot of time. But I put my heart into it, and he is so cute. To be fair, the modelling, the texturing and the animating is a lot for one person to do, let alone having to then spend over half the Modjam just trying to learn the asset editor and how to code even the most basic things in Java. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time to complete the mod.

BUT THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT!

1. Will work on world spawning the custom Ore.

2. I want to add special crops. Where you can give him seeds, and he will automatically find water and animal dung for fertiliser, and grow the crop. Once the crops have grown, he will give them to you.

3. These crops will have special properties, like jump boost, night vision, scaring off hostile mobs, and fast mining.

4. Want to add more animations so he can sleep and be more lively in the base, interact more.

5. And I want a custom UI with an inventory and timer, so you can give him resources manually, collect your crops, and see how much time each crop has left.

But all of that’s for the future. Will work on this mod and make it amazing. Everyone will want a SPRIG!