Aggressive Animals

End Of Life for SlimeDog/AggressiveAnimals

SlimeDog/AggressiveAnimals reached end-of-life on 2024-07-09.
See THE WIKI for more details.

AggressiveAnimals is based on Michielcx's original resource, which was abandoned after release 2.6 for Spigot 1.17 (2021-07-10). Credit for the idea belongs to him.

Unfortunately, the original source code was not public, so this resource was created from scratch. The configuration has been modified considerably, so users of the original will need to update, although the defaults will work adequately in most cases. See THE WIKI for more details.

AggressiveAnimals 1.8.0 was certified for Paper and Spigot 1.20.4.
See THE WIKI for support of previous MC version.
Use the original for previous Minecraft versions.


AggressiveAnimals allows passive and neutral mob-types to become aggressive. There are two basic modes of targeting and attack:

• If always-aggressive: false (the default), mobs will target a player only if attacked by the player.
• If always-aggressive: true, mobs will target the player always if the player is within acquisition-range, or once targeted, within deacquisition-range.

Mobs will give chase and attack a targeted player, subject to the factors listed below. The player can escape attacks by moving outside the deacquisition-range, including leaving the world.
Whether an attack is engaged depends on a number of factors. All of these factors may be changed in the configuration, either overall or per individual mob-type.

• The attacker must remain healthy, above the configured attacker-health-threshold. So the player should fight back, if not prepared to run.
• Others of the same mob-type who are within group-aggression-range of the attacker may engage in a coordinated attack.
• Specific worlds may be enabled or disabled.

By default:

• Attacks will not result in death, but will leave the victim with attack-damage-limit half-hearts of health.
• Attacks will be waged only by adult entities.
• Managed NPCs will not engage in attacks. Recognized NPCs include those managed by Citizens, EliteMobs, InfernalMobs, and Shopkeepers.
• Named mobs will not engage in attacks.
• Tamed mobs will not engage in attacks.
• Players will be attacked regardless of movement status. Standing, sneaking, walking, sprinting, looking, sleeping, and gliding (flying) may be individually configured.

All of these factors may be changed in the configuration. See THE WIKI for more details.


AggressiveAnimals is fully documented in the configuration files. More information about everything related to AggressiveAnimals may be found on THE WIKI. Look there first for help with installation, configuration, localization, commands & permissions, FAQs, and more.


Anonymous bStats metrics are enabled by default. They may be disabled in the configuration. We appreciate the usage statistics, and hope that you will leave them enabled. All information may be publicly viewed on bStats.


We appreciate any kind of feedback and we offer fast support.

Help understanding features, installation, and configuration

THE WIKI

THE WIKI contains extensive documentation of all things AggressiveAnimals. New questions are added to the FAQs when appropriate, or incorporated directly into the existing documentation.

Start with THE WIKI. Please do not be offended if we respond to a question by linking back to THE WIKI. It gets really boring answering the same questions over and over, when the answers are easy to find on THE WIKI.

Please read through the Installation and Configuration guide, the FAQs, and any other sections which are relevant to your question before seeking support elsewhere.

Once you have explored THE WIKI, please seek further help in the following places:

GitHub: The Best Place for Bug Reports and Feature Requests

If your issue is not addressed on THE WIKI, or you want to make a feature request, please open an issue on GitHub and follow the templates. If you do not have a GitHub account, we strongly urge you to create one It is free and easy, and makes tracking issues so much easier.

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If your issue is not addressed on THE WIKI, and you do not have a GitHub account, please post a message on the Discussion forum. We monitor the forum actively. Please include relevant information to help us answer the question, including Spigot version and AggressiveAnimals version. We may move the information to an issue for tracking.

Please avoid posting full console logs in the Discussion forum. Use pastebin or a similar service.

A word or two about Reviews

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Issues posted in reviews will be ignored. We hope they will be replaced with more positive reviews when the issues are resolved.