Dire Hound Leader

Dire Hound Leader
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	100 ♥×50
Attack damage	10
Armor	0.5
Speed	0.34
Follow range	18
Knockback resist.	0.7
Size	1.3 × 1.5 blocks
XP dropped	40
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:dire_hound_leader

Dire Hound Leader is a hostile mob added by the Born in Chaos mod. It is a large melee monster with 100 health (50 hearts) that summons two Dread Hounds when it is wounded, and it is the only source of the Fang of the Hound Leader, the material for the Hound Trap block. Killing it grants the Born in Chaos advancement described as "Kill the Dire Hound Leader". In Fear Nightfall it is a night and cave threat: it spawns in low light, so it appears in dark caves and at night on the surface, not only in horror biomes.

Spawning

The leader is a natural spawn in the biomes listed in the table above. Each spawn event places one leader, and natural spawning passes a placement check that the table does not show:

• The Dread Hound Spawn game rule (dreadHoundSpawn) must be enabled. It is on by default.
• The spawn must be in the Overworld. It is blocked in the Deep Dark and Mushroom Fields biomes.
• The light level at the spawn point must be 4 or lower when the sky is visible above it, or 0 when it is not. Under open sky, any light level of 5 or above prevents a spawn. Underground, any light above 0 prevents one.

The leader can also be created with a spawn egg. Any spawn of a leader, from a natural spawn, a spawner or a spawn egg, places two Dread Hounds beside it, two blocks to its west and two blocks to its east. A hound is only placed where the target block is not solid or is snow.

Behavior

The leader is a melee attacker. Its attack damage is 10 (5 hearts) with a knockback resistance of 0.7 and an armor value of 0.5. Its movement speed is 0.34 and its follow range is 18 blocks. It is 1.3 blocks wide and 1.5 blocks tall.

Targeting

The leader attacks the nearest player, unless that player has the Dog Truce effect. It also attacks the undead and skeleton mobs of the pack and the vanilla skeleton and wither skeleton, including Baby Skeleton, Decrepit Skeleton, Skeleton Thrasher, Siamese Skeletons, Bonescaller and Supreme Bonescaller. It also retaliates against whatever attacks it.

Bone Fracture

Each successful hit applies Bone Fracture for 10 seconds (200 ticks) at level I. Bone Fracture reduces movement speed by 45%, swimming speed by 35%, attack knockback by 45% and jump strength by 15%.

Bone Fracture is not applied to a target that is already fractured, to a target that is blocking with a shield, or to a Supreme Bonescaller. It is removed early if the target gains the Regeneration effect.

Summoning Dread Hounds

Whenever the leader takes damage, it checks its health before the damage is applied. If its health is 80 or lower (at least 20 below its maximum of 100) and it does not already have the hidden Block Break effect, it does the following:

• It gains Resistance I for 7 seconds, which reduces incoming damage by 20%.
• It gains the hidden Block Break effect for 7 seconds. While this effect lasts, the leader summons no more hounds.
• It summons a Dread Hound on each side of itself, two blocks to its west and two blocks to its east, if those positions are not solid or snow.

The first hit that brings the leader to 80 health does not summon hounds, because the check uses the health before that hit. Summons begin with the next hit taken while the leader is at 80 health or lower. Once the 7-second cooldown ends, the next hit at 80 health or lower summons another pair.

Death

When a player kills the leader directly, the player is granted the Born in Chaos advancement described as "Kill the Dire Hound Leader". The advancement is awarded by code and has no trigger of its own.

Drops

Item	Amount	Conditions
Monster Skin	x3.0-6.0
Monster Flesh	x4.0-8.0
Gnawed Bones	x1.0-2.0
Fang of the Hound Leader	x1.0-3.0 +looting bonus

The drop table is shown above. Monster Skin (3 to 6) and Monster Flesh (4 to 8) are dropped on every kill. Gnawed Bones (1 to 2) is part of the same roll as Monster Flesh with a weight of 10 out of 110, so it drops on about 9% of kills.

The Fang of the Hound Leader is dropped with 1 to 3 items on every kill. Each level of Looting can add up to one more Fang. The total count is capped at 7 by the drop table. The Fang is tagged as unusual loot.

Related items

• Fang of the Hound Leader is the only drop unique to the leader. It is used in the Hound Trap recipe, which is shaped with four fangs, a heavy weighted pressure plate and an iron ingot.
• Dire Hound Leader Spawn Egg creates a leader, and with it two Dread Hounds.
• Dread Hound are the hounds that the leader summons.

Tips

• The hit that takes the leader to 80 health does not summon hounds. Any hit after that does, so the leader must die on that hit or before the next one to avoid summons.
• Each summon pair comes at most once every 7 seconds, so a steady stream of damage keeps the hounds coming. Kill the leader in a short burst rather than a long fight.
• Bone Fracture cuts movement speed by 45%, so retreating on foot is slow once it lands. Gaining Regeneration removes it early.
• The leader hunts skeletons, so skeleton mobs can be used to draw its attention away from you.
• Light the area around a base or a cave entrance. The leader does not spawn naturally where the light level is 5 or higher under open sky, or above 0 underground.