Fallen Chaos Knight

Fallen Chaos Knight
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	40 ♥×20
Attack damage	5
Armor	20
Speed	0.32
Follow range	30
Knockback resist.	0.9
Size	0.7 × 2.5 blocks
XP dropped	30
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:fallen_chaos_knight

The Fallen Chaos Knight is a hostile armoured melee mob added by Born in Chaos. It has 40 health, 20 armour and a 5-damage melee attack, so it takes a long time to kill with weak weapons. It spawns in low light in the Overworld, including in caves, and it drops Rotten Flesh, Dark Metal and a Smithing Template.

Spawning

Fallen Chaos Knights spawn naturally as hostile monsters. No structure or event summons them. The spawn check depends on light level, not time of day, so they appear in dark places at any hour.

Natural spawning requires all of the following:

• The Overworld dimension. The spawn check rejects every other dimension.
• A biome in the Overworld tag or in the Terralith biome set. The Deep Dark and Mushroom Fields biomes are excluded.
• Low light. Where the block above is open to the sky, the block light must be 4 or lower. Where it is not, as in most caves, the light must be 0.
• The game rule fallenChaosKnightSpawn, which is on by default.

The Born in Chaos biome modifier adds this mob to every biome. The spawn table below lists the biomes and weights as generated from game data. Fear Nightfall limits all Born in Chaos spawns to the Overworld, so this mob does not spawn in the Nether or the End. Its Overworld spawns are unchanged from the mod.

The Fallen Chaos Knight Spawn Egg is in the creative inventory's Mobs tab. It stacks to 64.

Behavior

The knight is a melee-only mob. It has no ranged attack, no summoning and no phases. Its AI has these goals, in priority order:

1. Melee attack. It closes in at 1.1 times its base speed and attacks when it is within about 1.4 blocks of its target and has line of sight to it. Its attack damage is 5, with 0.1 attack knockback.
2. Target selection. It attacks the nearest player it can see. It retaliates against any entity that hurts it. It also attacks villagers and Vindicators.
3. Door breaking. It breaks doors in its path on every difficulty.
4. Idle behaviour. With no target, it strolls at 0.8 speed and looks around at random.

Its stats are:

Its movement speed of 0.32 is well above the player's walking speed of 0.1, so running away on open ground does not lose it. Its armour of 20 greatly reduces the damage it takes from weapons and arrows. Its knockback resistance of 0.9 means a hit moves it very little.

It takes no drowning damage, so it can stay underwater. When it dies, it plays its death animation for 30 ticks (1.5 seconds) before it is removed. It gives 30 experience points.

Drops

It always drops one Rotten Flesh on death. The loot table then adds Piece of Dark Metal, Pile of Dark Metal, Seed of Chaos and a Smithing Template. Looting raises the amount of each of these drops. The exact amounts are in the table below.

Item	Amount	Conditions
Rotten Flesh	x2.0-4.0
Piece of Dark Metal	x4.0-7.0 +looting bonus
Pile of Dark Metal	x1.0-1.0 +looting bonus
Seed of Chaos	x0.0-1.0 +looting bonus
Smithing Template	x1.0-1.0 +looting bonus

Tips

• Fight it in open ground. Its speed means a long corridor gives no real advantage. An open area lets you keep distance and circle it.
• Use a ranged weapon when you can. Its melee reach is about 1.4 blocks, so damage dealt while it approaches is free damage.
• Carry light in caves. It spawns in dark caves and unlit underground rooms. Light from torches stops spawns in the area around them, since the spawn check needs a light level of 4 or lower in open areas and 0 in enclosed ones.
• Do not rely on doors. It breaks doors on every difficulty, so a closed door only slows it briefly.