Mobs

Mobs are the living creatures that Fear Nightfall adds on top of vanilla Minecraft. They come from more than twenty mods, and they range from undead hordes and spellcasting illagers to tameable critters, passive golems and fish. Hostile mobs are the main horror element of the pack: most of them spawn after dark, several gather into groups, and a number of them are bosses with their own fights. Each mod's mobs are described on that mod's page, so this page gives the overview and the rules that apply across all of them.

The table at the bottom of the page lists every mob in the pack, grouped by behaviour: hostile, boss, neutral, passive and aquatic.

Hostile mobs

Most of the pack's danger comes from undead and illagers. Born in Chaos is the largest source, with roughly 100 mob types that include the Bone Imp, Bloody Gadfly, Pumpkinhead variants and Dread Hound packs of three to five. Its hostile mobs spawn in almost every Overworld biome, so players meet them early in a world. The Graveyard adds the undead that gather in its burial sites: Ghoul, Revenant, Reaper, Nightmare, Skeleton Creeper and Wraith, along with the Acolyte and the Corrupted Illagers. Its natural spawns use biome tags, so a ghoul is common in coniferous and swamp biomes, a revenant in cold biomes, and a nightmare in plains, desert and swamp biomes.

The spellcasting mobs come from Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks. The overworld casters are the Necromancer, Pyromancer, Cryomancer, Archevoker, Cultist, Apothecarist and Magehunter Vindicator, and the Priest appears in the houses that the mod adds to villages. Its Ice Spider and Catacombs Zombie are also hostile. Their magic summons are listed on Summoned Creatures, and the status effects they apply are on Iron's Spellbooks Effects.

Sons of Sins adds a set of flesh creatures and sins, several of which are hostile. These include Prowler, Walking Bed, Ditched, Curse and Wistiver. Sleepy Hollows (mod) adds the Infected Zombie, which is the common hostile mob of the Sleepy Hollows biome, and the Fleeing Pumpkin Head miniboss.

Mutant Monsters adds enlarged versions of vanilla mobs: the Mutant Creeper, Mutant Enderman, Mutant Skeleton, Mutant Zombie and Mutant Snow Golem. The mutant snow golem has no natural spawn rule, so a player must use a spawn egg or Chemical X to get one.

Regions Unexplored adds a single hostile mob, the Ashen (mob), which spawns in the ashen woodland and inferno biomes.

Vanilla undead also change in the pack. The Hordes adds zombie infection, and it makes the undead gather in scheduled attacks (see below). A player who dies while infected rises again as a zombie player.

Boss mobs

Bosses are the mobs with the strongest fights in the pack. The main ones are the Lich from The Graveyard, the Dead King from Iron's Spells, the Headless Horseman from Sleepy Hollows, Lord Pumpkinhead from Born in Chaos, and the Krampus and Lifestealer at the end of the Born in Chaos progression. Each boss has its own page, and the full set is covered on Bosses.

The Lich has 400 health in its first phase and five internal phases in its fight, and it drops one of the five bone staffs. Some bosses are protected by pack changes. The pack's version of Tide's Pocket Watch cannot freeze the Lich, the Dead King, the Fire Boss, the Headless Horseman, Lord Pumpkinhead or any mob in the #c:bosses tag.

Horde mobs and scheduled attacks

Horde nights are the pack's main scheduled threat. Horde Nights sends a wave of undead at one player, with the mobs drawn from a weighted table that changes over the course of the game. Zombies and villagers come first, then husks and zombie horses from day 20, then zombified piglins from day 40. Horde mobs are tuned to reach their target: they track the player from a long distance, re-path every 25 ticks, and cannot despawn while their event is active.

Graveyard Hordes is a separate system from The Graveyard. Each horde is either undead or illager, with equal odds, and the leader sets the route for the rest of the group. The horde mobs are Ghoul and Revenant members, or corrupted pillagers, corrupted vindicators and Acolyte members. Both systems add mobs to the night, so a player who stays out after dark usually meets them.

Neutral and tameable mobs

Several mods add creatures that can be tamed, or that stay neutral until provoked. Critters and Companions adds about seventeen mostly ambient creatures, many of which can be tamed as pets. These include the Dragonfly, Ferret, Jumping Spider, Ladybug, Red Panda, Roly Poly, Shima Enaga, Snail and Stag Beetle. Hexerei adds two companion mobs, the Crow and the Owl. The Nightmare is neutral until it is attacked, and it teleports toward players.

Sons of Sins adds several tameable flesh creatures, including Gulber, Devourer, Grub, Guzzler and Nibbler. The Spider Pig from Mutant Monsters is a tameable, saddleable pig that leaps at its targets.

Passive mobs and golems

Golem Overhaul changes the golems of the pack. It has nine golems, each with its own page, and most of them are passive. The Barrel Golem, Hay Golem and Honey Golem spawn in villages or forests and do not attack. The Coal Golem is an ambient cave golem that attacks only when it is lit. The construction rules for golems are on Golem Construction.

Supplementaries adds two mobs. The Plunderer is a pirate illager that rides on Galleon shipwrecks and takes part in naval raids, and the Red Merchant is a wandering trader that sells explosives and rope.

Aquatic mobs

Fish are the pack's largest group of aquatic mobs. Tide adds about 102 of them, grouped by habitat: Freshwater Fish, Saltwater Fish, Lava Fish, Underground Fish and Void Fish. Each one has a bucket and a spawn egg. Fish spawn naturally in 74 of the 102 cases. Aquaculture adds more fish and the Aquaculture Turtles, and Born in Chaos adds the Corpse Fish and the Glutton Fish.

Spawn rules and pack changes

The pack changes how many of its mobs spawn. Born in Chaos crowded out vanilla monsters, taking 36 percent of the mob cap in the Overworld, so its spawn weights were halved and it now takes about 26 percent. Its 41 spawn modifiers were also limited to the Overworld. Before the change, Born in Chaos mobs made up 98 percent of End spawns.

Hordes and the vanilla undead were changed to match the pack's horror theme. Zombies and skeletons burn in daylight again, and zombie villagers can be cured. Villagers can be cured only with cure items. With the pack's zombiePlayersStoreItems=false setting, a zombie player keeps the items that a Corpse would otherwise hold, so the corpse keeps everything.

In the Sleepy Hollows biome a player also has to manage Sanity, which drains while the player stays in the biome.

Drops, parts and trophies

Most mobs drop their vanilla loot and some add their own. The Butchery mod turns the carcass of a mob into Carcasses and Corpses and then into Mob Parts, which are used for crafting, including the spikes for spike traps and the turtle shell fragments for turtle shell armor. The Mob Trophies are decorative blocks that are made by crafting, and no mob drops them.

Tips

Hostile mobs are most dangerous at night and in the biomes that match their spawn rules. Zombie infection spreads from the undead, so a player who is infected should be cured quickly. The Headless Horseman is summoned by a ritual at a Pedestal, so check its page before starting that fight. Tameable creatures can be fed and kept as pets, and several of them help in combat: the Red Panda makes hostile mobs flee, and the Ladybug heals tamed mobs nearby.

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