Restless Spirit

Restless Spirit
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	24 ♥×12
Attack damage	2
Speed	0.3
Follow range	34
Knockback resist.	1
Flying speed	0.3
Size	0.8 × 1.5 blocks
XP dropped	8
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:restless_spirit

The Restless Spirit is a hostile flying mob added by Born in Chaos. It is a ghostly, floating monster that hunts players in dark places and is removed by daylight. Its spawn rule keeps it in unlit areas, so it appears most often in caves, at night and in dim surroundings, and a player who keeps a lit base is less likely to meet it. It has 24 health (12 hearts) and deals only 2 damage per melee hit, but it flies and is hard to escape.

Spawning

The Restless Spirit spawns naturally as a monster in the overworld. A spawn position must meet one of two light conditions:

• Where the sky is visible above the spawn point, the light level at the spawn point must be 4 or lower.
• Where the sky is not visible, the light level at the spawn point must be 0.

It never spawns in the Deep Dark or the Mushroom Fields biomes. In the overworld it spawns only in biomes tagged as overworld biomes, plus Terralith biomes. The Soul Sand Valley biome in the Nether is the only other place it can spawn. The spawn table above lists the biomes and weights.

The natural spawn rule is controlled by the restlessSpiritSpawn game rule, which is enabled by default. Restless Spirits also appear in the Observation Tower structure in forest and plains biomes. A Restless Spirit Spawn Egg creates one on use. The spawn egg stacks to 64.

Behavior

A Restless Spirit is a flying monster. It has no gravity, takes no fall damage and cannot be pushed by entities or pushed back by knockback. Its movement uses a flying controller at a movement speed of 0.3 and a flying speed of 0.3. Its follow range is 34 blocks.

When it has a target, the Restless Spirit flies toward the target's eye position. Within 4 blocks of the target it keeps closing in, and once its bounding box touches the target it attacks in melee. The melee attack deals 2 damage. It has a melee attack goal, and it attacks only when it has a clear line of sight to the target.

Without a target it wanders randomly within about 16 blocks of its position, and it looks around at random while idle.

Its targeting rules are:

• It targets players within its follow range, without needing line of sight.
• When hurt by a creature or player, it targets the attacker.
• It cannot be damaged by thrown potions or area-of-effect clouds, which includes lingering potions. Poison damage, wither damage, fall damage and drowning have no effect on it.

Daylight removal

A Restless Spirit that can see the sky is removed during the day, when it is not raining and not thundering. Its removal is controlled by the disappearanceofSpiritsUndertheSun game rule, which is enabled by default. When it is removed, dark smoke particles play at its position. It leaves no drops in this case. The effect means that a Restless Spirit that wanders into daylight vanishes, and players should not expect to fight one in sunlit open areas.

Drops

Item	Amount	Conditions
Chain	x1.0-1.0
Ethereal Spirit	x1.0-1.0

Killing a Restless Spirit gives 8 experience points. Its loot table lists one Chain and one Ethereal Spirit. The drop table above lists the chances.

Tips

• Fight a Restless Spirit in daylight, or in a lit area where it cannot spawn, if you want to avoid it. Many will leave on their own once the sun is up.
• Its melee hits deal only 2 damage, but it flies and follows players closely, so running away rarely works. Fight it or block its path with a wall.
• Potions of harming thrown at it do nothing. Use melee attacks or projectiles instead.
• Knockback has no effect on it, so do not rely on pushing it away.
• Light up caves, tunnels and night-time camps to keep it from spawning near your base.