Senor Pumpkin

Senor Pumpkin
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	35 ♥×17.5
Attack damage	5
Armor	2
Speed	0.5
Follow range	25
Knockback resist.	0.9
Flying speed	0.5
Size	0.7 × 1.2 blocks
XP dropped	3
Fire immune	Yes
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:senor_pumpkin

Senor Pumpkin is a hostile flying mob added by Born in Chaos. It is one of the pumpkin-themed monsters of the pack, alongside Mr. and Mrs. Pumpkin and Pumpkin Spirit. It has 35 health (17.5 hearts), deals 5 attack damage and has 2 armor. Its natural spawning is tied to the pack's Halloween period, so it appears in the overworld only in late October and early November, unless the Halloween gamerule is forced on. It flies rather than walking, and it fights at close range.

Spawning

Senor Pumpkin spawns naturally in the overworld, in groups of one or two. Its spawn placement is gated by a check that runs in addition to the normal biome and light rules. A spawn position is valid only when all of the following hold:

• The seasonalEvents gamerule is on (it is on by default), and either the server calendar is between October 25 and November 7, or the halloweenEvent gamerule is on (it is off by default).
• The serPumpkinheadSpawn gamerule is on (it is on by default).
• The light level at the spawn position is 4 or lower where the sky is visible above, or 0 or lower where it is not.
• The biome is not Deep Dark or Mushroom Fields. The biome must belong to the overworld tag, or to the Terralith biome set, and the dimension must be the overworld.

Outside the seasonal window, natural spawning produces no Senor Pumpkins, even though the spawn table above lists the biomes it is added to. The placement check is applied on top of the biome list, so the biome list alone does not describe where it appears.

Players can obtain a Senor Pumpkin Spawn Egg (Senor Pumpkin Spawn Egg), which stacks to 64.

Behavior

Senor Pumpkin flies. It has no gravity, and its movement uses a flying move control and a flying path navigator. Its movement speed and flying speed are both 0.5, and its follow range is 25 blocks.

Its AI goals, in priority order, are:

1. Melee attack. It attacks at speed 2.0 when it is within reach of a target and has line of sight to it. It deals 5 attack damage with 1 attack knockback.
2. Leap at target. It leaps toward its current target with a leap strength of 0.5.
3. Random stroll. When it has no target, it wanders to random points within 16 blocks on each axis at speed 0.8.
4. Look around. It turns its head at random while idle.

It has no ranged attack. Its damage comes from melee strikes and from the leap that brings it into melee range.

Its targeting is wider than most monsters. It attacks players, and it also attacks Pumpkin Spirit mobs, controlled baby skeletons, iron golems, wardens and Infernal Spirit mobs. It also retaliates against any mob that hurts it. Because of this, it can start fights between mobs in the same area.

Senor Pumpkin resists some kinds of damage entirely. The following damage types do nothing to it: fire, fall, cactus, drowning and lightning. It is immune to fire, so burning does not affect it. It has 2 armor, which reduces incoming damage. It has 0.9 knockback resistance, so it is hard to push back. It cannot be pushed by other entities. Its hitbox is 0.7 by 1.2 blocks.

When it dies, it is removed from the world 20 ticks later and drops experience worth 3 points.

Drops

Item	Amount	Conditions
Holiday Candy	x0.0-1.0
Caramel Pepper	x0.0-1.0
Gummy Vampire Teeth	x0.0-1.0
Chocolate Heart	x0.0-1.0
Coffee Candy	x0.0-1.0
Smoldering Infernal Ember	x1.0-1.0
Mint Candy	x0.0-1.0

The loot table has a single pool that rolls either zero or one time, with equal chance. The pool has seven entries. Six are candies, each with a weight of 25 and a count of 0 or 1, so a selected candy is dropped only some of the time. The seventh entry is the Smoldering Infernal Ember, with a weight of 35 and a fixed count of 1. It is the most likely item to drop when the pool rolls, and it is the only drop that is not subject to a count roll.

The six candy entries are Holiday Candy, Caramel Pepper, Gummy Vampire Teeth, Chocolate Heart, Coffee Candy and Mint Candy.

Tips

• Senor Pumpkin is only spawned during the Halloween period. If you want to fight it on a schedule, use the spawn egg or set the halloweenEvent gamerule on.
• Fire does nothing to it, so do not rely on burning. Fall damage and drowning also do nothing. Use melee weapons, projectiles or effects that are not in these damage types.
• Its 90% knockback resistance makes knockback attacks weak against it.
• Because it also targets iron golems and wardens, it can be drawn into fights with them.
• It flies, so height and water do not keep it away. Its leap closes distance quickly, so fight in a space where you can keep your footing.