Zombie Fisherman

Zombie Fisherman
Mod	Born in Chaos
Type	Hostile
Health	25 ♥×12.5
Attack damage	4
Armor	4
Speed	0.2
Follow range	35
Knockback resist.	0.1
Size	0.6 × 1.9 blocks
XP dropped	6
Spawns in	283 biomes
Category	Monster
ID	born_in_chaos_v1:zombie_fisherman

The Zombie Fisherman is a hostile undead mob added by Born in Chaos. It is a melee monster with 25 health (12.5 hearts), 4 attack damage and 4 armor, and it spawns in many Overworld biomes. Its melee hits do more than deal damage: each hit that lands on a player applies Rotten Stink (Rotten Stink), which periodically summons flies around the victim. A player who meets it at night in a dark river, beach, swamp or cave should expect to fight it, and to deal with the flies afterward.

The mob also has a Zombie Fisherman Spawn Egg, which stacks to 64.

Spawning

Zombie Fishermen are natural monsters. Their spawn weight is 15 in the Fear Nightfall pack, where the mod ships with 30; the pack halved it to reduce Born in Chaos crowding out vanilla monsters. The spawn modifier applies to the Overworld only, so the mob does not spawn in the Nether or End. The biomes it can spawn in are listed in the table below.

Natural spawning also checks a placement predicate written for this mob. A spawn position must satisfy all of the following:

• Light level: if the block above the spawn position can see the sky, the light level at the spawn position must be 4 or lower. If the block above cannot see the sky, the light level must be 0. Spawns therefore happen in low light: on the surface that is mostly at night, and in caves or other unlit areas.
• Biome: the position must be in a river, beach, stony shore, swamp, mangrove swamp or swamp hut biome. The predicate excludes the other biomes that the spawn modifier adds, so the table above lists more biomes than the mob actually spawns in.
• Game rule: the zombieFishermanSpawn game rule must be enabled. It is on by default.

Each natural spawn event places one Zombie Fisherman; the group size is fixed at 1.

Behavior

The Zombie Fisherman is a standard melee hostile. It uses these goals, in priority order:

1. Melee attack at a movement speed multiplier of 1.1. It attacks only when it is within reach of its target and has line of sight to it.
2. Retaliation: it targets any mob that hurts it.
3. Random stroll at a speed multiplier of 0.8, with random looking around when idle.
4. Hunting players and villagers: it targets the nearest player and the nearest villager within its follow range of 35 blocks.

Its base stats are:

Its movement speed of 0.2 is faster than the base walking speed of a player (0.1), so running away does not reliably break contact. Its step height of 0.6 blocks means it cannot climb full-block ledges. It takes no damage from drowning, so it can stay in water without dying.

Rotten Stink

When a Zombie Fisherman damages a player in melee, the player receives the Rotten Stink effect at level I for 2600 ticks (130 seconds). The effect is harmful. While it is active, a counter of 400 ticks (about 20 seconds) runs down on the player, and each time it reaches zero a Corpse Fly spawns about 2.5 blocks away in the +X direction, provided the two blocks at that position are not solid. Players with the Insect Protection effect, and players standing in water or rain, do not receive the flies. Each new hit reapplies the effect and restarts its 130-second duration.

A single Zombie Fisherman hit is a nuisance rather than a threat, but a group of them can keep a player under a steady stream of Corpse Flies.

Drops

The Zombie Fisherman drops the following items on death:

Item	Amount	Conditions
Rotten Flesh	x1.0-2.0
Rotten Fish	x1.0-2.0
Fishing Rod	x1.0-1.0
Raw Salmon	x1.0-1.0
Pufferfish	x1.0-1.0
River Mint	x1.0-1.0

The loot table has two rolls. One roll gives rotten flesh (1 to 2) or rotten fish (1 to 2) and one gives the other items in the table, including a fishing rod that can be enchanted at 10 to 30 levels.

On death, the mob has a 45% chance to release three Corpse Maggots next to its body, as long as the maggotsAppearance game rule is enabled. That game rule is on by default. The roll happens once per death, not once per maggot.

Tips

• Do not rely on running. The mob is faster than a walking player, so it is better to fight it with a prepared position, such as a doorway or a wall of torches, than to flee across open ground.
• Kill groups quickly. Each hit that lands refreshes Rotten Stink for 130 seconds, and the flies it summons continue until the effect runs out. Killing the mobs before they reach you limits how many hits land.
• Use light. Because spawns need a light level of 4 or lower on the surface, torches around a base, river crossing or swamp camp reduce the number of Zombie Fishermen that appear close by.
• Expect maggots after a fight. Clearing many Zombie Fishermen near a base means a 45% chance of three Corpse Maggots after each kill, so a clean-up plan helps.
• Use the spawn egg for testing. The Zombie Fisherman Spawn Egg spawns the mob on demand, which is useful for testing armor or the Rotten Stink effect without waiting for a natural spawn.