Hi everyone! I am sorry for radio silence and absence of updates.
Lanst months i have some troubles irl, because of which i cant work with my mods as i should - so i will try to at least keep my mods up to date to the last version of the game until normal development will be possible.
Thx to everyone for your support, patience and bug reports! 
I hope that my mods enhanced your survival expirience in a good way!

I'm having a problem with hostile mob spawning; they're spawning many blocks underground.

Can confirm trying to harvest any of the creatures from this mod still causes the player to be kicked from the game.

Mod is still broken.

Hiya!

"An action you (or your client) did caused an unhandled exception"

This is mentioned below as happening only with the Decaying Bear - This is happening with every decaying creature when attempting to harvest them!
Luckily it's just a disconnect rather than a crash.

We're playing this with "Rust Drops" which makes it so enemies automatically drop their loot when killed. For the most part it works with this mod but leaves the body harvestable. If someone tries to harvest the body it crashes their game instantly. You can rejoin no issue however. This does leave us without the ability to get the heads of the creatures sadly as we haven't seen them drop their heads, only the rest of their loot.

when it's a rusty raccoon's turn

Awesome, I will credit you in my mod's description once I've added the creatures! Thanks so much!

Yes, you totally can! will be happy to see them used in other cool mods, hope that they will be useful)
Also will be grateful if you will credit me as their creator somewhere)
Soareverix

Planning on finally implementing a config to do it properly Forthh

Yep, will do it soon 👌

EnderMelody

Hey there! I am developing a 'Spreading Devastation' mod. Could I use your creature models in my work?

could you add   "dependsOn": [ { "modid": "spearexpantion" } ],   to the spear expansion compat so it doesnt spam the logs with recipe errors?

Is there any way to reduce the number of decaying creatures that appear?

Kanahaku The error shows every time I run my single-player world. I saw it first on 1.21.4 and now still on 1.21.5

Hmm, first time i see something like that.. i suppose thatone of the last updates broke something, what conditions are you expiriencing it with? or that error shows up all the time regardless of what you are doing and where you are? Willownezz

I've been getting those errors:

Any idea why ?

Strange, after additional fixes it wasnt crashing, i will check again, mb will find some other errors.. btw, you using "Immersive corpse drop", right? (so ill be sure that i am patching in right direction) SoulReaperz

i do not use combat overhaul, mine was crashing without that mod

anyone know what these minor fixes are? or is it unknown if the harvesting of the creatures got fixed yet

I can confirm this mod's throwing cilent errors when a client tries to harvest a rust bear, however, it does suddenly work the second time without issue.

game version 1.21.1 multiplayer
mod version 0.1.6

Crash when attempting to skin them on multiplayer server
using immersive corpse aswell

the bear is what was skinned in server that crashed players atm

The spawns seem to be a bit messed up indeed. Bears and mooses spawn a whole lot in caves after a time and start cramming tight spaces like crazy. Meanwhile, I've never seen any of the smaller decaying creatures at all. No decaying wolves, squirrels, fish, or any of that. Just bears and moose.

Btw the Rust bear spawns should be decreased. i'm getting 3-4 spawning in short radius every couple of in game days.

Crash when attempting to skin them I am ussing immersive corpse drops though.

So combat overhaul again changed to a new system? will check on it! Sianks

Will we be getting Combat Overhaul patch? This would make the mod MASSIVE difference 

Ah yes, I do use CO so maybe that was it, I remember the log mentioning that some hitboxes were missing for some creatures. Kanahaku

Will send a log if it happens again!

Hmm.. do you use any other mods that might affect spawn? or mayybe Combat overhaul? 
First time hear about that one, I`ve made a pretty long time to despawn for them, so that can explain the quantity, but crashes...
I did not had any troubles when testing on recent versions, but will check it again.
By the way, if it will occur again, can you send a crash log via Discord or just right here? Maybe i can figure out what it is exactly in your situation, MarioKartos

Thx! happy to provide new content) LeuxSeveN

There seems to be an issue with spawning lots of animals at the same time - I am using this mod on 1.20 though so that might be the reason.

Whenever I tried to go down the caves below my base the world would crash. I removed this mod and ~160 rottenenimals entities were removed, according to the server log. I can now enter the below chunks normally.

Some kind of spawn limit would be good to have implemented! (Also any chance of updating to the more recent versions?)

Thanks!

beautiful!!!

I hate every one of em🤣

How about a collection of decaying dinosaurs?  😆

https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/user/5a00335ba25788911434

Will try to fix it, main reasoon of that might be that creatures are getting too loong to despawn.. might make a config if ill manage, thx for info! Trowlet

Should be, i have not tied spawns to biomes, only too some weather conditions and amount of forest in some cases Jayro 

Will do it when got time, thx! mrbunwah

We've been running this Mod on our Server, sometimes we tend to get a whole Herd of Bears randomly popping out wich is... how do i put this, not really Ideal or balanced. Would be nice if you could modify it so theres a Limit of how many Decaying creatures can be alive at once, or include a Config file to edit Max Spawns or anything at all in generel for your Mod. Just wanted to drop my thoughts on it. Lookin forward to seeing how you pan it out.

"Is it compatible with Biomes Mod?"

I noticed howl1.ogg was a stereo file - when I changed it to mono, it seemed to work a lot more correctly with regards to being directional/distance modified. I've noticed the game tends to play stereo sounds at the player and mono sounds at the source.

Might do that, because reduced sound distznce and smaller chance of playing howl animation might didn`t worked like i hoped it will.. thx for suggestion and attention to my mod! cateatsglue

Will try to fix it, last time i`ve made distance of that sound smaller.. but if that`s still an issue - i will work on it, thx for notifying! Avot

Thx for suggestion!, might look in it later on, seems like a good solution to problems with spawn

Also thx for comment!, binmgus 

maybe add directional noises for the creatures, and volume based on distance? it kind of gets old to hear decaying wolf howls play right in your ears everywhere at max volume when we haven't even seen one yet, cool models and creature ideas though

The decaying wolf sounds play everywhere, even when the wolves are deep underground

i love this mod! it looks like something i'm really going to enjoy. is there any way you can add some mod config options to tweak drop and spawn rates? just going through the entity files it seems like their drops are high. i'd personally like a % based reduction to them, probably around 90%. as for spawn rates, i haven't personally seen any issues with them, but since it's in the comments, i feel like it could be killing two birds with one stone

thank you for your hard work

Hmm.. i will try to tweak their spawn better, and improve my mod overall, thx for info! DorgoDorato

The rot bears and wolves seem to like to spawn similar the drifters at night, but don't despawn similar to normal animals. At my base I regularly see 5 bears undead wandering around killing any rabbit or chicken that happenes to wander by while only seeing real bears respawn once a season or so. The rot bears and wolves are also incredibly chatty...

Hi!
Yes, These mod is compatible with combat overhaul (sometimes throws couple errors in logs (not crashing), but working fine, i`m still polishing all the systems and updating mod)
GuppiBot

Is this compatible with combat overhaul?

Thanks very much!

Mod Configure Everything can change a lot, also you can create server mod with patches for everything what you wish to change

About audio - audio will be updated sooner or later, RealPandemonium

Is there away to change spawn rates and drop rates for the creatures?  If we can do this, and also fix the wolf audio then I would definitely like it for my server.

Thx for notifying! thegerman643

I am recieving this log spam since updating, just thought i would bring this to your attention.

20.1.2025 20:15:56 [Error] [Combat Overhaul] [HarmonyPatches] (rottingenimals:rustybass) Error during creating colliders:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at CombatOverhaul.Colliders.ShapeElementCollider.SetElementVertices(ShapeElement element) in D:\Projects\VintageStory\CombatOverhaul\source\Base\Colliders\EntityCollider.cs:line 417
at CombatOverhaul.Colliders.CollidersEntityBehavior.AddPoseShapeElements(ElementPose pose) in D:\Projects\VintageStory\CombatOverhaul\source\Base\Colliders\EntityBehavior.cs:line 328
at CombatOverhaul.Colliders.CollidersEntityBehavior.AddPoseShapeElements(ElementPose pose) in D:\Projects\VintageStory\CombatOverhaul\source\Base\Colliders\EntityBehavior.cs:line 328
at CombatOverhaul.Colliders.CollidersEntityBehavior.OnGameTick(Single deltaTime) in D:\Projects\VintageStory\CombatOverhaul\source\Base\Colliders\EntityBehavior.cs:line 158

After some experiments - i`ve made that rotting animals spawns in darkness, on surface (but not very high, so mountains might be perfect safe zones), and animals are also split on how deep they can spawn, with deepest spawning is squirrel, it can be met in the deepest caves DanekJovax

Kanahaku Yes!  I will look over the text assets and see what I can do.

Insofar as spawning mechanics, what are the rules for allowing rotting animals to spawn?  Thanks again.

--- DanekJovax :2D

Hmm, mod "Configure Everything" might help you with that.
And thx! I`ll be happy to improve my mod if you will have some time and interest for it! DanekJovax

Thx for feedback! i will try to improve that! WickedSchnitzel

Is there some mechanic to limit how many spawn in your area, as well as a limit to the maximum that can spawn?  Thanks in advance, and very interesting mod!

Also, if you'd like some English editing for your text, let me know.  I'm an editor. ;2)

[Warning] Audio File rottingenimals:sounds/creature/wolf/howl1.ogg is a stereo sound but loaded as a locational sound, will not attenuate correctly.
Plus you should edit the sound files better, especially the wolf howling sounds do cut off and can be spammy.

Hmm.. That`s strange.. my mobs should not remove spawn of other creatures, i will check what`s wrong when have time, thx for feedback! Silas

Hoping one day for compatibility for the Fauna of the Stone Age series! The Caninae version for example is meant to remove normal wolves for their own - but this mod puts normal wolves back into the game and currently did not see new Caninae versions respawn. I'm assuming it does that for other creatures the mod changes. I love the idea of extra difficulty in worlds and currently  await to see where this mod goes!

Yes, but after some time it will decay into sceletone, which after breaking drops some materials, also after death it drops on ground most vaulable loot
Also thx for localisation! will add it with already half done compatibility update (probably will finish it today)! Aimli

Embryo of the decay can't seem to be harvested?

New Chinese localization

https://github.com/AImli-oi/Vintage-Story-MOD-Chinese-localization/commit/f4faa74969006a9714279eaf110d3c711c0bd2bf

It works without errors with combat overhaul mod, but i can try to make it, question only is how mutch time it will take, currently working on that Linek

Hmm.. idk what happened with it, maybe next update will help (or i can found what happens with it) Servius

Дякую за відгук!, гляну що з цим зможу зробити 🤔 Error_Acnologia

i got the bear head, but looks like its invisible

Are u going to add compatibility with Combat Overhaul mod?

Thx very much for localisation! will add asap! Aimli

https://github.com/AImli-oi/Vintage-Story-MOD-Chinese-localization/blob/main/Decaying-Creatures-v.0.0.7

Chinese localization

On page of "Configure Everything" you can find location of files, you can find needed file in "server" file, after that tou can paste (and change to your liking) config that we use on our server, never used it by myself, but i hope it will be figured out.. (you can find me by my nickname on discord sever of vintage stoy, i can send you file with needed part of the code) Snowfall94 , also in future i will try to reduce further their spawn and make expirience more pleasant without additional configuring

Everytime I see a Bear, they spawn in groups of 3 minimum, it's like they have squad spawning enabled. They look cool and all that but I have yet to see any of the other creatures from this mod, that I know of. 

So how would I go about configuring the config file or using that configure everything mod you've mentioned, to tone their spawns down?

I'd love them to still be in the game but I really would like to have them be a rare challenge, instead of every couple of days having to fight a squad of them.

Asking because I have zero know how of how to make the edits myself btw. 

maybie that one can help you with that https://mods.vintagestory.at/configureeverything unhallowed

Hello - having a spawn rate issue on my server. We've had over 30 of the bears spawn in our little settlement inside of 10 minutes, and the problem is now spreading to wolves. Is there a config file, or means to edit the mod, to stop this?

I have changed their spawn rate to be more rare (as it was intended at first) , but if you want - you can tweak it how you wish by some other configurators  or by simply changing it in files if you familiar with these
Mr_Johny20

P.s. if problems like that happens more than rarely in last wersions, i`d be happy to fix it!

Is it normal that bears spawn so often? I tried it and there was 4 bears within 5 chunk radius at the same time.
Or maybe I have to change the settings?

Thx for feedback! I will fix that asap! WickedSchnitzel

prefixandcreature-decayinghyena
..maybe more missing language file entries (?)

In next update (whitch are close to be released) i will adjust mobs spawn and stats a little bit , hope that it will help! (aslo if you wish to adjust something , like spawn conditions - you can use https://mods.vintagestory.at/configureeverything , i think it will work, heard that my frieds used that for testing) DemiRemi

Can you add some configuration options or adjust the damage a bit? I keep getting stealth 1 hit by moose at the start of the game and it's extremely annoying.

Lovely looking mobs in the video! Would be nice to have pictures of these creatures in the gallery or more information on them in the description.

Thx! I fill expand my nod futher , hope that everything will go as planned) Willownezz

I`m happy that you liked it)
have a good playtrough , Sammy_SMD!

This mod is awesome, i'm on the early game and in the night on the darkness saw the moose with that red eyes, almost had an heart attack lol.

Thanks for the mod  

love this mod, would be nice for some sharks or fish to make the ocean dangerous, would tank fps to fill the ocean with them but maybe they spawn within 30 blocks the second u touch the water and then chase you immediately =D

Thx for suggestion , i will keep in mind tat!
WickedSchnitzel

My suggestion would be to reduce the amount and chance to get temporal gears and rusty gears from these creatures.

i will work with it) 
Cinobi

It would be very nice if u force ur mobs spawn during the temporal storm alongside with drifters.

I`ve finally checked rot creatures mod , i think it will not conflict with decaying creatures , at least i didn`t found any similar system names , so everything must be ok Servius

Will be happy to hear feedback! I`m not sure about how spawn of my mobs will feel in raw gaming expirience , those mobs created as mutch more rare and powerful enemies.. so will be happy to fix something if it needs to..

Have a good playtrough! Servius

Thanks, i could completly swap from that one to this mod

The lloot from these bears is like bear+drifter, with a creature that is also less fast than a regular bear, just killed two bears with three spears, only walking around and reusing the spears, that with normal bears would be impossible.
Also, almost all modded bears i found were on daylight, which was pretty weird... idk, will try with your mod and decide later, may even keep both

yes , in future i will expand my mod , it might take a while , but i will try to make my mod even better) The_Teller

i`ve checked files of that another mod , it must work without a problems together , idk about differences , but i see that that mod adds only bear , aslo what i found in the code , Infected animal uses slightly changed code of vanilla bear , so it will spawn like a bear , only with differense that spawn rate way lower than vanilla one Servius

I have yet to use the mod but I can already tell it's going to be fun, I like mods that expand on the rust creature enemy types.

with that said, do you have plans to add more. Such as hyenas, gaszals, and maybe different bear types as well? Just to give an example.

i liked the models a lot, all loooks so cool!

Can you tell me the difference or if its compatible with this one ? https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/12465

can there be any problem if i install both?

i liked the models a lot, all loooks so cool!

Can you tell me the difference or if its compatible with this one ? https://mods.vintagestory.at/rotcreatures

can there be any problem if i install both?

Why would an ukrainian translate to russian these days...

Nice models :)

How about russian translation?

glad you liked it!) Willownezz

looks awesome, glad you made this 🤩 got recked by a decaying moose 10/10

Thx for your comments!) , GingerTail , Coreplant

Those models look amazing! Congrats, great idea for a mod.

I have yet to try this mod, but I will say I am impressed and intrigued by what I see in that preview!  It's definitely in my list to use for my next world!