Looking through the comments I see a ton of people asking to know how to turn down the Orcs and Goblins spawn. They are fun and they do make the game harder but I think we do nothing but kill orcs and goblins at this point. We open our door and there is 5 of them. We kill them. Walk to our pottery making area and there's 5 more. Walk back to the house oh guess who's there!

Anyways was wondering if anyone has an answer to this so we don't have to turn the mod off. I would love to turn down their spawn rate. Fun idea, but currently unplayable. 

I love the work you are doing with this mod!
There is however one thing that is slightly annoying:
Recently when fighting dragons they sometimes just randomly despawn. I had HP bars for all of them just puff gone. Could this be cause by a different mod?

Someone please god help me.

How do I turn down the spawns? It's constant.

I'm not at my computer rn, but I found something in the files. I don't remember exactly but I think the number was something like "0.0006". If I change the 6 to 3, does that half the spawns? I'd be cool with that. Please please please thank you. 

Spawn rates are a little odd, plenty of Goblins and Orcs and a lot of Skeletons at night, sometimes like a comical amount of Skeletons. There were a lot of Blackguards initially but now they are extremely rare. I've seen a Dragon outside my starter base and one underground but they despawned right in front of me. Only place we've found them reliably enough to kill them is on top of an especially high mountain and they often spawn in pairs or even packs but only on that one singular mountain. Only Ruby and Black dragons, have yet to see a Sapphire. They don't use any special behaviors and just run at us like normal mobs. I am also using the River mod and wondering if World Gen options somehow drastically affect spawn rates. Rest of the mobs seem fairly rare but spawn enough to be known of.

anyone know why with the rivers mod and some other world gen mod mob spawns or very very rare ive found a group of three dragons and like 4 skeletons and thats it but before we added world gen mods we ran into everything somewhat commonly

I seem to remember there was a config file for this before, that allowed me to change the despawn rate of the corpse, they despawn way to fast and i often cant loot them, any way we can re-add the config file? oh well i just saw the no config file remark... well any way to change the despawn rate with out it!?

The mod mentions it won't be adding a config, but im wondering if theres any way to change spawnrates? Dragons spawn WAY to often on mountains in my world, like up to a dozen on a single mountain, i need this to be toned down. 

Is there a possibility to change the hitboxes for the goblins/orcs? I've been running into quite a few issues with them not being able to be hit by spears/arrows for some reason.

Alright, I managed to clear up the issue for good with the dragon spawning, and finally managed to fix the lang issue, too. Turns out I just needed to rework the files again and review some things (read: actually look at what I was doing instead of bashing my head against the wall like an idiot)

Only errors I see now are just... root point issues, which are basically 100% non-issues. I'll likely fix them later and just be done with this until 1.23 when they decide to change another miniscule point in the API and I have to redo everything again. But in other news, if you wanted hard mode in vintage story, you can download the older versions (0.7.94/95) and deal with a dragon onslaught.

On the mod page, can we have more images? More should see what this mod can offer, although it is obvius with the dragon, more is better.

hello! Swiftthistle I was hoping to change the spawn rates of the orks and goblins, and this is what showed up on the console (I use GTXGaming to host my public vintage story server), was wondering what it meant? D:

The default spawnrates for the orcs/goblins leads to a never ending horde wave pretty much all the time.

Notably, the orcs, in a weird way it kind of makes the game too easy because they just deliver gears and food to your doorstep 24/7

ended up toggling the mod off for now but I'll probably turn it back on when I have walls built lol

NERF THE DRAGONS THEY SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ONE SHOT YOU IN FUCKING METEORIC STEEL ARMOR!!!! Sorry but that bite attack not even being avoidable or tankable is so ridiculous and they constantly fly away and heal, you seriously need to nerf the dragons as not even the final boss does that kinda damage!!!!!

This mod is amazing, but yeah, I agree with the below.  The spawn rate for Goblins and Orks is insane.  It's a horde invasion at almost every given moment on the surface.  Not sure if adjusting it before uploading it to the server would help, as it's a dedicated server.

Overall, it's still an amazing mod.

I do love this mod however the spawn rate for goblins and orcs are insane. I am aware I can change this myself however base rates are almost a world war at every waking moment lmao.

Be nice if Dragons werent flying and healing to full mid combat 

Hey, would it be possible for you to add orc and goblin variants that are friendly or passive? As traders for example. I know it's a traditional fantasy TM thing, but I'm not the biggest fun of the whole "evil races" thing and it'd be cool if the hostile variants were just hostlie factions instead

LunaGore MrApothic I'm actually going to change a lot of things next patch, including a rare Silver Dragon Trader spawn. This is one of my things on my todo list.

But with how things are looking, I may not be able to implement my trader overall without some major changes and an alternate dragon model. So I may just update to 1.22 and call it there. I think the only thing I really have to change is gold scales being dropped from dragons.

But if I do add more content, I'm reintroducing Slime spawns, looking into goblin variant models (better cave goblins that use makeshift weapons), setting all block light levels for mob spawns to be a max of 4. I also want to try again with a fire attack on dragons, and have orks throw spears (the big issue is animating orks to do so; model making and animating is the main thing holding me back).

Same I've been spooked by a goblin or ork being in my base even though it's fully lit with lanterns and is a small 7x7 lol

I realize there is a new update so I will be putting this into play, but can do you look at the spawning mechanics of these mobs a bit? Despite how I set up preventions for portals of rust mobs, goblins spawn in my own blacksmith\home area or waking up to a orc stabbing me while in animation get's a little silly, in addition there is a noticeable stutter when a good pocket of mobs spawn.

I realize these requests maybe not a option due to the engine but if there are options to look at making monster spawns to feel more natural to stay out of my small structure would be lovely, thank you for your time.

KaraKazuma Orks do not drop leather. But you did bring up a good point; the Goblins drop leather too often.

I'm going to change the numbers from 20-40% chance, to something more akin to 3% chance, with Lone Hunter Goblins dropping leather at a 8% rate. All skeletons will also drop lime stones, as lime is high in calcium... so it's fitting. I think 1-4 per skeleton is fair, with Skeleton Blackguards dropping 2-5. Maybe more or less. I'll tinker with it to see what works.

This means that at roughly 100 normal goblin kills, if you loot every single one, you'll have - on par - 3 leather. Lone Hunter Goblins will instead grant leather at much better rates, but are markedly more dangerous and rare - by the time you are able to kill enough of them for anything important leather related, you'll roughly have your first batch of leather in the works. It's more of a supplement than a source, and won't be replacing any early game items anytime soon. On its own, it can make the pain of not spawning near any lime not so miserable, but not remove the need for lime at all.

On top of this, I want to broaden the loot pools of the mobs in general, so that they're useful both early and late game. Finding nuggets of zinc on orks, for example, is a great way to make them useful to hunt at all stages of the game - as zinc turns into torch holders. I'm hoping that goblins giving more flax regularly also makes other early game pursuits - like repairing clothing, making simple bows, or other things - slightly more accessible with good in-world flax RNG.

I would like it if the mobs were either a threat or valuable, so there's a reason to interact with them. So while getting a few sparse bits of these resources early on is strong, late game they still have some purpose.

I think its very broken that the goblins and orks drop leather...

I really wish the hunter goblin had a chance to drop his hat...

Why are you removing the mod version from the file name? It really helps with sorting versions.

Sorry for the long delays. I did a fair few balance changes to make things a bit tougher, but also have better loot distribution while also universally nerfing gear acquisition.

Hi, I've recently redownloaded this mod and attempted to change some of the values in the Red Dragons loot pool as well as its health, as I had before (with no issues before) but everytime I go to run the mod after I've re-zipped it has resulted in Vintage Story being unable to run the mod.  I was able to add items from other mods without any problem before redownloading it and unfortunately, I cannot access my earlier version, please help...(I'm on 1.20.12 btw)

@Styger Agree

Seconding Clamatt - gears/gear rate drop for orks is too high and we'd like to modify on our server.

Is there no config for this mod? I'd like to edit some of the spawn settings but editing the mod itself causes issues with syncing for players.

Not sure how, but I'm noticing a trend in my server. My server console is saying that the Treant is using two animations on the same code, Standhurt and StandCry, and at the EXACT same time this happens, the server CPU usage shoots up and causes lag. Is that something that's possible or is it just a massive coincidence?

Am I the only one who wishes we could tame the goblins and have little gobbos walking around our base?

Got disconnected repeatedly after trying to loot Scorched Dragons. Console log below.

[Warn]
 Failed resolving a blocks item drop or smeltedstack with code 
game:powder-sulfer in BehaviorHarvestable 
fantasycreatures:dragon-scorched
            
          
            
              01:24:08  [Warn] Exception at client 101. Disconnecting client.
            
          
            
              01:24:08  [Info] Client 101 disconnected: An action you (or your client) did caused an unhandled exception
            
          
            
              01:24:08  [Info] UDP: client disconnected SizzleCorndog
            
          
            
              01:24:08  [Info] Player SizzleCorndog got removed. Reason: Threw an exception at the server
            
          
            
              01:24:08  [Error] Exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
            
          
            
                 at 
Vintagestory.GameContent.EntityBehaviorHarvestable.GenerateDrops(IPlayer
 byPlayer) in VSEssentials\Entity\Behavior\BehaviorHarvestable.cs:line 
446

            
          
            
                 at 
Vintagestory.GameContent.ItemKnife.OnHeldInteractStop(Single 
secondsUsed, ItemSlot slot, EntityAgent byEntity, BlockSelection 
blockSel, EntitySelection entitySel) in 
VSSurvivalMod\Item\ItemKnife.cs:line 181

            
          
            
                 at 
Vintagestory.Server.ServerSystemInventory.HandleHandInteraction(Packet_Client
 packet, ConnectedClient client) in 
VintagestoryLib\Server\Systems\Inventory.cs:line 388

            
          
            
                 at 
Vintagestory.Server.ServerMain.HandleClientPacket_mainthread(ReceivedClientPacket
 cpk) in VintagestoryLib\Server\ServerMainNetworking.cs:line 280

            
          
            
                 at Vintagestory.Server.ServerMain.ProcessMain() in VintagestoryLib\Server\ServerMain.cs:line 934

            
          
            
              01:24:08  [Info] Client 101 disconnected.
            
          
            
              01:24:14  [Info] A Client attempts connecting via TCP on [::ffff:x.x.x.237]:49904, assigning client id 102
            
          
            
              01:24:14  [Info] UDP: Client 102 connected via: [::ffff:x.x.x.237]:54910
            
          
            
              01:24:15  [Info] Client 102 uid cglHBn+1SPlKTPwpVTpQ92o0 attempting identification. Name: SizzleCorndog
            
          
            
              01:24:15  [Debug] Client uid cglHBn+1SPlKTPwpVTpQ92o0, mp token JquwMONE8goLvfqhMFh5IiaMioJCgGZg5Tyzt0TR7zs=: Verifying with auth server
            
          
            
              01:24:16  [Debug] Response from auth server: {"playername":"SizzleCorndog","entitlements":null,"valid":1}
            
          
            
              01:24:16  [Debug] UDP: Client 102 did send UDP

On a server with friends, we've tried to adjust the spawn rate by halving the "chance" number from 0.0006 to 0.0003 since surface goblins and orcs are spawning en masse. This made the mod completely non functional and everything related to it will simply not load on the world, not even the spawners for admins to spawn the creatures. Is there any way to properly reduce the amount of spawns? Perhaps anything that can be configured with ConfigLib?

We'd love a way to remove the rusty gears spawning on Orcs, it is too often and overpowered!

Got some errors kicking out in my console, but the game seems to be running fine, and hasn't crashed. Figured I'd post them anyways;

1.1.2026 10:53:07 [Warning] Shape fantasycreatures:entity/land/treant: Two or more animations use the same code 'standcry'. This will lead to undefined behavior.
1.1.2026 10:53:07 [Warning] Shape fantasycreatures:entity/land/treant: Two or more animations use the same code 'standhurt'. This will lead to undefined behavior.

Please make a way to change the loot tables as they seem really overpowered for situations where you can massacre/farm them with guns and such

Does anyone know of a compatibility mod for making the mobs in this usable with butchering? Worst case they just get processed the vanilla way.

so when changing spawn rates on dragons its not a simple number like 0.0006 these say 3e-05. what am I changing here? just the 05?

Swiftthistle I wish I could provide a log, but every time I recreate the crash, it simply says I threw an exception at the server and takes me back to the main menu with no log provided. I'm asking my buddy who runs the server if he actually has the mod up to date, and will edit accordingly.

EDIT: Version is 0.7.9.

EDIT 2: No crash on skinning Scorched Dragons now. Weird. Sorry for the scare!

DrDumbass

Do you have any logs at all so I can review? And are you sure you're 100% on the most recent patch? On the most recent patch, I've had no issues with Scorched Dragons, and it's clear neither have other players...

Can confirm it still crashes on looting Scorched Dragons. I've killed two but come away with nothing each time.

on my server we have encountered several invisinle goblins. just downloaded newest patch and going to test now

Swiftthistle Understandable, i appreciate the response! Take care.

I find Scorched Dragons spawn still way to often, I have so much good loot now XD.

Swiftthistle Fair enough. I'm not super familiar with the differences between code mods vs content mods (aside from the obvious "one is using coding language" assumption) so I didn't know how complicated it'd be to do what I was asking.

MajinDark Stygian_Ikazuchi

You can not add a config file to .json only files as there is no code to read it. I'd need to convert to a code mod to do so.

Fantasy Creatures reborn is highly modifiable to your general needs (changing basic values and spawn conditions), but not with a global config. This would require changing the mod from a content mod, to a code mod. I kinda don't want to write code for this because it's not my own mod. It's a fork. It's meant to be temporary, and I'm just maintaining it so players have something to use until Kiptrix is able to finish his work.

I might look into it later. If you see an update to the mod, check the patch notes to see if I upped this from a content mod to a code mod. If I upped it to a code mod, I'd probably break down and just add missing functionality myself, or even more new mobs - which I don't want to do in a mod I don't own. So for now, it's a gentle "no".

Id like to second Stygian_Ikazuchi's suggestion, a produced config file server owners can adjust on the fly and apply after restarts would be great other than the latter of having to edit the code itself and rebuild.

Spawn Rates of all mobs
Loot Tables
Etc.

Ran across a place were dozens and dozens of mobs from this spawned, it started to lag quite a bit.

Swiftthistle I was more asking if you could create a config file to override these settings without having to modify the mod every time there's an update. I run a server and try to keep mods up-to-date, but each update I have to modify this one and send that to server members. A spawn override config would make it much more convenient since at worst I'd have to modify that config if spawn rates are changed.

Amagora I'm afraid I will not be coding for this mod. I am maintaining it as a .json content-only mod. This keeps it more patch-stable and resistant to change.

Stygian_Ikazuchi

I'll update the page with a short tutorial on how to modify monster spawn rates.

Joshleb

No problem!

ProphetOfMercy

This is simply a temporary fork until Kiptrix is able to update his mod to fit his vision. It will be deleted when Kiptrix updates his mod. If Kiptrix wants me to make temporary holdover forks between versions, I don't know if I'd be capable of doing that without the source code and explicit permission to do so.

Kiptrix

Wait, are you two working on the mod together? Or is Fantasy creature reborn only sticking around until you update your original version?

Swiftthistle

Awesome! Thanks chief!

Hey,


I it may not be too much to ask for but I was wondering if there was a way to fix this so that it worked with the Skeleton player mod.

My friends and I are playing an RP server and we think it would be awesome to get this to play with the player skeleton model so that you could be a player based skeleton with a working mind versus in a world where skeletons are also enemies.

Swiftthistle Any chance at making it easier to change spawns of monsters? Like a config or something?

Joshleb

Fixed, then fixed another issue I spotted, and I think that finally smooths out the last of the issues. I had to scan the file like 5 times until I noticed that I named the wrong dragon in the file, and then I checked logs and saw that I wrote steel-pickaxe instead of pickaxe-steel.

It is definitely lootable. Has a better loot table, can even drop steel items, and up to 150 gears. Considering how you struggled to kill it, that's probably fair loot.

Joshleb

I'm sure it has to do with dragon_flying again, this time for the alternative file for the black dragon... Let me fix it, and push a new fork.

Just killed a Scorched Dragon with a friend, we managed to get it stuck and riddled it with crossbow bolts. Tried to skin it and my friend crashed still.

Is there any way to see what the loot of a Scorched Dragon is so we can spawn it in via creative? 

ProphetOfMercy Kobolds are on my to-do list for one of the future releases! They will assist dragons but play a roll similar to goblins but more underground. There will be a tier above them aswell. Dragonkin/dragonborn like enemies. There will also be more dragon variants as well, with new projectile attacks!

Ozyzzyl Please update to the newest version. I just fixed this.

ProphetOfMercy Red Dragons are easy. Try a scorched dragon.

Ok, so some feedback. 
3 of the players in my server killed a red dragon, only one person died and it was killed with relative ease. The one person who was killed got 1 shot, and the 3 man team had 2 frontliners and one ranger. Everyone had a mix of chain and/or bits of plate armor, all of which were iron tier (using ancient armory, Combat Overhaul, C.O: Armory).

They said it was relatively easy to fight, so im curious if I can make a suggestion...

- Make a new enemy such as Kobolds that fight alongside the dragon, using either ranged weapons and/or melee weapons. Both dragons could have a summon ability similar to a Rust Shepherd, which spawns minions to help fight. This in turn would keep the fights interesting while dealing with mobs.

- Suggestion #2 would be to have the dragon summon orcs to help it fight players and other entities it's hostile to. Maybe 2 orcs per player in the vicinity attacking the dragon. This action could have a cooldown or be done in relation to the health status of the dragon.

Anywho, you can completely ignore this if you want. Just spitballing ideas.

For packs of goblins the hunters are completely invisible when they spawn in.

Stygian_Ikazuchi ahhh that makes sense, I got you

Joenemba the issue is their maxquantity and group sizes. they spawn in a horde, but I find the size of the horde to be REALLY annoying to deal with so I cut their numbers to only spawn 1 at a time. Before I started doing this, I'd have to constantly fight 5 or more at a time, often of both goblins AND orks.

Stygian_Ikazuchi What's the rate you set them to in the .json? I'm not the most family with the proper values of this game yet.

Cause at a glance, it looked like surface goblins were set to spawn with a like. 0.0015 chance. Is that not less than 1% chance, or am I reading it wrong/not understanding it?

Swiftthistle Any chance you could add a config to handle spawnrate of creatures? I appreciate the updates to fix the bugs but it's getting a little tiring having to modify the jsons to disable the dragon and turn down goblins and orks with each update lol

Last update finally fixes the last dragon loot errors. Turns out that it was just syntax, and everything is finally working as intended. I don't know what broke last update to make this happen, but version 0.7.8 is final for now (uploading it this moment)

What I see that's left in the logs:

Entity fantasycreatures:dragon-scorched with shape fantasycreatures:entity/land/red_dragon seems to be missing attachment point center but also has the FloatUpWhenStuck behavior - it might not work correctly with the center point lacking

Non-harmful; will not investigate.

'fantasycreatures:entities/land/dragon-flying.json': Failed deserializing dragon-flying.json: After parsing a value an unexpected character was encountered: {. Path 'server.behaviors[4].aitasksByType.dragon-flying-*', line 121, position 0.

Investigating now. It's just a syntax error. I need to stop doing this when I'm about to head to bed (which I'm doing again right now).

Wolfitude

Just fixed it 3 seconds ago.

delphi 00Duck

Fixed

Hesoyam

Adjusted the spawn rates of Scorched Dragons (-67%) (this was specifically a holdover from when I set the rates for Scorch on the server); I did increase the Red Dragon Spawn Rate by +50%, so they're a bit more common than Scorched Dragons now.

can confirm, multiple invisible goblins

Arent the new Scorched Dragons supposed to be rarer than the Red Ones?

Because in my World this is not the Case. If seen One Red Dragon so far, but just stumbled upon three Scorched Ones all sitting on the same Mountain within like 300 Blocks of each other.

Safe to say that Mountain is now off Limits.

My logs are saying i have the same problem

Hey, after this patch the lone hunter goblins are now invisible. I could see them in the former patch, but not anymore.

Lets gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! Glad you got permission to push the fork. Hopefully this brings the game back into the mod scene in a positive way

RogueishRaven Shouldn't be a problem now; I stripped the unused animation duplicates from the .json (thank you Panduhs for pointing it out, saved me 5 minutes of time~)

Stygian_Ikazuchi Turns out this was caused by dragon_flying not having a harvestable attribute. Should be fixed now. (Again, Panduhs saved me around 20-30 minutes of fiddling around here. Thanks Panduhs)

Hello, I happened to spot this on my server log.

Swiftthistle   If we find another red dragon and kill it, we'll try to recreate the crash and I'll get you the crash log

Stygian_Ikazuchi Get a crash log for me ASAP.

Cremini Sorry, was at work. For mobs rader: it's fantasycreatures:(mob name found in .json file). Example: fantasycreatures:dragon-scorched

For spawning in dungeons: That has to be done as either a secondary mod that changes the structures in Ancient Dungeons/etc to include a forced spawn for whatever you want. I can't do that on my end. You'd have to modify their structures to include it.

So a friend and I killed a red dragon and tried to harvest it on my server. Our clients both crashed and when we reloaded the corpse was gone. Unfortunately forgot to grab the crash log for the client.

Swiftthistle Well first, I wanted to ID the monsters to configure "MobsRadar" mod properly. Second, I am using a few mods, such as the "betteruins", "Ancient Dungeons", "Wilderland Cave" and "Undeground Mines". Saddly, goblins or other monsters don't spawn in such environnement. I'm not great with mods, I was hoping there would be a way to have them spawn. Thank you for your rapid answer. :).... Wait, gonna sound dumb, but are the "monster IDs" in the json file?

@Cremini

There is no configs as this is a content mod that simply adds some fantasy monsters to your world. Thankfully, it's easy to tamper with; if you want to buff, nerf, or remove monsters, you can edit the .json files from there.

@EthelVril

@Sodamkho

I believe I never adjusted spawn settings for any of the monsters (even when I added the scorched dragon). This means that they likely spawn in any light level, within most temperature zones, and at most heights. I can adjust this later on to force them to spawn in lower light levels, but then you'd see far less of the mobs in the open world, or only see them at dusk/night/dawn, which would still feel somewhat meh. For now, most mobs are easy to trample, even with some of the basic buffs I applied. You can also self adjust the .json files to your liking; entities/land/*mob*.json. Make sure it's copied to the server if playing online. If it's an issue as a whole I'll adjust the spawn conditions.

@Stygian_Ikazuch

You can simply nerf the Scorched Dragon or remove it by editing the .json files. It's in entities/land/dragon.json. To remove it, simply change the spawn conditons to something insane (-40 and -40 on the temp), and it'll stop. You can also just set the amount spawned to 0.

Hey, I noticed there was no config file. Anything on that? Also, I use MobsRadar. What are the inputs for each entity?

Same problem as Sodamkho  with mobs spawning in my base
NDL Villagers mod also doesn't work with this mod as the guards do not attack any creatures from this mod

how to counter mobs spawning in base

please thanks!

So happy right now.

Is there a way to disable the Scorched Dragon? My server currently consists of literally me and one friend and we'd rather not deal with that thing if we can help it lol

SparrowOfRealms

Stygian_Ikazuchi

You can update this mod on your servers safely; nothing will be lost or changed, nor will you suffer any instability. But! Keep in mind that if you remove a mod, you are leaving unsaved data in your world. This will cause a lot of stability issues! It's safe to update, but not remove as a word of warning.

This fork is a content-only mod. Depsite only adding monsters with the code already found in the game, any new monsters added to the spawn pool will begin to slow the game down. The more creatures, the greater the effect. A dozen content mods won't burden the game so much; few mobs here and there won't change anything. But adding in every mod under the sun that adds in new creatures will drastically slow your game down.

Is this safe to add and remove freely to an existing world?

Any issues switching to this from the original mod on a server?

can't wait to see what happens to this in 1.22

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

ProphetOfMercy

Kolljak

Should be fixed.

BillyGalbreath

About to add your changes; I didn't dig there, clearly I should have. 

Glad to see you managed to get official perm from Kiptrix, thanks for sticking with it and continuing to update it.

The error i posted is whats causing alot of crashes for me and my players. The entities mentioned below are constantly throwing these errors for having the same code for the animations.
If i knew how to fix it, i would.
This is combination with Wilderlands Rustbound and its lunarbound dependency was throwing alot of errors. Rustbound already has its own problems, especially with the lunar dependency.

The other issue ---  this mod was last updated in August. Its outdated obviously, but whenever i mod a game, I GOTTA have enemy variety. Just wish modders would make modding groups and combine projects together to make a bunch of entities/enemies to add to the game, and look over eachothers work to make sure stuff is updated and working.

For example, Wilderlands Rustbound, Fantasy Creatures, and Outlaw wouldve been legendary additions to the game if all 3 worked perfectly with eachother and with combat overhaul.

had the same issue as ProphetOfMercy. had to remove the mod from my server.

14.11.2025 16:32:09 [Server Debug] pig-eurasian-adult-male attempted to play an animation code which its shape does not have: "dig"
14.11.2025 16:32:47 [Server Warning] Shape fantasycreatures:entity/land/goblin_armored: Two or more animations use the same code 'standcry'. This will lead to undefined behavior.
14.11.2025 16:32:47 [Server Warning] Shape fantasycreatures:entity/land/goblin_armored: Two or more animations use the same code 'standhurt'. This will lead to undefined behavior.

Sameal Just tested it, and AFAIK it works fine in 1.21.5. It might have some problems with loot and whatnot as stated below, but it seems to work fine for me. Will update if I have any problems with it. 

BillyGalbreath
Cheers. That has done the trick

ConspicuousTable

You can open the entity files and update the names and types for some items.

In dragon.json change the "code" for "game:powderedsulfer" to "game:powder-sulfur" (total 1 edit)

In ent-shepherd.json change the "type" for both mushrooms and the beehive to "block" instead of "item" (total 3 edits)

After that it should work fine

Is there a way to increase the spawn rates?

Does this mod still work on 1.21.5? 

ConspicuousTable That does change things. This temporary fork is built for 1.20.12 and development has been discontinued. Expect issues.

G'day,
I'm havin an issue where Ent Shepards and Dragons have no loot. Every other creature is fine.
I can harvest them (open the loot window)

I've tried running only this mod on a new world and spawning them in from creative.
A quick look at their config seems no differnt to ohter creatures but I have minimal knowledge there

EDIT: I'm on 1.21.1 if that would change anything

@skaface443 There are ways around it.

1: If anyone can contact the creator and ask. (Unlikely to work, but possible)
2: Remake the mod from scratch. None of the same code or assets (unless the assets used are public domain)
3: Look for implicit permission. The creator might have made statements elsewhere (e.g., in a forum post, README, or Discord) implying they’re okay with others using or modifying the mod. This meets the criteria of getting permission to edit the mod files. (Just be sure to have proof)

Dovinya well its still running on 1.21.1. So you can still have it, but youll prob. never get updates or new content

God this whole situation is so goddammed annoying. I just want a whimsical fantasy world but there is no real alternative to this mod out there (yet) but the original developer is not to be trusted with the development/maintenance from what i've seen.
So I guess no goblins and dragons or whatever until somebody better makes a similair mod.

Ardail its more common in VS modding than you think. Many modders lock down their mods, so that no one can patch them but them.

Terms of Use here is a bit iffy aswell. Since basically even a basic JSON Patch could be considered "modifying copyrighted material" so he couldnt even spin his changes into his own JSON Patch for the original.

"nobody else can copy, distribute, or modify your work without being at risk of take-downs, shake-downs, or litigation."

source: https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/ https://mods.vintagestory.at/terms 

JSON Patching and changing the intended behaviour of any mod would fall under modifiy copyrighted work. If you do it for yourself without publishing its okay, just like taking a pencil and correcting an spelling mistake in a book. But you cant republish said book with your correction to the public since you distributed and modified copyrighted content. 

I've asked for clarification on that matter from anego, but tbh i dont think ill get a response. But most of my mods could be argued are infringing on copyrighted material (especially Entities Configuration).  Having Mods be defaulted to the "No License" kinda hurts collaborative work and just ends with heaps of abandonware or 1-complaint-from-being-nuked mods.

Really? the OG mod author smacks this update down because they abandoned it and doing the "if I can't have it none of you can"?
That's really petty if true, I hope it's not but dang :/

All I can say is that I tried contacting the Original mod maker via discord multiple times over 4 months when i was playing on a server early this spring. No response at all.

Echoweaver there are always at least two sides to any story. I can symapthise with the author while seeing that objectively he very much abandoned the mod for over a year. And yeah, burnout happens to all of us. I hope you are doing well man, wherever you are.

ChiefKrogan CaptainJake Yeah, and more than half the time when this kind of thing happens, the original author never does release the promised update. I'm sypathetic -- I've burned out and not released mods I intended to in other fandoms. It just breaks my heart that we're on 1.21 now and updates have received the smackdown.

CaptainJake I agree that the situation was ridicolous. Being 2 versions behind while working on an update wouldn't have rubbed people the wrong way if the mod author didn't go radio silence since febuary 2024. That's a year and a half almost of no signs of life. I was certain that his mod was abandonware too, that is the only logical conclusion one can reach when you don't update, don't talk, don't respond - nothing - for over a year. Especially since a ton of people were offering to help him update the mod. And ever since the argument he went radio silence again. Oh well, it is what it is. Hopefully somebody else will make a fantasy mod of their own soon and be more open about what is going on. 

ChiefKrogan Yea, I saw that drama on his page, but that whole thing is ridculously, everyone would support you if you continue working on this mod because he isn't. The op is 2 versions behind now and even that version needed a lot of fixes. 

Swiftthistle good luck on your projects then! 

ChiefKrogan CaptainJake

I am not allowed to modify or update the mod anymore without permission. If Jay would like a version stable for 1.21, he would either have to do that on his own and keep it private, or message someone directly to do that for him. I will not be contributing to this project in a public manner anymore and I am working on my own projects in the meanwhile, albeit slowly due to work.

CaptainJake as far as I'm aware the original mod author was very mad about this unofficial update even existing and thus this will not be updated further. Unless something changed.

ChiefKrogan Sounds like he was giving you feedback to help you update. Or do you not intend to? JayRaptor wants to update to 1.21 also

Ossom this version of the mod is for 1.20.12 not 1.21.1 so if you choose to use it regardless do expect there to be crashes.

1.21.1

Skinning a Red Dragon crashes the player doing the skinning

Adroithill

I just changed it from code to content, but left as much of the original filebase in tact (I did not do any clean up on the files as the game simply doesn't load them, and my intention here was to simply make it more stable without nuking anything the original mod author did; this is why you can find unused dragon colors and the like). The mod shouldn't have a memory leak as it doesn't do anything that causes memory to leak; it basically just hooks into base-game systems and implements content; nothing new or fancy about that. If you're experiencing a memory leak, I don't know what to say boss; it could be a VS issue itself, or an issue of another mod, or even just an excess of mods in general. Content mods can also be taxing if you're running too many.

yksb

I did nothing to change the original file structure nor remove any unused content. I did as much as possible to preserve Kiptrix's work, even if the work goes unused. You can still find the textures for black and blue dragons as well, and with some fiddling, you could in fact make black and blue variants spawn - but I will not do anything of that sort. For the code, I left it there simply because it was part of the original mod, but now defunct. I was as unintrusive as possible.

Hi, just wanted to say, the original mod is set a code mod, while yours is set to a content. The .dll and .pdb files will not be read if it's set as a content, unsure if this is intentional but wanted to let you know

Is the dragon... Zoralth? (Don't look it up)
Looks very similar or I'm just too far gone.

Keep crashing defo memory leak vs is taking more and more ram and freezing

Nexusdog the creatures of this mod kills every critter and other creatures. Thats probably why your critters are not prevelent.

Can anyone verify whether this mod conflicts or suppresses other creature related mods? I have Critters installed but no critters are prevalent in my world.

I have so far had no problems with this one in 1.21, and fingers crossed I won't. Thanks for patching and hopefully the main mod gets an update soon but until then, great work and here's to you!

Faeldray I count you lucky because I am getting hit by them 24/7 in 1.21 and a dragon showed up and killed me when I opened my front door in my hobbit hole.

Testing this on 1.21, I've seen treants, ent shepherds, and skeletons spawn but no goblins or orks. I don't know why, there's nothing in the code that stands out to me as the cause.

Will we be getting an update to this for 1.21

Thadose I am not allowed to make any changes to the mod beyond the most recent update. Please refer to Kiptrix's original Fantasy Creatures Page for future updates.

Is their a fools hope a cave troll might be in the future? I love running into the goblins and orcs and feel they would be even more a menace with a troll. or to just come across them in areas they might call their lair, like forest trolls, cave trolls, mountain trolls, hill trolls. could even have the funny ones from the hobbit, the stone trolls who turn to stone in sunlight. I know I am asking for much but a simple troll would be enough for me. thank you, and love your work, gotten alot of fun out of this mod with simply running into goblins and orcs in the open world.

does anyone know if this still works for 1.21.0?

@Michaloid Yes, every right. And I can have a laugh at the context of it all.

@Venex

You can go into the mod zip file and edit the ork/goblin json file using notepad to edit which creatures they'll attack, I believe.

FrankieYale The original modder has every right to question the author of the reuploaded mod. As per the no licence policy of the Terms of use.

While this mod is really good Orks/goblins will kill EVERYTHING leaving nothing left to hunt for food to materials, is there a way to make it so they only target players not animals?

Has anyone tried this with the no rust creatures mod? Is it possible to replace the rust creatures with these?

I wish there was a config mod compatibility so we can tweak monster stats ourselves to make them either stronger or weaker.
With the Level up mod, you casually slay these creatures like they're flies, even the red Dragon is relatively easy to kill and cheesable with bows without any aggro detection.

Scorch1402 Why have you brought this curse upon us 

OverGrownHell The Scorched shall rise.

The chat logs will sing in death.

The armies of Rot were enough to bring the old world to its knees yet they broke upon his blade, now it is the turn of the Orks and Dragons to be slain and torn asunder. Also didn't the dwarves digging deeper unleash eldrich horrors in Tolkiens works?

Scorch1402 You have made a terrible mistake. I will send a private mod for the server. You will rue this day, Scorch the Slayer. Foul magicks are at work upon the lands of Ren, and you will be the catalyst of its destruction. The day of reckoning will come, and it will come soon.

The lands of Men will fall. The Elves will burn in their forest home. And the dwarves will dig ever deeper to escape the death you have unleashed today.

dragon is too easy buff pls n thx

thenobodysheep

In the dragon's .json (and other mobs), near the bottom of the document, you can find these lines of code (this is for the dragon)

"spawnconditionsByType": {
"dragon-red": {
"runtime": {
"group": "hostile",
"tryOnlySurface": true,
"chance": 1e-05,
"minDistanceToPlayer": 128,
"maxQuantity": 1,
"maxLightLevel": 32,
"lightLevelType": "onlyBlockLight",
"groupSize": {
"dist": "verynarrowgaussian",
"avg": 0.25,
"var": 0
},
"insideBlockCodes": [
"game:air",
"game:tallgrass",
"game:snowlayer-1"
],
"minTemp": -40,
"maxTemp": 40,
"minRain": 0.0,
"minForestOrShrubs": 0.0,
"maxForest": 0.3,
"maxShrubs": 0.6
},
"worldgen": {
"TriesPerChunk": {
"avg": 0.04,
"var": 0
},
"tryOnlySurface": true,
"maxQuantity": 1,
"groupSize": {
"dist": "verynarrowgaussian",
"avg": 0.25,
"var": 0
},
"insideBlockCodes": [
"game:air",
"game:tallgrass",
"game:snowlayer-1"
],
"minTemp": -40,
"maxTemp": 40,
"minRain": 0.25,
"minY": 1.5,
"minForestOrShrubs": 0.1,
"maxForest": 1.0,
"maxShrubs": 1.0
}
}
}
},

All you have to do to prevent spawn is tweak a few numbers, like setting the "maxQuantity" to 0, or the "maxLightLevel" to 0. Since the dragon can only spawn on the surface, setting the light level to 0 would essentially make it unable to spawn. Setting it to a maxQuantity of 0 means that when it succeeds a spawn check, it would add 0 dragons to the world at 128 blocks away from the player. Though now that I think on that, the game may have a default for a minimum of 1 (as a failsafe), so perhaps limiting it to 0 blocklight is best. You could also just change the maxTemp at the bottom to -40, that way it has to have insanely perfect conditions to spawn.

Basically, there's a ton of ways to effectively disable the natural dragon spawn without deleting files (if you don't want to delete the files for some reason).

Swiftthistle
Where is their spawn weights in the JSON located?

Samuel_REDACTED Simply change their spawn weights in the .json file in assets > entities >land > (mob). You can make them extremely rare or simply not spawn at all.

Is there a way to completely disable certain creatures from spawning, such as the dragons as I use and really like the ones from Draconis.

Qiri You can modify them manually by opening up the file, navigating to assets > entities > land > (the mobs) and opening each file. You'll want to adjust their movement speed, health, loot, and entity seek range there. Relatively easy to understand. They are .json files, so you have to use notepad or something similar to open them.

Be very careful with movespeed values, the base is around 0.016, I bumped a lot of mobs up to 0.04 and over rougher terrain, they kept up very well. If you want them to always be on your tail, 0.052 is around player-ish speed. For seek range, it's in blocks, so setting it to around 30 will be outside of sound range; you won't hear their aggro noises. Keep in mind that the higher this is, the harder the mod is by default. You can, coincidentally, increase their drops, change, them, or modify them there.

Note: Anyone can do this with the older versions of the mod. But I am not allowed to modify the mod in any other way nor update the mod by Kiptrix's request. Make sure everyone downloads your version of the mod for the server, and includes it in their server IP mod folder.

For health, do note that a thrown flint spear does around 4.5 damage; IIRC I set Orks to have 12 or 15 HP based on type. A flint spear deals 2 damage stabbing, and 5 when thrown; that's six hits melee or three when thrown, not including damage bonuses from classes. So if you make the mobs very fast, and very strong, they will be overwhelming especially with larger aggro ranges at early game.

What I'd recommend is to make Skeleton Blackguards more common, increase their movement, damage, seekentity range, and health, and let them be "elites". 40 HP and 0.05 movespeed alongside a 35 seekentity range and 10 damage is more than enough to make them formidible.

Thanks for the temp update while we wait for the official update.

Would it be at all possible to had a config file we can edit to increase difficulty of entities? Like their HP and dmg? 

Excited to be able to use this mod again, but they feel rather easy to dispatch, so it would be cool if we could increase difficulty for our saves and servers if we want more of a challenge :) 

Kiptrix A modder complaining about his mod being modded lel. Just take it as a compliment and stop guilt-tripping the guy when you chose to radio silence a mod people are invested in. Also funny how this mod got a speedy response out of you, but not the "collection of unanswered offers to help".

thank you for the temp update, tbh its amazing!

Kiptrix This is a hobby, and we all get busy. I dropped by your Discord link to offer to help, but when I saw the collection of unanswered offers of help, I didn't bother. It was pretty reasonable to think the mod had been abandoned. 

Swiftthistle made a huge contribution in terms of stability and performance improvements. Perhaps they can assemble these into a pull request against your repository to be sure that you catch all those issues in your official update.

Kiptrix Understood, and thank you for your time and I'm sorry to disappoint you. If you have a place where I can contact you, perhaps donate time, money, or effort to the cause, please let me know. I sent you a friend request on discord as a_noble.

I want you to know that your mod is the inspiration that led me to looking into coding and understanding more of the Vintage Story API, and that it's a positive thing you've made here. Before my break from the game, this was a must have in my play throughs. It was only when I returned did I find it caused actual harm to my PC, and seeing no new responses in your comments, your mod page nor a reply on Discord, did I decide to take action.

I made the update public to help other players who had the same issues I did. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding and the waste of your time to come here and make this statement.

Swiftthistle

I don't want to sound harsh, I just didn't expect anyone to fully commit to doing an update. I'm not mad either, I should have mentioned that. I was just dissapointed. But likewise I know theres a lot of people that have been begging for an update, and while I wanted to do that, life got quite busy. I'm happy there is something players can use in the meanwhile. I know you didn't mean anything malicious by posting this version, and I'm also sorry for the lack responses on discord. I have a lot of mail and not a lot of time.

Again, this can stay up for the time being, I just don't want to encourage a bunch of unnapproved forks of my mod.

Found it; https://mods.vintagestory.at/terms

Kiptrix I'm sorry. I didn't know that you were working on an update, I literally just caught up to the point in Jay's stream where you DM'd him an hour ago. I honestly thought the project was entirely dead, as I had even sent you a friend request on Discord - to no response.

If I had known that an update was in the works, I would have asked if I could have made a blunt update to the mod like this just so the stream wouldn't be so unstable. I personally did this because I was using your mod, and this mod + my PC being connected to a power strip, was causing me to experience brown outs and kernel corruption. I didn't want to stop using the mod, because I like what you'd made, and I saw no activity on your end and no response, so I pushed it out so other people wouldn't suffer kernel corruption like I did.

Essentially, the mod would eat up all of my ram and cause a lot of lag spikes on my PC, and with my PC struggling to hold all of the errors with a lot of spawns flooding the log every tick, it'd (to my knowledge) build up junk data that would then lead to a crash and forced restoration. It happened twice in a row to me.

When your update launches, I will remove this mod. I mean no offense, and I did this for my own computer's safety, and thought I would share since other players wanted to use it for their games as well, and I didn't want their computers at risk either. And yes, updating this mod to be a content mod did fix my issues. I tested this mod solo and in a solo-mod environment, it was making my PC unstable.

I wish you would have asked me first. I have an update on the way. I'm not happy about this. I won't take any other actions, this re-upload can stay up for now. I know there has been demand for an update for some while. I do not approve of any future changes or updates added to this page. Please ask and wait for approval.

To make light of things, I'll share some things coming soon to the actual mod;
-Hobgoblins (meaner, larger goblins)
-Orcs (not 'orks', orcs, big buff monstrous heavily armoured baddies)
-Krakens
-Balgor (totally not that thing from lotr)
-Dragons will actually breath fire
No dates for the release of this/these update(s) yet

can you include a sub-mod to turn the goblins into hot babe goblins

My prayers are answered! I'm so excited about this update!

Cliffrd Hopefully he can use it in his next stream.

Etnard I think we all were. :P

Thank you for your work! 
Was also using this mod because of his stream haha

How funny, it was their stream that encouraged me to download the original since it was working at all, so this is perfect! Great work :)