[SUGGESTIONS] Escalation ideas

[Noobly-Walker]

These are ideas for further changes in full moon sieges, especially as difficulty increases. Some of these may be too much for many players, and can be disabled by default.

1. Charged creepers start spawning in place of regular creepers, and charged breechers spawn during sieges
2. Breechers may explode any obstacle that prevents them from reaching their desired target, breaching defenses (i've noticed they already explode if they get stuck, but this doesn't seem to damage anything)
3. Breechers exploding on an obstacle instead of a player will attract nearby mobs to target the player, similar to the cries of a seeker (charging in after a breach).
4. Explosions from all hostile sources increase in power as difficulty increases, leading to more blocks being destroyed, and larger craters
5. Mobs may start rolling multiple potion effects instead of just one
6. Large clusters of a single type of mob (i.e. zombies, creepers) may spawn, already targeting a player
7. Enemy arrows may be less affected by gravity, flying further and faster, to the point that enemies with ranged attacks may fire like guns, their attacks being nearly impossible to dodge and very lethal
8. Neutral mobs automatically aggro when a player's difficulty level is high enough
9. Withers or other bosses with massive health pools may spawn, causing large amounts of damage and posing a serious challenge.
10. Sieges of lesser magnitude may start occurring under gibbous moons.
11. (if Enhanced Celestials is present) Blood moons will see enhanced sieges, especially if the blood moon is also full.

[Sarinsa]

I will try to answer these in order.

1: "Non-lunar" mobs can already be added to lunar sieges, albeit NBT data can not be set. I will try to make it so it is not horrible to add lunar mobs WITH NBT changes.

2: This is a "WIP". For now, they prioritize targeting the player if they have a direct line of sight, and when they don't, they look for nearby blocks that meet the criteria of the config for target blocks. Making them target something that blocks an efficient path to the player requires writing a custom path finder. This might happen eventually, but I don't have the brains or the time to do this sadly.

3: This is interesting. I'm thinking I might want to do a similar thing like you say, and have mobs near the exploded breecher target any player close to the explosion

4: This might be difficult to track. Vanilla explosions are probably easy to handle, but other mods that make their own explosions from "the ground up" I'm not sure I can do much about.

5: Very true, I'll do something about this.

6: Interesting; I will look into this

7: Sniper skeletons and whatnot? Absolutely abhorrent, I like it. I will at the very least support this for vanilla mobs,

8: Big brain moment. I will make a difficulty threshold for this.

9: I will make a config spawn list for this, perhaps accompanied by environment checks or just random rare chance.

10: Mayhaps.

11: Extra mayhaps.

[Noobly-Walker]

You should at least be able to modify the explosive damage of ghast fireballs and creepers, as well as explosions from your own mobs.

[Noobly-Walker]

12. Apocalypse's mobs spawn more than one at a time (or more often) at higher difficulty levels.