Have you ever felt that after a while, Minecraft gets too easy? Have you ever wished that you could make it more challenging without the glass cannon nature of the hard difficulty? Have you ever found fighting mobs boring and monotonous due to their simplistic nature?

If the answer to any of those questions is yes, this is the datapack for you. Upgraded Mobs is a datapack/server-side mod that adds new attacks, mechanics, and features to many of the mobs you know and love.

Details

All of the changes and additions in this project are detailed below.

Configuration

Don't like some of the features listed above? Want to adjust some of the probabilities? Want to give a modded mob some of these features? While there is no config file, you can open up the datapack ZIP to edit things yourself:

• If you add a # symbol in front of a command in an mcfunction file, that line will be commented out and won't be ran.
• You can integrate other mobs via the tag system. For example, if you have a mod that adds a new type of zombie, you can add it to the upgradedmobs:zombies entity tag. Note that you can also do this in an external datapack by adding the same tag file but with the replace key set to false.
• This datapack includes a list of predicates for random probabilities. If you want to change a probability, you can replace the associated predicate with a different one, or make your own.
• If you want to exclude individual mobs (e.g. custom bosses) from the features in this datapack to make sure nothing is overwritten, give them the upgradedmobs.blacklist tag.

If you want to uninstall this datapack, you can simply remove it from your world with no issues. However, buffs to HP, follow range and movement speed, and the like that were already made can't be reverted.

Credits

I can't take credit for all of this. Below includes a few sources that I used while making this:

• Some mechanics were taken from TheGayerest's old Tougher Everything and Tougher Bosses datapacks, with permission given by the original author.
• Some inspiration was taken from Kindred408's old Smart Mobs datapack, although the actual implementation in this datapack is my original work.

Versions

Both the mod and datapack versions are for 1.17 and up.

Other Datapacks

I recommend the following datapacks, in addition to this one:

• Vanilla Parity replaces the Wither with the Bedrock Wither.
• The old datapacks Blaze Tweaks and Pillager Tweaks by FlanDere allow blazes and pillagers to move backwards when a player approaches them, like crossbow piglins do (and forward, in the case of blazes).
• My other packs! Check them out on my Modrinth page from the download link :)

Compatibility-wise, this datapack should usually be fine. However, watch out for the following:

• Datapacks like Incendium that have mobs or bosses with custom AI and features won't be overwritten (except for when this pack buff's a mobs HP and such), but this datapack's mechanics will also be applied, which may have unintended consequences.
• For example, FlanDere also has a cool ​Jumping Mobs datapack, but dashes and jumps don't mix well (the mob can bounce really high accidentally).
• Remember to give the upgradedmobs.blacklist tag to any mob that you don't want to be affected by this datapack.