Upgraded Mobs Data Pack (1.21.1, 1.20.1) – Gear Up For A Thrilling Combat Challenge

All mobs have increased follow range, allowing them to see you from farther away. Their movement speed is also increased slightly to make running away a little bit harder.

Zombies (including drowned, husks, and zombie villagers) receive two upgrades that make fighting a horde a little more threatening:

• All zombies are capable of breaking doors, regardless of the difficulty.
• Periodically, zombies will dash at a nearby player.
• Unique to this dash is a bite attack that deals extra damage. This attack can be blocked, but be warned, it will eat through your shield quickly!

In addition to the default zombie dash/bite, drowned get the following two changes:

• Drowned swim faster now, on top of the default movement buff for all mobs.
• If a player is above water, drowned will periodically pull them deeper underwater in an attempt to, well, drown them. This can even happen if you are traveling above them in a boat. Watch out for hordes!

Elder guardians have been upgraded to be full fledged boss mobs.

• Elder guardians have 300 HP, same as the vanilla wither.
• In combat, elder guardians will periodically debuff a random player with weakness, slowness, and/or blindness.
• If no guardians are nearby, an elder guardian will periodically summon mini-guardians that disappear after a short time.
• Below half HP, elder guardians will periodically turn invisible.
• To compensate for all of this, the chance of dropping a Tide armor trim is increased to 100%.

Evokers are now mini-bosses that receive the following upgrades:

• Evokers now have 150 HP, and while below half HP, they gain Regeneration 1.
• Evokers also hold a totem of undying in their off-hand that must be popped before killing them. This doesn’t change combat with them that much, but it does make sense thematically.
• Whenever an evoker uses their fang attack, it will also follow up with two more waves of fangs in the same place.
• To compensate for all of this, vexes now die immediately if there aren’t any evokers nearby.

Furthermore, two admin functions upgradedmobs:evokers/raid_loot/enable and upgradedmobs:evokers/raid_loot/disable are added. While enabled, evokers spawned during raids won’t drop a totem anymore. Instead, they can drop golden apples, enchanted books, and lapis lazuli. This is disabled by default.

While their damage is untouched, piglin brutes now receive a few upgrades that make it harder to fight them than just knocking them back while you stand still:

• Brutes have 75% knockback resistance by default.
• Brutes will periodically dash at nearby players.
• Brutes will also throw the closest player or wither skeleton high into the air. Watch out for lava!
• Brutes have a small chance of spawning with random pieces of netherite armor, or with knockback on their axe.

Pillagers aren’t holding back anymore.

• Some pillagers will shoot weakness arrows or even firework rockets instead of regular arrows.
• Some pillagers will also have Quick Charge II crossbows.
• The above two upgrades are applied more often during raids.

Everyone *loves* spiders.

• Spiders will periodically dash at nearby players.
• They will also periodically trap the closest player in a cobweb. Remember to use a sword to break out!

For as rare as they are, witches are a little too easy.

• Witches now have 60 HP.
• Splash potions thrown by witches have a 25% chance of being lingering potions instead.
• If a player is nearby, splash potions have a 10% chance of inflicting blindness.