MobStatues 1.21.11

Highlights

• Add special "bait statue" behavior so mobs will actually target them in farms like slimefarms or enderman farms.
• Bait statues stay locked in place, don’t take damage, and don’t get knocked around.
• Normal statues still work the same as before (invulnerable and frozen).

Supported bait statue types in this release:

• Endermite
• Iron Golem
• Snow Golem
• Villager

What changed

Bait statues can be targeted

Bait statues are no longer spawned as Invulnerable: 1b, because that makes mobs ignore them.

Instead:

• Mob attacks are allowed to "hit" the statue
• Damage is forced to 0.0 so it never dies

This makes endermen and other hostile mobs actually lock onto the bait statue.

Bait statues stay in place

• The plugin now saves a "home location" per statue ID.
• When a bait statue gets hit, it snaps back to its home location and velocity is reset to stop knockback/pushing.

Players can’t break bait statues by accident

• Player damage on bait statues is cancelled.

Cleanup + safety

• When statues are removed, passengers are removed too.
• Home location data is cleaned up when a statue is deleted or dies.

Behavior changes

• Endermite / Iron Golem / Snow Golem / Villager statues:

  • Can be attacked by mobs
  • Take 0 damage
  • Stay pinned in place

• All other statue types:

  • Still fully invulnerable
  • Still ignore all damage like before

Version

• Updated for Paper 1.21.11