26.3 Boss and Blacklist Immunity

👑 Boss & Blacklist Immunity (Minecraft 26.3)

To ensure gameplay fairness and combat awareness, critical threats and companion animals must never disappear behind walls or be affected by aggressive culling algorithms.

Camera Culling incorporates dynamic boss identification and a two-tier immunity blacklist.

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📋 Immunity Infobox

Property	Value
Major Boss Health Threshold	bossHealthThreshold (Default: 150.0 HP / 75 hearts)
Mini-Boss Health Threshold	miniBossHealthThreshold (Default: 50.0 HP / 25 hearts)
Client Blacklist Path	config/camera-culling.json (clientBlacklist array)
Server Blacklist Path	config/camera-culling-server.json (serverBlacklist array)
Scope of Immunity	Exempt from Block Occlusion, Crowd Overdraw, and Texture LOD

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🐲 Dynamic Boss & Mini-Boss Detection

Camera Culling evaluates boss immunity through two distinct mechanisms:

1. Dynamic Health Thresholding

Any LivingEntity whose getMaxHealth() meets or exceeds the configured thresholds is granted unconditional immunity:

• maxHealth >= 150.0 $\implies$ Major Boss (Ender Dragon, Wither, Warden).
• maxHealth >= 50.0 $\implies$ Mini-Boss (Elder Guardian, Ravager, Iron Golem, Piglin Brute, Breeze, modded champions).

2. Registry & Identifier Keyword Heuristics

Entities with names matching any of the following substrings are automatically identified as bosses:

dragon, wither, warden, elder_guardian, ravager, evoker, iron_golem, 
piglin_brute, breeze, boss, miniboss, mini_boss, titan, leviathan, 
harbinger, monarch, behemoth, champion, elite, brute

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🛡️ Two-Tier Immunity Blacklist System

Immunity Resolution
├── Local Player / Vehicle / Mount ──► 100% Rendered
├── Glowing Effect Active ──────────► 100% Rendered
├── Boss or Mini-Boss Detected ─────► 100% Rendered
├── Client Blacklist Match ─────────► 100% Rendered
└── Server Admin Blacklist Match ───► 100% Rendered

1. Client Personal Blacklist

Players can whitelist specific companion entities locally using in-game commands:

/cameraculling blacklist add minecraft:wolf
/cameraculling blacklist add minecraft:allay
/cameraculling blacklist add minecraft:cat

2. Server Admin Blacklist

Server operators can specify global entity immunities in config/camera-culling-server.json or via /cameraculling serverblacklist add <id>. All connected clients will automatically honor the server-enforced immunity list.

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🔗 Related Pages

• Entity Occlusion Culling
• Distance Texture LOD
• Commands & Configuration
• Return to MC 26.3 Overview