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How to make Mob Categories

What are categories?​

In EcoMobs, each mob belongs to a category, which control things like spawning behavior.

For example, you might have a category for common mobs, one for rare mobs, one for nether bosses, etc.

How to add categories​

Each category is its own config file, placed in the /categories/ folder, and you can add or remove them as you please. There's an example config called _example.yml to help you out!

The ID of the category is the file name. This is what you use when creating a mob. ID's must be lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores only.

Example Category Config​

persistent: false

spawning:
  type: custom

  replace:
    replace:
      - zombie
      - skeleton

  custom:
    spawn-types:
      - land
    conditions: [ ]
    chance: 1.5

Understanding all the sections​

The Despawning Section​

# If the mob is persistent, then it will not despawn naturally.
persistent: false (true/false)

The Spawning Section​

Three spawning methods are available: replace, custom, or none.

replace​

Uses the vanilla spawning system by replacing the listed vanilla mobs with your custom mob when they spawn. 

spawning:
  type: replace
  replace:
    replace: # The list of mobs to replace
      - zombie
      - skeleton
    chance: 100 # The chance for the mob to replace the vanilla mob when it spawns

custom​

Uses EcoMobs' custom spawning system.

Example:

spawning:
  type: custom
  custom:
    spawn-types: # Choose from land or water
      - land
    conditions: [ ] # The conditions that need to be met for the mob to spawn, read more about conditions here: https://plugins.auxilor.io/effects/configuring-a-condition
    chance: 1.5 # The chance for the mob to spawn when the conditions are met

none​

Disables natural spawning for this mob category.

Example:

spawning:
  type: none

Default configs​

The default configs can be found here.
You can find additional user-created configs on lrcdb.