Stack entities

[Eufranio]

Could this mod stack entities like zombies, skeletons, etc?

[Lunatrius]

What would stacking such entities do?

[Eufranio]

Reduce the lag caused by mob farms. So, if there are 30 mobs close to each other on a mob farm, they would form 1 entity only.

[Lunatrius]

That doesn't really answer the question. How would/should the stacked entity behave, how should it interact with the rest of the world.

[Eufranio]

Oh, my idea is the following: when there are X mobs with the same entity type near each other, they would all be "killed", and one stacked entity would spawn, holding an reference to the X mobs that were stacked. When killing this stacked entity, it would drop the items and die normally, and would spawn another stacked entity with X - 1 mobs. So, if there are 10 zombies, stack them into one entity. Killing the stacked entity updates its value to 9, then 8, then 7, and etc.

Similar to this plugin.

[Lunatrius]

Couldn't you just use the plugin then?

[Eufranio]

The plugin doesn't work for modded entities, neither is a Sponge plugin (so no way to use it on modded 1.8+ servers). This would be nice to see on Stackie.

[EverNife]

I would like it too

[Lunatrius]

The reason why it doesn't work with modded entities is that there is no way to safely stack them. Which modded mobs are considered similar enough to get stacked?

[EverNife]

A whitelist for mobs that would be allowed to be stacked maybe?

Which modded mobs are considered similar enough to get stacked?

A couple of wisps for exemple.
Or firebats (yeee firebats screw up a lot...)

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[Eufranio]

Only vanilla stacking is enough as well.