Mob AI Tweaks

Mob AI Tweaks gives familiar Minecraft mobs new combat behaviors, interactions and routines, with particularly extensive reworks for major boss fights. The Wither progresses through six combat phases, adding attacks such as slams, dashes and homing blue skulls as its health falls; it can enrage after a heavy hit and unleashes a skull-filled explosion when defeated. The Ender Dragon enrages after taking a large single hit, fires more frequent chains of fireballs as her health drops, and must be made to perch by destroying the crystals healing her before players can attack her vulnerable head. The Elder Guardian becomes a boss with a fight-triggered health bar, a continuous beam, health-dependent dashes and, on hard difficulty below 30% health, oxygen-draining seeking mines; ravagers also gain boss bars and charge attacks that leave them stunned after hitting a wall. Hostile-mob encounters respond to visibility and status effects: blindness, darkness, nausea, invisibility, crawling and sneaking can reduce how far mobs detect or attack targets, while glowing targets can be seen through blocks. Mobs also react to combat conditions in other ways: haste and mining fatigue alter melee attack speed, some melee attackers jump toward elevated targets, ranged attackers reposition after shooting, and certain hostiles sit down and become neutral until noise wakes them. The roster includes distinctive hostile variants and tactics: zombies may ride baby zombies or carry doors as shields, husks burrow in sand, drowned retrieve thrown tridents, and skeletons have baby forms and alternate between strafing and cover-seeking sniper behavior. Other enemy changes include pillagers that switch between crossbows and axes and try to break a player's shield, evokers that build up orbiting fireballs or use a totem near defeat, and endermen that teleport through a three-hit melee combo. Phantoms hunt livestock before growing large enough to threaten players again, while a rare Ominous Phantomare can appear under Bad Omen and attacks with toxic spit and swoops; at low health it also carpet-bombs an area. Additional changes give blazes staged fireball attacks, ghasts a visible firing animation, and wardens a vulnerability to being stunned when their sonic boom hits a bell. Passive mobs and companions gain practical behaviors too: armed allays can be commanded to attack using a skull placed on their favored noteblock, cats dodge or intercept projectiles, and parrots can keep pace with owners gliding on elytra. Villagers take on more active roles, including clerics healing villagers and guards, farmers feeding baby animals, shepherds shearing sheep, and fishermen fishing; emerald-funded special services let several professions heal players or repair equipment and restock arrows. Sniffers can be asked to point toward biomes associated with particular items, and the item-to-biome associations can be extended through configuration.