Pride Sheep

Mood Contagion Mobs now carry a hidden emotional state: CALM, PANIC, or RAGE. Combat seeds the state, it spreads to nearby mobs of the same type, and it fades back to calm over time. Hit a mob and it panics. It runs from you, and the fear spreads to others nearby: one scared sheep can set off the whole flock. Hit a wolf, a bee, or any hostile and it rages instead. Raging mobs move faster and hit harder, and a neutral animal will turn and come for you. Rage spreads the same way. Kill a mob and nearby mobs of the same type panic. Panicking mobs give off yellow particles and enraged mobs give off red ones, so you can read the state at a glance. How it works Each mob's state and a timestamp are stored on the mob in its PersistentDataContainer , so moods survive chunk unloads and restarts and never leak memory. A task runs about once a second and processes mobs round-robin with a per-tick budget, so the feature stays cheap on TPS no matter how crowded the world is. Emotional mobs have a chance to infect same-type neighbours within a radius. Moods decay back to calm after a configurable time. PANIC adds Speed and makes the mob flee the nearest player. RAGE adds Speed and Strength, and makes neutral mobs target the nearest player. Commands Command Description Permission /moodcontagion info Show the current tunables. moodcontagion.use (default: all) /moodcontagion here Count CALM/PANIC/RAGE mobs within 16 blocks of you. moodcontagion.admin (default: OP) /moodcontagion reload Reload config.yml . moodcontagion.admin (default: OP) Aliases: /mood , /contagion . Permissions Node Default Grants moodcontagion.use everyone the info and here sub-commands moodcontagion.admin OP reload (and includes moodcontagion.use ) Configuration ( config.yml ) Key Default Meaning spread-radius 8. 0 Blocks within which a mood spreads to same-type mobs (also the flee/retarget scan range, x2). spread-chance 0. 35 Per-neighbour, per-second chance to infect a same-type neighbour. decay-seconds 12 How long an emotional mood lasts before it decays to CALM. max-processed-per-tick 40 TPS guard: max mobs handled per processing pass (round-robin). panic-flee-speed 0. 45 How hard a PANIC mob is shoved away from the nearest player. max-horizontal-velocity 1. 5 Hard cap on any velocity the plugin sets (anti-launch safety). death-seed-radius 8 Blocks around a dying mob in which same-type mobs are seeded PANIC. effects.enabled true Master switch for all potion effects. effects.speed true PANIC and RAGE mobs gain Speed. effects.strength true RAGE mobs gain Strength. effects.rage-retarget true Neutral RAGE mobs target the nearest player (only when they have no valid target). effects.particles true Mood-coloured particle puffs above emotional mobs. All values are clamped to safe ranges on load. Compatibility Paper, Spigot, Bukkit, and Purpur 1. 21. 1 to 1. 21. 11 and the 26. 1.x line (verified on 26. 1. 2), Java 21. Built against the Spigot API with no Paper-only classes, so the single jar works on all four