Weeping Creeper

# !(https://i.imgur.com/4OrvYL2.png) # Weeping Creeper A creeper × Weeping Angel crossbreed for **Minecraft 26.1.x** on **Fabric** and **NeoForge**. Stare at it: it freezes. Look away: it sprints. Catches you: explodes — but only damages **you**, not the terrain. Build whatever you want, wherever you want, and stop fearing the _psssss_. ## What it does * **Freezes when observed.** Any time a weeping creeper falls within your 120° front cone _and_ has line-of-sight, it stops moving completely. No fuse advance, no path-tick, frozen in place. Look away, break line-of-sight, or duck behind a wall — it resumes the hunt. * **Faster than vanilla** (`movementSpeed` 0.40 vs vanilla 0.25 — about a spider). When you're not watching, it closes the gap aggressively. * **Player-only explosion.** No block damage. No collateral damage to other mobs, your animals, your itemframes, your shulker boxes, your everything. Just you. Vanilla damage scaling preserved, so a charged weeping creeper one-shots an unarmoured player at point-blank. * **Replaces vanilla creepers by default.** Every natural creeper spawn becomes a weeping creeper. Tunable from 0% (only spawn from spawn eggs) to 100% (full replacement). * **Statue aesthetic.** Subtle darker, slightly desaturated tint via the entity-tint API — _not_ a separate texture, so installed resource packs (Faithful, Sphax, etc.) still apply their HD creeper textures, just dimmed. * **Tear streaks** below each eye, drawn as a translucent overlay layer. Toggleable. * **Proximity safety net.** Walk into melee range and it freezes regardless of look angle, so close encounters don't always end in detonation. * **Optional heart particles** for an "I see you seeing me" comedic cue (off by default — enable in config if that's your tone). ## Configuration Config at `config/weepingcreeper.json` (created on first launch): ```json { "replacementChance": 1.0, "movementSpeed": 0.4, "lookArcDegrees": 120.0, "proximityFreezeRadius": 1.5, "followRange": 64.0, "tearsEnabled": true, "heartParticlesEnabled": false, "heartIntervalTicks": 60, "tintBrightness": 0.55, "desaturation": 0.25, "explosionRadius": 3.0, "chargedExplosionRadius": 6.0 } ``` | Key |Default |Notes | | ---------------------- |------- |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | <code>replacementChance</code> |<code>1.0</code> |Fraction of vanilla creeper spawns that become weeping creepers. <code>0.0</code> = never replace; <code>1.0</code> = always. | | <code>movementSpeed</code> |<code>0.4</code> |Movement speed attribute. Vanilla creeper is <code>0.25</code>. | | <code>lookArcDegrees</code> |<code>120.0</code> |Front cone width that counts as "looking at". | | <code>proximityFreezeRadius</code> |<code>1.5</code> |Any player within this distance freezes the creeper regardless of look angle. <code>0</code> to disable. | | <code>followRange</code> |<code>64.0</code> |Detection / pursuit range. Vanilla creeper is around 16. | | <code>tearsEnabled</code> |<code>true</code> |Tears overlay on the face. | | <code>heartParticlesEnabled</code> |<code>false</code> |Spawn a heart particle above the creeper while observed. Comedic, off by default. | | <code>heartIntervalTicks</code> |<code>60</code> |Ticks between hearts when enabled. 20 = 1 second. | | <code>tintBrightness</code> |<code>0.55</code> |Uniform brightness multiplier on the creeper texture. <code>1.0</code> = no change. | | <code>desaturation</code> |<code>0.25</code> |Per-channel green reduction for the statue look. <code>0.0</code> = uniform darken only. | | <code>explosionRadius</code> |<code>3.0</code> |Player-damage radius. Same as vanilla creeper. | | <code>chargedExplosionRadius</code> |<code>6.0</code> |Radius when struck by lightning. Same as vanilla charged. | `tearsEnabled`, `heartParticlesEnabled`, and the tint values take effect live on render. Other values require restart. ## How it works under the hood * **Custom entity** (`WeepingCreeperEntity extends Creeper`) — inherits the standard creeper AI, swell timer, and charged variant. Spawn-replaces vanilla creepers via `EntityJoinLevelEvent` (NeoForge) / `ServerEntityEvents.ENTITY_LOAD` (Fabric). * **Look detection**: dot product between the player's look vector and the player-eye-to-creeper-center vector, vs `cos(arc / 2)`, plus a vanilla `hasLineOfSight()` check. * **The freeze**: `customServerAiStep`