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Alex's Mobs and Caves Optimization

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Alex's Mobs and Caves Optimization

By anderlyer

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Optimizes both Alex's Caves and Alex's Mobs; works even if only one of them is installed.

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Optimizes both Alex's Caves and Alex's Mobs; works even if only one of them is installed.

Area Vanilla behaviour Change Effect
Network broadcasts
(3 sites across Citadel, Alex's Mobs, Alex's Caves)		 Property sync, visual-effect and multipart-hit packets use , reaching every player on the server, including players in other dimensions who cannot see the entityPacketDistributor.ALL Switched to , so only players tracking that entity receive the packetTRACKING_ENTITY Dead packets stop reaching far-away and cross-dimension players; savings scale with player count
AI goal scans
(5 goals: flee-adult, follow-parent, ride-parent, elephant caravan, gorilla caravan)		 The goal selector polls every tick, and each poll performs a nearby-entity querycanUse() The query only runs every 4th tick Scan cost cut to 1/4; behaviour unchanged, only the evaluation cadence
Per-tick entity scans
(7: anteater, candicorn, gust, Tasmanian devil, terrapin, skreecher, underminer)		 tick() runs a , ceiling scan or nearest-player query every tickgetEntitiesOfClass Runs every 2, 4 or 8 ticks depending on the entity Scan cost cut to 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 respectively
Luxtructosaurus roar scatter A full-range entity scan every tick for the entire duration of the roar Refreshed every 5 ticks; the cached result is reused in between Scan cost cut to 1/5, and the caller still receives real results rather than an empty list
Cockroach spawn density Only the environment is checked (underground, y<64); the existing population is never considered, so bases fill up with cockroaches After the environment check passes, cockroaches within 32 blocks are counted and spawning is refused at 6 or more Bases are no longer swarmed; spawner-produced cockroaches are unaffected
Area Vanilla behaviour Change Effect
Network broadcasts
(3 sites across Citadel, Alex's Mobs, Alex's Caves)		 Property sync, visual-effect and multipart-hit packets use , reaching every player on the server, including players in other dimensions who cannot see the entityPacketDistributor.ALL Switched to , so only players tracking that entity receive the packetTRACKING_ENTITY Dead packets stop reaching far-away and cross-dimension players; savings scale with player count
AI goal scans
(5 goals: flee-adult, follow-parent, ride-parent, elephant caravan, gorilla caravan)		 The goal selector polls every tick, and each poll performs a nearby-entity querycanUse() The query only runs every 4th tick Scan cost cut to 1/4; behaviour unchanged, only the evaluation cadence
Per-tick entity scans
(7: anteater, candicorn, gust, Tasmanian devil, terrapin, skreecher, underminer)		 tick() runs a , ceiling scan or nearest-player query every tickgetEntitiesOfClass Runs every 2, 4 or 8 ticks depending on the entity Scan cost cut to 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 respectively
Luxtructosaurus roar scatter A full-range entity scan every tick for the entire duration of the roar Refreshed every 5 ticks; the cached result is reused in between Scan cost cut to 1/5, and the caller still receives real results rather than an empty list
Cockroach spawn density Only the environment is checked (underground, y<64); the existing population is never considered, so bases fill up with cockroaches After the environment check passes, cockroaches within 32 blocks are counted and spawning is refused at 6 or more Bases are no longer swarmed; spawner-produced cockroaches are unaffecte

Alex's unique approach to design means that many general mob AI optimization mods simply don't take effect on his mods.